Such a short chapter, and tomorrow I will hopefully finish the story.

Thank you for your applications! I really find it hard to choose between things, and even harder between real people. So I decided I would try something new - my new stories are going to be edited by different people.

And I actually decided I would continue the story Neverending as a place where I post one shots that someone ( or maybe me one day ) can turn in to a new story. And also short stories of Ana and Christian in different times, places, situations..

Oh, that's for the future! :)

"Are you stupid?" Kate asked as she walked into now only Christian's office.

"What do you need?"

"How could you do this to her? She is carrying your baby!"

"See, Kate, I wonder how she did not tell you that it was just a part of her plan to get the job."

"What are you talking about?" Kate asked, not believing him.

"I went to her apartment yesterday. I found her sleeping with an empty bottle of wine and holding a notebook that's open on a page where she has written that she would do anything to get this job. Lie. Seduce me. Do anything."

"Are you fucking stupid? I was with her to make her feel better after you rejected her! I drank the wine; she didn't even take a sip. She is pregnant and she would not have taken the job anyway. She wrote her letter of resignation yesterday." Kate explained, leaving Christian shocked.

If she... Then he really had been a jerk. He needed to apologize. He needed to make things right between them.

But she didn't answer her phone. Not the first time he called, nor on the twentieth time.

He thought that maybe she just didn't want to talk to him, so he went to Kate's desk to ask her to call Ana.

But Kate was rushing somewhere, looking upset.

"Kate!" He shouted before she could get in the elevator.

"Christian, not now..."

"What's happened?"

Kate shook her head, but then decided to tell him. "Ana's in the hospital."

"I said we can't tell you anything now, you have to wait for the doctor." The nurse told him but how could he just sit there and wait for that doctor to appear? Maybe he would never get the chance to tell her that he had been so wrong and so stupid.

And that he... That he loved her.

Why did he have to be so stupid? She was that wonderful woman he had fallen in love with in Rome. She was even better than he thought.

But he had been that idiot she had called him before she left. He felt like the biggest idiot in the world. Would she ever forgive him? Would they ever be able to talk like normal people with each other? Did he stand a chance asking her to be in a relationship with him?

All his thoughts flew away as he saw the doctor approaching them.

"Anastasia Steele?" He asked him and Kate as he came to them.

"How is she?"

"Alive." The doctor said, sighing.

"What do you mean with alive? How is she? And the baby?" Christian raised his voice at the doctor.

What if... what if she had lost the baby? No, he couldn't think like that.

"They both are doing okay."

"Then can we see her?"

"The thing is, Miss Steele is in a coma. We put her in a medically induced coma to allow her time to heal. Her condition is stable, now we just need to wait for her to wake up. You can see her though, let me show you to her room."

Christian and Kate followed the doctor to the hospital room. When he saw Ana there, she looked like she was sleeping, with her eyes closed, with a few visible bruises on her face.

"Ana..." He went to her bedside and took her hand in his, kissing it. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for being such an idiot. Ana..."

"When will she wake up?" Kate asked the doctor while Christian was still at Ana's bed.

"We don't know. We can hope for in the next few days."

He had insisted Kate go home and get some sleep because he needed her here tomorrow.

He stayed at Ana's side all night long, holding her hand and whispering to her how much he regretted everything he had done.

How much he would give if she just woke up okay and happy.

Asking if she could forgive him for his horrible behavior.

He didn't want to waste any time. He couldn't stay here and listen to her heartbeat and watch her sleep.

He needed to be ready for her to wake up. He needed to be ready to finally open up his true feelings for her.

That's why the next evening he left the USA to put his plan in motion.

He would have her once again. And they would never be parted from now on.