Hi guys! I'm sorry this took so long, I've been kinda busy 'cos my step-sister just moved in with me and stuff of the like. Also, I've been looking for some fairy lights to wrap round my bed frame so it'll look all pretty xxx
I checked out the stats for this story and I discovered that most of my readers or what have you are from the USA. I just guess that I find that cool 'cos I've never been there and there are loads of people I admire in the USA. AND, my most popular chapter was no.1, so just to let you know - there will be a very similar chapter coming up just because of that x
Anyway, on with the chapter!
ENJOY! xxx

The whole day past at a snail's pace for Phil and Emma. They were both desperate to see Dan awaken but neither had had that wish granted. Phil was close to breaking point and Emma was just tired.

She'd had an extremely tiresome day, but she'd expected that when she'd decided to become a nurse.

All day Emma had been in the ward, not leaving for fear of what woud become of Phil. He needed her to reassure him, make him smile, give him hope. Emma quite liked Phil. He was kind and handsome and incredibly caring. He could even make jokes when he was in the right mood, and when he did they never failed to make Emma laugh.

So Emma felt it was right for her to comfort Phil as he sat all day worrying and hoping. He spoke about Dan all the time to Emma, and she'd made the assumption that he was amazing. And especially a great friend. Phil even went as far as to say that he thought of Dan as a brother.

Phil was taking it hard and he wasn't even bothering to hide it. Dan was on the brink, recovering, but still on the brink.

He hadn't woken up like Emma had assured he would. He was still asleep, but he looked peaceful. A few times Phil could've sworn he'd seen Dan nuzzle into the pillow, and tighten his grip on the pillow held to his chest, but when he told Emma, she said that it was tricks of the mind because Phil was so desprerate to see these things.

It was so silent that Phil could hear Dan's breathing. It'd been like that for most of the day because Phil hadn't had the heart to talk that much. He liked Emma though. She cared for him. She cared for Dan. And Phil repected her for that.

He also respected her job: a nurse. That had to be hard because all she did, all day every day, six days a week, was look after the people in this ward. All of them.

Emma had explained to Phil the medical condition of each patient, and some happy stories about coma patients who had recovered in less than a week and were now happy and healthy, living their lives just as before the incident which had put them in hospital.

Phil liked those stories. They gave him hope, made him happy. Andhe had a sense that Dan enjoyed them aswell. He felt asthough he was listening, thinking. Not just lying there.

He told Emma about Dan. All the best things and even the little things that no one notices except Phil, like the way he always says 'thank you' when someone gives him something. Emma laughed at the stories that were supposed to be funny, and smiled sympathetically when he came to a sad part, but there weren't many of those sort of stories to tell.

Emma had stopped referring to Dan as 'Mr. Howell' when Phil expressed to her how it creeped him out. And she'd also stopped using such posh language, it was like she'd put on a huge front when she'd first met Phil but Phil thought that she did it with everyone, so he didn't take it personally.

"Phil, what are you doing?"

Phil had a really dead leg. It was bugging him like hell. He'd tried everything: punching it, ignoring it, stretching it as best he could. But nothing seamed to work!

"Dead leg."

"Ah! What you need to do is go for a walk around the grounds. That always sorts it for me."

"But I can't leave-"

"He'll be fine! I'm here, after all. And if he even so much as coughs I'll send someone to find you, okay?"

"Yeah, okay." Phil gingerly stood and stretched his back. He walked to the door of the ward, took one last look back to see Emma giving him a thumbs up and Dan looking exactly the same, and then headed out of the ward.

I'm so sorry that you had to wait so long for such a rubish chapter, but I keepmaking other things my priority. SORRY! I promise to make this story the top of my To-Do-List, okay? xxx :)
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