Chris POV:

It has been over a week since the accident and Vanessa is still in a coma, I was interrupted while talking to her when the doctor walked in "Morning, we're going to be taking her in for more testing." The doctor says as he and a couple nurses walked in the room and began getting her ready.

"Chris, why don't you go get some fresh air, you really could use it." Lexi says as she came into the room.

I yawned "I cannot leave her yet, I want to be here when she awakes."

"Chris this isn't healthy, you need a break.... besides you look like shit." She says with a little chuckle. "Go get some fresh air please, she's going to be gone for at least an hour or so while they run tests on her." Lexi insisted, taking my hand and trying to pull me out the door "If she happens to come back before you get back, I'll call you right away."

I walked around outside for a little while, I stopped to look at the mountains across from the hospital and I began to pray again for a miracle. I walked back inside the hospital and started to walk past a gift shop and stopped, I walked inside to go and look at the flowers that they had, I had ended up buying two dozen red roses that were nicely displayed in a red vase.

I set the flowers on the table in her room next to her bed, I then sat and waited for them to bring her back in. I've kept track of all her brain scans since the beginning, and have been studying them myself, the more that I looked at each of her scans, it does look like that the swelling has been going down everyday. Maybe it's just me hoping, but to me I do see it in the images.

After they brought her in, I stood there holding her hand watching her breathe, the cuts on her face were improving and the bruising on her face has been slowly going away, they went from black and blue to more of a yellowish color. Lexi stood on the other side of the bed and talked to her.

"Vanessa I love you, and I miss holding you in my arms please wake up soon." I begged and kept repeating that I loved her while kissing her lips.

I hear a gasp come from Lexi and turned to look at her "Chris tell her that you love her again, then watch what she does with her eyes."

"Vanessa.. it's Chris can you hear me?" I ask looking at her "I love you, and I want to bring you home. I love you so much..." I say. I then noticed her eyes flinching, I picked up her hand and began kissing her fingers. I then smiled and felt a little excitement when her fingers started to twitch.

"Vanessa can you hear us?" Lexi excitedly asked. Her fingers began twitching more and I let out a sigh of relief. I moved over to her lips and placed some soft kisses on her lips "I love you so much Vanessa, please open your eyes." I whispered in her ear.

The doctor walked in and over to Vanessa "How are things going? Anything new to report?" He asked while checking her pupils.

"She just started to respond to us." Lexi said excitedly with a big smile.

"That's good to hear, her brain scan results were the best we've seen all week, I have a feeling that she will be awake very soon. She also has been healing nicely in other areas as well, I would keep talking to her and keep working on getting her to respond to you. That's the best thing for her and to make her brain start working again." The doctor says high fiving us. "She's getting there." He smiles.

"Vanessa it's Chris, if you can hear me squeeze your eyes." She then squeezed her eyes, causing me to drop down on the chair.

"Vanessa.. it's me, if you can hear me wiggle your fingers." Lexi stepped back and smiled when we saw her move her fingers.

Her eyes still remained closed, but it was assuring that she was now responding well to us, everytime we asked her to do something she did, except open her eyes. I'll take it, it's progress.

The doctor came in and began working on her "Vanessa, this is Dr. Adams,
Try and open your eyes for me please." My heart began to beat faster as I witnessed her opening an eye slowly while her other eye flinched, I then gasped in relief when her other eye slowly opened.

"Oh Vanessa..." I said relieved, while kissing her fingers. She lightly squeezed my hand back slowly looking around at everyone, then back over to me.

"Hi." I said to her softly smiling at her. She tried to speak putting her hand to her chest, but couldn't get out a word. She slowly moved her hand up to my face, resting it on my cheek.

Vanessa POV:

I opened my eyes and began looking around, I see Chris, Lexi and a doctor. I tried to speak but it hurt to talk and couldn't get any words out, I looked back at Chris and reached up touching his face.

"Hi." He said to me softly.

The doctor began talking to me, testing to see what I could and couldn't do, he then asked me to work on trying to talk. I tried hard, but I had a hard time breathing with my chest being wrapped up that made it harder to speak.

"Do you remember what happened or why you're here?" Lexi asked. I closed my eyes and began having flashbacks of someone pulling out in front of me and my vehicle flipping. I gave her a thumbs up letting her know that I remembered what happened.

The doctor smiled "That's a really good sign if she remembers the accident, that shows me that that she doesn't have any signs of amnesia." He then began asking my questions about my name and if I knew who everyone was. I gave a thumbs up again. "Great! That's what I like to hear and see." He looked at Chris and smiled "She's going to be just fine."

I looked at Chris and tried speaking to him, he leaned down closer to me, trying to hear what I was saying. I tried telling him that I wanted to kiss from him. I still couldn't get the words out so I touched his mouth, then touched mine. He must have figured it out since he smiled and leaned down kissing me on the lips. I felt exhausted and closed my eyes, falling asleep.

I later opened my eyes and saw Chris sitting in the chair leaning his head back and his eyes were closed. "Chris." I tried saying, it came out quietly at first and tried again, this time coming out a little louder. He jumped and looked over at me, standing up quickly.

"What do you need hun?" He asked, sounding concerned.

I pointed over at my water, he turned and grabbed the glass. He then helped lift my head and placed the straw in my mouth. My mouth felt dry and the little water that I was able to suck out tasted wonderful, I let out a little hum of happiness.

"How long have you been here?" I asked him, slowly getting the words out.

"I came as soon as I heard, I got the phone call the night it happened, the next morning when we ported I was able to fly out right away."

"I don't know if I was dreaming, but I think I heard everything you were saying to me." I smiled, caressing the top of his hand with my finger.

He lowered himself to my face, looking me in the eyes "What did you hear?"

I smiled and touched the side of his face "That you loved me very much, that I'll be your wife, and that you'll give me as many kids as I wanted, but I'm sure it was only a dream.

He smiled back "That wasn't a dream, I did say that to you and I meant it."

"How long have I been here?"

He stood back up and grabbed a chair, pulling it over for him to sit, he sat down and held my hand "You've been in a coma for nearly two weeks."

"I want to go home, wherever that is." I whispered

"I know that you do, and I want you to come home also. When you get to leave this place, I will be bringing you home to my house. It will be your home too." He says smiling, kissing the top of my hand.

"I really want you to hold me right now." I say, looking over at the machines hooked to me.

"I would in a heartbeat, but right now I can't." He kept kissing my hand "You should get some rest, you've spoken quite a bit since you woke up, I don't want to overdo it."

It's been a few days since I awoke and began speaking, there was a soft knock at the door so Chris got up and opened the door, it was Austin. He gave Chris a shocked look "Come in." Chris said, he then looked over at me "I'll give you two a couple minutes, I be right outside the door if you need me."

"How are you?" Austin asked, sitting down next to me.

"I'm starting to feel better, still very sore... what are you doing here anyways?" I was surprised to see him here, and didn't really feel like talking to him.

"Vanessa I was here the night you were brought in, I did stay with you the first night. When I found out the other day that you were awake and talking, I wanted to rush over to see you, but I figured that I would give you a few days. I still care about you, and it hurts to see that this happened to you."

"Austin, I did hear you talking to me while I was sleeping, I heard everything that everyone said to me. At first I thought I was dreaming, but everyone has confirmed what I heard. I want you to know that I need you to move on, just as I have. I will always love you, but my love for you has changed, I'm not in love with you. You need to figure out your life and your priorities, you also have a child on the way and you need to put that baby first."

"I understand, this is my fault and I need to deal with my mistakes. I don't blame you for moving on, I hate what I did to you, and I hate what I did to us. But I want you to know that I am sorry. I do want you to be happy, and I hope that you get better soon." He stood up and kissed my forehead. "It's a girl, we're having a girl."

"Congratulations."

"I'm going to get going, I just came by to let you know that I was sorry about everything."

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