A Nurse's Healing Touch

Chapter 4: Rushing To Get Back

-Logan's POV-

I walk out of Oliver's room still a bit shaken as to what he told me. His words run rampant in my head, "I wished they would have left me at the bottom of those concrete stairs." It took everything I had not to allow a tear to fall. I wipe my glassy eyes and make a promise to Oliver, "I will be there for you, I wanna show you that you're not alone. I want to be the best friend that you need. I want to be the one you rely on and trust."

After that silent declaration I decided to find the doctor. I walk up to the nurses desk and ask one of the fellow nurses. "Hey, do you know where Doc is? Oliver in the ICU is awake and I want him to check on him, while I'm gone to do a few errands." The nurse smiles, "yeah he just walked to the drug room, and while you're out you might need to change into something besides your scrubs." I nod, "maybe you're right, but first I'm gonna have a talk with him."

I tap the desk then walk to the drug room. I type in my code for the locked door then proceed inside. The doctor was standing at the little carts in the corner of the room. "Hey Doc, I wanted to let you know that Oliver is awake. I also wanted to ask if you could check in with him while I run a few errands for him?" He looks at me with a smile, "of course I'll have to tell him about the emergency surgery and contact the police once again." My eyes widened, "the police, is there any way you could wait just a moment for that? I would like to be here for emotional support." He taps his finger on his chin a moment then replies, "I can only wait a little while Logan, so please hurry. While your gone I'll talk to him." I nod as I say, "You're the best Doc."

I quickly walk out of the room and make my way out of the hospital and out to the parking deck. I get in my little white SUV and crack up the ignition. I quickly drive to my house and jump out of the car and make my way inside. I dash up the stairs and directly into my bedroom where I go straight for my closet. I pull off my scrubs leaving me in my undershirt and underwear. I grab my favorite blue jacket and a pair of nice blue jeans.

I put on the clothes and as I walk out of my bedroom door I see something that I forgot about. It hangs on a little jewelry rack that I put my golden chain necklaces on. This chain is different from all the rest, instead of gold it's black, and instead of plain a little crescent moon charm hangs from it. This necklace I've held onto since high school, simply because Oliver gave it to me as a birthday present when we worked at Billy's Taco Shack together. I smile at it as I replace the chain I'm wearing and delicately put it on.

Before I walk out of the house I check myself in the mirror and for some reason I flash back to how I would dress in high school. This might give Oliver a sense of comfort from the good days in high school. I nod then walk back out of my house and decide to drive to the cafe next. So I get back into my SUV and drive as quickly as I can, without breaking the speed limit.

Once I get there I met with a long line just to get inside the cafe. I feel bad for going past people and a few even give me the stink eye. Once I get inside I see a female bobcat anthro scrambling to keep up pace with all of the customer orders. She looks a bit flustered and even a bit mad. I tap on a small display case that holds a few pastries.

"Ma'am I really need to tell you something." She looks up on for a moment before replying, "sir I know you have probably been waiting awhile, but I am the only one here right now." I watch her face into a scowl, but I don't budge. "I just need to talk to you about one of your workers or coworkers." She immediately stops what she is doing, "Oliver? Where is he?" Her concerned voice throws me off for a moment but I quickly collect myself. "You see ma'am he was in critical condition last night but we have him stable now. I hate to inform you but he won't be able to work for at least a couple of days, thanks to modern medicine."

Her mouth drops, "what happened to him? He was just fine when we walked our separate ways?" I start to reply when a woman basically screams at her, "hello! You still have other customers, your rude bitch!" The bobcat female looks at the rude customer and bares her teeth, "shut the fuck up, I'm just now hearing about my employee being in critical condition. As a matter of fact we are closing today due to low staff and an emergency. So how about you fucking leave." The woman's eyes are wide as the bobcat female screams right back at her, but without a falter the bobcat woman looks at me. "The faster we get them out the faster I can come to visit him."

With everyone out of the cafe both Lyla and I get into my SUV, and high tail it to the hospital. It's been a full two hours since I left and I feel so horrible about leaving Oliver alone. We finally pull into the parking deck and quickly make our way into the hospital. Right as we walk into the emergency room I walk up to the front desk. "It's me again I brought someone with me, how is he doing?" The nurse looks at me, "well Doc said he couldn't wait any longer to contact the police so their here and talking with him now." I hang my head in shame at the fact I couldn't be here for him, but that doesn't stop Lyla.

"Good so their here I can report someone that potentially did this to him. That ass hat came into the cafe yesterday and Oliver immediately shut down and ran to the back." I look at Lyla shocked at what she said, but I don't get to stare for long as she tugs me towards the doors. "Which one is he in so I don't get lost?" I walk to the door and gently open it. There is one officer standing in front of the bed and one standing beside the bed with a notepad and a pen. The officer at the foot of the bed speaks to us. "I'm gonna have to ask you to step out into the hallway until we're done here."

Lyla doesn't listen as she walks up to the officer. She slows her pace once she sees just how bad Oliver is hurt. She covers her mouth and tears begin to well up in her eyes. She turns towards the officer that spoke to us and says, "please catch that bastard. I believe I know who it was. He was a tall tiger anthro his name is Connor. All I know about him is that Oliver has a restraining order against him." The officer nods at Lyla then to the other officer as they both walk her outside to get her statements of what all happened yesterday at the cafe.

I walk up to the bed where Oliver still lays his eyes locked with mine. "I'm so sorry I was gone for so long, but I brought Lyla here. She really wanted to see how you are doing." Oliver breaks eye contact and stares at the ceiling, "great I brought her into this mess too." I giggle a bit then say, "I don't think you have to worry about her, I know she can take care of herself." I then clear my throat and place my hand on the crescent moon charm on my chain. "Do you remember this?" I stand up and lean down just enough so he can see the chain and necklace.

He stares a moment then says, "I do. I can't believe you still have that thing." I smile, "what do you mean, this was the best birthday present I have ever received. It was the birthday I had to work and you were off. You came in with your uniform on, a small elongated black box, and a balloon tied to the box. You embarrassed the hell out of me when you sang happy birthday in front of the entire staff to me."

Oliver chuckles, "yeah, not to mention you were so confused as to why I had my uniform on." I cut in, "yeah, but how was I to expect you to work my shift in my place? You literally never clocked me out and didn't clock yourself in." Oliver smiles, "well I thought you deserved the day off." I smile down at him, "you are such a good kind hearted person Oliver. No one has ever come close to being that nice to me, besides you." I watch the tear fall from his eyes as the smile on his face brightens. "Yeah, that was some good times."