~I'm rating this chapter M because Maggie and Victor discussed their sex life.~
"With Chez Rogue catering the wake, right?" Melissa asked Melanie.
"Yeah, I hope Maggie can come. I'm sorry, I mean…" Melanie looked awkward.
"Well, we can postpone the service until Mom's home. But when is your mom coming in?"
"Wednesday, two days from now. She can only stay for three days," Melanie looked panicked.
"O.k. So we can see if Mom can come down to the chapel. Do you want to ask Victor to speak?"
"Yeah…I know a lot of people didn't like him but…."
"You loved him and that's all matters. I'm sure Victor will be honored to speak," Melissa said.
Lucas and Sarah walked into the room.
"I keep forgetting what your dad's specialty was," Lucas said.
"Well, it was transplants but I think he became more general surgery because the hospital's so small," Melanie said.
"Ah, so he was qualify to do Jen's surgery," Melissa said.
"Melanie, I'm so sorry for going off on you," Sarah said.
"I kind of understand. I should've remembered that you went through this a year ago," Melanie said.
"Princess, you looked exhausted. Did you eat or do you want me to make you something?" Melissa asked.
"Could you make some scramble eggs?" Sarah asked.
"With cheese and sausage, yes."
"Aww, you remembered!"
"Standard Saturday breakfast since you was three and I was thirteen. It took me another year to figure out why Mom and Dad were paying me to babysit you while they were still in the house," Melissa chuckled.
"Especially when Dad was working really hard," Sarah laughed.
A look of realization crossed Melanie's face.
"They still did that when Mia and I were in the house! I wanted to surprise them with breakfast once and Maggie answered the door in her robe saying they wanted to sleep in. They weren't sleep, weren't they?"
Lucas smirked. "I only stayed with them on weeknights. But good for them."
"Does anyone else want eggs?" Melissa asked.
She got three yeses.
"Victor…" Maggie murmured.
"Sweetheart," Victor brushed back a strand of red hair.
"When's the funeral?"
"Don't worry about it. You need to rest."
"I need to be there for Melanie," Maggie sat up. "Ooohhh, I shouldn't have sat up."
"Here, sweetheart," Victor handed Maggie a glass of water.
"Thank you. Do you know what the plans are?"
"No, I can call to find out," Victor called Lucas, "Lucas? Where are you on the plans for the funeral….Of course I will…."
"Are Marie and Tommy invited?" Maggie interrupted.
"Lucas, Maggie wants to know if Tommy and Marie are invited."
"Actually we've been too busy talking about Uncle Mickey and Aunt Maggie's sex life to get to that," Lucas said.
Victor shot Maggie an incredulous look. "Are you kidding me?! How did you get on that subject?"
"Sarah and Melissa….look, it doesn't matter. We'll get back on track. Sorry. But we decided on Saturday for service at the hospital chapel. "
"Fine," Victor said, "Lucas, you better not discuss that aspect of my life with Maggie."
"No, definitely not! We'll figure the plans out and especially the Uncle Tommy and Aunt Marie thing. Sorry about that, Victor."
"I'll tell Maggie the plans. Talk to you later." Victor hung up the phone.
"What were they talking about?" Maggie was curious.
Victor lightly kissed his wife. "Your sex life with Mickey."
Maggie's eyes widened and she blushed.
"Um, why?"
"I don't know. I don't want to know. I told them to knock it off," Victor chuckled.
"You know we hadn't talked about our sex life. We were going to have sex every night for the first month of marriage," Maggie said.
"Honey, it doesn't matter. We'll have plenty of time to figure that out," Victor kissed Maggie
"I know that! I just miss having sex! I had to go a year and half without sex. I really like having sex with you," Maggie pouted.
Victor had to chuckle.
"You've mentioned that before. And perhaps this would be a good time to consider alternatives to our bedroom fun."
"What are you think of?"
"Well, if we can't have sex, there are always massages," Victor traced Maggie's hands.
"Sounds good…."
"And oral sex…." Victor kissed Maggie.
"I assume that would go both ways," Maggie smirked.
"Of course."
Maggie snuggled closer to Victor.
"Then there's using our hands to make us happy…"
Maggie kissed Victor, who groaned when she started to play with his pajamas bottoms.
"Maggie…we can't…."
"But…" Maggie pouted again.
"Honey, I can't believe I'm saying this but don't you think it's inappropriate to fool around in your hospital bed? We're already breaking the rules by me being in the bed. "
"I suppose but then we should probably stop talking about sex," Maggie laughed.
"Definitely."
"Victor will give the eulogy. But you need to decide who you to invite," Lucas said
"You mean do I want to invite Marie and Tommy?" Melanie asked.
"Well, if you need to think about that, it's o.k.," Melissa said.
"Ms. Marie Horton," Henderson announced.
"Wow that's weird. We were just talking about you," Melissa said.
"I just wanted to say goodbye. I got my new assignment and I'm leaving for Ireland in two days," Marie said.
"You're leaving now?" Melanie asked, "What about Dad's funeral?"
"Well, I didn't know if I was invited and I feel like I could be most useful servicing within my vocation. Why?"
"Mom's sick," Sarah said.
"Maggie's sick….how sick?" Marie asked, slowly sitting down.
"We think she's coming home from the hospital in a couple days," Melissa said, quietly.
"Why didn't anyone tell the family? We could help," Marie said.
"Aunt Maggie wanted to keep it quiet," Lucas said.
"And once Julie knew, we just assumed everyone knew. Usually that works," Sarah said.
"What can we do?" Marie asked.
"I hate to say this but could you just leave Mom alone? She's just tired and we have it covered, "Sarah said.
"Of course. Can I tell people?" Marie asked.
"Yes but really, Aunt Marie, Mom needs rest."
"Melanie, do you want me to come to the funeral?" Marie asked.
Melanie hesitated. "I don't know."
"That's o.k."
"Can you sleep now?" Victor asked, rubbing Maggie's back.
"Yes, because I have you."