Three days. It had been three days since the doctor had first noted Elle was starting to improve. The swelling was slowly starting to go down and the red spots from the bleeding under her skin and the bruises from her blood clotting problem were starting to fade a bit. The MiB medics had finally decided that she was stable enough to move back to headquarters.
Jay looked at his partner as the medics moved about the room, detatching wires and equipment. Kay hadn't moved from Elle's side in three days, hadn't even twitched, had just sat there like a statue clinging to her hand. The only words he had spoken in that time were repeated pleas for Elle to squeeze his hand or open her eyes.
"We're ready to move her now," the head medic said as they moved to Elle's bedside and reached out to lift her from the bed onto the stretched that had brought in.
Suddenly, Kay reached out, raising a hand to stop them. "I'll carry her."
"That might not be the best...."
"I said I'll carry her," Kay repeated as he reached down, securing the blankets around Elle before gathering her up into his arms.
A car on the MiB underground transport system had been modified to serve as a temporary infirmary on the way back. Kay carried Elle to the bed they had arranged in the back and laid her down, setting on the bed behind her so her head rested comfortably in his lap. The head medic looked over at Zed.
"Can you treat her like that?" Zed asked.
"Yes," the medic said reluctantly. It would be a bit more difficult but they could treat her.
"Then let him hold her."
Elle spent the entire trip back to MiB resting safely in Kay's arms as the medics worked around her, regulating the respirator that she was attached to and occassionally switching the IV's.
"Elle?" Kay whispered in her ear when they were almost home. Three days without any sign of life besides that created by the machines. "Elle, please. I know that you can hear me. Please, just squeeze my hand. Just try. Please." A moment later, he was shocked to feel movement and he looked down to find her fingers twitching, lightly squeezing his hand.