Waking

I open my eyes.

A filmier presence fills the room around me, and a quiet sob is the only noise I hear. I blink away the blurry stars as light stabs my eyes for the first time in what feels like a century.

"Simon?" I whisper, my throat hurts and my vice is soft and scratchy. I don't know if he heard me, but a socked gasp proves me wrong, "Rachel?"

I see Simon's head appear in my range of vision. His beautiful face tear streaked and pale.

Something is wrong.

"Wh-what happened?" it hurts to talk and I want to sleep again but I have to know, "I remember a blast, and, and, and, a fight! With-with you! And I hit you!" I want to stop but I can't, "I hit you! Oh my God, I hit you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry… so sorry" I trail off as I see a deep pain flash across Simon's face, but he hid it quickly behind a face I'd never seen him in. It was a cocky face that was designed to hide emotion, the kind of face doctors had when they held bad news in there words. I wondered what made the pain so deep he had to hide like that.

"Shhhhhhhhh… sleep Rachel , we'll talk later, not now… Shhhhhhhhh…." came Simon's soothing voice through my thoughts, he pushed the hair away from my face and ran his fingers along the side of my cheek again and again as though he had not seen me in a long time and much had changed since then., but that was impossible wasn't it… before I could complete the thought I drifted into darkness Simon holding my hand, brushing my face lightly and whispering comforting nonsense in my ear.

AN: awww… so sad ain't it? And we all thought she would wake up at the end too, but now you got a choice: have Rachel die any way or have her wake up again with her dad pointing a gun at Alec or excuse me Simon. it all depends on you cause I got a million ideas and no ending so whatever, oh almost forgot: I own nothing but this bloody computer and some book, (well actually it's a lot of books but whatever) and last but not least: if you see and grammar or spelling mistakes I. Don't. Care. I got learning probs. So live with it.