Lisa found Lyndy on her way out the hospital door, the little girl running for her life. "LeeLee!" The girl threw her hands up to her second favorite woman.

"Honey," she scooped the little girl up so that she stopped running and couldn't get away, giving her a gentle hug.

"No doc. No shot." Lyndy pouted.

"You sound like your grandpa Jack." Lisa teased the little girl. "Where's Caleb and Cass? Did you run away again?" The tiny girl was exactly like her parents, always on the move, never satisfied in one place.

Caleb joined them, breathless. The tiny tot was easy to believe she was a sweet angel when someone else was taking care of her, but when he was helping Cass, she was a holy terror. "Thanks, Lisa."

She nodded, shifting the little girl. "Jack sent me to check on you guys anyway. Has she gotten checked out yet?" He shook his head and she turned her focus back on the little girl. "C'mon, now, honey. You have to let the doctors check on you like they are your mommy. Then maybe later we can go see her, definitely your daddy and grandpa. I think that would make their day, don't you?" The little girl smiled at her. "Maybe we can even find the horsies."

"Horsies!" Lyndy laughed and clapped her hands, although she had perked up when Lisa mentioned her parents and grandpa.

Lisa carried her back to where the doctor and Cass were waiting, helping Cass keep her still enough to be checked out while Caleb kept them all entertained. Lyndy squirmed slightly, but it was more from wanting to get down and run again than actual discomfort. Finally, it was over; the doctor said they could go. Immediately, Lisa put the small girl back on her hip, holding her close.

Ty was in the room, awake again but still exhausted, with Amy when the quartet arrived. When he saw Caleb and Cass, he walked close enough that he could talk to them without leaving Amy's side. "Daddy!"

"Shh, honey." Jack held Lyndy so that Ty could kiss her forehead. She looked so much like her mommy that his heart broke. Although it had been just over a day, he missed his wife. What happened if she never woke up? "Mommy's sleeping."

She nodded, seeming to accept this, although it was extremely rare that her mom was sleeping when she was not. "Mommy sick?"

Ty's eyes watered at that and he looked at Jack and then at his little girl. "Yeah, Mommy's sick. But she's going to get better. Until then, I need you to go play at LeeLee's house, all right? Maybe she'll let you see the horsies."

Lyndy nodded, although she looked sad, not excited as she had been when Lisa herself had mentioned it. "Monty?" She asked Lisa.

"Anything you want, honey." It was the truth. Lisa had never had children of her own, so she tended to spoil her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren that she'd inherited with her marriage to Jack. Family was better than any gift he could have given her.

Lyndy gave everyone hugs and kisses before leaving with Lisa, looking back at her mom. She knew something was horribly wrong, but wasn't old enough to understand what, just that her mommy was sick and her daddy, along with the rest of her family, was very sad.

"Can you two give Lisa a breather when she needs it?" Ty asked Caleb and Cass. "She can be…"

"You've got it. And I'll keep the clinic going. I'll even call Scott in if I have to." Cass promised him.

"What are they saying about Amy?" Caleb asked softly, holding his wife's hand.

Jack filled him in, looking tired himself, but he was bound and determined that Ty rest first and he was refusing to until Amy woke, afraid she'd wake up for a second and he wouldn't be there. Ty hadn't left the area of the room Amy was in once since they'd allowed him to go back.

Caleb nodded when Jack finished talking. He'd noticed Tim hadn't said a word, just kept watching his daughters, although he still hadn't changed into scrubs like the others were wearing. "I'll cover things at Heartland." Jack had worked the ranch many times alone; he could too.

Lou spoke up at this, "Peter said anything you need done, anything you need help with, let him know. He's staying at the dude ranch with Katie."

The old Caleb's attitude would have been asking what a city dude could do to help him, but the new one was grateful for any help he could get at all. Plus, he'd heard from Ty how much the guy benched; he could help feed if nothing else. "I'll do that. Thanks."

Cass resisted the urge to hug Ty. He and Amy were like her brother and sister, but she didn't want to risk getting him dirty and getting Amy sick. Not five minutes after Cass and Caleb left, the room heard a moan, soft, quiet, but unmistakable.

"Amy? Baby?" Ty ran to the side of the bed, Lou and Jack following close behind. Georgie and Tim stood frozen at the partition, willing Amy's eyes to open, for it not to be a trick of their minds or ears.

"Ty…" Her blue eyes slowly opened as she shivered. "Lyndy…"

"She's with Lisa, honey." Jack said, a lump in his own throat, seeing tears in Lou's eyes. "They're going to see the horses."

Amy smiled tiredly. "Loves horses…"

"Gets it from her mama," Ty said softly, stroking her hair, helping put the heater closer to her again.

"She's…okay?" She could remember bits and pieces, but there was so much of her mind that was blank.

"She's fine, baby. She ran away from Caleb because she thought the doctor was going to give her a shot," Ty had to smile at that, regardless. "But Lisa has her. She's okay."

Tim went to get the doctor. Ty could see how tired she was, but he wanted to keep her talking. The last thing he wanted was for her to close her eyes again. He was so afraid this had been a fluke, that next time she wouldn't wake up. "What do you remember?"

"Truck…Tree…" Amy moaned again from the pain and Ty's heart broke. He would give everything he had, which granted wasn't that much, to take the pain from his wife. "Don't remember…"

"You were very brave," Ty told her gently. "You made sure that Lyndy would be all right and you went for some help. You made it all the way to your dad's."

"Almost…home…" Amy tried to focus, but she was so dizzy and so tired. Everything hurt, even her hair, and all she could do was try to keep focused on Ty.

"Yeah, baby. You almost made it home." The rest of the story could wait. He wasn't sure, if it was up to him, if he'd ever tell her. The long hours of hell didn't seem to matter anymore. All that mattered was Amy was alive, awake even, and keeping her that way.

The doctor sent Jack, Lou, and Ty out of the room so that he could see how Amy was doing. Jack and Lou went back to stand by Georgie, the young woman sandwiched between them. Both reached down to hold her hand and Lou reached her other hand out for her father. Ty still couldn't bring himself to leave Amy, to let her out of his sight, although he did back up enough to let the doctor do what he needed.

"The hypothermia seems to be out of the woods," the doctor said, not knowing how close he'd gotten to what had actually happened. "But she's burning up. There's a possible infection. We need to draw blood to see."

"How is that possible?" Lou demanded to know. "Everyone did exactly as they were asked. My grandfather even shaved. He NEVER shaves."

"Precautions don't always work. She's got multiple broken bones and she spent hours in the woods. The infection may have been just below the surface the entire time; we just didn't see it because of the hypothermia."

Ty nodded, rubbing his forehead. Infection could be treated with antibiotics, but telling his wife that she couldn't see their daughter for at least a few days was not going to go over well. "What else?" He sensed there was more.

"She's saying that her arm is tingling, like it's asleep. We're hoping it's part of the neck sprain, but I'm going to run some more tests."

Jack knew how that would go over with his granddaughter, but they just didn't have any choice. If there was something seriously wrong with Amy that they hadn't caught yet, they needed to treat it now before it got worse. He knew that from experience, although he never liked the idea of tests either.

"So she can't go home." It was the first time Georgie had spoken in hours.

The doctor looked at the girl. "I'm afraid not. It's far too dangerous at the moment."

"Can she have some more blankets?" Ty asked. "She was shivering."

"Chills at the start of a fever is common. I'll bring some water in though for a sponge bath though and I'll start fluids in her IV as well as an antibiotic. As soon as the chills subside, she's going to need those blankets off." Ty nodded, although the look on his face was very clear that he didn't like it, even though he knew the doctor was right.

"Ty…" Amy called softly.

Amy had his full attention again as Ty walked back to sit with her, holding her as close as he dared, scared of hurting her. "Yeah?"

"I want to go home."

"You always say that," he smiled though, stroking her cheek. "Soon, baby. We'll be home with Lyndy and you'll be riding Spartan before you know it. You have to rest, okay, or you won't get better." He stretched out beside her and she lay her head on his chest, her eyes closing again as she listened to his heartbeat.