Group Chat - Phan/Jaspar/Zouise/Marfie

19.

Phil

I sat by Dan's bed, his eyes were closed like they had been for almost 48 hours now.

I missed his eyes. His smile. His hope to carry on. I missed him. I missed him alot.

Faye was sitting on my lap mumbling a small tune quietly. She was wrapped in a red blanket given to her by Dan's mum at Christmas.

I had one arm around Fayes tummy and the other holding and stroking Dan's cold, lifeless hand.

"Phil," I heard someone say as a door swung open. In flooded Louise, Zoe, Joe, Caspar, Alfie and Marcus, piling into the room.

"Hey guys," I said softly and they stood around Dan in the room.

I put Faye down on the chair, still humming her gentle tune, not bothered by the amount of people that had entered the room.

"Oh phil, come here," Louise said kindly, opening her arms out to a hug as a tear ran down my cheek.

"I just hope that he's ok," I complained into Louise's shoulder and she held me tightly.

We released from our hug and I sniffed, drying off the tears with my hand.

"how's he doing?" Marcus asked, walking over to Dan and looking at his shut eyes.

"He's doing well for what's been happening. He's still in a coma but the doctors said that he's slowly getting there, his heart working then not again." I explained to all of them, looking at Dan lay there, alone in his head.

"when is Daddy waking up?" Faye asked sweetly, getting up off her chair and walking over to me.

She hugged my leg and looked up at Louise opposite me. I picked her up to carry her on my hip so she could see Louise properly.

"Soon baby, but these are your new friends!" I said happily, trying to cheer her up a bit from all of this.

"This is Louise, and Zoe, Joe, Caspar, Alfie and Marcus!" I pointed at each of them as they tried there best to smile and be happy.

"Hello Faye, would you like to come with me and Caspar to get some biscuits? Give papa some alone time yeah?" Joe asked sweetly as I let Faye down and she walked over to Joe.

Joe took her small hand and the three of them walked out the room and down the corridor.

"How is Faye doing with all of this?" Alfie asked as I ran my hands through my hair.

"she keeps asked when Dan's going to wake up and she talks to him alot," I said, sitting back down in the chair next to Dan, taking his finger into my hand again.

"poor girl," Zoe said, sitting on a chair across the room from me.

I closed my eyes for a few seconds and I felt a small movement in my hand.

"Dan?" I asked, looking up at him, his eyes still closed and still.

I felt his finger move again, more than before, and I stood up to look at him properly.

"Dan, move your finger again if you can hear us,"Alfie said to Dan, all of them coming closer to the bed.

"mmm" Dan mumbled quietly and we all smiled and got excited.

Dan crumpled his eyes open and blinked alot to get his eyes used to the brightness.

"Thank goodness you're ok!" I breathed out, putting my head onto the bed.

"what are you guys all doing here, and why am I in hospital?" Dan asked sleepily, still not moving.

"we don't know, you were in your room then something happened and you were on the floor," Zoe explained to Dan as I looked back up at his coffee brown eyes.

"I'll get a nurse to say you're awake," Louise said, walking out the room and Joe, Caspar and Faye entered the room.

"Daddy!" Faye said, letting go of Joe's hand and running to me to pick her up.

I grabbed her under her arms and lifted her to sit on the side of Dan bed and she leant down to hug him, being very gentle.

"Hello baby" Dan said sweetly, moving his hand over Faye back and closing his eyes.

"glad to see you're awake dan!" Joe said as he and Caspar joined us around Dan's bed.

Dan smiled as Louise and a nurse walked into the room through the double doors.

"Hi Dan, im nurse Williams, how are you feeling?" she asked him, squirting some hand sanitiser onto her hands and rubbing it in.

"Um, im good thanks. I've got a bit of a headache and it hurts to move but I think I'm pretty better," Dan replied but I could tell he was dumbing down his answer so he could get out.

"Well your tests have come through and we have found out that you took quite a bit of Ibuprofen, causing your heart to stop working," she explained whilst putting a stethoscope to his chest.

"Wait, Ibuprofen? how did you get that!" I asked, shocked of why he would take drugs in the first place.

He has me and Faye, was that not enough?