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The nurse quickly finished changing his bandages, every time she came close to him he flinched.

"Maes, look at me don't look at her, she's not going to hurt you." I said after every flinch. I felt his eyes lock on me as I watched Solaris remove the wrapping from his shoulder and collar bone. The stitches looked red and irritated almost infected. "Is that supposed to look that irritated?" She looked at the wound.

"Slight redness around the stitches is common, but we'll keep an eye on that, and we'll also see if he has a fever. I doubt they will be any complications, the doctor did have steady hand." She looked me right in the eyes and gave me a half smile. I nodded and looked to Hughes who still hasn't taken my eyes off of me. It was weird seeing him without his glasses.

"Hey buddy how much can you actually see with your glasses off?" I asked.

"Blurs. I mean I can see you and I know it's you but you're also very blurry, like if someone wearing the same clothes as you and same height and hair colour I wouldn't be able to tell you apart."

"And they let you into the army?" I joked. He scoffed at me. "Would you like your glasses back?" I asked

"You have them?" He asked back completely ignoring Solars doing her work. I smiled.

"Not on me but it's safe to assume they're with your personal effects right?" I asked more to Solaris then to Hughes, she nodded at me. I turned my back on him went into the locker right beside the bed. It was mainly empty, it was more for the storage purpose of the occupant in the bed. Sure enough there they were right beside a plastic bag that had his army uniform inside. I grabbed the glasses and shut the door. I turned to see Solaris packing up the rest of the supplies that she used and walking towards the door. I held onto the glasses a little longer not wanting Hughes to see fully see Solaris in case it caused another panic attack. Before the nurse left she turned back and looked at us.

"We missed breakfast unfortunately but lunch will be brought in around noon." She smiled her killer smile one last time then she left. I looked to Hughes he visible shivered.

"Hospital food, great." He said sarcastically.

"Not just any hospital food army surplus hospital food." I corrected him and he groaned. "Here so at least you can see what you're going to be eating." I handed him his glasses and he took them from me and put them on in one motion.

"That's better. Wow Hawkeye when do you get in here?" He asked with his normal playful carefree voice, I knew it was an act though.

"The same time as the Colonel." She said still standing in the corner with the full room in her view.

"How are you feeling Maes?" I asked, concerned for my best friend. He blinked a few times and took a deep breath.

"I really don't know. I mean Everything feels numb if that's what you want to know." He said. I shook my head, 'man they must have given you so good stuff.' I thought in my head. I heard the door open, the three of us turned to see who it was, it was no one at my eye level. I heard tiny feet run across the room so I looked down to see my god-daughter there, I smiled at her.

"Uncle Roy!" She yelled and held up her hands for me to pick her up. I bent down and lifted her onto my hip.

"Hey Elicia? How my god daughter doing?" I bounced her on my hip a little to readjust her.

"I'm three!" She giggled at me. I had to smile at that.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be there for your party." I told her. I bent to sit down on the chair beside Maes bed with Elicia on my lap. When I was fully seated I looked up to see Grecia in the doorway. I went to stand to give her the chair and she just shook her head. I looked to Maes to tell him that no one want to hear about how beautiful his wife and daughter were but I saw nothing but fear in his eyes. I put my hand on his forearm to give him some comfort. He took a few breaths to calm himself down. Grecia gave a half smile from the doorway.

"Are you feeling better?" She asked her voice was quiet. Hughes bit his bottom lip, he raised his eyebrows and returned he half smile.

"I feel fine." He said still probably not sure how he actually felt. Grecia took a half step forward testing to see if he's going to react in anyway.

"Did you have another nightmare daddy?" Elicia asked from my lap.

"No sweetie, I didn't." Maes said to his daughter.

"Maes if you did I could get you a night light, it might help." I joked with him. It was an old joke that went back to the war were neither of us could sleep at night because of the dark and what could have been lurking on the other side of the canvas tent. Grecia took a full step forward almost at the foot of the bed and Hughes seamed fine still. I looked closer at Grecia there were tears pouring down her face. She didn't loose her husband but he'll never be the same, I didn't know how their relationship would handle something like this. She took a deep breath before she spoke.

"Do you need want anything from home sweetie?"

"I'm not going to be here too long, I'll be home in no time." He said trying to lighten the mood.

"Two weeks minimum." Hawkeye said from her corner. She stood and walk to the foot of the bed were his chart was. "Two weeks in the hospital, you are going to have a sling for about 3 months and 3 to 6 months for the bone and skin to heal." She stated flipping through the papers. "and that's if nothing goes wrong, sir." She ended and a smile grew on my face.

"Thank you Dr. Hawkeye you are dismissed." I said holding back a laugh. "Maes seriously do you want or need anything from your house or office because I will gladly go get it." I offered. Hughes tried to shift on the bed and hissed at the movement, Grecia moved to comfort and helped him but held back afraid to scare her husband. I looked at the scene feeling helpless.

"Maybe you should get some things to help pass the time." Grecia said. I nodded and lifted Elicia off my lap, as I was fully standing I turned and put Elicia back on the chair.

"I'll be back in an hour or two." I reported as I went to leave the room. "Threat my Lieutenant nicely Hughes." I said on the way out of the door. I walked down the hall and the moment I was out of earshot I swore and hit the wall next to me. I walked right to the reception desk and talked to the lady sitting there. "I want a login sheet on anyone who says that they are here to see Lt Colonel Hughes understood." I ordered. She looked at me and could see the seriousness in my eyes.

"Yes sir, any reason why?" She asked setting up the login sheet.

"He was almost killed and not by accident, now the killer might return and I want to know everyone that comes into his room."

"There are a lot of people that are victims of violent crimes here sir, it's a hospital. What makes him so special?" She asked.

"It was more of an attempt of assassination, someone wanted him dead. Now if I was in your position I wouldn't want a patient to die because I took no precautions and did nothing to protect him." I smiled at that, her eyes grew to the size of tea saucers.

"Yes sir right away sir." And with that I left to go take care of the other business at hand.

Long time no post. But hey I warned you. Hope you liked it. Next chapter will start off with Maes pint of view from right after Roy left. Feel free to comment and suggest.