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Summary: This may be out of order in whatever way, but hey, its my story, I get to decide how it goes. ;-) Sorry if it takes a while for me to get it posted, but I've been writing it in whatever time I get between classes and stuff and I'm laptop less so its all scribbled down on paper and I've actually gotta find time to type it all up. But hopefully I'll find enough time somewhere. =) Happy Reading!

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Home Sweet Hospital

8 Hours Later

Kimberly and Jason walked into the 5th floor waiting room of Angel Grove Memorial Hospital to find a few of their friends, and Tommy's family sitting around in silence.

"Hey . . ." Kimberly said softly, laying a gentle hand on Mrs. Oliver's shoulder.

"Kimberly! What are you doing here?!?" she asked in a surprised voice.

"AnneMarie called me . . . How is he?"

"We're not quite sure . . . . . Tommy had to have reconstructive surgery on both knees, and he broke a couple ribs and both legs. So far, that's all we know of, other than him being covered in cuts and bruises."

"Can we see him?" Jason asked.

"Yeah . . . Down the hall, 3rd door on the left . . . AnneMarie is in with him now, but he's not awake."

"Ok. Thanks Mrs. Oliver." Jason said, then led Kimberly down the hallway. "You ready for this?" he asked as they approached the door.

"Its like deja vu . . . . ." Kimberly said softly.

"Yeah, kinda . . ." Jason said as he slowly opened the door. "Knock Knock . . . . ." AnneMarie looked up as she heard the soft voice from across the room.

"Kimberly!"

"Hi Sweetie, how are you holding up?"

"Hi . . . . ."

"How'd surgery go?" Kimberly asked.

"Ok I guess. He's pretty messed up."

"We heard . . . . ."

"Nana says its worse than last time . . . . ." Kimberly closed her eyes and leaned back against Jason as he slid his arm around her. "What happened last time?"

" . . . . . Tommy got hurt in a monster attack and broke his arm sand collarbone, and bruised his ribs." Jason told her.

"He was in a coma for 12 days, and didn't have a memory when he woke up." Kimberly added.

" . . . . . So Nana is right . . . . ." AnneMarie said softly.

"Nana is always right . . . . ." Kimberly mumbled. Tears began to fill AnneMarie's eyes as she looked back at her brother. Kimberly followed her gaze. Tommy looked so small in the bed, his face and arms all cut and bruised. He was hooked up to several different machines, all making a different humming or beeping noise. "Come here Sweetie." Kimberly said holding her arms out for AnneMarie.

" . . . . . Kimberly, I"m so scared . . . . ."

"I know Sweetie, we all are."

"But its going to be ok . . ." Jason said wrapping his arms around Kimberly as she held AnneMarie. "Tommy is a tough guy. He's pulled through before, and he'll do it all again now."

"AnneMarie, why don't you go take a break." Kimberly told her. "Go get a soda or something . . ."

" . . . . . I don't want to leave my bother." AnneMarie said wiping at her eyes.

"I'll stay with him." Kimberly offered. "Jase . . . . ."

"Let's go get a soda." he said, holding out a hand for AnneMarie.

"Thanks Jase." Kimberly said as he led AnneMarie out of the room. Kimberly sighed as she turned back to Tommy, tears filling her eyes as she moved closer, and sat down next to the bed. Kimberly closer her eyes as tears began to stream out, and make their way down her face. Up until the argument a few months ago, she hadn't even seen Tommy, except for the short time after Muranthius. " . . . . . . . . . Tommy . . . . . . . . Tommy, I'm so sorry!" she cried. "I'm so so sorry . . . . . . . . . I feel like this is somehow all my fault . . . . . I never meant to hurt you, but lately, it seems like its all I've been doing . . . . . . . . . I wrote that letter because I was scared . . . I was all alone, and couldn't stand not having you with me . . . I love d you so much it hurt! But I'm stupid, and I ran away . . . . .I'm so sorry I hurt you Tommy. I was just so afraid to go on without you, so I cut you off, and broke your heart . . . . . And then when you decided to finally come after me, I hurt you even more . . . . . And now here you are in the hospital . . . Again . . . . . . . . And I can't help but think that somehow, this is all my fault . . . . . . . . And you're not the stupid one; I am . . . . . I ran away from you because I was afraid of what I was feeling . . . And now here you are, back in the hospital, with everyone waiting for you to wake up. Waiting to throw their arms around you, and tell you how much they love you . . . . . . . . I'm so scared Tommy! I don't know what to do!"

" . . . . . So don't do anything . . . . ." a voice said from across the room. " . . . . . Just be her for him . . . . ." Kimberly looked up to see a tall young man with the same long brown hair that Tommy used to have, and the same chocolate brown eyes.

"Who . . . . . Who are you?" Kimberly asked, stumbling on the words, as she quickly wiped at her face.

"David, David Trueheart . . . I'm Tommy and AnneMarie's older brother . . . . ."

"Brother? . . . . . That's impossible . . . . ."

"Nothing is impossible. Not if you believe."

"I'm not sure what to believe anymore . . ."

"Try believing in yourself . . . That's the first step . . . . .And believe in love . . . . . Tommy loves you Kimberly Hart . . . He loves you more than anything . . ."

"How . . . . . How'd you know my name?

"Tommy talks about you all the time . . . . You're the only girl he's ever loved . . . . . . . . . I heard about what happened in Florida . . . . . I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have encouraged him to go down there."

"What do you mean?"

" . . . . . I know how much my little brother adores you . . . Even though you two haven't been together for quite some time, he's still always talking about you . . . . . How beautiful and talented you are, how much he misses you, but how glad he is that you are following your dreams . . . . . No matter how much his heart aches for you, he'd rather have you in the Olympics, than on his arm . . . . . . . . Tommy loves you Kimberly, and he thinks about you every single minute, of every single day . . . . ." David told her.

"How can he love me, when all I ever do is hurt him?"

"Kimberly . . . . . When you love someone, you don't care about anything but the happiness of that other person. Even if it means you aren't happy yourself . . . . ."

" . . . . . Tommy has always been the selfless one . . . . ." Kimberly said with a sniffle.

"He told me something this morning . . . . . Tommy said that he's sick of being unhappy . . . He didn't want to know how his life would tun out, if he kept going the way he was . . . . . Tommy decided today, that no matter how much it hurt, or what it cost him, he was going to do everything in his power to make himself happy, because the sadness and depression just weren't worth it anymore . . .So starting today, he was going to start over. He was going to have the life he always dreamed of, with the people he loves the most . . . . . . . . ."

" . . . . . . . . . So he goes and crashes his car . . . . . . . ." Kimberly said softly. " . . . . . . . . Some way to be happy . . . . . . ."

"Can I ask you something?"

" . . . . . I guess so . . . . . ."

"Do you love my brother?" Kimberly sighed as she looked at David, another tear rolling down her face.

" . . . . . I try not to . . . . . . . . . ."

"Then tell him . . ." David told her in a soft voice, then turned and walked out the door.

More tears rolled down Kimberly's face as she looked back to Tommy She cried as she thought about what David had said to her.

"You ok?" Jason asked as he walked back into the room a few minutes later. Kimberly just looked at him, then back to Tommy as another tear rolled down her face. "Kimberly, you do know that none of this is your fault."

"Have you met Tommy's brother?" she asked with a sniffle.

"David? Yeah?"

"Do you wanna know what he said to me?"

"I can imaging. He tends to tell it like it is."

"Yeah well, he didn't need to this time. I already know I screwed up."

" Kim, I'm so sorry." he said sitting down next to her. "I had no idea he was even here."

"You wanna know what hurts even more? He looks just like Tommy!"

"There's a definite family resemblance."

"That's an understatement . . . At first I thought I was seeing things.

"I did too when I first met him."

"Is he any more like Tommy?"

"They're both pigheaded and stubborn as heck, if that's what you're asking."

"Jason, I miss him . . . . ."

"I know . . . He's gonna pull through this. I promise!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"He's Tommy. He's pulled through before."

"But last time he had something to fight for."

"Kimberly, don't do this to yourself."

"I can't help it Jase. I miss him so much! And I was such a jerk when he showed up in Florida! All Tommy wanted, was for me to love him again, and all I could do, was start a fight!"

"Kimberly, give yourself a break. Its been 3 years! He was stupid to expect you to run into his arms like nothing ever happened in the first place!"

"But that's all I wanted to do anyway! Only I wouldn't let myself. So I started a fight instead."

"Come on Kim. Quit blaming yourself. Its not going to help anything."

"I can't help it Jase . . ."

"Tommy crashed his race car. And it was in no way your fault."

"You shouldn't . . . Tommy is injured pretty bad, but he'll pull through. Just like he always does." David said as he reentered the room. "The only thing you're guilty of, if anything, is being the woman he loves."



To Be Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .