"This is taking so long." Lawson said.

"She is going to be okay." Michael says as Stella walks up to them and takes a seat next to Michael and she asks "Is she okay?"

"We haven't heard anything yet." Lawson says.

"Oh, okay." Stella says resting her chin on top of her clasped hands and staring at the wall in front of her.

Nothing more was said for another half hour and that is when Shannon's doctor came out.

"Hello, well sorry about the fright, it was just her heart rate, it was rising because she was starting to wake up and as she was unaware of her condition she was a little bit worked up with having the oxygen mask on her face, we managed to get her to calm down was she had awoken properly and we just had to do some tests, so far it isn't too bad."

"So she is going to be okay then?" Lawson asks.

"Well let's not get ahead of ourselves here, she isn't completely out of the woods yet, the next 48 hours are still very crucial, she was experiencing a headache, normally we would expect one after having surgery on the brain, but it's not usually to the extent she has it at the moment, now we did do a scan but as there is still swelling around the brain we can't be 100% sure that there isn't anything that we haven't caught yet, so for the next 48 hours we will be keeping a very close eye on her until the swelling goes down so we can be certain, hopefully after some more sleep she will be feeling better."

"Can I go see her?" Lawson asks.

"Not at the moment, she is currently asleep again and I suggest you do the same thing as well, she won't want to see you so tired when you visit tomorrow, she will want to see you, she said she wants to see everyone, and said you would want to let Josh know she is okay and that she needs to talk to him about something, so go home and get some sleep." The doctor says.

"Thank you; please just keep me up to date if there are any other changes." Lawson says getting up.

"Yeah no worries, I will see you tomorrow." And she walked away back to the direction of Shannon's room.

"Alright guys, how about you get up now so we can get home and get some sleep." Lawson says to Stella and Michael.

"Yeah, okay let's get going, I will drive." Michael says taking in Stella's tired form.

"Yeah okay." She says leaning into his embrace and walking to her car.

"Thanks for dropping me home, you doing to get home alright Michael?" Lawson asks as they pull up outside his house.

"Yeah, I will just crash on the couch at Stella's." Michael says.

Giving Michael a curious glance he just nods his head and says "Uh huh, sure you will, well I will see you tomorrow, just shoot me a sms when you're about to leave to pick me up." Lawson says closing the door

"Yeah no worries Lawson, and do as the doctor says and try and get some sleep, for Shannon's sake at least, last thing she needs is to be worrying about you okay, if anything happens they will call you, have a good night's sleep Lawson and see you tomorrow." Michael says.

"Yeah, have a good night's sleep yourself." Lawson says walking towards his house.

Starting the car up again Michael yells out before driving off "Get to bed and sleep." And Lawson can't help but laugh.

Pulling up at Stella's house, Michael turns off the ignition and sits there for a minute taking in Stella's sleeping form.

"Hey wake up Stell." Michael says nudging her softly.

"Oh are we home already." She mumbles rubbing her eyes and stretching out in the seat.

"Yeah we are." Michael says softly.

"Lawson get home okay then." She says slowly getting out of the car.

"Yeah whether he actually goes to sleep is another thing though." Michael says standing behind her as she unlocks her door.

"I think he will, he won't worry Shannon, he may be an idiot at times but his not stupid, especially when it comes to Shannon." Stella says starting to wake up a bit.

"Yeah well I hope so." Michael says putting his keys, phone and wallet on her kitchen bench along with his bag.

"I wish I could get my hands on her dad though." Stella says angrily.

"Yeah and maybe you should calm down, Dom gave him a decent punch and he will cop it from the judge, don't worry he will be sorry." Michael says rubbing her shoulders.

"We should get to bed." Stella says giving him a kiss before dragging him to the bedroom and they start getting undressed into their bed clothes.

Lying down in the bed under the covers she says to Michael "Are you getting in?"

"Yeah, sorry I was just thinking about how lucky I am to have you, especially that you are safe and sound, I don't want you to ever get hurt like that." Michael says getting into bed and pulling Stella into his body who rests her head onto his chest.

"You know nothing will happen to me right, and did Lawson get a hold of Josh?" Stella asks.

"No he left a message so Josh was probably asleep or doing something, it is late." Michael says inhaling her scent from her hair.

"Yeah I just hope it isn't anything stupid." Stella says.

"He will be fine, just try and get some sleep and we will deal with everything when we wake up." He says reassuringly.

"Yeah okay, I love you." She says.

"I love you too, now get some sleep and sleep well." Michael says slowly rubbing her back and making her drift off to sleep. Once she is asleep he pulls her in closer and closes his eyes and wills sleep to take over him.