Chapter 13

Eddward's POV

"Edd" I hear Kevin say in a voice that is not quite his but hits me straight in the heart all the same. I don't even notice the people in the room as I dart toward him wrapping my arms around his waist tightly, resting my head on his shoulder. He slides his arms around my shoulders and rests them on my neck. I didn't realize I was crying until I heard Kevin sniffling, the doctor trying to get him to talk more but I hear his mom say something about leaving us alone. Then the door is closed softly and the only sound that is left is Kevin's sniffles and my heavy breathing. I stay quiet for a while, not wanting to let go, and as I feel Kevin's arms slide down I pull him closer to me, the action hurting my broken rib but I can't let him go.

"Edd, its ok" Kevin says and I try to compose myself but so much of the walls I had put up are gone. And it's all cause of a wrecking ball named Kevin. I let go of his waist but I grab his arms, sliding my hands down his elbows and to his wrist to finally hold his hands. "Why didn't you come sooner?" Kevin says again that voice that is not quite his.

"I thought you couldn't speak?" I ask instead, remembering Eddy saying he had been mute since waking from his coma.

"I couldn't, but I guess now I can." He says and I can hear that his voice isn't used to being used. His voice is quiet, raspy and sounds like it takes a lot of effort to produce. He opens is to speak more but I stop him.

"shhh you need to rest your voice, and your body." I say trying to push him into lying down, but he leans forward instead and kisses me. I pause, stunned, before applying my own pressure. It is sweet, it is simple, but it is breathtaking and heart wrenching. I break first and rest my forehead on his.

"I missed you." He says and I fight the tears that threaten to come out of my eyes. "Are you hurt?" he asks and I smile. Of course he would worry about me. I lift my head up to look at his eyes.

"I am fine Pumpkin. What did the doctors say about you?" I ask instead.

"Stress caused coma, mental stuff caused voice to go away. I'm sure they will have a reason why its back." He rasps back and I nod my head looking away. He leans over and slides his thumb over my cheek, wiping away the tear I didn't notice fall out. "Edd, what's really wrong?" he asks and I forget that he hasn't seen me cry in many years. I shake my head but he pulls my face towards his and we lock eyes. His eyes are pleading at me to tell him.

"We can't be together" I choke out and I watch his head whip back, the hurt look on his face is enough to make me finally be able to look away. I stand up to go but he grasps my hand.

"Why" he croaks out, his voice obviously telling me he is close to crying. I keep my head turned from him.

"This whole thing is my fault and-"

"No it is not! If anything this is my entire fault because I was the one he wanted. If you would have stayed away, if I would not have gotten you involved you would have never even been there in the first place!" he screams out as best he can, his voice giving out a few times. I rip my arm out of his hand folding it into my body.

"if it had not been for me, he would not have bothered to try to take you away, if I could have saved you-" I try but my voice gives out and I fall to my knees, using all my effort to keep from crying, leaving me a shaking whimpering mess.

"Listen to me" Kevin says as he crawls out of the bed and onto the floor with me, wrapping his arms around my shoulders making me face him again. "I am not letting you go. That's right I said you will not leave me do you hear?" Kevin continues and I look at him puzzled is he….bossing me around? "I will not allow you to go all self-pity on me and blame yourself. You are mine Eddward, not in a mine that I will kidnap you or anything, but a mine as in I love you and I refuse to let you hurt yourself because of me. Do you understand? If you want to leave me and never see me again because you hate me that is fine, but under no circumstance are you to leave because you stupidly think it will benefit me, because it won't. I'm not forcing you to stay with me, but I'm not really allowing you to go either." Kevin finishes, his voice sounding more normal the more he talks.

"But-" I try to start but then I feel warm lips against my own. I finally feel the tears cascading down as we kiss but when he tries to pull away I smash my lips back on his, wrapping my own arms around his waist and pulling him close to me. Finally when we let go to breath I look him in the eyes, noting he is crying to. "I won't leave you" I say and he sighs, closing his eyes and chuckling before looking up at me smiling.

"Good. Cause I would hate to have to kidnap you too" he jokes and we start laughing. There is a knock on the door and I help Kevin up onto the bed again before going to open it.

"I hope I am not interrupting anything… I thought I'd let you guys have a few minutes alone." Kevin's mother says and I nod letting her in, but she swings around and hugs me. I look up at Kevin startled and his eyes are huge as saucers, mouth agape. I look back down, sliding my arms awkwardly over her back patting it and then she lets go, dabbing her eyes. "I'm so sorry it's just.. Without you, he could be…" she says and starts sobbing. I feel myself start to panic but then I remember to calm down, I grab her shoulders turning her around.

"He is fine." I say and Kevin gives a cute wave at his mom and she is over there hugging him and crying, like I'm sure I did.

"I am going to go. I will be back soon, Pumpkin. I promise." I say and he looks up at me, nodding.

"I'm holding you to that promise" he says and I smirk, moving closer to hold out my pinky, he looks at me confused before lifting his pinky up to wrap in mine. As I walk away I battle with myself. I resign myself to talking with the little blonde nerd.

Kevin's POV

As I watch Eddward leave my room I feel something hit in the pit of my stomach, giving me a headache. I push my mom away a little bit, holding my head.

"What's wrong baby?" she asks but when I open my mouth to try and speak I can't. It's like it was before, little animal noises are all that comes out and I look at my mom a little panicky. She runs to call the nurse and I sigh. 'What happened to my voice? It was working just fine when…' I feel my eyes go wide and I start to fidget 'Eddward…. When he was here my voice started working… but as soon as he left… no that makes no sense, why would it just stop working after I got it to work?'

After a few more hours and tests, and not getting a hold of Edd, the psychiatrist decided that he believes my trigger is Edd. When he is around I am fine, however because of the stress of the whole situation, when he is gone, my voice goes with him…. Apparently.

Alright so I was trying to make that whole scene with Edd trying to leave romantic… and to me it kinda came off as him being possessive too… that was not my intention. Also, I didn't wanna get into the whole psychological mumbo jumbo so I just kinda summed it down and left it. So yea. Hope you like it. The next chapter is going to be like fast forward through the trial and then back to romance. there ya go!