Vesper's POV

When I woke up, I found myself I a strange place. When I looked around, I found James asleep in the chair next to my bed. I smiled, it was good to see James sleeping and peaceful. Quietly I unhooked all the wires attached to me and swung my legs over the side. I looked back at James, I hated to leave him but he would move on I didn't doubt.

As soon as I stood up my knees buckled. Before I hit the ground arms wrapped around me holding me up.

"You're not going anywhere," James said his voice cold.

"James," I whimpered.

"Sit down!" He yelled.

Startled I hurriedly sat back down.

"I'm sorry James," I said as he turned towards the door.
"Stop saying that!" He yelled slamming his fist into the door. He turned back to me and from his hand, he dropped my necklace on the bed. "I know about him."

Horrified I tried to explain, "No James, you don't understand."

"No! I don't understand! Do you care to enlighten me!"

"Yes James I loved him! Loved! I love you!" I screamed weakly.

"But you were completely wiling to betray the man you supposedly love to save the man you no longer love."

"You know me James; I couldn't let someone die on my account."

"So you were going to kill yourself!"

"I had to!" I screamed trying to hide the weakness in my voice.

"No, Vesper, you didn't, not for him. He's moved on, he's with someone else!"

That stung, I sat there tears welling up in my eyes. I could almost see his armor come crashing to the floor. His face soften as the tears slid down my face. "I did it for you; I was going to die for you James!"

"What?" He asked falling into the chair.

"That night, when we were captured, the man I worked for, he saved us. However, he wasn't going to save you but I, I made him. I made him a deal. I would take the money and give it to him but then I had to die that was the deal. And not to save him, no to save you, to save you James!" I broke down into tears my sobs shaking my whole body.

James came up to the bed and sat next to me, wrapping his arms around me. Leaning into his chest, I sobbed harder.

"I love you James." I sobbed.

"I love you too." He whispered kissing my head.

Suddenly, I couldn't breathe. As I gasped for breathe, James moved from my side and sprinted down the hall to grab a doctor. When they returned the doctor rushed in, but James just stood in the doorway. He tried to hide the emotion on his face but I could see the worry in his eyes.

"Mrs. Bond!" the doctor screamed and I, in my panic, liked the sound of the name. James must have made me an alibi. "I need you to lie down." The doctor said.

She laid me down and put the oxygen tube back in my nose. The sweet oxygen cooled my burning lungs as I slowly drifted to sleep