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Henry woke up slowly. It took a moment but the events of the past few days came back to Henry. He made a promise to find out who did this to his wife and to his family. Even though he knew the President had people working on finding out who caused this attack Henry wanted to help. He wanted to talk to the attacker and ask why. He wanted to get justice for his family. He wanted for his life to go back to normal.
Henry was pulled out of his thoughts by a slight squeeze on his hand. Looking down he saw his wife's hand holding onto his. Henry hit the call button and began to softly speak to Elizabeth. "Baby I'm here and I'm not going anywhere just open your eyes for me." Henry kept hold of her hand as she slowly opened her eyes.
The doctor and a few nurses rushed in to see Elizabeth awake and then began to take the tube out of her throat replacing it with an oxygen line. They then began to run tests to make sure there was no permanent damage. Whilst all this was going on Henry never let go of Elizabeth's hand.
Once the doctor and nurses had left Henry moved to sit on the side of Elizabeth's bed. Keeping her hand in his he leant over and kissed the top of her head. "You know you had me scared there for a while." Henry spoke kindly, looking into Elizabeth's blue eyes.
"Yes but I'm okay." Elizabeth said weakly. "How are Alison and Stevie?" She said almost panicked. Henry picked up on his wife's worry immediately and tried to reassure her.
"They are fine, Jason took them home after they got checked out and Stevie came down to drop some clothes for me so that I could stay with you." Relief washed over him when he saw Elizabeth relax a bit. "Why don't you get some sleep whilst I call the kids and talk to the doctor?" Elizabeth nodded in agreement and Henry slowly got up once his wife had fallen asleep and walked out the door.
Pulling out his phone he called Stevie. "Hey Stevie can you make sure everybody is at home, mom is awake and I'll come over to pick you all up." Henry listened as Stevie relayed the message to her siblings then hung up the phone.
Once he had put the phone away he walked down the corridor to find Elizabeth's doctor. "Dr McCord." The doctor said when he saw Henry approaching. "Your wife is going to be fine." He watched as Henry sighed "We will move her from the ICU to a private room tomorrow and keep her under observation tonight but as long as there are no more complications we will release the Secretary within the week." Henry thanked the doctor then left to pick the kids up.
The moment they saw Henry walk through the door Stevie, Alison and Jason rushed to the front door. Henry pulled them into a hug then told them to go grab anything they needed before leaving and heading to see Elizabeth.
Once they arrived at the hospital Henry told the kids they had to be calm and quiet and took them to see their mother. Slowly everyone find somewhere to sit: Alison took the closest chair to her mother, Jason sat next to her and Stevie sat on the other side of the bed. Henry then walked over and woke Elizabeth.
The moment Alison saw her mother awake she grasped her hand and Elizabeth looked over at her youngest two children. Henry smiled when he saw the interaction and sent a silent prayer of thanks that his wife was alive and that his family was together.
Stevie was the first to speak. She told her mother about school and other things that she wouldn't tell Elizabeth normally. Alison and Jason quickly joined in the conversation and then began to tease each other. Henry was about to step in but when he saw the smile on his wife's face he decided to join in.
After a while Henry decided to take everyone home so that Elizabeth could rest. With the promise of returning in the morning Henry left taking the kids with him.
The next chapter will include fluff.