Chapter 14

THE NEXT DAY

Cameron had been waiting impatiently for the doctor to come and hopefully take her off of the ventilator. The door to her room opened and the doctor walked in with Kim and Alex trailing after him. "Ready to get that tube out?" Alex asked her and Cameron responded with a roll of the eyes as if saying 'ya think'

"Ok, you know the drill" the doctor stated and proceeded to remove the tube, checked her breathing and left Alex and Kim alone with Cameron.

"How are you feeling?" Kim asked her after she calmed down.

"Sore, but ok" she answered tiredly.

"If you're tired, sleep ok." Alex told her and Cameron drifted off even though she didn't want to.

LATER IN THE AFTERNOON

As Cameron stirred, she heard two voices talking beside her; she recognized the voices as DK and her doctor. As they were talking, they turned towards her and noticing her awake began talking to her.

"How are you feeling?" the doctor asked her.

"Ok, a little tired." she told them.

"That's normal, well as I was telling your friend here depending on how you felt when you woke up this afternoon I would release you as long as someone is willing to stay with you, which your friend here is willing to do. So in about an hour you will be able to get out of here."

"Ok, DK you did bring clothes for me?" she asked DK.

"Yeah, I did" he told her handing her the bag.

"Ok, a little privacy, Please" she said.

"Yeah ok." he proceeded to leave the room.

After about 5 minutes she told DK that he could come back in. For the next hour they proceeded to talk about what the squad had dealt with since her injury. They were talking about this when the doctor came in with a wheelchair and she reluctantly got into it knowing she had no other choice. "Thanks Doctor."

"You're Welcome, just try to stay out of here ok?" he told her.

"I'll try." She said smiling at him.

"DK, get me out of here."

"OK, Cameron let's go."

During the drive DK looked over at Cameron and noticed that she looked uncomfortable, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just sore."

"OK, well were almost to my place so then you can lie down."

"OK, this is just probably from sitting upright for so long, considering I'm basically been in bed for a week."

"Yeah, you're probably right."

All the conversation was distracting Cameron from the amount of pain she was feeling. Before she knew it DK stated they were at his place and he was assisting her inside and into the guest bedroom. "OK, are you comfortable?" he asked her after he gave her the painkillers.

"Yeah, thanks."

"I'm going down to the car and get your bag and I'll be right back."

"OK"

After returning to the apartment DK looked in on Cameron and noticed that she was sound asleep. After a few hours in which DK was trying to decide what he could order for dinner the phone rang.

"Hello"

"Hey, DK how is she doing?" Billy asked him.

"She's fine, been asleep since we came home a couple of hours ago. I was just going into wake her and see if she wanted dinner."

"What are you having?"

"Don't know, depends on what she feels like eating."

"OK, well maybe I'll come over later and visit."

"OK, see ya later."

As DK entered the room he noticed that she was waking up which relieved him because he hadn't wanted to wake her but she needed to eat.

"Hey, how are you feeling?"

"I'm hungry and thirsty."

"That's what I was coming to ask you, and Billy might come by later.