he held onto her hand and stroked her face as he continued to hear the sound. He put his forehead on hers like he did with their first kiss, the memories came flooding back. He watched her every moment. The flatlined continued for a few more seconds before the heart monitor started back on. Jamie was in shock. He planted a kiss on her forehead, "that's my girl" She was breathing on her own without a ventilator.

Danny walked into the room a few minutes later to see a smile on Jamie's face. "She breathing on her own," Danny said with excitement.

"Yeah," Jamie said with a smile on his face. "Now I just need her to wake up."

"You have your party tomorrow, don't you?" Danny asked.

Jamie looked over at him, "yeah, how do you know about that?"

"Eddie invited us. She told me you were only having a few people and didn't want it to be boring."

Jamie let out a laugh, "yeah, well that's Eddie for ya."

The nurse interrupted them, "she seems to be stable if anything changes or the heart monitor starts to go off a little, call us in right away."

"Thank you," Jamie said and went back to talking with Danny, "I think I'm gonna cancel though. It wouldn't be the same without her." He admitted.

"Yeah, if you're not going to enjoy it…"

"Right now, I'm just focused on her waking up. One step at a time." Jamie said adjusting himself in the seat. "I went through her locker the other day, and I found the birthday card she was giving me by accident." He said and handed him the card to read.

"Jamie, this is more than some kind of best friend card. How have you not taken the hint yet?"

Jamie looked at Danny, "oh I have, she admitted it to me"

Danny looked at him like he was some kind of idiot, "you really aren't the smartest kid in the bunch are you?"

Jamie chuckled, "guess not"

Frank walked into the ICU to see Jamie asleep on the chair, with his feet dangled on her bed and arms crossed. The sound of the door closing startled, Jamie. "Hey," he said to his dad.

"I see you've found your new living space," he said as a joke.

"Yeah," he laughed, "I'm not taking her out of my site," he said with a yawn.

"Jamie, you need to home and sleep."

"Dad, I'm not leaving her. Not until she wakes up at least." he insisted.

"Ok, well then, what about work. Are you ever going to go back?" He questioned him. Jamie felt like he was being interrogated.

"Dad, I have 5 years of sick days saved up and I'm not allowed back on work yet for leaving the scene. I'm not leaving her. After what happened to her. Not happening." Jamie told him.

"All right." He said with a sigh, "how's she doing?" He said as he looked at Eddie still motionless except for her chest rising and falling.

"She's keeping up. They were taking her off life support and I didn't think she would be able to make it, and here we are." Jamie said as he stood up to stretch out his leg. "I don't know how I would cope if I lost her."

"At least she breathing on her own. That's the first step. Keep me posted."

"I will," Jamie said as he watched him leave the room.

"All right tough girl, what do I have to do to get you to wake up?" He said to her before he planted a kiss on her lips and fell asleep back on the chair.

Jamie woke up to the sound of Danny, Erin, Frank, Henry and all the kids in Eddie's room singing Happy birthday to him. They had a cake, candles, and presents all waiting for him. When they finished singing, "uncle Jamie, what are you going to wish for." Nicky asked.

"Eddie to wake up." He said as he looked over at her and sighed.

They cut the cake and continued to pass around a piece for everyone. They grabbed the bag of presents and placed them in front of his feet to open.

All the chatter and noise seemed to do something. Eddie's eyes started to flutter open, except nobody noticed because they were all talking with each other. Her throat was dry so she couldn't say anything. She was confused why everyone was here and then she saw the happy birthday balloons.

Danny took a glimpse at Eddie and saw her eyes were opened. She was sitting still, still not moving, probably too weak. Danny smiled at her, "Jamie," he said as he looked back over to Eddie.

"Eddie?" He asked as a smile drew an across her face and tears started to roll down both of their faces. He immediately wrapped his arms around her. She still hasn't said a word. When he let go, she tried to say something, but she just ended up having a coughing fit. Jamie grabbed the water cup next to her bed and fixed the bendy straw so it was facing towards to her mouth and he held up for her to drink.

"Happy Birthday," she said sweetly with a large grin across her face. Jamie and everyone else in the room laughed when she spoke, it was the first thing she had said to anyone in a week. Everyone left the room to give them some privacy.

Jamie sat on the bed with his legs dangled down, he leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "you were my birthday wish" and placed a kiss on her lips. She kissed him back, their foreheads on each other and they started to laugh. "I love you," he told her which made her start to cry, happy tears.

"I love you too," she responded.

Jamie woke up with his arm numb. He felt something soft against his face, Eddie. Her hair was dangled all over him and her body was on top of his arm.

Eddie was fast asleep. When Jamie tried to move his arm out from under her she started to awake and groaned. She fluttered her eyes opened and saw Jamie.

"Hey, go back to sleep. I didn't mean to wake you." He said softly not to startle her. Jamie adjusted his arm and wrapped it back around her. She placed her head on his chest nuzzled her body to fit his. He leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead.

She slept for a good hour before she woke up shaking, her breathing was uneven, she was slightly moving around which startled Jamie awake.

"Hey, hey, Eddie." He said trying to wake her up without scaring her.

Her eyes shot open and she lifted herself up and looked around the room before she saw Jamie behind her. She broke down.

"Shhh, shh, it's okay" he said to her as he held her in his arms, not letting go.

Renzulli walked in about an hour later, Eddie was still asleep.

"Hello!" Renzulli said in excitement.

Jamie immediately put his hand up in front of his lips, motioning him to be quiet, but it was already too late. Eddie's eyes opened in exhaust. She stretched her arms out a little and looked up at Jamie before slowly turning her head to look at Renzulli.

A small smile took over Eddie's face. "Hey Sarge" she said, her voice hoarse.

"I'm glad to see you awake Janko, you gave us a scare." He said as he walked over to the side of her bed.

She laughed again before she started to cough. Jamie grabbed the water from next to the bed and carefully placed it in her hands. Her color was started to come back, but she was still weak and out of it. "What happened?" She asked.

Renzulli looked at Jamie, "you didn't tell her yet?"

"I was going to, but she just woke up yesterday and was exhausted. Plus, i didn't want to overwhelm her with everything." Jamie said.

"I'll let Jamie explain it to you later." Renzulli said. "Im glad your ok." He told her. "I also gave Jamie permission to look in your locker."

Eddie facial expression was so surprised, "wait why?" she asked and then it hit her a second later, "wait, no you didn't see your birthday card did you?" she questioned.

Jamie didn't answer he just stared into space.

"Jamie!' she said trying to be upset as she pushed him weakly.

"I'm sorry, i was just searching, and then i saw it, and… well," he told her.

Renzulli laughed. "My fault Janko" He said and moved on to a different conversation, "so, when do you think you'll be able to go home?" he asked.

Jamie answered for her, because he knew she was going to argue, "she's not going home anytime so soon. We thought you were dead for over a week. I need to make sure nothing is gonna happen to you if we go back home." he said to both of them.

"Sarge, when can i get back to work?" she asked annoyed, "Dad over here is being controlling." she said as she pointed her fingers towards him.

Renzulli was not expecting that, "oh Janko, i think you're still a little woozy from the drugs." he said laughing along with Jamie.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry." He said to her as she was trying to make a pouty face. "I'm glad you're doing well." He told her.

"I'm hungry," she complained to Jamie.

Jamie looked at her and shook his head, "look who's back to normal." He said jokingly.

She pouted, "please, I'm serious. I'm starving."

"Can you wait a little?" He asked her, "another hour at least?"

"AN HOUR" she said as she dragged on her words as she spoke. "I haven't eaten normal food in over a week, and you want me to wait an hour?" She said, "not happening!"

Jamie laughed, "all right, let's go find you some food." He helped Eddie out of the bed as she held onto his arms.

"Where are you taking me?" She asked as he continued to roll her around the hall.

"To get you food, like you asked." he said as he turned the corner.

Eddie was still facing Jamie when they came to their destination. The table was set up like a normal sunday dinner for Jamie and the rest of the Family. Everyone was waiting for Eddie to arrive. The food was cooked and placed.

When Eddie turned around, she was in shock, "Jamie?" she said softly as she turned her head back around to look at him.

"You said you were hungry, so I passed on the word." He told her as he looked at his dad and he nodded his head to him. "You were going to make it to one of these one way or another so…" he said and everyone around him laughed.