Maybe We Shouldn't

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She waited for him in the hospitals blue plastic chairs, as he signed all the papers 

and sat down beside her. The waiting room was almost empty in A&E, so luckily they 

didn't have to wait long and no matter how many times he told her that she didn't 

need to wait with him, she stayed while he was called into see the doctor. 

She had always been fascinated by blood and she had had good enough grades to 

go to medical school, but she had followed Nate here to study science. Now she stared 

with fascination as they pieced together his hand, set bones, stitched and cleaned the 

skin, then gentle placed his hand in as blue cast. 

She smiled at him as she took the doctors pen and wrote as big and boldly as she 

could ‘Toni was here' and ‘caused by her' across his cast. They giggled together as they 

walked back to the car, but otherwise they managed to stay in companionable silence. 

Once they were seated in the car and heading back to Toni's house she broke the 

quiet to utter a question that voiced a thought that hadn't even crossed his mind.