"Oh crap..."

"Ugh..."

Kim winced, "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."

"No." Kerry rubbed at her eyes. "What made you wake me up?"

"Uh..." Kim stood and paced away from the bed. "It's sort of embarrassing."

"Lori."

Kim turned halfway back, "What? She's my sister."

"Oh... what then."

Kim shook her head, "You should rest."

Kerry opened her mouth and then closed it and nodded. Kim smiled, "I should get going. Check in. I... uh... I'm going to stay, here, in Psych."

"Good."

Kim met Kerry's eyes, "Really?"

"Yes."

Randi nodded, "Uh, hi..." Randi was followed by Abby, Carter and Dave. "I brought an audience. Since, Kim didn't say that we were banned today, just yesterday."

Kim pointed at the door. "I need to go." She slipped out the door without another word. Carter, Dave, and Abby did most of the talking, while Randi leaned against the wall and watched the co-workers interact. Waiting.

oOOOOo

"Hi, Sandy... yeah, it's Kim. Could we get together for..." She glanced out the window when she realized she wasn't sure what time of day it was. From the sky it was morning. "...breakfast?" She listened for a minute, "Truthfully, you probably won't like it. That's why I figured I'd buy you an amazingly expensive, or at least sorta not cheap breakfast." Kim paused and listened again. "Twenty minutes. Doc Magoos. I can do that."

oOOOOo

It was finally just Randi and Kerry. "Are you, really okay?"

"No screaming alarms..." Kerry's eyebrows furrowed. "Are you okay Miranda?" Randi swallowed, "I know I can sometimes severely Weaver people, but I don't have the strength at the moment, if that's what you're worried about."

"No."

Kerry waited for more, but there wasn't any. "I'll be here all day."

There was more silence, followed by an explosion from Randi's mouth, "I love you." She paused for two beats before she plunged on, "Not that way, not that there is a that way, for you I mean, I heard a rumor that you sorta screamed you were a lesbian, but uh, it was at Romano, so maybe you were. And I've, but that was, and holy shit, I'm going to shut up now." Randi crossed her arms over her chest, "Anyway..."

Kerry pushed herself up in the bed a little with a grimace, "There are lots of ways to love."

"You've always been there for me, I..." She shook her head.

Kerry chuckled, causing a look of consternation to appear on Randi's face, "You think this is fu..."

"No, no... Randi, look at us, possibly two of the three worst people in the hospital at expressing our feelings, trying to do it to each other. I love you too. I've never had much of a family... and if you think about it, you're very much like a daughter to me."

Randi raised her eyebrows, "I barely ever listen to you, don't get nearly enough allowance, and have too many tattoos?"

"Exactly." Both women smiled.

"And we never talk about this again?"

Kerry smiled, "Works for me. Are we running again?"

"We are. Mark's trying to run the place, but Carter and Abby are helpin'."

"Luka?"

"Haven't seen him since everything."

"And don't you have a shift?"

Randi glanced out the door's window. "I didn't want to leave you alone."

"Miranda Fronczak. I'm sitting in the hospital room with hovering nurses, not to mention I'm connected to all these machines. As long as there are no fundamentalists who have a vendetta against new homosexuals, I'll be fine Randi."

Randi stared at Kerry for one more second before she nodded. "Okay, but you die, I'll kill your ghost. Another one of my jobs, medium."

Kerry smiled as Randi left. After a moment she picked up the phone and dialed a number from memory. "Hi. No, I'm still alive. I have a favor to ask."

oOOOOo

"I'm mostly here for the breakfast."

Kim took a bite of egg. "I did sort of tell you the punch line already."

Sandy studied the blonde in front of her. "You like to be friends with your exes, don't you." Kim nodded. "Am I really an Ex?"

"You... it's complicated."

Sandy chuckled, "It usually is. But, no worries. It was fun, luckily for you, I'm not ready for more than fun. Thought you were the same." Sandy narrowed her eyes, "But I think I was wrong. You found her, your one, your only."

Kim smiled, "Something like that."

"Then I bid you good luck."

Kim looked a bit puzzled. "Am I going to have people from Candid Camera jumping out at me?"

Sandy shrugged, "I go into burning buildings after people I don't know. I don't let relationships stress me out."

"Good for you..."

Sandy wiggled her eyebrows, "There's always the cute blonde who took you home."

Kim groaned, "Two friends, never a good thing."

"We really friends?"

Kim sighed, "Will saying yes mean you don't ask Kate out?"

"Nope."

Kim sighed.

oOOOOo

Kerry's eyes scanned one page, then another. She perused and then flipped a page. She went through the whole file and gently closed the folder. She looked up. "Kim..."

Kim pushed off the wall by the door. "Don't you want to know how long I've been there?"

"About twenty minutes." Kerry put the folder down on the table beside her bed. "When can I get out of here?"

Kim shrugged, "Don't know."

"So..."

"Yeah."

"Lori's your sister?"

Kim nodded, "Yeah, you know about TJ, my older brother Thomas Junior, who died. Uh, then me, Lori, Paul, and Curtis." She paused, "Do you have any brothers or sisters. I mean, I know you're adopted."

Kerry shook her head, "No. I was their last hope." Kerry sniffed. "They were... I, uh, don't know about birth siblings."

"Ah."

"Thank you."

Kim waved a hand. "For what, sitting on my butt, watching you..." Kim crossed her arms over her chest. "That sounded much less like a stalker in my head."

Kerry smiled, "I was sitting... well... reclining here, looking through Randi's files and I realized. I have no one. Sure, I have Mlungisi, I have Emily, but they're both on the other side of the Atlantic."

"Those are, Emily is one of the two women you were eating with at dinner?"

"Yes."

"You have me." Kim's arms dropped to her sides. "Sorry."

Kerry shook her head. "You know I won't bite your head off, and unless they're not telling me something I'm not contagious." Kim took a few steps closer to Kerry. "I... back in Doc Magoos. Weeks ago, I should have just asked you to stay. Maybe I wouldn't be lying in this bed and you wouldn't be looking like a cross between a child whose puppy died and a horny teenager."

"Really, you're sticking with those two?"

Kerry smirked, "I know everything you said, and I know that you make parts of me that, more often than not in my life, been dormant, fire up like... like..."

"A- horny teenager perhaps?"

Kerry ignored the blonde, "And truly, I wasn't lying when I said I'd never considered it. I mean, I did sorta scream it earlier today, but, how will everyone in the... okay, why do you look guilty?"

"Yeah. People are already, uh, kinda assuming you're gay. Before the scream I mean. I wasn't, I sorta flipped out..."

"That the technical term?" Kim shrugged, "Okay."

"Yeah." Kim went over to the window and peered out it. "It sort of happened. I mean, all it would take to reverse the rumor was you denying it in your... unique way."

"What if I don't want that?"

Kim turned, she was framed by blue. "Kerry, you've just."

"Hear me out, please."

"I... I..." Kim shook her head and turned back towards the window. "I've done this before Kerry. It was so... she was getting married, I lost my heart to her, and well, she got married. What was the first thing you did, had sex with Dave." Kerry blinked in surprise and narrowed her eyes. Kim winced at her reflection, "If it makes it any better, he only told me. Look, you're not gay Ker, and as much..." Kim put a hand to her heart, "As much as that pains me, it's not something you can change."

Kerry bit her lip to stifle the groan and rolled out of bed. She joined Kim at the window and put a hand on the small of the taller woman's back. Kim jumped and looked over her shoulder as Kerry started speaking. "I was six when I found out I was adopted. My parents, Henry and Catherine, they never kept it from me, but it was mostly obvious. Believe me, I went through every single picture in that... in our house, before I confronted them with it. They had color pictures of everyone so far... well, as far back as color pictures go. I even looked in the black and white ones, for a nose, or the shape of my eye, or maybe... I even found." Kerry sighed, "I even found a picture of my great, great grandmother. She was the spitting image of my mother. But nowhere. In all the pictures, I couldn't see myself in any of my mother or father's family. So at dinner, I confronted them."

Kerry shook her head, "I think I may have been more level headed than them. They..."

Kerry trailed off and Kim continued Kerry's thought, "...wanted to tell you in their time?"

Kerry nodded, but didn't turn. "As a family we didn't talk about sex, we didn't talk about a lot of things, but sex was the big one. I didn't know about homosexuality, really, hell, why do you think my marriage exploded. I was a virgin when I got married, and it..." She shook her head. "I don't even know where I'm going with this."

Kim put a hand on Kerry's shoulder and gently turned the shorter woman. "It's okay Kerry."

They faced each other and Kerry reached up and moved a strand of blonde hair out of Kim's eye. "I suck at this. I'm anti-social a hell of a lot of the time, when my hip hurts, ya better call in the national guard, and, every relationship I've ever had has blown up in my face quite spectacularly. You heard the Ellis stories yet?" Kim shook her head from side to side, "Good. Anyway, there are two things I know. You make my heart, and uh... other parts, which is the surprising part of the equation, go pitter patter. And, if I don't, if we don't make a go at this relationship, I know that I will regret it for the rest of my life."

Kerry let her hand drop and just stood there, waiting. Kim finally lowered her head and captured Kerry's lips with her own.

After a moment there was an, "Oh, sorry, I'll... uh..."

Kim braced herself for Kerry to pull away, it was what every other bi-curious woman had done when confronted with someone else, someone other than Kim knowing about the relationship. It was what the woman with the fiancée had done, she was used to it.

And she was pleasantly surprised when instead Kerry reached up and draped her arms around Kim's neck.

The nurse decided that she should probably come back later.