In the hallways of the hospital, nurses were quickly pushing through the swinging doors to quickly. They worked as a team to put Mike on a stretcher and push him into in the emergency room. Veruca was trying to catch up to the nurses

"Please,let me go in there with him!", she begged.

"I'm sorry, we can't! The emergency room is where we do some serious medical treatments for people who are badly injured.",explained one of the nurses.

"But, I can't leave him alone!", shouted Veruca rushing alongside them down the hall.

Augustus was trying to catch up. Breathing heavily, he caught up and

stood behind Veruca.

"Veruca, leave the nurses alone! Let them do their job."urged Augustus.

Veruca turned around to him with tears on her cheeks.

"I can't ! What if something bad happens to him?", cried Veruca, voice breaking.

"Nothing bad will happen to him. The nurses are here to help him.",pointed out Augustus.

"No I mean...I can't let him die.",said Veruca in a whisper. She stopped one of the one of the nurses who were leaving.

"Alright,you can be in the room.", agreed the nurse. Veruca hugged the nurse.

"Thank you.",sobbed Veruca.

"Alright, He is stable for now. Lets go.", the head nurse said to the other nurses.

Flashback~( while he was lying there, he wasn't exactly awake or asleep but his mind wandered.)

Another flashback came to Mike's mind, he was a little boy at the chocolate factory. It was the time when he saved Veruca's life in the Chocolate Room.

"Put me down! Put me down!", screeched out Young Veruca. She had pushed Young Mike's face out of hers. Upset that she was mad,Young Mike put her down.Young Veruca looked up at him, huffing and puffing. Young Mike was confused.

"What is your problem? Are you going to say thank you? I saved your life!" scolded Young Mike.

Young Veruca turned around,"I would never say thank you to some problem child like you!"

"Well the only problem child around here is you!",Young Mike was furious.

Young Veruca huffed, "I'm not a problem child ! You weirdo! This is who I am!",Young Veruca turned her back on him.

"Really? Its what you say and how you say it.. behavior.",Young Mike was disgusted by her tone.

Young Veruca lifted one eyebrow from her eye as she turned around to him.

"What-what about my behavior?",said Young Veruca.

"Do you realize your behavior affects other people?",asked Young Mike making Young Veruca calm down a little and think.

"No,it doesn't affect my Mommy and Daddy. My Daddy still loves me for it, my Mommy is some what different but still part of the picture. William,the butler, doesn't care about it. My friend's ,Caroline and Amelia,don't mind it.",outlined Young Veruca.

"I see...but you see how it affects me. Even though you are ungrateful, I saved your life.", said Young Mike.

Young Veruca looks up at him with sad eyes.

"You could've got hurt.",realized Veruca, "Right, wow,I'm so sorry! I was behaving badly to you."

Young Mike smiled at her after she apologized.

"That's better! My name's Mike Teavee.", introduced Young Mike.

"I'm Veruca Salt. It's nice to meet you,Mike Teavee."greeted Young Veruca.

"Nice to meet you too,Veruca.", said Young Mike, "Here."

He reached down to his pocket, right out of it he pulled a lollipop! It was pink like Young Veruca's dress that she wearing.

Young Veruca looks down at the lollipop, then,looked at Young Mike.

"I wasn't going to eat it,anyway. I thought that you could have it.",offered Young Mike.

Young Veruca took the lollipop out of his hand and licked it.

"Delicious.",said Young Veruca. This made Young Mike chuckle.

Young Veruca continued licking it. But out of nowhere, Veruca's Dad jumped out of a bush! He looked mad at Young Mike. Young Mike thought running away. Luckily, Mike's Dad appeared to protect his son.

"Oh,so your the father of this little boy right here?",asked Mr.Salt to make sure he wasnt wrong."

"Yes,I am. Nobody scares my son like that, unless it's me!"challenged Mr.Teavee.

"I see." Mr.Salt as he pushed his daughter away from Mr.Teavee and Young Mike. "Sir,please,let's not fight in front of the children.", pleadedMr.Teavee.

"That's Rupert Salt you're talking to mister! Who ARE you ?", asked Mr.Salt to get the name of Mike's Dad.

"Norman Teavee.", said Mr.Teavee.

"Alright, Norman Teavee.. I want you to tell you this keep your son away from my daughter! She is special to me. With somebody like your son, she'll be damaged."explained Mr.Salt.

"Fine! Come on,Mike,we're going somewhere far away from them!", cheered Mr.Teavee as Young Mike follows his Dad.

"Let's go Veruca! You know we don't talk to baboons like them.", said Mr.Salt. "Right, Right,baboons!"agreed Young Veruca. She pretended to be on her father's side as she follows him as both of the children sadly say goodbye to each other.

Mike's eyes flew open~

Mike gasped, he sat straight up and looked around him.

"Where am I?", he thought.

He looked down to see's that he was wearing no shirt and these bandages appeared on his muscles of his chest. There are two blood options which should not be the on

He continued to look around the room. He spotted Veruca. She ran up to him then hopped on the bed with him to give him a big hug.

"You're alive!"She shouted out! When she hugged him. She started sobbing tears of joy.

"Yeah,I'm fine! Where is Augustus?",asked Mike.

"He's outside of the room! I'm glad your alright.", said Veruca.

"I'm glad,too." said Mike. He hugged her back!

He felt her chest and his chest close together and then they let go.

"Why why did you try to fight him? I could've done it."asked Veruca.

"Because I've saved you once and from that time on , I have always felt responsible for you.", Mike told Veruca, "Listen back at the factory when we were little there was an incident. I didn't realize that I've cared about you since then."

"What!?! No, I think you're losing your mind! I think you need extra treatment." said Veruca.

"No,Veruca! I don't think you understand what am I'm trying to say. ...I love you! I know that I may not be famous like you,or smart as you. But,I do love you and I do care about you.",confessed Mike.

Veruca stood silent.

"I may not be the person you thought you would end up with. I wanna say that I've saved you once a long time ago and, now, I've saved you twice.",explained Mike. Veruca stood and ran into Mike's arms again! Accidentally, they hugged and rolled onto the hospital bed, giggling.

When they both got up to be sitting ,Veruca pressed her lips against Mike's lips. They were kissing! Mike felt shock at first but he decided to kiss back. They both were snuggley on the bed. They were kissing each other for a minute before being done with it. They both relaxed with their heads leaning on the pillows.

"I love you Mike.", said Veruca.

"Love you, too, Veruca.",said Mike.