Finding Who I Was Meant To Be

Chapter 7

Nicole's PoV


The doctor sighed as he sat down across from us. "I'm afraid there's some bad news. Will suffered a large amount of internal bleeding. We managed to get it down a bit but right now he is in a coma." When I heard this, the dam broke and my tears began flowing again. My Will was in a coma and it was all my fault. I sank into Dalton's chest sobbing. I could feel water droplets splashing the back of my neck and knew that Dalton was crying as well. He and Will were really close so this must hurt him too. "How long will he be out?" He asked, his voice broken and quiet." The doctor sighs. "We don't know. He could be out for days or he could be out for months. We're still waiting on the results from the CAT scan to see if there was any brain damage. But apart from that all he had were a couple broken ribs, a sprained shoulder and a fractured ankle."


I wiped my tears and sat up. Everything felt like a dream at that moment, or should I say nightmare. I couldn't belive it. The man of my dreams, my other half, my soulmate was stuck in the hospital, trapped in a coma; and it was all my fault. 'Can.... C-Can I go see him?" The doctor nodded and I stood up, following him down the hall to Will's room, holding Dalton's hand. When I saw Will's damaged body from the doorway, I frose in my tracks and my chest clenched. With some gentle prodding in the small of my back from Dalton, I cautiously made my way to Will's beside. They had managed to clean him up nicely. His sprained shoulder was wrapped up in an ace bandage and there was another one around his torso. His foot and leg were in a blue cast. A little smile came to my face, blue was Will's favorite color.


I sat down in the chair next to him, and took his hand. I know he probably couldn't hear me but I didn't care, from that moment on, everyday I'd come to the hospital and just stay there at his beside holding his hand. I'd play some old music of theirs, tell stories of my childhood, read stories to him, anything that could possibly trigger something and wake him up.


Now let's forward about 6 months. At this point I had just about given up. Dalton and Madison are just about to get married, in a couple days actually and Dalton is missing his best man. Will even missed the birth of his goddaughter. We had all tried to stay happy and be cheerful at the rehearsal dinner, but knowing that our best friend was in the hospital kind of left a dark cloud of emotion over all of us. Cole and Cassie got engaged and Dana found a new girlfriend, a serious one at that. I've taken to sleeping at the hospital. I'd either sleep on chairs or in the bed with Will, and more times than not it was the latter. After waiting for him to wake up for so long, I wanted to always stay with him, just in case a miracle happened and Will did wake up.


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Will's PoV


I woke up in a vast grassy field. 'What was I doing here?' I thought to myself. 'Oh right, now I remember......' I had been home alone, playing Pokemon, when I received a phone call. I picked it up, not bothering to check Caller ID. "Hello?" I said, a bit annoyed that my game was being interrupted. There was silence on the other line before a man began to speak. "Hello William. I believe you know who I am. Anyway, I was just calling to say that we have your bitch." He said and as he spoke I heard a voice that sounded vaguely like Nicole's. He chuckled. "If you want to see her again, you'll come to the old abandoned martial arts center. Now." He said before hanging up.


I dropped my phone in shock. He had Nicole. I threw some shoes on and ran out to my car, getting in before driving off to the center. I jumped out of the car and ran into the building. I couldn't see anyone but a door slammed shut behind me. "Glad you came William. It's kind of a pitty that you didn't realize that it was all fake. You're down here where I needed you. I told you that you'd regret stepping in between me and Nicole." From here on out is a bit of a blur and now I'm here in this meadow. I have no idea how much time has passed........ There are no clocks, no sunrises, no sunsets...... Just empty grass fields and endless skies. I've tried walking around but there was nothing. It felt like I've been here for an eternity. Suddenly there was flash of lightning and then I was out.


I woke up in a white room. The lights were blinding and it took me a while to adjust, but once I did I saw that I was in the hospital. A sleeping Nicole was crammed into the tiny hospital bed with me. I bent down and placed a kiss on her forehead before lying back down and putting an arm around her. I watched Nicole sleep and suddenly, it was as if our whole relationship flashed before my eyes. How we first met, our first date, all the times I saved her from boyfriends, everything that we've been through together. I watched her as she slept, taking in all the quirks of her face. Her naturally high arched eyebrows, the right one disrupted by a piercing; her tiny elfin nose; the special way her lashes splay across her face when she sleeps; and the defined cupid's bow of her lips. All the things that made me love her. Suddenly she stirred. I began stroking her hair to hopefully wake her up. She smiled and rolled over onto her side to curl up to me. "Oh Willy........." She said sleepily, clearly still in a daze. She then snapped up, sitting up to look at me. "Willy? You're awake!" She then broke down in tears as she wrapped her arms around my neck. "Oh you're awake, you're finally awake." She mumbled over and over again into my chest. I nodded, still a bit confused.


"Of course I'm awake, why wouldn't I be?" She sat up and cupped my face in her hands. "Baby, you've been in a coma for the past 6 months. I never thought you'd wake up." She explains, tears still streaming down her face. I reached up and wiped the tears off her face, before pressing my lips against hers. With that kiss, the aching in my heart ebbed. It was as if all the feelings from our whole relationship was poured out in that one kiss. It seemed as if we were kissing for an eternity before I pulled away, resting my forehead against hers. "I missed you so much Will." She said softly. I smiled. "I missed you too Nicky." I was glad that I woke up. Nicole and I still had our whole life together ahead of us. I'm glad that I'm able to be with her for the long rum.