Gadget yanked at the doorknob.
Locked.
From the time he heard the depressing news to the time he touched the doorknob on Nadia's ICU room, his mental monitor had flashed silver thirty times.
"Come on, open..." He muttered to the door.
Knuckles and Kimberly were after him, they didn't want him going anywhere near Nadia.
A light bulb went off in Gadget's head.
He pulled out his wispon and shot the lock and hinges, before kicking the door down. Gadget ran towards Nadia, collapsing in a heap beside her bed.
"Nadia! Nadia, you have to wake up now! If you don't, they're just going to let you die!" His voice started to crack as he began to sob.
"Even if you're going to die, please, show me a sign so that I know that your life is over. But otherwise, wake up!" Gadget then flopped his face on her bed and started sobbing uncontrollably, the monitor returning to its never-ending blue ray of depression after Gadget's bout of silver betrayal.
Knuckles and Kimberly stepped in the room, Knuckles was about to yell at the soldier before Kimberly covered his mouth.
Nadia's arm twitched.
Gadget felt it and looked at her.
His monitor flashed gold for a moment.
She twitched again.
Nadia's face dove into an even more pained expression before all the pain that had been frozen in her face for almost two weeks released, her ears flipped up and and the wince in her face reset to an emotionless expression.
Her left arm slowly moved underneath her face and, with the help of her other arm, pushed her up. Her eyes gradually opened as Gadget came into her view.
He looked like a mess.
Tears running down his face and his fur ruffled and matted like a common street dog.
"Gadget?" Nadia said softly, her vocal cords refusing to vibrate after two weeks of standing on the fence that bordered life and death. "Are you ok?"
More tears, this time tears of relief, ran down his face.
"It feels like you're back, back... from the dead." Gadget lost it. He wrapped his arms around Nadia and began to bawl; all the fear, sadness, and pain expelled from him in that one moment.
His moment of relief.
Nadia was alive, and fully awake now. She would survive. There was no need for the endless hovering by her side, the countless nights where Gadget cried himself to sleep way past midnight.
After about a minute or two after Gadget lost control of his emotions, he pulled back and smiled, wiping tears from his eyes.
They looked deep in each other's gaze, Nadia's paw rested over Gadget's, they slightly leaned closer, the fur on their cheeks then darkened into a deeper red and their ears folded down in embarrassment, before they kissed, a soft kiss on each other's lips that lasted for a second, and green sparkles swirled around their faces, bandages unwrapping on Nadia's face, then they pulled away.
"I love you, Gadget." Nadia whispered into his ear, Gadget stroked her bandaged shoulder.
"I love you too, Nadia... Very much." Gadget's monitor now bore an illuminating golden ray of hope, as bright as the light that the Resistance saw in their dreams.
Knuckles and Doctor Kimberly gaped at the sight of Nadia being awake.