~Resurrection~

*Chapter Three*

Dwayne was surrounded by darkness. He couldn't see a thing. He couldn't even see himself. He looked around and only saw black. He remembered all those stories about people seeing a white light but he didn't see no such thing, he didn't even know if he was seeing. Where was Dany? He tried walking but couldn't even feel his legs. Tried to call out for her, but he didn't know if his mouth opened. 'Maybe I'm in hell.' He thought. Suddenly he heard a deep low echo. It was his name. Someone was calling out to him. He held on to the voice, desperately trying to hear where it was coming from.

Meanwhile, Judy sat by her brother's bedside and cried for his forgiveness. "I'm sorry, Dwayne. I'm so sorry. I just couldn't let you do it." She squeezed his hand, looking up at his face. The thick white bandage covering the top part of his head was in deep contrast to his pale bronze skin, and a clear oxygen tube taped under his nose. "Please come back to us. Mom and dad are on their way. Please, Dwayne. Prove the doctors wrong." What if she didn't save him at all, what if he never woke up. It's been a week and nothing. At least he's finally breathing on his own, she thought optimistic. She cried harder. What if he didn't want to wake up. She didn't want to have to go through that. The doctors said he could still go at any minute. She thought she did the right thing by grabbing the gun, but what if she just caused more damage? Dwayne was going to hate her if he wakes up. 'When he wakes up', she corrected herself.

There it was again. Dwayne tried his hardest to listen to the voice. Someone was definitely trying to get to him. It was Dany. He knew it. She was calling out for help. He didn't know what to do, he couldn't even move, but he knew he had to get to her. She was begging for him to help her, to wake up and help her. He wanted to scream out to her, to tell her he was coming but he couldn't. He blinked, trying to focus through the darkness, trying to see anything.

Judy was still trying to reach out to him. "Dwayne, please wake up. There's something I have to tell you. Something really important. Dany…she's-" She choked back a sob. He couldn't leave like this, anything but this. "Dwayne…"

Suddenly the darkness got brighter. Dwayne wondered for a moment how that was possible but he could definitely tell things were getting brighter. He still couldn't see anything, though. He tried harder until he could feel his head start to hurt, then he tried harder still. He could feel his arms legs again. He tried to call out to Dany but it suddenly felt like something was choking him. He felt something in his hand and he quickly grabbed at it, not wanting to let go.

Judy quickly looked up at Dwayne when he squeezed her hand. Her heart leapt in her throat and she stood to look down at him. "Dwayne? Can you hear me?"

Dwayne suddenly became aware of everything. He groaned against the pounding headache that seemed to come from nowhere. He was laying on his back, on a bed; he was alive. How could that be? He felt his eyelids slowly open, seeing nothing but blinding light, a big difference from the darkness he'd grown accustomed to earlier. He quickly closed them.

Judy smiled and squeezed her brother's hand. "Dwayne? It's me, Judy. Open your eyes. Open you eyes, Dwayne."

'Judy? Where did she come from?' Why wasn't he dead? His eyelids fluttered open, seeing only a blurred face in front of him. Slowly, his eyes focused on his sister.

Judy couldn't help but smile. "Oh, Dwayne, thank God."

He closed his eyes and groaned. "What happened?" He croaked over his throat sore.

Judy's smile didn't fade. "You missed."

He looked at her, confusion in his voice. "What?"

"I knocked your arm…and you missed….barely" She looked at him. "I couldn't let you do it."

He closed his eyes and sighed deeply; angry and disappointed. "I wanted to…."

Judy shook his head. "I'm going to tell you something, Dwayne. Something really important. But I want you to stay as calm as possible, okay?"

He sighed, his eyes still closed, and nodded; he didn't want to be here.

"Dwayne, Dany is okay…."

His eyes snapped open and he glared at her. "That's not funny."

Judy shook her head and smiled. "She is, Dwayne, I promise she is. The body in the car?" She paused for a moment. "It wasn't hers…"

He frowned, his brain was still foggy, nothing was making sense. "What?"

"The DNA finally came back. The woman in the car wasn't even pregnant. Dany is okay."

He closed his eyes. A knot grew in his throat, it couldn't be… "W-Where is she, then?"

Judy looked at her brother sadly. "I don't know….but she's okay…"

She wasn't making any sense, but she was okay. His wife and child were okay. He tried to swallow the knot in his throat but couldn't. Tears welled up in his eyes and before he knew what was happening, they started flowing down his face. He closed his eyes and took a deep shaky breath. Judy smiled sadly and patted his hand.

"I'll explain everything later. Everyone thinks you're in here because of an accident. Just get some rest, okay? I promise everything is going to be all right." Judy watched her brother as the drugs made their mark and he slowly drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Hope I didn't scare anyone ::wink:: Sorry for the wait. Please R/R!!!!