Walking down the hospital corridor, I slowly breathe in and out trying to calm my erratic heart beat.

I can't concentrate.

All I can see is Liam, lying on the ground in the middle of that road or lying in the hospital bed, completely helpless. I still can't get my head around it.

How he went from being so alive and so... so him one minute to suddenly just nothing. Just a body.

He could so easily become nothing more than a body. Who knows if he will even wake up again?

He could be gone, so easily. And it would all be down to some drunk idiot who didn't think to stop his car or even see him in the road.

I'm forced to take a break from walking, leaning against the wall as I attempt to catch my breath and suppress the tears threatening to fall.

I look between the corridor leading to the cafe and Liam's hospital room that I just came from and I'm unable to stop my legs from taking me, taking me back to him.

I don't know what it is but I feel I need to be there with him.

I quickly try to steady myself before re-entering the hospital room.

"I didn't want one in the-" I start before looking up, my eyes meeting Tony's and seeing a look I've never seen in them before.

"Tony?" I quickly question him, a look of fear flashing across my eyes as he leans back from where he was previously towering over Liam.

"Yes, sweet heart? I thought you were getting a coffee?" I look at him and see his unusually calm state, like nothing happened. I can't help but feel unsettled by how he seems as I try to decipher what it is that I walked in on.

"Didn't want one in the end." I lightly smile before deciding to let my curiosity get the better of me. "What were you doing?"

"What do you mean?" He responds rapidly, still showing no signs of losing his calmness.

"What were you doing with Liam's tubes?" I ask, nervously as I gesture towards the tubes attached to Liam's arm.

"Oh I wasn't, I was just checking on him. I thought I heard something." He says while I look at him in confusion.

"Heard something?" I walk over and sit down in the chair next to Liam's bed, opposite Tony once again as I check that Liam's okay.

"I thought he might've been waking up." He says as my eyes widen, half in disbelief, half in relief at the possibility.

"Wha- I mean- Didn't you get someone?" I ask, loudly.

"No I think it was a false alarm." He says, disappointing me as I just stare down at Liam again. "Sorry darling."

"Don't worry, it's not your fault." I smile slightly as I will Liam to wake up, to open his eyes, to even make the slightest move. But still, nothing.

"That chairs comfier over there sweet heart, go and sleep in that one." Tony gestures towards the chair in the corner of the room as he tells me seemingly sweet although, after what I saw earlier, I can't get away from the persistent feeling that somethings not right.

"No, I'm alright here thanks. Why don't you?" I reply.

"Carla, go on." He gestures again.

"Tony, I said I'm alright here. Thank you." I say, slightly annoyed at his overbearing nature.

"If you insist, fine." He says, slightly angrily as he walks over to the chair before trying to find a comfy position, knowing that we are likely sleeping here all night.

I can't help but feel slightly bad at how I was acting towards him when he's only trying to be nice but there is only one thing on my mind, and he overrides anything else.

I can't bring myself to sleep through the night, a mixture of the hardness of the chair digging into my back and the thoughts swirling around my head.

I think of Paul, of how it felt when we were told he was in an accident, of how it felt when I cradled his body, crying over the life we once planned out together.

Paul was a different kind of love.

I know that if this is the end for Liam, that there's no going back. I don't know how I will live on without him, without him here with me, by my side. It seems impossible.

It is impossible.

A life without Liam isn't a life worth living.

I'm just hoping that I won't have to experience one.

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