What Now?

Road to Recovery

•THAT NIGHT•
•AMELIA POV•
I woke up and my scar was in a lot of pain. Owen was asleep on the couch.

"Owen." I said with clenched teeth. He woke up and saw the pain on my face.

"Amelia, what hurts?" He asked, walking over to me and squeezing my hand.

"My scar." I said as my voice broke. He got in the bed with me and calmed me down a bit.

"I'll go get a nurse." He said.

"No, I want you to stay. Just press the button." I said. Owen pressed the button and a nurse came in and adjusted the pain meds.

"Does that feel better?" He asked. I nodded as I drifted off.

•OWEN POV•
•THE NEXT MORNING•
I woke up in the hospital bed with Amelia. I guess I fell asleep after she did. Bailey came in with a group of interns.

"Olson, present." She said.

"Amelia Hunt, liver transplant post op day 2. The patient is doing well with light liquids and is allowed to try full liquids." The intern said.

"Good." Bailey said, taking the interns out. I went to the gift shop and bought some roses. When I got back she was about to be fed some yogurt by Penny. Amelia wasn't even looking at her. I set the roses down.

"Thank you Dr. Blake, I can take it from here." I said as she left. I gave Amelia a kiss and carefully laid by her.

"You still wanna eat this?" I asked. She nodded. I got a small spoonful and she took a little bite. She took a few more.

"I'm done." She said. I nodded and threw it out.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Tired, bored." She said.

"So no pain?" I asked.

"Nope." She said.

"You wanna walk around a bit?" I asked.

"Sure." She said. I got everything ready and kneeled down in front of her. She grabbed my hands and grabbed onto the cart with one other hand. She stumbled a little bit. I wrapped my arm around her tightly and placed my other hand on her shoulder.

"I've got you honey." I said. She nodded and I kissed her cheek. She walked around more than yesterday and back to the room. I helped her get back into bed and Richard texted me saying he was coming in to visit. Amelia signaled me over to her.

"I'm gonna fall asleep, hold me." She said. I climbed into the bed with her and wrapped an arm around her head and she rested her head on my shoulder. I kissed her head and stroked my hand through her hair. Richard came in and sat down.

"How is she?" He asked.

"She's been tired a lot, she sleeps prettymuch the whole day, but that's normal." I said. I looked down at Amelia and she was fast asleep. I smiled.

"Sleep well beautiful." I whispered to her.

"Is she asleep right now?" He asked.

"Yeah." I said. We chatted for a few more minutes until he was paged. He left and the door shook Amelia awake.

"Hey, go back to sleep." I whispered. She nodded and fell back asleep. Addison and her husband showed up in the room.

"We came as soon as we could. How is she?" She asked in a whisper, trying not to wake her.

"She's good. Still scared, but I've been able to calm her down. She sleeps a lot too." I said.

"I have the rest of her L.A. friends out there, we can come in groups if you want." She said.

"No it's okay, bring them in, just stay quiet, she had a bad night last night so she needs to sleep." I said. They nodded and the rest of them came in.

"Can I have a refresher on names? I'm sorry I just can't remember given everything that's been going on these past few days." I said.

"Of course. I'm Addison, this is my husband Jake. That's Cooper and his wife Charlotte. Here we have Sam and his wife Naomi. This is Violet, and that's Sheldon, Amelia's best friend from L.A." Addison said. We chatted for an hour or so until I felt Amelia's head move. I looked at her and she was rubbing her eyes followed by a yawn.

"Hey sweetie, you need anything?" I asked. She still didn't see her L.A. friends as she was still snuggled up with me.

"Can I have some water and some soup?" She asked.

"Yeah. I'll ask a nurse to bring it. You have some visitors." I said. They all went where she could see them.

"How long have you all been here?" She asked, surprised.

"About an hour. We got here while you were sleeping." Sheldon said. They all gave her a hug and her soup arrived. I slowly fed her spoonfulls of soup until she had ate the entire thing. I handed her the water and she took some sips. Charlotte came up to us with a card and a stuffed bunny.

"This is from Mason." She said. Amelia lit up.

"You all wanna see my magic trick that consists of me walking halfway down the hall and back?" Amelia asked. I gave her a kiss and got everything ready. I helped her up and she looked less nervous than before, but still nervous.

"Hey, you can do it. Show em what you can do. If you were to somehow fall, I'd catch you." I said. She nodded and I wrapped my arm around her and my other hand was on her shoulder, just like before. She walked down the hall and back and I helped her in bed. They all clapped and cheered for her.

"I knew you could do it." I whispered, kissing her.

"Alright, I gotta change your dressing." Bailey said.

"Dr. Bailey!" Sam said.

"Oh, how are you all doing?" Bailey asked.

"Good, you're the chief of surgery? You go Bailey!" Addison said. She smiled and went over to Amelia.

"How you feeling Amelia?" She asked Amelia.

"Good, my pain hasn't came back yet." Amelia said. Bailey felt the incision. Amelia grabbed my hand.

"Ah!" She said, squeezing my hand.

"Yeah, that's supposed to hurt. You're healing well Amelia, hang in there." Bailey said as she walked out. I climbed back into the bed with her and she snuggled up to me the same way she did before. Her eyelids started to droop. I kissed her forehead.

"We're gonna go get some food, we'll be back." Addison said.

"Okay, she'll probably be asleep when you get back, so don't be loud." I said. Addison smiled. They left and I looked at Amelia. She was mostly asleep. I stroked my hand on her cheek until she completely drifted off.