"He's stirring, look"
I'd have recognised that voice anywhere, it was the one I'd been hearing in my sleep, singing to me, talking to me, even threatening me!
It wasn't her though, she'd died after the crash, I knew that, I'd been there at the funeral, along with our parents.
It began as a gradual lightening of the darkness in my head, an awareness of sounds and feelings, there was something warm in my hand, someone was breathing on my cheek.
"Why won't the light come on?"
My eyes just wouldn't open, they couldn't open, the darkness itself was keeping them closed, the thing in my hand moved, it seemed to be squeezing my hand, not unpleasantly, no it was comforting somehow, I wanted to see it, but I couldn't!
"Danny" the voice again,
"Danny, wake up darling, come back to me, please Danny, don't leave me like this"
If I could just open my eyes, I could but a name to the voice, it sounded nice, nice and soft and gentle, I wanted to meet the owner of that voice!
"Danny you bastard, if you die, I'll- - -, I'll bloody well kill you!"
The wetness dripped onto my face, Christ I was thirsty! If only someone would turn the bloody lights on, I could ask them for a drink of water!
They must have heard me, but it wasn't the light that needed to be turned on, it was a dimmer switch that must have been on low, it took a long time to come on though and when it did finally come on fully I saw her, it was her tears that were dripping on my cheek!
Oh fuck no, it's just another dream, it's not her at all, she's dead, I know she's fucking dead!
"DANNY" she screamed out loud, a nurse dropped a tray of surgical instruments, another one dropped a bedpan and everyone in the ward turned to look at me!
"HE'S AWAKE!"
It was her hand that I'd felt in my dream, her breath on my face, it had been her talking to me, but that's bloody ridiculous, she's dead!
She felt real though, she even wore that perfume I'd bought her, the one she said she liked, but the dick head didn't.
Wait a minute though, mum and dad had been at her funeral and that didn't make any kind of sense at all, they'd been dead for over four years!
A little Asian chap was leaning over me placing a stethoscope on my chest,
"Danny, how do you feel?"