Coffee, it's all she can think about. It's the first thing she's going to ask for when she can open her eyes. Finn isn't sure why she can't wake up, she's tried more than once but it's like her brain and body have discounted. It feels strange to be wide awake in your own mind while your body just lies there, unmoving and unwilling to respond.
She's figured out that she's in the hospital. The how and why is blurry, a memory behind a shimmering black fog. Every time Finn tries to take a peek into that fog it makes her feel panicky then the crazy bleeping starts and for a while there is nothing. After the nothing comes DB's voice full of worry. So, she's stopped trying to remember.
Finn hears DB's voice a lot, some days he reads to her and others he just talks about his day. She tries to answer him back, in her head the words are loud and clear. But her mouth never opens and he never hears her words.
Finn finds being inside her own head without any distraction very annoying. Every past mistake niggles at her. Even more frustrating is that no one had come to visit her for what felt like forever.
The last person was Greg. It was raining outside she could hear it against the window. He smelt like mud, hot dogs and shower gel.
He talked about his latest case.
A husband hired a hitman to kill his wife because he was having an affair with a stripper. Afraid of losing half of everything in a divorce, killing her was a cheaper option. What he didn't count was that the hitman would end up falling in love with his target and killed the husband instead.
Before he left Greg promised her that Morgan would come and visit her tomorrow but that felt like a hundred years ago.
It wasn't Morgan who came to visit her next. It was Barbara Russell.
"Hey, Jules. Sorry, I haven't visited you before. I just wanted to say goodbye, I'm going back to Seattle for a while," She said, holding Finn's hand. "While I'm gone I need you to do me a favour and wake up because DB needs you and I can no longer reach him but I know that you can".
Finn recognized Barbara's tone, it was the same one Mike had when he gave up on their marriage. She wanted to scream " Please don't go. Please don't leave him, he won't be able cope if you leave! " but no words came out. She tried using all her will to squeeze Barbara hand but nothing happened. Inside she howled in frustration.
"You know we only moved here because you were here, he never said it but that's the truth. Seattle was our life then he hears from your mom that you had settled in Vegas and less than a month later so were we," Barbara voice is soft and gentle, no bitterness or anger. "Please for him get better soon".
They are going to try waking her up today. She heard the nurses and doctors talking about it. They thought it was unlikely she would come round but Finn was determined to prove them wrong. She was stubborn everyone said it was her worst trait but right now she knew it would help her more than anything else.
Maybe it was seconds, minutes or hours before eyes began to flutter open slowly. Like giant weights were carefully and gradually being lifted off her eyelids.
"You should have brought me coffee," Finn croaked out, her throat felt dry.
"Seriously Jules you scare us all half to death for three months and the first thing you say is that," DB said, his voice full of relief and disbelief.
"I missed coffee, okay," Finn teases softly. "Also what the hell happened to me because the last thing I remember is being at home and then here hearing everything around but not being to see anything or speak".
" Once Doctor Marcus has checked you over I'll tell you everything I promise," DB told, reaching for her hand. She had waited this long there was no harm in waiting a little longer and just maybe, finally she'd get the coffee she'd been craving soon.
AN: If they had made a full season 16 Julie Finlay was going to live, her death was purely because the show got cancelled and they wouldn't have enough time to focus on her recovery so they picked the easiest thing to tie it up and I fully reject it because it was lazy writing and I love Jules.
