The frustration of today's events settled into his brain as he lay flat on his bed, not bothering to sleep but knowing he was exhausted but his head was swirling with the events, his stomach turning and feeling as if it was tied up in a tiny knot and being pulled in a thousand different directions.
He groaned as his phone rang, to the normal person that's all it was but to Spike, it sounded like someone had an amplifier next to his ear playing his ring tone straight into his skull.
"Hey Ed…" Spike half yawned out.
"Greg woke up." Ed stated, he could hear the exhaustion in Spikes voice, concerned was an understatement it was well known to the team that Spike wasn't one for dealing with his emotions.
With that Spike shot up and was putting his shoes on in a flash, he'd almost forgot about the man on the other end of the phone. It was when he heard the tiny voice coming through it that he remembered him.
"Yeah Ed, I'm on my way." Spike stated.
"Spike" Ed sighed. "Drive carefully." Ed almost demanding, he knew the team was half asleep, knew that they wasn't prepared to go back to work, what they all needed was rest.
Spike just stood there as the sliding doors opened, it seemed like it took years to move and then another year to just walk through them, he walked up the front desk and the nurse continued typing before looking up.
"Hi, can I help?" The nurse carried these little bags under her eyes, he knew them all too well, at 4 in the morning it was considered the graveyard shift, although in a hospital it never seemed to calm down, people still rushed to their loved ones, and after the event today, it was twice as packed.
"Ehh…" And it did make him stumble, because it's a loaded question, he pulled himself straight and took a deep breath. "Greg Parker, I work with him."
The nurse immediately took a sympathetic tone.
"He's just getting put into a room on the ward, but the rest of his colleagues are through those doors there." He thought for a minute because to everyone else, they were just colleagues to each other, only the team knew how deep the teams bond was. "It was a tough day today, but all services did the best they could." Was her last sentence, Spike just nodded and smiled at that before walking away, there was nothing he could say because she was right.
He pushed the door open to the walking room, whilst taking a deep breath, just preparing himself to see everyone, and just like that he rounded the corner and was faced with the team. They all looked up and smiled at him.
"Hey Spike, how you feeling?" Jules spoke up.
He looked at dazed and tired.
"Just need some rest, we all need too." He sat down, after acknowledging everyone, saying a small hello.
The nurse was the next person to speak.
"Greg Parker?"
