Maureen sat in the cab silent. Roger sat in the front and Mimi sat in the back with her.

"Ok." She finally said. "What do you mean he's in the hospital?"

Roger looked back at Mimi with a concerned look. There was obviously something they were not telling Maureen.

"Um, Benny went into the hospital last night." Mimi said. "I guess he was drinking at a bar, and he got into a fight and, well, he was stabbed."

Maureen's eyes widened in shock. "What the hell!?" she cried. "He got stabbed, what an asshole." She fumed silently the rest of the way to the hospital.

They finally got there and Roger and Mimi took Maureen up to the room. Benny was laying down watching the news on TV. His torso was wrapped in thick gauze and there was a blood stain near his right side.

Roger and Mimi decided to stay out in the waiting room.

Maureen cleared her throat and Benny looked over at her. "Maureen." He frowned. "I told them not to get you." He looked ashamed to be in the hospital.

"You were stabbed?" she crossed her arms.

He sighed and turned off the TV. "I was in a fight." He told her trying to sit up. He was obviously in pain. She walked over to the bed and put a pillow under his back so he could sit up comfortably.

"Mimi told me, but why?" she asked.

He looked down at his stomach, the bloody bandage. "I was drunk, I don't really remember." He said "I was really upset about what you said to me on the phone and there is no alcohol in the house, because…" he motioned to her stomach.

She nodded and protectively touched her stomach. "You had to get drunk, that's how you deal with stuff?" she asked.

"I was upset and I needed to stop thinking about it." He said. She could tell that he was being serious, he really did love her.

"Do you know who stabbed you?" she asked and he shook his head no.

"I don't remember. It really doesn't matter; I'm ok, nothing to badly hurt." He sighed.

"Does it hurt?" she asked and he nodded.

"It hurts like a bitch." He told her.

Maureen smiled, happy. "Good, I think you deserved this."

Benny sighed and rubbed her stomach. She let him; after all it was his baby too. He could see the baby move through Maureen's t-shirt. "I just saw her kick through your stomach." He said.

Maureen smiled and nodded "Yeah, I noticed that last night, she's getting to be too big." This is the way they were, happy, before the fight. They did have more good times than bad and Maureen never really hated the bad. She overreacted then stewed the whole time her mother was there.

"So I suppose you will need someone to take care of you." She faked a sigh "You're going to be in bed for the next week or so. I guess I will have to move back in with you."

Benny's eyes lit up. He reached into his pocket and pulled out her engagement ring. Pushing it up to her expectantly he took it and slipped it back onto her finger.

They kissed then came apart. "Don't leave again." He said laughed and she smiled "I can't promise it, just don't call me a whore again." She said only half kidding.

"No, Babe, I don't think that you are a whore." He said.

A doctor came in. It was a man in his late 40's with graying black hair and deep brown eyes under his glasses.

Maureen turned around "Hello Dr…" she said and he smiled.

"Dr. Fields." He took her hand and shook it. "Are Benny's wife?"

Maureen shook her head "Fiancé. My name is Maureen, nice to meet you." She tried to look at his chart. "Is Benny going to be ok?"

The doctor nodded. "I do believe that nothing major was injured. But he is going to need to be in bed while the wound heals, at least a week. Also, you will need to clean the wound everyday to stop infection."

Maureen stopped him "Oh, no, no, I can't do that."

"Ok, we can send a nurse over to your house in the afternoons to do this." Dr. Fields told her. "Benjamin is going to be fine Maureen."

Maureen turned to her fiancé as Dr. Fields left. "I'm glad you are ok." She told him. "But, try not to get into anymore drunk bar fights, okay?"