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The awful day seemed to replay in everyone’s

mind. Alex barely had time to take in everything

that had happened that day. His plans being

placed on hold as he attempted to make his way

back to his wife. With the borders being closed and

all fights stopped getting back to New York was

near to impossible, but everyone was determined

to get him back to his wife. Upon arrival Alex was

told of his wife’s condition and was informed that it

was irreversible and that she’d remain in a coma

for a very long time. But when she woke several

months later, Alex had thought it was a sign that

she was getting better. Instead it was the vision of

a life without his wife. He had arrived at the clinic

where she was being kept and found out the

horrible news.

** Flashback **


“ I am here to see Allison McLean.” Alex said

looking at the nurse.

“ Mr. McLean I am glad you made it.” The petite

nurse said. Alex looked at her and smiled a little,

this was a great day for him, his wife had finally

woke up.

“ Can I see Allison?”

“ Yes you can, she’s in room 214 on the second

floor. The doctor will be waiting there for you.”

The nurse said. Alex nodded and headed for the

elevator. Once he had arrived on Allison’s floor he

quickly found her room. The doctor and several

other people stood around Allison’s bed when he

entered.

“ Dr. Connors?” Alex said as he entered the room.

“ Mr. McLean I am glad you made it.” The doctor

said turning and facing him. Alex could see his

wife clearly the minuet the doctor moved her eyes

where open but something didn’t feel right.

“ I was told she was awake.” Alex said moving

towards the bed.

“ She is, but it seems that the damage to her brain

was worse than I had first anticipated.”

“ How bad?” Alex said taking his wife’s hand in his

own. He looked into her eyes and for once couldn’t

see the light that used to shine deep within them,

it was as if she wasn’t even there.

“ As you can see she’s opened her eyes. But as

near as we can tell that will be all that she’ll be

able to do. Her body is able to take care of itself as

in breathing and her sleeping, but she will always

need constant care.”

“ Are you saying that my wife is awake but is still in

a coma?”

“ In some ways yes. In her catatonic state she will

never get any better. And we are unsure that it will

ever change.”

“ Then run tests. I want the finest brain doctors on

this. I want my wife back.” Alex said looking at the

doctor.

“ I will run the tests. We have a brain surgeon

coming into town and he’s going to look at your

wife. But I don’t want to make any promises Mr.

McLean.”

“ I don’t expect you to. I’ve waited nearly a year for

her to open her eyes again. Her daughter misses

her terribly and I wish I could tell her that

everything will be all right.” Alex said running his

fingers over his wife’s hand.

“ It’s always hard to tell a child that a parent is

gone.” The doctor said putting his hand on Alex’s

shoulder.

“ Ally and I have only been married just over two

years. Next week would be our anniversary.”

“ Just think that she’s with you.”

“ I want to be able to bring her home.” Alex said

looking up at the doctor.

“ Give me time to run the tests and the surgeon to

look at her and then I’ll see what I can do to have

her moved to a facility closer to your home.”

“ I don’t want her in a facility I want her home.”

Alex said.

“ I can see if we can have that arranged.” The

doctor said.

“ Thank you.” Alex said kissing Allison’s cheek. The

doctor nodded and turned and left Alex alone.


It took several days and several arguments to

finally get the doctor to release Allison to him, but

it was done. At the end of the week Allison would

be moved back into the house. Alex had already

called and made arrangements to have a special

bed sent to the house and set up in one of the

guest rooms, a home health nurse was called and

was to be on call once he had gotten home. A

physical therapist was also on call to come twice a

week for Allison’s therapy sessions. Alex had

promised that what was being done for Allison in

the hospital would be done in his home. But what

pained him most was the doctor had informed him

that it may only be a matter of time before

Allison’s body started shutting down completely

and she’d die. He had nearly lost her over a year

before he wasn’t sure if he could handle losing her

again. But that didn’t matter, what mattered to

him was his wife was going to be home.

** End flashback **

Alex walked down the hall and stopped at the

guest room door, he could hear talking from

inside, slowly opening the door he saw Dawn

sitting on the edge of her mother’s bed and could

hear her talking to her. A smile spread across his

face seeing Dawn reading a book to her mother.

“ See mom, everything is getting better. Today

daddy found out that he’d be going back on tour

again. He’s finally gotten back with his friends and

they are finally finishing that album they had

promised to finish. I am not sure when daddy is

leaving but he promised he wouldn’t leave until

he told you. He’s so excited about getting back to

work.” Dawn said touching her mom’s cheek. Dawn

turned to see Alex standing in the doorway.

“ Hi Daddy.”

“ Hey munchkin, I see you told your mom about

the new album. We are leaving in a few weeks.

But I want you to know that grandma Denise is

going to come stay with you during the time I am

gone.” Alex said looking at them both.

“ That’s cool I like Grandma Denise. Grandma

Shannon called this morning.”

“ Really? What did she want?”

“ Just doing her normal check on mom. Said she’d

be over later in the week to visit.”

“ That’s good. Your uncles are going to be over

later today for a barbque.”

“ Oh cool, are we going to be moving mom

outside again?”

“ I was thinking about it. Do you think she’d like

that?” Alex said sitting down on the other side of

the bed.

“ Yeah I think she would. She seems happier

lately.” Dawn said moving some of her mother’s

strawberry blonde hair from her face.

“ That’s good. Did you finish your homework?” Alex

asked looking at Dawn.

“ I’m going to do that right now. I just wanted to

check on mom. Molly will be by later to check on

her and give mom her meds and then Sandy will

be by to start with the therapy again.” Dawn said

heading towards the door.

“ You know you’re a smart eleven year old.”

“ I know but look who my parents are.” Dawn said

running over and kissing his cheek. “ I love you

dad.”

“ I love you too kiddo.” Alex said kissing her cheek.

He watched Dawn hurry from the room and then

looked back at his wife.

“ She misses your company.” Alex said looking into

his wife’s empty eyes. “ I miss your company. I wish

they could find a way to bring you back to me.” He

just looked at her, in some ways he knew that she

understood what he was saying but something in

his heart yearned to hear her voice again. He

missed being able to tell her how his days where

going, how the tour had started. Always loved how

she laughed at his jokes and laughed at some

things his friends did. But now she was silent just

sitting there watching his movements. The nurse

had told him that over a few days that her eyes

had moved, he had hopped that maybe that was a

sign to say that she was coming back to him. He

had seen her eyes move, watching him walk from

one end of the room to the other, watching their

daughter talk about school and boys.

“ I’ll be back in a while.” Alex said kissing her

cheek. Alex stood and headed for the door, he

turned and looked at Allison one last time before

leaving the room. He hadn’t noticed the single

tear that had rolled down her cheek.