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Jesse made it up 5 floors of the hospital and got lead into a unit with a small waiting area and a spotless desk against the wall. "Rebeca Mitchell's family?" The receptionist asked.

"Yes, well her boyfriend. Jesse … Jesse Swanson." He replied.

"Hello Jesse, I'm nurse Claire. Can you just fill out these forms quickly and I'll notify the doctor that you're here. Jesse nodded and read over the forms; they were just contact information and next of kin. This didn't seem right to him, nothing was going to happen to her right?

A solid 10 minutes went past before a doctor appeared and walked over to the chairs and took a seat. "Hi Jesse, I'm Dr Holcot consultant neurologist here. I understand your Rebeca's boyfriend?"

He nodded "Yeah, and she prefers to be called Beca."

"Alright Beca. Well in the past few hours we have done, blood tests, CT, MRI and EEG. It'll take a few hours for the results to come through but I believe at the moment we are looking at a brain tumour, we can't be sure but mostly likely with all the test results so far that's where it's heading."

Jesse had gotten paler and nodded again, clearing this throat he asked the dreaded question "Is she ok. Will she be ok?"

"We can't be sure, alright?" Jesse nodded "But we will do everything we can to make sure she is. Does she have any blood relatives?"

"Uh yeah. Her dad, he's on his way."

Dr Holcot nodded and patted Jesse on the back "She's in room 86 at the end of the hall. Only close family members only no friends!" He insisted before walking away to his next patient.

It was 4 hours later when Beca finally woke up surrounded by medical equipment and machines, she sighed heavily and pulled herself up into the sitting position. It was only when she heard voices in the corridor that she angled her head towards the window and saw a doctor? and Jesse. She saw him shake the man's hand before turning around and walking back into her room.

"Beca! You're alive!" He mimicked as he walked over to her and placed a soft kiss on her forehead before going back to sit in the chair at the side of the bed, she smiled at him trying to get himself comfortable. "Feeling better?"

"Well considering all this…" she motioned to the room and rolled her eyes. She turned her face back to him "Why am I here?" she asked. Beca watched as her boyfriend's smile dropped from his face and he looked down and laced her hand in his before turning back to her with the up-most serious expression on his face.

"Beca, your dad was here a few minutes ago and he'll be back tomorrow morning. He should tell you."

Beca witnessed the moisture gathering in his eyes "tell me what?" Jesse shock his head and wiped away the tears falling out the side of his eyes. "Jesse please?" She begged.

"Your dad needs to tell you." He insisted but Beca shock her head and squeezed his hand harder. He looked right into her eyes and swallowed deeply "Ok. Beca, we are all going to do everything to help you get better and move on with your life, okay?" She nodded preparing herself for the news. "You have a brain tumour."

*Beca's POV*

I felt like the world was shattering around me. The walls were no longer there and the floor the collapsing in on the people below. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. I had no idea what I was looking at or what I was doing, this is it I thought. No, this isn't happening, all I could think of was what had I done to deserve this?

In the far distance I could hear the sound of Jesse begging me to look at him, but I can't move I'm stumped in this shell of a body, this body which had been failed by its master.

"Beca? Beca please look at me." He begged from the other side. I shook my head lightly; it was so painful just him being there, knowing I was the cause of his current pain. Looking would be harder. But Jesse had other plans, he lightly brushed over my jaw and delicately turned my head to his direction – our eyes slowly met.

"I'm sorry, so so so sorry." I burst into tears and released my hand and from his grasp.

Jesse has shell-shocked "No Beca no! This is not your fault, you didn't plan this and you have nothing to be sorry about!" He grabbed my hand back and pulled me into a bear hug, so tight I almost couldn't breathe but that didn't matter because in this moment breathing was limited as my world crashed down all around.

*Jesse's POV*

It's the next morning after I told Beca the devastating news, she cried into my chest for 30 minutes before I noticed that she had fallen asleep again and my shirt had tear stains down the side.

"Morning. Has she woken up at all yet?" Dr Mitchell asked as he walked into the room with a bunch of flowers from the step-monster.

"Yeah. She begged me to tell her too, she cried for 30 minutes and was is shock. I'm sorry Sir." I replied almost deflated as Dr Mitchell took a few seconds to look at his daughter.

"Son, call me Ben." I nodded and he slowly breathed out and looked at Beca again "I'm glad you told her, I had no idea how I was going to do it." Ben then came and sat on the side of the chair I was occupying "When she next wakes up the doctor needs to see her." I nodded for what seems like many of the 1000s of times that horrible day "but for now, go back to the treble house, have a shower and sleep. I'll tell you all that he says but I think he'll just be speaking about what we already know about treatments and the diagnosis. I'll stay with her for now, don't come back until you've had a good sleep!"

I sighed and looked up at Beca resting peacefully "Alright. Chloe's in the waiting room yet?" I asked hoping the answer was a yes so I didn't have to wait around in the lobby downstairs. Ben nodded yes and I got up. I kissed my girlfriend on the head and scribbled a note, folded it up and place it at the side of her bed.

As soon as I got into the waiting area I was bombarded by Chloe "How is she?"

"Uhm. Can we just get out of here? I'll tell you in the car?" She nodded seeing my pain of leaving my soul mate in the hospital room down the hall.

It took a long 40 minutes to return to the treble house through all the morning traffic and the car ride was silent as I stared out the window and watched the passing clouds in the brisk January day. Finally the car came to a stop and Chloe turned to me "I think I'm ready to hear it all." She said with her tone wavering with worry.

"Where to begin?" I sadly chuckled "She got diagnosed this yesterday evening with a brain tumour." Chloe's hand shot straight to her mouth as she covered it and motioned for him to continue "She's been sleeping most the time and they'll be going through treatments with her later. Only family in her room at the moment, I'm sorry Chlo."

"No I understand she needs family the most at the moment." She allowed a few tears run down her cheek before reaching for a tissue.

"I'm going to go to sleep to get back her quicker, I'll keep you updated." She nodded and hugged me before I hopped out the car and walked up the steps to the treble house. At the moment it was empty because the boys were all in their classes, I'm glad I didn't have to deal with questions right now as all I wanted was to cry myself to sleep.

Not just my pain but for the pain of my girlfriend.