Tony deepened the kiss; his tongue exploring and tasting her mouth with need and desire. His hand, which had been resting at her waist, slowly began ascending up her body. When his thumb darted across her nipple, Maddie's eyes flew open.

Carefully, but quickly, she pulled away from him and got off the hospital bed. Arranging her rumbled clothes, she looked down at him, "Tony, we can't."

"Why not? We've do it before," Tony pouted at her.

"Not with metal sticking out of your leg," Maddie pointed towards Tony's still healing leg.

Staring at the fixator like he'd never seen it before, Tony shrugged, "I forgot about that."

"Forgot? You forgot about that?"

"Hey," Tony struggled to a more upright position. "You should be flattered. This thing hurts. Bad. All the time. But a good make out session with you and I forgot about it."

"Okay, that is flattering," Maddie blushed as she returned to Tony's side, "but we can't get out of hand. I mean you're still in the hospital and do you know how embarrassing that would be to explain."

Tony smirked, "I don't think we'd need to explain it to anyone who walked in."

"Yeah, well, try this conversation on for size. 'Hi, Jethro or Abby, Tony's not going to be heading to Bethsaida this weekend after all. Why not? Oh, we just bent a couple of his pins before Dr. Hunnicutt could remove them. How did we bend them? Oh, you know, just having sex.'"

Tony blushed beet red, "Okay, no sex until the fixator's off."

"No sex until the doctor says so," Maddie shook her head.

"Then you have to leave the room… No you have to leave Japan."

"Why," Maddie laughed.

"Cause I'm finally feeling better and I don't want to die of desire," Tony lightly and teasingly pushed her off the bed.

"I don't think you can actually die from that."

Tony shook his head, "Fine, don't leave. I'll just prove it to you."

"Tony, sweetheart," Maddie used a husky voice as she stalked back over to the bed, "may I just remind you that tomorrow Dr. Hunnicutt will be removing that nasty fixator. Do you know what that means?"

"Sex," Tony's face beamed in anticipation.

"No, general anesthesia, followed by two days of intensive physical therapy and a 20 hour flight hour this weekend. Babe, it'll be months before your ready again," Maddie gave a quick peck to his lips.

"You do know I hate you sometimes, right," Tony's head dropped back in defeat.

Maddie crawled back into the bed and wrapped her arms around him, "Long as you love me the rest of the time."

"Always and forever, Maddie. Always and forever."