Komaeda slowly woke up from his sleep when he felt his nose getting too stuffed to breathe properly. He opened his eyes and tried to look for Hinata; the other wasn't anywhere to be seen from this perspective, and he slowly sat up to see Hinata sitting by the table, doing something with the phone. Komaeda felt his stomach grumble silently from hunger, and Hinata seemed to notice that too.

"What're you doing awake?" he asked quickly, putting down the phone and walking over to the bed. "You don't need to be awake." Komaeda followed Hinata with his eyes slowly as his thoughts were a bit hazy. He wasn't really sure how long he had slept, but he remembered falling asleep right after eating. He gave the best smile he could do to Hinata.

"I'm sorry I'm being a bother and being awake…," he said. He had to stop to think for a moment why he even woke up, his thoughts feeling like they were clogged up completely… like his nose. "I couldn't breathe properly so I woke up." Hinata gave him an annoyed look as he walked back to the table. Komaeda followed him with his eyes and saw that the table was filled with things that looked like medicine and other stuff from an apothecary. Hinata took a box of tissues from the midst of all that and came back.

"Here, use these," he said curtly as he threw the box on Komaeda's lap.

"Thank you, Hinata-kun…," Komaeda said, his throat hurting from speaking already. He took the box and tried to open it, but his hands kept trembling too much to get the box open. He glanced at Hinata, trying to hide the feeling of helplessness. The other seemed to notice it anyways and with a groan took the box back from him. Komaeda stared at it while Hinata was opening it, and he realized his head was aching even more now than earlier.

I shouldn't have woken up, he thought to himself as Hinata handed the opened box back to him. He took a tissue out and managed to somehow blow his nose despite his hands still shaking. Hinata stood by the bed and looked at him with a frown on his face. Komaeda glanced at him with an asking look, and Hinata turned his eyes to the table in response.

"I bought medicine, you have to take it," he said as he stomped to the table. Komaeda nodded slowly to avoid moving his head too much. It still felt like it was hard to breathe, but he didn't want to blow his nose again in fear that he'd annoy Hinata. The other came back with two different packets of medicine and a bottle of water. In the middle of his cloudy thoughts Komaeda wondered briefly where the other had gotten all this stuff from.

He decided to ask it out loud.

"Huh? Ah, the young woman who told me you were outside helped me," Hinata replied as he opened the two boxes of medicine and took two pills out of them. "She gave me a lot of stuff but I don't know how to use them. She said that you should take one of both of these three times during the day though."

"A young woman…?" Komaeda asked slowly as he felt his thoughts somehow tugging at the memory, like there was something important he should say about this… Hinata gave the two pills to him and the opened water bottle.

"The one you apparently talked to last night," Hinata said while Komaeda swallowed the pills. For a moment the cogs kept running slowly in Komaeda's mind before he remembered.

"She was," he said quickly, before a coughing fit took over him. "She was the one who gave the thermos to me. I didn't lie, Hinata-kun. She gave it to me, I didn't get it from anywhere." He felt his voice running dry as he desperately tried to convince the other after recovering from the coughing fit. But Hinata just glared at him in disbelief, making Komaeda's heart sink.

"If that was true, then you would have said it earlier," Hinata said coldly as he walked back to the table. "Finish that bottle and use the toilet before you go back to sleep." Komaeda nodded obediently as he hung his head. He shouldn't probably have hoped for Hinata to believe him, there was no way something like that would happen… For a moment the world went blurry in his eyes, and he shook his head before taking a gulp of the water. It was refreshing to have something to drink, especially when it felt like his entire body was covered in sweat and everything was a blur of feeling cold and feeling hot at the same time.

He stared at the water bottle for a moment as regret filled his mind. He should have been better, he shouldn't be just lying here and forcing Hinata to take care of him. It'd be so much better for the other to just get rid of him, and he knew it was just his own selfish wish to have the other forgive him and believe in him again. Best thing he could do for Hinata right now was to let him leave, but there were still things he had to do before that…

He took another sip of the water as his thoughts were starting to get muddy again. He had to think everything through for Hinata, so that the other could leave with a good plan in mind. He looked at Hinata for a moment, the other using the phone again, and while he also wanted to call the other's name he also realized he had to do this. His plan had been to be as useful to Hinata as he could be, and right now he was the one being the hindrance to everything.

He took another gulp of the water. He knew what he had to do, now the only thing he had to do was to plan everything he could still do for Hinata.

Shivers ran through his body suddenly and for a brief second the headache hurt like a knife had been pushed into his head, interrupting his thoughts. He just had to try and remember everything.

The next time he woke up, he jumped to sit up in his bed, his heart beating a million miles a second. Traces of his dream still haunted him, the pictures of the plane accident, the figure of his dog lying dead beside him, and the young boy who had hugged him and told him it was all okay. Sweat dripped from his face to the blanket next to the wet towel that had dropped from his forehead, and he frantically looked around the room to find Hinata.

"Hinata-kun? Where are you?" he called frantically in a faint voice as he slowly realized the room was empty. Maybe the other had left already; it was completely plausible. Komaeda felt his heartbeat keep thundering on as he realized there was still something he had been supposed to tell Hinata, but he couldn't even remember what it was. He called Hinata's name over and over again, feeling like the other would appear if he just kept calling him.

He grabbed the blanket on a tight hold within his fists as his hands began to shake. This was bad, he couldn't let Hinata leave without that… important thing…

Tears of frustration came to his eyes as he felt his heart burn with the feeling of failure. He had to remember and he had to get Hinata back somehow. If the other had left then he'd just have to find a way to move time temporarily back to yesterday and tell Hinata what he had to.

He shivered from the cold despite feeling a sweltering heat around his body. It was hard to gather his thoughts together, the heat bothering him from focusing and the dream still trying to remind him of itself.

Komaeda heard the door click open.

"Hinata-kun? Is it you?" he asked instantly, and when the other walked into view he smiled as his vision swayed slightly. Hinata frowned at him, before walking over to the bed and taking the towel from his lap.

"You should be asleep. I checked your temperature when you were sleeping and it was over 39 degrees of Celsius. Any higher and I'll throw you into a hospital," Hinata said as he threw the towel on the table before taking another one right next to it.

"Y-you didn't leave…," Komaeda said slowly, his throat hurting from speaking. Hinata just sighed as he walked into the bathroom. Komaeda could hear the tap running for a moment before Hinata returned to the room. The words began to spill from his mouth before he even realized what he was about to say. "You should have left, there's no point in taking care of a piece of trash like me. I'm sure you would have been able to achieve the hope you are capable of if you had left…"

Once again Komaeda got cut off as Hinata sat by the edge of the bed to push him back to lying down. There wasn't any strength left in his body, so Komaeda fell over immediately and right after he felt something cold and wet being placed on his forehead. Hinata glared at him with an annoyed look while pulling the blanket back up to cover him. When he was done, Hinata took the two boxes of medicine from the nightstand and a water bottle.

Komaeda followed Hinata with his eyes as the other began to take the pills out. His vision was slightly blurry, but for some reason the sight of the other was so beautiful to him.

"… Why didn't you leave? There's no reason for you to waste your time with someone like me…," Komaeda asked quietly, expecting Hinata to glare at him again. But instead, the other stopped still, staring at the two pills and the water bottle in his hands like he was wondering the same question.

"It'd be troublesome for me if you died out of this," Hinata answered eventually as he turned to look at Komaeda, a tired look in his eyes. "Lift your head up for a moment." Komaeda did as he was told, and Hinata gently put the first pill into his mouth before bringing the water bottle to his lips. They repeated the act for the next pill and Hinata placed the water bottle back on the nightstand.

Komaeda glanced at the bottle wondering if Hinata wasn't going to close it, before the other spoke.

"Drink that again before going back to sleep, if you're going to." Hinata walked back to the table and seated himself on the chair. Komaeda placed his head back on the pillow as he watched the other. His head was a bit clearer now that he was calmer. The dream was still playing in the back of his thoughts, the backs of his parents stuck in his sight. He couldn't remember who had been with him the whole time though, who had been the one to hold his hand the entire time.

There was still something he had to remember, but he couldn't get his thoughts together.

Thank you so much for reading all the way here! Your comments have been really supporting me all this time and it makes me so happy to have you all here... Today's been a horrible day for me because of drama and stuff and my friends' support has made me really emotional and I was reading all the comments again so I'm just even more emotional and happy now... So thank you 3 It's very important for me, and I've read them so many times that I recognize all of you. Before I get any more emotional, thank you so much, I hope you liked the chapter and the next one will be up on 30th day of December!

(Also this is just a selfish ask but comments are my one of my main sources of happiness and it'd really cheer me up to get some... But no need to, it's alright if you don't have anything to say! Also the fluff fic is up by the name Ever After if you're interested! I'm definitely writing a new chapter to it tomorrow to relieve my stress~)