Disclaimer: I do not own Skins; If I did Series 5 & 6 would include Generation 1 & 2!

Ok, So it seems I forgot to mention that this is an AU story, which is set at the beggining of Series 3, after like the first month at College, however Im still not sure whether its going to involve Naomi or anyone other than Cookie Monster!

Katie.

The beeping sound of a machine awoke her, her eyes flickered open, and the bright light was intrusive. She groaned, her mouth felt dry and there was still a slight twinge in her side. Opening her eyes fully she found Jenna and Rob staring back at her, "Oh Katie", Jenna cried out, clasping for her hand. Her arm felt heavy and she glanced down at the two tubes which went under her skin, thick red liquid moving through them both. She looked back to her parents, feeling groggy she opened her mouth to ask what was happening. Rob beat her to it, "Katie your kidneys have failed", he said. Jenna shifted in her seat, trying to blink back the tears that threatened to fall, as she squeezed Katie's hand. A doctor made his way over to the bed, seeing that Katie had stirred, "Hello Miss Fitch". The Doctor started to explain that she was lucky her friend had got her to hospital, because her kidneys had failed, her body giving up on her. "You have ESRD, which is End-stage Renal Disease, which means your kidneys are failing", he paused giving her a moment to take it in. Jenna hid her face from Katie, letting her tears to slowly fall, Katie knew then that her parents had already been told what was wrong with her and it didn't look good. "Why didn't we realise what was going on", Rob questioned. The Doctor turned to him, "It happens over a few years, some of the symptoms include tiredness, numbness, high blood pressure, nausea and trouble concentrating and with the current circumstances, with your other daughter, it is understandable that Katie could have believed she was just feeling drained". Katie thought back over the past few days, she had been so tired and constantly felt sick, and her trouble concentrating she had thought was mainly because all she could think about was Emily, never had she imagined that she was ill.

"So now what?" squeaked Jenna from her chair, looking up with a tear stained face. "ESRD means that Katie's kidneys will eventually fail completely, at the moment the dialysis is working, however she will need a kidney transplant", he carried on explaining. Katie looked down at the tubes, the blood running out of her body into a machine where it was being cleaned before going back down the other tube into her. She looked up at the doctor and her parents, "Or I die?" she croaked. It wasn't really a question, it was rhetorical, but the Doctor nodded back at her, "But we won't let that happen to you Miss Fitch". Jenna started to sob again, and Rob nodded at the doctor, "Thank you". Katie looked at the empty chair on the other side of her bed, where Emily should have been sitting.

"I'll give her one", Rob's words broke her train of thought, and she glanced over to him, "I'll give her a kidney". The Doctor shook his head, "It's not as easy as that Mr Fitch, and we would need to find out if any of you are a match". Rob frowned, he thought he could just give her one, after all she was his daughter, and she was part of him. "Emsy could", Katie mumbled and her parents and the Doctor turned to her. The doctor looked towards Jenna, whose face had crumpled at the mention of her other daughter, "Yes, an identical twin has identical tissue type, but we can test you both if that is what you wish", he directed to Rob and Jenna. Rob nodded, and shook the doctors hand, Katie and Jenna sat in silence, clutching each others hand.

The tiredness suddenly beat her, she had fought it for so long, but now she couldn't help it as her eyelids fell. She woke shortly a few hours later when a nurse came in to disconnect her from the machine, but as soon as she was gone, Katie fell back asleep. Rob went back home, to look after James who they had sent next door before rushing to the hospital, but Jenna refused to leave the hospital. She already had one daughter missing and she didn't want to lose another one. Katie dreamed of Emily, she could see her in the distance, her flame red hair glistening in the sun. She tried to scream to her, shouting out twin talk and trying to run to her. Every time she got near something was dragging her back, looking down she could see red tubes wrapped around her arms, they were stopping her from getting to Emily. "Emsy" she was shouting out, and then suddenly she woke up, her face damp with tears, she was actually shouting out for Emily. Jenna was stroking her head, "Katie, its ok, I'm here", she tried to comfort her daughter. "I don't want you, I want Emily", Katie shouted, she hadn't meant to upset her mother, but she didn't want her, she wanted Emily. No, she didn't want her, she needed her twin.

Katie must have fallen back to sleep because when she opened her eyes again the nurse was placing the tubes back into her arm. "Morning sweetheart, how are you feeling", the nurse chirped, smiling down at her, before drawing back the curtains. Katie blinked, the sun blinding her for a second, "How long have I been here?" she asked ignoring the nurse's question. "They brought you in not last night but the one before ducky, you'll be getting this three times a week, this is your second lot", she informed her, starting up the machine. A strange tingling sensation ran up Katie's arm, and then the tubes started to fill with the red liquid of her blood. Katie looked around, suddenly realising her mum wasn't there, and she suddenly felt abandoned even with the nurse there. The nurse smiled at her before leaving the room, Katie sighed, and reaching for the T.V remote she found a news station. She was hoping to see something about Emily, but they were just talking about some boring factory being shut down.

The door opened and Katie turned her head, she was half hoping it was her family, plus Emily. Instead the person in the doorway still managed to bring a smile to her face, "Alright Princess", Cook grinned. He entered the room, sitting down on the bed next to her, examining the tubes. "Any news?" Katie asked, knowing there wouldn't be. Cook shook his head, "It's all about getting you better at the moment", he replied. Katie sighed and shoved him off the bed, "You can't give up on her, I need her Cook and not just because she can give me a kidney". He nodded, scuffing his shoe against the leg of the bed, "I know Katiekins". Katie looked at him with her big hazel eyes, begging him to help her, to find her sister.

"Will you accept mine?" he asked changing the conversation back to Katie. "What?" she asked, confused by what he had asked her. Cook shifted to the other foot, he had that kind of look about him that suggested she would hit him for what he was going to say. "If I'm a match, will you take one of my kidneys?". He was right, she slapped her hand against his arm, "Don't be an idiot Cook, I know they say people live normal lives after donating a kidney, but the amount of waste you put through your body, I'm not quite so sure you could babes". She laughed and he laughed with her, for a second she was like the old Katie, the Katie who was confident, sarcastic and not quite as broken.

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