Chapter 4.

Blake arrived at the hospital at 10 am on Thursday morning; she had agreed to help Lynne by coming to visit Penn on a daily basis. Lynne had spending all her days at the hospital and Blake knew she needed a break, and since Blake had a lot of time on her hands, what with Ryan being away she was more than happy to help. She knew Ryan would be mad to know she'd been spending all her days caring for her ex in hospital, but honestly Blake couldn't care less, especially since Ryan had been so ignorant of her feelings lately.

This time when she walked into his room, Blake smiled a little. Not because she was glad to see him like that, but because she had this weird feeling he'd be waking up in the next few days and even though she knew once that happened her role in his life would probably become non-existent again she would be so happy and relieved that he was okay.

This time, instead of sitting down in the chair next to him, Blake glided towards the window and stared out into the outside world. The sun was shining and the birds were chirping; which was unusual since it was almost October and most New York days would be filled with rain and dark clouds.

"Nice day today, Penn". It was strange talking to someone who was in a coma, they couldn't respond, but you talked to them anyway, to keep them company, to relax them.

Blake turned her head and looked over at her bag that she had lumped on the floor next to the bed. She pulled out her iPod and headphones and sat on the chair next to Penn.

"You wanna know a secret?" She whispered, getting a little too close to his face.

"Apparently it's good to play people music when they're, you know...in situations like yours". Blake's subtle smirk had turned a little lopsided by the end of her sentence, but she shook it off and continued with her plan.

"So...I brought you something!" She said excitedly, and beamed as she looked up at him, knowing he'd be excited too if he knew what was going on. Blake gently placed each headphone in his ears and grabbed the iPod from his lap. She scrolled through the list of music, till she reached the playlist she'd set up the day before: 'For Penn'.

Before she started the first song she turned the music down so it wouldn't be too loud, she didn't like the idea of blasting music in his ears, she didn't think it could have a very good effect on someone in a coma. After altering the sound level she tapped play to the first song on the playlist 'How Does It Feel'. Even though the song was playing pretty quietly she could hear the slow beats of the song and she hummed to the music. When Blake began to sing along, it surprised her when she remembered all the words. "If you want me to baby, only if you want me to"...

"Hey! I'm home!" Blake waltzed into the lounge and found Penn lying on the sofa listening to some of his favourite music as it echoed around the spacious room.

"Hey!" Penn grinned, smiling up at his girlfriend. "You're back!" She beamed as she walked over to the sofa and perched on the foot stall facing Penn.

"If you didn't have your music on so loud you would've heard me tell you that!" Blake cheekily giggled at him and he just smirked in return.

"So how was your day?" Blake smiled over at him, just looking at him made her feel so happy.

"Good, but I missed you" Penn grabbed her hands and kissed them repeatedly. Why was he so sweet? She asked herself.

"I missed you too."

"One question though." Blake gazed at him inquisitively. "What the hell are you doing all the way over there?"

He gripped at her waist and pulled her towards him so she was lying on his side. Blake giggled as she snuggled into his side putting her head on his chest. After a few minutes of silence they both began to sing a-long, Blake was a terrible singer but Penn didn't care. In fact he loved her voice, they always had so much fun laughing, and singing together.

"How does it feeeeeeel?" they both shouted simultaneously.

"How does it feeeeellll?" they repeated. When the song ended they just looked into each other's eyes and smiled at each other like two idiots in love.

At the end of the 4th song Blake gently tugged the headphones out of his ears and put her IPod back in her bag. Slowly she gazed back up at him, she knew he couldn't respond to anything around him but she really, really wished maybe he could just do something to show he heard. Without warning she glided her hand over his and locked their fingers together.

"Hey. If you can hear me just move one of your fingers, okay?" She glanced back up at his face as her eyes explored it, hopeful she would feel movement in her hands.

"Please, Penn. Just show me you know I'm here, okay?" Her voice became a little wobbly at the end, with a slight sound of desperation in her voice. She continued looking at him for what felt like the longest minute of her life, but when she realised he wasn't going to move she released her hands from his as a tiny tear drop fell. "Never mind" she smiled sadly, trying to forget it had ever happened.

Blake continued to visit Penn on a daily basis throughout the week; she'd even bought him a card for when he woke up.

Once she returned home after a long day at the hospital she collapsed onto the couch, it had been such a draining week and she was getting so tired. Blake decided to make herself some coffee to stay awake, it was only 6:30 and she didn't exactly want to take a nap that late in the day. A few hours later she heard a key in the door, she jumped at the noise and turned to face the door putting her coffee down on the table next to her. A few seconds later the door swung open and there stood her husband. She got out from her seat and ran over to hug him, but when she did it scared her slightly when she didn't feel anything.

"I missed you, babe!" Ryan spoke, still hugging her tightly. Blake smiled a half hearted smile.

"Me too." She spoke softly, why did she feel like she was lying?

A/N: I'm in such a rush right now, you have no idea. So that's probs why the last few paragraphs SUCK because I've rushed it so much, it needed to be up today, really and so that's why it's kinda short. It might've been longer but I didn't have time. Okay, hope you like it! :)