A Mothers Love (by Danni02) - comments

[Inactive User]

Great chapter. Glad Charlie didn't get the wrong idea after she saw Brax at Bianca's house. More soon please xx

[Spotd1]

Aww I do feel for Charlie but I hope she changes her mind when she sees Grant! I also am happy Charlie didn't jump to any conclusions! I hope Bianca manages to get onto Heath! Looking forward to the next one! Great writing once again! Xx

[~Zoe~]

Good update, glad Charlie didnt get the wrong idea.

[caroline77]

i am quietly shouting at the computer don't do it Charlie!!!!!! I am surprised that Grant agreed to have a saviour sibling. I thought he would be a total dirtbag and say no. I hope Tracy doesn't find out or all hell will break out......

If it happens I don't think Brax will stick around. I think he will be off and join Heath.

[beebee]

Nooooo ... I too Was hoping he was going to be a jerk & refuse to do it! Charlie there has to be another way, there just has to be!!

Please Danni a miracle has to happen lol

Great update as always x

[Inactive User]

Great chapter

Noooo don't do it, Charlie!! :o Grant should have said no!

More soon please xx

[Guest]

Great update really hope Charlie doesn't get the IVF update again soon

[JosieTash]

I’ve just started reading this fic ….and its GREAT !!!!!!!!!!

I especially liked ........

 “I’ve always fancied getting married on a cliff top just like this.” Romeo smiled.

“This you’re idea of a proposal?” Ruby gave a little laugh. “Because Romeo Smith I don’t find it that romantic. The setting, okay I’ll give you, but not the way you asked.”

Romeo laughed lightly. “Not sure your mum would be pleased if I brought you home engaged.”

“Yeah, well my mum doesn’t like the fact that I’ve got leukaemia either but she has to deal with that doesn’t she?” Ruby spat and Romeo looked down saddened. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to...” Ruby eyes went red and puffy. She hated living with leukaemia and wanted this all too end, she wanted to get better and get back to being a normal teenager again.

 “Rubes, sweetie are you okay?” Charlie questioned.

“No.” Charlie heard the quick reply before she opened the bathroom door to hear her daughter vomiting into the toilet.

“Hey, it’s okay,” Charlie bent down beside her and held her hair back with one hand while she rubbed her back with the other. “Oh baby.” Charlie muttered under her breath. Brax stood back and watched with his hand over his mouth. He still wasn’t used to this.

 “Remember when you were younger, oh 7 maybe 8, there was a time for a while when you’d always come into my bed.” Charlie smiled as she remembered their past.

“That’s because you scared me by letting me watch that scary movie.” Ruby answered.

Charlie laughed lightly. “Rubes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was not a scary movie.”

“Well the child catcher man....woman.....person scared me,” Ruby screwed her face up. “So it was scary for me then.”

“What made you come into my room and not mum and dad’s?” Charlie questioned as she continued to rub her daughters back ever so slightly.

“Well back then I thought you were this cool hero big sister,” Ruby answered. “I knew you’d protect me.”

“And mum and dad wouldn’t have?” Charlie scrunched her nose up.

“Well yeah, but as I said, you were my big sister and I thought you were the coolest ever. I just wanted to be with you.” Ruby answered quietly before she yawned.

“That’s sweet,” Charlie smiled. “And I so would have kicked anyone’s ass for you by the way. And still would.”

“I know,” Ruby laughed. “You still this cool hero in my eyes,” Ruby answered. “Just my cool hero mum instead of big sister.”

“Cool hero mum,” Charlie grinned. “I like the sound of that.”

“Well what you’ve had to put up with lately, you deserved that title.” Ruby smiled.

“I’ve not been through as much as you,” Charlie gently ran her hand through Ruby’s hair. “You’re the hero.” Charlie said. “The amount of courage your showing. You’re so strong and you’re dealing with all of this amazingly.”

“I don’t have the choice but too,” Ruby answered. “I want to get better so I need to fight with all I have.”

“And you will get better,” Charlie said hopefully. “Because I’m not letting you go. We’re going to get through this.”

“Yeah,” Ruby answered. “I hope your right,” Ruby said before giving a yawn. “We’ll I’m going to try to sleep now. Love you mum.”

“Love you too Rubes.” Charlie placed a soft kiss on her daughters temple before they both closed their eyes to sleep.

 ““Probably because of what’s been happening with Ruby these past few months,” Bianca answered. “You’ve not exactly been on top of things.”

Brax sniggered as Rocco settled in his arms. “I’ve not been that involved,” Brax answered as he sat down next to Bianca on the couch. “Charlie doesn’t really let me in much. She’s a bit hot and cold in that respect.”

“Don’t take it to heart, Brax,” Bianca exhaled as she gently rubbed her son’s head. “She doesn’t mean to shut you out,” Bianca said. “She does love you so much and you’re probably helping her deal with this more that you think.”

 “And can I get tested?” Bianca questioned. “If none of you are a match. I’ll help if I can.”

“Eh, yeah,” Brax answered. “I’d just imagine you’d go talk to Sid.” Bianca smiled lightly, if Summer Bay was anything it was a tight-knit community and she had the feeling she wouldn’t be the only one willing to help Ruby if Charlie, Romeo or Brax wasn’t a match.

 Charlie, Romeo, and Brax followed Sid and walked out to the corridor. “What the...” Romeo trailed off as he looked at the crowd to see Bianca, Irene, April, Dexter, Leah, Miles, Roo and Marilyn, all standing there waiting, wanting to be tested.

 ““Yeah,” Ruby laughed once again, before letting it turn to tears. “April, I’m so scared I’m going to die. I don’t want to die.” Ruby cried as she hid her head in her hands.

“Hey, hey, Ruby,” April stood up from the chair and stepped forward, wrapping her arms around her friend. “It’s okay. You’re going to fight this and you are going to get better. You’ll see.” April said before placing a soft kiss on Ruby’s temple, hoping and praying that she was right.

 “Is it wrong that I feel weird about him helping us?”

“No,” Charlie shook her head. “I hate having to go to Grant, but for you we needed too. Right now he isn’t the guy who hurt me, the guy who scared me, traumatised me...” Charlie trailed off. “He’s the man that could be a match and save your life.”

“Feels like if he were a match, I’d owe him a hell of a lot.” Ruby said before biting her lip.

“You’d owe him nothing sweetheart,” Charlie answered. “He owes this to us.”

“To you,” Ruby said quietly. “If he can save me after what he did.”

 She didn’t want him anywhere near her daughter. In her eyes all he was, was a sperm donor, he didn’t deserve to say he was the father of such a lovey sweet caring girl.

 “Everyone was in black,” Ruby spoke quietly as she avoided eye contact with Charlie. “And everyone was there but Brax...” Ruby shook her head. “You were crying and Romeo and Bianca....” Charlie saw a tear fall from her daughter’s cheek. “Was it my funeral?”

“Hey it was just a dream,” Charlie rubbed her daughter’s forehead. “It’s okay.”

“Brax,” Ruby looked over to where he was standing. “You’re going to stay with mum, right?” Ruby questioned. “Why were you not in the dream?”

“Maybe I’d gone out for the milk.” Brax laughed as he walked over to the other side of Ruby’s bed.

 “Can he eh...stay over tonight?” Ruby questioned shyly. “It’s been a while since we’ve been able to -”

Charlie raised her eyebrows. “Yes, yes, stop talking,” Charlie waved her hand out in front of her. “I don’t need to know about that. You’re my daughter, I’m your mother, just no.” Charlie scrunched her face up as Brax walked through with the coffees. He handed one to Charlie before taking a seat on the chair.

 “Umbilical cord blood,” Brax read out loud. “Charlie what are you thinking?” Brax asked with a curious tone in his voice.

“I’m going to have a baby,” Charlie replied. “Cells can be filtered from the umbilical cord blood and given to Ruby and she’ll be okay.”

“Charlie....what?” Brax was shocked.

“I’m going to have a baby to save Ruby.” Charlie spoke seriously as she looked up to Brax.

“But how can you....” Brax rubbed his forehead. “You can’t guarantee that the baby would be a match?”

“IVF,” Charlie replied. “They can do genetic tests on the embryos.” Charlie answered.

“You’re really serious about this, aren’t you?” Brax questioned and Charlie nodded her head. “Okay, let’s do it, let’s have a baby.”

“What?” Charlie questioned. “No, Brax I -”

“Well you’ll kinda need some sperm Charlie, and our child would be Ruby’s half sibling so there’s every chance that it would be a match, right?”

“Well yeah, but there’s more chance if I have a baby with Grant.” Charlie spoke tentatively.

“With Grant?” Brax raised his voice, surprised. “Charlie you can’t seriously be thinking about having a child with him?”

“I told you I would do anything to save Ruby,” Charlie replied. “So, yeah, I’m going to.”

“Charlie this is crazy,” Brax shook his head as he held his hands out to the side. “Think about what you are wanting to do here. What he did to you in the past and you want to have another child with him. You’re supposed to want to have children with me.”

“This isn’t about what Grant did or wanting a child with him,” Charlie raised her voice. “It’s about doing what I can to save my daughter.”

“But -”

“You said you'd help me with anything Brax,” Charlie said. “And this is what I need to do.”

Brax exhaled as he rubbed his forehead. “Who’s to say Grant is going to agree to this? And Tracy will never agree.”

“You leave that to me,” Charlie replied. “But I am doing this.”

“Charlie, please think about this,” Brax pleaded. “We can have a child, we can do the IVF thing so we have more chance of a match, but you don’t need to go to Grant.”

“I do,” Charlie answered. “Now you said you’d do anything I wanted and this is what I want, no, I need, I need to do this for my baby.”

“Charlie how am I supposed to watch you being pregnant with another man’s child?” Brax questioned.

“I need to do this Brax. If she was biologically yours then you’d understand how I feel right now, and you'd understand that I hate myself for not being a match for her and this is my chance to have a part in saving her life.” As Charlie spoke Brax noticed a lone tear rolling down her cheek.

He exhaled lightly as he shook his head. “You’re right, I don’t know what you’re going through and I’m sorry but I can’t understand this.” Brax pursed his lips together as he looked away from Charlie.

“Well if you don’t like it you know where the door is.” Charlie said before walking out of the kitchen and running off up the stairs, leaving Brax standing in the kitchen alone.

 Although Ruby never lost all of her hair with the chemo, it had thinned a lot from the gorgeous thick brown waves she once had.

 “Hey hey mum,” Ruby stepped forward and rubbed Charlie’s arms as she saw her mother well up with tears. “It’s okay. If you don’t want me to go, then I won’t,” Ruby sighed. “I don’t want to upset you any more than you already are. I just thought the time away from the bay, some nice fresh air and chilling with my mates would be good for me.” Charlie looked into her daughters eyes and could see this was something Ruby really wanted.

 “It’s going to save my Ruby’s life. We need to do this. You still have your wife and your kids; you can go back to that life and have no worries at all, but me?” Charlie hit her chest. “My baby girl is sick. She is dying and I’m pretty sure Brax is going to leave me so I’m not going to have him in my life much longer, so if I lose Ruby too, I’ll have no one. Please Grant. I can’t lose my daughter. Please do this for me. After what you did to me, you owe me this. I’ve not gone to the police about what you did, you’ve got off with it and this is your chance to make it up to me. Please Grant, please.” Charlie pleaded with him.

Grant exhaled lightly as he looked into Charlie’s eyes. He’d never seen anyone want anything so badly before.

 “Nah,” Romeo shook his head. “He’s just kinda disappeared.”

“Well he didn’t disappear. He went to Japan.” Ruby said.

“Well yeah but he was only supposed to be there for 6 months,” Romeo said. “He’s been gone much longer than that. It’s like he just disappeared into a black Japanese hole.”

[Red Ranger 1]

Kinda glad that Grant agreed, I can see why Charlie wants to do everything she can.Loved the comment about Jai.

[Spotd1]

Another fab update Danni! I had an inkling Grant would agree, just need to pray Charlie sees sense or a match comes through for Ruby before they go ahead with it! Really enjoying this story! Please update soon! Xx