Who Are You?

Chapter 49

Liam's POV

I've been lying here for hours, days, maybe even weeks. I can't tell. I can hear and smell, but I cannot move or talk. Its the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

I have to lay still as Maddie pleads and cries for me to do anything but. I can't do anything to stop her pain. I've tried.

It's like fighting against a brick wall. You can punch all you want, but it's not going anywhere.

"Liam, sweetheart please walk up, it's me! Maddie!"

I want to respond to her so badly, but I can't. I can't move my lips. If I could, I would've a long time ago.

I hear a door open and the voice of the doctor.

"Day 7," I hear him say to Maddie, "He could wake up any day now."

Her weeping grows louder and it breaks my heart. I can't do anything but listen. I want to wake up so badly. I hate not being able to hold my baby.

The only thing I can liken it to is being tied up with a rope as you watch someone being tortured. It's awful.

I know she was injured trying to help me. I heard her screams. I still hear them, every night in my nightmares. I can't shake them from my head. Her screams of horror, the screams that I promised to prevent. The screams that I failed to prevent.

When I wake up, if I wake up, I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't want me anymore.

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Maddie's POV

I hold his hand. It's been 7 days. The others go home to sleep and come back to the hospital during the day, but I got special permission from Bo to stay with him all the time. Sometimes Bo drops in to see if I'm ok, but most of the time it's just me and him.

The doctor tells me he could wake up any day now, but everyday he says that is a day that he doesn't wake up. It's so painful.

It's like talking to a brick wall. I can talk and talk, it doesn't matter how loud I do, he can't hear. He won't respond. I can slowly feel my heart being chipped at. A hammer comes down on a chisel, a part of my heart breaks off with each hit. Each hit takes place for an unanswered statement. Soon I'll have nothing but a mangled lump where my heart should be.

I need him.

I promised to keep him safe that night. I promised I wouldn't let his parents hurt him again, but I broke that promise.

When he wakes up, if he wakes up, I doubt he'll still want me.

{SO LIAMS STILL NOT AWAKE DO YOU THINK HE'LL EVER WAKE UP I DUNNO YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE

So thanks for reading ily

Ps. Maddie I'm so sorry you're most likely dead aha}