For Your Eyes Only [h.s.]

Ch. 77 - The Present

Adelaide Young
July 7, 2022
3:00 pm
St. Thomas' Hospital

"There she is!" Ella shouts, sitting on the edge of the bed, blocking Macey from view. JT is leaning up against the wall looking out the window. Ingrid seems to be serving up food from a buffet they've made along some of the side tables in the space.

"What's going on?" I ask them, excited they're all here but confused.

"We were waiting for you to start the party!" I hear, but no one I can see is speaking to us.

"What?" I fall back into Harry's arms and I hear him too say, "holy shit."

Ella shifts and reveals Macey to me, sitting up and smiling with a burger in her hands.

"Oh my-"

"Ok yeah let's get it all out of the way; oh my god, she's awake, what in the world, we never could have lived without her, how does she look so hot even after being in a coma for a week, yada yada." Macey says, rolling her eyes at me and smiling. Looking at her, aside from the hospital gown and oxygen on her nose, just by looking you would have no idea she's been here for a week; recovering from a stray gunshot in a coma.

I just look at her standing, frozen in place as she takes a huge bite of her burger. "Just get the hell over here and give me a hug." She tells me while chewing, and so I do. She sticks out one arm to me, the other remains close to her body, the only sign of pain from the wound. 

"Oh my God." I can't help but say, "oh my God!"

"Ooh, not so tight girlie, it's been a long week of sleeping." She tells me, patting my back. 

I lean down next to the bed, grabbing her hands and holding them in mine. Somehow afraid that the moment I let go she'll fall back into her sleep state and I won't get her back again.

"How you hanging mate?" She says, looking up to Harry standing behind me. He leans over me, and kisses her on the cheek.

"We just starting missing you... it got quiet." He admits, reluctantly before returning to my side. 

"I've heard." She tells us, grabbing at some fries on the tray in front of her. 

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I remember some of what you've been talking to me about."

"You heard us?!" 

"Some of it. I know baby Annie ok healthy and safe in there." I told her her name when we were trapped in that room together. "I know you've got batshit at home and need to calm the hell down." I look at Harry, scolding him with a look.

"Well, you need your rest even if you are out of the hospital." He says, shrugging his shoulders in defeat. 

"I know Turner's been trying to contact me?" She says, quieter than before. 

Everyone just looks at one another. It's the number one thing we've all been discussing with each other. Turner was arrested of course, but he's been trying so hard through every means he can to get word to Macey. To check on her. 

Tell her he cares about her. 

"I think he's still in jail." Niall says and I have to elbow Harry in the side when he starts to laugh. Then it goes quiet, and the electricity between Niall and Macey palpable. 

"Well, I think we've just about stayed our welcome..." Ella says, allowing the awkwardness to wash through the room, Macey and Niall still locked in on one another.