Shane smoothed his brown hair back off his face as he stood in front of the mirror of his hospital room. He had made a remarkable recovery, though the process of being struck by lightning hurt like HELL, he was fine now. All the results of the tests the doctors did on him came back with nothing but good news. In fact, he was feeling better than ever, though he may not have looked it. He hadn't had the chance to shave. Normally he wasn't so overly concerned about his appearance, but Bria was coming to see him and he wanted to look good.

Okay, so Bria was one of his best friends and probably didn't give a rats ass if he had shaved or not, but so what? He new he'd be nothing more than a friend to him, but again so what? There was no harm in at least TRYING to impress her, right?

Shane heard the sound of running footsteps coming down the hall. It HAD to be one of his friends, he new it. He looked over at the clock. Yep, right on time. He grinned to himself and hurried behind the door, out of sight.

Bria ran down the hallway of the hospital, ahead of the rest of the group, towards Shane's room. It was nice of her friends to try and take her mind off of what had happened to Shane, but the feeling of guilt never really left her. She ran through the room's open door saying, "Hi Shane!" a little too enthusiastically, and quickly froze. Where the hell was he? She took her eyes off the empty bed and started to look around the room calling, "Shane?"

Suddenly, two arms grabbed the red head from behind, lifted her up, and spun her around.

"Shane, you ass, put me down!" Bria shrieked and laughed at the same time.

Shane was laughing too as he set her back down. She turned to face him and hugged him properly.

"I am SO SORRY, Shane!" She said, and started to feel tears swelling up in her eyes again. 'No, not in front of him,' Bria thought to herself and blinked the tears away.

"About what?" Shane asked, grinning, pulling away from her so he could look at her, his hands remaining on her shoulders, "It wasn't like you attached a lightning rod to my back or anything...or DID you?"

"It's not funny, Shane!" Bria hissed, "I feel horrible!"

"It wasn't your fault, baby!" He couldn't believe he just called her that to her face but to his surprise her face seemed to brighten up when he did, "Now shut up about it or I'll throw you out the window!"

"Sheesh!" Bria laughed, just as Matt, Jeff, Molly, Lita, and Shannon barged into the room.

"Shane!!" Shannon shrieked, grabbing him into a hug.

"Hey, man!" Shane grinned, hugging Shannon back. Everyone had their turn hugging and greeting Shane.

"Mom and Dad are filling out some paperwork for my release or some shit," Shane said, scratching the back of his head, "So I'm pretty much free to go."

"Very cool!" Jeff said who suddenly got an odd expression on his face. He looked from Matt, to Bria, to Matt again. Matt winked at Bria, she sneered at him, Matt smirked, she glared, Matt wiggled his eyebrows, and Bria bugged her eyebrows out.

"Are you two in the middle of a telepathic argument or something?" Shane asked, looking at them very confused.

"Matt has been harassing her all day," Molly said, looking over at Bria sympathetically.

"And why, may I ask, were you harassing Bria?" Shane asked, draping his arm around Bria's shoulders and squeezing her to him, looking at Matt rather snootily.

"He's a meany-butt," Bria said pouting and glaring over at Matt.

"Yeah, well if he's ever a meany-butt to you again you tell me and I'll take care of him. MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!" Shane threw his head back when he laughed evilly then pretended to cough and hack loudly, causing everyone to laugh.

"You're such a ham, you know that?" Bria said rather affectionately to Shane, "and you've been reading too many comic books!"

"Well, EXCUSE ME, little Miss I'm-obsessed-with-Batman!" Shane said huffily, dropping his arm from around her shoulders, pretending to be offended, but everyone could tell he really wasn't by the grin on his face. "Anyway, let's get the hell out of here; it smells too much like medicine!"

"Well, it IS a hospital!" Lita shouted at him, following him out the door.

"Yeah, well, you trying spending the night sometime by yourself and see how you like it!" Shane shouted back at her.

Bria turned and mouthed the words, 'Thank you,' to Molly who grinned back at her and nodded. And, as Bria walked out the door, she slapped Matt's arm.

"Hey!" Matt whined.

Everyone piled into the elevator and stood in silence until Shane's voice came, "Is there a reason you're RIGHT ON TOP of me?"

Everyone turned to see that Matt was, if fact, only about an inch away in front of Shane.

"What, is this suddenly pick on Matt day?" Matt asked, turning to see Shane glaring at him.

"Yes," Everyone replied and laughed as Matt's eyes widened.

"Serves you right," Bria snickered, elbowing Matt in his side playfully.

"Touch me again and I'll-"

"What?!" Shane cut Matt off, snapping at him playfully.

Matt sighed and shook his head, "Nothing. And to answer your previous question, we're in an elevator; there isn't exactly a whole lot of room in here!"

"Shane, you're my hero!" Bria smiled over at him.

Shane grinned, "Good to know!"