There was a moment when Tommy just stared down at his hand in shock. His eyes then moved to Adam's and he felt a strange rush of emotions when he saw Adam staring at the ceiling. Adam then turned to Tommy, smiled slightly and then tilted his head with a confused expression on his battered face. "Adam" Tommy breathed, not even aware that he had been holding his breath. Adam smiled again, now looking down at his hand and how Tommy's fingers were woven into it. "Hey" he croaked and the voice seemed strange and almost unfamiliar. Adam blinked and looked around the room. His eyes went to his arm and his gaze followed the tubes up to the machines. Tommy couldn't contain his excitement, and was now sitting in his chair grinning like an idiot. Adam was alive, not only alive he was awake, he was talking and….a sudden thought hit Tommy. Had Adam heard that last bit? He tried to read Adam's face to find out, but Adam was still looking around becoming more confused by the second. "You've been in a coma" Tommy told him, answering the questions in Adam's mind. Adam refocused on Tommy's face and he nodded slowly. As Adam opened his mouth to say something, the door suddenly flew open and Neil & Monte appeared. "Oh my god, Adam, you're awake!" Monte practically shouted, and Neil & Tommy both turned to him and laughed at his sudden outburst. Even Adam smiled. "Apparently" he piped up. Relief seemed to wash over the entire room as he spoke - the voice and smile that was the Adam they knew and loved returned. "Gave us quite a scare, man" Neil told Adam, rushing over to the bed and patting his brother on the shoulder. Adam looked over at the cards and gifts beside the bed, reaching out slowly to pick one up. Tommy suddenly felt awkward and stood up from the chair beside the bed. "I'm ganna go call Sasha and Terrance" he said quickly, but nobody heard him because everyone was fussing over Adam. As he got up and pulled the door open, Adam suddenly shouted after him "Hey Tommy!" Tommy spun around, his heart practically leaping out of his chest. Adam had heard him, he thought, and now he was going to call him out. Tommy prepared himself. "Thanks for the glitter" finished Adam. Tommy just smiled as he watched Adam run his fingers over the bedside table, picking the glitter up in his fingers. He couldn't believe how good it felt to see Adam sitting there, alive and smiling again. The rush almost terrified him, and he quickly pulled the door open again and walked out into the quiet corridor.
As the door swung closed behind him, a thousand questions seemed to fill his head. How much did Adam remember? Did Adam blame Tommy as much as Tommy blamed himself? But the biggest question repeating in Tommy's head was how much had Adam heard over the last few days…because somehow Tommy had found it so easy to express his emotions when it was just him and Adam sitting in the room together, with nothing but the beeping machines for company. Tommy remembered Adam telling him once about the line "eyes wide shut" in sleepwalker. Adam had gone into a lengthy conversation about how It was always easier to talk about things when you felt nobody was watching "Like how if someone's back is turned, you automatically assume they cant hear you." he had said at the time "When you close your eyes, you're shutting out the world…but even with your eyes closed, you're letting people in because its not as confronting". Tommy remembered staring at him in confusion, not understanding the concept. "But how can you have your eyes wide shut?" Tommy remembered asking. Adam had laughed "Because sometimes you WANT to hear what people are afraid to tell you to your face…So in the song i'm walking around with my eyes wide shut - i'm keeping the world shut out, but still listening"….The words rung so true now, and Tommy wondered if all this time when Adam was deep in a coma, if he had been listening….