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Where to go from here? How do you continue something when deep down you know how it's gonna end? What's the point? The window was starting to frost over as her breath misted up the portal to Jake's frail body. There was nothing she could do, she knew that. But Jake was like a brother…Mel smiled. That couldn't be right, or the way she felt about Tim would be very, very disgusting. Jake would have laughed at that and told her to think of him as a distant cousin if it let her sleep at night.

He was always joking, usually anyway, unless it came to his father. But that was only one part; she had to remind herself, one part that made him frown when all the others made him laugh.

She felt someone come up behind her and turn to lean against the glass. She tried to say something but the words got caught on their way up.

"Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough." Tim murmured suddenly philosophical. Mel had to smile a ghost of a smile.

"I…I'm going…to get a drink," she said, Tim nodded not bothering to say that she didn't need to tell him.

Cathy walked up to him as he watched Mel leave, "admit it," she said slowly as though she was thinking through her words very carefully. "You love Mel Price."

Tim smiled, "There are as many forms of love, as there are moments in time."

Cathy smiled, "I suppose so."

Mel refused the 75 calls from Mike that day, instead she stayed with Tim and Jules as even Cathy in all her stubbornness left to seek a rest. The next morning all three of them thoroughly regretted the surely the hospital seats can't be that bad theory they had worked on the night before. Jules left to find some breakfast as Mel and Tim sat there on the floor staring up at the bed and the frail body lying in it.

"Do you really think that he'll wake up?" Tim asked letting his vulnerability show through, he'd hidden it from his sister.

Mel looked up at Jake, his hand falling over the side of the bed. "He has too," she whispered. "Who else is there to fight with your Dad?"

Tim chuckled, "He'd kill you for saying that," he warned her.

"Well, I'd better get it all said and done very quickly then hadn't I."

They spent the next half hour insulting Jake to his face, and then laughing when they thought of his reaction.

That was how Jules found them later when she brought in MacDonald's for all of them. Tim and Mel spent the rest of the morning trying to explain to Jules why they were insulting her unconscious brother.

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