Sanctuary (Sequel to Already Gone)

(42) Proud

~~Harry's POV~~

I cant stop smiling, as of right now Maddie is in the clear. Of course they want her to keep following up with her doctor at home, but I'm just happy that her chances are looking up. We will be headed home soon and I cant wait, seeing how the kids are going mental. They cant stand us when we're home, but lord they cant stand being away from us when we're gone. I like that though, knowing our children cant go a day without us. We must be doing something right, they are wonderful even though they are pains in the ass sometimes. Maddie's pissed because I insisted on her having a nurse with her the first week she is home, but she finally agreed knowing I wasn't going to let it go.

Her health is all that matters to me, to know that she is well and that our kids have their mother. I just wish time would slow down a bit, I don't like this getting older shit especially my children. Believe it or not I miss the dirty nappies and the constant whines and giggles. Better than them getting older knowing one day they will leave us just like we left our parents. London will be eighteen in a few months, hell I'll be forty one in a week. Bloody hell where has the time gone? But I have to say my life has been wonderful, I'm married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and have four amazing children. When I was younger even before I met Maddie I wanted a family, but I never dreamed it could be this amazing.

"What is that wonderful smile about?" I look up as they wheel her in, it's been two days since her surgery and she looks tens times healthier than when we came. She wont let me watch her though when they change her dressings. It's just boobs, I get it she's self conscious over it but hell I've seen worse I guess. She's still my beautiful Maddie.

"You love, it's always you." I mean it my smile is always because of her, and if not it's the kids.

"You know if you keep talking all that shit those beautiful green eyes are surely to turn brown." I chuckle making my way over to her as she stands to sit on the bed.

"In all my years of nursing I have never met a couple like you two." I glance up at the nurse whos name is Maggie as she says this. She is very fond of Maddie, and she said that her daughter use to be in love with me, which I shiver at now. It's weird to think of how girls acted back then, I know they do that now and still to this day the lads and I make the headlines but not like then. I don't miss it a bit really, not the invasion of privacy. We get snapped now if they happen to see us out or the kids but it's not like they hunt us anymore.

"Is that a good thing or a bad?" Maddie smirks covering her legs with the blankets.

"Good, you don't see a love like yours to often and how long have you been together?"

"Nineteen years." I say proudly and Maddie smiles.

"Whew, girl how did you put up with him all those years." Maddie chuckles and I pout.

"Her, what about me?" Maggie smiles shaking her head.

"You, well I guess I could ask you that, but I think this one just knows how to tame you." She's right I've always been putty in Maddie's hands, her in mine too but it's always been that way. I sit running my fingertips up and down Maddie's arm as she just smiles at me. "So are you two going to fly home tonight?" Wait, what? I look between them and Maddie raises her brows.

"They are releasing me." The joy I feel right now makes me bounce like Landon when he's happy. Maggie chuckles rubbing some kind of cream over the sticky spots on Maddie's arms where the tape was holding her IV.

"I know I'm going to miss you two, you better come back for a visit." She just walks out like she has for the past three days leaving me here smiling like a fool at my wife.