Whats going?…Are Tina and the baby ok?…Alice asked, moving closer to Bette.

Nodding, feeling quiet tears slowly running down her face, Bette whispered, the words barely voiced.

AlitsUnable to face her friend, Bette turned around facing the wall. Shivering, feeling the floor under her feet dissolving, clouds covering the room she mumbled,

Alwe have to gowe”

Taking Bette by the shoulders, facing her, Alice whispered, making an effort to voice her fears.

To go where?

Seeing the lost look on Alices face, Bette hugged Alice, and hiding her face in her neck, she whispered.

Its Danashe is sickshe is sick”

Feeling Bettes tears, her shaking body, Alice closed her eyes trying to compose herself, she didnt have to ask. She didnt need to hear anything else. Sjhe knew Bette well enough to know that it was serious, that it was there. The knot her had been feeling in her stomach those past days was back. She saw it in Danas eyes, she felt it in her guts. It was there, the big C.

Caressing Bettes head, trying to calm her, Alice whispered.

Is ok Bette, everything is going to be okshhis okshe is going to be ok” She voiced her hopes as a prayer, as a promise to herself and the others. She wanted to convinced herself as well as her friend. She could not think about it all. It was there, there was no time for thinking, they had to face it and beat it.

Let me get dress” she added, moving away from Bette. Taking a t-shirt and the jeans from the closet she walked towards to the bathroom not before stopping at Bettes side and kissing her on the cheek whispering,

“is okshe is going to be ok”

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Noticing the bright lights on the ceiling, Dana thought about movies. Strange thing to think about she said to herself. She was being carried to the OR laying on the gurney and as the bright lights on the ceiling were kept behind she remembered all those movies and tv shows were they showed this same moment and how cool it always looked. But now, seeing it herself, all she could feel was cold and misery. As a hit, as flash, she remembered her friends, their laughs, Alice silly witty jokes, Bettes sweet distance, Tinas smile, Shane concern whenever any of them seemed to be in trouble, Kits generosityand then she remembered Laras first kiss, and as the gurney stopped in front of the OR swinging doors, she remembered Alices lastit was difficult to believe that it was real, that it was happening to her, that her future or lack of it was waiting behind those neat, ugly doors.