Disclaimer Deal: It may be the end, but they're still not mine!

A/N: I took advantage of the two three-day weekends in a row and finished this. Tell me what you think!

Sora's POV

"Sora!" Three Kairi's yell at me all at the same time. "Wake up you lazy bum!"

"I can't." I hear myself sigh and I fall into an ocean, sinking pleasantly to the bottom.

Wait a minute! This isn't right! I don't remember an ocean. Especially one that I can breathe in. This is great! Oh look! It's Riku, he's here too! Except that he's flailing his arms around and he's turning blue!

"Riku! Riku! No!" I pull him with me to where the water hits the air. It's too late.

I feel myself pulled into the air, then dropped back down. There's Riku again! He seems to be ok. The ocean thing must have been a joke.

"He's delirious." I hear an unknown voice say. "He probably won't know his dreams from reality for a few days."

I do! I want to scream. I can hear you! I can't see you or say anything, but I know that you're there! I'd open my eyes, but the lids are so heavy! Like I've been on sleeping pills for weeks. The unknown voice leaves, and I hear someone else speak. Sounds like Riku.

"Hey Sora, we really miss you. It's been a week since the accident. See you soon, I hope."

Then Demyx starts to talk. "Hey Sora. I hope you're okay. You have brain activity, so you're alive and well, just not waking up. Miss you."

Then Zexion, Wakka, Kairi, Mom, Leon, Namine, Selphie, and Roxas say stuff. It's all the same, until Axel talks. His voice is hoarse, like he's been crying a whole lot.

"Hey Sora. You'll pull through this. I k-k-know you will." I hear him sob again, "I-I'm s-s-s-so sorry Sora." I hear the shuffling of feet and everyone has left but him. I have to see him, his face. Let him know I'm ok. I open my eyes and try to speak. I can't. I try again.

"Axel?" I say slowly with great difficulty.

"Sora!" He gasps happily and his voice is filled with excitement. "Riku! Roxas! Mrs. Leonhart! He's ok, he's AWAKE!"

I try to sit up and can't. "Ahh ah AGHH ow oh ow! Axel! My head!" I start cry, "Axel I'm hurt. My head hurts. My chest hurts. Make it stop. Please." I desperately ask like a two-year-old.

Axel has stopped crying, and now he's soothing and motherly. "Shh, Sora, it'll all be alright. It's ok. Just stay still. I'll call the nurse for more sleep medicine."

"No way! Ah! I want to see Riku and Mom and Roxas first!"

"We're here sweetheart. Shh, nothing to worry about." I can hear Kairi sobbing in another room. Riku's face is so red from tears, and Roxas looks like he got no sleep plus no coffee and the affects of crying. Axel is still crying, the big sap.

"I-I-I-I'm s-s-s-so kuh-kuh-cold."

"Here let me keep you warm." Riku jumps into the hospital bed before Mom can say anything. She just smiles tiredly but happily and stands there looking at us. A nurse walks in with my sleeping medicine.

"Alright, bed time Sora. Everybody needs to leave." She says in a high-pitched nasally voice that gives me a headache.

"No! Riku stays. He has to keep me warm!"

"Hospital Regulat-"

"No." Roxas says quietly, "Riku needs to stay."

"I agree." Mom starts, "If that isn't acceptable, then Sora can go home."

Lizy, the nurse, finally relents, and lets Axel, Roxas, Riku, and Kairi stay overnight. Mom is going back home to get a good nights sleep, and she'll be back tomorrow morning. After a while, everyone leaves.

"So what's the matter with me?"

"You have three broken ribs; you sprained your neck, and a few broken fingers." Kairi reports quickly.

"Oh good! Nothing to terrible then, I suppose I'll be healing rather fast."

Axel frowns and coughs rather loudly. He looks pointedly at Kairi, then Riku and Roxas, and finally sighs.

"Sora, unfortunately you also broke your leg. It was a clean break, so it should heal quickly, but you won't even be walking for a few weeks."

"But guys! I have water polo try-outs in a month!" Everyone looks at me funny, like that is the least thing I should be worried about.

"Sora.." Axel sighs angrily, "you just got in a car accident that almost took your life, and all you freaking care about it water polo try-outs!?"

Axel is really scary when he's upset or angry. I used to be even more afraid of him because he would carry around a lighter. He isn't really a person you want to make angry, especially when it has to do with Roxas. Threaten Roxas, even if it's just a joke, and you'll have a sharp object pointed directly at your throat.

"Are you mad at me?" I try to ask in my most scared-frightened voice.

It worked.

"Nnnnno Sora. I'm not mad, I promise."

"You can have your friends here, but you have to take your medicine now." Katie, the evil nurse comes in and puts some liquid meds in my IV bag.

"No! I don't want to go back to sleep! I just woke up!"

"Too late now, pretty boy." Her nasally voice gives me the worst headache ever.

"No! Noooooooo…" I fall back into unconsciousness.

Riku's POV

Sora is sleeping again. I can't believe I'm in the hospital again. I hoped I was done with all this. It's just me and Sora in the room right now. Kairi and Roxas went to get coffee from the cafeteria, and Axel went to get some couch-chair things so that we can sleep on something other than the floor.

"Hey Riku, little help with the beds?" Axel grits his teeth while he pulls in one large couch thing and two chairs.

"Yeah sure, I'll help." I hear myself sigh loudly.

After we're done, Axel and I both plop down on the big couch and start talking.

"Guess we're in the same boat, huh Riku?"

"What do you mean?"

"We both feel responsible for the injury of someone we love and care about."

"Kairi! Save Riku! He's dying! He's dying…" Sora starts to scream, and then his voice fades out again.

"More nightmares. Just like the ones you have." Axel looks me in the eye, "But I suppose that jumping off of rooftops is a fantasy to some." He stands up and walks into the waiting room.

How does he know? No one knows. Not even Seph knows, and he reads my freaking notebook. Actually, Sora and Kairi know. They must of told Roxas and Axel. So

that's why Roxas has been avoiding me.

Who do I call when I need someone to talk to? I am in way over my head right now, just like I'm drowning. I start to pace the room. That's it! I'll tell Sora

everything. He's asleep, so even though he'll be listening, his subconscious mind won't absorb anything that I say.

"Sora. I need your help. I'm really messed up right now." I can't do this. It doesn't feel right. I need to talk to someone who will respond.

(427) 762-0192.

I'm calling Zexion. He'll listen and give me good advice.

Five days later

"So what do you guys want to do to celebrate Sora's coming home?" Kairi asks quietly.

"We should watch a movie and order pizza." Axel responds.

"Alright, sounds good!" Demyx says while jumping on the trampoline.

"Surprise!" Everyone shouts when Sora walks through the door.

"Oh my gosh! Thanks guys!"

We all go into the living room and crash on the couch. Sora winces when Roxas accidentally sits on his leg. Even so, he smiles and leans his head on my shoulder as everyone watches Sora's favorite movie; Fred Claus.

Somehow, everything seems to fall into place and mend itself back to what it was.

I'm in repair, I'm not together but I'm getting there.

Fin.

xforalways