It all belongs to Kudos. A short chapter 2 follow up to 'No Time Left"
She opens her eyes. Pain. Bleach. Beth.
"Harry?"
Beth is too still. "He took most of the blast. Not as much as Lucas. He's dead."
Ruth stopped. All of her stopped. Her breath, her heart, her head.
"No, Ruth, Lucas is dead. Harry's alive" Beth had seen the effect of her words immediately and cursed herself at her clumsiness.
Ruth breathed a shallow breath, not risking more than that. Waiting. Waiting for the rest that was to come.
"He's critical."
Ruth could remember nothing but their whispered last words to each other and then all was blank. Now, here she was in lying in a hospital bed somewhere, away from Harry. She sat up, a little too abruptly and felt the sharp pain tear through her right leg.
"Take me to him"
"You can't, Ruth, you're.."
"Beth." No more words were necessary. Ruth would not be told no and Beth could see that, she had seen what had passed between Ruth and Harry in those last moments.
"What the hell do you think you're doing. You can't.." The nurse came in to find Ruth been arranged in a wheelchair by Beth. Outraged that her patient should be about to burst the multitude of stitches in her leg.
"I'm taking her to see her…" there was a slight pause but Beth knew what she was about to say was in every sense the truth.. "her husband". Ruth looked to Beth confused that she had witnessed what had been said. Of course, they had had a feed on the Grid from the Warehouse. They had all seen and heard her and Harry's vows to each other. They all knew. And in that moment what surprised her most was that she quite liked the fact that they knew. Why shouldn't they know how much she loved Harry, god, she would tell the world if it meant Harry was ok.
The nurse seemed unimpressed at where Beth was heading. "You can help me, or you can wait till I'm gone and then you'll have to tie her to the bed because there's no way she won't find her way to him."
The nurse looked between the two of them and knew she wasn't going to win this battle.
"Only family, I'm afraid"
"I'm his wife."
"I'm sorry, we don't seem to have that Mr Pierce is married on his records".
Beth stepped in "It only happened yesterday, and it's Sir Harry, by the way"
Pos more to come. Don't know yet