True to her word, Laura never left Lorne's bedside until he woke up. He was moving a lot more, albeight it stiffly, when he turned his head and looked at her smiling. "Hey you. How long you been here?" he asked her croakily. She shrugged her shoulders and held his hand, before saying, "Awhile. Dr Beckett has been running interference for me with the shrink." She smiled at him when a voice spoke behind her, "What the hell are you doing here?" Laura stood up and spun around still holding Lorne's hand. She gripped it and said, "I'm visiting a friend. You got a problem with that?" she asked through gritted teeth.
"You know every fine well I have a problem with that." She said. She glared at the interlaced fingers and said, "Now get the hell out." she added. Laura gave Lorne's hand another squeeze and then left. I'll be back later. I promise. She thought.
Ok. See you later. Laura walked past Heightmeyer and smirked at her before leaving.
Laura headed for her lab as she had some translations to do for McKay. She now had a backlog of work to do because she had refused to leave Lorne's side until he had regained consciousness from the sedative that Beckett had given him. He was still dehydrated and malnourished but he would soon be up and about. Beckett had set his arm and the cast could come off in a few weeks. She had been visiting him every night and then going to bed before Heightmeyer would go and see him. He never knew she was there as he was asleep. Last night had been an accident she had fallen asleep and Beckett couldn't wake her, which is how she had run into Heightmeyer. Sighing she got rid of all her paperwork and went to her quarters. She hadn't been sleeping well but at least she was sleeping. Deciding to have a nap she lay down on her bed and fell asleep. She was woken up by Dr Beckett's voice in her ear, "Laura? Its Dr Beckett."
"Go ahead." She said groggily.
"Have I woken you up?"
"Yeah. But it doesn't matter. What can I do for you?"
"Heightmeyer just left. I thought I would tell you so that you can come and visit now. As she is determined to come back tonight." She could almost imagine his eyes rolling.
"Thanks Carson. I'll be right there." She clicked off her earpiece and walked to her wardrobe. Pulling on a clean t-shirt, she picked up the jar of red jellybeans that she still hadn't given to him yet. Walking towards the infirmary with beans in hand she arrived there within a few minutes. She smiled when she saw that Lorne was awake and attempting to eat something. She hid the jar behind her back and cleared her throat. "Hi." She said smiling at him. "What's that behind your back?" he asked curiously. She just chuckled at him as he attempted to see behind her back. "You miss nothing do you? How you feeling?"
"Better. So what is it?" he asked again. Laughing she pulled the jar out from behind her back. He looked like a kid at Christmas she handed them to him. "When did you do that?"
"When I was back on Earth. I had some time to kill. So I thought I would do them for you." He groaned in frustration, "What? I thought you liked the red ones?" she said.
"Oh I do. It's not that. It's just that I can't devour them now. My stomach still isn't holding down food. Your cruel."
"I'm not as cruel as the shrink." She replied laughing.
"This is true. She's a royal bitch." Laura groaned in exasperation. "So why are you still with her? You do realise your going to have to lie to her about where you got them from." Lorne nodded. They had been talking for a couple of hours when Dr Beckett came in and said, "Sorry to interrupt you two. But Laura you'd best get going. Heightmeyer will be here in a couple of minutes and to be honest I don't want a full blown argument erupting in my infirmary."
"No problem doc. Lorne I will see you soon." She leaned over and kissed him on the temple and left the infirmary. She had to hide behind a marine otherwise Heightmeyer would have seen her. Laughing she walked back to her quarters so that she could continue her nap.
A/N: Sorry about the shortness and randomness of this chapter.