"You ready for me to call the team now?" Morgan's exam from the doctor had ended little under an hour ago, yet he was still coming up with excuses as to why she should put it off.
"Visiting hours will be over in half an hour there's no point calling them now, not when they, and you might I add, will have to leave in half an hour."
She sighed. "If you think I'm going to leave you here alone after you've been in a coma for over a month. I'll get the nurses to set me up a cot for the night. Morgan, why don't you want the team to come? I've been here hours and you're fine with me, don't you want to see Penelope? Or your partner, Prentiss? Why is it that I worked with you a year and yet you don't want anyone who's worked with you six, seven years to come?"
He was silent.
"Derek! You need to tell me! I don't understand why you're fine with me being here and not anybody else who you clearly prefer being in the company of-"
"And there it is." He interrupted.
She looked at him with a blank gaze. "There what is?"
"You have this complex about nobody wanting you around. You believe that you don't have a place with us anymore and you never call us up on it do you? You never directly say that we're forgetting about you. You don't assume anything and you don't believe that you have a right to know things that I might not want to tell you and you don't push."
She tilted her head to the side in confusion "and the rest of the team do?"
"Not that they push exactly, but they expect me to be an open book and tell them how I'm feeling or tell them that I know exactly when I'm coming back into the office. You don't." He shrugged.
It was at that point that a pair of nurses came in carrying a sofa in between them. They set it down between Morgan's hospital bed and the door. She thanked them politely before they left and Ashley took the spare pillow and blanket out from underneath Morgan's bed and laid them out on the sofa.
She pulled her hair out of her blond ponytail and let it fall around her shoulders as she shifted until the blanket was tightly encasing her and she had her head comfortably wedged on the pillow. She opened her mouth to say goodnight to Morgan, but he was already asleep.
In the morning she would call the team with or without his approval. She didn't know how long he planned on keeping the rest of them in the dark, but she wouldn't allow it to go on, but either way she had a feeling that she'd not get out of this one without having been yelled at, at least twice.
She sighed and slowly drifted off to sleep, the regular beep of Derek's heart monitor lulling her into a gentle slumber.
The rest of the team will hopefully be back next chapter, but let me know what you all think! xxx
