My words shocked me once they registered. Dan. I wanted them to call Dan, I had called him my friend. I placed a hand over my face and breathed out a heavy sigh. It seemed I had done too much in too short a time. My head swam from the movement I had just been doing and I closed my eyes hoping to stop the thudding that had started. My plan backfired as the world around me vanished. The darkness that had had me trapped turning into a void that gave way beneath me.

I couldn't scream nor did I want to. I simply let myself fall plummeting down through the floor I hadn't known was there. I let myself fall thinking this was the decent into the afterlife. If there was such a thing, I was more than a sceptic when it came to faith. Light was starting to filter into the corners of me eyes. I was sure this was the portal to the afterlife. I was sure until the sound started to reach my ears.

I could hear a siren type of noise fill my ears and ringing through my head. I screwed my eyes closed at the light and the pain that ran through me. What was happening? Was I waking up? I could feel something on my arm and it throbbed painfully.

"Shun?" I heard a voice I had heard just a few minutes before but it was clearer this time and louder. I could now tell it was a female voice. I opened my eye just a fraction and light poured into it, stinging my head and making me cringe.

"Y-yea" was all I could say before the pain got too much. I turned my head away and tried to raise a hand but it hurt far too much to do that.

"Thank god, I was afraid you had slipped beyond the limit. That you were beyond resuscitation." I tried to open my eyes to look at the woman and ask what she meant. Beyond resuscitation? What did she mean; I had just spoken to her?

"W-what a-are you...t-talking ab-about? I j-just spoke to you?" I asked trying to clear it up for me.

"No, you didn't Shun, you slipped back into unconsciousness and your heart stopped. I've been trying to revive you for the past twenty minutes" my eyes widened greatly at that and I stared up at her, shocked.

"W-what?" I asked, I had died? No, that couldn't be right; I couldn't have died.

"You technically died Shun, I've contacted your friend and he's meeting us at the hospital, just try to stay still, I don't know what internal injuries you have and it could have dire consequences if you move too much." Her words made me freeze, I wasn't going to move now. I should have just gone home. I shouldn't have done that job. Who cares if I got a few extra quid for it I shouldn't have done it.

I closed my eyes breathing a heavy sigh of disbelief. I couldn't believe how messed up things had got. I felt a hand on my shoulder and opened my tired eyes once more.

"Just relax Shun, I know this is a lot to take in, just try to relax and get some rest." I nodded closing my eyes and letting myself be taken in by sleep.

I could hear the sound of wheels against polished floor and opened my eyes momentarily and stared at the lights flashing overhead. I wasn't sure if it was the lights passing over head or if they were flashing off and on. I couldn't see clearly from the fog of sleep and the injury to my head I surely received from the car. I moved my eyes up towards the people by my head. I could hear them talking but their words made no sense.

Something about intensive care and intubating him; what did they mean? I stared at them with questioning eyes silently asking them what had happened. What was going on? They didn't notice, instead just talking to each other as I was wheeled through a pair of double doors. I could hear the swinging of the doors as we passed and wanted to reach out to stop them. The simple swinging was making my head explode.

I groaned out in pain as I tried to turn on whatever I was laying on. I couldn't though. I felt like I was strapped down. It seemed they finally noticed I was awake and they looked down at me.

"Shun, stay still. We're taking you to intensive care. Your friend is waiting in there for you." The words were supposed to be reassuring but they just caused me to feel panicked. I was going to see Dan; he was going to be there. He was going to see the state I was in. My eyes started to feel like lead weights were being hung from them, I was far too weak to say anything to them. I'd just have to try and sleep through my meeting with Dan.

Before I knew any better I was pulled into sleeps snare, my world going black.

A distant beeping sounded in my head, it was almost like a melody, playing at precise intervals. I opened my eyes the smallest of fractions, the simple movement took all the energy I had. Using nothing but will power and curiosity I managed to pull my eyes open most of the way.

I couldn't see around, everything was blurred it was almost like looking through water. I could see pale colours and a warped figure. I stared at it, focusing as much as I could on the brown and a light beige mixed in with it below. As I focused the detail on the object came clearer into view.

Once the figure was in clear view I almost wished I had stayed in my sleep. Dan. He had noticed I was awake, he was stood at the foot of the bed tapping his fingers on his upper thighs in a nervous fashion. I stared at him unable to breathe; it was only then that I noticed the oxygen mask.

"Hey Shun"

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