Nick was learning that hospital time is a lot slower than real time. Morning seemed to take forever to appear. It didn't help that he didn't get much sleep the nurses and doctors in and out on the room checking on Jess and the fact that every time he closed his eyes he saw Jess's mangled car. Some of the time he spent talking to Jess nothing in particular but he liked to think that he could he her reply. But most of the time he spent staring at the ceiling.

Cece came in very early. She explained that Schmidt and Winston were calling the bar and the school explaining what had happened at that they would keep in touch for updates.

"What about Jess's parents?" Nick couldn't believe he forgot to call them "Dam it, I should have done that yesterday." "Hey Nick it's not your fault you have a lot on your mind, do you want me to do it." "Would you mind I'm not sure I could handle their reaction at the moment." "Sure, have you slept or ate at all?" "Not much."

"Go and get some food, coffee and fresh air and I'll sit here with her." "It's f.." "If say it's fine I swear I will hurt you, Jess is going to be here for a while and she will need you to be functioning, never mind how cross she will be if she finds out you haven't been taking care of yourself." "Fine, I have my mobile on me if" "I will call you if anything happens." She interrupted him.

He hated to admit it but the very strong black coffee and fresh air felt wonderful and when he went back into the room he felt like he at least cope the rest of the day. Cece went off to call Joan and Bob. While she was gone the nurse came into the room to let him know that the police who dealt with the accident yesterday would like to talk to them.

"Mr Miller I'm sorry for disturbing you at a time like this, can I ask how your wife is?"

"Not good at the moment but the doctors are hopeful"

"That's good, We just wanted to tell you that we have the other driver, it turns out that he thought he could make the light before it turned red. He is being charged with dangerous driving. Also your car was picked up, under circumstances as soon as you are ready to claim it, there will be no charge."

"Thank you, I'm glad that you got the other driver. Was he injured at all?"

He was sure why he was asking, maybe some of Jess was rubbing off on him.

"No slightly bruised and battered. Nothing serious. Well we will leave you to get back to your wife. When she is fully recovered and feels ok we will need to get a statement."

"It may sometime" "of course."

Nick refused to say if she woke up. In his head this was not an option.

Cece informed him that Jess's parents were arranging together flights to visit hopefully today as that she and Schmidt would pick them up from the airport and bring them right here. Nick didn't want to ask how they reacted about not being told, he could definitely save that conversation until later. Though he did smile at the thought of all Jess's attempts at Parent trapping them that this time she may have brought them closure together.

He settled back in to his seat ready for hopefully an non eventful day. Then about half way through the day when he was just starting to nod off one of the machines attached to Jess started making an alarm sound he ran to the door to let someone know, but before he could reach it the door was pushed open and a group of doctors and nurses all shouting intrusions at each other. Nick wanted to know what was happening "Sir you have to wait outside and let us look after her." Nick was gently pushed out the door. He leant against the wall put slid to the floor. Schmidt walked in to see Nick slumped on the floor head bent forwards towards his knees and hands together over his knees. Schmidt didn't need to say anything just sat down next to his best friend and put a hand on his shoulder. And then they waited, they could hear the commotion going on inside the room, but they just say there in silence.

The room started filtering out until the last doctor left coming to talk to Nick. "She is out of the woods for now. Her heart stopped briefly, but we managed to get it started quite quickly. We will let her rest and hopefully still stick with the plan of getting her scanned to see if we can wake her up tomorrow."

Nick didn't really hear much other than the first line. He just wanted to get back into the room to be with her. "Hey Jess, you can't do that again ok. Your stubborn, now would be a good time to prove that to everyone."

Later that day Bob and Joan came running to into the room. Joan went straight to Jess. Bob on the other hand headed for Nick "Why the hell weren't we called yesterday." "Look Bob, I'm sor." Before he could finish that Bob carried on "you're sorry! What sorry that you didn't think it was important to call her parents whilst she lays in a coma." Nick didn't say a thing he didn't have the energy to argue, Bob was right he should have called them "Bob that is enough! This is doing Jess any favours, we are here now. Can't you see the poor guy has had enough." Nick left them with their daughter and went for a walk outside. He has always gotten on better with Joan, from the very first time that Bob found out about the 2 of them he has not been happy, at least he gets called Nick now rather than Rick.

They had told almost everyone about the engagement and they were all very happy couldn't wait to start planning, even Nick's mom was happy. There was just Jess's father left needless to say that Nick was not looking forward to this, he was hardly supportive of their relationship.

Jess had arranged to get him to visit for the weekend, but to stay at a near by hotel. First mistake she made. The second one was going to lunch at the said hotel to make the announcement. Her thinking behind it was that if they were in a public place he wouldn't make too much of a scene. The thing with Bob Day was that he didn't care who was around. Finding out that his daughter was marrying the lazy drunk, he was not going to hold back his feelings.

Once Jess had finish explaining that they were getting married. He just sat there as if he was waiting for the punch line of a joke. When no more was said, he face started going purple "Like hell you are! Over my dead body!" "Dad, please calm down" "No, not until you tell me this is some kind of a joke." Jess started to get mad, she did not appreciate being spoken to like a child. "Dad this is my choice and this IS happening, if you don't agree then don't go to the wedding." This shocked Bob he did not expect his little girl to talk to him like that, he looked at Nick as if this was his fault. Nick just a zip of his drink. "Fine but I am not happy about this. But I suppose if you are there isn't much I can do. "No there isn't, thank you." She soften a little and the dinner carried on under an awkward tense atmosphere.

Joan went outside to talk to Nick "Sorry about Bob, he has always been a bit over protective of Jess." "That's fine, he was right I should have called. Its just yesterday... it was.. I just... I'm sorry." "It's ok Nick, you had a lot to deal with Cece explained that you were there, I can't imagine how painful it was to see that. He shouldn't of yelled but I am sure you will find out shortly how fathers overreact when it comes to their daughters" She gave Nick a knowing smile. "She told you then," "yes she was so happy" "It was a shock, but a good one." "I'm sure that when you daughter meet someone special you will be the same way." Nick laughed "I will give them hell." "They will be ok Nick both of them." "I hope your right Joan."