A/N: I know, I know! There is no excuse for my lack of updating. I'm sorry to have made you all wait. My bad. My reasons will be explained at the end of the chapter.

P.S. I'm sorry if this chappie sucks.

Here We Go Again

Just when you thought that things can't get any worse, they do. One second Jake is half asleep, thinking of Sam, the next he's being awoken by a very loud and seemingly never ending beep. Really annoying to someone that was trying to sleep.

Jake sat up in his chair and looked around for what was making the offending sound. From what he could tell, it was coming from the direction of where Sam was. As he turned his head in the direction of Sam's bed, he heard people rushing through the door to Sam's room.

Jake looked over to see what all the commotion was, and he was greeted by the sight of at least five nurses rushing through the door. They all went directly to Sam's bed, which is when Jake noticed that it was one of her monitors that was making the awful noise. Her heart monitor to be precise.

Before Jake could really register what was happening, Wyatt rushed through the door with Brynna following closely following. They both had expressions that Jake was sure mirrored his. "What the hell happened?" Wyatt asked, looking directly at Jake.

"I don't know," Jake replied while shaking his head in disbelief.

"How do you not know," Wyatt practically screamed at him. "You were here! You were supposed to be watching her!"

Brynna put a hand on Wyatt's arm, trying to soothe him.

Before Jake could begin to say anything in his defense, one of the older nurses with a motherly face approached them. "Alright, now I'll be having none of that. Go on, shoo! Both of you, git."

Both Jake and Wyatt had the decency to look abashed for their behavior in Sam's hospital room as they were being unceremoniously kicked out.

Once in the hallway Jake turned to Wyatt and he looked like he was about to shoot someone. Before Jake could run away to save his life, Brynna stepped in and saved for him. "Now, Wyatt, why don't you reserve judgment until after he's told you what happened," Brynna said calmly.

Jake nodded at her in thanks before beginning his story, or rather, lack of story.

Wyatt listened calmly to Jake's retelling of how he had dozed off and had been awoken by the sound of Sam's heart monitor go off. Much to Jake's relief, he seemed to calm down after hearing the story.

"I'm sorry I went off on you in there, Jake. I guess I'm just a little stressed," he said quietly.

"I understand. Nothing to worry about."

They were all standing in tense silence for about a minute before they heard Sam's monitor begin to beep in tune with each beat of her heart again. Both men sighed in relief and silently thanked God for saving her.

After the nurses had finished making sure that Sam was stable and checking her BP they were allowed back into the room.

They each grabbed a chair by her bed and just sat there in silence. It felt like it had been hours, when it had in fact probably been twenty minutes or so, until the silence was broken.

Jake was so accustomed to the silence that when Wyatt stood up with an outburst of "That's it!" he nearly fell on the floor because he jumped so bad.

"What exactly is that supposed to mean, Wyatt?" asked Brynna, irritated by her husbands sudden outburst of insanity. "We can't read your mind, you know."

Jake just sat and stared as Wyatt began pacing the length of the room.

"What I mean is that as soon as Sam wakes up, I'm sending her back to live with her aunt. She's safer there then she is here."

Jake just sat there in astonishment for a few moments. He was, to put it simply, flabbergasted by what Wyatt had said.

"Are you on crack?" he asked while leaping up from his chair. "You can't send her away again!"

"I can and I will," Wyatt replied angrily, ignoring the crack comment.

"Wyatt, let's think about this for a bit before making a rash decision," Brynna said soothingly.

"I don't need to think about it, Brynna. She can't stay here if she is going to continually be put in harms way. I will not allow it!"

Jake clenched his fist tightly at his sides, trying to curb the urge to smack some sense into him. "No, Wyatt, you cannot send her away. I will not allow it."

"You have no right-"

"I have every right! Just shut up and think for a minute about how Sam will feel if you send her away again!" Jake's outburst surprised Wyatt into silence.

"What do you mean, Jake?" asked Brynna.

"I mean that if you send her away she will hate you forever," Jake stated. " Think about it. You're pregnant right now, and I'm sure that Sam is ecstatic about that fact, but if she's sent away….. It'll look like you love that baby more than you love her. She'll feel like she's being replaced. It'll look like you guys just wanted get rid of her so you could start a family with children that are biologically both of yours."

About halfway through Jake's speech, Wyatt sat down in his chair and buried his head in his hands.

"But that isn't true! Not in the least," Brynna exclaimed. "Would she really think that about us?"

"Yes, she would, because that is exactly how it would look," Jake said seriously. "In all seriousness, if you guys sent her away again, she wouldn't be coming back. You will have lost her forever. Do you see now why you can't send her away?"

At first Jake thought that Wyatt had fallen asleep and hadn't heard a single word that he said. But slowly he lifted his head. "Yes," he said, his voice filled with barely masked anguish, " I understand. I won't send her away."

Jake sighed in relief and sat down heavily.

Great, Jake thought in relief, that's one mission accomplished. Now all Sam needs to do is come back to the land of the living.

Then, as if by some miracle his prayer was heard and answered using the MIRACLES-FOR-YOU express, Sam twitched her finger.

At first Jake thought that he was simply seeing things. Then, not even two minutes later, her finger twitched a second and then a third time. All that went through Jake's mind was, Holy shit!

A/N 2: Ok, so, I know that it really has been forever since my last update and for that I am truly sorry. As for my excuse, well, here it goes:

I'm a senior in High school which basically means that I have little to no time to do anything, and when I have the time, I don't have the energy. Lately it's been a little more stressful than it usually is.

So, between school (only 2 weeks until graduation), and having the guy that I'm basically in love with, and have been for a while, tell me that we're only ever gonna be friends and that even then our friendship is strained, I'm a mess.

It also doesn't help that me and my best friend have been growing apart and I feel like I can't talk to her about things anymore.

Anyway, that's enough about my crappy life.

Please, please, PLEASE review. They really do make my happy and I could use some of that right about now.