Disclaimer: - Pacific Blue and all it´s original characters belong to Bill Nuss and North Hall Productions.

Timeline - Takes place during "Best Laid Plans"

Author´s Note: This is a fanfic I once started but never finished. It may have some similarities to Chiquinta´s "Annette", since I started this one before I read "Annette". I hope you´ll like it.

Author´s Note 2: This chapter is a rather short one, but I wanted a chapter with just Victor´s awakening, and the questions he has to deal with.

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Back On Track

Victor opened his eyes, it took some time for them to adjust to the sudden light, but quite soon he realized he was in a hospital, with TC sitting next to his hospital-bed.

"Wha-?", he asked, not remembering how he got there in the first place.

"You tried to commit suicide", TC informed him, looking quite relieved that Victor had finally woken.

Victor finally remembered what had happen, Linda had been killed and after he had arrested the guy who did it, he had tried to commit suicide by mixing painkillers with alcohol.

Then TC started talk again. "We´ve been worried sick for you man. Palermo has been pissed the last week, making people work extra shifts, and Cory and Chris hasn´t worked at all."

"Palermo making people work extra? That doesn´t sound like something he´d do." Victor said, picturing Palermo doing a thing like that. "What have you done?"

"Me? I´ve been sitting here of course."

Victor suddenly realized that TC looked at least 10 years older, and he had been growing a beard.

"What have you done?" he repeated, finding TC´s appearance rather amusing.

"Well, staying at a hospital for over a week without any sleep and without shaving, makes you look like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away"." TC replied.

Victor just looked at TC for a moment, before remembering something.

"Where´s mom?"

"Oh, Rosa has been sitting here the past week, but I finally convinced her to get some sleep."

"Thanks." Victor said with a forced smile. What had he been trying to do? Kill himself, and he hadn´t even been able to do that properly. He was a complete failure, he hadn´t been able to save Linda, and he hadn´t been able to kill himself. He felt his eyes tear up, as he asked TC to leave him alone for a while.

"You´re sure? Ok, just don´t try doing that again. You scared the hell out of us."

"I won´t", Victor answered; though he knew he´d do it again, but this time, he´d do it properly.