"How's he doing today?" Jay asked as he came into the room the next day to find Elle standing by Kay's bedside, gently raising and lowering his left arm, flexing it at the elbow and wrist. "What are you doing?"
"I need to do some exercises to try to maintain his muscle tone." Elle explained as she moved to his legs and begin to gently work on the left leg pushing back to bend the knee and raising it a bit as she straightened his leg to flex his hip. "He's going to have a lot of rehab ahead of him when he wakes up. I don't want that to be any harder than it has to be."
"Uh, can I do something to help?" Jay asked. He really didn't understand what Elle was trying to do, but if it would help his partner to get better faster, he was more than willing to learn.
"Fine. Take his other leg like I'm doing," Elle said as she stopped for a moment to explain. "Push up so that the knee bends and then pull down again raising his leg a little as you do it so that his hip gets some flexion. Think you can do that?"
"No problem," Jay murmured as he begin, keeping a close eye on Elle to make sure he was doing things right. "So, how is he doing, really? You know, Zed's really acting weird about this. It's like he's in shock or something."
"Kay's a good friend. I'm not surprised Zed's in shock," Elle told him. "Kay is making some improvement, though. It's just going very slowly."
"How long until he wakes up?" Jay asked as they finished the exercises.
"No way to tell for sure. He's doing well considering the seriousness of his injuries, though. Just keep visiting and talking to him. He can hear you." Elle reassured him.
"Yeah. Now if he would just come out of this," Jay said as he picked up the book he had laid on the counter when he had gone to help Elle with the exercises and then took a seat by Kay. "Hey, partner. How are you doing today? I got permission from Zed to go into your room. Hope you don't mind that. I thought you might like to hear a book or something. The baseball came was lousy last night. Would probably just make you feel worse. I got A Christmas Carol, your favorite." Jay opened the book and begin to read, filling the room with the tale of Scrooge and the three ghosts.