Chapter 8- Breathing
Chapter 8- Breathing

A/N: Chapter 8 already. Wow. This is for Scarlet182.

Disclaimer- I don't own Val or Tyler- they belong to Disney or whoever. I don't own the totally completely awesomely good song "Breathing" which is featured in this fic. It belongs to Lifehouse, the band that performs it, or the record label I guess. Now, if I owned Lifehouse, I could own the song, and I'd hear it everyday live instead of on my CD burned off of my friend Scott's copy of it. (Thank you Scott I owe you for life). But that's beside the point…. now on with the fic!!!!!

Brooke was biting her left middle finger when the doctor came into the waiting room, which did not look good to the doctor. Brooke promptly took her finger out of her mouth.

"How is she? How's Val? Can I see her? Is she okay? Answer me!" Exclaimed Tyler- anxiety had made him hyper.

"Due to the thick metal outside of the ambulance, she only has a few cracked ribs, nothing all that serious. However, she will have to stay in the hospital overnight. And, yes you can see her. She's in room 156." The doctor said with a smile.

"Me first me first me first!" Tyler exclaimed like a hyper 3 year old. Then, without waiting for an answer, he dashed down the hall to room 156.

"That was Valerie's boyfriend, wasn't it?" the doctor asked the teens.

"Oh, yeah." said Hank with a nod.

*********

Tyler opened the door quietly, in contrast to his loud behavior just moments before.

Val looked relatively normal. She had a few small cuts and bruises, but all in all looked like the same old Val, except shocked, worn out, and very glad that Tyler was the first to see her.

"Hey, how are you?" Val asked. That was just Val, concerned about others and not herself.

"Just hanging by a moment here with you," Tyler sang to himself, then said to Val, "Shouldn't I be the one asking that question? I'm fine, but I could be better. I'd be a lot better if you weren't in the hospital because of a car accident."

"You know what, I'm going to want to spend a fair amount of time with you, and everyone else wants to see me, and I'm pretty tired, so why don't you let everyone else have a turn, then you can come back until I fall asleep?" asked Val.

"Um, okay, I guess that'll work." Tyler said. He left.

Tyler sent everyone else back in. He went back to pacing, but his heart just wasn't in it.

FINALLY everyone else talked to Val, and Tyler went in to find her half asleep.

"Hey, Val." he said softly.

"Hey, Tyler. I'm sorry. I'm really tired. All that talking, and the shock… I cried, and that takes a lot out of me… Could you just stay here until I fall asleep, talk about stuff? Anything, really. I just don't want to be alone right now, y'know?" Val said uncertainly.

"Sure," said Tyler. Gladly. Gosh, she looks so sweet, so vulnerable, I'd do anything to protect her, anything to make her feel better, to just make this go away, to have it never happen. The shock…it scared us all. Tyler thought.

They talked small talk for a while, anything at all to keep the silence away. Then they came to a lull in the conversation, a silence.

"Sing to me." Came the sleepy command from Val.

"What?" asked Tyler confusedly.

"Sing to me, please." Val said. "I've heard you sing. You have a nice voice. Just sing something. Anything at all."

"Okay, I know the perfect song. It just totally describes how I feel. At least the first verse does." Tyler said, and ever the Lifehouse fan, he began to sing.

"I'm finding my way back to sanity again" Tyler sang, and whispered, "I'm so glad you're okay."

"Though I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there" "Oh yes I do." Tyler said to himself and kissed her.

"Take a breath and hold on tight,

Spin around one more time

And gracefully fall back to the arms of grace

'Cause I am hanging on every word you say and

Even if you don't wanna speak tonight

That's alright,

Alright with me,

'Cause I want nothing more than,

Sit outside heaven's door and listen to your breathing

Is where I wanna be, yeah"

Tyler looked down at the now sleeping Val.

"Where I wanna be

I'm looking past the shadows in my mind into the truth," Tyler recalled when the doctor told him how Val was

"And I'm

Tryin' to identify the voices in my head

God which-

Won't you let me feel one more time what it

Feels like to feel and" Tyler bent over, paused, and kissed Val on the forehead.

"Break these calluses off of me

One more time…

'Cause I am hanging on every word you say and

Even if you don't wanna speak tonight

That's alright,

Alright with me,

'Cause I want nothing more than

To sit outside your door and listen to your breathing

Is where I wanna be

Yeah

Oh I don't want a thing from you

Bet you're tired of me" Val's sleepy voice contradicted Tyler, "No. I'll never get tired of you. " When Tyler stopped, embarrassed that she had heard- well, he thought she was asleep- she said, "Keep going. I like your voice."

"Waiting for" "What?" yelled Jamie from outside. He only heard 'Wait'- so Tyler yelled, "Nothing!" and Jamie left them alone

"The scraps to fall off of your table to the ground

Ladadaladadadalada

I just wanna be here now, now

'Cause I am hanging on every word you say and

Even if you don't wanna speak tonight

That's alright,

Alright with me,

'Cause I want nothing more than

To sit outside your door and listen to your breathing

Is where I wanna be

'Cause I am hanging on every word you say and

Even if you don't wanna speak tonight

That's alright,

Alright with me,

'Cause I want nothing more than

To sit outside your door and listen to your breathing

Is where I wanna be

Where I wanna be

Where I wanna be…"

He kissed Val goodnight and left the room.

*********

A/N: I know it's sort of like the one fic by Darkchilde, and I'm sorry, but there's a lot of differences. It's Val and Tyler, and I use the whole song instead of just the chorus, but please don't flame.

It seems I only have 5 or 6 people who like this and really want me to continue this (Aricraze, Ivy Leaves, twirlgirl04, especially Scarlet182 who put me well over 12 by writing a review for every chapter- thanks!, Darkchilde- I'm not plagiarizing, it's inspiration!, and others). Now I have 24 reviews, and I started with 7 when I wrote that threat. See what empty threats can do? This threat is

NOT empty- 30 reviews or bust! As in, if I don't get 30 reviews (which means I need 6 more) I don't write any more.

Answer this- especially Darkchilde- if you've heard it, isn't "Breathing" by Lifehouse (sang by Tyler in this fic) the absolute best song you have ever heard? That's my opinion of it. REVIEW!!!