We got into Alex's room. So many machines was hocked up to him.

Elyse stroked his hair gently.

"Oh Steven, what will we do?" She asked him.

He didn't answer and just put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

I just tried to study his beautiful familiar face after all these years and all I wanted is to see the eyes I've missed so much open again.

Chapter 6

-Ellen P.O.V-

It's been two days since Alex was brought to the hospital. Mallory, Nick, Jennifer and Andy was in New York by now. Elyse and Steven bought them all plane tickets.

I offered them my apartment to stay in for a while they are here but they found the keys to Alex's apartment so all of them could sleep there. After all, it's way bigger than mine.

It was noon and I rushed to the hospital. Mallory called me and said Alex finally woke up this morning.

Oh my god. What am I going to say to him? Will he even want to see me. It's been so long.

I got out of the cub and ran inside.

"Hey Silvia." I passed in front of her.

"Hey Ellen, good luck." She said smiling.

"Thanks." I smiled too.

I arrived to the room and stood in front of the door. I couldn't move. My heart beat fast. Suddenly the door was open.

"Hey."

"Hey Mallory." She went out of the room and closed the door behind her.

"What's up?" she smiled.

"Is he awake?"

"Yeah. But we haven't told him about you yet. We decided to surprise him."

"Oh." I said.

"Do you want to get in?"

"Umm, yeah I do. I just can't figure out what to say to him."

"Come on Ellen, he's going to be so happy just to see you. Just wait here for a sec ok?"

"Yep." I said and she got back inside.

-Alex's P.O.V-

I woke up this morning. The pain woke me up.

At first, I couldn't even open my eyes. The right side of my upper body was burning.

'I am burning up'. That's what I thought.

No, I'm not. It's a different pain. I don't know what it is but it sure feels shitty. I grunted.

Suddenly I heard noises. They were familiar but I couldn't understand what they were saying.

"Whaaat..?" I tried to say. My voice sounded so husky.

"Alex!" I heard so many voices screams at me at the same time with excitement.

I opened my eyes. I looked around me and saw the faces of my family surrounding me.

"How are you feeling?" My dad asked me. I never heard him like this before. He sounded so worried.

"What…? What are you doing here?" I was so confused.

"Honey, you were shot two days ago. You were out until now." My mom stroked my hair like she used to do when I was a little kid.

"Yeah, way to go Alex. We heard you tried to be a ninja." Jen said.

"Shot?!" My voice broke. A sharp pain want through my chest and then everything went back to me again. The same pain, a morning two days ago. The robbery.

"Uhhh." I grabbed my right side.

"Honey, honey! Lay down will you?!"

"It hurts so much mom." Tears were threatening to come out of my eyes. I couldn't take this pain. It was so bad. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe deeply. It was hard for me.

"I will call the doctor." I heard Nick's voice. I never thought I will be glad to hear him.

The doctor and Nick came back a few minutes later.

"Alex, I see you are awake." The doctor said.

"Yeah."

"I'm doctor Macgyver. How are you feeling?"

"Never been better." I barely said.

"Alex, I'm afraid your lung is damaged because of the previous events. You may feel difficulty breathing by yourself and feel tired." I had a hard time concentrating on his words.

"Doctor Macgyver, he's in real great pain." My mom said.

I guess I looked miserable or my mom's look scared him because the next thing he did was giving me some morphine to relieve the pain.

It felt so much better when it kicked in and I fell asleep soon after.

The next time I woke up, I was still a little drugged so I didn't feel the pain so much.

"Good morning big brother." I heard Mallory.

"Hey Mal." I said. "Where is everybody?"

"They went to grab something to eat. You should eat something too by the way."

"Naa… I'm not hungry."

"Alex, you haven't eaten for almost three days."

"Maybe later." I said.

"Let me at least get you something to drink." She said.

"You won't give me a break huh?"

"Nop." She smiled. I saw in her eyes that she was very concerned.

"Fine. Water."

"Ok. Don't do anything stupid while I'm gone." She said and went out of the room, closing the door after her.

I sigh. It all felt so surreal.

Few minutes after that Mallory was back.

"Where is my water?" I asked.

"I have something better."

"Mal, please, I am really not hungry." I said.

"It's not food Alex. I have a surprise for you." She smiled the biggest smile.

"What is it?" I smiled too. "What are you smiling about?"

"There is someone that really wants to see you."

"Who?" I tried to get to a sitting position as better as I could without causing pain. It didn't work so well so I got stuck somewhere in the middle between lying and sitting which was comfortable enough.

"Are you ready?" She was always so irritating.

"Come on Malory." I started to lose my patience.

"Ok." She opened the door.

The last person on earth I expected to see just walked in.

To be continued…