Hours passed as the five anxious friends paced the hospital waiting room. Andre sat leaned up against a wall, twiddling his thumbs and pretending to play a guitar, anything to distract him from Jade. Tori was laying down using Andre's leg as a pillow, fighting back her exhaustion, hoping a doctor would come out any second, but they never came. Robbie was sitting next to Cat, fidgeting with his glasses, polishing them again and again. Cat sat on one of the hard chairs, her legs curled to her chest and her arms around her knees. She stared at her chipped pink nail polish, wishing she could fix it, and wishing the doctors could fix Jade. Beck just sat alone. He stared at the white and green striped wall. He looked dead, and he didn't feel much better. So he sat there, still as a statue, waiting.
They were all waiting. Patience grew thin as the time drew on, and day turned to night. Finally the doctor gave them the okay to see Jade, but warned them she wouldn't be awake. The group somberly filed in. Each of them said something to Jade's motionless unresponsive body. It all made Beck want to scream, it felt like they were at a funeral. He ran his hands through his hair and blinked rapidly holding back tears. The hours continued to pass. Robbie and Tori left first, then Andre, then eventually Cat. They all loved Jade, but school didn't disappear when you're friend was in the hospital. Beck stayed though. School be damned, he wouldn't leave Jade for all the money in the world. So every day and every night, Beck was there. He spoke to her, he held her hand. Andre drove everyone after school to come visit her unmoving body, and after two days of this depressing routine, Beck felt sick.
Jade didn't remember much of anything. She slowly came back into consciousness, one small step at a time. She started to hear little noises around her: a constant, irritating beeping, a far away television show, sometimes a hushed conversation. But she couldn't comprehend what the noises were, so she just lay there and listened. Next she started to get the feeling back in her body. She could feel herself lying down, on a hard mattress with a lumpy pillow. She could also feel pain and, after hearing some louder beeping and some panicked voices, she started losing feeling again. It stayed like that for a while. When the awakening started creeping back into her, she again felt herself lying in bed. This time though, there was less pain. It was an incredible feeling to not have an excruciating stabbing in the back of your head.
Jade started to put everything together now that she was able. Bed…beeping…that must mean hospital! But how could she be in a hospital? She wondered. That meant she wasn't on the island anymore. Someone had saved them? Jade struggled to think back into the past. She found her memories growing more and more cloudy trying to remember more and more recent things. She could remember that horrific island, but she didn't recall ever leaving it. What if this wasn't even a hospital then, what if she was dreaming? Jade was getting frustrated inside her own little world. It stayed dark and her eyes remained closed, out of her control.
She was ready to slip away again when she heard it.
A voice.
Beck's voice.
"Jade, baby, can you hear me?" He asked, but there was no hope in his voice. It was like a routine now, he felt as though he was reciting lines from a script. He hated asking her every day, just to get a cold, hard nothing in response, just to look at her perfect face, frozen in peaceful looking sleep. He pushed passed the heavy silence and continued. "Jade…"
Then he stopped. He took her cold hand and held it in his own. He brought it to his lips and pressed them to it, inhaling her scent and just feeling her skin against his. Time passed without Beck moving, but he didn't notice. He was snapped back to reality when a tear rolled down his cheek, and he realized he was crying.
"Please Jade just, just open your eyes baby. Just let me know you're going to be okay. I know you will be, you have to be. You…just…I love you Jade."
Jade's heart broke when she heard him. Never before had she heard Beck sound so...defeated. Sure, Beck usually was chill, he didn't get overly emotional about little things. But this was so different. He sounded dead. Like someone had taken him and sucked the life out with a vacuum cleaner, leaving the empty shell to suffer. She tried to open her eyes. She begged her eyelids to move, but she had no control. Come on Jade! She screamed at herself, wanting nothing more than to reassure Beck. After all, he was the reason she was even alive right now. He had always taken care of her, and now when he needed her to do something as simple as opening her eyes, she couldn't. She could feel her hand still snugly held in his big, warm one. It was so comforting, why couldn't she comfort him?
She felt him getting up from the edge of her bed, and his hand started to release hers. Jade let out a tiny whimper and gave Beck's fingers the weakest squeeze. It was a mystery; she didn't know how she had done it. All she knew is she wanted Beck there with her, and suddenly she could move. Jade could hear Beck's excited words of encouragement.
"Come on Jade, you can do it, just open your eyes, do it for me!"
And finally, she could see! She blinked a few times at the harsh white lights, and then looked at Beck. His face was pure happiness and love.
"Jade!" He cried joyfully, and he leaned in to enclose her in his arms. "How do you feel? Do you need anything? I'm so happy you woke up!"
Jade let out a small laugh at his enthusiasm. She was glad she woke up too! The pain in her head was nearly nonexistent.
"No Beck, I feel fine." He looked at her skeptically. "I promise!" She added truthfully.
"Should I call the nurse?" He asked, unsure of what to do when your girlfriend woke up from three days of unconsciousness. She had been sedated for treatment of her infection when they first arrived. Then the doctors had shaven an "itty bitty" amount of hair, the smallest amount possible, as per Cat's request. It was probably for their own safety too, because if Jade woke up with a huge bald spot, there would be hell to pay. She had gotten stitches, but she had stayed unconscious for the next two days. The gang knew this wasn't normal, but the doctors didn't want to freak them out probably, and so no one had brought up the topic of comas out loud. But everyone was thinking it. This is why Beck couldn't stop smiling. Jade, his beautiful Jade had woken up, safe and sound. He now believed in miracles, and he couldn't believe he was lucky enough to be dating one.
"No, I swear to God the last thing I want is some random person I don't even know asking me thousands of questions and stabbing me with more needles." Jade said, bitterly gesturing to the array of IVs currently in her arms. Beck sighed but agreed not to call the nurse. He didn't want to upset Jade, and she was certainly acting like her normal self.
"Where is everyone?" Jade asked curiously, snuggling into Beck's arms as he was now laying on her small hospital bed. Not that she minded being alone with Beck, but she wanted to make sure Cat wasn't freaking out, and thank Andre for everything he had done for her.
"They're at school babe." Beck said, as though it was obvious. "It's seven on a Thursday morning." He explained.
"Well why aren't you in school, you little ditcher? Seriously you are absent all the time, you should go." She said. Jade truly wanted him to stay with her and never leave. She could've laid in his arms forever, she finally felt like she was home. But she felt guilty he was missing school again. Between this, the island, him always getting sick, and random trips to Canada, he was probably going to have to take summer school.
"Jade, are you kidding? You just woke up, no way in hell am I leaving for school of all things!"
"But what if you miss something important? Or something you need to know?" Jade asked. She was kind of a nerd she had to admit, and she hated missing school.
"It's worth it. And besides, I love you and you love me. That's all I will ever need to know." Beck said, staring deep into her eyes, suddenly serious. Jade melted under his gaze, and they both leaned in at the same time. Their lips met and Jade's heart monitor started beeping wildly. They pulled away and Jade blushed. Beck just smiled and kissed her again softly and lovingly. The beeping continued to go crazy, and Jade's IVs got tangled with Beck's hair as she reached up to weave her fingers through it. But no matter how cheesy and embarrassing it was, for the first time in a long time, they wouldn't have changed a thing.
A/N: And there ya go...a totally lame ending that probably couldve been awesome! I SUCK AT ENDINGS! oh well..i mean..it was a happy ending yayyy! Anyways, i tried to give you guys some bade in here! i wish they were together in the show again:( But seriously thank you everyone who reviews this story, it means so so so much! Im so glad people like my writing and im sorry if this ending was like..ew:/. Please tell me what you think! Either way I hope you enjoyed the story:)!xoxo
