Darkness...that's all she could see...that's all she could remember. She had some sort of sharp pain running throughout her body and it killed like mad. She felt so tired, almost as if she had been running a marathon in the heels that she really hated wearing, give her trainers any day of the week. With all her pain and the lack of energy she had all she wanted to do was sleep, to lay back her head, close her eyes, and sleep and sleep.

"She's not responding!" She heard someone shout, that got her attention. There was a lot of other voices all mixed in which confused her but they all suddenly fell very quiet. She looked around her to try and find out what the hell was going on. That's when she was able to make out the faint image of a hospital bed. Four doctors and a nurse surrounded one patient, her. There was Jake too, he stood in the corner of the room looking completely distraught. she wanted to each out to him, to tell him she was ok, she was fine...but she couldn't.

"It's like she's given up fighting..." A man said. "Come back to us Kate..."

"What do you mean I've given up fighting!" She cried but no one could hear her. "I'm here! I'm Alive!"

"don't you dare die on me..." She heard someone mumble, she was confused at first how she had even heard it with the noise that everyone else was making but then she realized. It was Jake who had said it, the one person who's voice at that point she really wanted to hear. "I love you Kate don't you dare die..." He was mumbling to himself but she heard him clearly.

"I'm still here Jake..." She whispered "Please...please don't stop trying to save me..."

"Clear!" Someone shouted and another pain ran through her body pulling her out of her own subconscious.

She coughed. She felt like she had swallowed a ton of dust that had been stuck to a window sill for five decades.

"She's breathing!" The same man exclaimed.

Kate struggled to sit up as the Doctors held her back down on the bed. She tried to fight them, she was scared. She wanted to move but they wouldn't let her.

"is she ok?" She heard a familiar voice desperately ask.

"Jake!" She coughed her eyes half open and closed. her voice was trembling as she said his name.

"Kate!" he shoved past one of the doctors so he could get beside her. He took her hand, he could tell by the way she had called out for him that she was scared.

"Mr Thorne we need to move Kate into another room, will you please wait in the waiting room while we stitch the wound on her head, you can see her soon..."

As much as Jake didn't want to leave her he knew he didn't have much choice on that matter so he slowly let go of her hand and followed a nurse out.

As Jake sat in the waiting room he was still shaking like mad, well could anyone blame him? He had no idea who was responsible for this, yeah he was angry when they destroyed his house but trying to kill Kate made him want to actually murder whoever did this and he would get away with it because he knew how. Kate would've laughed at that...that hurt him, she wasn't with him she was in a room somewhere on her own. What if she stopped breathing again? When they said she had stopped fighting he thought that was it, that he'd lost her forever.

He thought he'd never get to tell her...tell her how much he loved her...

'Kate's Going to be fine...' he told himself but that didn't stop him worrying. Someone had tried to kill her and it must be something to do with this Brinley Cole case, how he wasn't sure of. Was it some criminal they'd sent down or tried to who wanted revenge? Who had they really annoyed lately? other than each other...

He was going to find whoever did this. They'd tried to take away all he ever loved and he...he couldn't bare that. Was this what Brinley was warning him about?

His thoughts were interrupted by a doctor "Mr Thorne...you can see her now..."

Jake almost jumped straight of his chair but seeing as he hadn't physically jumped since PE he controlled himself and followed the doctor to Kate's room.

"Hey..." Jake said quietly as he sat beside her.

"Hey..." She replied; she sounded almost as fragile as she looked. Kate thought about what happened when she unconscious, had Jake meant what he said? He'd never actually told her before...nor had she him...they had never been god at that feeling lark.

"How are you?"

"Tired...I ache like everywhere...and feel like I've swallowed a hoover bag..." She groaned rubbing her forehead.

"That will be smoke inhalation...wasn't that bad for me but you were in there longer than i was..." He explained.

"Why were you there? How did you know?"

"I came home to find my place had been trashed, then i looked on one of the walls and someone, whoever did this, had wrote that you were next..."

"And you went into a burning building? For me?" She questioned.

He nodded "Well yeah, I wasn't going to leave you was i? I'd been board out of my mind if i didn't have you at the CPS making everything complicated for me..." she smiled "There was a moment back there were i thought...I thought you were dead..."

She shook her head and took his hand "Still alive from what i can tell Jake..." she smiled. "and if it's all the same to you i plan on staying that way for a while."

"Yeah...I'd prefer that too..." he nodded; he was not going to lose her again, he couldn't lose her again.

"Jake..." she started.

"Yeah?"

"can you find out when the hell I'm getting out of here?"

Jake laughed; there was the Kate he knew and loved...

"Soon I hope but you did almost die..." he reasoned.

"Details Details..." She smirked.

He rolled his eyes, if she had her way she'd be back to work before it got light...

AN: please review as always :) I also wondered where you lot reading wanted Kate and Jake's relationship to go? Because yes I have an idea but i wondered what you thought lol :) thanks for reading x Beth