A.N.- Again, thanks for all the support for this story! This chapter is a flashback and there's a trigger warning for sad things maybe. Enjoy!
Chapter 26- Organ Donor
Seth, flashback 2014
I was on the verge of death from my cancer when my sister told me she wanted to donate part of her pancreas to me. My oncologist, Dr. Wilson, had said in our last big meeting about my case that he didn't know if I would survive the major surgery but Elena remained indignant. That was why I was sitting here in Dr. Wilson's office with Elena right now.
"Ellie it's not worth it. You heard what he said, I might not survive the surgery to transplant your pancreas into me so all your efforts will be wasted and you'll have less pancreas because a quarter of your pancreas will be six feet underground with me."
"Elena," Dr. Wilson spoke to her softly, "Seth is right. I don't want to put you both at risk for complications when I don't have to. Seth's cancer is too far along and his survival rates are low now as is." No matter the amounts of times I had heard that phrase it still struck me in the same way: I, Seth Leonard Victor, was going to be dead soon.
I was past the denial stage of the diagnosis involving me shedding tears in secret because I didn't want anyone to see. Now, I had to accept it to live out the time I had left.
Elena looked away and said nothing. "Don't you want to live to see the birth of yours and Tiff's baby?" Tiffani was about three months along in her pregnancy with our child, and according to Dr. Wilson, I'd be lucky to see her deliver.
"Of course I do."
"Then we'll go on with the chemo and see where that gets us, all right?" Dr. Wilson wrote something down, "We'll admit you and start you on your second round tonight." I nodded.
"I need to go and call Tiffani and tell her I'm being admitted," I said and walked out of Dr. Wilson's office into the hall. I pulled out my iPhone and dialed my wife's cell and as it rang I peered into the office window and saw Dr. Wilson hugging my sister. He had Ellie folded into his arms delicately and I couldn't help but think that she would be good with him.
He'd take care of her after I was gone.
I just wished that if they did end up together I'd get a good seat wherever I was when they married. "Seth, baby, where are you?" Tiff's voice finally came to my ear.
"Tiff I'm having my second round of chemo tonight." That sentence left her in complete silence for a moment until she broke and began to cry. "Tiff. Tiff. Just come to the hospital right now. Elena's here so you don't need to call her. "
"Oh my God…" she was sobbing uncontrollably. I decided to withhold the information that I had metastatic disease in my liver.
"Come to the hospital Tiff. I love you."
