Ok, I know, I'm horrible neglecting the story for so long, but I'm back! Please don't shoot me! I'm gonna try for fast updates but I don't think it's gonna happen :S I am sooooo sorry for how short it was, but I promise it wasn't cause I was lazy. I just had to have this separate.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Ooh! This has nothing to do with disclaiming anything, but Tim Minchin is amazing!!
Anyways...

"Howard!!" Vince shot from his sleep, close to tears, having been sure that his boyfriend was stood in that room, and was smiling at him, stroking his face and pulling his hair back. He looked wildly to each part of the dingy little room Annie had called his 'flat'.

"Howard" He croaked again, and wearily got out of bed, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. It wasn't fair he decided, to be in a coma when Howard had gone missing. Ok, so maybe he wasn't that bright, he admitted it, but he was sure he would be able to solve it. Howard had always complimented him on his ability to work things out. It was just common sense he didn't have much of. He smiled slightly as he remembered all of the things Howard said about him. It was never mean about him. They'd never even had a fight. Well, they'd had arguments obviously, but they'd always been together. Two halves of the same coin. Sighing, he grabbed a cup from the side and poured what looked like whisky into it.

"Vince" Vince jumped in fright and turned towards the television where he was sure a voice had just issued from. He squeaked some more as it persisted,

"Vince," He gasped in shock as he clearly heard Howard's voice from it, "What have they done to you eh? Don't worry sweetheart, I've come in every day to make sure your hair is exactly how you like it" it ended with a sob, but continued, "They said that you've got low brain activity. Well we always knew that eh?" He said, attempting a joke. Then Vince was horrified as it sounded like Howard just completely broke down, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I know you can hear me Vince, so I want to make you happy." He sobbed, "I love you so much. I'm fine, they caught the guy who killed all those women and found me. Can you belive he lived next door to Rhaymes when he was small? Anyway, I just want you to know that whatever anyone else is saying, I don't think you tried to commit suicide Vince. That's not you. You'd be strong through all of this. You'd be the sunshine kid, nothing would get you down."

Vince thought hard, elated that Howard was fine, a bit pissed off that everyone thought he had tried to kill himself, but determined to make Howard proud. He'd stay calm and happy through it all. He'd be bouncy and smile, maybe annoy the 'Guv' just by being too happy. He jumped when he heard Howard again,

"Vince, if- No. When you wake up, I'm going to... I, I love you, and I had a huge speech ready, but then... I, oh fuck it. Vince, will you marry me?"

Vince dropped the cup he had been holding, and ran to the telly,

"Yes!!! Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes!!! Oh god Howard, yes! I'll marry you!" He screamed in a girlish way and put his hands to his mouth as tears fell down his face, "Howard?" He asked tentatively, after hearing no reply from the set, "Howard!!"

"I know I'm not supposed to unless you accept, but I'm going to put the ring on you now. So when you wake up, it'll be like a surprise" He finished with what seemed like another sob, and Vince looked down at his hand, wondering what the ring looked like, "I'm not allowed to stay any longer my angel, so I'll come and see you later. I love you" With that, silence fell in the flat and Vince stared at the TV in shock.

"No, no no, Howard! No Howard please help me!" He sobbed and screamed at the telly, "Please Howard come get me! Take me home, I don't want to be here anymore! Please Howard! Pl..."

He curled up into a ball at the foot of the telly and started sobbing weakly.

Again, soooooooooooo sorry for it being so short, but hopefully you'll all understand why I had that separate. If not: I didn't really want to go from all that angsty fluff/ tears/ romance (I hope anyways lol) straight into the whole smarmy Gene Jeanie, catching villains and what not. But don't worry, I'll update soon (Fingers crossed)
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