AN: Thank you to EVERYONE who reviewed, I was so thrilled for all the notifications I got! A bunch of people asked for an epilogue, so I hope this will suffice! Now you have to remember that this is a SAD story, written by ME, so that might give you a clue as to how the ending is going to be...sorry...

Hope you like it anyways! And thanks to all the people who said they cried...hahah :)

But the beeping didn't stop. Sure it got slower, but then after staying at the same pace for two, three, four, five beats it climbed bit by bit to a regular pace. I lifted up my head at looked at Sonny in confusion. Her body was still perfectly still, there was no sound coming from her lips. But when my gaze trailed over her eyes it was met with the deep brown coloring of her irises.

"No," I breathed out, blinking my eyes thinking I was seeing something. But when they opened again she was still looking at me face, with tears streaming down her cheeks. "This can't be-"I couldn't form a complete sentence; my heart was beating around so erratically. So instead I jammed my finger down on the call nurse button attached to the wall.

"Can I help you with something?" The nurse said guardedly entering the room, but when her eyes fell on her patient she gasped. "Oh, my, I…" She turned quickly and called out into the hallway for a doctor. I let my eyes drop back down to Sonny and smiled in bewilderment. Her gaze crossed over me and down and at first I was confused at why she suddenly squeezed her eyes shut and frowned, silently sobbing. That's when I looked to where she had been looking and saw Bryce still quietly sitting in my arms with his blonde eyebrows furrowed deeply. I brought him closer to her, leaning in so that he was looking right at her.

"Bryce, guess who woke up." I said in a choked voice. "Say hi to mommy." Of course he couldn't really, but Sonny looked at him with admiration, and I knew that if she could speak or move in this moment that she would be just as dumbstruck.

I squeezed her hand gently and her pain filled eyes met mine.

"I'm so sorry." I whispered. "I know you're scared." I moved my hand to her cheek and brushed my thumb under her eye to wipe away a tear. "I am too."

"Wow, okay." The doctor said coming into the room at a brisk face and looking just as confused as I was. "This was unexpected." He proceed to check over Sonny, moving her arms and legs, checking her heart beat himself, testing her functions.

"I don't know what to say. This is absolutely a miracle." He said in a bemused voice staring at me and smiling. "She's obviously awake, and responding to noise and vision stimulants, like any other coma patient who's woken up." He shook his head. "I'd assume, although I really can't be certain, that she'll get her mobility and vocal abilities back progressively." I looked down at her and grinned.

"Did you hear that? You're going to be up and helping me chase this guy down in no time."

"Chad! He's headed for the door again!" I shook myself out of my memories, jumped up off the couch and raced into the hall to block off the front door as Bryce came unstably bounding in from the kitchen.

"Nice try," I said scooping him up and taking him back into the room he had just come running in from. "Who thought you to open doors anyways? That was a dumb idea." I said tickling him and settling him into a high chair that he hadn't mastered an escape from yet.

"Don't look at me." Sonny said holding up her hands defensively and slowly walking over to join me in sitting at the kitchen table. She couldn't go fast, or long distances, but she had come so far in the last eight months that she seemed an entirely different person. Just like me. I took her hand in mine and grinned as she sat completely focused on Bryce in his highchair.

"Hey, you still here?" I said softly, and she jumped in surprise as she came back to reality.

"Sorry, I was just…" But I understood, even if she couldn't find the right words to explain it. She still disappeared sometimes, thinking, being confused. It had taken a lot of explaining, and tears to get her caught up with what she had missed. She still got upset that she hadn't been here for his first hour, day, month. That she had left me alone for so long. She blamed herself even though I had told her so many times that it would never be her fault. I met Sonny's eyes and saw they were shining like they do so often.

"Mama!" Bryce shouted banging his hands on the plastic tray of his highchair. Sonny smiled and wiped her eyes quickly.

"That's right, I'm right here." She said smiling; I had made sure that that was the first word he learned.

"Out! Out!" He protested shoving against the tray and growling in frustration.

"Did daddy trap you? Now why would he do that." She cooed reaching forward and tapping his nose while laughing.

"Out!" He shouted again.

"I don't know little man. Are you going to run off again?" I asked skeptically and the little 'mini me' as Sonny said giggled.

"No!"

"Alright, but I'm going to hold you to that then." I said unbuckling him and setting him carefully on his feet on the tiled floor.

"No!" He yelled before darting off again for the hallway.

"Hey!" I laughed standing up and heading after him. I caught up to him in three strides, picking him up and spinning him around.

"No! No!" He said laughing hysterically. I stopped and ruffled his dirty blonde hair lovingly. "Mama!" He shouted as Sonny appeared in the hallway, leaning against the wall and grinning.

"I'm right here baby, I'm right here."

AN: Well? Well? Good enough ending? I did tell you that it was a SAD story written by ME, so really how did you think it was going to end? I can't kill someone off for the life of me (ironic am I right?). Hope it was a good read! Thanks to everyone who read it! Love you guys!

Cheers!

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