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"I don't know Zack...I think I need to go...this is all too much" Max and Zack had just shared their first kiss in 6 years and both were utterly confused as to how to go on.
"You don't have to go Max, we need to talk about this...about what we're going to do" Zack pleaded in a confused voice.
"I'm sorry Zack...but I don't think I can work out what we should do while I still don't know what I want to do...I'm sorry" Max replied and with that she turned and walked out of the room, leaving Zack feeling more than a little hurt and confused.
"Where did Max go in such a hurry?" Carey asked in a confused voice as she re-entered the room with Kurt.
"She had to go speak to someone" Zack said in a thoroughly unconvincing voice, vaguely attempting to stop his parents from knowing what had just happened.
"Really Zack?" Carey said in a disbelieving tone "What really happened" she continued probingly.
"Max just needs to think about stuff more...So do me...everything has gone wrong" Zack said sadly.
"I know...we have to try to get through it, Cody will live forever in us...and with Max's baby in a way we will always have a part of Cody" in our lives.
"If she keeps the baby" Zack replied in a depressed tone
"What? Did she say something about not keeping it?" Carey asked suddenly shocked and concerned.
"She doesn't know, but would you keep it? She's going to be a single teenage mother, her life is over" Zack shot back from his hospital bed.
"We will support Max Zack, she won't be alone, that is my grandchild and your niece or nephew, its family, which means Max is part of our family now" Carey sounded slightly agitated by Zacks apparent support for Max not keeping the baby.
"It's Max's decision to make" Zack shot back "Look...It's been a hard day on everyone, did you talk to anyone about my seeing Cody?" Zack asked.
"The nurse said a doctor will be coming by in half an hour, she said we can speak to him about it then, he'll have to see if you are up to leaving the bed" Carey replied and Zack scowled, he just wanted to see Cody and say goodbye. Days had passed since Cody had died and yet the connection Zack felt with him was not going away, it was strong as ever, but he needed closure, and Zack believed that seeing Cody would be the first step in achieving that closure he needed.
As promised the doctor arrived a little while later to check up on Zack
"Well Zack, you seem to have fought off the infection very well and your wound is healing very nicely, I think I'll keep you in another night for observation and provided nothing happens tonight I'll discharge you tomorrow afternoon." The doctor shared the good news after examining all of Zack's charts and vitals.
"Great" Zack said depressed, ruing going back to the Tipton where all was going to be able to think about was Cody.
"I'm sorry about your brother Zack" The doctor tried to comfort him, but it was useless.
"Thanks" Zack mumbled out.
"Doctor" Carey cut in "Any chance that Zack could see Cody tonight? I've had them hold his body here so Zack could" Carey asked
"Should be alright, but it would be preferential for him to take a wheelchair, and he shouldn't be left alone for very long at all" The doctor replied, it was conditional, but Zack would take it.
"Thanks" Zack and Carey replied as Kurt remained silent in the room. Kurt has thought he was doing the right thing by returning but he was being treated very coldly by Carey and Zack, both angry that he had left them. Carey wasn't sure she wanted him there at all.
"Alright well lets go down to see Cody then" Zack's heart breaking more and more as he spoke.
"I'll get a nurse on my way out, I'll come by tomorrow then and discharge you Zack" The doctor said before leaving.
It was a silent walk and wheel down to the hospital suites where Cody's body was being stored. Ordinarily Cody would by now have been moved along to the county morgue or funeral home but owing to Carey's promise of a sizeable donation to the hospital that procedure had been circumvented.
"Here we are Zack, are you sure you want to do this?" Carey asked
"I think I have to, can I see him alone please?" Zack replied
"Of course" She replied and she opened the door to the room for Zack and he wheeled himself in.
IN the centre of the warmly decorated room was a bed upon which lay Cody, a sheet covering his body.
In his wheelchair Zack could not see the top of the bed and so he made the decision to ignore the doctor's advice and slowly began to pull himself up to standing, given that he had spent the last days in a bed it was difficult.
Eventually Zack was standing over Cody his legs struggling to hold up his weight and he pulled back the sheet. Lying now in front of Zack was own mirror image, white as a ghost and eyes closed. Zack couldn't keep it back, it all came rushing out and he just broke down in the most horrible tears anyone could ever have heard.
"CODYYYY" He screamed grabbing at Cody's chest pulling his lifeless form into a hug and kissing his face as tears streamed over everything "Please Cody, Please come back" He moaned to no avail "Please it's not fair" Zack cried between inaudible wails of the most horrific pain. "It's all my fault Cody, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry" Zack just kept repeating that over and over as he stayed bent over the bed with Cody's body in his arms being soaked by his tears. All Zack wanted was for his brother to wake up and tell him it was alright that it wasn't his fault, but that wasn't going to happen.
Zack staying there for what seemed like an eternity hugging his lifeless brother begging for him to come back to him, never before had Zack been separated from Cody, now he was gone forever. Zack felt like a part of him was dead forever, a void that would never be filled. Zack wanted Cody to be back so much, he wanted Cody to be alive so bad, for a part of him to be alive at least. Cody had been such a big part of Zack, inside him their connection had been so strong, now it was extinguished completely and Zack didn't think he would ever feel whole again.
That was depressing to write. Hope you...enjoyed it; let me know what you thought and all that guys. Thanks for all the reviews and everything guys. I really appreciate them. Bye.