Chapter 2 - Tim's POV

"Tim, I'm going for a walk". That is what Savannah had told me. Of course I wasn't surprised, it was a full moon.

I may love Savannah with all my heart, but I know full well that even though Savannah does love me she will always love John Tyree more.

It has been six months that I've been at home - fully recovered I might add. These past six months have been great. Me, Savannah and Alan have come closer more than ever, and I hope to be starting our own little family soon. I want to have kids with Savannah and be able to call them our children. I want me and Savannah to be able to teach our kids to ride horses.

But it's on nights with a full moon that I start to wonder should I really have married Savannah?

Don't get me wrong, I love Savannah more than anyone I've ever loved, I love her with all my heart. But on a night with a full moon, I see the pain written all over Savannah's face, I can feel and see her heart breaking in tiny little pieces. I know full well what to expect when a full moon is up. Every night that it is a full moon - at the end of a long day, she will tell me she's going out for a walk, when I know for a fact that she's looking at the full moon thinking of John.

The nights with a full moon, are the hardest nights. I can see the pain written all over her face all the time but when it's a full moon, there seems to be so much more pain. i know it's probably the same for John, I saw how hurt he was when I and it turns out savannah too - had seen him for the last time. I remember the conversation I had with him, I remember what I asked of him and I remember how he didn't like what I was telling him. He thought it was wrong for him to do something like that. I did understand where he was coming from but I was trying to make the future bright for Savannah and Alan once I had gone. Turns out that I'm actually still living so all that planning and scheming was for nought. i was also feeling guilty having taken Savannah away from John so it was my way of saying "After I've died, she's all yours". Ok looking back on that I can see it was a sickening and unfair thing to say to John, but hey like I said, I was feeling guilty and I was trying to make Savannah's and Alan's future brighter and better.

I know I owe John my whole life and more, I owe him Savannah - but she chose to marry me and that is how it is.

When I say I owe John my life and more, I actually do mean it. Why, you might ask, well the answer is simple, i am still breathing, walking and talking, fully recovered and living all thanks to John. Let me explain.

About seven or eight months ago, on a sunny afternoon I might add, Savannah had come to the hospital to see me and when she entered my hospital room she had the biggest smile on her face. It was a smile that I hadn't seen in so long. She came in and sat on my bed and what she told me next was a huge surprise and a relief. Although when she told me that someone anonymous had made a very large donation to help towards my extensive treatment, immediately there was only one person I could think of that would do such a kind and unselfish thing. I knew it was John Tyree.

How you might ask, well again the answer is simple. When I asked John to do what I had asked, he was upset about it and he said he wouldn't agree to it. Also when he was leaving, I heard him mutter; "I'll see to it that i don't do it, cause I'll see to it that he carries on living even if I have to sell the house and my dad's coin collection". (AN - I know it isn't in the book and you can shout and complain about it in any reviews that you give me - but I'm not exactly sticking to the book am I? I'm going by what I would have liked to seen have happen - well actually I was trying to make things easier for myself as this was the hardest chapter to write! Any way onwards with the story!)

I don't think he quite meant for me to hear what he was saying, and to be quite honest with you I was ready to call out to him as soon as I heard those words escape his mouth, but by the time I was thinking of doing it, he was already gone.

All I can say now is that the world would be a better place with more John Tyree's and if me and Savannah have a little boy, I know I want to - with the permission of Savannah of course - call him John. And when the boy is growing up, I will make sure I tell him all about the original and real John Tyree and how brilliant, kind unselfish he was and how he sacrificed his own happiness for the sake of other people's happiness.

As I take a quick glance out of the window, I see that Savannah is heading back towards the house and I know that any minute she will be back inside. It was after that that I looked up at the moon myself and said a prayer for John hoping that he was well and hoping that he will find someone else that will make him happy - although deep down that he won't be able to see past Savannah, he won't think of any women the way he thought of Savannah.

With that I also said a final good bye to John;

"John I know you're out there in another world right now fighting wars and protecting the lives of hundreds of innocent people, but I just want you to know how grateful I am for you giving me life again, for you giving me Savannah. I also want to tell you how I think you're a better man than I ever was, and how I wish I had the courage to do what you did. I wish I never took Savannah away from you and I'm sorry. You will never know how sorry I am, but all that remains for me to say is thank you for my life and thank you for Savannah, thank you John Tyree and goodbye".

I noticed how Savannah still wasn't back inside and that puzzled me, she should have been back in by now, and it was getting very late.

As I glanced towards the clock, I realised just how late it had gotten and so with that I decided to go out to Savannah to persuade her to come back in.

Just as I had stepped outside, I swear I heard a voice that I thought I would never hear again…

"And yet, your love doesn't mean anything to me anymore…"