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Rating: M may be lower but I rated higher just to be safe.

Paring: Jack and Stephen Means male on male no like no read!

Summary: The doc might not live longer then 2 days after he's been shot, but
he doesn't want Jack to know. Well Jack over hears a conversation between
Stephen and Higgins talking about what's wrong with him and how long he has
left. What will Jack do now that Stephen might not make it to the next week
alive? Will he tell Stephen how much he really loves him or keep it a
secret, because he doesn't want to get hurt if Stephen doesn't make it!

Outcomes

Chapter 3:

Jack's pov

Its been 4 hours since we landed on this god forsaken island. Higgins has
been in that stupid white tent for hours! What's taking him so long?! I pace
back and forth for what seems like an eternity before he finally comes out.
"Well?!" I demand of him when he says nothing. He sighed. "I've done the
best I could but there's still a piece of shirt in him. I don't know what's
going to happen now." He said tiredly. This wasn't good enough, not near
good enough.

"You listen to me, I've just got him and I refuse to lose him now. You'll
just have to go back in there and try again." I said and then waited for him
to do as I said. Only he didn't, he just shook his head sadly. "I can not,
too much blood was lost already; anymore and he'll die anyway." He said then
walked a way with a quiet sorry. I wasn't really sure what to do. There was
still a chance right? He'd pull through, he just has too.

I've sat by his side for 2 days now. He's not woken up but he's not died
either. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I don't want him to
suffer then die. Nor do I want him to just die if he might survive. I don't
know what to think anymore. I decided to just go for a walk to clear my
head.

I'm just walking around the island when I see the bird that Stephen wanted
to see so badly. I'd give anything for him to be here beside me watching
this bird walking around. To try and find everything that it does out. To be
the first person to discover it. To just watch it as it goes through its
daily schedule. It's funny how you miss the small things, when you might
lose someone. I sigh and head back up to Stephen.

It's another 3 days before anything happens. It was a relief when his eyes
started to flutter open. I grabbed his hand and called out to him. "Stephen,
can you hear me? How do you feel?" He groaned and turned his head towards
me. He parted his lips as if to say something but no sound came from him. I
called for a glass of water hopping that he was just thirsty. After he drank
some water he looked at me and said he had a dream about us.

Stephen's pov:

!It was so beautiful, you were so beautiful..."

Dream

Where am I? Everything is so cloudy. I see a porch swing ahead of me just
rocking back and forth. Its has a silvery body but the cushion looks almost
as if it was made of clouds. That's impossible, right? There's not much to
do but sit here. I wonder if there's anyone else around here. I wonder if
Jack is here, somehow though I don't think so. If I had to guess I would
think that I was dead or dying at the very least.

It seems almost like an eternity that I have been sitting here. If I'm dying
then I wish I would just hurry up and die already! Well I guess I don't have
much else to do, but really I could have to go out and haunt somebody very
important. Though I don't want to do that; I thought that when you die
you're taken to some huge place where god lives to be judged. What ever
happened to that?!

"It's not your time to die yet."
"Wow who n' the hell said that?!" I demand but get no answer. I look all
around the swing but see no one. Well this is just great; I'm starting to
hear voices! What's next?
"Next you wake up and be with me." I spin around to see who's there and come
face to face with none other than Jack himself!
"I thought I was dead or something." I say none too intelligently.
"Or something, something like a coma. You've been in one for the past 2
weeks. Scaring the hell out of me by the way." Jack said as if this was an
everyday sort a thing.
"I'm in a coma? Shouldn't I be dead?" I ask him quickly as he seems to be
fading.
"No Higgins got most of the shirt pieces out of you, now if you would be so
kind as to wake up!" He shouted and then disappeared as did everything.

End Dream

"Come to think of it you were quite rude about it." I said as an after
thought. I see him laugh and know that I was happy that Higgins didn't just
let me die. After all I love him and he loves me so who am I to just go and
die before anything can bloom out of this love? I laugh and pull him down
for a kiss.

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