She listened to the steady beep of the heart monitor, letting it comfort her. Eyes closed and looking like death but each steady heartbeat was being registered with each beep, he was still alive, still with her.

She didn't think she had ever felt true fear, till she saw his body teeter over the edge and drop. She swore that her heart stuttered and caved in on itself like a crushed can. She had seen the footage, she had screamed his name – she can't recall doing that, she can't recall practically collapsing into Walters arms either as he pulled her back, having watched her run to the edge of the building, she looked like she was about to hurl herself off it too. She would never be able to be rid of what she saw, his body all bloody and broken as she looked down. He had fallen onto the rubble bellow, she didn't know if that was better than the ground, he hadn't fallen quite so far, so that was better right? When she had suggested this piece of hope she was holding onto like a lifeline the look between Cabe and Walter said it all.

God! she was so mad! Not so much at Toby...well a bit at Toby but mainly at herself. She knew the buildings structure had been compromised and had said so, but she didn't fight Toby on the idiotic idea of climbing up onto it as hard as she should have.

She was beginning to suffer one hell of a headache as she replayed the events of the day in her head, she closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose trying to relieve the pressure. She couldn't help her heavy sigh of frustration and worry and tiredness.

They had succeeded in their mission. Collins was dead, bullet to his brain and Toby was...alive. The vision of Toby awakening and cracking some joke or finding find the irony or some stupid metaphor in that and be unable to refrain from voicing it was all she wanted right now.

She could weep that somehow Toby's heart was still pumping, still beating whilst Collins's was silent and still. The relief and happiness she felt at the image of Collins stiff, cold corpse down in the morgue brought her was probably sick but it didn't stop her hope his remains would be well fired and pored down the toilet. Hell she would pay for it.

She shouldn't have allowed Toby to confront him. How naive. How stupid of her. Of course Collins had lured him up with the full intention that neither one of them would be walking away. He just wanted to hurt her, hurt them all.

They had been looking through the entire facility looking for him, but he knew that Toby would be the fist one to figure out that he wasn't hiding, he was waiting. For Toby. There was 100 other ways he could have been apprehended but with the threat of another bomb Toby had taken the easiest and simplest route to complete the task.

He had escaped again, just to very almost kill Toby a second time. Teamed up with some other maniacs. She doubted he had any physical contact with the creation of the bomb that had torn apart the Hospital, but no doubt he had, had a few ideas for it's improvement. Hospital staff, patients, their families, crushed and killed all collateral damage. She had always hated hospitals, to many bad experiences, right now she hardly cared. She had no idea what hospital she was in right now but it didn't matter. They were taking care of Toby, that was all that mattered.

Beth had come in but Happy didn't register her presence till her hand landed on her shoulder.

"Toast and a cup of hot chocolate." Happy gave her a questioning look but Beth only responded with a warm smile.

"you need to eat and sleep, so, no it's not coffee. Plus, it's the good stuff from the nurses stash. We don't touch the vending machine crap."

Happy wilted, "I don't want to sleep,I can't."

"Happy Quinn, I will go get Dr Chang and he will admit you. You have three broken ribs and a previously dislocated shoulder. He will find a previously unseen concussion if I tell him to. We both know that you don't want that so I recommend you take some care for yourself."

"you wouldn't"

Beth narrowed her eyes dangerously and lips turned to a sly smirk.

"Mr Chang taught our Mr Curtis here, sees him as being like an honorary nephew. So if I say that I'm seeing signs of a head injury in his favourite students little turtle-dove, he is sure to find them too, however subtle they may be. Therefore I recommend you do as I say and eat then drink then sleep"

Happy quickly took the mug and plate looking wary of the little blonde nymph. She watched her as she carefully raised a slice of toast to her mouth, the action had Beth smiling sweetly.

Satisfied Happy would do as she was told Beth left having checked over Toby. Happy wouldn't admit it but she did feel better after eating the toast, and the hot chocolate did arouse a sleepiness in her, she pondered over the idea suddenly whether Beth had maybe slipped something into it. She concluded that Beth appeared to be some sort of enigma, so she wouldn't put it past her to do such a thing.

A few hours later Happy awoke to the sound of Toby's soft laughter, the sharp movement of sitting up angered her tired,aching, abused muscles and she flinched at the stiffness in her recently relocated, dislocated shoulder. It took a moment for the Faces of Dr Chang,Beth and Toby to come into focus, each smiling wildly at her.

Beth was the first to open her mouth.

"Wow, major bed head girl, I can't even achieve that amount of volume when I try"

Toby and Dr Chang gave small chuckles.

Her eyes suddenly swam with tears, maybe Beth really had given her something. Toby tried to sit up but was quickly scolded by both nurse and doctor. She slowly stood from her chair and made her way to the bed, eyes streaming.

"your ok, your ok, your awake and your alive and I...I was so scared, I was so scared I had lost you."

Hey, hey,hey! Not a chance!

She gave a small hiccup "it didn't seem you had a choice there doc"

"I'm always coming back to you, our story isn't done yet, not even close"

she leaned carefully over the side of the bed to carefully kiss his lips. She returned to her chair, pulling it closer to his bedside to hold his hand. She kissed it softly, comforted by the warmth.

"I love you, I love you so much"

"as I love you, and here I thought Sly would be the blubbering mess." He gave a tender laugh

"i'm not blubbering, and don't laugh at me. you almost died! It's a perfectly natural response I have been told"

Toby gave her a toothy grin before turning to Beth.

"the old hot chocolate and rescue remedy trick?"

Beth turned to give Dr Chang a sly grin as his cheeks turned a little pink

"yeah the old hot chocolate and rescue remedy trick"

Happy turned her watery eyes to look between the three of them.

Dr Chang gave a hard sniff and a cough,puffing up his chest, quickly moving to pick up Toby's chart, scanning over it to avoid meeting their eyes

"I have no idea what you are talking about"

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