Dianna returned to Lea's room to find Cory by Lea's side as expected. "I called pretty much everyone and they'll be dropping by soon. I told them I was with her and that I called you to come help fix her car. I just know you and Lea were keeping it quiet and I… I was just trying to help." She looked down apologetically.

"Thank you, I just don't think I can explain what happened over and over." Cory said still staring at Lea. "What about her parents?"

Dianna joined Cory on the side of the bed, "They're stuck in New York, trying to get a flight but won't be here till tomorrow at the earliest."

Chris and Mark arrived to the hospital first, rushing into the room. "Jesus Christ… Lea," Mark said as he stared down at her and the bandages. Seeing the look of devastation in Cory's eyes, he gestured for his friend to join him out in the hallway.

Away from the other cast members who had also just arrived to the hospital, Cory finally broke down. "Mark I don't know what I'm going to do," Cory said looking at the wall and avoiding Mark's eyes. Mark pulled Cory into a hug patting his back in support.

"You really like her don't you," Mark said patting Cory's shoulder.

"More than you know dude, more than you know." Cory said looking down, trying his best to keep his promise to Lea to not out their relationship.

"It's going to be okay. She's going to be okay, you hear me? Don't even think otherwise, you got me?" Mark said comforting his friend. Cory nodded as he rubbed his eyes with one hand. They joined the rest of their friends who had been sent back into the waiting room, due to the nurse's rule of the number of visitors Lea was allowed at one time. Time passed slowly as quietness filled the room.

Dianna spoke up first, "all of you guys don't need to stay here for the night. Honestly go home and get some sleep, I'll call if anything changes."

Cory was the second to speak, "I'll stay with you Dee, the nurse says its fine for two of us to stay in her room tonight." Dianna smiled slightly as she knew his true motives behind it. Knowing that the rest of the cast knew Cory had been her friend since a long time ago, they thought nothing of it. Friendly hugs were exchanged as everyone but Dianna and Cory left.

The hours passed as did the night, until it was the wee hours of the morning. Dianna was slumped over a chair in the corner sleeping, while Cory sat on a desk chair next to Lea's bed. His head sat on her bed next to her hand as he struggled to stay awake. Just when he was about to give in to allow a little sleep, her hand twitched.

"Le-Lea? It's me Cory, I'm right here." His body froze as he hoped she would move again.

"Cory," she mumbled twitching her head.

"Yes babe, I'm right here," Cory said as Lea opened her eyes for the first time. "Thank God you're okay."

Dianna woke up hearing their voices and ran to get the head nurse. As Lea was examined, Cory and Dianna stood in the waiting room. Finally the nurse came to give an update.

"Lea is alert, which is good. She seemed to have suffered minimal damage. Except for some bruising and swelling that should heal and go down, Lea should be absolutely fine. We're just going to watch her closely to make sure she's healing properly. However, I must warn you that while she was unconscious, she had a vision of her life that she believes is true right now. In my professional opinion, I believe she's just in shock. Basically the part of her brain that controls imagination went into overdrive. Once she comes out of shock, she should be able to understand the difference between reality and her vision." The nurse looked down at her clipboard. "You can go see her now, but just be cautious and gentle when speaking to her, just don't stress her brain to remember specific details. She needs to take it easy."

Cory was still freaking out and Dianna picked up on his fear. "How 'bout I go see her first and then let you know what to expect. We should probably go one at a time at first so she doesn't freak out anyway," Dianna said trying to be strong.

"Yeah… that would probably be better. I need a minute to pull myself together." Cory said beginning to pace around the room.

Dianna slowly entered Lea's room, approaching the bed cautiously. "Lea, how are you feeling sweetie?"

Lea slowly tilted her head to look at Dianna standing next to her. "My heads pounding."

"I bet it is, you took quite a hit to your head," Dianna said as gentle as she could.

"Why am I here? The last thing I remember is being at home and the test showed I was pregnant and everything was happy again. he told me how happy he was to be the father of my child and have me as his wife… and then the next thing I remember is being here in the hospital Dee. Where did he go?" Lea looked at her friend in confusion, wanting an explanation on what she didn't remember in between.

Dianna was in shock; she tried her best not to show it in her face. So this is what she had imagined. A happy life with a husband and a baby on the way, Dianna thought. She had a very good idea of who the husband was.

"Just rest for now sweetie, it will all come back soon," Dianna said trying to reassure Lea. They continued to discuss parts of this alternate reality that Lea believed in, until Lea started asking for Cory. Dianna left Lea, happy that her friend was alive, and re-gained the pacing Cory in the waiting room.

"How is she?" Cory questioned dying to know how his girlfriend was doing.

"She's good Cor, she can speak clearly and move her head just fine." Dianna said with a smile.

"Thank god," Cory exhaled in relief, "Is she ready to see me then?"

Dianna tensed up, "I need to warn you first. Lea thinks… well…."

"Spit it out Dianna, I know what the nurse said about a vision. I can take it, just come out with it." Cory said frantically.

"Okay," Dianna continued calmly, "She thinks that you two are married."

"Married?... Am I supposed to just go with it? I don't want to stress her out." Cory asked desperately, his mind trying to grasp the concept.

Dianna took a deep breath and continued, "she also thinks she just found out that she's pregnant… Just take a moment to breathe Cory, it's going to be okay," she paused reassuringly, "When you go in there don't deny or confirm this 'marriage' concept and simply respond with how much you care for her. You can do this Cory."

His mind was spinning as he walked to Lea's room gathering his thoughts. Dianna made a round of phone calls, updating everyone on the news.

The sight of her laying in the hospital bed was hard for him to handle. He had to focus on the positives though, at least she was awake and healing. Cory walked up to the bed and Lea grabbed his hand to hold as she smiled up at him.

"How ya feelin babe?" Cory said with a sad forced smile.

She shrugged, "A little pain, this is getting exhausting. Everyone keeps telling me you pulled me out of the way of a speeding car, but I don't remember it." Lea's eyes began to fill with tears as her face struggled to keep a smile on it. "I'm so scared Cory."

He had no choice but to be strong for her, she needed it. "It's okay Lea, you'll remember soon enough. You just have to rest and know that I'm here for you," Cory said as he gave Lea a loving smile.

She nodded but worry still filled her face, "I hope the baby is okay," she said looking downwards at her stomach.

Understanding that her alternate reality was all the cause of him not being able to hold on to her, blood rushed to Cory's head as his eyes became glazed over. "You… you need to rest dear."

"I don't want you to leave me," Lea said gripping his hand tighter.

"I'll never leave you. Now please rest, I'll be sitting right here when you wake up again." Eased by the presence of her 'husband,' Lea gave in to his wishes.

"Fine," she said, "I'll try… Oh and they took my wedding ring too, could you get it back for me love? I don't want them to misplace it."

"I'll do everything I can," Cory said as he leaned down to kiss her forehead.

She dazed asleep with the help of some painkillers and Cory took a moment to go get Dianna in the waiting room.

"She's asleep now," Cory said looking down at the worried Dianna.

"Are you okay Cory? I know that wasn't easy." She could tell from the look in his eyes that he was struggling to keep it together.

"As long as she's okay, I'm okay." He said avoiding the question.

The two of them sat in Lea's room waiting for the next time she woke, to evaluate her condition. Even though the nurse said it was normal after such an experience, Lea slept for hours. They were assured that it could only be beneficial to her healing process with the sleep.

She finally opened her eyes again, searching the room for a friendly face until she found Dianna and Cory on the couch next to her and smiled. "Hi guys."

They both jumped to there feet at the sound of her voice, as a nurse walked in checking her levels. "I'm going to have to ask you two to leave again as the doctor comes in to check her out." They nodded understandingly and made their way to the waiting room.

Time passed again before the nurse came to update them. When she finally appeared, Cory stood up impatiently, "How is she?"

"She's doing well," the nurse began, "we believe that we have started to get her to understand what has happened to her. She's out of the initial shock and has started to come to terms."

Cory looked up at the ceiling nervously. "This is a good thing," the nurse reassured him, "it means that no serious damage was inflicted to her memory. Although she may never remember the exact moment of her injury, she's knowledgeable of everything else."

"Can we see her?" Dianna questioned.

"Yes," the nurse answered, "but still be gentile in your words and don't over do it."

They quickly made their way to see Lea, who was very alert and awake. "How are you guys? Please tell me you've gotten some sleep," Lea said looking at the dark bags under their eyes.

"We were so worried about you Lee," Dianna said, as she knew she looked like crap but didn't care.

Lea's eyes shift from Dianna's to Cory's where they paused and locked.

"I'm going to go make some calls okay sweetie? Your parents are waiting for my call. I'm so glad you're okay," Dianna said, removing herself from the room to give some privacy.

Lea looked up at Cory in appreciation. "Thank you so much for pulling me away from that car. I'm slowly starting to remember vague parts of it now."

"It's my fault you hit your head, I'm so sorry Lea." Cory's eyes filled with anguish as he blamed himself for hurting her.

"It's because of you I'm even alive now Cory! Don't you ever blame yourself for that! You know the last words I remember before I blacked out? They were you telling me to hold on. You're the reason I kept fighting, so if you want to blame yourself for something blame yourself for me living!" The last thing she expected was for him to take the blame for anything, so when she saw the anguish in his eyes she had to set him straight.

She looked down at his hand in hers. "…And this dream thing or whatever they called it reassured me. It just felt so good Cory, so... Real. Maybe my conscious just wanted to believe in it so much that I had a hard time coming back to reality. I've never been this happy before and it's all because of you."

A tearful smile spread across his face, "I didn't know what I was going to do if you didn't wake up. My mind was going crazy with all the things I should have said… the things I wish I'd still get to say if I got the chance. I know we are taking things slow, but I don't want you to never know how much I care for you Lea. From the moment I met you, well even by the first time I saw you, I knew it was meant to be. I'm so crazy about you Lea and I prayed I would get that chance to tell you that."

Hearing him pour out his heart to her like that made her speechless, it was like a dream came true. They both knew they were crazy in trying to slow the relationship down. People would say they were just in the 'honeymoon' phase of the relationship, the part at the beginning of every relationship where two people are crazy about each other. But that phase always comes to an end at some point. Lea knew that this time was the exception. She didn't need to be so cautious in entering another relationship after her last with Theo.

"I love you," Lea said gazing into his watered over eyes with a relaxed smile on her face. With these words he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers passionately for one heartfelt kiss. Lea's heart monitor began to beep while the levels jumped on the screen next to their bed.

"I love you more," Cory said looking at Lea like he had never looked at any other girl.

They were in their bubble again, holding hands, and pretending the world around them didn't exist until the nurse came to see why Lea's monitor had jumped.

After admitting what happened, Lea giggled. "Sorry, I wont let him do it again," she said as she looked over at Cory who gave a playful shrug in response.