As soon as I found out about Posy's awakening, I never gave myself any time for the shout of joy I had been prolonging. But I sprinted out of my office, out of the building, and into my vehicle.

Speeding all the way to the hospital and not stopping at any of the lights (bad idea; but what choice did I have?), I arrived and as soon as I pushed the doors open, there stood my mother.

I reached for her and we met in tender embrace. I could feel her tears of joy leaking through my suit but of course I didn't mind. Unless Aliena was off that day…

Just joking.

Anyways back to the Soap Opera moment. I think that my mother understood the importance of me seeing Posy as soon as possible because she let me go, wiped her tears and told me to go.

And I did. As my mother told me which room she was in, I ran as quickly as my legs could carry me. And when I reached her room, I heard a voice; oh so familiar. I knew it was her but being the idiot I was, am, I opened the door and Johanna and Posy holding hands as she whispered to her. As they both looked up at me, I saw two completely different expressions.

One was the happiest I'd seen in a long time.

And one was a complete mask of mortification.

Guess which one matched with which face?

But at that moment, all I saw was Posy and her big gray eyes staring at me. And it was the best feeling; believe me.

I walked slowly up to the other side of her bed. I knelt down as her small hand became engulfed in my larger ones. I felt like Johanna was about to leave in a matter of seconds, but the iron grip that Posy had on me meant that neither of us was going to go anytime soon.

And that was fine with me.

I got closer to my sister and she beamed at me like there was no tomorrow. I smiled back at her as I wiped her hair out of her forehead. I remember reading an article on Comas the doctor had given my family and I about comas and if the person had woken up the after affects. Posy had only been in one for a few weeks or a month; but no matter, it can really affect the person, especially at this age. My smile never altered.

I looked away. Just for a second and caught Johanna's eyes. She looked very uncomfortable and stood to her feet, but Posy pulled her fragile hand down once more. So as not to let her escape.

She then looked at Posy, almost sadly. "Honey, I have to go now," she said in a voice so gentle, so not-Johanna like that it scared me a bit. I've never seen this side of her before and it was very nice.

Posy turned to her and opened her mouth but an estranged sound came out of her mouth. It was another shock to me. Johanna looked at me with her eyebrows furrowed sadly. She said "The doc said that she has to learn how speak again. Not entirely, but some. She needs to learn how to regain her methods of life again Gale." I was in some shock and Posy looked at me, somewhat ashamed. I shook my head at her releasing my hand from hers and rubbing her cheek.

"It is not your fault sweetheart," I said to her. Johanna stood once more but Posy raised her body up with the strength she had left and said one word to Johanna.

"Stay." Sure it wasn't a sentence or the best way to say the word so we could understand well, but it was a word. And we heard it come out from her mouth. So Johanna placed her bag on the side of the door, hung up her coat, and stayed. Holding her hand.

Posy smiled again and closed her eyes, lying back as well. At first, I freaked out, but I realized that she just needed sleep and I let her. When she fell asleep. It was kind of awkward for Johanna and me, facing echother, giving occasional looks. But she made a promise that she wouldn't leave and I knew she would honor that.

"After you…." She was going to tell me after the kiss but she went around it. "After work. When I left early." She said.

I gave a sigh. "Johanna don't go around this. Don't pretend that I did not kiss you just a few hours ago."

She glared at me. "But you didn't Gale. That's just it; you didn't. Nothing ever happened and nothing ever will."

I stood up and placed my sister's hand gently on her side, as did Johanna.

"Johanna, why can't you accept the fact that…that I love you? Who hurt you so bad that you can't trust; that you can't love?" I asked her walking towards her. But she just backed away from me.

"Snow did! You know that! He locked me into that suite and made me do things that humans shouldn't do! He killed my family and I know he hurt yours!" She said very loudly. She didn't want to wake up Posy or else she definitely would yell. As she said what she did, I tried not to think of the pain my family went through when my father was killed. And the sadness of the rebellion.

"How can you even think of such a thing as this so called 'love' right now Gale? It never lasts anyways, love never lasts!" she finished. She was back against the wall now and I hovered directly in front of her, as close as possible and spit out. "You and I have a lot of things in common Johanna Mason. We both have all of this hate, all of this anger bottled up inside of us. All of this rage towards Snow and the word. And Hell, I haven't been through what you have, but I've suffered enough to know that there is love. And it does actually last. And I happen to know that I really really really like you. I love you. And I don't think that's ever going to change. You can run and you can hide, but it will never change."

She looked nervous; I even felt her trembling as her brown eyes were set into a deadlock with me. "And you know what I think?" to my surprise she shook her head slowly. "I think you scared. That you terrified of this. I know and so does the rest of the world that you can run fast and fight hard and you can even decapitate a person with one swing of an axe. But I think that when it comes to this, you are a complete coward." My lips were less than an inch away from hers. And I took another deadly chance by leaning in.

And another shocker is that she actually kissed me back. My lips moved in sync against hers as my hands moved up and down her back and her hands were implanted in my hair. And after about a minute of this, we finally broke apart. My nose touched hers and my hands touched her face ever so gently.

"How do I know you won't leave me? How do I know that you won't stop loving me?" she whispered.

I smiled and kissed her once more. "You'll just have to trust me."

She smiled sheepishly and nodded. "I trust you…and I love you too." And behind us we heard the faint noise of a little girl giggling.

Gale

Exams are over! Freedom at last! Don't hurt me! Im sorry im sorry im sorry! I hoped you enjoyed the chapter! And please review! Love y'all!

Jozette