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He felt Penelope's tense body, "What's wrong?" He saw her look up at him, "C'mon, what's worrying that beautiful mind of yours?"

Penelope smiled meekly, "You have a really bad head injury."

"Yeah?" Derek enquired.

Looking into his eyes she felt her tears finally burn at his eyes over the matter. "The doctors don't know what brain damage occurred." She looked down, away from his eyes as she felt herself weaken more. "What if you wake up and you don't remember this like I did? Like I do?" She asked and her head shot up, her eyes latching onto his, "What if you don't remember me?"

"Baby..."

Penelope's tears poured down her cheeks, "I can't live with just a memory if you don't remember me, Handsome. I can't, that will kill me. Literally kill me."

Derek captured her face in his hands and just looked at her, his gentle glare looking straight into her heart broken glare. "There is no way I can forget this, forget you." He saw her eyes cast their doubt, "I know I have no control of it, but I can't believe that fate would be so cruel. It can't be, not after everything."

"Reality is cruel though," Penelope dropped in, "It's so full of pain and weariness and so many uncertainties." She finally began to share what reality held, she looked down at their hands. "They all wanted me to somehow, miraculously, bring you back, Derek," She finally looked up, "Words weren't working, so I had to do something damaging to my health to help you get to go back."

Derek's features filtered the shock then, "Please don't tell me there's repercussions for you, Baby Girl."

Penelope couldn't look at him. She had no idea what she was doing, she begged and pleaded with the doctor, threatened to erase him with a couple of clicks of her computer, threatened to discharge herself. She tried everything under the sun to get him to okay the operation and it had worked. There were so many consequences she was wreaking on her already fragile body.

"No, no don't tell me you didn't think first," He said as he stood up and began to walk away from her, his hands flying to his head, "I can't believe you would do something so stupid like that!"

Penelope stood up then, trying to search her mind for words and reasons and excuses. "Derek! I did it for you. I couldn't live there without you anymore. It was so God damn lonely!"

Derek turned back then, "So you put your health on the line?" He asked her angrily, "You put your life on the line for me?"

"I just needed you," She broke down before his eyes. "I needed you back with me, where I could feel you and hear you and I know why I did it." She paused for a moment, "Because I'm selfish and I would rather be here with you than face what was waiting there another day."

Derek watched her as she began to sob in front of him, her entire body caving to the courage she had struck up around her; he watched her break down little by little. He could see that the weight of the situations had all weighted themselves unfairly on her shoulders.

"I would give my life a hundred times over and more to be your hero. Even if just once." She finally said as she calmed and looked back up at him. "You do not know what it is like having everyone tip toe around you and expect miracles when all you want to do is cave and give to whatever drugs because the physical pain is excruciating. You do not know what the want feels like to crave drugs to help you get away from the feeling of your heart continually breaking and if all I have to do is give a piece of my liver to you to stop that pain in my heart then I would do it over and over again. Regardless of what I had to go through physically."

Derek stepped back towards her, putting his hands to her face, "You don't have to put your life on the line for me."

Penelope nodded, "Yes I do," she replied softly, "No one else was the option, it was me. The only way I can face the damage back there is if I know you'll be there with me because whenever you're around my life is so much easier to tolerate. I can take each new day as it comes then. Without you Handsome, there's no purpose to carrying on, to being optimistic."

"You better come back with me..." He suggested sternly at hearing that admittance.

"Just open your eyes and I'll be there," She said as she moved to kiss his hand. "Promise."

They stood there then, wrapped in each other's bodies, holding one another closely. It was then Penelope took a real notice of their surroundings, took in that the sea breeze, and the waves crashed onto the shore and they were back by their pool side, all transported within in the blink of an eye.

"Being at the beach when I got back," Penelope started and looked up, "Why there? How come I knew to find you there?"

"I've been there a lot since you've gone," He told her as he hugged her, "I needed to be close to you and there was it."

Penelope smiled suddenly calmer than she had felt for days.

Neither had noticed that the weather had darkened then, that the moment of angst had brought about a storm, had remedied up rain and lightening and when Penelope looked up into Derek's eyes she saw a familiar look that she remembered feeling. The tiredness, the weariness, the weakening of every muscle.

Derek was being pulled back and she had never been happier.

He noticed the look in her eyes, "It's happening isn't it?" Penelope just nodded and moved in to kiss him, not in just a bid of love but also to stop her tears from the battle they were burning on her lashes.

Kissing her, he did it like it was the first and last time, full with emotion and unasked questions, filled with adoration and power and courage. They kissed as the rain continued to slip free from their clouds and soaked them and their surroundings.

Pulling away slightly Derek put his forehead to hers. His body at its absolute weakest. The entire world around him shutting down bit by bit.

And the last words he heard before he slipped into a complete oblivion?

"Just go with the feeling, Handsome, I'll be there soon."

Penelope held air then; Derek became one with the rain and puddled at her feet, the pain crippling her as she sunk to her knees in utter desolation.

Derek was safe now, back in reality.

Her plan had worked. She had saved him.

She just forgot to save her heart from the momentary pain that cascaded every fibre of her being.

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Seen the change watching it fade

Holding my breath feeling it fail

Working hard wondering why

Can't fix it now so why even try

We've run out of time

It's over I'm over this life, I'm running dry

I'm out of here out of your life

It's a good day for resurrection

It's a good time to break the connection

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Song: The Wanted - A Good Day for Love to Die