"I don't know if I can do this Michael, she looks pretty bad." Stella says burying her head into his neck.

"You can Stell, just remember she is covered by a lot of bandages so she isn't as bad as she really is under all that, and the machines are all to help her, you know she would get a lot better if she knew you were here, sit down and hold her hand, talk to her, they say the more you talk to a patient in her condition the more likely they are to respond and wake up, and like I said I am here, I will be every step of the way okay." He says soothingly rubbing her back and leading her to the chair next to the bed and making her sit down in it.

Taking a deep breath while really taking in the sight of Shannon, Stella grabs her hand and holds it tightly.

"Do you mind giving me a few minutes with her?" Stella asks.

"Yeah sure." Michael says before bending down to Shannon's ear and whispering "Stella wants to talk to you, make you a deal, if you wake up then I will stop being so annoying during shifts so get better soon okay." And he gives her a kiss on the head before walking out.

"Hey Shannon, well your being a soft cock right now just lying there sleeping making us all worried for no reason, you know if it was me I would just suck it up and wake up already, but I guess that's what makes us different yeah, I thought you were just as tough as me and tougher then the boys, so how bout you open those eyes for me yeah." Stella says giving her hand a squeeze and hoping she would open her eyes. After waiting for a couple of minutes and seeing she was getting no reaction she lets out a sigh.

"Okay so clearly you know me too well and it didn't work, so I am just going to say this, please wake up soon okay, we are all struggling to process this and deal with it, I really need you to wake up and not just for Josh and Lawson who are taking this the hardest, and also not just for the team, but I need you to wake up for me okay, your my best friend, I never had that with Grace, you're like the older sister I never had, so please Shannon pull through for me, I don't think I could cope if you didn't okay." Stella says resting her head on the bed and starting to cry.

"Gracie, what am I going to do, Lawson is really struggling, he loves Shannon so much and he hasn't told her yet, kind of reminds me of how you and I were but we were obviously more complicated than them, I don't think I could handle another loss of a team member, none of us can, but I don't think I can cope, I know your probably thinking it's because of my history with Shannon, but after we ended things we still stayed close friends, well even better than that, she is like a sister to me and I can't protect her from this, I can't help her and I feel so helpless." Josh says staring at the grave.

"If you're listening to me Gracie and I am sure you are, can you try and put in a good word up there for Shannon so she can pull through, and if you see her up there while she hangs in the balance you tell her to fight okay, not to give up, I know I don't seem like the kind of guy who believes in all that stuff but I have changed, and I guess desperate times call for desperate measures." He says and sits there in silence for a few minutes.

"Well thanks for listening Gracie, I will try and stay strong for everyone and myself ok." Josh says giving a kiss to her gravestone before walking off to his car feeling slightly better for getting stuff of his chest.

"Hey Stella." Michael says walking into the room and finding Stella asleep on the bed.

Crouching down he softly taps Stella awake.

"Wake up sleepy head." Michael says.

"Sorry I must have dozed off accidently." She says rubbing the sleep from her eyes and looking at Shannon.

"We better go, we need to take Lawson home, you can see her tomorrow okay." Michael says.

"He must be worried that I took so long." Stella says getting up.

"Nah, I told him you wanted some time alone, he seemed okay." Michael says leading her away from the bed before they hear a monitor go off.

Turning around they see nurses already working on her and yelling for a doctor to be paged.

As soon as a doctor comes in they are forced outside the room.

"Oh god Michael, is she going to be okay?" Stella says crying.

"She will be fine; it's probably just a false alarm." Michael says.

"What are we going to tell Lawson?" Stella asks.

"Let me deal with Lawson okay, she will be fine, you will see." He says trying to hide his concern.

"If you're sure you can deal with Lawson, I'm going to the chapel." She says.

"Yeah, I will get you once we know what happened." He says giving her a kiss on the forehead before they head separate ways.

"Michael where's Stella?" Lawson asks as he sees Michael with a sombre look on his face.

"She is at the chapel, Lawson I need to tell you something, it's about Shannon." Michael says and Lawson sits there waiting for an explanation.

"There looks like there was a complication, we don't know what happened, we got kicked out but there were sirens going off from the equipment and the room went into chaos." Michael says and see's Lawson put his face in his hands.