Title: Count on Me

Author: Adrian Jade

Summary: One bad choice causes devastation. But that same choice also gave someone the greatest gift ever to be received.

Prologue:

May 8, 2009

"You're going to make it through this baby." Elaine Langston stroked her daughter's damp forehead. "You are going to be ok." She brought her lips down to kiss the pale clammy skin. Whitney coughed and Elaine could see the vapors hitting the clear oxygen mask her daughter was forced to wear. Whitney had been born perfect. A beautifully perfect 8 pound baby. Then when she was twelve years old she developed kidney problems. Then at twenty-three her heart began to fail. She was now twenty-seven and fading before her mother's eyes. She needed a new heart and was one of the top names on the transplant list. But they were running out of time. Whitney wouldn't survive another month without a new heart. Elaine could feel the desperation deep within her but she never let her only daughter see it. No, instead she was always hopeful around her daughter. She needed to be her rock. But the moment she left the hospital which had become her second home she let the stone wall she kept around her heart crumble and she wept for her daughter. Whitney needed a heart and she needed it now.

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"Mia stay with me." John Cena hurried to keep up with the moving stretcher that his fiancée way being wheel away from him on. His white dress shirt was covered in blood. None of it his own. The small gash on his forehead was the only indication that something had happened to him. Mia's side of the car had been the one to sustain the major impact of the other car. He hadn't had that much to drink. Just a few beers. He had sworn the light had been green. The medical personal stopped him from going any further. If something happened to her he would never forgive himself. He slumped down to the floor and put his head in his hands and sobbed.

Everything was a blur after that. Nothing seemed to make much sense to his numb mind. His brain had turned itself onto safe mode to protect him. He was aware of what was going on and what had happened but to him it was almost like a dream.

Mia Underwood never regained consciousness that night. At exactly 2:48 A.M. she was declared clinically brain dead. As her last dying wish her organs were donated to people who needed them.