Clay looked at them before he sighed,
"Yall stop. Whats happening is around 50/50. They will be fine and come back to us eventually, but it could take a while... i was gone for 10 years almost 11..."
He explained as he sat down on the couch and sighed,
"We are all going to be fine but we are famiky and nows not going to be the time to shut down or start being distant"
He explained sternly as he looked at all of them
How about five years? ))
Lil skip) a few years later Alexa wasn’t doing well. The years of stress had caught up to her and the absent of her children sunk her into a depression. People tried. But she was getting sick. Of course it wasn’t as dramatic as her kids dying in front of her. But she would wake up gasping for air. Wheezing and coughing.
Kira has stayed close to her in-laws. She would visit Leo’s grave every now and then. It was hard to explain to the kids. Hell it was hard to tell the youngest their dad wasn’t around but she had a bond with Alexa. She had even moved in. Just to keep the house full of life.
Clay sighed as he sighed by her side, rubbing her back softly as he held a cup of water,
"Are you okay...?"
He questioned softly as he kissed her temple, closing his eyes as he wished he could help her more...
“I feel worse”she breathed as she drank the whole glass. Kira came up with soup “clay it’s been a weeks we need to get a doctor to see her”she sighed worried.
Alexa shook her head “I’m fine”she breathed before coughing again. She felt vile. She moved to the bathroom to cough up whatever was in her system.
Clay watched her and frowned as he rubbed the back of his neck,
"No Alexa your not fine... far from it... look if you wont go to the doctor dor me, go for the fact that when they do come back your kids are going to want to see you healthy..."
Clay didnt like having to say that to her, knowing that it could makw her rather upset but what else could he do, he didnt want her to die...
Alexa managed to sit back in bed with liras help “fine..”she decided “I’ll let a doctor see me. That’s all”she wasn’t happy. She knew she was sick but she had let everything slip thanks to her depression. Clay didn’t seem to understand. But five years without them was still too long.
Kira managed to organise a doctor to come in and Zoe came over with them. She had been distant from time to time but only out of guilt. The doctor examined her vitals and asked her a few questions before sighing “we need to go to the hospital”
Clay was atanding nearby as he watxhed the doctors every single move before his eyes widened a bit,
"What do you mean go to the hospital? Whats wrong with her?"
He quesrioned quickly as he stepped closer, staring down at Alexa with growing concern
The doctor sighed “it’s..”he sighed “it’s looking like it could be cancer. I don’t know if it’s throat or lung so we need to get her to hospital to run some tests and scans”he said and Kira covered her mouth in shock. With all the madness of her husband and his siblings dying. They had forgotten Alexa was normal and humans were fragile. “Shit..um I’ll pack her a bag you get her to the car”she told clay as she went to the closet
Clay was stunned, his skin going pale before he slowly walked over to her and picked her up,
"Come on hun..."
He said in a shaky tone as he held her close to him, he knew she probably didnt want to go but she disnt have a choice at this point.
He carfully set her in the car and helped gather the rest of her things. All of clays life, she was all he knew... of corse at one point he had all his kids vut for the time being they were gone as well... he had his grankids of corse but, Alexa was always there for him, throigh all the madness and wars, the hurt and loss, and now there was a chance he could loose everything...
Alexa was in some shock. She felt so defeated. She had gone through so much. She had been taken abused and almost died to have her children. But now some stupid mutation in her cells was going to kill her. She got in the car and Kira handed clay the bag before stepping inside.
After all the scans and tests Alexa felt even worse. She didn’t know how to cope with it all. Her tears had dried up and she just stayed in the hospital bed “clay..”she finally murmured “if I go..can you tell them I was brave and fought it? I don’t want them to think I gave up”she was talking about the kids.
(I think they should come back one by one in order. So maybe Clementine comes back today and then Amelia a week later. But Leo takes the longest)
(sounds good to me)
Clay was sitting close beside her before tears welled in his eyes she spoke,
"Your going to be able to tell them yourself... your going to be okay Alexa..."
He whispered softly as he held her hand gently in his own,
"You have to be okay...."
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"Hello?"
Blinking her eyes opened she looked around her shallow grave and let out a shaky breath,
"M-mom? Dad??"
She whispered before she put her hands against the lid and began to push up,
"I need out..."
She growled as she pushed harder, forcing the lid off and the dirt to slide inside the gave ontop of her. Clementine quick shovled her way out of the dirt and looked around, her and all her siblings graves were in the woods near home, all buried inna circle,
"Im.... im back...."
She felt breathless and tired but she forced herself to her feet as she began to quickly run to the house,
"Mom!! Mom!!"
She screamed as she could see the house in the distance
Alexa sighed “clay..we both know this. Is. I am weak from it all..”she rested up some “I’ve gone through so much my body is fragile and Cody is dead. Can’t heal me.”she breathed “they said stage two. I got three more stages then I’m terminal”she was trying to deal with it all.
Kira heard the screaming. She had tried to keep in touch with max but the term was devastated by clems death. “Clem!”she yelled and hugged the girl having hope the others would be coming “your mom..”she breathed “they are at the hospital clem..”she sighed “ill get you an Uber”she said as she quickly sorted it out
Clay shook his head slightly,
"Alexa you can still get throigh this... your human but your not weak..."
He sniffled slightly as he gripped her hand slightly tighter, she was all he had...
Clementine nodded quickly before the uber came, she was srill covered in dirty and weak but she needed her mother. Once arriving to the hospital she quickly ran inside and to the elevator,
*mom...*
She thought softly before the doors opened and she began to walk down a long hallway. Watching the door numbers before finally come to her mother, listening to thwm talk inside
Alexa has thought she heard someone call her but she was so dazed she didn’t know if it was real or a dream “I just..it’s not a flu or a fever it’s fucking cancer clay. “She replied “I’m old now. If I was 30 I could fight it. I was strong mentally. But since they’ve gone. All the light has been drained from the world...we all die at some point. I’m going to die without them..”she sighed and laid on her back
Clementine felt her eyes water before knocking on the door and slowly pushing it open,
"But you cant just give up..."
She sniffled as she walked into the room and looked at the both of them, clays eyes going wide,
"Clementine?"
Alexa was in shock “clem..”she started to cry “your back..clem..”she felt even awful. She was just talking about defeat and then her daughter comes back “oh my god sweetie”she opened her arms for her. “What about the others? They still dead. It’s been five years..”
Clementine ran iver and hugged her tightly, closing her eyes as she cried,
"I dont think they are back yet but they will be"
She sniffled as she higged her, pulling back slightly and looking at her,
"You look so different... im so sorry mom..."
She cried as she wipped her face off
She hugged her for dear life and sighed “I may of given up when you were gone. I’m sorry I failed you sweetie. But before it was just clay. And now it was all of you”she replied. Hoping people understood. She sighed again “I’m sorry you had to see me here. Only found out today I have throat cancer”
Clementine wipped her face and shook her head,
"Dont be sorry, the important thing now is that we are coming back and will do everything we can to get you better okay?"
She said with a hopful tone as she held her hand,
"Its going to be okay mom... ill be strong for you... we all will be..."
The next few days she was stuck in there as she had some radio therapy. She got discharged and sat on the sofa “I don’t know what might happen now I just hope it works”she felt so sick from the treatment she knew it was the first of many. But she wanted it to be over with.
Max has gotten news that clem was alive. And the fact she hadn’t told him crushed him even more. He sat in his loft bedroom and cried as he drank more.