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Chapter 6 Recovery
Wednesday August 28, 2002
"Come on Le, you have to wake up, I need you. I know that, that sounds selfish but I love you and it's lonely without you especially at night. I can't do this alone either." Said Carman. She was sitting at Leon's hospital bedside. It had now been almost 6 weeks since the car accident and Leon's doctor was now talking about taking him off of the ventilator.
"Le I…OMG!" shouted Carman looking toward Leon. His eyes were open. "Oh, Le," said Carman hitting the button for the nurses station.
Leon reached for her hand and Carman squeezed it tightly.
"What do you need Miss. Parker?" asked the nurse appearing in the doorway.
"He's awake." Said Carman tears beginning to run down her cheeks.
The nurse quickly left the room and returned with Leon's doctor and they began checking over his vitals making sure that he was okay.
"Alright Leon, my name is Dr. Morris. You have a tube down your throat that was helping you breathe but now you are triggering the vent so I can pull the tube out." He explained unhooking the vent. "Take a deep breath and blow."
As soon as the tube was out Leon started coughing.
"Carm…cough, cough."
"Leon, shut-up for once." Said Carman grinning.
"Your girlfriend's right. You need to rest your throat before you can start talking again. Now if you need anything just go to the nurses station and they'll page me." Said Dr. Morris as he and the nurse left Leon and Carman alone.
"God, Le, you don't know how great it is to be able to see your eyes."
"Are…you ok?" whispered Leon.
"I am now."
"How long?" he asked.
"Almost 6 weeks. Now stop talking."
Leon tried to pull Carman on the bed but wasn't strong enough.
Carman quickly squeezed on the bed snuggling into Leon's side pulling out her cell phone. Leon gave her a look.
"I need to call Jesse and them."
Leon nodded as Carman waited for Jesse to pick up his phone.
"Hello?" asked Jesse.
"Jesse," Carman said barely able to contain her excitement.
"What's up? How's Le doing?"
Before Carman could reply Leon snatched the phone from her hand.
"Great dawg." Said Leon quickly his throat still sore.
"Leon!" Jesse shouted making the team looking toward him. "It's great to hear your voice, we'll be right down." Jesse hung up before Leon could say anything else.
"I guess he's coming." Said Carman with a grin. Jesse had yelled so loud that she could hear.
"Yeah and I think that I'm deaf now." Said Leon rubbing his ear.
Almost ten minutes later Jesse and the team walked in the room all wearing grins on their faces.
"Damn Leon it's great to see you." Said Vince high fiving Leon.
"You to," said Leon grinning at his family.
"Oh Leon, we missed you." Said Mia tears in her eyes.
"No more crying," said Leon.
"Who else cried?" asked Letty.
"Guilty," said Carman raising her hand.
The team laughed.
"And here I thought that you were Miss. Tough Girl." Said Letty.
"Hey, I was excited, and shocked." Said Carman defensively.
"Sure whatever." Said Letty grinning.
Carman just rolled her eyes.
"So when do you get out of here?" asked Dom.
Leon shrugged, "the doctor didn't say anything about leaving yet."
"That sucks man." Said Dom.
"Yeah, as long as I have some company I should be okay." Said Leon kissing the top of Carman's head.
"Oh so we're not important? We see how it is." Said Letty.
"Let," said Leon with a groan. "You know what I mean."
"I know." She smirked.
Carman laughed. "Your girlfriend thinks it's funny." Said Letty.
"I don't," said Leon. "I'm a sick man leave me alone."
"Yeah we have to get back to the garage, we've been backed up without you," said Dom.
"Yeah once I'm outta here, I'm back at work."
"When the doctor says you can go back to work, you'll be back." Said Carman.
"Exactly," said Dr. Morris as he walked in the room.
"Alright, I love that you have people that can come and see you but I need to talk to you about several things, so I'm going to have to ask you all to leave." He said.
The team complied with the doctor saying good-bye to Leon and leaving saying that they'd be back to see him later.
"Can Carman stay?" asked Leon.
"If you want her here."
Leon nodded, "I do want her here."
"Alright then, let's start with your broken wrist which currently is your worst injury. Physically you weren't injured badly. The basic injury was the coma. Now as far as I can tell since you remember you friends and such you don't have any brain damage. But I will run tests tomorrow morning and we'll go from there."
"Thank-god." Said Leon.
"Exactly, so now I can leave you two alone to talk," said Mr. Morris giving Carman a look before he left.
"Carm? What was that look for?" asked Leon after the door closed.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Said Carman.
"The hell you don't, what's going on?"
"Well I guess that if you really want to know then I should tell you, you at least deserve that."
"Of course I do," said Leon.
"Well, I guess I should just say it, I…."
All right there's chapter 6, hope everyone reviews. Now I'll try and get the story updated as soon as possible.
-Aimee
