A/N– Ohhh im excited to start this chapter. It may very well turn out to be one of my best. Not positive, sense even I, the author, doesn't know what's going to happen. But im getting antsy. I've had this chapter in my mind for a while, and Amy's accident made it possible to fit in. It worked out perfectly. So here is the big Oh Four.

By the way, some people may hate me for this chapter. Ty's dad and mom don't have the best marriage, and Ty and his dad don't get along well either. So some people may not like the way I have them interact, but oh well!

Chapter 4

Ty's POV

The day went by quickly. Jack arrived not long after Ty left Amy in her room, and from then on everything was a blur. Doctors were in and out, checking her vital signs, and doing tests. They said they wanted to be absolutely sure that the concussions were properly taken care off. Amy had been complaining of dizziness, and Ty had immediately found a doctor, only to be told it was normal.

At around 10:30 Ty was considering leaving. Lou, and Jack had left, needing to get home and rest and take care of the horses. So Ty was torn, he had been told he could sleep on a cot in her room if he wanted, or he could go home and come back the next day. Ty hadn't called his mother of father to tell then where he was. His mother would rush down and smother him with kisses and hugs, and 'Oh honey im so sorry!'s. And his father would most likely yell at him to 'Get his god damn ass back home' and to think about what was most 'important'. Ty would stick with them worrying. He knew they wouldn't call the police. He'd been known to run away before.

"Ty?" he heard Amy softly call him from her bed. He snapped out of his thoughts and looked over at her,

"Hm?" he mumbled, he'd almost fallen asleep.

"You ok?" worry was etched into her face. She must have been watching him.

"Yeah, fine. Just thinking," he smiled reassuringly, "You want me to stay with you tonight?"

Amy looked shy all of the sudden, "Well only if you want, I mean im not going to make you...its totally your decision, I mean it might be nice, but im not one who will force people to..." Ty cut her off,

"Amy just say yes," he was smiling brightly at her obvious discomfort.

She mumbled something.

"What was that? Sorry I didn't hear you?" he was torturing her.

"Yes!" she nearly shouted. Ty's smile faded, and his face became serious. He walked up to her, sat on the edge of her bed, and started playing with her hair.

"Good," and he leaned down and kissed her softly. It was a warm loving kiss. One that you wanted to curl up in and stay there. He slowly pulled away and looked down at her. She was smiling, but her eyes were drooping slightly,

"Go to sleep," he said softly, and kept stoking her hair until her eyes finally shut, and her breathing went into a steady rhythm. He stayed there for a while long, before retreating to the chair that sat alongside her bed. There he sat, and after a while he also fell into a comfortable sleep.

Amy's POV

The next morning

Amy's eyes fluttered open and all she took in was white. She was surrounded by white. She found a pair of navy blue chairs, glanced up and saw a T.V, glanced around and saw a big window, drapes drawn, and flowers lining the table in front of it, and next to her, head laying on the back of the third missing chair, was Ty. She smiled remembering the night before.

Slowly she tried to sit up, but her arm made that difficult, and her hip made her give a small cry of pain.

Ty's eyes instantly opened,

"What's wrong!" he asked frantically.

"Nothing, I tried to sit up is all." he visibly relaxed.

"You know your supposed to have help, the nurses told you that yesterday" he sighed at her, "Here." He stood up and gently pushed his arm under her back, and one under her knees. He then slowly, and gently, lifted her to a sitting position, holding her up while raising the back of the bed.

"Thanks," she smiled at him, he smiled slightly in return, that worried her. Trying to make a joke she said, "Second thoughts?"

He looked utterly, and adorably confused, "What?"

"About us. You look so, thoughtful. Are you having second thought's about us?" she had meant it to be a joke, but his face went hard, and his eyes held hurt. He backed away from her and dropped his eyes. She frantically tried to make light of the situation, and make him see what she'd meant,

"No, no, no, I was joking. I was trying to make you less..serious," apparently he didn't buy that, she could tell from the look in his eyes, and how his face didn't soften. But he nodded as though he believed her.

"Ok." he said, and she could tell she had seriously hurt him. She figured she could let it go, thinking he'd eventually get over it, but until then she couldn't bear the look in his eyes, like a lost puppy.

"Ty! Please believe me. You helped me up and smiled so slightly. It worried me. I know you have a lot of things going on. And I know us being together doesn't lighten the load. But I know you want to be with me. I was just trying to make a joke. Make you think about good things. Like us, not about..." she paused, "your dad."

His face finally softened, and his eyes no longer held the look of hurt they had a minute ago, "I understand."

She smiled at him, and this time he smiled at her fully.

Ty's POV

Ty spent the rest of the day in the hospital with Amy. During the day the nurses helped her eat, drink, sit up, and go to the bathroom. The bathroom was the hardest. The rest weren't hard for her, sense she still had her right hand, but the nurses insisted on helping her. She was hell bent on going to the bathroom on her own though. She didn't mind them helping her to the door, but hated how she needed help sitting down on the toilet. Each time he swore she went 30 shades of red.

"Ty I need to go to the bathroom," he voice held a note of determination, but Ty dismissed it. He stood up to press the 'Call' button for the nurse. She slapped her hand over it,

"No." she said.

"What?"

"I said no. Your going to help me to the door, and im going to do it from there. I know I can do it. I've been relying on the nurses all day, but gradually I've been doing more and more on my own. Ty I can do it." he tried to convince her otherwise, but she was determined.

He helped her hobble to the bathroom, and they stood at the door.

"You sure you don't want me to get a nurse?"

"Positive."

"Well what about me?" he said before he could stop himself. He hated seeing her struggle.

"What about you?" she looked confused.

"Do you want me to help you?" she looked horror struck,

"Ty! I really appreciate that you've stayed with me, and helped me. But I'm not about to let you see...down there!" She glanced pointedly down her body, he smiled, and without thinking replied,

"I don't mind." she glared daggers at him and shut the door in his face. He stood there waiting, and heard her muttering to herself,

"Don't mind...huh...who does he...he is...thinks he can...down there!...ohh he only wishes I'd let him see...well, you never know...year or two...but oooohhh that made me...pissed." then she opened the door, smiled a sweet smile at him and hobbled, on her own, back to her bed.

"Sorry." he said.

"Fine."

"Alright, well I think im gonna go," she looked surprised, "I need to tell my parents where I am, and why I never came home." she nodded and looked away. Knowing she was mad at him he walked over to her and kissed her very quickly, so she didn't get more mad and walked out the door.

Ty's House

Ty walked in the front door, and was heading towards the staircase, planning on getting in a nice long hot shower, and then sleeping, when he heard a voice from the living room,

"Where have you been?" and before Ty could answer his father he kept going, "You never came home last night. Your mother was in a right state. And then the school called today saying you weren't there. The only reason we didn't call the cops was we figured you lost track of time or didn't want to come home for some unknown reason, but that you'd go to school."

He looked at his father, knowing he was angry, but not in the mood to deal with it, "I had more important things to do."

"More important? Like what?" his father snorted.

"I was with Amy," he was too tired to elaborate, and he'd figured his father had heard about her crash somewhere. Small town, big news, it doesn't take long to spread.

"Amy? That girl you work for? What she convinced you to skip school did she?" he father sounded so judgmental.

"First of all I don't work for Amy, we work together. I work for her sister. And second of all no she did not convince me to skip school. I did it off my own free will."

"That little whore got you to fall for her didn't she?" how dare he call her a whore!

"You fucking bastard!" Ty shouted, and advanced on his father so that they were only 5 feet away from each other, "As a matter of fact I did fall for her, and thank God for that. She's the best thing I've got going for me now. And if you must know, she was in an accident. And im sorry that almost losing her overrode going to school"

His fathers face showed the slightest bit of worry, "An accident? Is she ok?"

"Why the hell do you care?" Ty spit out.

"Well I don't very well want her to die, if that's what you think," this time his fathers voice rose.

"She's fine," Ty said.

"Ok. So she's fine, but yet you still stayed with her all night, without calling?"

"Yes, dad," he spit out the word like a disease, "Because im in love with her!" his father flinched, "Hit a nerve did I? Love, was that it? Yes I think so. I love her. She could be doing homework, working a horse, or up to her knees in the muck heap and all I think is 'Isn't it lucky that I found this wonderfully amazing girl with whom im in love with, and who loves me back, surprisingly?' But dad, I've never once seen you look at mom like that. Mom could be dressed perfectly, her hair and makeup done up, but you barely glance at her!"

"Don't you dare bring your mother and me into this!" he shouted.

"Why? To close to home? Yes dad, I think that's it. I think your jealous that I have something you don't. I have a life. A life that I love," he paused, "I know you loved mom when you married her, I do. But you lost sight of that when your dream overcame you. Me? I'm doing something that makes me happy, and I've just found the girl that one day I could possibly marry," Ty was surprised at his own words, but realized... that he really he meant them.

Apparently he decided to not continue with the topic of Ty's mother "I am not jealous of you. Im disappointed. You being with this girl has got to be harder on her now, that's not a very nice thing to do Ty."

"Harder? How?"

"Well your leaving, being with her couldn't have softened the blow!"

"Leaving? I'm not leaving dad. What did I ever do to make you think that?" Ty laughed meanly.

"Your picking some girl...some girl over your own family?"

"My family? Dad if you cared you wouldn't even think of building this farm when you know it would put me in this position!"

"Give up my dream? That's what you want me to do? I've worked so hard to get this far, and your asking me to throw it away because it will make you make a choice?"

"Dad, you gave up too much for this dream. Your god damn marriage for one. And our relationship for another. And Lee, im pretty sure him being out of the house all day says it all. Look at everything you've given up, and how its effected you, and then tell me its selfish for me not to want to give up what I have." and with that Ty stormed out of the room.

Amy's POV

The next day.

Amy lay in her hospital bed, dressed in the clothes that Lou and Grandpa had brought her. She was leaving that day. They had finally given her crutches (well a crutch). They had tried to prevent it, but apparently the pain was much worse than they would have figured for her injury. One crutch was all she could handle due to the fact that her left arm was in a sling. Her collar bone would take 3 weeks to heal enough so that she could ride. Her hip would take about 2 weeks. The crutch helped her get around easier, but she still got very frustrated.

"Amy? You ready?" Lou stuck her head around the door. Amy had tried to wait to see if Ty would come see her. She hadn't seen or talked to him sense he left the day before. She'd left a message on his cell when he didn't answer. He hadn't called back. She had gotten worried and called one of his friends Felix, who hadn't heard from him either.

"Yeah I guess," she mumbled. She got up and positioned her crutch under her arm. It was already showing signs of bruising from the pressure. (a/n– I've had them. I got so sore under my arms. But they were fun for me because my friend Misty had them too. We got to go in wheel chairs to Boston, we raced down ramps:)... It rocked...anyways)

"Ok, Grandpa's waiting in the truck." Amy nodded and followed her sister out the door.

On the way home Amy just stared out the window wondering where Ty was and what he was doing that made him incapable of calling her. She wondered if he thought she was still mad about the whole 'helping with the bathroom' thing. Or maybe he was mad that she'd gotten mad. It really wasn't any reason to get mad. For her or him. She had overreacted, he was only trying to help.

They pulled into Heartland and Amy looked around. Ty should be working today. And there was his truck. She frowned. He was here, but hadn't called her. She suddenly turned mad.

The truck stopped and Amy climbed out, using the door as support until she could get the crutch under her arm. She hobbled over the front barn, glanced in and saw Ty grooming a black mare: Esmeralda, otherwise known as Essy. She walked slowly over to him, opened the half door carefully, and slipped into the stall. Ty looked up and smiled. He walked over to her,

"Hey, your home!" he bent down to kiss her, his arm gently going to her back. She pulled away.

"What's wrong?" he looked hurt, so did she.

"You left yesterday and didn't call me. I left you a message, and you still didn't call me. What happened?" she sounded angry and confused.

"You were mad at me about the bathroo..." she cut him off,

"No I wasn't. I realized like 5 minutes after you left that it was a stupid thing to get mad over. So I called you later. And then again this morning. And then again to see if you were going to bring me home. Then I finally called Grandpa to come get me." she was infuriated.

"Im sorry. I got the one from last night, but well, I had a run in with my dad," she looked worried, "and I haven't even turned on my phone today. I left after the fight, and turned my phone off when my mom started calling. I forgot to turn in back on. I would have come and gotten you," his eyes were warm and Amy found herself quickly forgiving him.

"Ok. I thought you actually were having second thoughts, after I said that yesterday,"

"No, not a single thought about that crossed my mind. Only how much I," he knew they'd told each other that they loved one another, but it still sounded so weird, even though it was true, "love you."

She breathed a sigh of relief and smiled up at him, "Good, I love you too. I really do." and then he leaned down and kissed Amy, he went to push her against the stall door, but he felt her crutch and remembered she was hurt. She felt him groan in frustration under her lips, and knowing he wanted to push her against the wall and make the kiss deeper, she smiled under his lips and broke off to bring them to his ear, "Rain check?"

She felt him smile against her cheek, "You have no idea."

A/N– Ah it is done. Ok maybe not my best chapter, but I enjoyed writing it, so I guess if falls in the top 2 of my favorite chapters so far. Hope you liked it. Review if you did. Im not getting too many, so i'm not sure if y'all are lazy, or if you don't like the story. Only review will keep it alive, so to speak. So send 'em in. I love reading them.