Tina's POV
I stared at him, guiltily. After two weeks, it had finally sunk in that I did this to Tommy. My beautiful boyfriend... might just sink through my finger, along with my life.
He's been in and out of consciousness for about a week now. They've done a brain scan and it was all clear but he has fractured ribs. They're sure that he's not going to... you know... now, but they're gonna keep him in for a few more weeks just to be on the safe side, seeing as he has got one broken and one fractured arm, as well as fractured ribs.
As for me, they let me go after I fully recovered.
At Work
People started to stop staring now. It had gotten so bad when I got back to work that some stranger that I didn't even know told me to be ashamed of myself when I collected my glasses.
"Yes, Rita?" I asked as my best friend walked up to the bar.
"G 'n T please, Tina, love. How's Tommy? Is he coming along?"
"Thanks and yeah, the worst is over now so hopefully things can only get better."
"Keep thinking like that." Rita replied.
"Sorry, but, how an you be speaking... to her?" Kirsty stood up to Rita.
"I'm sorry, but how is this any of your business?" Rita bit back.
"Kirsty, she's right. You don't even like Tommy, so stop trying to make out that you were all best friends." I tried to stick up for Rita.
"Well we may not be pen pals but he's Tyrone's best friend!" With that remark, I went up to her from behind the bar and whispered into her ear.
"At least I don't beat my boyfriend from pillar to post. You sick person." I walked out of the pub, nodding to Stella for my break.
Knowing I did wrong, I ran back to the flat. Heart-aching, tears flowing, I raced up the stairs and into mine and Tommy's bedroom. I grabbed his favourite t-shirt and hugged it tight. I cried into it as the minutes went by, until the phone rang.
"Hello?" I asked, half-heartily.
"Hello, Tina McIntyre?"
"Speaking."
"This is the hospital. We're beginning the process of bringing Tommy out of consciousness, and we thought you'd like to see him."
"Oh my - yeah! Yeah I'll be right there!" Hanging the phone up, I darted back down and exited the flat. I turned the corner and Rita was right in front of me.
"Oh, hello love. I just came to see how you were."
"Rita! They're bringing Tommy round!"
"Excellent! I'll give you a lift!" Remembering I can't drive I accepted the fact that Rita's slow driving will do. We hopped in her car.
"Thanks for this, Rita." I remarked, when I saw the sign for the hospital.
"It's fine love, whenever you need me."
Luckily, we found a space in the car park near the front of the hospital.
"Go on Tina, I'll catch you up!" Rita said, shouting at the end because I was running. I burst through the hospital doors and to the reception.
"Where's Tommy Duckworth being woken up?" I asked, impatiently.
"I'll just check." ... "Ah, unit 3 just through those doors then your third left." I thanked her then did what I was told. I gently opened the door of unit 3, to see Tommy surrounded by doctors.
"Hello, Tina. We're waking him up. Would you like to sit next to him?"
"Yes!" I exclaimed. I sat in the chair next to his bed and held his hand. They gave him all kinds of jabs and stabs while I whispered in his ear: "C'mon babe, you can do this! You can do this for me, my Ty, for Doreen. Tommy, do it for Geoff. Please. I love you so much Tommy." Tears were running down my face. "I love you more than I've loved anyone in my life. Just... I need you to know that for all the things you've done wrong in the past - I forgive you! And I'm really really sorry that I did this to you - I just hope you can forgive me..."
Tommy started to murmur. "...Tii...Tina...T..."
"Yes, babe, I'm here, right by your side always." He opened his eyes slowly.
Tommy's POV
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was my beautiful girlfriend. I wondered why I was here to begin with, then it came to me that we crashed in a horrible accident. The last thing I remember were Tina's screams as the cars collided.
"Tina... are you... okay?" I squeezed her hand. The nurses, and a newly emerged Rita, had all left now to leave me and T alone.
"Yes... no. Tommy I was so scared that you were going to die! I love you too much for that to happen!" Tina cried and I hated it.
"Don't cry... babe... I'm so sorry, it's my fault, I shouldn't of lied to you about the baby."
"No, don't do that - you know it's my fault!"
"Please, T, can we put this... (I winced in pain) put this behind us? I love you..."
"I love you too..."
"Can you give me a kiss?" I asked.
"Yes... yes I can." I savoured the moment when Tina pressed her lips against mine. It was magical, like something out of a fairytale. She kissed my head all over like she always does. "Listen, Tommy, you were right, we don't have to try for a baby yet... we need to focus on getting you sorted." I put my hand on her cheek and replied:
"I was hoping you'd say that." Tina put her arms around my belly and they her head on the mattress, with my hand caressing her shoulder and back. "You know, T, there's one good thing that's come out of all this.." Tina sat up, looking at me blankly. "We're going to be much closer now." We both smiled and kissed again. Boy, I love her so much.