I knelt before

Some strangers face,

I'd never had the courage or belief

to trust this place

But I dropped my head,

Coz it felt like lead

And I'm sure I felt your fingers through my hair…

"Do you think she'll be alright?" Jo heard someone ask apprehensively before she had the courage to open her eyes and face what was in front of them.

Her eyelids fluttered with the pure difficulty of opening them, but when she heard someone gasp and hold her hand, she felt the strength. It was a soft hand, one with smallish knuckles and long fingers, but was clammy and sweaty. It felt like PJ's hand, and Jo opened her eyes, just in case it was, just in case he was still there and the past few days had been a horrible nightmare. But, the feeling of disappointment she knew all too well swept back over her body, taking the place of hope, optimism, prospect, expectancy, longing and any other feeling that had managed to creep its way in there.

The one person that Jo thought and felt still stood behind her was right there, holding her hand and gazing into the pools of blue that were her eyes.

"Oh, honey, I've been so worried about you." Susie exclaimed with relief that she was alright.

"Huh? Where am I? What am I doing here?" Jo demanded in an uncharacteristically harsh tone that made Susie jump away slightly.

"You were walking on the road, away from Mount Thomas, and you collapsed. You are lucky someone found you when they did, and they brought you here to the hospital. They did some tests and…" she trailed off as the nurse walked in.

What?" she asked with a worried look.

"Ah, finally awake are we?" The nurse asked in a sarcastic but gentle tone.

"You did some tests and?" Jo wanted to know what happened.

"Well, we conducted a few tests to see why you collapsed and we found a special little someone growing inside of you." She informed Jo.

"What, you mean…?" she trailed off.

"You're pregnant Jo. And unless there is something you're not telling me, we will have a little PJ running around in the world in no time" she said, looking excited at the thought that PJ would be back again, like he had just been on a holiday.

Jo turned completely white as a ghost and passed out again, but Susie ran to get some ice and ran it over her face and down her back.

When she returned to the land of the living, she noticed she wasn't wearing her own clothes, she was wearing a hospital gown. Her last connection to PJ had faded just when she realised that another one had appeared.

She realised that she didn't need to hang onto the clothes that PJ's blood had been on, because she now had something so much more precious that she could hang onto with all her strength.

Outside she smiled at the thought, but turned dark inside when she realised she would be raising a child without their father. What a life, she thought to herself, hiding her real feelings from Susie and the nurse.

Inside she felt a void, there was nothing there anymore, it had all been leeched out of her, no emotions, no thoughts, no feelings, no concept or grasp of reality, but for some reason she like it that way.

If things get real for me down here,

Promise to take me to before you went away,

If only for a day.

If things get real for me down here,

Promise to take me back to the tune we played

Before you went away

"Hey Jo" Pj said as soon as Jo had taken off her blindfold.

"What? Where am I?" she asked, astounded at the beauty of the place.

"Well, you are at the spot where I am going to tell you I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you." PJ smiled.

"Oh" Jo whispered. "I love you too, and I always have wanted to spend my life with you."

"That's good to know. Makes what I am going to do all the easier. Joanna, my darling. I love you so much, more than any words could say. Words could not tell you what I feel, I love you too much. Which is why I want to know whether you would like to marry me and spend the rest of your life with me." He gushed, showing her a ring.

Jo was awe stricken. She could not say anything, even though she thought it might have been coming.

"Oh PJ," she tried to say, but it came out as a sob. "Of course I will. I love you" she said, with tears streaming down her face as she gazed into his eyes.

He stood up and kissed her on the lips, just as he put a ring on her finger. The ring wasn't anything special, it was a white gold band, with one very small diamond in the middle, but to Jo it was perfect. It resembled everything that she loved, and everything she had always wanted.

Then PJ walked back to the car, leaving Jo standing there. He opened the boot and got out a basket and a rug, and Jo came over and joined him. He walked into the middle of a clump of trees, and, without saying anything, he laid the mat down and they both sat down staring into each others eyes.

"I love you"