I miss you

chapter ten

Six years later and Kate has been diagnosed as having cardio miopathy (Her heart is wasting away). She has yet to tell Shane and is having second thoughts of telling him at all.

"Shane," "Yes?" "I'm going to have to go away for a while." "What? What do you mean?" "I... well... this is hard for me but... I've got cardio miopathy, a disease which means that my heart is wasting away." Kate says sighing.

"WHAT?" "Shhhh. You'll wake Sophie." "Sorry. Why didn't you tell me earlier?" "Because I was afraid of the way that you would react. What I meant by going away was that I'm going to go into hospital for a while." "How long for?" "About six weeks. They need to do some tests and that's why I need to go into hospital for so long."

"What about Sophie?" "She can stay with your mum. I've already spoken to her and she says it's fine." "Ok, well, I guess I'll have to cope." "You cope already, being away with the band." "Whatever happens, I'll always love you." "I know. I love you too." They say kissing.

"What caused it?" Shane asks. "Remember I had a viral infection a couple of months ago? Yeah, well that caused it." "Oh honey." Shane says as he hugs her. "Remember that I'll be here every step of the way."

Kate goes into hospital and has the tests done. She is told that it is much more serious than first thought. She will need to have a heart transplant or she will die. Six weeks after being told, she receives a call that a heart has become available: 'Beep, beep, beep, beep.' Kate looks down and sees that her pager is sounding.

"Shane," "Mmmm?" "I need to go." "What do you mean?" "Into hospital. They've found a heart donor." "Have they?" Kian says. "Yep." "Well, you'd better get going." Mark adds. "See ya soon." Kate answers to all of them as she leaves.

...in the hospital...

"Don't worry Shane, I'll be fine." "It's not just you I'm worried about. It's Sophie. I don't want her not to have a mum." "Don't worry. See ya soon." Kate says as she is wheeled off to the operating theatre.

...several hours later...

"Well Mr. Filan, Kate has come out of theatre, and is at the moment in intensive care." "How did it go?" Bryan said as he, along with Kian, Nicky and Mark have joined Shane.

"Well at the moment, it's to early to say. But so far she's fine." "Can we see her?" Nicky asks. "Yeah sure." They go into the room and sit down around Kate. They all fall asleep and about three hours later; the monitoring systems suddenly start bleeping and wake them all up. They show that something is seriously wrong...

chapter eleven