Sorry it took so long to update. I didn't have access to a computer for a long time and just started college.

Thank you all for your reviews and patience! Again: I don't own the characters but the story is my own. Katey's song is borrowed from Alison Krauss. Let me know what you think.

Katey decided that she had to stay by Javier's side whether he liked it or not. In the evenings she would sing to him the same song her mother had sung to her as a child, but changed some of the words to fit her situation:

"Slumber my darling, thy lover is near. Guarding thy dreams from all terror and fear,
Sunlight has pass'd and the twilight has gone,
Slumber, my darling, the night's coming on.
Sweet visions attend thy sleep,
Fondest, dearest to me,
While others their revels keep,
I will watch over thee."

Hours passed, then days, finally a weak later Javier's medication was reduced and he regained full consciousness.

"Javier?" Katey said gently.

"Hmmm" He mumbled.

Katey breathed a sigh of relief. He squinted his eyes open and looked around him.

"Katey?" he said weakly.

"Yes." She said. "I'm here."

He started to sit up and winced.

"Just lay back. Do you remember what happened?"

He nodded. "Yes." His long dark hair fell across his left eye. She brushed it away. "He stabbed me for no reason. I had already given him my wallet. There was no reason for –"

"I know." She said. Katey wondered to herself why things happened that way. Life is so strange, she thought. But things like this happen all the time.

"How long have you been here?"

"A week, same as you." She smiled.

"A week?!" he put a hand on his forehead. "I thought maybe I had been here†a day. I don't know."

"It's okay, Javier. You won't have to be here much longer."

"What do you mean?"

"I spoke with Dr. Mendez and he said you may be well enough to go soon. Maybe within the next week."

"Dr. Mendez?"

"Yes, your doctor. He saved your life, Javier."

He lay there contemplating everything that had happened to him in the past week.

"What are you thinking of?" Katey asked him.

"Everything."

She gave a slight laugh.

"Tell me."

"I have just lost a week of my life."

"You mustn't think of it like that, Javier."

"How must I look at it? It is true."

"Yes, but-"

"I'm going to spend the rest of my life making up that week†to you." Katey watched him intently. "I should not have left you alone. I should have stayed and talked to you about everything. I was wrong."

"No, I understand. You needed time to think about it all. I understand. And I understand that you want to be here, your life is here, your family."

"But I asked you to leave your life and family. I do not want to be one of those husbands who makes his wife give up everything for him. I could not live with myself that way. That is no life. I love that you have things you love†besides me." He flashed his boyish smile and Katey felt she would melt in her chair.

"One of those husbands?"

"Yeah. Katey, I love you. And I know now is not the time butâ€I have had time taken from me this week. It has made me realize how much I do love you. I want to marry you. Will you be mine?"

Katey felt that she would explode. Her heart was pounding, her breathing was fast.

"Y-yes." She kneeled on the floor by his bed and kissed his hand, and then his lips.

"Yes?"

She nodded uncontrollably, "Yes."

They kissed passionately and soon became aware of the other patients in the room.

They looked at each other and laughed. They didn't care who saw them, they had been apart too long, had to hide too long. Now they could be together, forever, and start the life they had dreamed of since they first met.