Nine and a half weeks later and Charlie is still in the hospital. Just when the doctors think she's strong enough to go home, the doctors find something else that they're concerned about.

The type of cancer Charlie has is Ewing's sarcoma. It's a type of bone cancer that mainly affects the younger adults, Charlie will need regular bags of donated blood in order to survive some of her soon-to-be any surgeries considering that the last one came back as negative.

But Charlie is remaining strong and optimistic...however it's nearly time for her second round of chemotherapy. The chemo is something Charlie classes as more painful than the cancer itself, the last round made her become a ghost of her former self. Not even could her own daughter cheer her up...so everyone is dreading it. However, Charlie's knows that she needs it.

"Don't look at me like that" Charlie laughs while she strokes her daughters cheek.

"I know you love going to your nanny and grandad. They give you lots of attention and you play on that...yes you do." Charlie rubs her nose against her daughters, but she's careful not to breath in her face. The thing is with chemotherapy is that there's a side that they definitely don't show you on the tele, that side is mainly the side effects.

Chemotherapy has a lot more side effects than hair loss. Some of which are: teeth rotting, chapped lips, dehydration, and of course not being able to kiss your loved ones in case you pass on some of the chemo solution. If a non-cancer patient got some of the solution inside of their body then that could be dangerous, considering the chemo will start attacking normal blood cells, making them ill.

However being on chemotherapy while being a new mother is specifically hard. Charlie can't breastfeed, meaning that she can give her daughter the right nutrients. A lot of midwives tell scary stories that her daughter will be more distant to her, but Charlie knows that it's bullshit.

It's also textbook that Chemotherapy is considered more painful than the cancer itself in some cases. However, watching Charlie go through it and not being able to get too close to her is the hardest thing for Dan.

"Are you sure you don't want anything to eat?" Dan asks while Charlie painfully sits up straight.

"The doctors said that I'm not allowed to eat anything...I can drink something but that's in the middle of the session. So I have to wait until then." Dan nods his head with a smile while he skims though the massive flatscreen tv. It even has all the SKY movie channels on it, as well as sports and all of those other channels that you have to pay for.

Charlie's room is the fanciest in the entire hospital. It has red velvet curtains and subtle golden fairy lights. The bed looks like a regular double bed...but only it isn't. This whole hospital room purpose is to look like regular bedroom. It cost Aubrey a fortune but she doesn't care at all, Charlie is like an annoying teenage daughter to her.

"What time do you have to leave?" Charlie curiously asks while Dan shrugs his shoulders back.

"I was thinking about going at half five and I'll be back at half six...." Charlie nods her head while she chews on the inside of her cheek, she doesn't want to let go of her daughter again.

"Take a mask with you...just in case." With the chemotherapy is administered everyone in the room apart from Charlie has to wear a mask.

Dan nods his head with a smile and puts on a Disney movie. While he lays on the sofa watching the film, behind him on the bed Charlie quietly dries tears out of her eyes. At first she didn't care whether she lives or dies, but after spending the past few weeks looking after her daughter...she now knows that she has to put up fight.

Lacey needs her...just as much as she needs Lacey.

"I don't know what you mean." Charlie laughs while Lacey reaches one hand out towards her mother.

"You're so weird...here...take this thing" Charlie picks up one of Lacey's soft toys and tries to put it in her hand, although she doesn't know how to grip anything yet so it falls out. Lacey then comically stares at the soft toy she dropped, and then back at Charlie.

"I'll pretend I never saw that." Charlie laughs before picking her small body up and cradling her.

"Dan?! Where's my blanket?" Charlie shouts over the tele while Dan sits up and looks around.

"Why?" He says lowering the volume.

"Your mum told me last time Lace was agitated...I think she missed me? Maybe if I give her my blanket she'd feel like I'm with her? My smell and all that." Dan nods his head. That seems like a good idea.

Dan then stands up and spots the blanket laid out on Charlie's 'chemo' chair. "But you get cold..." Charlie shakes her head.

"The nurse is going to let me lay on the bed today so I'll have the duvet." Dan nods his head again before collecting her pastel pink blanket.

"Are you ready to say your goodbyes..." Dan sympathetically whispers while stoking the side of his daughters cheek.

"No..." Charlie admits while she backs away from Dan.

"Babe, I'm going to get caught up in rush hour traffic. Come on, you'll see her the day after tomorrow." Charlie nods her head knowing that she has to be strong for her daughter, as well as herself.

"I love you." Charlie whispers as she raises her daughters hand up to her cheek and embraces it.

"See you in a bit." Dan says while he slips Lacey into her car seat with Charlie's blanket draped over his shoulder.

Charlie then stands akimbo while watching Dan walk out of her hospital room.