Short new chapter! A longer one will follow soon!

"...Still blurred..." Greg was at the hospital getting his eyes checked out. The Doctor nodded and walked out of the room for a moment. "Shouldn't you be with Nick right now... Just like myself?" he said to Russell who was standing right next to him.

"He's gonna be fine. He's asleep now. We'll see how he's doing later." Russell gave him a smile. He worried about Greg as much as he did about Nick.

Greg was seesawing his leg nervously. "...I'm sure my eyes will be fine. Can we go see Nick now?"

"Sit still for a moment, will ya? You're lucky you don't have a concussion or anything like that, let's hope your eyes are fine, too."

Greg was, in fact, worried about himself, too, but tried to block it out. He decided to concentrate on worrying about Nick instead. Russell just wouldn't let him. "I'm not sure I wanna find out what's wrong with my eye. What if..."

Russell stopped him right there. "Whatever it is, we'll deal with it. It could be nothing, you know that."

The doctor walked back in. "Here are your results. Just like I thought, it's just a corneal rupture. You'll need these eye drops three times a day and you'll have to wear an eye patch for the next few weeks and you should be fine." She gave Greg a confident smile.

He sighed quite relieved. He imagined all terrifying scenarios already. "Thank you. That's great news..." He hopped off his chair. "Okay, where's Nick?"

Instead of finding out how Nick was doing, Russell and Greg were standing in front of a hospital room, looking through the open door. They were talking to a doctor. "So she'll be able to use this in court?" Greg asked calmly. He was raging on the inside.

"That shouldn't be our main concern right now. Will we be able to talk to her?" Russell asked.

The doctor nodded. "She's in a very fragile state right now. The nervous breakdown she suffered surely was part of her acting out like that, but I'm sure there's a pre-existing condition that caused it."

"You don't know what kind, yet?"

"No. Could be anything, really. But right now we can't figure it out. We'll have to wait for her to get better first."

Greg already spaced out once he heard that she could get away with a criminally insane defense. He didn't listen to what they were talking about. Russell needed to address him several times before he'd notice it. "Greg! Are you alright?"

"...Huh? Yeah... Yeah I'm fine." He nodded. "I just can't believe she'll get away with this. Did she say what she planned on doing with Nick?"

"She said she just wanted him to be with her. She wouldn't elaborate on that and I'm not quite sure I want to know." He gave Greg a smile. "Well, we made sure Mrs. Douglas is getting the help she needs, Nick and Spencer are going to be fine, too. How about we both head home and get some rest?"

Greg looked thoughtful into the hospital room Mrs. Doulgas was in. Nurses were taking care of her at the moment. "Nick could've died tonight."

"Yeah well he didn't. He's gonna be fine. And when he wakes up in the morning, I'm sure he'll appreciate to see your rested face. You're not helping him by tormenting yourself. You probably saved his life. Now come on, I'll give you a ride home."

The next day, Greg stood in front of Nick's hospital room. He'd been standing there for almost 20 minutes now and just couldn't get himself to go in. He was scared. His friend almost died. It was an awful, almost crippling thought and he didn't want to think about that. When he saw the nurse who just walked in walk out of the room again, he figured he had to go inside. He owed it to Nick. "Hey Nick," he said with a faint, fake smile on his face.

"Greg! Good to see you." Nick's smile was a sincere one. "What's with the eye patch? You don't look too good."

Greg nodded. "I'm fine. How are you?" He sat down on a chair next to Nick's bed as he explained the eye patch. They made some small talk for quite some time until some of their colleagues walked in.

"Knock, knock!" Henry said with a big smile on his face, carrying a bag full of take-out food. Hodges and Sara followed inside. "We brought you something to eat!"

"Nobody should have to eat this horrible hospital food, let alone people in pain!" Sara said kidding, patting Nick on the shoulder.

"That's nice of you guys. Thanks."

Sara sat down on Nick's bed while Hodges and Henry grabbed the chairs. The three of them entertained Nick for quite a while. Greg tried to engage in the conversation but he wasn't really in the mood for this upbeat bunch. He stayed there for a while, with a stupid, fake smile on his face until he couldn't take pretending to be in a good mood anymore. He excused himself, claiming Russell needed him at work, and left.