Absolute FireFIGHTER ~ Chapter 13



"We're aiming for 3 weeks," Dr. Hanson said, while he checked Lieu's vitals.

"Three weeks?" Ruth replied.

Dr. Hanson nodded, "August 20th sound good?"

"Definately." Lieu replied as Dr. Hanson removed the BP cuff.

"Therapy going ok?" Dr. Hanson asked, while checking his heart rate.

Lieu made a face, "As ok as it can I guess."

Dr. Hanson cracked a smile, "It's tough but it's only for...."

"My own good, Christ you sound like my daughter now." Lieu said cutting him off.

Ruth let out a laugh as Dr. Hanson smiled, "Your vitals are normal, I'll come back later."

"Thanks." Lieu replied, as Dr. Hanson left.

Ruth rubbed her forehead, "God, 3 weeks, that's it."

"Tell me about it." he replied, closing his eyes and letting his head sink into the pillow.

It was July 30th, and another Summer month had passed by quietly before anyone knew it. Bridgette went back to work waitressing a few days a week. Lieu had even convinced her to go on vacation with her friends to the beach for a few days. He was happy that she went, he was worried that she needed to go back to her normal routine instead of spending the majority of her time at the hospital.

"3 weeks." Ruth said again.

"Yeah. Maybe I can sleep through it so it'll go by faster." he joked.

Ruth smirked, "Right."

He let out a relaxed sigh, "Mmmm, my house, my bed, my dogs. I can wake up next to my beautiful wife again." He smiled, reaching over and giving her hand a small squeeze.

She grinned at him, "Stay in bed really late on a Sunday morning."

He smiled back and let out a yawn.

"Tired?" she asked.

"A little." he answered.

"Get some rest then," she said, standing up and leaning over to give him a kiss, "I'll come back later ok?"

He nodded, "Love you."

"Love you too." she replied, letting go of his hand and turning to leave.

"3 weeks." he mumbled to himself as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

~*~*~





"What's the first thing you're gonna do?" DK asked, tossing the Koosh ball acrossed the room to Walsh.

Lieu though for a second, "Eat."

Walsh laughed, and tossed the ball back to DK, "Second thing?"

"Drive the dogs out of their minds." Lieu smiled.

"Is the brown one still fat?" DK asked, tossing the ball back over to Walsh.

"That dog will never lose weight." Lieu answered.

Walsh laughed, and tossed the back and forth between his hands, "When did you get this ball anyway?"

"My lovely daughter gave it to me," Lieu replied, "Sorta to help with my hands, ya know gripping stuff again."

Walsh looked down at the ball, "Oh. I didn't even think of that."

DK chuckled, "Yeah? Since when do you ever think?"

"Funny." Walsh replied, hurling the ball back to DK, "So we got a new kid at the house."

"Yeah?" Lieu asked.

"Yeah, started a few days ago. He's pretty cool, knows what he's doing for the most part." DK replied.

"His name's Zach, he's a young one too, just turned 21." Walsh added.

DK smirked, "You're out of here in 2 weeks, then you get to meet him."

"You mean scare him." Walsh chuckled.

"I like him, I think he's a good kid." DK said.

Lieu raised his eyebrow, "What did you guys do to him?"

DK and Walsh both looked back to him innocently, "Us?"

DK laughed, "We didn't do anything. Jimmy glued his boots to the floor."

Lieu shook his head and laughed, "Think Jimmy will ever get more creative than that?"

"Doubt it." Walsh smiled.

~*~*~

"INCOMING!" Bridgette shouted, running off the deck and then jumping into Kelsey's huge swimming pool.

Kelsey laughed as Bridgette came up from under the water, "I give that a 7.5"

"No way! That was definately an 8!" Bridgette giggled.

Kelsey laughed at her while, she swam over to one of the floats and climbed on, "So how many more days do we have?"

Bridgette smiled brightly, "11!"

"Awesome," Kelsey replied, "I can't stand calling your house and not having him answer the phone and make fun of me.

Bridgette laughed, "Yeah. He really likes when you and your parents go see him. He always asks me how his 'Keslers' is doing."

Kelsey smiled, "So does he have to back to the doctor's alot?"

She sighed, "Yeah. I don't know how often but I think once or twice a week. Plus he has therapy every day."

"You know I"m around if you don't wanna take him or your tired or have to work or something, right?"

"Yeah," Bridgette smiled back, "Thanks."