In the middle of the night he felt her hand moving in his. He woke up and looked at her. Suddenly there was a long beep from the machines.
"NO… MEL… BE STRONG! YOU NEED TO STAY STRONG… WE NEED YOU!" Jim screamed and called for the nurses. They came in with some doctors. They wanted to bring Jim out of the room when they noticed Aiden in his bed.
"Take the boy out" one of the doctors shouted.
Jim took Aiden and went out with him in his arms. He stood outside watching the doctors working on Melinda. Tears were streaming down his cheeks. Aiden still was asleep.
The doctors were working on her for hours while Jim and Aiden were waiting outside the room. Suddenly Aiden woke up.
"Daddy? Why are we outside?" he asked.
"The doctors told us to go out."
"Why?"
"Mommy isn't feeling good and the doctors need to examine her again."
"Will she get well again?"
"I don't know but I hope so" Jim responded.
Suddenly Aiden was staring to one point where no one was standing.
"What is it buddy?" Jim asked.
"Daddy, would you please let me down. I need to talk to someone."
"To whom?"
"The ghost… You know… The one who knew what was going to happen."
"Okay, but I will stay with you!" he let Aiden down.
"Will she be okay?" Aiden asked the ghost.
"I am not allowed to tell you" he answered.
"But I need to know. Please… I want my mommy back…"
"I am sorry, but if I'm gonna tell you what's going to happen something bad will happen afterwards. And I don't want to risk this."
"And how did you know what Gabriel had planned. Who are you by the way?"
"I'm one of your and your mother's guardian angels. I was spying Gabriel. That's how I knew."
"You're our guardian? But why did you let this happen then?" Aiden wanted to know.
"If this hadn't happened something worse would have!"
"So we have to be thankful for what has happened?"
"It's much better than the other thing believe me!" the ghost said and disappeared.
Aiden told Jim everything what happened. Then they sat down on the chairs in front of Melinda's room. There they waited for some more hours until the doctors came out.
"What is with her?" Jim and Aiden asked in unison.
"She had problems to breath. But we don't know why. She was stable enough to breath on her own."
"She WAS stable?" Jim asked.
"Yeah. Because she stopped breathing there wasn't enough oxygen in her brain. She's in a coma and we don't know if she will ever wake up again."
"What? Why? You told me before that she'd be okay. A coma is nothing I associate with 'being okay'!"
"We couldn't know that this would happen. It never happened before!"
"Can't you do anything to wake her up?"
"There's always a possibility to wake people up but she could take away some bad damages" Dr. Martin explained.
"Damn…" Jim kicked against the wall.
"We're giving her some medicines which will support her to wake up. That's all we can do for her at the moment. And she needs her family more than ever now. She needs to feel someone really close next to and supporting her."
"Okay… I am here for her and so is our son. When can we go back to her?"
"You can go in as soon as the nurses come out. Please don't touch anything in there. We need all the machines to control every sign she is showing. Maybe we missed something important?! If we did we will find it soon."
"Thank you" Jim said. Then Dr. Martin left.
"What does coma mean?" Aiden asked.
"That mommy is in a deep deep sleep for some time…" Jim explained and knelt down.
"How long?"
"I don't know. I hope not too long… She can't leave us…" he started to cry. Aiden hugged him.
"I want to see her daddy…" Aiden whispered.
"We'll go to her when the nurses came out. But you have to know that she has many machines around her, controlling her signs. We're not allowed to touch them."
"Oh, okay… When will the nurses come out?"
"I think they'll go in a few minutes."
A few minutes later the nurses came out. Aiden and Jim went inside the room. They saw tubes and machines but no Melinda. Then they walked closer to the bed and saw her even more tiny, pale and vulnerable than before.
"Am I allowed to hug her?" Aiden wanted to know.
"Sure you are. But you have to take care that you don't move the tubes and stuff" Jim answered.
Aiden climbed into the bed and hugged Melinda. Then he gave her a kiss on her cheek and fell asleep next to her. Jim decided to let him sleep there, kissed Aiden's forehead and covered him with a blanket. Then he sat down next to the bed, kissed Melinda's cheek, took her hand and stroked it.
Lol… High drama… :P
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