Millionaires (A The Script FanFic)

Chapter 13 - Alive

Chapter 13 - Alive

*Mark’s POV*

I sit in the waiting room of A&E, I can’t stop fidgeting. If I had any left I would be tearing my hair out in worry. ‘Critical condition’ that’s what the doctor had said; ‘critical’…I can’t cope.

“They will be ok…they will.” Glen says and I turn to look at him and see his eyes shining with tears, his body shaking slightly.

“Yeh…of course they will.” I say but my heart is telling me I am lying. I feel sick; there is a void in me, swallowing me up. I see Glen out of the corner of my eye, his head in his hands. “Glen.” I whisper and he slowly looks up at me, “It’s Dan, he has been though worse.” I say smiling a little. A little smile creeps onto Glen’s face,

“Yeh…You remember that time when he got carried away singing ‘I believe I can fly’?” Glen says and I grin.

“Yeh…he jumped off the banisters…” I say remembering.

“Are you here for Mr O’Donoghue and Miss Ryan?” A young nurse asks us and we both practically pounce on her for information. “They have been moved to separate wards, you can see them if you are quite, they are both still unconscious.” She says but we are already on our feet before she can finish. She smiles "This way please."

*Glen's POV*

We are lead to Danny first and I feel my stomach lurch as I see him. His face is covered in cuts- well; his head did practically go through the windscreen. His top has been removed and I can see a tight bandage stretched over his chest and there is a drip in his hand that makes me cringe when I see it. Distantly I hear Mark ask what's wrong with him. I don't think I want to know but I end up listening anyway

"One broken rib; two fractured, a broken nose, a dislocated shoulder and a high chance of concussion." I hear Mark thank the nurse and then the door close behind her. I slowly drop into a seat by the wall and stare, I can't stop staring. Suddenly I see someone move towards the bed; Autumn. I had almost forgotten her trailing along behind us. She looks down at Danny, lying unmoving on the bed. She looks down at his hand, bandaged around the drip and ever so slowly, she slips her own hand into his and smiles. I have never really seen her willingly touch anyone before...it's strange. She just stands there, holding his hand, smiling. Suddenly I catch sigh of Mark out of the corner of my eye and I know he doesn't want to stay in here.

"Cat?" I say and he nods slowly. I sigh, taking one more look down at Danny before getting up and leaving the room with Mark following, leaving Autumn by Danny's side.

*Danny's POV*

I don't think you ever see clear until you have been so close to dark. It's crazy, how being so close to death can open your eyes. How you realise, you have never really been alive till the end has been inches away. I always thought that when it came, when I was sure it was the end I would...I don't know, say a prayer? Watch my life replay? I don't know...but the point is; I didn't. Something flashed through my mind, but it wasn't my life, or maybe it was. All I saw was her; Cat; laughing and covered in foam, her face when she saw her party, crying in the toilets, squealing at the thunder...everything. I know what this means of course, I just hate myself that it took this for me to realise. Suddenly I can hear something- distantly, but it's there. I want to open my eyes, I want to see, but I can't.

"Singing our hearts out,

 standing on chairs,

 spending our time like we are millionaires.

Laughing our heads off,

the two of us there,

spending our time like we are millionaires..." Someone is singing...a girl, it's not the best voice ever to be honest, with training it could be ok but...who is it? I fight against the force holding my eyes closed and slowly, they begin to lift. Suddenly a whole host of other sounds join the singing; distant hurried footsteps and talking, the beep of machines, and groaning. It takes me a minute to realise the groaning is coming from me.