Awaened

I have been working on this story for a while now, I am not sure what direction to take it to. Right now there is no sex in this chapter, but If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Also, let me know what you think of my story.

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Chapter1

The first sensation that Alec felt was that he was in a lot of pain. Excruciating pain, the kind you wanted to die from.

"Uggmm.mmm" he tried to speak but couldn't get any words out. Something was in his mouth, his throat, he couldn't breath! He began to panic.

"Calm down," a voice said quietly holding him down. "It's okay."

Then he heard another male voice.

"Oh God!" The voice said. "Go get your mother and the nurse!"

Alec kept trying to move but he couldn't and then there was no pain only blackness.

Katelyn Bree-Tatem heard the ringing and thought it was her dream, she looked over at the clock: 4am. She reached over and grabbed for the phone.

"Hello?" she asked sleepily.

"Katie it's Hannah." the voice on the other end of the phone announced.

"Hannah?" Katie questioned. "What's wrong? Is Tate okay?"

"He woke up Katie!" Hannah laughed. "He came to and then the nurses put him under again because he was in so much pain. Then he woke up again and they took all his tubes out and he's talking and everything!"

Kate sat up in the bed, she was flabbergasted. Her husband had been in a coma for three years. They had been in the middle of a separation and had been planning on getting a divorce. He was now awake. Well Hell!

"Katie are you there?" Hannah asked.

"Yeah." Kate said quietly. "I'm here. When did this happen?"

"About two weeks ago." Hannah told her. "Mom's been showing him pictures and......" Hannah trailed off.

"Why does he need to see pictures Hannah?" Kate asked.

"Mom wanted me to call you and tell you to come back to Texas and get the house ready for him to go home."Hannah said changing the subject.

"Hannah I can't do that." Kate told her. "You know that we were separated and I really don't think he's going to want to see me."

"That's the thing Katie." Hannah told her. "He doesn't remember any of that."

"Excuse me?" Kate said.

"His last memory was of you two at uncle Mikes for the fourth of July." Hannah told her.

"Are you telling me that he's lost his memory?" Kate asked.

"Yes." Hannah told her. "Mom thinks that maybe you two can work things out if his memory doesn't come back."

"Are you freaking kidding me with this?" Kate said angrily. "Alec cheated on me Hannah, and then he told me he never loved me and that I was useless as a wife and in bed." Kate was furious. "He broke my spirit and my heart and your mother wants me to pretend we are a happy couple, no!"

"Kate please." Hannah begged. "He's asking for you and we don't want to upset him anymore then he already is."

"NO!" Katie said. "Absolutely not!"

"Katie what if this makes him not want to get better." Hannah cried. "I want my brother back please Katie you have to do this."

OH, this girl was good. "I will think about it okay." Kate told Hannah. "I can't promise you anything."

"I understand." Hannah told her.

" I have to go." Kate told her and with that she hung up and sat in the dark thinking about what she was going to do.

The next day Kate sat with her two best friends Angie Monicola and Victoria VonSchnider-Billingsworth at their favorite coffee shop.

"What are you going to do?" Tori asked.

"She's going to go and show the jerk what he is missing and why." Angie told them.

"I really don't want to see him." Kate told the girls. "The last time I saw him he was so mean and it hurts. What if I am just to bitter and I can't pull this off."

"I'll come with you." Angie told her.

"What?"

"I don't have anything better to do." Angie laughed. "Why not? You need moral support and I need a vacation."

"Are you serious?" Kate said hopeful.

"When do we leave?" Angie asked.

Chapter 2

"Mom?" Alec asked in a whisper to the room.

Gloria Tatem walked to her sons bedside.

"What is it sweet heart?" she asked him.

"Where is Katie?" he asked. "I wanna talk to my wife."

"She'll be here soon." Gloria told him. "She talked to your sister last night and she said she would be here by supper time."

"Wake me when she gets here will ya?" Alec asked sleepily.

"I will." Gloria told him and went and sat back beside the window.

When Alec woke again it was dark and he was slightly disoriented. "Mom?" he asked again to the room.

"She's gone home for the night Alec." a recognizable voice said to him.

"Katie?" he questioned.

"It's me Alec." she said quietly.

"Come to where I can see you baby." he whispered.

Kate moved slowly to the bedside and sat beside it so he could see her. "God I missed you." he said and tried to grab her hand but she pulled it from him and scooted slightly away.

"You cut your hair." he stated. "I like it."

"Thanks." she said and stared at the floor.

Alec stared at this person who was supposed to be his beautiful bubbly wife who was never at a loss of words, this was someone else. This person had cut her long beautiful hair all off to an uneven bob, this person didn't smile at him, and she wouldn't look him in the eye or touch him or really even talk. Something wasn't right.

"What's going on Katie?" Alec asked.

Kate looked at him. She pasted a fake smile on her face and tried to grab his hand but this time he pulled back. "Nothing is wrong." she lied.

"Then why are you barely speaking to me?" he asked. "Why haven't you kissed me sense we haven't kissed in three years, or touched me or at the very least yelled at me for being so careless and stupid!"

"I'm just tired and worried about you Alec." she continued to lie.

"Bullshit!" he yelled. "What the fuck is going on Katie?"

"Will you calm down." she shushed him. "Nothing is wrong damn it!"

"You don't curse Katie." he said angrily. "Tell me what's going on now or I will yell this whole fucking hospital down!"

"I said nothing is wrong!" she said angrily. "Will you calm down."

"Oh yeah, nothings wrong? Then where have you been Katie?" he asked.

"What?" she asked stalling.

"You heard me." he said. "Where have you been for the last 3 weeks sense I woke up?"

Katie was quiet. She looked at her feet. Damn, he thought, this is bad.

"A wife is usually at her husbands side when she finds out that he woke up after three fucking years Katie." he said angrily trying to sit up. Katie tried to help but he pushed her away. "Where were you?"

"In New York on business." she told him. "I am an event planner and I had to go to NY for fashion week."

Alec was quiet and just stared at her making her squirm."Tell me you love me." he finally said.

"What?" she asked. Hoping he had not just asked what she thought he had.

"Tell me you love me Katie." he said quietly while practically holding his breath.

"Alec, you need some rest." she told him trying to defuse the situation. "I will be right here when you wake up, but right now you need to go to sleep."

"You can't tell me can you?" Alec said angrily. "Why is that Katie, because you don't love me anymore?"

"Alec please." Kate begged. "This isn't the time or the place for this."

"What happened Kate?" Alec questioned. "Why did you fall out of love with me? What happened." she heard his voice crack and wanted to cry too. "I know I have been gone a long time...."

"That has nothing to do with any of this Alec. But, this is not the time nor the place to talk about our marriage." Kate tried to reason again..

"What happened Katie?" he begged. "Was it me? What did I do?"

"Alec." she tried.

"Just fucken' tell me Katie!" he yelled.

"You cheated on me Alec!" she yelled at him. "Are you happy now? You fucked another women while we were together and then you told me you never really loved me and that I was useless in bed." Kate began to cry. "There damn it! Are you happy that you know?"

After what seemed like forever he whispered. "Jesus I'm sorry."

"Yeah." she laughed bitterly. "Me too."

"Sorry just doesn't seem to be enough in this situation does it?" he asked closing his eyes.

"No, it doesn't." Kate said bluntly. "It never will be Alec and as soon as you get up and around we will get our divorce started again."

"We were getting a divorce?" he asked.

"We had been separated 6 months before your accident." she told him. "I live in New York now and you live here."

"That's why it took mom so long to get you here." he said quietly. "You didn't want to come."

"No, I didn't" she told him honestly. "But my friend Angie came with me and so I feel better then I would have if I had come alone."

"I think I want to rest now." Alec said quietly. "You don't have to stay you know. you can go do whatever you need to do."

He looked so sad and vulnerable that Kate wanted to kiss him and make him feel better. "I'll stay. Just sleep."