AVAS POV
I was kind of nervous to talk to Jay. What sister is scared of her older brother? I thought he might get mad if I told him I wasn't ready to talk, or he would get mad at me for kicking him out. I realised I was breathing a little heavier and tried to calm down a bit before Jay got here. Didn't really have 2 minutes before there was a knock on the door and jay came in.
'I'm sorry' Is said. I figured it would be easier to start with that, maybe it would make him less mad. But he didn't look mad. He looked... calm.
'I know, it's ok. I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have pushed you.' He said
'Can we just not talk about it now. I kinda just want to go to sleep.'
'Of course'. He sat in the chair next to me.
'Can...can you come in here?' I motioned to the bed next to me. I just needed to have some contact so that I would think that it was ok, that he wasn't leaving.
'Absolutely.' He carefully moved himself under the cover and I tucked myself into him.
JAYS POV
The next morning, when I woke up, Ava was still asleep next to me. I was grateful for that, because I realised that meant that she had actually slept through the night without a nightmare. I lay in the bed with her for a while before a nurse came in with her discharge papers.
'She needs to take it easy for the next few days. In two weeks she will need to come back and get the stitches out.' I thanked her and signed the papers then she left. Ava started to wake up.
'Good morning. We can go home today. I'm pretty sure the mouse missed us. Who knows what mess he created while we were gone.'
I smiled at that thought. Mouse had never been good on his own. He was always looking for something to do.
I got changed into the spare clothes that someone had brought in for me. And we headed out front.
When we got home, there was a note from the mouse taped to the fridge that said, 'Voight called me in, be back later.'
'Oh well we've got the place to ourselves. What do you want to do?' Jay asked. I shrugged. I didn't really want to do anything, just sleep.
'Can we watch a movie?'.
I picked a movie while Jay made some popcorn and hot chocolate. We sat down on the couch together and started the movie.
I was looking at the screen, but not really watching it. Jay could feel that and so he paused the movie, and adjusted himself so that he was looking at me.
'What are you thinking about?' He asked.
'Are you mad?'I decided to spit it out, before I could think too much more about it.
'No. Why would I be mad?'
I shrugged. To be honest, I didn't really know why he would be mad, I just felt like he was.
'I'm not going to force you to talk, however, I...strongly advise that you do' he said.
That night, Ava fell asleep on the couch with Jay, with his arms wrapped protectively around her.
