(REED)

I found myself once again floating suspended in darkness, but this was different, there was no light to penetrate it, no Thomas, no Josh, just an empty expanse of never ending darkness. It was so quiet, I couldn't hear my own breathing... but then a voice broke through the darkness "Reed." it was hitched, broken, like a sob. "Wake up... please, wake up" I tried, I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't feel them, it wasn't like I was numb, It was just this... absence, like I simply didn't exist. But I did exist... didn't I?

How did I get here? Then I remember, the letter opener, and... blood, my blood, and Noelle. I tried to sit up, to open my eyes, to coax some response out of my body, but I just lay there, I couldn't feel what I was lying on, for all I knew I was hanging from the ceiling by my ankles. Noelle... Josh... I need him.. I hear his voice, still whispering my name, but I can't open my eyes, I can't feel anything, it's so terrifying.

I just feel so alone, all there is is his voice.

(Josh)

I spent the whole day in the hospital, holding her limp hand.

It was disturbing, seeing her like that, with all those wires in her arms, the tubes in her throat. She was so still, she hardly even breathed, it was like she was... dead. Her eyes never fluttered, like they had when she fitfully seeping after Sabine's shot, instead they remained closed. Her skin had turned from a beautiful pale honey, to gray, like ashes, like death. When I held her hand it was like a hand molded of snow, she was so cold. When I placed a kiss on her still lips, trying to spark some kind of reaction, she just lay there, totally unresponsive, when I whispered to her, when I cried over her, she wasn't there, physically she was, but her beautiful body was ravaged her back had holes punched in it like a time card, her skin was punctured by IVs and needles, her but even if hair was oily and tangled. But even if she looked perfect like she usually did, she wasn't here, it was like standing over a dead body, physically there, but the spirit was gone. Her laugh her voice, her animated expressions, and stubbornness , everything that made Reed, Reed, was gone. And her expression, the one frozen on her still beautiful face, was one of pain, not peace. But it never changed, like her muscles were set that way. It was like torture watching her lie there, in so much pain, and so oblivious to me, to hoow much I loved her. "I love you Reed, I need you. Please come back." I whispered. She just lay there unresponsively.

I woke up hours later, I hadn't realized I'd fallen asleep, I suddenly realized my head was against her heart... and it wasn't beating. "Doctor!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed pressing the assistance button, "Doctor!!!!!!!!!" I screamed running down the hall. The tired doctor with the salt and pepper hair hurried towards me "What's wrong what is it?" "her hearts no beating!!!" I shouted! "Okay, go get help, I'll do what I can." he called, running toward Reed's room. I nodded, running down the hall. "HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, at the top of my lungs. "don't be too late please" I whispered softly.

After I'd rounded up several nurses and paramedics, people who I was confused by, I dragged them into her room without any explanation. I stood at the back while they worked, frantically pounding on her chest, "Clear!" I heard a guy shout. Someone pushed me out of the room. So I ran to the waiting room. Noelle was sitting in the chair shaking, her eyes were blank and terrified, and there were tears all over her face. "Reed..." she kept whispering. I looked around the room, Noelle had been the only one who came everyday, now most of Easton was here again. Gage even Dominique Infante was there, as well as all of Billings. They all looked terrified, even Amberly looked concerned. "what happened" some of them asked me. "her... heart stopped." I felt tears welling in my eyes. "i don't know if she's going to live." I always managed to choke. They always looked at me with so much sympathy, some of them hug me or touch my arm, but it's the wrong touch, the wrong hug.

We waited out there for hours. Until a tired grim doctor with a brown buzz cut entered the room. He walked right over to me. "I'm so sorry." he murmured...

OOOOHHHH suspenseful Eh????so just to inform you, this isn't the last chapter, but it's coming to a close. Anywhoo, I actually did some work on the rest, I know what's going to happen already for once. LOL, please Review even if you hated my story passionately, I want to know your opinion. =D