For the 101 Kisses Community on LiveJournal.
Prompt #84: 72 hours.
Rating: G.
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"Sorry I am running a little late in getting back," Veneziano says with a bit of a forced smile. "Romano kept me out a bit longer than I wanted to be." There is no response, and he knows there very likely won't be, at least not today. Nothing has changed since he left earlier. "He did ask about you, though. And the others are still worried." He places a kiss to the Americans forehead before sitting down in the chair beside the bed. It's become part of his new routine now.
The doctors said he would be fine, but when he would wake up was not something they could guess at the time. His body still needed time to rest and heal. Even after getting out of the hospital he would be looking at a good few weeks of relaxing at his home. Continuing with his routine, one he has had for the past three days, he tells America about the news he has seen on television, his visit with Romano and other little tidbits and things he thinks America would find amusing. He keeps this up for a while before a yawn slips past his lips and he notices the time and decides to call it a night. Some of the others are coming by tomorrow, and he knows they will want their own personal visiting time.
A few minutes later he is ready for sleep, and goes back to that chair. But not before giving America another kiss to the forehead. He's leaning over so his upper-body can rest on the bed and he has since took America's empty hand in his own. Veneziano hopes more than anything else right now that he will wake up soon, and hopes even harder that perhaps tomorrow he will. Bidding America goodnight in his native-tongue, he drifts off to sleep.
Veneziano is still asleep later when a bleary, blue eye is half way open and sees him sleeping. "Italy?"
Note:
This is a reposting from an old account where most of the ficlets were divided in three story collections.
Combining them into one since it will keep things cleaner.
Former story names; AmeIta - LiveJournal challenge drabbles, AmeIta drabbles, and Plain Love.