Jennifer started to answer but just as she opened her mouth, Max gave a low groan and went still.<br/><br/>"We're here!" Jennifer answered as she frantically checked for pulse. He was breathing but he was completely unconscious. Jenn patted his cheek and shook his shoulder, not so much as even a groan.<br/><br/>She was crying now, not sobbing, but quiet tears that blinded her even more than the hazy light in the small room was reducing vision. Her voice came out in small spasms that were more like croaks than words.<br/><br/>"Hurry, please, we're here. Hurry, Oh, Max, what will I do without you?"<br/><br/>Jennifer draped herself across him, glad to hear the strong thud thud of his heart. She wept, silent tears and felt chilled to the bone.<br/><br/>At a scrape of a foot, she looked up to see Aiden in the door with Gaius at her back. Jennifer turned huge blue eyes their directions, her misery plainly shining out, mute as an animal.<br/><br/>"Help us." she whispered.