I apologise for leaving this story for so long I guess I lost my muse for a bit :( But good news! I shall be uploading a new chapter this week :D

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The ship landed back on Earth and the crew took Captain Aya took the emergency room. Taylor sat anxiously waiting. Even though the pod said she is stable and the medic said she would survive, he still couldn't help but worry. A thought kept running through his mind; what if he had chosen to look for the crew, instead of going to the flight deck? Aya would still be stuck in the ship and she would have died and become a host for the glowing green parasites.

But she is here now and the medic had stabilized her on the spaceship, but he needed to get her to a hospital. Taylor had taken off his spacesuit and put on trainers and a jacket. He placed around the waiting room, he couldn't stand still.

He sighed and sat down again. He really hoped they wouldn't long, he just wanted to tell her everything he's seen and for her to make a full recovery. He paced around the room again, he had no idea how long it had been.

Eventually, the doors opened and the medics wheeled Aya out and into the Recovery room. Taylor stood up and asked the nurses if he could visit her.

"Yes, but she's still sedated."

"That's fine. Where is she?"

"This way. But don't sit on the bed and do you have any illnesses?" The nurse asked.

Taylor shook his head. "The medic on the spaceship checked me out. I'm fine."

"Ok. This way." The nurse walked down the hall and through a double door, then down another hallway with rooms on both sides.

The nurse stopped at Room 32. "Be quiet and remember what I said. Don't sit on the bed."

"Okay. Thank you." Taylor said, then walked in. Just as the nurse said, Aya is sleeping, with an IV bag and a heart monitor. Taylor took a seat next to the bed. "Hey. When you wake you, I'm going to tell you about this crazy experience I had when we crash landed. I just want to say, it was never your fault. There was this pulse and it hit the Varia. Colby got me into an escape pod, but... she didn't make it."

Taylor took a breath and thought of his friends. They were still back on that moon, possibly still having the parasites controlling them, or the parasites went out of them and now... He didn't want to think about it. He wanted to save them, he really did. But they had died when the spaceship crashed and the parasites had only controlled them.

"What do you think we should do? Once you get better?" Taylor asked, then shook his head. Why talk to her, when she couldn't respond? Then he remembered his lesson on people who were in Aya's position; listening to a familiar voice might make them recover faster.

At least Aya's breathing is normal. No more rattling or shallow breaths.

"Maybe the moon gave you super healing powers or something, huh? Or just green saliva. That's what I got... and green puke. But you didn't need to know that." He lightly squeezed Aya's hand. "Please wake up. I couldn't stand it, if you didn't. But your going to wake up. I know it."

He stayed by Aya's side until the nurse came in to tell him that visiting hours were over, but even then he didn't want to leave her. What if she woke up when he wasn't here? Where was he supposed to stay tonight? He didn't leave right away. He stayed until the hall was quiet apart from the nurses.

"Excuse, visiting hours were over 20 minutes ago." The nurse said, coming in with a new IV bag.

"You have no idea what I went through to save her. What if something happens and I'm not here? What if she wakes up?"

The nurse looked genuinely sympathetic. "If you give me your contact details, we will get in touch with you if there is any change."

Taylor still didn't want to leave Aya's side, but he knew he couldn't spend the night here. He had to see if the spaceship crew were still here. He could camp out in the ship and come and see her again, the second visiting hours had started.

He stood up and sighed. "I'll be back in the morning, promise." He gave her hand a last squeeze then left, looking back one last time, before the door closed.

He gave the details of the crew to the nurses as Aya's nurse had suggested, then he left.