Chapter 4 – Intensive Care

Z sat by the bed of Sky for the whole week everyday – every hour, only being dragged away by ranger duties, but she would always come back. She would sit there holding the unconscious hand of Sky. Talking to him

"They said you would have woken up by now" said Z holding his hand up to her cheek where a single tear ran, watching Sky's chest move up and down but with no life in his face.

Syd, Bridge and Jack often came to see Sky too and often found Z crying, this time when they came in she was asleep with her head on the bed.

"Don't you think we should put her to bed, she has hardly had any slepp at all , she stays here all night, she hasn't come back since it happened, she really does like him doesn't she." said Syd

"Yeah, I've never seen her so happy, but now I want to see her that happy again." replied Jack "I'll take her back to her room"

Jack went over to Z, picked her up and took her back to her room, she didn't wake up on the way there because she was so tired. Jack returned and sat down at Sky's bed and got a report from Kat.

"It's not that serious, the hit on the head knocked him unconscious, everything is normal, Sky just isn't waking up" said Kat in her normal 'everything is fine' way

Syd changed the flowers in the vase on Sky's bedside table and put a few more 'get well soon' cards on the table from cadets around SPD base who knew Sky. One card stood out it was their card to Sky, there was a picture on the front which was taken at Christmas where they all made Sky into a snow man, in the middle was the ice man Sky and Jack, Syd, Bridge and Z sat around the edge with their thumbs up! Syd sat back down everything was going well.

Suddenly the machines that Sky was hooked up to started to beep…

"What's happening?" asked Bridge

It's Sky were loosing him.

"NO!" shouted the cadets who moved away so all the doctors could get there

Syd started crying holding her hands up to her face and Jack and Bridge stood giving each other nervous and concerned looks.

"And Clear" came a voice of one of the doctors

"Bridge, go get Z she needs to be here" said Jack

"Got it" came the voice of Bridge running down the corridor

"Once More" came the voice of the doctor again

The machine then started to beep normally. Kat cam over to Syd and Jack

"it's ok now" said Kat with a smile on her face

"Thank you" said Syd wiping her tears away.

Z came running into the room and went and sat on the chair next to the bed. She picked up his hand, kissed it and said

" I will never leave you again, I promise" At that moment she started to cry again

Jack, Syd and Bridge decided to leave Z alone with Sky

The lights got turned off after all it was now 10:00 and all you could see was Z crying on the edge of Sky's bed.