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[[File:vigil_9941.jpg|link=Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~|~~right~~|Just 691,800 or so days to go.]]

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* A lot of ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' fanfic has {{spoiler|Mia}} acting like this to {{spoiler|Diego}}, before eventually giving up.

* In ''[[Troper Works/The Private Diary Of Elizabeth Quatermain|The Private Diary Of Elizabeth Quatermain]],'' {{spoiler|Elizabeth}} grows seriously ill and falls into a coma. Her love interest takes a seat next to her bed and will not leave.

* In ''[[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', after Kyon had a bullet surgically extracted, Haruhi, Yuki, Mikuru and Tsuruya stay the night in the hospital keeping him company, even if Yuki had already healed him. As a bonus, both Haruhi and Yuki sleep in the bed with him.

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', after Kyon had a bullet surgically extracted, Haruhi, Yuki, Mikuru and Tsuruya stay the night in the hospital keeping him company, even if Yuki had already healed him. As a bonus, both Haruhi and Yuki sleep in the bed with him.

* Most fanfics that start after the [[Castle]] season 3 ending have Castle doing this for Beckett.

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* After he's injured by a gunshot wound, [[Ghost Whisperer|Melinda stays by her husband Jim's bedside]] for hours while he's recovering from surgery, to the point where she falls asleep. When she awakens, Jim lovingly says hello {{spoiler|unfortunately it's because he's trying to explain as gently as possible that he's died of an aneurysm.}}

* Played straight and subverted in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' where Billy Ray promises to be awake and smiling when his daughter wakes up only to predictably fall asleep. The subversion comes when Jackson tells him that there's pie in the cafeteria. Not only does this wake him up instantly, but he runs off instantly and doesn't come back until after she's left the hospital.

* Series 5 of ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' has what might be the best example: {{spoiler|Auton!Rory spends almost ''two thousand years'' protecting the Pandorica that holds Amy, becoming the [[Shrouded in Myth|legendary Lone Centurion]] in the process.}}

* Series 5 of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has what might be the best example: {{spoiler|Auton!Rory spends almost ''two thousand years'' protecting the Pandorica that holds Amy, becoming the [[Shrouded in Myth|legendary Lone Centurion]] in the process.}}

* Any given episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' has Mulder or Scully doing this.

** This actually has a bit of [[Fridge Logic]] to it. During the entire series, we see Mulder and Scully sitting by each other's respective bedsides without any problems from staff. But during season 8's "Empedocles", Mulder gets kicked out of Scully's hospital room for not being immediate family (specifically, he's not her husband)--repeatedly. Which begs the question...how were they able to do it before?

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Persona 3]]'' liked this one: first, it was [[The Chick|Yukari]] watching over the [[Heroic Mime|Main Character]] during his week-long coma after he first summoned his Persona, saving her life in the process. Later in the game, [[Idiot Hero|Junpei]] would utterly refuse to leave [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Chidori]]'s side throughout her hospitalization/confinement, despite her own insistence. In fact, it's ''because'' of this dedication that Chidori {{spoiler|[[Defrosting Ice Queen|warms up to him]], then realizes that her life is worth something to someone, which goes against everything she believed in while she was a part of Strega}}.

** [[Ridiculously Human Robots|Aigis]] [[Robot Girl|herself]] takes this to a rather [[Stalker With a Crush|creepy]] extreme, watching over the Main Character ''all the time'', to the point of timing herself on how fast she can pick the lock to his room each night.

** [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Aigis]] [[Robot Girl|herself]] takes this to a rather [[Stalker With a Crush|creepy]] extreme, watching over the Main Character ''all the time'', to the point of timing herself on how fast she can pick the lock to his room each night.

* [[The Stoic|Squall Leonheart]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' did this for [[The Chick|Rinoa]], when possession by [[Big Bad|Ultimecia]] left her in a magically-induced coma. Frustrated that he was getting nowhere watching over her at Balamb Garden, though, he took the vigil on the move by carrying her across the world to [[Crystal Spires and Togas|Esthar]].

** In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Tifa did this for Cloud.