"What's wrong with your whiter half?" Dr. Cox asked as Turk walked up. He was leaning against the nurses' station looking at a chart.

"Huh?"

"You haven't seen him either?"

"Hey, Babe." Carla said and kissed him.

"What do you mean either?" Turk asked looking at Dr. Cox.

"JD?" Carla asked. Dr. Cox nodded. "Nobody has seen him in an hour."

"What happened?" Turk asked making a confused look.

"He and I are taking care of this six year old leukemia patient…"

"Did you say leukemia?" She nodded. "Oh god."


The door shut and he walked out pulling his coat close to his body.

"Hey," He said nodding at his friend sitting leaning on the wall of the roof. His legs were out in front of him and his eyes were on his shoes.

"Hey," He replied quietly as Turk sat beside him. "You okay, Buddy?" He hit his knee.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He still hadn't looked up.

"Carla told me about the patient."

"Yeah it just… hurts. Another little girl isn't going to live her life because…" His voice trailed off.

"She could make it. She could fight this, JD. She isn't Madison."

"How do you know, Turk?" He stood up. "It's not fair. It's just… not fair."

"I know. I loved her too."

"It wasn't supposed to happen this way."

"One day, man, one day they'll cure it."

"It's not going to bring her back." With that he turned and walked through the door


.

"Hi, Hannah," JD said.

"Hi." Hannah smiled at her.

"I'm JD, your doctor." He sat down in the chair beside her.

"I'm Hannah, your patient." She said in her sweet voice. JD couldn't help but laugh.

"I know."

"Can we play a game?"

"Sure, I don't have anything to do." He stood up.

"My mom brought a bag in over there."

"What do you want to play?"

"Chutes and Ladders?"

"Sure."

He smiled at her before getting the bag digging it out. He pulled bed table over to the bed and setting it up.

They started to play. JD looked over at the little girl.

"Ha! I'm ahead." She said loudly. He laughed at her expression.

JD looked down at Madison. She was giggling uncontrollably as she moved the piece around the board.

He shook the thoughts from his head.

"You're move JD."

"You're move, Daddy."

"Okay," He rolled the dice.

"I'm still ahead." She smirked at him. He smiled back.

"No for long," He said.

She rolled the dice and climbed a ladder.

"Yay!" She squealed.

"Okay, okay we'll see who ends up at 100 first, Madi."

"Huh?"

"What?"

"You called me Madi."

"No, I didn't." He shook his head. She nodded. "Oh, um, sorry, Hannah."

"It's okay," She shrugged. He forced a smile and rolled.

"I hit a chute. No way! Not fair!" He whined.