1 CHAPTER SIX

2 Thank you for loving me

I have been given a second chance, I can't just walk out on that. I turn and head toward the light. I walk through and back into my life. Only when I wake will I know if I made the wrong decision. Going back and regretting it is better than dying. The light disappears and I am back into darkness, but one that I know I will wake from, one I hope I will wake from.

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Just as Kerry goes to turn the monitor and the Ventilator off, it starts to beep. She quickly moves over to Abby, searching for a pulse.

"Sinus. Tach" She calls, everyone standing in disbelief. They were sure that she was dead; that there was nothing they could do for her anymore. Yet there she was in front of them, breathing. A rush of relief shot through all of them.

Luka entered the ICU, not knowing what to make of trio stood around what he was sure was a dead body. He glanced at the monitor, and then moved over to Abby. He took her hand and quietly whispered "Thank you".

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He sat there day and night for the next few days. He knew that she was going to wake, and he wanted to be there when she did. He laid his head on top of her hand and had managed to fall asleep. But at least this time he fell into a peaceful sleep, fell into peaceful dreams.

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You pick me up when I fall down

You ring the bell before they count me out

If I was drowning you would part the sea

And risk your own life to rescue me

Thank you for loving me

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My eyelids felt like they were attached to a hundred ton weight. I struggled to open them, but my willpower somehow forced them to. The light blinded me at first, but I gradually got used to it. As I did things became clearer, I could see my surroundings. I could feel the tube that was down my throat, and my first thought was to get it out. I try to move my right hand, but it is being held down by something. I peer down towards it and I see Luka hanging. Shivers of relief run through me, and I close my eyes, trying not to let the tears fall. All I can think about is him, and what I have put him through. As he stirs by the side of me, I lift my left hand to the tube, desperately trying to remove it.

Luka feels the hand beneath him move, and it wakes him. He glances up to Abby's face and sees her trying to remove the intubation tube.

"Elizabeth" He calls out. Elizabeth jogs over.

"Ok, hold on Abby" She reassures Abby as she replaces her hand with her own, "Take a long, deep breath" She instructs, slowly removing the tubing.

I feel the tube as it is slowly drawn from my mouth. I breathe in with all the energy I have, and eventually I take a breath on my own accord. Finally I am back, back to what I so nearly walked out on. I am in my life, and only the future knows if I have made a mistake.

I look up to Luka and gaze longingly into his eyes, after all I have put him through he is still here.

"I'm sorry" I can't get my voice above a whisper and he leans in closely. I am unable to keep the tears from falling this time.

"I'm sorry too" He whispers back and with that I know that I made the right choice, made the right choice to come back. He gently moves his hand to my forehead and removes a strand of hair to the side. He bends over and kisses me softly. And with his calm and kind Croatian accent whispers "I love you". I couldn't have wished for anything more. I have been given second chance.

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Thank you for loving me

For being my eyes when I couldn't see

For parting my lips

When I couldn't breathe

Thank you for loving me

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