Are you tough enough?

Promises

A: "Robert, it's getting late and you are way past visiting hours. You should probably head home."
R: "No no no, I'm staying. I can sleep here, on the couch."
A: "You're not gonna get any sleep on that small couch." She chuckled. "and besides, you gotta go to work tomorrow?"

R: "Oh crap! I - I completely forgot, I wanted to take some time off, but I didn't assign anyone to cover for me."
A: "So you want to sit here and watch me?" She chuckled a little again. "Come on, go home get some sleep and then safe some lives tomorrow or well in your case do the paperwork. You can come by after, I'll still be here then. Or maybe I'm even home by then."

R: "You're really gonna annoy dr. Pierce so long until she discharges you, won't you?" He tuck a strand of hair that had fallen out of her bun behind her ear.
A: "Meee? Never!" She smiled at him.
R: "Hmhm, sure. Alright I'll go but on one condition." Andy looked at him questioning while he got up from his place on her bed. "You'll call me after dr. Pierce was here in the Morning and Tell me everything and you stop begging for her to discharge you when she doesn't think it's a good idea."

A: "So two."
R: "What?"
A: "Two conditions then."
R: "Well yea but - okey stop distracting me so you Dont have to make a promise."
A: "It was worth a try."

R: "Hm, sounds like I am staying here then." He sat back down on the bed.
A: "alright, alright, I promise." She threw her hands in the air to show she was surrendering.
R: "Andy..." he didn't believe a word she said.

Andy took his hand and looked him in the eyes.
A: "Robert, I promise I'll call and I'll promise I'll do whatever she tells me to okey?"
R: "Okey, I love you." He leaned forward and kissed her soft lips.
A: "I love you too and now get going."
As Robert got off the bed she slapped on his butt and he laughed walking out of the room.

Now this, this was more of the Andy he knew. Her energy was coming back and Robert could see in the light returning to her eyes that she was doing better. Nonetheless working a shift while his wife was in the hospital would not be the easiest.

Before he made his way home he asked a nurse if Dr. Pierce was still here. The nurse called her and after a little waiting she came.
P: "Sullivan, how can I help."
R: "Uhm it's just, I know she's doing better but I am on shift tomorrow and just in case - in case things change, I was wondering if someone could contact me."

P: "Of course we will. she's doing fine and we are just waiting for her bp to go down more to release her."
R: "Okey, thank you. Good night."
P: "Good night."
He trusted Andy but just in case things got out of control, he wanted to be sure that someone would tell him.

P: "Good morning, how are you feeling Andy?"
A: "I feel great and very ready to get home."
P: "You do?" She raised her eyebrows sceptical.

A: "I- fine you caught me."
P: "Well looking at your stats that wasn't very hard. Bp went up a little again, your Temperature is back. We are still waiting on your blood results from earlier. For now I just wanna monitor you closely before we get the results."
A: „okey."

P: „Dr. Schmitt will check in on you every 30minutes."
A: „Well, that will be fun. How come he's always on your service?"
P: „Don't tell him I said that but he's actually not that bad." she smiled and walked out.

Andy kept turning her phone around in her hand. She couldn't stop fidgeting. Roberts Shift had started by now and she promised to call and she definitely would but she couldn't figure out what to tell him.