Nathan finished rolling the final bandages and put them away on the shelf. He peeked inside the room and found both Ezra and Vin were sound asleep, and Chris was asleep in a chair between the two of them. Nathan shook his head and quietly went into his room. He sat on his bed and stared at the door, a smile lit his face up.
The past week he had struggled to save Vin and had nearly panicked thinking he had let Ezra down in not noticing he was injured to. But then again Ezra was great at the poker face, he had not let on that he was hurt or then again that he was sick until after Vin had been able to walk on his own. Nathan shook his head as he stretched out on is bed. Who would have thought that he an ex-slave would be willing to be friends with a southerner. Nathan nearly laughed thinking about how he nearly hadn't joined them because of the southerner, then again Ezra didn't want to join to protect Nathan.
Then again who would have thought that he would have been working with any of the six men he now called his friends, no better his brothers. Then again for a few minutes six months ago he didn't think he would still be alive till Vin and Chris stopped him from being lynched.
He thought about all of them. So different yet they all searched for the same thing expectance in some form or fashion. And they had found it in one another. Nathan couldn't help but notice the warm feeling that filled his chest to think about it. He had already patched each of them a number of times and it never stopped the worry that came along that he wouldn't be able to help them.
Yet they came to him just the same, with faith and trust. The same faith and trust he put in them to protect him if he needed it. Nathan hadn't had much of a family in his life and it felt nice to have this one. He rolled over onto his side in the morning he would wire a larger city for some new medical books and see if he could get Ezra to help pay for them, who knows he might need them and he might not but he couldn't be to careful. He had a family to protect.