A:N/ Thankyou for everyone who has been reading this story i am very much appreciating it! This is for all the reviewers who have read the story and those who have this as a favourite.There is also a Forum for this if you go to the James Bond Forums where you can give input on the story and give me some ideas which i fear i am going to need in January because i have exams. Pray for me Joke... I shall leave you with Chapter Five and James is seriously a bad father but you'll see why...

Note: Contains A Use of Strong Language so be warned.

Chapter Five: A Job, A Daughter

He awoke to the gentle humming of the heart monitor as it registered the gentle and steady rhythm of his heart; His brain felt shrouded in a kind of heavy blanket as he awoke from his long healing sleep, the combined pain medication and sedatives losing their control over him as his body reclaimed it's former strength and he was thankful for it.

Bond knew that he had been lucky this time, getting away with a gunshot wound to the arm which- if it had been much further left- could have severed one of his main arteries and he would surely be a goner. He remembered the car crash and feeling the sensation that every bone in his body had a metal pole taken to them but now, he felt a strange kind of numbness as he awoke from his two day long sleep, in which he had awoken for only a few precious moments and murmured to M, who had been at his bedside at his first arousal, that he wanted to see his daughter.

He had heard voices around him as he slept, their tone of voice filled with worry. But then he heard an innocent voice which pierced through the darkness, a voice which he seemed to have forgotten but at the sound of felt alive again and his heart seemed to rejoice at the sweet melody of the voice which pulled him back from darkness and pain and into the light and warmth that was life.

Opening his glazed blue eyes, James winced as the bright sunlight reached his senses and surprised him somewhat. He tried once again, this time his senses becoming more familiar with the level of brightness and he found the wonder of being able to see into a light filled room which was a cream colour and had the scent of newly flourished flowers which had been freshly replaced presumably only a short time ago.

He found that he was dressed in white hospital scrubs and turned to see a bandage protruding from his right sleeve as he turned again to see an IV line snake along his left arm and up to a saline bag in which the doctors had fed the medication into his blood stream in order to reach the places that they were needed. He inhaled through his nose a deep breath to feel a Nasal Cannula and smelling the clean oxygen run up his senses and give him an easier time at breathing rather than making it his priority and allowing him to relax.

His train of thought was broken when he heard the soft swishing of the side room door and turned to see Aidan enter the room, turning only to softly close the door because she thought that he was still asleep, and came over- Her face lighting up slightly when she saw him watching her.

"You're awake; the nurses said you wouldn't come around until later this evening so that's why I didn't bring Kaley here."

"It's alright," Bond croaked after not using his voice in almost two weeks and after been taken off a ventilator.

Aidan smiled weakly as she awkwardly sat in the comfy seat she had vacated only ten minutes before to contact M who had offered to watch Kaley for the afternoon in her office in the building in Regent's Park to check if everything was alright and to give her a status report on Bond himself.

"How are you feeling?" Aidan asked as she took up a cup of ice chips and put on in Bond's mouth as it gave him a soothing sensation as he allowed the water to run down his sore throat, making him feel better.

"Little tired but i'm good. How long have i been here?"

"Er, around two weeks I think, Kaley keeps asking why your asleep everytime she comes and the nurses and i keep explaining it is because the medication makes you sleep a lot."

Bond smiled weakly, remembering somewhere in his dreams he had heard the little girl's worried voice as he felt her small hand in his as he slept. Aidan stared at the cup in her hands thinking carefully about how to say what was on her mind.

"The stunt you pulled... What were you thinking?"

Bond turned away from her and looked to the ceiling.

"You could have been caught, you could have been killed. Your not invincible Bond and you have a daughter to think about now too, you can't be as reckless as you used to be- you have a responsibility to come home for her."

Bond exhaled slowly and winced as he did so because of his ribs.

"This is my job Aidan, this is what i do and what i have done... You were here and if anything had happened- If i had been caught, you would have been able to look after Kaley until i was released. I'm not invincible but if i put Kaley at the front of everything- i wouldn't be very good at my Job."

Aidan shook her head and for the first time since he had known her she said something which made his head turn.

"Your a bastard Bond."

Aidan stood up and was about to turn away when Bond Caught her arm.

"Don't you care about anything but your job? It seems like you prefer your job to your daughter; She should be the most important thing in your life."

"That's why i do this job to keep her safe... I do this job to make sure that she can grow up in peace and have a life.Isn't that enough?"

"Not if it means you abondon your daughter like you did before,"

Aidan released her arm from his strong grip, allowing Bond's hand to fall back to the bed, as she put the cup down on the movable table near his bed.

She had seen him like this before when Kaley had been younger and knew that he had good days as well as bad when the situation involved Kaley and she still foud it hard to believe that he could be so cold hearted toward the little girl who could melt anyone's heart with her bubbly personality and sweet smile that showed almost every day, but which had lost some of it's glow after she had found out that her father had been taken to hospital.

If only Bond could see how much that little girl loved him and how much his attitude toward her caused so much anger from those around him- especially from M and herself who had both worked so hard to make him love the little girl like she loved him.

"I need to go and give M a status report on your condition," Aidan said, her voice tone changing to neutral. "I'll bring Kaley to see you when i come back. Would you like anything brought from your flat? Clothes of any kind."

Bond noticed the edge of sharpness and controlled anger in the young woman's voice but brushed it off.

"A change of clothes should suffice and if you could bring some cleaning materials also."

"Of Course,"

Without another word, Aidan went out, the door closing with a snap, as Bond lay back deeper into the pillows before looking out of the window and considering Aidan's carefully placed words.

"Daddy!"

Kaley ran over to the bed as soon as Aidan had escorted the little girl into the room as she held a black holdal containg his requested items. Bond smiled weakly at the little girl, who came to sit on the edge of the bed by using the chair as leverage to boost her onto the covers, and lifted a hand to brush a wisp of stray hair off of her face as she gave him a nervous smile.

"Are you alright? Have you been good for Aidan and M?"

"Uh huh. I drew a picture for you too- Aida thought it was pretty and helped me stick it on the fridge with magnets."

"Did she," He took a peak at Aidan who, had come to sit on the vacated chair, nodded solemnly. "What was in the picture?"

Bond listened carefully as the little girl described the picture; from the colourful flowers to the big tree and the stick figures representing him, Aidan, Kaley herself, and...

"I put in mummy so that you wouldn't get lonely too,"

Bond frowned at the comment and Aidan explained cooly.

"She saw the framed picture in your room and wanted to draw her- she even gave her curly hair."

Kaley watched him closely and asked innocently.

"Was i not supposed to do that?"

"It's fine," James answered neutrally which, he noticed, made Kaley dart her eyes to the floor.

Aidan gave him a warning look as if to make him say something to reassure the girl who looked as if she was in serious trouble even though she hadn't realised she had done something wrong. James ignored it but pretended that after the short conversation, he was feeling tired.

"I think the pain medication the doctor gave me is kicking in- Aidan would you take Kaley home, it's late and she probably has school in the morning."

Aidan sighed at the comment and shook her head disappointedly. The little girl had no knowledge of her mother and so hadn't realised that her father was still pained by the mentioning of her.

"Come on Kaley, let's leave your dad to rest. We'll come and see him again tomorrow. Say bye now."

Bond had turned his head toward the window as he felt the little girl sit still for a moment before moving off- But not before she knelt on the bed, which caused James to turn, and gave him a small kiss on the cheek before jumping down.

"Sorry Daddy," The little girl mumbled. "Night Night."

"Good Night," He mumbled quietly as Aidan gave him a look which told him that she was dissappointed at his attitude before leading the girl out of the room as Bond returned his gaze to the window to look out at the lit up skyline of London.

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