Wake up

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(Hiya! So, while I'm working on the special one, here's a new chapter! Another reminder THAT I NEED PEOPLE TO MAKE THIS CHAPTER WORK, come on guys, it's supposed to be the celebration for everyone who's read this far😊)

"Mark, listen" Bob sighed, placing a hand on Mark's shoulder, but the American just shook it off
"No. if I don't listen, I can tell myself it's all a nightmare" he looked up, eyes red from crying and voice shaking "pretend this isn't real"
"Mark you can't stay inside your own head forever, you need to think about this rationally." Bob offered a sad smile to the other man, who sighed
"Bob how am I supposed to think about this calmly when it feels like my world is falling apart." Mark wiped his eyes, which were starting to fill with tears again "they can't pull the plug on him Bob, they can't!"
"Mark.." By this point wade had arrived and sat on Mark's other side "listen to us. They don't think he'll ever wake up, and even if he does, what if he comes out of it a vegetable?" He asked, "is that really something he'd want? Try and think for him"
"Wade I need him there." Mark said bluntly "I don't care if he's a vegetable, I'd look after him for the rest of my life, just as long as he's in it!"
"Mark please" Bob said quietly "he wouldn't want to be that much of a burden to someone. You have your whole life ahead of you. It's better that jack goes now, painlessly"
Mark shook his head miserably, but looked up at the pair. "you're right. I hate it but you're right." he looked away, anywhere but the people who had convinced him that taking jack's life away was the right thing to do. "but... Can I be alone when I say goodbye?"
The pair nodded "we know how much he meant to you"
Wade sighed "is this really it?" He felt tears sliding down his face "it doesn't feel like long ago we met him."
Bob nodded "I'm about as ready for this as you are. As any of us are."
Mark walked away, heading to jack's room and sitting beside him. He looked down at the man, the once lively feel he gave to everyone, now felt cold and Isolating. Mark sighed miserably, tears falling from his eyes as he slid his hand into jack's.
"This can't be real" he choked out "I'm having a nightmare aren't I. You're alive and playing a game at home in Ireland for the channel. The crash never happened. You never fell into a coma. I didn't have to decide to let you die now. You're wide awake and you're you!" Mark couldn't stop the tears now, just like he couldn't stop the string of words fall in from him. "God Jack, why did this have to happen? There's so much I wanted to do with you still. You were my best friend." Mark closed his eyes and brought his head down to the hand he locked with jack's "I never even got to tell you I love you"
Mark's eyes shot open. He must be dreaming, Jack didn't sigh. Mark was letting his hopes get to him, his despiration to hear it must have made it up. Even so, he decided to try again.
"Jack? Can you hear me?"
He sighed again.
"BOB, WADE" Mark ran out of the room, excitedly calling for his friends, "I think he's waking up, guys come on!"
Bob and wade quickly got up and scrambled back to the room. Mark took jacks hand again and smiled "come on Jack, I know you can hear me. Sigh again, you've done it twice now"
Again Jack sighed. But this time, his mouth twitched slightly. A tiny movement, but it was enough to re assure Mark he was waking up.
"Bob, go get the nurse" wade said, smiling, a new hope alive in him. Bob quickly ran out of the room to look for someone "keep going Mark"
"Come on Jack, you're in there. Wake up, wake up, wake UP!"
Ever so slowly he felt jack's grip on his hand tighten, and his mouth twitched again. This time it looked like he was trying to say something.
"What was that?" Mark asked, desperately hoping this was it.
It was

"Mark" the voice was fragile and small, but unmistakably jack's "I-I s-said "
"Jack!" Mark wrapped his arms around Jack, watching delightedly as the irishman's eyes weakly fluttered open, and brown met blue
With a weak voice and tired eyes, Jack smiled
"I love you too"

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