Talk To Me

Chapter 15: Waking Up

A/N Hi everyone! *immediately ducks from various objects being thrown* Yeah sorry about lats weekend. I realise it was kind of inopportune but them's the breaks I guess. I was super busy but to make up for it I'm posting two chapters; one today and one tomorrow. I'm on holidays now so I'll be updating more frequently, although probably mostly my other stories as they've sort of been put on the back burner. On another note HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY DIL!!!! I can't believe it's been a year. I'm 100% putting the Sims 4 in here later on. Also scary coincidence, Dil's first birthday is the 20th episode of the Sims 4 and this is the 20th chapter of this story 0_o. Anyway I digress. Onwards with the story!

I jerked awake and rubbed my tired eyes. Looking around the room I realised that I'd fallen asleep in the chair next to Dan's bed. Dan's hospital bed. I sighed at that thought and looked over at the sleeping form next to me. It was strange how peaceful he looked right now, despite everything that had happened in the last 18 hours. He was hooked up to various cables and, as this was an intensive care unit, the only sound was the slow rhythmic beeping of his heart monitor. Yeah intensive care. Dan's body had gone into a sort of comatose shock after everything that had happened, so they'd put him in here until he woke up. The doctors had said that he would wake up soon. That was Monday night, after he was brought in. It was now Tuesday afternoon. I could feel myself starting to panic but I forced myself not to. I was pulled out of my thoughts by a knock at the door. I turned as it slid open and I saw Chris and PJ standing in the doorway. Troye and Tyler had been here earlier. They were all taking turns to come and visit, making sure I was ok. I wasn't but that's beside the point. 

"Hey Phil." they said, walking over to the long row of chairs across from me. 

"Hi." I replied. We talked for a bit more before lapsing into silence. Nobody could bear to address the elephant in the room and there wasn't much else to say.

****************************5 Hours Later****************************************

It's 5 o'clock. The guys left 2 hours ago as visiting time was over. I was allowed to spend the night as the closest relative/relation to Dan. His mother was still trying to get down to London. It's been almost 24 hours since Dan was admitted. I was actually starting to panic. As reassurance I reached over and took his hand. I was gently stroking it when a nurse came in.

"Excuse me, Mr Lester is it?"

"Yeah." I replied, turning to him.

"I would like to inform you that Mr Howell will be waking soon." My heart stopped, before speeding up.

"Are you sure?" I asked, barely able to contain my excitement. 

"Yes. Please notify the doctor as soon as he does." And with that he turned and left.I looked back at Dan, a stupid, elated grin on my face.

He was going to be okay. 

(A/N I was going to end the chapter here but I figured many people would murder me)

I don't know how long it was. I just sat, still holding his hand, still with that stupid grin on my face, until I felt it. A gentle movement on his part but it was more that he'd moved in 24 hours. My heart sped up.

"D-Dan?" I asked gently. For several minutes nothing happened. "Dan?" I asked again. This time he shifted slightly and his eyes slowly fluttered open. For a minute I just stared at him, wide eyed and open mouthed whilst he slowly looked around, trying to figure out where he was and how he got here. I saw as he remembered, a flood of worry and guilt welled up in his eyes. He turned to me and opened his mouth, but no words came out. He looked so sad that I couldn't stand it. I got up and carefully climbed into his bed. I settled next to him and gently drew him into my arms, careful of the IV in his left arm.  After a moment he tried again.

"I-I'm so s-sorry Ph-Phil." he murmured. I could see he was gearing up to say more, so I quickly interrupted.

"Don't be, Dan." I said firmly. "You didn't do that; your depression did. And I'm not going to let it happen again. I want to help you, okay? If you'll let me."

"O-of course."

"Then we'll work together. We've made it this far." I smiled at him and he seemed to relax. I kept holding him, until I suddenly felt him tense again. 

"What's wrong?" I asked, concerned. 

"W-well I w-was think-ing, wh-what does th-this mean f-for u-us?"

"What do you mean?" I replied, not understanding.

"W-well with e-everyth-thing that's h-happened... do y-you still w-want to d-date me?" he asked quietly. I pulled back slightly and gave him my best did-you-just-say-the-sky-is-polka-dot-or-something-equally-crazy look.

"Of course. I'm not going anywhere." I replied, pulling him back into the hug. He relaxed again. "Nothing in the world is going to break Phan." I added, using the name that Tyler had made for the both of us. Dan rolled his eyes at me.

"Th-that's such a s-stupid name." he murmured, smiling.

A/N Like hell was I going to kill Dan. Y'all be crazy.