Damon

I leaned back into my chair and caught Frank's eyes moving behind his eyelids. I reached to my neck and pulled on the cross necklace seated there, beginning to play with the pendant.

"Do you remember when I got you that?" Frank said with a raspy voice.

I chuckled. "Yeah. It made no sense to me why..." I suddenly looked up to find Frank looking at me with clear eyes.

"You're awake," I forced out after swallowing the lump that appeared in my throat. "Looks like it," he rasped out again. "It's hard to sleep with you fumbling around like that. Not to mention that beeping sound is very...