Later, Mystogan came back to see Amber. He filled her in saying that Gray was in his room now. They were still waiting for him to wake up. When she still didn't say anything or knowledge he was there. He left the room again to see if Gray was awake. Amber sat up on the edge of the bed, when she heard her brother closed her door. "Gray...I...need...to see...him." Through her tears, she stands up from the bed. She didn't know were his room was or what floor. Once in the hallway she goes right.
Lyon was in his brothers room with Juiva. Natsu had offer to watch the boys and Rain at his place for the night. "Juiva hopes that Gray will wake up soon." "I am sure he will. Its been almost a hour so far." He looks at the clock on the wall. They both watch him closely when they notice him begin to wake up. "Gray!" His eyes adjust to the brightness of the room. "Lyon?" "We are here." "Amber, were is she?" When he scans the room not seeing her there "Don't worry yourself over her. Mystogan and I are taking care of her." Gray tries to sit up in bed. "Brother take it easy, you are in the process of recovering." "Where is she?" "Juvia will tell you. She is in a hospital room herself, because of a metal breakdown." "I need to get to her, she needs me." When he pulled the covers back and tries to get up. Lyon pushes him back down. "I'll repeat myself we have a handle on her. You stay here, get well. There us nothing you can do in her frame of mind" "Lyon as a doctor I am more then equivalent to assist her state." "You are not leaving this bed after being shot." Gray tries to move again but the pain in his side is to much. "Call a nurse to give me morphine please." "Juiva will go and ask" She leaves the room.
The room stays quiet for a few minutes. Gray looks to his brother. "I have something to ask you?" "What is it?" "When you told me about this job opening up here and encouraged me to move. What was your motivation behind it?" "I already explained my reasoning at the time." "Brother, I know you, what is the true answer?" "Amber is the answer. Jellal phone me up over a ago. He saw Amber getting out of a relationships and getting right into a other one, he figured it was time to get you back on the right path. He never wanted his sister to be with anyone else except for you. He knew how much she was still in love with you." "Why didn't you just tell me where she was?" "Could say the same thing about you, brother. Any time you could have went to her brothers asking where she is at." "I was giving her space, thinking that she would have come back on her own." "What you two needed was a push in the right direction. When I found out by Jellal. I told him I would see to it that you make your way there. Didn't think it would take a whole year to see each other again. We left it up to fate." Gray pushes the button on the bed to bring his upper body up. "When I saw her again. I was flooded with how much I love her. Today with what happen, I be dam if I was going to loose her. To have that gun pointed at her head. Lyon I wanted to kill him. My body screamed out to protect her. She was so scared, frighten. Her eyes were like a deer caught in headlights." "Yeah, you protected her, but you could have died Gray. Now, she will not speak, eat or even look at us." "That is why I need her here. I can help her, hold her." Lyon shakes his head. "Both of you are two stubborn, you are prefect for each other." "Lyon, that is love."
Mystogan was walking back to Gray's room when he saw Juiva at the nurses desk. "Why are you here?" "Juiva wanted to help Gray get some pain management for him." "Oh he is awake then?" "Yes, he is" "I will go and let my sister know now. Hopefully it will bring her back." He turns around and heads down where he came from. He quicken his steps down the long hallway. "Lucky they are on the same floor, but at each of the far corners." Mystogan, notices her door open. He frowns. "Maybe a nurse is in her room." He turns into the door way. "Amber, Gray is a..." He looks towards the bed and she wasn't there. "Amber!" He calls out. He goes over to the bathroom to see if she was there. "Amber!" She wasn't in the bathroom. "Oh no, where is she." He runs out of the room and heads down to Gray's room. "I need Lyon's help." He runs pass Juiva. Juiva sees him running down the hallway. "Juiva must go. I will let Gray know you are on your way." She starts walking fast back to Gray room wondering what is wrong.
He reaches the room and flings open the door. He was breathless, catching his breath. "What is wrong with you?" Lyon asks with a perplex expression. "Amber is gone?" "What? How can that be?" Gray sits up at the side of the bed ignoring the pain. "Lyon get me wheelchair." "Brother you stay here. We will go in search of her." "She is my wife. Her thought process is in disarray. Who knows what she is thinking right now." "Gray, Lyon is right. We can go look for her. I doubt she has left the building." "Mystogan, I'll go right you go left." Juiva comes back into the room. "Juiva, Amber is missing you stay here with my brother. We both are going to explore the floor for her." The men break apart in the hallway and go searching. "Juiva, get me a wheelchair." "Juiva thinks it's best for you to stay here." "I can't if something were to happen. My world would stop like hers is right now." "Juiva understands." In the hallway is where she fines one and wheels it back to Gray's bed. With her help she gently helps him into it. "Follow my brother."
Amber went up the elevator to the other floor to go looking for him. She was confused and not to sure where she was at. The rooms look all the same, and the people were starting to blend with each other. "Gray?" She looks into one room and finds it empty. Her emotions where all over the place. Amber heads to a other room and the door is lock. "Amber?" She hears her name being called. "Hey Amber?" She looks at the man with glasses and orange hair. "Gray?" He frowns at her, knowing something is wrong. "He is on the floor below us. I was heading there myself. Come with me." He reaches for her arm. Amber flinches back. "My name is Loke, I know of Gray I work with him." She doesn't say anything and turns around not facing him. "Amber, is everything ok?" "Gray...where is he?" Loke tries speaking to her again, the same thing happen. "You are defiantly not comprehending what I am saying." Loke calls for a nurse. "Can you please help me take her downstairs." "Yes doctor. Madame, this way." The nurse touches her arm. Amber starts to freak out. "Leave me alone...Gray, where is he? Why can't I find him." The nurse and Loke both look at each other. They knew of him being shot, the nurse has seen her before. When her son Josh was in the hospital. Gray was laying down next to her on the bed, playing with her hair at the time.
Lyon searches every corner of the floor, there was no sign of her. "Did she go up in the elevator, it was close to her room. Guess I have to take floor by floor." He gets into the nearest one and pushes the number for 7. Gray was hot on his tail with Juiva. They both saw him take the elevator up and wait for the floor number. "Ok Juiva we are going to 7." Lyon steps out of the doors. He goes left down the hallway. Amber had place herself into a corner and was rocking back and forth. "Loke what do we do. She needs to be sedated." "Nurse, right now I don't think we can get close to her. If only her family was around." "Gray..where is Gray.." Lyon saw a bunch of people crowing around a figure that was crouch up on the floor rocking. Then he recognizes who it is. "Amber!" He runs over to her. He touches her shoulder but she gets even smaller. "Hey man, I don't think you should touch her right now." Lyon looks up at the orange headed man. "Loke?" "Oh Lyon you are here?" "We have been looking for her, she is not thinking straight." "I can see that, she needs to be sedated." "No, I'll take her downstairs to Gray." He looks at his sister in law. "Amber its Lyon, I will take you to see him, he is awake now." She rise her head up. "Gray?" He lefts her up into his arms. "Lyon, need help?" "There is only one person that can help her." He turns to go back the elevator. Loke follows him. "Gray...where is ... he." "You will see him soon." "Lyon a doctor needs to check her out." "Loke, the person that can get her out of this ordeal is my brother." "I'll get a doctor for her to prescribe some medication. To me she had a metal break." "Loke, I am glad for you help, but it's up to Gray what he wants to do." Loke steps around him and holds out his arms. "As a doctor, she should not leave this floor." "That is not for you to decide."
Loke turns around and sees Gray wheel up to him. "Lyon, place her into my lap." "Gray, can't you see she needs medical attention." "What I see is my wife lost, I am the only one to get her out of this flunk. Now step aside so my brother can give her to me." Lyon puts her down on his lap. He wraps his arms around her. "Gray, you know she can't return without some intervention." "Loke, I know Amber better then anyone else. All she needs is to know I am here with her. It might take time, but I am not leaving her side." "You been shot, it's not the best thing for you to do right now." "Take heed to my words, and back away. Lyon, bring us down stairs." He takes the wheel chair from Juiva. They all head back down to the previous floor. Gray puts some of her hair behind her ear. "Amber, I am here now." He frowns at her. "Amber?" When they arrive back at his room. "Lyon can you left her up again I want her on the bed with me." Lyon does as he brother ask. Gray gets on the bed first and pats the bed. "Right here." He lays her down. Gray holds her in his arms. "Can you all leave please, I want a moment with her." "Sure, I will inform Mystogan we got her." Juiva closes the door.
Gray holds her for a while hoping that the closeness would stir something inside her. With no reaction he tries a different approach. "My love, look at me." He places a hand on her cheek and moves her head so she has to look at him. A blank stare is all he sees in her eyes. "Amber don't shut down. You are my world. I love you." He waits if that did anything. Amber blinks a few times. Her eyes tries to focus. "Gray...?" He smiles. "I am here." She moves her eyes really seeing him for the first time. She lefts up her hand and touches his cheek, to make sure he felt real. "Gray!" She wraps her arms around his neck pulling him down. He is in so much pain, that he didn't want to scare her. "Gray!" She starts crying. "Do not leave me." "Shhh Not going anywhere." "I love you, Gray. Love you." "I love you too. So very much." He lefts up his head. He rubs her arm. "Amber are you ok other wise. You didn't get hurt?" "No I am fine." "What about a migraine?" "No." His hand travels down her arm. "Right here?" He places his hand on her stomach. "The baby?" "Its ok." Her eyes goes wide. "You know?" "Saw the test in the trash." He rubs her belly. "Gray, I wanted to tell you." "Sorry, but I am happy. It was still a surprise but I knew you would get pregnant right away." "It wasn't right away, it took a few tries." "I am not complaining." He gives her a big smile.
Amber moves on the bed to lay on her side to snuggle up close to him. She touches Gray bandage by accident. He hisses in a pain. "Gray?" "I am alright, you touch the sore spot" She sits up. "Sore spot?" Then she clued in it was his gun shot wound. "Oh Gray, I am sorry, you must be in so much pain. I will get off the bed at once. I shouldn't even be laying down next to you." She proceed to get off but she feels a strong arm go around her waist from preventing her from moving. "You aren't leaving my side. Now you are expecting, I am going to be watching you like a hawk." He pulls her back down next to him. "Gray I shou..." She gets cut off by his kiss. "Stay put."
They lay together for awhile, holding , touching, giving little kisses on the lips. "Amber?" "Hmmm" "Say it again." "Say what?" "The L word." She giggles and look into his eyes. "I love you Gray Fullbuster, my husband and the father of my boys. You are the only one I want." "I love you Amber Fullbuster my wife, mother of two wonderful boys and our third, fourth, fifth. You are everything to me." She kiss his lips.
Amber, takes his hand to remove her wedding band. "Wait not yet. I have something to give you first before you take it off." "Ohh, ok" "Its a birthday present, the gift is not here. Can you wait for a bit." She nods her head. "Sure you need to get better and out of this bed. That is my cue to get going, so you can sleep." She tries to remove his arm from around her. "Like I said, no leaving my side." He pulls the call bell on the bed. "Gray what are you doing?" "I do need something for pain and get a other bed in here." "Hun, the boys?" "Mystogan said that Nastu has all of them for tonight. There is no need for you to go home yet until morning, even then your brother or mine can watch them." "There is a small problem to your plan?" "Which is?" "I still have blood stains on me, I need a shower, clothes and I still have Christmas shopping to do for you and the boys." "I dont need anything, you and this little one is my Christmas." He kiss her lips. He rubs her belly.
The nurse comes in to give him a shot of morphine. By request or doctor's demand he told her to bring in a bed. Two male nurses brings one in a short time later. Amber ask Juiva to get some stuff from the house. She was willing to be helpful. When she was having a shower her toughts carried her to back home. All family came here, to see them. Maybe it was time to go back home and take up on Mystogan offer to live in Jellal house. It was something that she needed to talk to Gray about. He may not want to move back, now that he is a head doctor of his department.
The rest of the family went home to allow Gray to rest. When Amber finally emerged out from the shower in her nightgown. She look towards his bed, to see he was sleeping, with a smile on his face. "Wonder what he is dreaming about." She walks on over to him. Gives a kiss on the cheek and pulls up the blanket. "Sleep well, my husband." Amber turn off the lights and makes her way over to her bed. When she gets in, she misses having Gray wrap his arms around her. "Its best not to cause any discomfort for him." As she was laying there deep in her thoughts, she didn't hear the rustling of his blankets or him approach the bed. The only indication she understood was when he laid next to her. "You should be asleep." "I should, but not with out you." He wraps his arms around her. "Why aren't you sleeping?" "Thinking?" "Care to let me know." He kisses her shoulder. "Home, I am thinking of home." "Ok?" In a confused voice. "Ill wait to tell you later." "Uh no. You brought it up, carry on." "Mystogan wants me to live in Jellal house. I been contemplating about it, will need a bigger home anyways for the baby. Then there is your job and mine. Plus I figure with what happen today and having family come here. Maybe it's best to be closer to everyone."
Gray rolls her onto her back trying to be careful of his wound. "Is that what you really want?" "Every since dealing with Jellal death." She wipes a tear from her eye. "I been thinking a lot about family and if I lost anyone else. Then look what happen today, I almost lost you." She hiccups. "You didn't lose me." "Gray, It was still a close call. My world crashed around me. I went into a place that I wasn't to sure if I could come out of, if it wasn't for you." "I know how scared you must of been going through all that, and getting shot wasn't in my plans. I wasn't going to let that Ash guy harm the both of you. Amber, I love you. I am glad we are both here, together." "I love you too. Don't ever to do something so reckless again." "I will if you are in danger, I am you knight." Gray leans down and kisses her lips. "I want you." "Not until you are better. Your stitches could come out." He growls. "Fine, When I am better you will not no when, but I am sweeping you off your feet and taking you to bed." "I'll look forward to it." She rubs his arm until she hears him snoring. She pulls the blanket around him and falls a sleep in his arms.