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38 Dougies POV

The phone call to Danny broke my heart, to tell him that none of us had found our best friend yet had shattered him. I could hear his tears on the phone, and it made me cry too. "I know Dan, I know, we'll get Tom back soon, we made a really good effort today to find him! You know that he's good at hiding, he probably has just hidden from us all day! Stop crying please! Your making me cry!" I pleaded, sniffing back tears. "b-b-but we w-were going to f-find him today! I-I was going t-to find him a-and bring him home!" Danny cried, his heart break almost touchable through the phone.

"Danny, we were all hoping we were going to find him, and we will someday! Keep your hope going, okay? We'll find him and bring him home one day...wait, has Carrie answered her phone yet?" I asked, there was hope! "no, why?" Dannys voice lifted a little. "because, think about it. If she has found Tom, she might not be able to answer her phone, because she is busy sorting him out! When we pick you up, phone her again, see if she answers her phone, and see whats going on." I suggested, watching Harrys car pull up, "give us 10 minutes and we'll be there with you, hold on a few minutes, okay? I got Sonic here with me, so you can have that in a minute, alright?" I waited for Danny to agree before I hung up, sighing.

"let me guess, Danny hasnt taken the news very well?" Harry asked, I nodded slowly. "he's distraught. He really wants Tom back now, I can't blame him though, I really want him back now." I squeezed the toy close, taking in Toms fading smell, he needed to hug this toy again, make it smell of him. "alright, lets go pick him up before he tries something stupid, why have you got Sonic anyway?" Harry drove off, grabbing my hand and holding it as he drove. "if I found Tom, I was going to give it to him, so he trusted me, if he didn't trust me, if that makes sense. And it was something that would calm him down, if he got stressed or panicked. We don't know what he's gunna be like when we find him, so I thought this was a good thing to use seeing as he has Mickey." I explained squeezing his hand gently, interlinking our fingers for extra comfort.

"hmmm, good point, I like that idea. Bring it with you next search, just in case." Harry smiled a little at me, parking up next to the curb, watching Danny run into the car. "drive to the hospital now!" he shouted, clambering into his seat. "huh?" we both asked in unison, why did we need to go to the hospital? "Carrie phoned! She's at the hospital!" Danny bounced in his seat, grinning. "you mean...she found Tom?" I slowly caught on, praying that was why we were now going to the hospital instead of home. "yes! She found Tom! Tom has been found! He's at the hospital, we need to go now!" Danny confirmed, shouting the whole thing. "he-he-he's been found? We're going to see him?" I could feel myself starting to need to scream, I had to confirm it one last time. "yes! Tom, our Tom, our Thomas Michael Fletcher has been found and is in hospital, ready to be hugged and kissed and told he's loved and to be taken home!" Danny shouted, and I screamed in joy, freaking out.

39 Dannys POV

I literally ran through the hospital corridors, not even knowing where I was going, just following the feeling I had, letting it guide me to my Tom. I had grabbed the Sonic toy off of Dougie and was out running him and Harry round the corridors, at least 3 feet ahead of them. Finally, I ran into Carrie, barely managing to stop before I fell into her! "where is he? Where's Tom?" I shouted, itching to see my lover, my best friend, my everything. "we're not allowed in yet, they're still doing tests and stuff on him. This is just his room, they've taken him somewhere for x-raying or something." Carrie explained, putting her hands on my shoulders to stop me running off again. "how long are they going to be?" Harry asked reasonably calmly from behind me, keeping me still as well. "I don't know, but guys, he's in bad shape, really bad shape. Worse than the last time I saw him, he's really weak and scared, I don't know if they're going to let him go anytime soon." Carrie bit her lip, and my heart broke.

How bad was Tom? Was he weak from lack of food, or something else? Was he scared because we werent there, or was he just scared from being caught? Being brought in by the police couldn't have been good for him, but still, surely he wasn't that bad, was he? "why wouldn't they let him go?" I whimpered the question, not sure if I actually wanted to know. "Danny, when I found him, I was chasing him down the street for about 5 minutes, and he couldn't stop coughing! He almost collapsed they were so bad! You'll understand better when you see him, he looks awful. And, he's screaming, so loudly, screamed and cried the whole way here, refusing to stop struggling to get free, he doesn't want to be here, at all." Carrie teared up, and the images my head were conjuring up were awful.

I could just imagine what Tom looked like, and what he was doing in his panic, knowing him too well to not be able to imagine it. In my head, I could see Tom looking deathly pale, with dark bags under his eyes, covered in dirt, running through the corridors, coughing the whole way until he collapsed. "sh*t, their never going to let him go!" I cried, knowing that they knew about the self harming, they were going to lock him up in a mental facility, and we were never going to see him again. "and who are you guys?" a sudden voice made us jump, we span round to find a tall, thin, brunette man standing in front of us. "this is Danny, Harry and Dougie, Toms boy-... I mean best friends. I called them here, they've been searching all day for him." Carrie explained, just about catching herself in time before she said 'boyfriend' nobody knew about me and Tom yet, of course they knew about Harry and Dougie, it was hard not to notice the wedding rings, and their constant affection for one another. But me and Tom had played it safe, so no-one knew about us. "alright, well, I'm here to tell you a bit more about Toms state. We're just going to finished running some tests, and then we're taking him to another ward, with a bit higher security, considering his refusal to keep in the bed. If you just wait here for a while longer, then we'll take you to Tom." The doctor explained, my heart dropped a little, then lifted again. We would be seeing Tom soon! I was going to see my Tom again, today! Actually going to look at his beautiful face today! After not seeing him for a year I was going to see him again!

Time couldn't go any faster, and only an hour later, apparently, Tom had 'settled more' into what was happening. I had to resist running down the corridors to wherever his securer ward was, and just followed along obediently behind the doctor, squeezing Sonic tightly. "right, be careful when you go in, he's tired and hasnt been around people properly in months, so be calm and quiet. No jumping on him either, just be calm okay? We've given him a little sedative to keep him calm as well, so he's a little out of it, so don't take it too personally if he doesn't reply." The doctor warned, opening the door painfully slowly, revealing Tom to me for the first time in a year.