All hell had broken loose after the attack on Angela. Wharton had been put in the restraint room and Angela had been taken to the hospital but much to Brutal's frustration there wasn't much he could do to Percy.

"Where is Angela now?" Edgecomb asked as he and Brutal sat at the office desk.

"Where do you think, Paul?" Brutal asked, exasperated "She's in the hospital"

"Where's Wharton?" Edgecomb asked.

"In the restraint room" Brutal ground out through clenched teeth "And you better make sure he stays there"

"You know we can't keep him there for much longer" Edgecomb said, throwing Brutal a worried glance "Think you can control yourself enough to not kill him, or Percy"

Brutal abruptly got to his feet and looked down at Edgecomb.

"Keep both of them out of my way" Brutal said in a low voice "And it wont have to come to that"

Brutal walked off, leaving Edgecomb staring after him. Edgecomb sighed and ran a hand over his face, it had been a terrible day on The Green Mile and while he didn't doubt that Angela would recover from this particular incident, her execution date was drawing near, and there would be no healing her after that.

He was worried for Brutal, if he got so upset that Angela got hurt, what would the big man do after Angela was executed?. Would he lose it?. Edgecomb sighed again, he had no answers, only questions. He supposed he would just have to be there for his friend.

That very same day, John Coffey healed the wife of the warden, keeping the bugs inside of him rather than spewing them out. He would spew them out later, straight into Percy, who would go insane and kill Wild Bill Wharton. Angela experiences none of it as she was still in the hospital, but the consequences would affect her. Wharton was dead and Percy was locked up in a mental ward so she would at least be rid of both of them for the remaining days before her execution.

July 5, 1939

Angela was brought back to her cell about halfway through the day, after being dismissed from the hospital. She frowned when she saw that Wharton's cell was empty.

"What happened?" Angela asked Coffey softly.

"Boss Percy went mad. He shoot Wild Billy dead" Coffey said just as softly.

Angela sat down on her bunk, letting Coffey's words sink in. Wharton was dead. She supposed that should make her feel good, but it didn't. Even after all he had done, she couldn't feel glad that he was dead. She forcefully pushed the thoughts away and instead thought of something more pleasant. Her Brutal. He and Boss Stanton had picked her up from the hospital and had taken her back to The Green Mile.

While she was less than pleased about having to go back to the Mile, she was more than thrilled to be near Brutal again. And if the smile on his face, as he passed her cell while doing a cell check, was any indication, he was happy too. Angela smiled as she settled back on her bunk.

Later that night, while John Coffey was watching his 'flicker-show' as a final request before his execution the next day, Paul Edgecomb went to see Angela in her cell, neither knew that Brutal was listening nearby.

"Angela, how are you feeling?" Edgecomb asked.

"Okay, I guess" Angela said "I don't think the reality of being so close to death has sunk in yet"

Edgecomb slowly nodded, waiting for her to continue.

"We all die at some point" Angela continued "I just didn't think I'd die aged 23"

"I don't think any of us expect to die before we're good and old" Edgecomb said.

Now it was Angela's turn to nod "I guess so. But I can't help but think my situation is slightly different to that of other people"

And Edgecomb couldn't disagree with that.

"Some people spend all their time making sure justice prevails" Angela suddenly said "I'm going to be executed for a crime I didn't commit in two days time, where's the justice in that?"

"I don't know" Edgecomb whispered "I don't know what to tell you, except I am so sorry that this is happening"

"I know you are" Angela said, smiling slightly "I just wish…"

"What?" Edgecombs asked, softly.

"Nothing" Angela said, looking down "It doesn't matter, it's too late now"

"Tell me, Angel" Edgecomb said.

Angela smiled as she heard him call her Angel.

"I…I just wish I had told Brutal how I truly feel about him" she said "Alot has happened these past two weeks, I think he knows I care, but I don't think he knows...that I'm falling in love with him"

Brutal's eyes widened at this, and his heart pounded loudly in his chest. She felt the same, it was hopeless, it was insane, but she felt the same. Edgecomb almost smiled when he heard this confession. Brutal had told him about his feelings for the small young woman, and Edgecomb really did feel bad that all this had to happen.