A/N : Time for some Wild Bill Screaming and John Coffey Healing, not necessarily in that order. Sorry for taking so long with my updates, I have no excuse, I've been lazy. Here's the next chapter, though, I hope you all enjoy. Now I know that her constantly reading books and not doing much else can get mighty boring but how many wild adventures can one have on deathrow?. Anyway, here's chapter 8.

June 27, 1939

Angela frowned as she watched Paul Edgecomb move around the Mile. He looked feverish and clammy, as if he was in great pain. She didn't know what it was that caused him pain but whatever it was, it had to be awful for him to look so bad.

"Are you alright, Boss Edgecomb?" Angela asked softly as he passed her cell while doing a cell check.

Edgecomb turned at the sound of her voice and looked into her worried blue eyes.

"I'm fine, Angela, don't you be worrying about a thing" Edgecomb said, wincing slightly as he moved.

Angela frowned, she didn't like accusing people of lying but she knew he wasn't being entirely truthful. He looked pale and sick, not at all alright.

"Don' look so good, boss. Look like you runnin' you a fever" Del commented.

Edgecomb shot him a look before moving on. Angela turned to Coffey's cell when she heard him call out to Edgecomb.

"Boss Edgecomb?. Needs ta see you down here, boss" Coffey said softly.

"Got things to tend to just now, John Coffey. You be still in your cell now, y'hear?" Edgecomb called back.

Coffey fell silent and Angela sighed as she watched Edgecomb walk painfully down to the entrance door. He peered through the viewing slot, apparently waiting for something.

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Angela looked up from her book when she heard a commotion at the entrance of the Green Mile and she got up to have a look. She approached her bars and pressed her face against them to be able to see and saw that they were bringing in a new prisoner.

Angela thought she could hear Coffey whisper something but she didn't look at him, she wanted to see the prisoner. The locked door opened and they brought a man with a glazed look in his eyes in, a man they had to guide along. Angela frowned, was he retarded?. She had barely finished thinking this when the glazed look in his eyes disappeared and a wild grin appeared on his face. A crazed screech leapt from his throat.

"Yeeeehaaaaawwwwwroooo" the man hollered.

Chaos ensued as the man grabbed hold of Dean Stanton and started choking him. Angela gasped in shock as Edgecomb was kicked in the groin, Terwilliger was elbowed in the face, Percy was standing around like an idiot and Stanton was being choked to death. Out of nowhere a hand grabbed Percy's hickory stick and landed an awesome blow to the man's head. Angela almost smiled when she saw Brutal standing over the new and insane prisoner.

"Brutal" she whispered.

"Big fucker" the lunatic choked out "Snuck up on me. No fair"

Brutal whacked the man again and this time he was knocked unconscious. Brutal helped Stanton up and instructed him to breathe slowly and steadily. Edgecomb, in the mean time, was glaring at Terwilliger. They argued for a few moments about how it could have happened before they hoisted the insane man into his cell. A man Brutal, when Angela asked, identified as William Wharton, also known as Wild Bill.

Stanton was taken to a doctor by Terwilliger and Brutal, Percy was told to make a report to the warden and Edgecomb would oversee the Mile until they got back. Angela worriedly looked on as Edgecomb lowered himself to the ground in pain. There was short period of silence before Coffey's voice once more rang out.

"Boss?. Needs ta see ya down here"

"This is not a good time, John Coffey" Edgecomb murmured into the tiles of the floor "Not a good time at all"

"But I needs ta see ya, boss" Coffey insisted still in the same soft voice "I needs ta talk to ya"

Edgecomb sighed as he rose with a supreme effort, using Angela's bars to pull himself up. Angela wasn't sure if she was supposed to help him but figured she couldn't just stand around doing nothing, like Percy, and grabbed hold of his arm to help him up. When Edgecomb was standing he gave Angela a brief nod, before walking to Coffey's cell.

"Closer" Coffey said as he waited at his bars.

"I'm alone here right now, John. Figure this is close enough" Edgecomb said.

"Boss, please. I got to whisper in your ear" Coffey said.

For some reason, Edgecomb complied and came closer to the bars where he was grabbed by Coffey and pulled into the bars after Coffey proclaimed he only wanted to help. Angela gasped and Del started hollering.

"HELP" Del yelled "JOHN COFFEY'S KILLING BOSS EDGECOMB. HELP"

Angela merely looked on in consternation.

"John, what are you doing?" Edgecomb choked out.

Coffey now had his hand on Edgecomb crotch and although Angela couldn't clearly see anything happen, she did notice a change in both Coffey and Edgecomb. There seemed to be a rush of energy, passing from Paul to Coffey's hand and then suddenly it was over. Coffey let go of Edgecomb and Edgecomb stumbled away from Coffey's cell. Del was still yelling.

"Del" Edgecomb yelled "Christ's sake, settle down, I'm fine"

A frown came to Edgecomb's face.

"I'm fine" he repeated and indeed he seemed to be just that.

His face was slowly regaining its colour and he didn't appear to be sweating anymore. Coffey wasn't doing so good.

"John" Angela stressed, drawing Edgecomb's attention away from himself and to Coffey "Are you okay?"

Coffey was in no condition to answer however. He sat down on his bunk, bent forward and gagged like a man with a chicken bone caught in his throat. Edgecomb fumbled with his keys, unsure if he should even enter, as the big man's contortions grew worse. Coffey suddenly reeled back and his mouth opened wide as a cloud of tiny black insects came out. The insects flew around for a while before disappearing into nothingness.

Edgecomb questioned Coffey about what he had done but Angela didn't hear it. Angela was a simple girl, with a simple mind, a mind that didn't allow for supernatural things and this...Sounds were becoming vague, her vision was becoming blurred and she just barely managed to whimper 'Help' before passing out.

A/N : Well, not much romance in this one. Don't worry, it will get more romantic as time goes by. The chapter also doesn't really have much to do with her but again, don't worry. As her execution date gets closer, the chapters will revolve around her, more and more. Please review and let me know what you think.