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"Oh god" Was all Carey could say, she knew the Code blue was for Cody. Code blue meaning cardiac arrest, Cody was as good as dead.
"We don't know its Cody" Moesby said, trying to reassure the inconsolable Carey and Zack, but they were not to be deterred in their belief, they knew it was Cody, and they were just waiting for a nurse to come and confirm that to them.
The dreaded confirmation came not two agonising minutes later when a nurse appeared at Zack's door. "Ms. Martin, Could I see you outside please" the nurse said in as warm a voice as she could muster, Carey silently nodded and followed the nurse outside
"Tell me he's going to be alright Marion, please tell me he's going to be alright" Zack cried to Moesby as Carey left the room.
"Cody's going to be alright, Cody's going to be just fine" Moesby said, hoping it was true but not sounding sure of himself at all.
Outside in the hallway Carey listened silently to the nurse
"Ms. Martin, this is Jane Holloway, the hospital family liaison officer" Ms. Holloway was a middle aged woman, not badly aged, with warm eyes and a light coloured dress-suit on, she seemed a warm and loving woman. "And this is Dr. Michael Williams, he was Cody's surgeon" The nurse continued.
"Yes, Ms. Martin, is your husband around?" Dr. Williams asked
"Ex-Husband, and no, he is not" Carey replied, knowing what was coming.
"Perhaps the conference room would be best" Ms. Holloway the added and the nurse and doctor agreed, leading Carey into the room, she didn't want to hear what she knew was coming, she couldn't face it.
Sitting down around the conference room table Dr. Williams Began to speak
"Ms. Martin, during Cody's surgery he developed a blood clot somewhere in his body, which, as we were moving him into the recovery area, broke away and became lodged in his pulmonary vein, his lung. As a result Cody developed what we call a Pulmonary embolism, which caused his pulmonary vein to rupture and his heart to stop beating." Carey knew what was coming, she couldn't speak, she couldn't breathe, she couldn't think. "Ms. Martin, I'm so very very sorry to have to tell you this, but we were unable to resuscitate Cody...Ms. Martin, Cody died...I'm so sorry" The doctors words were chilling and they just smashed straight through Carey "NOOOOOOOOOOOO" She wailed bursting into tears that felt like fire, the pain was unimaginable. "NOOOOOO...PLEASE, It can't be true..." She wailed. Ms. Holloway put her arms around Carey "I'm so sorry Ms. Martin, is there anyone we can call? Would you like a grief councillor?" She asked trying to muster all her professional training for such an occasion, something she had to face all too often.
"We are so incredibly sorry Ms. Martin, but there was really nothing that could have been done to save Cody...if it's any consolation, with the anaesthesia Cody wouldn't have felt any pain" Dr. Williams said, It was a consolation, but Carey couldn't accept it, she had just lost her baby. "Please, please this can't be happening, please Codyyyyyyyyy" Carey cried as she was in tears the most loud horrible screams of pain escaping her, no pain could be greater than she was feeling now.
"Would you like me to go and get the gentlemen you've been with Ms. Martin? Should I call your ex-husband?" The nurse asked after letting Carey cry for what seemed to them all like an age. Dr. Williams had left them; this was the part of his job he hated most.
"Yes, please, get Marion, and call my ex husband...don't tell him what's happened" Carey managed to get out through sobs "Of course" the nurse replied and she left the room.
"I'll have the hospital counsellors come and speak to you Ms. Martin, would you like a chaplain? Or anything else?" Ms. Holloway asked
"Can...Can I...see Cody" Carey sobbed out
"Of course, I'll make those arrangements as soon as possible" Carey didn't respond, she couldn't.
The nurse sombrely arrived back at Zack's room, trying not to look into Zack's eyes, full of fear they were, she didn't want to tell him.
"What's wrong with Cody?" Zack asked as soon as she entered
"Your mother will be back in a minute" The nurse replied calmly "Sir" she then said looking at Moesby "You could come with me please" Moesby didn't want to leave Zack in his state, but he knew it was important so he went.
Moesby instantly knew what had happened when he saw Carey's crushed expression, her all encompassing grief crushing his soul
"Oh God Carey...I'm so sorry...Oh god" He didn't know what to say.
"Thank you...I don't know how to tell Zack...or how to tell Kurt" she cried out.
"We'll do it together, you just have to be honest" Moesby said, it was the truth Carey knew, but it was so hard...How could she tell Zack his brother, his best friend, was dead and, on top of all that, Maddie was dead too, and Zack didn't know that either.
"Can you go back to Zack please, tell him I'll be along soon" Carey began "I'll wait for Kurt and tell him...We should both tell Zack, please Marion, try not to let on details" Carey finished, and Moesby dutifully obliged.
Upon his return Moesby was immediately hit with a barrage of an inconsolably worried Zack, he was so worried. It was horrible not to be able to tell him, to try and make Zack believe everything was alight when Cody was dead.
"What's going on, something bad has happened hasn't it?" Zack pressed and it took all of Moesby's compassion and strength not to burst out in tears at what had happened, but he knew he was most useful as the rock in the situation.
Carey Martin sat alone in her absolute devastation waiting for her ex husband to arrive so she could share the most horrible news she could possibly be delivering...that their son was dead, dying as a result of an attempt to save his life. Thankfully the hotel was not far from the hospital and being early in the morning, Kurt arrived after not too much time of solitary grief for Carey.
"What's wrong Carey? What's happened?" An obviously worried and confused Kurt panted out as he was rushed into the conference room where she still sat...but her expression said it all.
"Oh god...Carey, what's happened?" he asked frantically, hoping it was not as bad as he thought.
"Kurt...Oh god Kurt...Cody had a blood clot in his lung...it burst an artery...and well...Cody's dead" Carey managed to get out in breaks between sobs before breaking down in a torrent of tears.
"No" was all Kurt could breathlessly say as he fell back into a chair, his worst nightmare coming true. Kurt began to sob uncontrollably as he thought of how he hadn't spent enough time with Zack and Cody, and how he felt like in more ways than one this was his fault.
"Oh god Carey, I'm sorry, I've been such a horrible father" he cried, Carey couldn't respond. Together Kurt and Carey cried for what seemed like eternity, their grief and devastation all encompassing, neither of them feeling they could possibly face what they now had to do...tell Zack.
"Kurt" Carey was finally able to say "Zack doesn't know... we need to tell him...together" She sobbed out.
"I agree, well...we might as well get this over with" Kurt conceded and they headed slowly and unwillingly to Zack's room.
"Marion, could you give us a moment please" Carey said as they entered the room, Zack looked as though he was about to say something, but he saw his parents bloodshot eyes.
"No...No please...no please no" He said repeating it over and over, desperate not to face the truth.
"Zachary" Carey began, it couldn't be good, nothing good ever came after Zachary. "When your brother was having his operation...a blood clot developed in his lung" Carey began, it was the most horrible thing imaginable to do, to tell one of your twin sons that the other is dead "And well...the blood clot burst an artery...The doctors tried everything they could...but in the end...Cody died" Carey finally managed to say, weeping as she did.
Zack went white as a ghost as he faced the truth, desperately trying to internalise his grief, he just began silently weeping, rolled over into his pillow and said no more. His devastation was far greater than Kurt or Carey's, for Zack, it was like a part of him was dead, gone forever. In 2 days Zack had lost his Brother and best friend Cody, and the love of his life. Nothing could be worse than the monumentally crushing emotions that Zackary Martin now felt...absolutely nothing.
I tormented myself for days and days about this, swinging between life and death, but in the end, for the sake of the story, I just had to end Cody's life. I am sorry if this affects anyone, I am truly sorry, but I just felt it was how I had to go. I'd ask if you enjoyed the chapter...but enjoy is an odd word to use. I am moving this story toward a conclusion now, but I do have another Suite Life Fanfic idea I will start when I finish (not a sequel or related to Friendship Survives (So Zack won't be the only one in the gang still alive). So as always...tell me what you thought.