A/N: Please note that I still don't own Kim Possible or Ron Stoppable, so I have no rights at all to them as they and all the characters, objects and places associated with the show belong to the Disney Corporation. I still don't make any money from this hobby and I suppose that it's for the best though someday I'd love to get out of the stinking factory. However the characters Wanda Wang and Suzie Chin as well as Maku-san, Major John Grant, Major John Jackson and Judge Q. Hector Snobblestone do belong to me and are creations of my warped mind. So please ask if you want to use them…OK? I've borrowed from other authors with their permission
Foremost I want to thank again CajunBear73 for his tireless efforts at trying to make these stories readable. His comments in red are usually better than the story itself and one of these days I might include some of them in the comments section. I want to give a shout to Spectre666, Screaming Phoenix, Waveform they review me all the time and provoke me...I uh mean inspire me to do better, enough with the sticks already.
A big thanks to the reviewers I truly appreciate the comments. Now I do have one comment that I need to make. If something like "Is there going to be a sequel" enters your mind and you put that in the review (Yes this actually happened), and that information is included HERE, all that it tells me is that the reader didn't pay attention to the Author's Notes where I do try to let the reader know these kind of things, I'm not that big of a jerk to not let you know if more stuff is coming up.
OK, so where are we? Oh yeah, Ron's out of the jungle and is sick as my dog is dumb. Booth, Grant and Jackson have traveled to Middleton to give a report on Ron who was at that time missing. Captain Booth falls in love with Monique on sight. All I can say is that man has good taste. Kim and Monique do some bonding earlier in the chapter. Yeah I guess it was sort of set up chapter.
We gotta have some action soon or Ron's gonna get rusty.
Well let's see what happens next.
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Separate Lives
Chapter 35
In flight:
"Man have you ever seen anyone look so bad, but still be alive John?", Major Jackson asked his fellow officer.
"No, I wonder if Stoppable even weighs a eighty pounds either. Now I know what those prisoners that came out of the Concentration Camps in in Germany and Poland looked like.", Grant replied, "He ought to get a medal just for surviving. Did you see his ribs when the doctor checked him? See how sunken his eyes are?"
"Yeah I saw, the only good thing was they didn't have to look too far for a vein when they put the IV in. You going to call his parents?", Jackson asked.
"I should. Remember that his sister asked that we get him home. She didn't sound like a little girl at that point.
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Maddigan Medical Facility. Fort Lewis:
"What is going on in my head?", the delirious NCO asked himself.
"We nearly died. We must recover. Can't let family see us this way. Not fair to them. Must look better. They could blame themselves, they could blame Kim....NO, not Kim's fault. My fault...only mine. I wasn't good enough for her. That's why she found someone else....Who could blame her....Handsome, talented and intelligent verses homely, klutzy and dumb. Why would someone like her want to be around a lowly cook anyway. She has to be happy, that's all we ever wanted....We were expendable....We knew it was OK when she said good riddance. She made her choice and it was the right one."
"What do we do now?", he asked himself in his fever.
"We must get better. We must get stronger. We must become a better soldier, that is our life. That is what we do. We have to begin training the new guys...The others have gone to help other teams. The new guys have to get stronger to survive. They have to work as a team. Have to be better than the old team."
"What about Kim. They want us to see her again. They said she loves us...Why should she?....I...we are flawed.....We are dangerous, she was right...She deserves better.", he argued.
"But the visions...The family...The children. Was it a lie?....Was I just seeing things?"
"I...we don't know....Maybe we'll go home to see her....Then she can tell us to go away forever, then we will know for sure.", he told himself.
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The Stoppable Home. Middleton, Colorado:
Dean picked up the ringing phone, "Hello, Dean Stoppable here."
"Mr. Stoppable, this is John Grant. We have him. He's back and he's safe now.", the Major told the Stoppable patriarch.
"Major, how is he? Barb said that Ronald was ill. When will he be able to see us?", Dean asked.
"Mr. Stoppable you son is very ill. For the time being I think it is best that you stay home. The three months that he spent in the jungle were not kind to him. He has lost nearly fifty percent of his bodyweight. The doctors have him confined in a bed and he is mostly out. When he's awake, he's delirious. They want to keep him out until he regains a little weight. He has various injuries, but going without food for as long as he did hurt him badly.", John Grant informed Dean.
"What should we do?", Dean asked.
"Pray for him. He can use that more than anything right now. The staff here is very good and they have treated malaria before. That is another reason that he should be in the hospital here. While on the flight back here he had a small occurrence of fever and chills mixed with delirium. They are treating that as well. While he isn't contagious when those episodes happen it can be scary to those who don't know what's going on.", Major Grant explained, "I will call you every week with updates on Ronald's condition. As soon as it is feasible I will have him out on Leave."
"Thanks for trying to keep my son safe, Sir.", Dean Stoppable replied.
"No, thank you Sir, for raising a good young man. When he recovers enough I will have him call you, though it might not be for a couple of months. As I said he is very ill. I will keep you informed." Grant told him.
"Is there a chance he may die?", the father asked.
"There's always that chance, Sir. Things may happen that we can't avoid. But the doctors here are not talking about that happening at all.", the Major responded.
"Well if it does, I want him brought home. Kimberly has a place for them, you know, a plot. That shows you how much that young woman has re-thought her forever with my son. It's near both the families' plots and it's under a nice shade tree...If he gets close I want to know. Kimberly at least needs to have one last look at him while he's still alive. I refuse to take that from her. She will want to say her goodbye to my son....Promise me that Major Grant.", he asked the officer.
"Mr. Stoppable I promise you that. I doubt if it will come to that. If it does I will fly you here on my dime.", he replied, "And I will apologize to that young woman and tell her just how big a hero her Ronald is.", Grant vowed.
"Thank you Sir. I have to go, the Possibles are coming over in a little while and I expect Kimberly to be with them. I don't want her to overhear us.", Dean finished.
Major Grant made another call. "May I speak to your Master Sensei? This is Major Grant.", he told the person answering the phone.
"Yes Major Grant, how may we help you?", the old ninja master asked a few minutes later.
"I would like some of your representatives to view Sergeant Stoppable. I want to make sure that there's not something that we have missed.", the Major invited.
"I will have someone there in two days Major Grant. Would you please have someone wait at the airport for us?", he asked.
"Yes Sensei, I can do that.", replied.
"Very well, I will have a call placed to you telling you when we will be in. Thank you for letting us see the Chosen One Sir.", he stated to the American Officer.
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Middleton, Colorado:
"Bonnie, you know if Tara is uncomfortable about me being here I can stay at Mom's while I'm home.", Felix told the woman that he stayed the previous night with.
"Don't you even think about it Felix. You're welcome here. I am not mad at you because we dated once. You never hurt me at all. You were a good boyfriend and I treasure our moments together. Now go get your PJ's on.", Tara stated, "Cause there's an old movie marathon on and I want to watch couple of them with a couple of my friends."
Tara walked into her room and put on her old footied PJ's. Over that she put a fleece robe. She blushed when she saw that Bonnie was wearing her old worn out sweats in front of the TV. After Bonnie returned from making the popcorn, Tara turned on the television. In a few moments Felix and Bonnie were snuggled on one side of the sofa with a comforter over them while Tara was holding an old Teddy Bear with her eyes half closed. 'Hmmm, Bonnie needs a guy like Felix, maybe I can find one of my own some time.', she mused with a small smile, 'This is what friends are for: sitting in front of the TV, riding out a bad snowstorm.'
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The Stoppable home:
"Hi everybody.", Hanna laughed as she opened the door.
The twins were having an ongoing snowball fight with their girlfriends and were losing. It came out that way because the famous redhead had taken the female's side. Though it was dark, Hanna squealed with glee and grabbed her coat to run outside and join in the fun. James was no better a snowball fighter than his sons and soon the Possible clan women, with Hanna helping, soundly defeated their male enemies. With that done all participants entered the warm inviting confines of the Stoppable abode, still laughing from the adventure.
Barb and Dean looked on from the inside and smiled. 'Maybe Ronald will soon be included in this annual game once he recovers.', Dean mused, 'Later when I get the chance I have to tell James and Anne how Ron is doing. Maybe the staff where he's at will tell her more that the Major was able to tell me, I know he's holding something back to spare us. Well seeing Kimberly and Hanna together, I think that Ronald will be happy to make sure that Kimberly is looked after by the trust. When I see him next I'll have to talk to him about it. Kim and Hanna two have grown so much closer since Kimberly moved home with James and Anne.', he mused as he brought the steaming mug up to his lips.
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Maddigan Medical Center, Washington:
Major Jackson escorted the three Japanese civilians into the starkly white room. On a bed lay an emaciated, fragile looking form.'Too many times have I witnessed what malnutrition and malaria can do to young men. There was too much of that during the war. He is losing his battle to keep his spirit. If only he would let us bring his maid to him. Then it would be better. She would heal him and then in turn he could heal her. Yet he does not trust us completely. Not after what we did to him before. And who could blame him, just because a few people thought that Possible-san was not a good enough woman for him and we just used him for our purposes. What a waste....I wonder? Maybe it will work.', the ninja master thought as he motioned for the three officers and his two students to follow him.
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The young woman entered the now dimmed hospital room. The figure in the bed was moaning softly sweat glistening off the exposed parts of his body. Every few moments mumbling something that no one could understand. She sat down next to him thinking, 'I hope this works, if he sees through this we may lose him.'
"Ronnie? Ronnie can you hear me?", she asked.
Trying again this, time she leaned in and kissed his cheek. "Please Ronnie, I need you, please come home to me, I'm so lonely for you. Please come back, I've missed you so much. I need to hear you call my name again.", she called to him as she rubbed his hand softly.
The figure in the bed began to thrash even more."Kim? Kim? Is that you? It's been so long. But you found your man earlier, I'm confused. It doesn't make sense to me. Where are you Kim?", he asked himself in the agony of his dream.
"Please Ronnie, please come back to me. I need you.", she softly cried to him.
"The touch! Kim is that you? I'm sorry. I'm sorry I messed up. Please forgive me."
"Ron-san please come back to us.", she asked again, not catching her mistake.
"Kim, what's wrong? What's wrong?"
"Huh Kim?", he panted. "KIM what's the matter?", he screamed as he sat up. The young man tried to get up, but found himself being held. He reached down and started to rip things off as he forced himself from his bed. Soon the IV that had been inserted into his hand leaving a gaping wound and the catheter were all laying on the bed as he growled. Not even noticing the pain as his feet hit the floor with a thud
A moment later the walking skeleton that looked like Ron Stoppable was standing in a fighting stance, panting, waiting for someone to try and attack the woman that he loved. Through the haze he saw four forms menacing his once mate. One of them moved towards him and he attacked out of instinct.
Hirotaka slumped to the floor as the wind was knocked out of him from being thrown into the wall by the half dead young man who has just risen.'What happened? Why did Ron-san attack me?', he muttered to himself as he shook his head to get his bearings looked up to see the emaciated man now taking on all three officers as he watched Sensei approaching Ron from behind.
Sergeant Stoppable was in the middle of striking at two of the three officers as an ancient hand touched him on the neck. The Ranger dropped as if he turned to jello. Suddenly five pairs of arms caught him before he landed in a pile on the floor, in front of the young woman that he, in his daze, thought was Kim Possible.
As Hirotaka rose from his seated position, one of the officers helped him up. The rest were lowering the figure of Ron Stoppable back down on his bed.
Major Grant pulled the cord next to the bed. When the voice sounded, "May I help you?"
He responded, "Get a doctor and a nurse in here right away, we have a big problem."
"Sir what is the problem?", the nurse asked.
"The patient woke up and pulled all his tubes out and we have one hell of a mess on our hands in here, he's bleeding all over the place.", Grant stated, "So you may want to move it."
Moments later a crew of doctors and nurses scrambled into the room. They looked at the blood that was soaking from between Captain Booth's fingers as he kept pressure on the torn vein in his Ranger's hand. "He ripped the IV out Doctor. I could see the vein just laying open. He also ripped out his feeding tube and his oxygen that was up his nose. Whatever he had in him is out now, sorry we weren't faster. He moved like a demon when he started screaming.", Booth explained.
"OK, you all need to leave and let us work.", one of the doctors told them, "After we get everything back in we are going to sedate him and restrain him as well. He has to be delirious."
Major Grant nodded to the others as he made to leave, "Please follow me, we have to talk."
They found an empty room down from the nurses station. "OK what the hell just happened back there?", Grant asked.
"Well we tried to bring Stoppable-san back, I felt we were beginning to lose him. I had Yori-san play the part of Kim-san. She was doing very well and even sounded much like Ron-san's mate until she made an error. If she had succeeded then Stoppable-san would be on the way to full mental recovery.", Master Sensei explained.
"What was the error that she made Sensei?", Major Jackson asked.
"Kim-san never called him Ron-san. He caught it and responded. That is a good and bad thing. The good being that his mind still works and emotionally he is still tied to Kim-san enough to protect her from threats to her person. The bad thing is we may have hurt his mind by playing this hand now.", the ninja master continued.
"So what do we do now?", Grant asked.
"We treat him, ask Mrs. Dr. Possible-san for an article of Kim-san's clothing that has her scent on it. We will put that close to him. Even though he will be unconscious he can still hear and smell. Download some of Kim-san's speaking as well, I believe that this will help his mind. Any music that they enjoyed together, have that played in his room softly Though Stoppable-san doesn't know this they are still destined to be together. I am determined that they still have their chance at happiness. Does anyone disagree?", Sensei responded.
Seeing that there were no disagreements with his strategy Sensei looked at Hirotaka who was submitting to the ministrations of his lovely wife. "How do you feel my esteemed student?", he asked.
"I am well, Yori-chun is making it up to me Master, I am glad that Stoppable-san was weak from his trial in the jungle. I hate to think what he could do if he was near full strength. Did you notice that he didn't glow when he attacked? He didn't even use the power nor the Blade. He just reacted.", Hirotaka observed.
"What does that mean?", Yori asked now concerned.
"He always had to use the power to protect Kim-san when she was in grave danger before my students even when he didn't glow, now it appears that he may only need to do that in dire circumstances. I would have felt him using the power.", the reply from the master seemed to confuse them, "If he can control this he has become an ultimate fighter. If someone finds a way to block his MMP or his use of the Blade, they are in for a tremendous surprise and not a pleasant one at that."
"For now let him recover and we will travel back to Middleton to get the required items Sirs. Sensei will you come with us? We wish to travel home. We want to get ready for the new one to come into the world.", Yori asked.
"I will go back to Japan as soon as possible my students. Travel to Middleton and come back here to drop off the items that we discussed. Then you may come home to Yamanouchi to await the arrival.", he replied.
Master Sensei bowed to the officers, "Thank you honored gentlemen for allowing us to determine what is happening to Stoppable-san. Please allow us to finish our treatment. I will send incense to burn in his room as well along with a diet that will let him add a little weight. He will be able to make up his own training once he recovers enough. Again thank you for watching out for my prized student through out his epic ordeal. My aides will call you at times to ask information about him. Good bye for now."
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"Why can't I feel her, I can smell her, I can hear her. I miss her. Why does she even care to see me? She's better off with HIM. Why does she waste her time on me?", he struggled in his mind.
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"Where am I? Ah, my head hurts....What is that....Light? Why can't I move?", he wondered.
The Soldier opened his eyes, there was someone adjusting the bed. "What day is this?", he croaked.
The nurse looked at him and then pulled the cord. A few minutes later a doctor entered. "Well Sergeant it's about time you woke up. I hope you're rested, because now the therapy starts.", he told the soldier.
"How long have I been out? Where am I?", Stoppable asked.
"Son you're back at Fort Lewis. You've been out...well mostly out for about six weeks. You're been able to put a couple of pounds back on, but you're still skinny as a rail. Now that you're awake we can start feeding you a proper diet. We had to restrain you since you decided to take a walk and get in a fight that first week you were here. I'll call Major Grant and let him know we're going to get you back up tomorrow.", Doctor Evens told the young man as he took several items from the room.
"Hey Doc. You wanna untie me?", Sergeant Stoppable yelled.
A few minutes later a couple of nurses came in and released the buckles on the straps.
"Uh....Ma'am, do you know why I was tied to the bed?", he asked.
"Early in your recovery Sergeant, you decided to wake up, and remove all the things we had placed on you like the IV's and such, take a walk and start a fight. We didn't want that to happen again. Now that you're better we can remove all the equipment.", one of the nurses told him.
"Did I hurt anyone?", he asked.
"Not seriously Sergeant. Since you just woke up we called a few officers that have to debrief you. They should be in an hour or so. Would you care for some chicken broth to get your system working again?", she asked.
"Yeah thanks ma'am. Please no beer though for some reason it makes me cringe right now.", Ron replied.
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"Sirs.", Sergeant Stoppable began, "I hope I didn't do anything stupid."
"You mean like making sure that all your men got out and the mission was completed?", Captain Booth asked.
"No Sir I seem to remember that, then I remember insulting some Marines, though I seemed to remember enjoying that for some reason. I heard from the nurse that I started a fight. I hope no one got hurt Sir. I mean I must have been out of my mind to do something like that.", he stated.
"You came up out of being down and out screaming KIM and was ready to fight and you did till we tranquilized you. She must be a heck of a woman.", he observed.
"Yes Sir, she is if you remember what we talked about before we left for that rescue mission. I guess I was feeling guilty.", Stoppable replied not knowing how he had been played.
"OK son. I hear they're going to get you up tomorrow. I promised your father that as soon as you were able you would call home. Now I'm going to leave you with a phone and some free time to call your folks to let them know how you are doing. I expect that call to be made about five minutes after we walk out the door. Do you have any questions?", Grant asked.
"Well sir if I was flat on my back for that long, well how come my legs aren't all shriveled up?", he asked in turn.
"Well it seems that some crazy doctor named Hebert from your hometown and some other people developed a machine to exercise the body while you're out. From what I witnessed over the last month you should be glad you were out too.", Grant laughed.
'So that's why I hurt?', the Ranger mused to himself as the officers left.
Ron looked at the phone nervously, 'Well I guess I better get this over with.'
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Stoppable home. Middleton, Colorado:
The raven haired girl was faster than her parents as she reached the phone first when it began to ring. Hoping it was a friend named Jenny she asked, "Jenny is that you? You were supposed to be here a half hour ago."
"No Hanna, it's me.", Ron spoke into the receiver.
"RON? Is that you?", she asked in glee.
"Yeah sis, it's me. How are you?", he asked.
"I'm fine how are you? A man named Grant called and told us that you were back home, but was real sick...I was worried about my brother.", she told him.
"I'll be OK sis. My fortress of immunity wasn't good enough it seems.", Ron laughed weakly until he coughed.
"Are you alright Ron?", Hanna asked becoming worried now.
"Yeah sis, listen can I talk to Mom and Dad? I know that they have to be worried about me, I better let them know that they can't cash out the life insurance yet.', he laughed again until he coughed.
"Ronald is that you? We've been so worried. The Possibles are about going nuts. Anne almost told Kimberly three times. James was getting ready to gag her. Anyway that nice Major Grant has kept us informed for the last month or more. Kim's mom was getting ready to head out to Seattle to find you and give us a proper report. She even threatened to bring Kimberly along. We finally talked some sense into her. Still she's not happy and is ready to blab the whole thing to her daughter. So I'll tell you what, you call my cell phone tonight and you can talk to Anne and James. Kim's going to be here babysitting Hanna. That way you can talk in peace.", his mother instructed.
"Sure Mom, I want you guys to know that I love you. I'll call your cell phone in about five hours. Do me a favor make sure that Hanna doesn't talk either.", he asked.
"She won't, Hanna and Major Grant have some sort of agreement. I'll talk to you later honey.", Barb hung up the phone.
'Hanna and Major Grant have an agreement....Now I wonder what she conned out of him?', he mused worriedly.
Seeing no one around he clumsily slid out of the bed. As his feet hit the floor he almost fell down but was able to use the rail on the bed to keep himself on his feet. 'Golly that hurts, man am I outta shape. I suppose no time like the present.' After using the thing he opened the door and used the handrail to help him stay up while he scouted out the hall that he was living in.
Stoppable was on his third lap of the hall when he noticed two officers heading his way. They stopped by the nurses station when he noticed that one of the female officers point in his direction.
'Dammit, they ratted me out. Now what?', he groaned to himself.
He tried to hide in the hallway, but there was no place to go. "Alright Sergeant, just what the hell do you think your doing?", Captain Booth asked as Lieutenant Wallace stayed in the background.
"Ah Sir, I was just out getting a little exercise. I wanna start getting ready to go back to work.", Stoppable replied.
"Good. I heard the Physical Terrorists are looking for you. If you don't get moving Sergeant, you'll miss your three hour appointment.", he grinned evilly as he grabbed his Sergeant by one arm and escorted him down to the appointment.
The sweet looking young lady looked at the three men approaching her. "Miss, I think that Sergeant Stoppable here has an appointment with you. He's already warmed up and ready to go. I'll give you a steak dinner if you can have him screaming for mercy within a half hour.", Booth told her.
"Really Sir? I am hungry.", she looked over Stoppable like he was in the way of a very good dinner or he was going to become part of a very good dinner.
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Three hours later the Captain returned to make sure that his soldier didn't try to escape. "Well Miss Brooks, how did it go?", he asked.
"Sir that is one tough man. It was in the 33th minute when he finally broke.", she smiled, "I'm sorry it was the best I could do."
"OK Miss Brooks, a deals a deal and I'll pay up even though he lasted longer than I wanted, but next time I want to grade the pain level myself.", the tough African American Ranger laughed, "I'll tell you what, this kid's a great cook. The sooner you have him released from this death hole the sooner he gets behind a grill. And the sooner you find out why the Rangers here seem to be fatter than most.", he informed her.
"If his food is so good then why is he so thin? What happened he eat some of his own cooking?" she laughed.
"He was in the jungle, on his own, for three months Miss. He lost at least sixty or seventy pounds and had malaria. He's been in a hospital bed for six weeks.", Booth replied.
"Ohhhh poor baby, we'll make it better. Don't worry Sir a couple weeks with us and he'll be his old cheery self.", she turned to look at the unfortunate Sergeant, "Listen buddy, this isn't personal, but the girls here like to eat good. The nice Captain here promised a great dinner if we get you out of here fast. So starting tomorrow, you get two, three hour appointments not one. Congratulations soldier."
She laughed out loud as she heard him gasp in pain.
"Come on son. I heard you have to call your parents....We don't want them coming out here to oversee these little torture sessions. They might bring that little redhead with them...You never know.", the Captain laughed.
"Sir you wouldn't.", Stoppable groaned.
"Wanna bet? I got my eye on a young woman that's a friend of your Kimberly's. You don't want to mess it up for me.", he informed the young man.
"Who do you mean Sir?", he asked wondering, 'How he does he know about any of Kim Mankey's friends?'
"Do you know a Monique Jenkins, Stoppable?", Booth asked.
Nodding, "Yes Sir, she was my other best female friend. How do you know about her?", he asked.
"Let's say we met. She doesn't know where you are...YET, nor does Kimberly. The elder Possibles do know who we are and where you are. Since you had been scheduled to go home on Leave and then just disappeared, Grant, Jackson and I went home to talk to your parents and then Kimberly's parents. It was sort of abrupt and we hadn't heard from you in quite a while.....Your parents had the right to know....DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?", he informed the Sergeant.
"Yes Sir, I'm suppose to call Mom on her cell in about an hour. I'm supposed to talk to Mrs. and Mr. Dr Possible too.", he responded.
"Stoppable, I want you to know that if you screw up my chances with that Monique girl there are not enough miles on the Earth for you to run. I want to have my chance with her. Do you understand me?", he asked.
"Yes Sir, I understand.
As he got back to his room the young lady who took care of the menus, was there. Sergeant I'm here to see what you would like for dinner and breakfast and lunch tomorrow. After you're more able to get around, you can go to the cafeteria.", she informed him.
"Miss, since the Sergeant hasn't really eaten in nearly five months, could you go with soft things for a few days until his stomach has a chance to catch up? Then bring him all he can eat for obvious reasons.", the Captain instructed as he nodded at the walking bag of bones.
She looked over the living skeleton and nodded and smiled. Three days, then triple orders, I can do that Sir. We'll have him adding weight in no time.", she replied with a smile.
"Sir I'll get fat.", Ron stated.
"Nope, I heard you like to swim, so guess what I found you....A pool, a big pool, when you're not in the care of the young ladies that you just got back from, I've made arrangements for you to swim laps for a few hours. Then after that you'll eat and eat a lot. You see Sergeant I have a friend over here who loves to help guys out. And we're going to get you back into shape. All this lounging around will seem like a bad memory in a few weeks trust me.", the Captain laughed.
"Sir it's a bad memory now.", he replied.
"See it's working already.", Robert Booth laughed again.
"OK Stoppable, just remember at least one of us is going to come over everyday. I want progress. You have to get better. We got some word that we might get pushed up for deployment from November to maybe July or June. You have a bunch of guys that haven't worked together. We have to get them to gel. I want you out of here within a month ready to run them into the ground. For now they're hanging with one of the other Sergeants."
"Thanks Sir for stopping by, but I have to call my Mom.", Sergeant Stoppable told him.
A/N: Well our boy is recovering and he's met some people who are going to help him along the way. I hope he gets better before Major Grant tries to get behind a grill. You know maybe that would be a great way for the Rangers to interrogate prisoners....Nah something about cruel and unusual punishment. As for making the physical therapists out to be so mean. My niece is one and she thought the portrayal was cute.
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