Bianca sat beside Marissa's hospital bed and pulled out the latest delivery from Pine Valley.

"I bring you something to take your mind off of that contract." she said handing over the large brown envelope.

Marissa had already put aside her laptop when her girlfriend entered; despite Bianca's disapproval she was busy finalising the new contract to be presented to Joossen every moment she got.

Marissa opened the package eagerly.

"New get-better pictures." she said excitedly. "God I miss our kids. It isn't the same just talking to them on the phone or through a computer screen."

"Well," said Bianca leaning forward to see what was in their package, "Only one more night and we are flying home."

"I can't wait." said Marissa. The doctors were happy with her progress and she was to be discharged tomorrow. She was, however, still left rather weak from the ordeal and there was a long list of what she could and couldn't do. So for a while she and Bianca were going to be in the same boat, under strict instruction to take it easy.

"It looks like she is still busy with her happy thoughts?" Bianca said, leaning closer still, so their shoulders were touching as they admired Miranda painting of the whole family standing together under a big smiling sun. Marissa noticed that Bianca's smile tightened a little when she noticed that, for the first time, her crutches had made it into the painting. As often as she said that she was fine, Marissa knew she was still sensitive about her paralysed leg.

"We have such a talented family." Marissa said, pulling out the next painting. AJ's drawing had a familiar theme to Miranda's only the sun was shining over their house.

"AJ's still got an architectural eye." agreed Bianca.

Marissa moved to the next picture and smiled. Gabby had sent them a picture of one of her fishes.

"Some things never change." said Marissa with a laugh.

Bianca turned and gave her girlfriend a grin.

"One more day." she said, clearly just as keen to get back to the kids as Marissa was.

"One more day." echoed Marissa.

Bianca was still staring at Marissa and sighed. Marissa looked a bit distracted.

"What's wrong?"

Marissa gave her a half grin.

"I'm just still a little annoyed by the gaps in my head."

"You really don't remember anything that happened when you were drugged."

"It's a blank." said Marissa. "I thought that was it for memory loss. I don't think I did anything too bad though… did I?"

"Not bad." said Bianca cryptically.

Marissa frowned; she knew that Madison had drugged her to try and force Scott and her together. Only it didn't work so Madison charged in and attacked them… but that wouldn't explain the coy grin that sometimes traced Bianca's lips whenever the conversation came back to that night.

"Okay, what did I do?" Marissa insisted.

"I just think it's nice that even though you were as high as a kite you still called me and told me that you loved me."

"So I obviously wasn't completely crazy."

"… Apart from trying to kiss me through the phone…"

"Okay..." said Marissa.

"… and a proposal of marriage…" said Bianca her grin widening.

"I did that!" exclaimed Marissa in surprise.

"Well you were actually quoting Meatloaf lyrics at me so don't worry I won't hold you to it!"

Bianca actually laughed at the expression on Marissa's face her words had caused. She wasn't to know that her girlfriend's surprised expression was not embarrassment about saying something inappropriate. In fact Marissa was stunned that in her drugged up state she had actually found a way to speak out loud a thought that had been rattling round in her head for a while now.

This left Marissa with a quandary because the way Bianca was talking; it didn't sound like marriage was something she had even been contemplating… unless she was just doing her usual good job of hiding her feelings.

If you looked at it another a way, this could be Bianca testing the waters to see how Marissa was really feeling over a proposal without saying it directly…

The trouble was Marissa wasn't sure which it was…

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