Laura leaned over Robbie. She was partially seated in a chair beside his bed, and partially leaning into his bed on him. She laid her head on his shoulder gently for a while. Then she sat up and looked over him, as a doctor, then as a wife and lover, and then she lay her head down gently on his shoulder for a while. She changed position when her neck got stiff and sat up, running the tips of her fingers gently over Robbie face, ran her fingers through his hair a bit and then checked his pulse, temperature and breathing. All looked good considering what he'd been through. Then she kissed his cheek and went out of the room to get some coffee.
When Laura returned to Robbie's room, she resumed her seat in the chair beside his bed. She started to take a sip of coffee, and was shocked when Robbie asked if she had "Gotten me some coffee, too?" Laura was so shocked she spilled some hot coffee on to Robbie as he lay in bed. She was horrified, when she realized what she'd done, trying to mop up the coffee with tissues from a box on the small bureau next to Robbie's bed. "First James tries to kill me with his fancy driving maneuvers and then my own wife tries to scald me to death. It's been quite at week." Laura heard the humor in Robbie's raspy but still beautiful voice, and his deep blue eyes watched her intently as she went from trying to hold back tears of guilt for spilling coffee on him, to laughing herself silly at his comment on the situation.
Laura told Robbie "Well, you wanted some coffee. I just gave you some of mine." She and Robbie both laughed as she tried to hug him without getting tangled in some of his bandages and hospital monitoring devices. She was so happy he was awake and was speaking. Plus he had his sense of humor, even when being marinated by her with her coffee.
After a few quiet moments of Laura hugging Robbie, from a rather awkward angle, Laura sat back down on the chair by his bed. Robbie looked over, towards Laura and asked "How are you Lass?" She responded "I'm fine Robbie, I'm fine, now that you're awake and speaking." Robbie then asked her "How is James?", fearing he may be in worse shape than he was. "James is going to be fine. He should be coming out of sedation soon, if he is not already. You're both fortunate to be alive." Laura sounded like a doctor answering Robbie's question.
