By my Side ~ Tom Felton fanfic

Chapter 60: Apologies

'They aren't letting anyone in the room anymore, though. Not even Naomi.' Matt sighed in the elevator back to the floor where her room was. 'The doctor tried not to show it, but you can tell he was pretty angry and stressed.'

Just as the elevator door slid open, doctors came out of her room. Without thinking, I dashed to them and begged. 'Please, can I - can I just see her for a minute? Just one minute. Please.'

They glanced at each other for a second and turning back to me, nodded. 'Just a minute.'

'Thank you so much.'

I pushed the door open to find her already looking at me from the bed. I thought I've done enough crying for a lifetime, but it still came. Her face was extraordinarily pale, but as soon as she saw me she smiled weakly, yet softly through her mask.

'Are you okay?' I asked, almost in a whisper.

She nodded and slowly lifted up her hand but it was shaking terribly.

'Don't...' My voice shook as I quickly took her hand. 'Stay still...'

'You... came back...' Her lips moved in those words. I'm glad I was alright with lipreading.

'Of course I'll came back.' My voice shook, squeezing her hand gently. 'I'm so sorry...'

She shook her head. 'Me... too.' She said silently.

'You don't have anything to apologise about...'

She just shook her head again.

'I do...'

'For what?'

She just sighed (or laughed) and smiled weakly.

But straight after that, the door opened.

'Already...?' I said weakly, looking at the nurse.

'Unfortunately.' She said with sympathy.

I pursed my lips as I looked turned back to Sakura, but she weakly squeezed my hand back and mouthed, 'It's okay.'

Looking straight into those soft brown eyes, I eventually nodded. 'I'll be outside.'

She nodded too. 'Look after Timber as well.'

'I will, don't worry.' I stood up and planted a kiss on her forehead. 'I love you.'

'I love you too.'

'Thank you.' I murmured to the nurse as she held the door open for me. Until she closed it, Sakura and I didn't take our eyes off each other and that made me feel much better than before. The best feeling I've felt in a while.

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A week had past when the doctors lifted the visitor and speaking restriction. During that week, there were so much articles put up on the internet and everyone was talking about it. There were ridiculous numbers of paparazzis out in front of Cedars-Sinai and it was a struggle trying to get past them without surrounded by the clicking and flashing of cameras, microphones being jabbed at your face and get bombarded with questions.

There were millions of people sending get-well messages to Sakura and many commenting about Catherine. Some were quite mad with me, but I managed to ignore them. As long as I was talking and in better shape with Sakura, I couldn't careless about anything else.

So many people had landed in LA to visit her. Some were Dan, Rupert, Matt L, Bonnie, Evy, David Yates, David Heyman, Chris Colombus, Alfonso, John Williams, Kosuke, Seiya, Thomas, Hana, Kanae, Aikihiro, Keita, Ian, Samantha, Destiny, Tarlee, Jackie, Alex, Chris (my brother), Renée, Jasmine, my parents, Junko, and her parents (well... you know who I mean).