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Pain: Emotion, To cause distress and torment, misery and torture, agony and anguish.

Mac stopped outside the doorway and saw Jess and Stella lying on the bed, both asleep, wrapped in each others arms.

He softly knocked on the door, quietly walking into the room.

His knock was loud enough to wake Stella, but Jess was still asleep from the painkillers.

Eyes opening, she moved herself so she still had an arm around Jess, and sat up, "Morning Mac."

He smiled, "Morning, how's she doing?"

Stella smiled back, and looked down at Jess, "She's doing okay." She kissed Jess's hair and shook her softly, "Wake up Jess... Mac's here."

Jess slowly opened her eyes, "Morning." She looked around, "What time is it?"

Stella found the clock on the wall, "About ten." She pressed a quick kiss to Jess's lips, "I'm going to go get something eat, okay?"

"Okay." Stella slipped off the bed and left.

Mac watched her leave then turned back to Jess, "Want to hear about the guy who shot you?"

At her eager nod, he started to talk.

Stella ran into Flack on her way back up, "Hey."

He smiled, "Hey, how's Jess doing?"

"She's okay. I just woke her up, we slept all night. She's in the room with Mac."

Flack stopped, "You were here all night?"

Stella nodded, "She wanted me to stay."

Flack grinned, "How did you pull that off with hospital staff?"

"They said it was alright, considering the victim and the situation. Plus the fact that she was almost dead to the world helped. They weren't worried about us making too much noise."

Danny walked up behind them, "Really?" He smirked, "I find that hard to believe."

Stella smacked him, "Don't have such a dirty mind Danny. What are you doing here?"

He shrugged, "Just thought I'd come by."

"Without Lindsay? Your girlfriend?"

"She made me come, she's following a lead and couldn't come."

Stella smiled, "So you're the messenger boy?"

Danny grinned, "Guess so. So how is she?"

Stella looked into the window, Jess was sitting up on the bed and Mac was helping her stand, but she didn't miss the wince when Jess landed on the ground. However, she just forced a smile, "She's good."

They didn't notice her sadness, on the outside she was happy, but on the inside there was a hard pain.

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