Wow 50 chapters! – Where has the time gone? (and why do all the mile stones happen on short chapters?)
To all my readers and reviewers – Thanks for sticking with me all this time! (Although there is still quite a way to go).
SPOILERS – this week – Marissa gets a job, Bianca comes home, Kendal hatches a plan.
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Jackson gave Griffin a hard look when Kendall left to see her sister.
"So what haven't you told her?" he asked.
Griffin looked back surprised.
"I just wanted to pass on the medical update. It's good news!"
"So what is the bad news?" asked Jackson, as he was so sure there was something Griffin was leaving out.
Griffin licked his lips nervously, looking at Erica looking so tiny in her hospital bed
"Perhaps it would be best to continue this in the doctor's lounge?"
"Very well." said Jackson.
He kissed Erica gently on the cheek and whispered that he wouldn't be long.
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In the doctors lounge Jackson turned on Griffin once more.
"I'm here, what is it that you don't want to tell Kendall!"
"It's not something that I'm not telling her, it's just not something that I think I've explained very well." said Griffin awkwardly. "I just hate that I have to keep giving her bad news."
"What is it!" demanded Jackson, his hands balled into fists of frustration. He couldn't stand not knowing if something still wasn't right with Erica.
"We can repair a certain amount of the physical damage, but firstly it's important to remember transplants aren't some magical cure, there can be complications especially with a patient as weak as Erica."
"I know about transplants…" said Jackson, well aware of the trauma surrounding Kendall's heart.
"But the bullet also did a lot of nerve damaged which was causing Erica a lot of pain." continued Griffin, "Erica was sedated originally because of the amount of discomfort she was in; it was actually the later blood clots that did most of the organ damage. No amount of surgery can repair this kind of nerve damage. You must understand Erica will have to take high strength pain-killers indefinitely, just to be able to function normally, which can cause further complications of their own. What I'm trying to say is, this isn't something Erica can bounce back from unscathed. She will have to live with this pain for the rest of her life."
Jackson blinked,
"But there must be something you can do?" demanded Jackson.
Jackson saw a flicker of something in Griffin's eyes as he looked down.
"There is something?"
Griffin took a deep breath.
"I hate to say it, but Erica's only hope is David Hayward."
"Hell no." cried Jackson, stepping back in horror, "That manipulative swine…"
"Orpheus is the only treatment I know that can reverse this kind of nerve damage. Just look at Bianca, a walking miracle, she would have been completely paralysed without David's help."
Jackson nodded his head; he had to accept David's part in rescuing his precious niece. In fact David's abilities had saved a lot of loved ones over the years. There was no denying the man's skill.
"So this Orpheus treatment could help her."
"In theory; I mean, I am concerned that too much time may have passed for the treatment to be affective." explained Griffin, before shaking his head. "It's academic anyway. I asked for David's help weeks ago but he outright refused!"
Jackson sighed.
"Well then I guess it's time I had a word with Doctor David Hayward." said Jackson, straightening his jacket before marching out the door. "Although after everything, I'm not sure Erica will appreciate owing David her life."
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