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"Are you going to tell Kurt?" Moesby asked as he and Carey neared Zack's room.
"No, not yet, not until I know for sure, if the baby wasn't Zacks then there is no need for him to know" Carey replied
"So you will tell him if it was his?" Moesby inquired
"I will tell Kurt, but...I don't know about Zack...I don't know if it's right....there's nothing anyone can do so there may not be a point." Carey replied, she was right; even though ordinarily Zack should have been told immediately, but under these circumstances it could just drive Zack further into the depression that was setting in.
"Ms. Martin?" another hospital worked approached them as they were about to re-enter Zack's room.
"Yes?" she replied breathlessly, just wanting to get back to Zack.
"I've been sent to tell you that you can see your son if you wish. He's been moved somewhere where you can see him. I am so sorry for your loss" continued the man. Carey didn't think she would handle seeing Cody's body well, but in her mind there was only one thing to do.
"Thank you...Marion, can you stay with Zack please, and send Kurt out" Carey said to Moesby who dutifully complied.
Soon after Kurt appeared in the doorway and saw Carey with the hospital worker.
"Kurt, they say we can go see Cody now...I'm going to go...do you want to?" she asked her voice trembling with fear and depression.
"Okay" Kurt replied very quietly.
"This way then please, let me say again how very sorry I am for your loss" The man said as he showed them toward the lift.
Carey, Kurt and the Man descended to one of the hospitals lower floors until the lift stopped at the 3rd floor.
"This way" the man said as they exited the lift and he showed them along a corridor which was painted in purposely soothing colours. They were led to a large set of frosted glass double doors which read 'Departure Suites' it was a purposefully deceptive sign. Inside the room they were in yet another room which tried to raise the spirits of its visitors, but that was an impossible task.
"We've put Cody in here Mr. And Ms. Martin, you can stay as long as you like. Can I get you anything?" the worker asked.
"No" they both replied before opening the door they had been led to. Carey couldn't contain herself, "Oh god Cody...Cody" she wailed as she broke into tears. On a bed in the centre of the room lay the white body of Cody Martin. Cody's tan was gone, his eyes closed, his skin pale and cold. Cody didn't look like he was sleeping, he didn't look peaceful. Cody just looked dead. Kurt broke down in tears as well as the two of them moved to either side of the body and knelt down beside Cody and just held his cold hands. Carey stood up and grabbed Cody around the shoulders, pulling his lifeless and limp body up. It didn't feel like holding her son. He wasn't Cody anymore, Cody's soul was gone forever and Carey Martin had to face a life without her son. Kurt and Carey held Cody and Cried over his body for what seemed an eternity before finally deciding it was time to say goodbye for now.
"Cody...I know you are gone from here now, your sweet gentle soul could not inhabit your broken body anymore" Carey began to say to the body and to the world around her "I hope you are happy and free of pain where...Ever...you are" she went on as she cried. Kurt went over and held Carey around the shoulders looking down at his dead son. "I love you Cody, dad loves you and Zack loves you and we always will, and because of that you'll never be gone from our lives". Carey continued before going over and kissing Cody's cold forehead and they then left.
"We'll move Cody's body down to cold storage" the worker informed them as they left. "Just call us and you'll be able to see him whenever you want. I'll have someone come and talk to you about funeral arrangements at your convenience as well" he continued
"Thank you" Kurt said as he led Carey out of the 'Departure Suites' and back up to Zacks room.
Zack Martin didn't feel anything, he was just numb. All he wanted to do was not feel, he didn't want to think because Cody was all he could think about. He didn't want to feel because all he felt was pain. So Zack forced himself to go numb, totally and utterly numb. He just lay, face down in a hospital bed, hoping that it was all a bad dream but knowing it wasn't. Kurt and Carey didn't know what to do, they were devastated themselves, and how could they deal with Zack's depression too? It seemed an impossible task. Carey wanted to break down and just cry and scream as well, she was bottling so much up as was Kurt, neither of them wanted to show so much emotion in front of Zack. But Cody was dead, nothing would bring him back and his parents could not imagine more pain.
The mood in Zack's hospital room was bleak, a black cloud hanging around the room. Carey and Kurt had returned several hours before and through that time there had been very little talking, very little movement, only the sound of sobbing and the air of depression growing in influence over everyone. A nurse had come to silently check Zack's vital signs but other than that nothing of note had occurred to break the silence. Kurt wasn't talking it well; he just couldn't stop thinking about Cody. He felt so guilty for not spending enough time with his son, he had been a bad, part time dad and he hated himself. Kurt simply couldn't take it anymore.
"Carey...I'm sorry...but I need to get out of here..." he said quietly with the horrible pain strongly evident in his voice.
"Where are you going?" She asked sounding slightly shocked and a little hurt amongst all her pain.
"I don't know...but I can't be here...I'm sorry" Kurt replied and said nothing more before he left. Moesby just looked at him in shock and disgust as he left and Carey broke back into tears. Zack had heard what was going on and just tried to block it out as yet more sadness built up in him and yet more tears leaked out onto his pillows as he let out a series of quiet sobs.
"It's OK Zack, we'll get through this.
Not long after Kurt had departed the man who had informed Carey and Moesby of Maddie's pregnancy arrived with a file in his hand.
"Ms. Martin, could we please speak for a moment?" he asked
"Sure, Marion, please, stay with Zack" Carey replied and Moesby nodded before she left back to the office they had spoken in last time.
They sat down and Carey declined his offer for coffee
"We have the results of the DNA test" he announced
"Yes?" Carey asked nervously.
"Unfortunately the test confirmed that Zack was almost certainly the father of the child" he gave the complete opposite news to what Carey had been hoping for.
"Would Maddie have known?" Carey asked hoping that she hadn't kept it purposely from Zack.
"It's impossible to say, it's possible she didn't know though. She was found to have consumed a large amount of alcohol when she was brought in and the pregnancy didn't appear on any of her medical records and none of her family told us. It would seem as if she didn't know" he professed. It was somewhat comforting for Carey to believe that Maddie didn't know, but it just hurt Carey so much to have lost a son and potential grandchild on the same day.
"Thank you, I think I should get back to Zack" Carey said and left.
As she entered the room she looked over at Moesby and gave him a silent and grave nod and he knew that Zack had been the father. Carey looked over at Zack and he was still rolled over with his face in the pillow, the occasional deep breath and sob escaping his body. Carey put her hand on his back and rubbed him warmly as a mother should. She couldn't tell him, not now.
Carey continued rubbing the sobbing and depressed Zack until she sensed he had drifted off to sleep. She went over and sat down next to Moesby and they quietly spoke of what needed to be done. Moesby was going to stand by her, she could have gone after Kurt but she had no idea where he would have gone and she didn't think she needed to bother finding him. Hours passed and the time slipped to the evening. Moesby received a phone call from the Tipton and he had to gravely break the news of Cody's passing to the assistant manager and passed on his condolences, the news was now spreading through the hotel. Zack remained sleeping until a nurse entered at around 7pm to check his vital signs and other things as required.
"Do you really have to move him over, he's sleeping" Carey protested
"I'll be as gentle as I can, I'll see if I can see what I need to without moving him" The nurse warmly responded with an air of understanding in her voice.
The nurse made a quiet worried sound as she looked at Zack's vitals however. Carey shot up immediately
"What is it?" Carey exclaimed worriedly
"Nothing...Just his temperature is a little high and so is his heart rate" the nurse replied a small amount of worry in her voice. "I'll have to turn him over" she continued as she did. Surprisingly Zack did not have much response to being turned over by the nurse, only letting out a slight moan.
"Zack" the nurse said "Zack" she repeated. There was no response and Zack's eyes were bloodshot.
"I'll be back in a moment" the nurse said with more worry in her voice as she dashed out of the room and returned a moment later with a doctor.
"Check his wound" the doctor said. The nurse lowered the covers and looked a Zack's abdomen, it was a pinkie red colour all over getting dark red around the wound coverings and when they were removed Zack's wound was seen to be leaking a sticky fluid and was an angry red.
"Jesus" the doctor sighed "get some blood down to the lap now and start on broad spectrum antibiotics" he ordered and the nurse began to comply.
"What's going on doctor" Carey replied with an extraordinary amount of concern in her voice.
"Zack has an infection, it looks serious, but we'll know more when we get the results of the blood test"....
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