Jessica awakens

"I'm not sure how much help I can be...I'm just a programmer, nothing more," you muttered as the four of you were in the room (Deborah, yourself, and the two doctors) while Sarah, having been sedated hours earlier, was still asleep. "I mean, I haven't spoken to her since before the accident. I don't know what I can do to be helpful."

Deborah stood quietly at the bedside where Jessica/Sarah lay still asleep and said nothing as Saunders and Kerry stationed themselves at the other side next to the monitors and machines, giving you the awkward place of standing at the foot of the bed, right in full view if she were to open her eyes. "You're here, at the very least, that counts for something," Kerry noted and then looked at Deborah. "We can only..."

Jessica's eyes slowly started to flutter and the signs on the machine gave you ample notice that her brainwave and heart rate were steadying and the moment her eyes opened, there was a brief moment where she looked first to the left, at the doctors, and then rolled her head to the right, where Deborah stood with a worried look, before she blinked. "W-What..."

"How are you doing?" she whispered softly, Kerry noting that you had taken a step back from the bed and Saunders just shook his head ever so slightly at you, catching the **** nature of your body's reaction to avoiding the potential conflict and instead he leaned forward.

"You were out for a few moments. We thought it would be best that you were awake, though."

"W-Why...?" she was still groggy from the medicine and you took another half-step back before Deborah glanced at you in your direction, giving you a chance to see the look, the expectation, perhaps the only time a look that a mother could give to someone to step up and do something. "I thought..."

"He's here."

Jessica looked blankly at her mother for a moment and then followed her eyesight over to the foot of the bed, where you stood, and there was a moment where she just stared at you, unable to blink (or, rather, didn't blink at all) and you just froze, not moving or willing to say anything or do anything. Another moment before she looked at you again. "H-Hey..."