Urs had been awake for a few hours. It had been a struggle to stay awake and cope with the pain and not ask for more morphine but he wanted to see his friends. Sometime before he had been fully awake the doctors had taken the tube out of his side. Urs had been glad they had done it without him knowing. He was already sore, even the slightest movement gave him great pain.
The nurse ducked her head into his room. “You up to having a few visitors precious?”
Urs nodded his head and kept watching the door. He smiled and tears crept down his face as he saw Tam.
She lent over the bed and kissed him. “Hi.”
Urs voice was still strained as he talked and Tam could hear him fighting through the pain. “You were on your own last night. I promised never to leave you. Tam, I am so sorry.”
Tam put her fingers and his slips. “Shhhhh. David looked after me and I was not alone. The others are always close and Rica’s team is there.”
Urs tried to smile. “But I promised.”
“I know Urs and you kept your promise through David. You have a great friend there.”
Urs had closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. Tam waited for him to wake up. When he did David was with her. David squeezed his hand as he opened his eyes again. “Hey Buddy. Don’t tell the nurse but we snuck you in some of Mama Hilda’s delights.”
Urs smiled weakly. He was so tired. “My wife. They said I had a wife.”
Both David and Tam smiled but it was David who answered. “Arr, well that was Lea’s idea. They weren’t going to let Tam see you any other way so Lea decided she was your wife.”
Urs looked to Tam. “Marry me.” Again he drifted off to sleep.
Tam’s heart jumped a little. She realised that he was heavily medicated but she would have so loved to give her answer to him. As David left so someone else could come and see him she did. “I’ll marry you Urs. Just remember to ask me again very soon.”

Carlos and Tam had been talking quietly when Urs woke again. He turned his head to see Carlos. He smiled and Carlos smiled back. “Hey, my friend. How are you feeling?”
“Tired and sore. Is everyone okay?”
Carlos knew that he had asked the nurse this question but he was glad to answer it again. “Yes my Swiss friend. Everyone is fine. You are the only one with a hole in you.”
As he drifted back off to sleep yet again Urs said. “ I want to go home.”
Carlos left and because Tam could see that he was struggling she also left so that Lea and Sebastien could see him together.
Lea had hold of his hand when he woke.
“Hi there SRG. You about ready to take on all those Uber Babes out there?”
Urs did not say anything just blinked slowly.
Lea whispered to Sebastien. “Go and get the nurse okay.” Then she lent over to talk to Urs. “You just concentrate on getting better. We’ll be back to see you later.”
The nurse came into the room and Lea pointed to the BP monitor.
“Thanks. He’s done enough for now. I know you know what to do. You could have just changed his morphine drip. Thanks for letting me know.”
“Well I know how I would feel if some other nurse came around and messed with my patients. You let us know when he comes too.”
“Sure. Thanks again Nurse Henderson.”
Lea smiled at the nurse as she left Urs’ room. The others were waiting for her. “Tam they will let you stay with him if you want. He’ll be a sleep for a while yet though.”
Tam smiled. “I don’t mind. I just want to be close.”
Tam hugged David. “Thank you for last night.”
The others watched her disappear into Urs’ room and Sebastien spoke. “It’s going to take an act of God to separate those two.”