A/N: Ah, guys. I'm doing, I'm really doing. I'm back in my typical updating habit :P Even though I woke up so early this morning (1am) couldn't get back to sleep and stayed awake till my classes in the morning. But I carried on like a trooper and made sure I completed this update, when I got back from school. I didn't want to let you down. Thank you so much for the fantastic reviews, much appreciated so keep 'em coming.

"Mum told me what happened, earlier." Jackson told Aaron. "Well, as much as she could before the doctors told her to wait outside. Thank you."

"For what?" Aaron said puzzled.

Jackson raised an eyebrow and let out a laugh, before he coughed a little. "For saving Freddie and me, if it wasn't for you we'd not be here today."

Aaron just shrugged it off. "You would have done the same."

"Thank you, you saved my life." Jackson smiled. "And I'm sorry if I gave you a scare."

"You should be." Aaron blurted out. All his worry and concern for Jackson's well being was now turning into annoyance. He was fine now, well better than he had been. He just wished he'd woken up sooner. His hunger and constant need for sleep wasn't helping either. Those few hours he'd managed to get some rest hadn't done the trick.

"I really am sorry." Jackson told him. "Come here." He gestured with his hands for Aaron to come closer, shifting over slightly on the bed so Aaron could sit beside him.

Aaron got up from his seat by the bed, careful not to irritate any of the IV lines feeding into Jackson's hand he lowered himself gently on the bed beside him. Jackson pulled Aaron into a hug and placed a kiss on his forehead. "My hero."

"Shut up." Aaron grumbled, his head now resting on Jackson's chest with his eyes closed.

"What? But you are my hero, my knight in shiny armor or should I see oil ridden overalls." Jackson teased.

"Tell me again, why I rescued from that fire, risking my life?" Aaron joked back.

". . . because you love me." Jackson answered.

Both, Jackson and Aaron, were fast asleep on the hospital bed when Hazel returned with cups of tea. She didn't disturb either, as both needed all the rest they could get, so she gave the nurses outside the cups of tea she had brought for them not wanting to waste. She took her usual seat by his bed and watched them both sleep as she drunk her tea, happy that both boys were alright and that son had gotten through the worst. She'd often thought of what it would have been like if they had tragically lost Jackson and words could not comprehend what disastrous effects such an ending would have.

Jackson was the first to wake a few hours later, Aaron still sound asleep on his chest his snoring softly. The nurses had already popped in and out to check on him, "awwing" at the sight of both boys asleep in each others embrace as Hazel nodded off in the chair.

"Hey mum, why don't you go home, get some rest." Jackson suggested.

"I should most probably go let everyone know that you're okay. I was too excited to let anyone else know but Paddy." Hazel answered, picking her bag up off the floor. "Do you want me to take Aaron home?" She asked, as if Aaron was some innocent child. In some ways he was.

"Could you? He's exhausted." Jackson said peering down at Aaron who was now stirring.

"Course I could. You've put a lot of worry into that boy." Hazel told him.

"I know. . . Is it me, or has he lost weight? I can feel his bones." Jackson pondered, shifting slightly under Aaron.

"He has, been a bit of a challenge getting food down his neck." Hazel told him. "As I said, he's been like a dog not leaving your side. Neither the less, I can see why you love him."

Jackson just smiled at his mum. He did love him. And knowing the he had risked his own scared life to save and his and that of their son's, he couldn't place how much love he felt for the younger man.

"Right, I'll just be letting the nurse's know we're off now and will be in tomorrow? Do you want me to come in the afternoon so I can bring Freddie?" Hazel asked, shuffling towards the door.

"Yeah, that would be great thanks. Feels like I haven't seen him in so long." Jackson sighed, before Hazel promised to bring the little boy with her tomorrow and left for the nurse's station in sight while Jackson woke Aaron.

It took a few minutes but Aaron slowly came back to the conscious, rubbing his eyes and shifting up onto his hands as he looked around like a lost child.

"Mum's now gonna take you home." Jackson told him, smiling at his lover.

"What- why?" Aaron mumbled, still in some sort of state of sleep.

"Because, you need your rest, as I said you look rough." Jackson teased, hoping Aaron would go home and sleep, spend time with Freddie. Home? Where was there home now? He had so much to ask about. He'd only been unconscious for a week, but he felt like loads had happened. Aaron seemed to look thousand times different to what he did of last, to start with. He hated to think what else had changed.

"No I don't." Aaron grumbled, already climbing off the bed. "But I'll come in tomorrow, yeah?"

"Yeah. I'll look forward to it." Jackson grinned, pulling Aaron back towards him, so he leant down to him. "Behave, do what my mum or Paddy tell you to do." He added before pulling Aaron in to a kiss, that started off a gentle and kind but swiftly turned into passion and hunger fueled fire.

Jackson was the first to pull away. "Go on." He breathed as they leant the foreheads together, eyes closed.

"Love you." Aaron said quietly as he left the room, in pursuit of Hazel.

It wasn't long before Aaron was back in bed. Hazel had quickly dropped him off at Smithy Cottage, where he left himself in with the new key Paddy had made cut for him since the fire. His old key was now destroyed, along with everything else he did own. He'd quietly climbed the stairs, not wanting to bump into Paddy or Rhona, to tired for conversation. He knew it was past Freddie's bedtime, so he popped his head into the boys room as he passed by it on the landing. A little tuft of sandy blonde hair could be seen poking out from the top of a duvet as it raised and fell above the gentle breathing.

"Good night little man, love you so much and so does your other dad, He'll be home soon." Aaron whispered barely audible, cautious as to not to wake either Freddie or James, before he crept into his old/new bedroom and fell asleep himself.