So I actually had a ton of free time today so I sat down and just busted out the rest of this story. There's gonna be one or two chapters after this one, depending on how I feel I should divide them up.

Zach sat shell-shocked in his sons hospital room, staring at his son. His eyes drank in every detail of his sleeping face. His mind was racing. Robby's mother was here, he had actually seen her and she had spoken to him. It had been 8 years since he'd last seen her, but it was still Tori. Even underneath the $10000 wardrobe and the $50000 jewelry he could tell she was just as beautiful as the day he met her. But that wasn't what really surprised him. What really surprised him was the way he felt when he saw her. He had played out the scenario hundreds of times in his head over the years but none of them included feeling what he felt when he actually laid eyes on her again. A soft knock on the door drew his attention. He looked up to see Tori standing in the doorway.

"What are you doing here Tori?" His tone icy.

"I saw he was in the hospital." She stammered. What do you say to the man you walked out on? "I'm here making a donation to the hospital with my husband and I passed by his room. When I saw you, I just couldn't stay away Zach."

"You know what I felt when I saw you Tori?" Zach said, nearly emotionless. "I felt nothing. I didn't even know what it was until just a few moments ago, but I didn't feel a single thing. No love, no hate, just nothing."

He could tell that hurt her but he didn't care, she had no right to be here.

"I came to see our son." She said simply.

That definitely got a reaction out of him. He leapt from his chair and pushed her out into the hall.

"How dare you call him our son." He hissed, trying very hard to keep his voice down. "What makes you think that you can waltz back into his
life after 8 years and say he's your son?"

"He's my son, I'm his mother!"

"He is not your son anymore, you gave up any right you had to him when you walked out on us!"

"What do you mean he is not my son Zach, I certainly remember being pregnant with him and giving birth to him. I remember going to the doctor when he was 6 months old because he got colic. He is my son."

"I'm going to ask this one more time, what the hell do you want?" Zach asked, struggling to keep from loosing his mind at the woman he once
called his wife.

"I want to pay for Robby's hospital stay. There is no possible way you can afford this."

"What makes you think that?" He spat.

"Come on Zach, you really think I can't tell that you're just barely getting by? You can't afford this, let me pay for it." She pleaded.

"I don't need your charity Tori. Or do you go by Emily now? I heard you married well."

"Zach come on, you know me."

"You're right, and what I know about you is all bad. Keep your money and get the hell out of our life." Zach turned to go back into the room.

"He's my son too." She firmly stated.

"But you are not his mother!" Zach finally exploded, not caring who heard him. "You were never there, you left us and you never looked back!" He shouted, by now the hall was dead silent, everyone was watching to scene unfold. "Who read to him every night over the phone while I was away? Who was it who when he said he wanted to dance instead of play football signed him up for lessons? Who went to every recital, and birthday party, and parent teacher conference? Goddamn it Tori! You didn't even come to him when it came down to you or foster care."

"I told Silverman, I couldn't do it!"

"You and I both know that's bullshit. You married money, you were more than able to do it. You were afraid that your sugar daddy would find out leave you!"

She stood stunned for a minute, she looked like she was about to cry. Zach realized this was exactly how she'd looked the night she found out she was
pregnant. Even though it had been years, even though she had put him through hell, even though he told her he felt nothing, he felt that familiar twinge of
wanting to wrap his arms around her and tell her everything was going to be alright.

"Let me see him." She said shakily, her voice steadily rising. "Let me see him damn it, let me see him!" She began to beat on his chest, sobbing. "Let me see him, let me see him, let me see him."

As this was going on, Jo and Alex had come upon the two. "Mrs Daniels," Jo said, attempting to console the woman. She put her hands on the woman's shoulders and pulled her off the man. "Mrs Daniels,"

"Get your hands off me." Tori slapped Jo across the face, hard. "You let me see him or so help me god I will take him from you!"

Jo was shocked for a moment, then she slapped the woman right back.

"That's enough!" She barked at the woman. "Mrs Daniels, leave now before I have security escort you out. I'm sure that would make a very nice headline, the wife of a Seattle élite being forced out of a hospital where her husband had just made an extremely sizable donation."

No one said anything so Jo took this as a sign she was safe to go ahead.

"The Chief was very clear when he explained earlier that you have no right to so much as see Robby so I suggest you let Doctor Karev escort you to the
lobby where you will exit this hospital, get in your car, and go home and we'll forget about this little misadventure. But I assure you, if you don't take that
option, I won't forget and I think you'll find that the Seattle Press won't ether."

"I think you'd better leave Mrs Daniels." Alex said quietly.

As Alex led her away, Emily Daniels looked back at her ex-husband and for the first time, Jo saw beyond the makeup and the clothes. She saw a desperate
woman, a woman who had tried to hide behind money and glamor only to find she had thrown away the best thing that ever happened to her. Jo turned back to Mr Collins only to find he had gone back into his sons room and was now standing at the foot of his bed. She came up next to him.

"Thank you Doctor Wilson, that couldn't have been easy." His shoulders dropped. "But she's right. How the hell am I going to be able to
afford this? Robby deserves so much, but I can't give him anything better."

Jo placed her hand on his shoulder. "I've had lots of experience with crappy parents but you're not one of them. From what I saw today you've given him everything. You love him, you would do anything for him. That's what he needs most. And as for the money, sometimes things have a way of working themselves out."

"You really think so?"

Jo smiled. "Yeah, yeah I do."

The moment was broken by a sudden ringing of alarms.

"What's happening?" Mr Collins asked, clearly alarmed.

"Sir, please step back." Jo pushed him out-of-the-way to get a look at Robby. It took her only seconds to diagnose the problem. "Page Yang and
Karev!" She yelled as a nurse ran in.

"What's wrong with him?" Mr Collins asked, panicking as Alex and Christina ran through the door

Christina quickly assessed to problem before turning to Mr Collins. "Sir, your son has developed a heart arrhythmia. He needs surgery immediately."

As they wheeled Robby out of the room, Jo laid a hand on Mr Collins shoulder. "He's gonna be fine." She reassured him, before racing after the
group.

Jessica sat in the waiting room, not really knowing where else to go. She watched as, one by one, doctors came in to give people news that would change
their lives, for better or worse. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back, thank god today was almost over. She heard someone sit next to her. She opened we eyes to find Zach, looking like he'd just been through his own worst day ever, collapse into the chair next to her.

"Hey." She said simply.

"Hey yourself."

"You look like hell."

He chuckled. "So do you." He took a drink from the water bottle in his hand. "They had to take Robby back into surgery, apparently he developed a heart arrhythmia and they had to take him back in to fix it."

"Oh my god, is he ok?"

"Yeah, they rushed him back in and got it all taken care of." He laughed humorlessly. "Is it wrong that I wish this was a bottle of vodka right now?"

The conversation stalled for a few moments before she heard him take a deep breath. "Jess, about earlier" he began.

She cut him off. "It's ok Zach, it's none of my business."

"I didn't know she was going to be here. You've got to understand, I've not seen Tori since Robby was 3. Then she has the nerve to try to waltz back
into our life like nothing was different."

They lapsed back into silence, this time she was the one to break the silence.

"I called my mom, I told her about the tumor. She and dad hopped the first flight they could. It should be landing in a few hours."

"Where're they coming in from?"

"Atlanta."

"Did you tell your band mates?" She looked at him with mild surprise. "Come on, you really thought I would recognize Jessica Hall, Grammy award
winning singer?"

"Oh no I've been caught." She threw her head back and laughed and he laughed too. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you outright, but it was kind of nice just to be Jess for a little bit."

"No, I understand. I'd have loved to be able to be someone else for parts of today. Did you make a decision on what you're gonna do about, you know?"
He asked, slowly.

"I don't know." Was all she managed to say. It was also the most honest thing she could say, she didn't really feel like she knew anything anymore.

"Good, you don't have to decide it tonight. You need your family to help you make it." He took her hand. "I want you to just do what makes you happy."

"Why do you care so much about me?"

He blushed, hard. She watched as his emerald eyes sparkled for the first time today. "I don't know, I like you. Besides, you seem like you need someone
to care about you." He stammered.

She turned away. "Would you still like me if I wasn't famous?"

"Who's famous? I'm just a guy in a hospital with his son and you're just Jess."

She grinned. 'Just Jess', she liked how that sounded.

Zach shifted uncomfortably. "Listen, I need to head back to Robby. Why don't you come and wait for your folks with us? I can promise you cold leftover
cafeteria pizza and semi warm coffee stolen from the nurses station."

Now it was her turn to go beat red. "You asking the dying girl on a date?"

"You saying yes?"

She nodded and smiled as he stood up and offered her his hand. Maybe, just maybe, something good had come out of this day after all.