Zak's Pov:

I flutter my eyes open, fighting the urge to keep them closed due to how heavy my eyebags feel right now. Even though I'm waking up, my body feels incredibly tired. That's the first thing I feel. Then, as I gain my conscience, I feel some pain in my abdomen. I then hear talking, but I can't tell what they're saying since everything is hazy for me. I feel like I'm being spoken to, but I can't make anything out. Looks like even my brain is tired. I then hear light footsteps and the opening and closing sound of a door. Then everything goes quiet except for a faint constant beeping.

Finally, my brain seems to wake up fully as I intake all of my surroundings. The room is small, the walls are white with a hint of blue in them, I'm in a hospital bed, and there's a heart monitor beside me. The scenery could be easily mistaken for a hospital room, but I know for a fact that I'm not in a hospital. I've been to rooms similar to this before, so I know that I'm in a patient health care room at the TDA agency. I've had to visit one of these rooms a couple of times when Sapnap got hurt during missions. Though, thankfully, it was never too severe.

What even happened? Oh, yeah... I was kidnapped but got out of the room that I was tied up in, but then got shot by Technoblade. But I think he died...? I'm pretty sure, or else Darryl wouldn't have been holding me in his arms for so long. Darryl... I wonder how he's doing right now. Does he even know that I'm alive? I hope I didn't leave him alone for too long... I then hear some loud, rushed footsteps getting closer to the door. The door then flies open with Sapnap barging in. He has a worried look on his face and yells out, "Skeppy!?"

His gaze falls on me, and a big smile of relief flashes on his face. He rushes over to my side by the bed and says, "Thank God- you've finally woken up! You're okay!"

A small, teasing smirk comes on my face. I need to keep up the confident act. I say, "I can't be killed off that easily."

Sapnap chuckles at my response. After a moment of silence, I try to sit up, but Sapnap immediately grabs my shoulder and says, "No- you need to rest. Don't use up your strength like that."

I let out a grumble of annoyance but obliged. I then ask, "How long have I even been out for?"

Sapnap looks like he's been hit for a moment. He then says, "Um... like two months?"

I widen my eyes at that. I yell out, "Two months!?"

"Yeah..."

The f*ck- did I lose that much blood? Was the wound really that deep? Damn, two months... Wait, Darryl- does he even know if I'm okay? I'm pretty sure he doesn't, but just to be safe... I look at Sapnap and ask, "Does Bad know that I'm alive?"

Sapnap looks at me confused and asks, "Who-?"

"Bad- Badboyhalo! My boyfriend. Does he, by chance, know that I'm alive? Wait- screw that. Is he okay? Because I was out when he was holding me in his arms- did TDA get him? Did TDO kill him off?"

"Woah, Woah. Slow down. Calm down first, will you?"

"Okay..."

I lean back into the mattress and relax my muscles as I take deep breaths. Sapnap says, "Alright, that's better. So, first off, I have no idea how Badboyhalo is right now since he hasn't been seen in any missions lately, so everyone's thinking he quit or something. So, no- he wasn't captured by us or something. Also, I don't think he knows that you're alive or not. But he may think that you're dead since many people here at the agency genuinely didn't believe you'd make it, and after being out for so long, rumor has been spreading everywhere in the spy world that you're dead."

I stare at him silently for a moment. So, Darryl doesn't know the condition that I'm in, and most people believe that I'm dead or am going to die. It's not even a hundred percent certain if Darryl is alive or not. But I would like to believe he is. Actually- wait... it may not be so bad that people think I'm dead. I ask Sapnap, "How long do you think I'll have to stay in bed for?"

"Oh, well... not sure, but probably only a few days. At best, only like one or two, since you have been healing the whole time that you were out. So, I bet the injury isn't that bad anymore, though it may still sting if you hit it or something. There were some people in here taking care of you, but they left the moment you woke up, analyze some things, and tell people the news about your condition and health, you know- confirming stuff. One of them came straight to me and told me that you woke up. I bet someone will come soon to give you the information that you want to know about your health."

"I see..."

Good, so I won't be stuck in bed for too long. I really want to just go home as fast as possible and try to find out for myself how Darryl is doing. But I need to do something first. I then ask, "Hey Sapnap... when do you think I will be able to talk to boss? I want to speak to him as soon as I can."

"Oh, um... I'm not sure. Probably when you're allowed to get out of bed. Why do you ask? What do you wanna talk about with him?"

"There's just something that I need to do."

Sapnap looks at me with a raised eyebrow and a confused look for a moment before asking, "...What is that?"

The one thing that I've wanted to do for the longest time since working at this place. I just couldn't it since I wanted to avenge my family, but now I can rest easy knowing that their killer is dead. I say, "I'm going to quit the agency."