Daniel was in Rhys's arms not waking, Rhys started to get really worried. 

"Daniel? Wake up! Please..." No answer Daniel didn't wake up. Rhys saw that his breathing was getting faint rally faint and shallow and thought it had to be his disease. Rhys got out his phone and searched for the nearest Hospital. He saw that the nearest Hospital was about a mile and a half away and started to run he didn't even care that the hospital was that far away, he ran and ran.

After running while holding Daniel for 30 minutes he finally got the hospital, he didn't even hesitate for a second and ran into the reception desk. 

"Can I get a doctor right now please!"

"S-sir please calm down!"

"CALM DOWN?! MY BO-FRIEND IS ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN?!"

"Sir I understand, but we need to do some registering before we can get him a doctor."

"Look here...you will get me a god damn doctor right now!"

"What is all this commotion?!" A guy from behind Rhys shouted.

"Are you a doctor?"

"Yes, I am one, what is it you need?" 

"My friend his breathing is really shallow!" The doctor placed his two fingers on Daniels wrist to check his pulse.

"GET A BED STRETCH RIGHT NOW! AND YOU... HIS FRIEND IS IN A CRITICAL STATE CAN'T YOU EVEN TELL! GET A NEW RECEPTIONIST WILL YA?!" A bed stretch came running towards Rhys and they gently placed Daniel on the bed stretch and wheeled him away. Rhys tried to force himself through into the surgery room but they wouldn't let him so they just told him to stay outside and call a family member.

Rhys sat outside and fumbled through his phone checking if he miraculously had Daniel's Fathers' number. After about 30 minutes of fumbling through his phone Rhys gave up and stood up to see if he could manage to look through a window of some sort to check on Daniel. Sadly, the only one he could see was facing directly at the corner and couldn't see Daniel at all. Rhys sat down and felt that his palms were sweating tremendously. 

2 hours passed and Daniel still hadn't come out of the ICU when the door opened and the same doctor as last time came out. 

"DOCTOR! What's happening?" The doctor gave a look of sadness and tried to hide that fact but did it really badly. "What's wrong with him? Is he in critical state due to his disease? Come on tell me please!"

"I don't think you should be the one to know..." And walked off sadly.

"TELL ME! PLEASE!" Rhys chased after the doctor and stopped him in his path. 

"I'm sorry sir..."

"I'm not letting you go until you tell me."

"He, he only has 2 months left." At this moment all things stopped. Time. Noise. His heart-beating. Everything. The only thing that was moving was Daniels heart beating his life away. "Si-sir. Are you ok? Hey, breath in and out slowly."

"Let me see him." Rhys said meekly. 

"You can't at the state your in I'm afraid."

"LET ME SEE HIM!" Rhys said louder nearly in tears. The doctor carefully took him to the room in which Daniel was lying unconscious in.

"I-I'll call a family member. Could you tell me his full name please?"

"D-Daniel Clifford..."

"Thank you." And with that the doctor left. 

"Daniel...Daniel..." Rhys said quietly walking towards his bed. He collapsed down beside his bed. "I'm so sorry, I'm sorry!" Endless tears were now falling everything he had ever wanted was slowly withering apart. His nightmare he had was coming true he thought. "If it weren't for me you wouldn't have ended up like this, if it weren't for me you wouldn't have been nearly killed, if it weren't for me you woul-wouldn't have just t-two months le..." Rhys choked on the last word because he couldn't say it out loud. Rhys carefully took Daniels hand and placed it on top of his.

Daniels perspective: 

I could hear someone call my name, I couldn't recognise the voice though. I was in a dark room or so I think it was a room. Some part of me thought that I was floating but that was just impossible. Yet again the voice kept on saying they were sorry. For some reason the voice that I couldn't recognise was very comforting. The voice then stopped and I started to feel a large thump in my chest. It was painful I let out a cry or so I tried to but no sound came out. The thumping in my heart got louder and more harsh and started to get ore painful. I was trying to scream but no sound was coming out, now the thumping in my chest felt like hard concrete slaps. It was even more painful but I couldn't scream, cry or shout. I looked down at my hands and they weren't normal they were coloured in black and looked a lot like ash. My hands scared me and I wanted to escape. It must be a nightmare I though, it must be. Nothing human would have hands like this.

"But your not human!" A voice boomed from behind me.

"Who are you?" A hideous withered looking man came out that had the same coloured hair and eyes as me.

"I'm you!"

"You! Are me?! Don't make jokes like that!"

"Oh but I am. This is you, in 2 months."

"I don't believe you! I'm not going to look like that because-because..."

"Because Rhys?"

"You! How do you know him?"

"Because...I am you!" The figured walked closer and closer I wanted to scream and tell it to go away but I couldn't speak again. And then I woke up.

Author's POV: 

Daniel started to open his eyes confused as to where he was he saw Rhys lying beside him, head on Daniels lap. Daniel looked closer and it had seem that Rhys was crying because the outside of his were swollen and red. He lightly touched his face and Rhys flinched and slowly opened his eyes. 

"Daniel?"

"Yeah? Where am I?"

"Doctor! Doctor! HE'S AWAKE!"

"What?" Daniel was genuinely confused and looked around and saw that he was wired up and he was wearing hospital clothes and was in a hospital bed. A doctor came running in and immediately checked my pulse. Looked at my blood and then walked out. "Hey! Rhys what's happening?"

"Oh...you fainted in the restaurant."

"No but, but I was chasing after you in the woods and then I fainted. And then Leonard helped me to the park bench and you...you... I can't remember."

"Daniel what ridiculous dream are you having? You fainted in the restaurant, Leonard drove us to the hospital and drove back home" Daniel looked at Rhys and felt that he was definitely hiding something because there was more to the story than just Daniel fainting. He felt the whole woods dream to be so real. His leg was still sore. He looked down at his legs and saw that there was a big scratch in it. 

"But the scar!"

"A cup fell on top of you when you were having tea and the cup cracked causing you the scar. Daniel you seem a bit confused I'll go call for a doctor to check on you."

"No, no I'm alright I think I just need to stop mixing reality and dreams together."

I'm sorry Daniel but this is the only way I can protect you. Rhys thought in his head.

"Should I still get a doctor?"

"No, no I'm fine!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, sorry about that."

"Oh right ok." A message popped up from Rhys's phone he checked to look at the message and it was from Daniels Father. "Hey, Daniel I need to step out for a minute."

"Okay!" Rhys walked out and saw that Daniels Father James was standing at the front desk looking even worse than he last saw him. Red swollen eyes, scruffy hair and dark circles under his eyes. Rhys felt sorry for Daniels father as he was going through so much. Fist his wife and now Daniel. 

"Rhys... It's good that your here with Daniel at this minute...I'm sorry." James said his voice cracked and Rhys could see that James was trying his best t stay strong, but Rhys couldn't blame him as it was going to be such a hard time for him. If Rhys felt like this it must feel 100x more worse to James.

"It's okay take your time."

"He is such a kind hearted boy and to believe that something like this could happen to him." Rhys helped James to sit down, Rhys didn't know what to do. While Rhys was comforting James they didn't notice that Daniel had actually been there the whole time. Daniel actually knew about the 2 months thing because he had already asked the nurse how long he had before Rhys came to visit him, the nurse reluctantly told him how long he had. Daniel had already figured that he wasn't gong to have long because he could always feel his heartbeat weakening, at first Daniel didn't to believe it but he decided to accept reality after a while. 

"Yes, he really is a kind hearted boy..."

"Rhys Thank you very much, I couldn't do a lot for him in his last 16 years but these few weeks I could tell that Daniel had more fun than his 16 years he had to deal with me."

"Si-James you are an amazing Father the act that you are trying to stay strong for him is more than enough, I think Daniel believes that too because without you Daniel wouldn't be able to get this far. Daniel is very happy and lucky to have you so don't say such a thing. And plus there is so much...we can all do in-in," Rhys took a deep breath and said, "2 months...like, like..."

"Rhys it's okay you can let it out." James said patting his back. 

"ITS JUST FAR TOO SHORT! I JUST FINALLY GOT TO SEE HIM AGAIN AND, AND...I'm so sorry..." Rhys cried out loudly the tears were flowing down like water falls, he had tried to stay strong but no matter, he just couldn't. The person he longed for is going to leave Rhys in 2 months, Rhys just couldn't accept it.