As Serena entered the room Anya's looming 'shadow' faded and was gone but his heart was still pounding in his chest and he was still desperately confused. "Serena..." She took his shaking hand and some of the fight slipped out of him, a wary calm falling on him. "I'm.. am I at Academy? I keep seeing the tunnels... I..." He swallowed hard and turned his eyes towards her. "You're alive... I managed to... thank Vlad."

He was trying desperately to peace things together from what he remembered, having Serena there helped him to accept truth rather than delusion. Everywhere he looked though, he could see auras and they half blinded him to anything else. He could see the shadows lingering around Serena's aura and shuddered, "I'm sorry... I couldn't lose you too..."

If it weren't for him those shadows wouldn't be lingering around her... He had no defenses right now, no way of controlling himself so he could feel what she was feeling and realized that his fear was leaking into her. For her sake he tried to bring it under control. Still, he was seeing things... Sometimes the walls seemed to go to stone, like the tunnels... other times they crawled with darkness. He shivered, "This... this should be worse..."

The nurse, seeing that he'd calmed answered that one. "We've had other Spirit users here to help you a little at a time..."

So, they'd kept him from going completely insane then... but would he ever come back fully? He didn't know if his sanity would last against seeing things like this... hearing everyone's thoughts and... He shook his head, trying to focus on Serena. "Anna... Gunner... do we know if they're alright?"

Again the nurse answered, "Anna is fine though she had a concussion and a dislocated shoulder, Gunner is awake and still recovering he... lost a lot of blood. I would imagine that they're... catching up."

Obviously the way Anna had been clinging to Gunner when the other Guardians came in had given them away

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Anna blushed, "Hahaha... but actually true. I was scared that I'd lost YOU. You were so pale and you wouldn't wake up..."

She slid her arms around him, resting her head on his chest and listening to the comforting beat of his heart. He was okay, they were okay... Seb would be alright. She took a breath and bit at her lip. "I meant it Gun... I love you. I don't know..." She took another deep breath and continued, "I don't know how I'm going to deal with losing you at Graduation..." She shook her head, "I've... I've been considering requesting Basil as my permanent ward instead of Seb... He's got Serena and... he's got you. He doesn't need me to and if we... if we split I don't think I could handle seeing you every day... not without... complicating things..."