Jeff's heart was pounding in his chest as he, Randy, and John burst through the hospital doors. "Where is he?" he asked desperately. "Where's Matt?"

"The doctors are still working on him," Mickie explained. She was doing her best to comfort a crying Katie Lea. "They haven't told us anything yet."

"How did this even happen?" Randy asked.

Cody waved his hands out in front of him uselessly. "He just was going back to his car to grab his wallet when a truck came out of nowhere and just hit him full on. It was insane. He was out cold by the time we got to him."

Jeff groaned and sank down into the nearest chair. Oh God, this wasn't good. This wasn't good at all.

"Jeff baby listen to me," Randy pleaded. "You have to stay strong for me. Matt's going to be okay."

"You don't know that," Jeff snapped. "He could die right now and there's nothing I can do to stop it."

Mark put his hand on Jeff's shoulder. "Hush now. I don't want to hear that kind of talk. Matt's not going to die. He knows I'll kick his ass if he goes and does that."

Jeff tried to find comfort in Mark's words but he couldn't manage to do it. He knew the others were just as worried as he was. He could tell by the looks on their faces. The only difference was that they were trying to hide it. So he just closed his mouth and did his best not to openly panic. But on the inside, he was screaming in fear.

Finally, after what felt like forever, a doctor finally came out to talk to them. "How's Matt?" Jeff asked immediately. "How's my brother?"

The doctor sighed. "I'm not going to lie, Matt is in pretty bad shape. The internal injuries he suffered were severe at best and the head trauma he sustained has made him slip into a coma."

"But will he wake up?" Randy asked quickly.

"He could wake up at any time. But the longer he stays unconscious, the chances of that will be less and less likely."

The doctor went into more detail about Matt's injuries but Jeff didn't hear a word that was being said. The world around him had fallen away and all he could feel was the black hole that was growing in his heart. Oh God, he couldn't take this. He had to---he just had to---

XXX

Randy jumped a foot in the air when Jeff began to scream. And he definitely wasn't the only one. Every single person in the waiting room looked at Jeff like he was possessed or something. Maybe he was possessed, because before Randy knew it, Jeff had picked up an empty chair and was smashing it against the wall.

"Jeff!" Lillian yelled. "Jeff stop it!" She tried to go over to him but Miz and Morrison stopped her.

"Don't," Morrison warned her. "He might hit you by accident."

Randy blinked back tears as he helplessly watched Jeff do his best to destroy the room. All the doctors and nurses looked too stunned to even try to stop him. The poor innocent bystanders that were also in the room quickly got up and got as far away from Jeff as they possibly could.

"He's wearing himself out," Glenn said quietly as they watched Jeff pick up another chair and start smashing it against the floor.

It turned out Glenn was right. Soon Jeff dropped the broken chair and dropped down to his knees. His screams were replaced with gut wrenching sobs that made his entire body shake.

"Jeff," Randy said softly. It was breaking his heart to watch this. He stepped forward slowly and reached his hand out to touch Jeff's shoulder.

"Leave me alone!" Jeff screamed, slapping Randy's hand away. "You said Matt was going to be okay!"

"Babe there's still a chance--"

"YOU DIDN'T SAY CHANCE! YOU SAID HE WAS GOING TO BE OKAY!"

"Jeff that's enough!" Mark barked. "You need to calm down this instant."

Jeff picked up a broken chair leg and hurled it at Mark. "FUCK OFF! YOU SAID HE WAS GOING TO BE OKAY TOO!" He started sobbing again.

Katie Lea, who had been crying quietly up until this point, finally got out of her chair. "Come on Jeff," she said softly. "You and I are going to see Matt. We'll see him before everyone else does."

Randy opened his mouth to object but John shut him up with an elbow to the ribs. "Let her take him," he hissed. "She might be able to calm him down."

"But I want to calm him down," Randy said pathetically. He looked at Jeff desperately, but Jeff refused to look at him as he and Katie headed towards Matt's room. He sighed in defeat and sank down on the floor. Cody and Ted began straightening up the waiting room, apologizing for Jeff's outburst.

"He's not really upset with you," Glenn tried to reassure him. "Jeff just lashes out when he's really upset like that."

"Yeah," Randy said emotionlessly. He forced himself back up to his feet. "I'll be back." He quickly went into the bathroom and locked himself in the nearest empty stall. He let out a scream of his own and kicked the toilet before bursting into tears himself.

XXX

Jeff's sobs had quieted down into whimpers as he and Katie went into Matt's room. "Look at him," he choked out. "He looks like a walking bruise."

"I know," Katie said quietly. She sat down in the chair closest to the bed and took Matt's hand. "Jeff? Aren't you going to take his other hand?"

Jeff didn't respond for several minutes. He couldn't stop staring at Matt. This felt so wrong. Matt didn't look like himself. He was broken. He wasn't supposed to break. Jeff was the broken one, not Matt.

Katie seemed to understand the problem. "Oh Jeffy," she sighed. She pulled Jeff into her lap and let him cling to her. If she was having a problem with him being a lot bigger than her, she wasn't saying anything.

"I want him to wake up," he whined.

"I know," she said. "I do too. Maybe if we talk to him he'll hear us and he'll wake up."

"You don't really believe that do you?"

"I'd like too," she said. "But I'm a cynic at heart." She stroked Jeff's hair lovingly. "Still, it's worth a shot."

Jeff buried his face in her shoulder, wanting to talk to Matt but unable to get the words out. It was like his vocal chords had stopped working completely. Luckily for him, Katie was willing to make up for it by singing.

Without you

The ground thaws

The rain falls

The grass grows

Without you

The seeds root

The flowers bloom

The children play

The stars gleam

The poets dream

The eagles fly

Without you

The earth turns

The sun burns

But I die

Without you

Jeff somehow managed a small smile. "That's Matt's favorite song from that movie."

"Yeah I know. I've always been partial to "Out Tonight" but one time he sang this just for me. I mean we were kind of goofing around but it was still the sweetest thing."

"That helpless romantic."

"Don't I know it."

Without you

The breeze warms

The girl smiles

The cloud moves

Without you

The tides change

The boys run

The oceans crash

The crowd roar

The days soar

The babies cry

Without you

The moon glows

The river flows

But I die

Without you

"Katie?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you really think Matt's going to wake up?"

"I have to Jeff. I can't imagine him not waking up."

Jeff played with her hair. "I'm getting sleepy."

"You better not be. I need somebody to play the part of Roger."

"But I don't remember the words."

"Oh you do too. We've watched Rent like a hundred billion times. There was like a two week period where you sang nothing but the songs from the damn movie."

"Fine! But you have to promise not to laugh at me or tell anybody I did this."

"I promise."

The world revives

Colors renew

But I know blue

Only blue

Lonely blue

Within me, blue

Without you

Without you

The hand gropes

The ear hears

The pulse beats

Without you

The eyes gaze

The legs weak

The lungs breathe

The mind churns

The heart yearns

The tears dry

Without you

Life goes on

But I'm gone

Cause I die

Without you

Without you

Without you

Without you

Jeff sighed and looked at Matt. His big brother was still unconscious. "I don't think it worked. I think we just had a potentially cheesy moment for nothing."

Katie chuckled. "Or maybe he did hear us and our magic just needs more time to work. Besides, you're a hell of a lot calmer now, which is a good thing. You scared the hell out of everybody else."

Jeff looked down. "I know. I'm sorry."

She shook her head. "I don't need an apology. But maybe you should think about giving Randy and Mark one. You did kind of scream bloody murder at them." She winced suddenly. "Oh bollocks, my leg just went to sleep. Jeff--"

"I know, I know, I'm moving," he said quickly. He got up and sat down in the chair that was on the other side of Matt's bed. "So what do we do now?"

Katie shrugged. "I don't know. We could just sit here, or we could sing again or we could draw something dumb on Matt's leg cast."

"I'm going to draw a whispering eye on Matt's cast."

"What's a whispering eye?"

"It's a vagina."

"Jeffery Nero Hardy! You are not drawing a vagina on your brother's cast while he's in a coma! That would just be wrong."

"Yeah, but he'll get a kick out of it when he wakes up." He stopped as he got up to take a marker out of his pocket. "That is the theory we're going with right? We're going to believe he's going to wake up?"

Katie nodded. "Yeah. There's nothing else we can do at the moment so hoping for the best is our only option."

And hopefully it would be the option that would come true.

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Okay, just to clarify, the lyrics in the bold were Katie Lea singing, the ones in italics were Jeff and the combination of both was them together. Maybe them singing to Matt was a little too much but I was watching Rent while writing this and it seemed like the thing to do at the time. Anyway, please read and review! I've been getting a lot of awesome reviews and I want more.