Hour 10

Robin had been awake for a good half hour, everyone else was asleep. Uncle Harry was snoring softly and Mansell was snoring like a pig, and the ICU was relatively quiet, some doctors and nurses bustling around but nothing much happening thankfully, no one should be subjected to their family or friend being in here, not like they were tonight. She moved around the room carefully, she'd even taken off her shoes so that she didn't make enough noise and was just wandering around. She wanted to go out of the room and check on Joe but daren't, she was too afraid of what she might see, her big brother was her protector and she didn't like seeing him like this; all vulnerable and weak, wrapped in bandages, a machine doing his breathing for him; not the fighter she knew, not her Joe.

Now it was her turn to be brave. She needed to go see him. She pushed open the door and stepped outside, padding softly across the corridor she came to a sharp halt outside the room, leant against the window and just watched him. His chest rising and falling softly under the sheet, the bloodied bandages just barely visible, they certainly needed changing, he wouldn't be able to do with that when he woke up. If he woke up…

Don't be stupid Robin! Of course he's going to wake up! He'll be fine… Won't he?

"Come on Jo-Jo… You're my big brother, fighter. You can fight this. You can get better. You will get better Joe," she leant her head on the window as the tears streamed down her face, the silent sobs wracked her whole body. "I love you Jo-Jo, you can do this, do it for me, do it for us all! From what Ray has told me you've got yourself a good set of friends there, a god daughter too!" She stopped crying, wiped her eyes and shook her head "You never told me about that! Gosh, we need to have a serious catch up, have dinner every so often like we used to when you first became a detective. I guess now though as a big Detective Inspector you have a lot to do now, not as much free time on your hands as before…" She locked her eyes on his face, "Love you big brother!" She kissed the palm of her hand and placed it on the window.

She thought her eyes were playing tricks on her when she first saw it. The finger twitch, she rubbed her eyes and watched his hand intently. There it was again! She moved her eyes back to his face, his eyelids fluttered and he slowly blinked them open. He looked around the room wide eyed and panicked at all of the machines around him, he tried to push himself up in the bed but grimaced; his stomach probably hurt with all of the stitches that would be there, never mind the wound itself.

A wide grin broke out on her face when he saw her and lifted his hand in a small sort of wave, she waved back excitedly and ran into the room she had come from and turned the lights on waking everybody up in the process.

"Up, up! Get up! He's awake!" She shoved Commander Anderson when he still didn't wake up "Get up! Up, up, up!"

She grabbed his hands and pulled him out of the door where everyone else was already excitedly waiting. Mansell had run to get a doctor, Riley was waving and everyone was smiling.

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