Shay looked down at the man on the gurney, and started to rub her knuckles hard on his sternum. "Mr. Bennett, wake up and look at me, you need to open your eyes." She looked over to one of the other nurses, Leann, and said "bring me some Narcan. His blood pressure and O2 sat are still dropping. I can't get him awake." She looked at the new recovery nurse with disdain and asked her "just how much morphine did you give him?" When Leann returned, she gave him the morphine reversal. Slowly his eyes started opening, and he started trying to raise up.

"No no no Mr. Bennett, you need to lie back before you hurt yourself" she said placing her hand on his chest and feeling how hard it was. She quickly shook those thoughts from her head. Stu looked up at her and smiled and lay back down. 'Wow' she thought, 'this man is build and hot. NO! Stop it right now Shay' she said inside her head.

"What is your name darlin'?" he said as he looked glassily up at her. She giggled softly, hearing his northern English drawl for the first time, and said, "just call me Shay. Glad to see you are awake. Can you tell me your name?"

"Of course, love, it's Stu Bennett."

She grinned "very good Mr. Bennett. Now, do you know where you are right now?"

"Well, this is a hospital" he smartly replied.

"Yes it is. Do you know what day it is?"

"Uh, I believe it is Wednesday. Why are you asking me these silly questions?"

"I know it may sound silly, but it is important. Now, do you know why you are here?"

"I had surgery on my elbow, which by the way bloody hurts."

"Alright, now that you are awake, I will see what the doc will let you have. Just hold tight." She glanced over at Leann and asked her to watch him while she spoke to the surgeon.

When she came back, she walked over to Stu with a needle in her hand. "What the bloody hell is that for?" he asked. "Well, it is a shot for your pain. Since you didn't do so well with the morphine, we are going to try some Demerol with some nausea medicine in your hip. You need to roll over." Stu let out a sigh through his nose but did as she asked. "You will probably start to feel pretty drowsy. We will keep a close eye on you. Just relax and rest. Do you have any family with you that you want to come back and sit with you? We are going to have to keep you a couple of more hours."

"No family, just my mates. You can tell Drew to come back."

"Alright. I will go get him for you." Shay walked out to the waiting room and asked "Which one of you is Drew?"

"Oh aye, that would be me. Is anything wrong?"

"Nooo, no of course not. We are just going to have to keep him a couple of more hours and wanted to let someone back to see him."

"Okay." Drew turned to Stephen, Heath and Paul and said "I'll back in a little while."

Stephen was watching Shay while she walked away and licked his dry lips as Paul elbowed him in the arm. "Is sex all you think about anymore since Brandy broke up with you?" Paul said, shaking his head.

"I can't help it fella. I was off the market too long yeh know. I got some time to make up fer!" he said, laughing heartily.

"Both of y'all are hopeless." Heath said.

"Right through that curtain there Mr…?" Shay said.

"Galloway love. But please call me Drew" he grinned.

"Okay, Drew. You can have a seat in that chair right there if you like." she said, smiling back at him. 'He has gorgeous dimples' she thought to herself.

"Hey mate, how are you feeling?"

"Much better. A little fuzzy but my arm doesn't hurt at least. And I have a beautiful angel taking care of me" he said gazing dreamingly over at Shay who was busy looking the monitors and charting at the computer. Drew couldn't hold back a laugh at his doped up friend.

"That you do" Drew nodded in agreement. "And she smells good as well."

Stu faded out into sleep and Drew went back to the waiting room. After sleeping another hour and a half, he was woken up to another nurse who he didn't recognize, shaking him. She roughly pulled out his IV and said he was fine to go home now. She gave him his papers to sign and he was unceremoniously escorted out the door.

"Wait, before I leave, where did my other nurse go?" he turned and asked.

"Who, Shay? She isn't a regular nurse. She is the anesthetist. She had another surgery to work." the older nurse replied. "She filled in for your anesthetist when he started getting ill in the middle of your surgery. Anyway, have a good afternoon" she stated and shut the surgery bay doors.

Stu walked away slowly, shaking his head. He looked up and saw Stephen sitting there. "Where is everyone?"

"Oh, well, they left already since yeh were doin' good. Said they would see yeh when yeh got home later. Why do yeh look like someone just shot yer dog?"

"I met a lovely woman today. She held my hand and brushed the hair out of my eyes and whispered softly to me that I would be okay. When I woke up, I saw this gorgeous set of hazel eyes staring down at me, and I felt my heart stop."

Stephen chuckled lightly and said "I saw her too. But I didn't feel it in my heart yeh know!" Stu glared at his friend for such a comment on his dream woman. "Hey, I saw her first fella. And don't talk about her like that."

"Sorry Stu. Seriously though, don't yeh think the lass was just doin' her job? Besides, Drew said you were pretty out o' it."

"No, her job was just to make sure I didn't die. I know what I felt mate. I have to see her again. I just have to."