My Resurrection

I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to reintroduce Charlie back into Summer Bay. I didn't think it'd make sense for her to just rock up out of the blue so Leah is 'sick' you won't find out about what she is sick with as it isn't important she will recover and everything will be fine so don't focus on Leah being sick I just needed a way for Charlie to come back. I also got a review about me finishing my other stories! I'd love to if I had the time but it's been so long now I'd have to re-read my own stories because I have no idea what I've even done with them lol! I'll get there hopefully next year. I hope.

Chapter Two:

Charlie P.O.V

Leah's colour had returned somewhat, probably a co-incidence, but somewhere inside me I believe it was because she knows I am here and that she's dying to wake up just to ask me how on Earth I'm still alive. I laughed a bit about just thinking how astonished she would be, I know she wouldn't be mad Leah would understand.

What I had noticed though, people were walking past Leah's room peering in and gawking at me. People I hadn't even seen before including doctors and nurses. I was actually surprised that the entirety of the bay wasn't standing outside that door right now, it's only a small place so the news would slowly filter out and from there catch like wild fire. However I did discover from my talks with Alf that Coleen had actually left, so it wouldn't spread as fast now. I'd actually appreciated Coleen right now, telling everyone everything so I wouldn't have to. But I'm sure in time people will know.

I don't blame them for being shocked or even disgusted in seeing me. They saw the down fall of my leaving, Ruby ended up behind bars and well Brax he went beyond mad. I followed everything that occurred when I was in 'hiding', people actually have this job were they inform people like me about what was happening to the people in their life once we leave. I nominated Brax and Ruby, the two people I love most in this world. At first I was most worried about Ruby, she was my everything but then Brax started. He was drinking non-stop, started fighting and getting bad head injuries. I loved him so much and at times I'd cry myself to sleep just wanting to go and see him or even call him just to let him know I'm okay and eventually everything would be fine but in the end he figured it out and now he's with Ricky, I know about her to and I'm happy for him. Even though it did hurt, I knew he wouldn't wait. But why would he? I'm meant to be dead...

Something awoke me from my little day dream, I heard someone running down the hallway and for some reason I knew that they were running for me.

Bianca P.O.V

"What?" I questioned, Irene standing in front of me shaking almost as she told me the news I just couldn't believe.

"What do you mean?" I struggled to even comprehend the situation.

"She's alive darl, as healthy as an ox." Irene said, clearly shocked.

"Oh my gosh, well I have to go see her. This is crazy, how is this even possible?" I asked, not expecting a response. In a dream state almost, I gathered my things, my phone, wallet and keys before checking again, my head was scattered. I wanted to go see her, but what on earth would I say? When she died I was angry at her. When I learnt of her passing I cried and cried, not only because it was shocking and sad but because my best friend died thinking I hated her, which I did at that point. It took something so terrible for me to wake up and understand.

I drove to the hospital, where I'm hoping she would be. I didn't know where else to find her, where would she go? She had no one. She probably still thinks I hate her, and well she can't go to Ruby and most importantly she wouldn't go to Brax. Don't get me wrong Ruby is important but Brax is something different. All she would want is to be held by the one she loved, the one she shared a bed with, shared a life with for such a short time, but she couldn't he had moved on without her. Even though, I know for a fact, I'd even stake my life on it. If Brax knew this entire time or found out half way through that she was alive he would crawl from the end of the earth and back just to find her, he wouldn't give up, he wouldn't give up on her.

So when I parked at the hospital I was actually surprised to see that his Black ute with the surf racks on the top weren't here. I thought for sure he would have found out, but it's possible he didn't. I was too selfish to give him a call or go drop into Angelo's, I needed to see her now and nothing could wait.

I got out and started slowly walking but as I walked through the doors I found myself running, with the tears flowing down my face. I realised that I'd look very silly if Charlie wasn't here, the nurses would probably admit me for hysterics. But it didn't matter, when I turned into Leah's ward I saw her. She was sitting down, facing Leah her hair just as long as it used to be. She must of heard me and turned around, she hadn't changed at all in the 3 years she was gone. We walked into a hug and I cried, so unbelievably happy I cried.

"Charlie, I'm so sorry for everything" I sobbed, referring to all of the nasty things that I had said.

"It's okay." Was all she said at first.

"Plus it's me who should be sorry." She laughed as we hugged.

I broke away and looked at her through my swollen red eyes. She was healthy sure, but she just looked so drained, and exhausted. She was half the Charlie I used to know. She wasn't the strong Police Officer I knew she was broken and tired, she was missing her other half. Which was Brax.

Charlie P.O.V

"So you haven't seen him?" She questioned as she handed me my coffee that tasted more like warm water then anything. I drink a lot of coffee of late. I didn't need to ask who 'him' was, I knew exactly. Just thinking about him made me warm, but then made me depressingly sad knowing it was over and the best thing for him would be for me to just leave and go back to living a life without me in it.

"No" I replied, looking down at the coffee in between my hands. I was struggling to keep the tears in my eyes instead of flowing down my cheeks; I was too tired to cry for him.

"Why not? Does he even know you're here? He couldn't possibly, if he did I know for a fact he'd already be here." She said.

"Bianca, I can't! I can't just walk back into his life after 3 & ½ years, he's moved on, he's in a relationship and he's happy. I caused him so much pain it shouldn't be humanly possible." I explained.

"He's not the same Charlie. He's suffering like you are but he learnt to live with it because he thought there was no other option. He's content with Ricky, he's not happy and even if he was, as soon as he knew the truth..." She drifted off.

"Charlie he chased, and chased you and once he got there he didn't let go, he never gave up because there was a fighting chance! He still doesn't know that there is this fighting chance." She begged.

"And he need not know. As soon as I see that Leah will be okay, I'm gone and everything can go back to the way it was. I don't think Brax will find out. I honestly think people will be too afraid to tell him." I sighed.

"Charlie, if he finds out you were here and you didn't go see him he will break, he will break again and go back into that down-ward spiral. Except this time he won't be able to come back up, he won't resurface it will end him." She said, looking straight into my eyes.

"I can't." I almost whispered.

"Bianca, he will hate me for everything I've done. How long I've kept this all to myself for. You don't know him the way I did." I cried, the tears brimming over.

"The love he had for you the love he still has for you, the love he used to quit the River Boys the love he used to prove to you that he could be the guy you needed, will never leave Charlie. It will never cease. If you leave without seeing him you will kill him and kill that love that he still has for you, if you leave it will break his heart all over again. Please don't do this." She requested.

"Maybe that's what he needs; maybe losing those feeling will better his life." I whispered.

"His life would never be better without you in it." She demanded.

"We were never meant to be together Bianca; everything was so hard all the time. No matter what we did something was there to knock us back on our arses." I said after composing myself.

"Now you're trying to talk yourself out of seeing him. You two were sizzling, you both wanted one thing and that was to rip each other clothes off, have sex and lie in bed after cuddling. If there wasn't a struggle then it wasn't real." She stated, I didn't answer.

"And also how could you just leave me? After me finding out the truth and everyone else how could you just disappear again? That's not fair; you can't just come back and then leave, simply because it's easier for you that's selfish!" She cried in anger, I didn't answer once again I had nothing to say.

"Charlie as your friend, if you don't tell him I will." She said quietly but I knew she would, she would make good on that.

"Bianca, if you do that it will ruin everything he has built for himself since I left." I demanded.

"Charlie you never 'left'." She emphasised the last word.

"You died! They was no other option for Brax, he stumbled his way around god he nearly died fighting in that stupid ring all because he didn't want to be here himself! You owe it to him, you don't get to decide what's right or wrong you owe him this much." She said.

"Bianca I can't. It's been too long." I whisper.

Bianca P.O.V

I walked out of the hospital, not long after I had hugged Charlie promised I wouldn't say a thing to Brax but I couldn't honour that. She didn't see Brax fall apart like everyone else did; she didn't understand the pain he went through. I don't think anyone did. So as I made my way through the quiet streets of Summer Bay I found myself parked out the front of Angelo's looking up through my windscreen to where Brax's office would be.

I got out of my car and locked it as I went through the front entrance of the Surf Club and climbed the stairs into Angelo's. I saw Ricky busily working behind the bar, her short hair pulled into a pony tail and I felt a pang of guilt hit me. As soon as Brax heard about this Ricky might as well be non-existent but he needed to know. I would never forgive myself if I didn't tell him.

I remember back to when Charlie had only been gone a few months; I was lying in bed looking up at the ceiling when I heard an urgent knock at the door. I flew out of bed and ran down stairs as the knocking proceeded to get heavier. I flung the door open and there he was, he nearly fell out of the door but he caught himself. He was clearly drunk, I could smell the alcohol on him not to mention the empty bottle or bourbon in his hand.

"Bianca, I can't do this." He said, as he dropped the bottle, and as it smashed he leant against the wall and slide down it onto his arse. He put a palm onto the glass covered ground to stabilise him, the glass knowingly slicing into his hand.

"Brax don't do that." I begged him as I knelt down beside him and grabbed his hand, I fresh tattoo etched into his skin 'Cara de mo chroi'. It was in another language I believe, but I know it had something to do with Charlie, later that night I googled the meaning. Friend of my heart is what it translated to.

We sat together for some time, he just cried and cried and continued to talk about her. How much he missed her, how much he wish he could just hold her and kiss her and just let her know how sorry he was. He even told me about their personal endeavours, how they snuck around and he'd climb through her bedroom window just so Ruby and Leah wouldn't find out and so they could spend the night together cuddling like a normal couple. But then he recalled how just a few nights earlier he went to her window and was about to pry it open when he remembered...

Eventually he stopped crying and got to his feet and left, I watched him wonder down to the beach where he sat and watched the waves come in. But when I awoke the next morning he was gone.

"Bianca are you alright?" Ricky questioned as she looked at me.

"Why are you crying, is everything okay?" She questioned, I didn't even realise I was.

"I need to see Brax... Where is he?" I asked, my voice cracking.

"He's in the office..." She said, confused on why I would need to see him. I followed her out the back of the bar and towards his office. She opened the door as I saw Brax sitting behind his laptop before looking up at me, confusion registering on his face. I walked through the door, Ricky following me before closing it.

"Ricky, this is private." I said a little rude, she was shocked but she left. Brax didn't say a thing he just sat there looking at me.

"Brax, there is something I need to tell you..." I trailed.