…Tala's POV…

I stop my whispering hearing someone else enter the room, I turn around to see one of the hospital staff standing in the doorway with Kenny and Rei,
"Tyson, Max and Hilary are at the rooms reserved for us in the adjoining family and friends building," Kenny commented, eyeing Kai and the monitoring machine attached to him.
"What happened?"
I looked over at Rei, I guess Kenny didn't tell him. I looked back at Kai, placing my hand on his, I wasn't going to tell him, I don't think Kai would have wanted people to know, know how easily he had given into this.

"He's stable but is trapped in what you could call a state of coma." I shifted my attention once again at the sound of a familiar voice; it was the young doctor from when I had first snuck into this room. I guess he was trying to answer Rei's question without giving away to much, I should probably thank him later, at least for letting me stay in here with Kai.
"Tala, we have to leave now." I hear Kenny saying, but I don't want to leave, I want to stay here with Kai, I want him to wake up and when he does I want to be here to apologise.

"Our rooms are in the adjoining building, you can come back in the morning but for now we have to leave or they'll kick you out." I heard Rei say, placing a hand on my shoulder, I wish he wouldn't, I wish they'd all go away and leave me alone, leave me alone with Kai. However, I know that's not to be, they know I'm here and that lady at the desk is probably eager to see me out of here.
"Just give me five minutes," I tell them, not even bothering to look at them but I hear them leave one by one.
"We'll wait for you in the hallway," I hear Kenny say, as he shuts the door and finally there's silence, I'm alone with Kai once again.

…Kai's POV…

The voice is back… it vanished for a while replaced with muffled sounds, I don't know what's going on but do I really care? Do I really want to know? I don't know any more. The voice is at it again, pleading with me… I don't understand why but I don't mind the voice; I don't mind that maybe someone does want me alive. But who? Would Tala want me alive? Does Tala even know I'm here? Does he even know what has happened… what I have done? Do I want him to know? I don't think I do, he wouldn't be pleased, probably disgusted at how weak I've turned out. Yes. Weak, that's all I am, weak and worthless.

However that's not what the voice is telling me… this familiar voice whispering in the back of my mind pleading with me to wake up, apologising over and over again. I don't know why. Who does the voice belong to? Why are they apologising to me? So many questions, it almost makes me want to wake up even if I was only alive long enough to know who would sit by my side all this time trying to get me to wake up. Don't they know most coma patients die instead of waking up… will I wake up? Will I die? I don't know. Before I was so set on my on death… before the voice came pleading and apologising saying they should have known. How could they have known? I don't know. No one could have known, my teamates just assumed I was being as I always was; distant. The only one who I talked with that night was Tala. He would be the only one who might have figured it out.

I suddenly feel anxious. Maybe the voice is Tala's, maybe it was himwho called these people to come and get me. It's a nice thought, that Tala would still want me alive, want me alive enough to plead with me to wake up, but it's just a thought, a possibility; nothing's for certain. Though it would be nice, yes, I would want the voice to be Tala's. I would wake up for that, to know that Tala wasn't mad, that he didn't hate me. If all the things the voice has said was said by Tala. I want to wake up just to see… just to see if maybe Tala might still care.

The voice is still talking, but it's getting fainter and faster. It's harder to pick up. And then I grasp what is being said; the voice is leaving, going away. Why? I don't know, but something inside of me doesn't want it to go away, I want it to stay. In my mind I'm calling out to it, calling out to Tala to stay with me. But I know, in the real world I haven't said a thing. And the voice is gone, I am alone again, alone in my own darkness and sinking fast. I want the voice to return; I want to wake up.