Nadia was shaken awake from her sleep by the sound of someone sobbing loudly. Her eyes opened little by little and she straightened herself on the uncomfortable bench, looking over to a young woman crying hysterically in the hallway. She was trying to push the nurses away from her while covering her face and tugging at her hospital gown. There was something eerie about the entire situation and she couldn’t help but to follow the crying girl with her eyes as she walked past her with the nurses, occasionally struggling against their grip. At the other end of the hallway they stopped in front of a young woman who seemed close to the crying woman. He tried to console her, but instead she slapped him across the face. Nadia jumped slightly at this and blinked her eyes when a nurse walked in front of her, pulling her away from her confused thoughts.<br/><br/>“Ah, you’re awake Miss Talini.” The nurse smiled. “David is awake and he is stable once more. I believe we’ve managed to pull him out of coma for good. Come, let me take you inside.”<br/><br/>“No.” Nadia answered weakly and looked away, shaking her head. “I don’t want it to happen again. I don’t want to go in there and lose him again.”<br/><br/>The nurse blinked her eyes and pushed another smile on her lips. “But… Miss Talini… He is fine! Please, you must come. In fact, David is asking for you.”<br/><br/>She didn’t move. Her eyes still looked away as if she refused to listen to the lies the nurse was making up. Nadia felt a hand on her forehead. “You seem a bit feverish, Miss Talini. Would you like me to get you some medicine?” Ah, yes, the fever. It was causing her body to shiver and her sight to go blurry every now and then. She had to focus all her energy in listening to the nurse and could hardly figure out an answer to her question. “I don’t need it. I just want to sit here for a little bit.” Her body tensed slightly when the nurse tried to grab her arm and so eventually the woman backed away and left her be. She seemed confused with the way Nadia was behaving, but decided not to think much of it considering how violently she had behaved earlier. “Alright then. Well, if you need anything, I’ll be around. And as I said, David is probably waiting for you inside. He seemed eager to see you again.”<br/><br/>There was no answer from the redhead and so the nurse eventually left. She sat there for a little while before turning her attention back to the door leading to David’s room. What if he would leave her again if she stepped inside that room? This was already her fault, all of it. If she had stayed behind and waited for him, believed just a little bit more… maybe this wouldn’t have happened. It never failed to amaze her how bad things always seemed to happen to the people who least deserved it. They were perfect together, so why was it hurting so much to care about him? At the other end of the hallway, the young man had been left standing alone with tears in his eyes. He seemed completely broken and exhausted, just like Nadia.<br/><br/>Although these thoughts haunted her, she somehow managed to pull herself together and get up from the bench. Come what may, she still needed to see David. Even if this would be the last time, she couldn’t just sit there and let fear control her like this. Nadia stepped to his room’s door and hesitated a long while before opening it and cautiously walking inside. Doctor Suden was there and so was David. He was alive and awake. When his eyes met hers, she was reminded again why she was willing to put up with all the shit she had gone through the past three weeks.<br/><br/>“Are you going to leave me again?” Nadia asked with a weak voice after making her way to his bed. “I feel like each time you do, I hardly get to say a proper goodbye. So if you are leaving me, please tell me.” There was despair in her eyes, but at the same time she had already suffered so much that another bullet in the heart couldn’t bring her much further down.