Carrick's POV

I remained beside my son. I couldn't leave him alone. He was lost in thoughts, and remained beside her running smooth circles on her hand. Silence could be cut with a knife… it was getting late… and she was still not up.

'How… Why is she like this?' My son finally asked. 'She's not waking up…'

'She's in a coma Christian…' I finally spilled.

'What?' He asked astonished.

'Well… after she woke up… she had a seizure… caused by the electrolyte imbalance… and she fell into a coma… we only have to wait for her to wake up…' I explained slowly as I rested my back to the hospital chair, while he got up and paced in frustration. 'She can hear you… she can hear everything that's going on… she just can't wake up…'

'Do you have any idea when she'll wake up?'

'No…' I replied while he moved back to her and caressed her cheek. 'We still don't know…'

'She looks so peaceful…'

'She is… she's not in pain… we're trying to keep her as comfortable as possible.' I replied again. 'Christian… it seems that she doesn't want to wake up… she wants to remain where she is…'

Sera's POV

A cool breeze… splashing water… sand throughout… Barren grey rocks were situated around the beach, and the sea-horses climb on top of it. White sand underneath my bare feet, and a clear sunset sky was producing the most magical scene. The horizon seemed very life-like… I could reach to it and never go back to anywhere. I walked along the wet sand… let my feet feel the cool water. I looked at my reflecting in the flawless beach, and I looked good… I smiled at myself… I took the sides of my dress, and made one whole revolution. It was a light shade of yellow sun dress… I remembered… it was the dress mum had sown for me.

I looked again at the reflection, but this time beside me there was someone else. I turned around to face him and hugged him immediately.

'Jason! You're back!' I said as he took me in his embrace.

'I'm always here whenever you want me Cookie…' He smiled back. 'Why are you here?' He asked again.

'I don't know… I… just woke up here…' I replied hesitantly.

'Sera… you made the choice to come here…'

'How?'

'Don't worry… we'll figure it out together…' He smiled again. 'Listen…'

'Please Sera… Please… do wake up! I can't stand seeing you like this… I need you peanut…'

'Who was that?' I asked him.

'That was dad Cookie…'

'So I'm not dead…'

'Not as yet…'

'So… where am I? Who are you?'

'I am Jason… I am Jason in your brain…'

'So… I'm in my memories? You are my brain?'

'Sera… it's complicated…' He replied again. '…but you cannot stay here forever!'

'I don't want to leave here… It… I just… I love it here… it's so peaceful…there's nothing bothering me… nothing hurting me… and I'm with you…'

'Sera… I'm not real… I'm stimulation from your brain Cookie…' He replied again while I turned my back to him. 'Let me show this… maybe this will change your mind why you should go back.' He said again as he touched my shoulders and all of a sudden we were back at Escala.

'What's wrong peanut?' Dad asked as he came to me on the couch. 'Gail told me you were feeling sick…'

'My tummy hurts daddy.'

'Cookie was crying daddy…' Jason replied.

'I'll call grandma…'

'No daddy… there's no need…' I said again as I held him from his arm.

'Sweet heart you're in pain…'

'I just need to go to the bathroom daddy…' I replied again as he helped me up while I ran to the bathroom.

'Daddy… will Cookie be ok?'

'Yes pumpkin… I think she has the 24 hour flu…'

'I remember this day Jason!'

'I know you do… you scared the crap out of me and dad!' He replied again. 'Look…'

'Sera?' Dad knocked on the door. 'Sera, are you ok in there? It's been almost an hour!'

'Dad… When is mum coming home?'

'At around 5pm I think…' He replied again. 'Please peanut… just tell me… are you ok?'

'Dad… please get mummy!'

'Ok… I'm worried now… I'm coming in.'

'No dad! Don't! Please!'

'What's wrong Sera… talk to me peanut!'

'Please… just call mummy…'

'Only if you tell me what's going on…'

'I'll tell you what… hand me the phone please… and I'll call mum myself…'

'Please Sera… just tell me what's wrong…' He begged again. 'I'm calling Grandma… She has to come and check you up…'

'No please daddy!' I begged again.

'Sera…'

'Dad… I just got my period…' I finally blurted out.

'Your period?' He asked shocked… 'Damn… it's better if your mother was here…'

'I told you dad! You see!'

'Don't worry kiddo… Let me go get you a pad… your mother kept a packet in our room in case of emergency for you…' He said again, as he ran to their room and came back running. 'I'm opening the door…' He said again as he handed me the pad. 'Um… unwrap it… and just stick it to the crotch on your panties…' He advised.

'Daddy! I know that!' I replied.

'Come down when you're ready… I have something for you…' He smiled. I did as he asked me, and went to the kitchen… he was there preparing some hot chocolate and a heating pad.

'What's this daddy?'

'All a girl wants during this time is some comfort food and warmth… This is what I used to make your mother when she used to have her periods.' He said again as he moved to the freezer. '…and we can't forget this…' He continued as he took out a tub of ice-cream, and grabbed two spoons. 'Come here peanut…' He said again as he hugged me.

'Thanks daddy… I'm sorry for…'

'Hey… I understand… I would rather if your mother was here for this honey…' He continued as he fed me a spoonful of ice cream. '…just one thing… let's not share the fact that I freaked out…'

'Ok daddy…' I laughed. 'It's going to be our little secret…'

'I wish dad remained the same Jason… I wish he didn't push me away…'

'You know he loves you cookie…'

'I know… but I want him to also love himself… When Hyde sabotaged Charlie Tango's engine and almost caused him his life… dad changed… then Hyde kidnapped mum… and things continued going downhill from there… I never knew what exactly happened… All I know is that dad sent me to grandma till they found our mother…'

'…and you blame yourself for that don't you?' He asked again as we returned back to the beach.

'Hyde waited for me after ballet lesson. Dad was held in traffic, and he came to talk to me… He said he was mum's friend… and that he wanted to talk to her… and that he lost her number. He asked me for her number and I did give it to him. Two days later she went missing…'

'… and why do you keep blaming yourself?'

'Oh come on Jason! Both our parents always advised us to not talk to strangers… and what have I done? The exact opposite! Dad was mad at me for a week when I confessed the truth… He didn't talk to me… He hated me at that time Jason! And I don't blame him!...'

'Sera how old were you?'

'8…'

'Exactly… you weren't mature enough to comprehend anything…'

'Why are you trying to defend me?'

'…because I am your own thoughts… the thoughts and memories you've suppressed Sera…' He said again. 'You need to go back… for both of them… Give them another chance… they deserve that at least!'

'…but… I love it here… I don't have anything to worry about… I'm free…'

'…is this truly what you want Sera?' Jason asked gently. 'I never knew you to give up… I've always known you to be a motivator… and you never gave up… why now?'

'…because I have nothing left to fight for Jason… I've lost everything in my life… I've lost you… my parents… my life… I don't want to live anymore… I give up Jason…'

'Sera… listen…'

'To what?'

'… just listen!' He said again as he held me from my arms.

'You know… I remember when we used to go to walks in the park… and on the beach… when you used to jump on me every morning and I used to scold you to be careful… Remember that time when you climbed on the kitchen counter and you thought that you could fly? You scared the crap out of your mother and I… I remember the anger I felt for you putting yourself in that much danger…' He continued. '… and remember that time when you begged me to take you on the yacht in January... in all that cold? I do…' He continued again. 'Please Sera… Please… Please don't leave me…'

'Dad seems sad… He's broken… I broke him…'

'… He loves you Sera… In his own ways… he loves you very much…' Jason replied again.

'I… I don't want to leave you…'

'Cookie… I'm always with you… in here…' He replied again as he pointed to my heart.

'I love you Jason!' I said again as I hugged him for the last time… Everything around me started becoming blurry slowly.

'I love you too Cookie…' His words echoed as he also vanished.

I could hear a constant beeping monitor, and I could feel dad's touch on my hand. I could feel his soothing words and his warm breath over my face. I could smell his strong cologne which burned my nose. My legs were freezing and they felt all heavy. I moved my fingers gently and moved my hand slowly in dad's bigger one.

Christian's POV

'You know… when you get better, we can take a family vacation… like we used to do before… your mother and I will take some time off, and we'll only have fun… We'll visit London… France…' I continued. I wanted her to wake up more than anything in the world… I could hold her close to me. She maybe was 17… but she still was my baby girl.

'Sera! Please… if you're listening…' I started again, but soon I felt her fingers move. I stared at them. I thought it was my brain playing tricks on me, but soon they moved again in my hand.

'Dad… dad wake up!' I called my father.

'What Christian?' He shot up.

'I think she's waking up! I felt her fingers move.' I replied excitedly.

'Christian…'

'No dad… look!' I insisted again as her fingers moved again.

'Sera?…' He asked while pressed the emergency button and took out his light pen and flashed the light into her eyes. 'Pupils are dilating… stats are going up.' He continued as he pinched her in arms gently. 'Sera? Can you hear me?'

She started moving her eyes, and finally they opened.

'Sera can you hear me?' Dad asked again as a nurse entered the room with another doctor and my mother. She nodded gently, while my father pinched her in her legs. 'Can you feel this?' He asked again while she nodded. 'Good… Grace?'

'I'll check the jerk reactions…' She replied as took a hammer like apparatus and started hitting Sera's elbow and knees gently. She kicked them unconsciously and I could see a smile creeping on my mother's face.

'What is it? Is she ok?'

'There is no nerve damage Christian… That's a good sign!' My mother replied as she turned back to my daughter.

'Sera, do you remember where you are?'

'Mhmm…' she mumbled. 'Hospital…'

'Do you remember what happened?' My father asked her again, while she shook her head as a no. 'Your heart stopped… due to starvation and electrolyte imbalance.' He explained. 'When was the last time you truly ate?' He asked. '…without vomiting… and no lying…' He insisted.

'I…'

'Sweet heart… we only want to help you.' My mother insisted again.

'…Almost three weeks ago…' She admitted softly.

'Ok…' My father said again, as he wrote something on her chart, and turned to me. 'We'll leave you three alone for now… That monitor goes below 60 and you are too get somebody here immediately… Am I clear?'

'Yes dad…' I replied while both my mother and him left us three alone.

Ana's POV

'How are you feeling honey?'

'I'm ok…'

'Sera, you lost the right to lose the word ok when you started cutting and starving yourself.' Christian replied as he sat on the edge of her bed and took her arm.

'Sera… we all need to talk…' I started again. 'I'm sorry I made you keep such a burden.'

'What are you talking about mum?'

'Don't worry… your father knows…' I told her again, as I sat on the other side of the edge of the bed.

'Oh…'

'Yes…' I replied again as I looked towards Christian. '…and we've decided, that I should go to a rehab facility… where I can get back on my feet and stronger… back to what I was…'

'What about you two? Are you still going to fight and hate each other's guts?' She asked gently.

'We never hated each other's guts peanut!'

'Of course you did! I hear you fight… I hear you argue…'

'…and it's not your fault…' I said again as I dropped a kiss on her forehead. 'Circumstances made us like that… and we didn't know how to handle it… but it was never your fault honey!' I insisted again. '…and neither Jason's death was your fault…'

'What… what do you mean?' she chocked.

'We know Sera… we know you were there that night…' Christian replied. 'Why didn't you talk to us? Why didn't you say something?'

'…because… because both of you were shattered… you mum… turned to alcohol and drugs… and you dad… you went for Elena!'

'…but that couldn't have stopped you from talking to us!'

'It did mum… it did… I was hurt seeing you hurt…you never talk about Jason… you never talk about anything… you only fight and argue… I wanted to help you… I didn't want to burden you…'

'So what… you starve yourself?' Christian asked again.

'Dad…' she started, but soon stopped. 'What's going to happen now?'

'Well… we need to some therapy ourselves honey… for now you will be staying with John and his family…'

'…What about you? I… I can't leave you!'

'We won't leave you alone! We promise…'

'Like you promised when I was 12, dad?'

'This time we mean it baby girl… I promise we will never leave you alone… but you have to get better… you have to promise me that you are going to get better…'

'I promise dad… I will get better…'

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