Ari's hospital room...
Travis' words sounded foreign. They didn't sound like they would originally come from him. They almost sounded like Tora's, she thought, but that couldn't be true, could it? Tora had left her, hadn't he? Travis was the one who saved her, wasn't he? She had thought she knew the answers, but now she wasn't so sure. "What happened after I collapsed " She thought to herself.
"Hey, Trav," she said, looking at Travis with questions in her eyes.
"Yes?"
"What happened after I passed out? How did you save me?" She asked, and something told Travis she wasn't going to let this go.
Momentarily filled with panic, Travis sat there quietly. He took Ari's hand in both of his, "I walked over there to see what was going on with you and that guy, and saw you lying on the ground." She nodded for him to continue, he took a deep breath, "I went to see if you were okay, checking to see if anything was noticeably injured. You appeared to be fine, and you were breathing so I just called the ambulance. I held you in my arms, trying to keep you warm, until the ambulance came. Once I saw you were in good hands, I followed it here in my car. Then I called Tora."
"You called Tora?" She asked in a confused tone.
He had just broken the one rule Tora told him, but did he really? He didn't say anything about Tora saving her, but he did say his name.
"Uh, yeah," he tried to recover, "I thought that was what you would want."
She smiled at his sweet gesture, "Thank you." She leaned over to give him a kiss on the cheek. Travis blushed, and she giggled. She gave him another kiss, on the lips this time. When she pulled away, she saw Tora's golden eyes watching her from the doorway.
"Tora I-" She began, but he walked away, purposely dropping the black velvet box in the door way.
"Tora wait!" She started to get up and chase after him.
"No, Ari, sit back down," Travis told her, gently forcing her back into the bed, "I'll go after him for you."
"Why would you do that?" Ari asked.
"Because he is the one who saved you."
"What?" She asked bewildered, but he was already on Tora's heels.