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The silence in the room soon was filled with the steady beat of the monitor indicating Ethan was stable and managing to breath without the help from the ventilator. All Cal had to do was wait for Ethan to wake up. Ethan felt groggy, confused and sore. He was ware someone was beside him, but had no idea who it was. His eyes began to flutter open. He had to blink a couple of times to adjust to the brightness of the room. He could feel someone's hand on top of his own. Peering as best as he could Ethan saw the familiar figure of his brother.

"Cal?" He tried to speak.

Cal shot up and saw Ethan looking at him.

"Yeah, it's okay, Eth. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere."

"What happened?" Ethan wondered.

"You don't remember?"

Ethan shook his head as best as he could.

"Someone found you in the churchyard. Unconscious." Cal explained. "Why were you in the churchyard?"

Cal saw a few tears escape from Ethan's eyes. He felt his heartbreak seeing his brother cry. Climbing in beside him and pulling him into his chest, Cal held onto Ethan as he felt the tears dampen his scrubs.

"What's wrong?" Cal whispered as he continued to rub Ethan's back. "You can tell me."

Ethan sniffed and pulled away from Cal's embrace even though he didn't want to.

"I wanted to see mum." He replied quietly.

"Oh, Ethan." Cal sighed.

"I was angry, upset. I shouted at her for lying to us, shouted at her for not telling us you were adopted."

Ethan paused for a few moments.

"I told her I hated her for what she'd done." He broke down once more and Cal pulled him into his arms again.

"You have the right to be upset. You have the right to be angry. Even I was upset when I found out. But, you know what?"

Cal felt Ethan shake his head.

"What happened is all in the past. What matters now is how we go on from here."

"What do you mean?" Came a muffled response.

"There's always a silver lining."

"How? We're not brothers."

"Ah, you see that's where you're wrong, Nibbles." Cal said pulling Ethan away from him and looking at him.

"I don't get you."

"After finding out my blood group was different to mum's blood group I wanted to know whether you're blood group was the same as hers or was different like mine."

"And?" Ethan asked worriedly.

Cal smiled.

"We were both adopted by mum. And the good news is we're actual brothers."

"So she lied to us both?" Ethan replied.

Cal's smile disappeared when he heard Ethan answer.

"I thought you would be happy?"

"About what? About the fact that the woman who raised us, the woman we thought was our mother lied to us?"

"I was talking about the fact we're still brothers."

"Well, of course I'm happy about that." Ethan told him.

"Don't get to cheerful about it then." Cal replied sarcastically.

Ethan chuckled slightly and in return Cal chuckled too.

"I'm just upset she didn't tell us."

"Of course, you have the right to be upset about that, but what's done is done. Like I said before all that matters now is where we go from here."

"So where do we go from here?"

"Well, I was thinking how about meeting our real mum?" Cal suggested.

"How? We don't know where she is or if she's even alive."

Ethan saw Cal rub the back of his neck. He knew there was something else Cal wasn't telling him.

"What is it?" Ethan sighed exasperatedly.

"She is alive and I know where she lives." Cal answered.

"How do you know this?"

"I tracked her down. Well, Charlie tracked her down." Cal explained. "And before you get mad, I didn't know Charlie was going to do that. But, he did."

"Have you met her?"

"No, I haven't met her." Cal laughed nervously.

Ethan glared at him. He knew Cal was still hiding something back.

"Okay, well I've only briefly met her."

"And what was she like?"

" I don't know."

"You met her and you don't even know what she's like?"

"I was kind of preoccupied at that particular moment."

"With what?"

"Like asking her why she gave us up."

"Did she tell you why she did what she did?"

"Um, yeah she did." Cal said slowly.

Cal knew Ethan was waiting for him to reply. But, he didn't know if he should. Ethan had already reacted badly to the adoption, how would he react when he found out their real mum had Huntington's?

"Wy did she give us away?" Ethan pressed.

"She, um, couldn't look after us."

"Why?"

"She said something about being a single parent."

"Come on, Cal." Ethan said. "That's not the reason why she gave us up."

"How do you know?"

"Mum brought us up as a single parent. It can't be that hard. Now tell me the real reason why our real mum gave us away."

"Fine. But, if I do, will you promise not to interrupt until I'm finished?"

"Deal."

Cal let the silence drag out a bit longer before taking a deep breath.

"The reason why she decided to give us up was because she has Huntington's."