"C'mon" he grabs her hand and pulls her back, towards the back door. She observes as they go by Howard and Charlene Cooper, who are shooting out the window, and then by Karakurt tied to a chair screaming for a gun, offering to help, and Tom shooting outside the other window. He looks back and sees them as they run, and screams.

"Go! I'll cover for you" his eyes are understanding as they cross hers, and she is scared, she doesn't know what to do as she looks forward and sees Ressler running with his head down, gun in one and and the other holding hers tightly. She runs right after him, gripping her gun on the other hand and looking around as they cross the back door and run to the trees, entering the woods.

They don't know where to go, they just go, and she hears screams behind her. What about the people in the house? How could she leave them? She nearly falls to the floor when he pulls her forward, slowing down to let her pass to be in front of him, and lets go of her hand, pushing her by the waist as he returns to run, signaling her to run ahead of him.

"Ressler!" she screams as she sees him turn around to shoot at the men approaching them, and she turns and runs towards the trees, no direction, just running, not looking back but hearing him and his gun behind her, certain that he is still behind her.

She looks back and sees that he's running after her, he's coming closer, so she looks forward and keeps on running until she hears shots again, and slows down to turn again, when she sees him running backwards towards an opening, a cliff.

"Ressler! no!" she screams, but she's far, he can't hear her, so she runs back towards him as she sees him turning around to realize he's about to fall.

She is able to reach him as he falls and grabs his hand. He's heavy, and she can't see behind her, can't see if someone is approaching, but she doesn't care. she focus all her efforts in holding him, trying to pull him up.

"Let go, Liz" he says, and she wants to slap him for suggesting.

"No!" she screams, closing her eyes because of the effort, she can feel his hand slipping.

"Let me go, Liz! they are coming!"

"I'm not letting you go, Ressler" she drops her gun beside her and uses her other hand to try to bring him back, but it's too much.

"It's not high, look. I'll survive!" She looks down and sees that he's lying. it's high, and there are rocks on the bottom. She can let him go.

"No!" she screams, and she feels someone pulling her by the shoulders, it's strong, she can't fight back without letting him go. She feels his fingers slip through hers and she is pulled back and he falls. She can't see it, she needs to fight whoever is holding her.

She shakes her legs and struggles against the hold and is able to throw a punch on the face of the person on her left, who lets her go so she's able to put her feet down and turn over to her right, punching the other man who's holding her. They start to fight, and they are strong, they hit her and it hurts, she feels her breathing falter as they hit her in the stomach, and she bends down, when she hears gunshots, and the men around her are down on the floor.

She looks over her shoulder and sees Dembe approaching, followed by Reddington, both holding guns. Red pulls her up and hugs her.

"It's over, Lizzie, c'mon" She starts to cry, holding him close, her tears wetting his shirt. Then, she remembers.

"Ressler" she lets go of Red and goes to the cliff, she can see him lying there unconscious. She lets out a scream of panic, he's dead, he's not moving, no, no. "Ressler!" she fights the hands that are trying to pull her away from the cliff. It's Red again.

"Hey, hey! We'll get him, stop, don't worry. Let them get him" she sees two big men, firemen but they are not wearing their uniforms. Probably firemen protected by Red doing him a favor. Both these men and Dembe work with ropes and one of them goes down the cliff while paramedics run with a stretcher to the edge, waiting for them to climb back with Ressler.

She sees when the man comes back with his lifeless body, and looks away, burying her head on Red's chest as he consoles her. They put Ressler on the stretcher and the paramedics start working on him.

"There's a pulse. He's alive!" she hears a man shouts, and breathes in, relieved. They pass by them with the stretcher, and Red talks to them.

"Take him to the factory. Mr. Kaplan already arranged everything." She knows he wouldn't take him to a real hospital.

"No! take him to a hospital! Red!"

"Don't worry, Lizzy. It's safer this way. Kaplan already arranged the place, it's like when I was shot, remember?" She watches as the stretcher goes away around the house, and Red presses a hand on her back, trying to lead her back into the place. She goes unwillingly, climbing the stairs slowly and entering the house.

She is relieved to see the people she left behind are alive and well inside. Tom rushes and hugs her. She hugs him back, but she is weak and numb. She lets go of him and turns to Red.

"Where are they taking him?" she asks, nervous.

"There's an abandoned factory near here, Lizzie, we turned it into a hospital, they have all the resources there. He'll be alright. Calm down."

"Calm down? How can you ask me to calm down? You didn't see him fall, it wasn't you who let him go, let him fall!" she was screaming, she was crying, and she was shaking. She felt hands hold her as Tom tried to quiet her.

"Shh, Liz, it's ok. He's ok"

"You don't know that!" she struggled out of his arms, and turned around.

"I want to go there." she says, and Red looks at her, annoyed.

"Lizzy, it's..."

"Now!" she interrupts him, and he puffs.

"Dembe, please, take Lizzy to Donald, please. Be careful, there might be more of them out there, and we don't know where Solomon is. Just be careful not to take him there." he looks at her, trying to make her understand that was the reason he didn't want to go there right now. They could lead the enemy right to him. She didn't mind, and looked back at him, stern.

"C'mon, Elizabeth" Dembe called, and she ran outside to the car, not looking back.

When they arrive at the factory, she can see there is a makeshift OR in the center of the big space, an area covered with plastic walls where doctors were working. Mr. Kaplan shows up out of nowhere and stops her with a hand on her chest.

"This is how far you can go, girl." the woman says, looking at her sternly.

"How is he?" she whispers, hands to her chest, worried.

"He hit his head. it's not good. They need to open it to let the blood flow out, he has a concussion. He also broke his arm and probably a rib."

"Oh, God!" Liz sobs, and feels as Dembe puts his hands on her arms.

"You can wait there" Kaplan points to a small room, probably an administration's office before, now turned into a hospital room. She walks in there with Dembe, turning to look over her shoulders, but she can't see him.

It takes almost 6 hours for them to bring him, and when they enter the room with him and transfer him to the bed, she only observes as they attach him to the machines. They finally move over, and she runs to him. He has a cast on his arm and bandages around his head.

"He's in a coma. He broke his arm but his rib is fine. We are more worried about his concussion. He hit his head but it didn't open, so we had to do this. It's still not safe." the doctor told her, and she listened attentively, holding his hand. When the man left the room and they were alone, she turned to him, bending over his body to speak to him.

"Ressler? can you hear me, Ress?"

She wants to believe what they say, that people in a coma can hear you, but she is out of hope as he doesn't react. She puts a hand on his face, grazing her fingers on his freckles, his ginger eyelids. She feels so scared.

She remembers when he arrested her, the pain in his eyes as he pinned her against the floor and begged her to stop fighting back.

"You wouldn't" she had said, as he pointed his gun at her.

"I would, you know I would" he said, but she knew deep inside he wouldn't. It was protocol, use your gun if a suspect fights back, you are allowed to shoot. But he wouldn't shoot her. She stops fighting anyway, she doesn't want to give him reason. She cries as he reads her rights, and turns her over to put his handcuffs around her wrists. He doesn't tighten them, it's not uncomfortable. He helps her up and leads her back to where the police cars are, his hand holding on the cuffs, but his thumb grazing her hand. She can feel him, and it hurts her. She looks over her shoulder and finds him eyes, looking forward, serious, objective. He's got his FBI face on, but when he looks back at her, his eyes soften, and he's her Ress again, her friend, her partner. She wants to turn and hug him, it's been so long since she last saw him, but she can't hug him, her arms are tied. He looks forward again and puts her into his car. not a police car, his car. He's the one taking her. A policeman asks him, but he pushes them away, says that she doesn't leave his sight. He climbs into his SUV and doesn't look at her.

"I'll take care of you. I'll keep you safe" he said, and repeated all the way as he never left her alone while she was filed and then put inside Red's box. She was so rude to him, so cold. She was sorry now, leaning against his uncounscious body.

When the Cabal invaded the post office and held him back, she could see the despair in his eyes as he couldn't move, Solomon holding his arms as he fought to go to her, and she was losing her conscience, locked inside the box. They had blocked the air inside, she was suffocating, The Director right outside, looking at her. Then she could breath again, she stood up as the box opened, Aram had managed to overload the system, reboot whatever they had done. She didn't know what would be of her friend, but he had freed her. She punched the director, who was trying to grab her, and saw as Ressler fought Solomon, knocking him down. They turned to each other and didn't think twice, running to each other until there was no room between them, an overdue hug of forgiveness, of peace. They broke apart and ran together out of the building, and then she used his phone to call Red, who told them to go to the cabin where the Coopers and Tom were.

Now they were here, another battle over, but the war still going on. She was afraid they would enter at any minute, shoot him, kill her, but all she could do was lean over him, take care of him as he remained unconscious.

"Please, Ress, wake up! come back to me, please" she cried, caressing his face, touching his closed eyes with her thumb, then his cheek, then his lips. His full lips once full of color now pale, she grazed her thumb on them and then, without thinking, leaned over and kissed them. It made her cry, as she realized what it was she was feeling. She was scared, she was desperate because she loved him.

She pulled back and saw that her tears were falling on his face, so she dried them with her thumb and buried her face on his chest, crying, begging him to wake up.

He moves a little, and she feels it under her. She looks up, touching his face, but nothing else happens.

"Donald, please, come back to me, please!" She cries, and her tears fall on his face again. She is sobbing, but feels him move again, his eyelids are trembling, his eyebrows furrowing.

"C'mon, Don, please, you can do it!" he starts to mumble, and she holds his neck, scratching him a little with her nails, excited. He's waking up. "he's waking up!" she screams to whoever is outside, and she hears Dembe puts his head into he room, and then moves away to call the doctors.

Ressler is mumbling something, she can't understand what, but he's moving, his eyes are fighting to open. She approaches her ear to his lips, trying to understand what he's saying, when his voice finally comes clear.

"I love you, Elizabeth Keen" she hears, and pulls away from him as his eyes open, slowly, and look at her, confused.

He looks around, taking in his space, and then looks at her, and she can't breathe, she is static, still trying to take in what she heard.

"Liz? What. What did I say? What...?"

"You...you said my name. You..." she stammers.

She's scared. Did he mean that? Was he saying things? She pulls back and sees as he is struggling to reach her, so she grabs his hand beside him.

"What did I say, Liz?" he asks again, and she hears the people coming into the room, asking her to move away, so she stands up and let go of his hand, letting the doctors and nurses approach him.

"What did I say?" he asks again, and she replies, finally.

"You said..." she tries to go back to him, it is important, if he meant that, it was important to tell him she felt it too. A nurse takes her away and puts herself between them.

"Miss, you need to step out of the room, please" and pushes her away, she turns around still looking at him as the nurse leads her outside, and then closes the door.

She remains looking at the closed door, and whispers. "I love you, too." As she realizes there are people around her. Red is there, and he puts his arms around her, pulling her to his embrace.

A/N - Ok, I love this, really. I know I shouldn't be so conceited, but this is good, you guys! I wish something like this happened on the show. tell me what you think. I don't know if I should keep on writing, I like it the way it is, both their POV's, his fantasy and then we see the reality with her, i feel I should leave it like this.