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Her nap had lasted all of not even twenty minutes. She had been awoken by a group of nurses walking in the room and loudly talking. Meg groggily opened her eyes, sending a glare towards the women as their voices ruined her attempt at sleep. The power nap had done nothing to help her lack of sleep, if anything it had been a few moments of quiet, nothing more. "Did you see him after surgery?" one of the voices asked, Meg buried her head in her sweater, trying to go back to sleep. "Yes, but did you see him afterwards? I am amazed they did not take his leg." The other replied, Megs eyes shot open, she quickly sat up and looked at the two women. There was the faint clink of change being inserted into the snack machine, "The doctors have yet-"

"Is he out of surgery? They were supposed to call me." Meg said as she stood up, she pulled her phone out of her pocket to see if she had any missed calls only to see that the darn thing had died. "What else did the doctors say, and which doctor?" she asked. Both nurses turned at looked at her with puzzled looks, neither woman recognized Meg, with her being so new to the hospital and all. "Ma'am, I can't exactly share that with you. It is for family only."

Meg resisted rolling her eyes, "I am his sister and also a nurse here, so yes you can share whatever with me." Neither nurse was convinced. Here was a stranger, not in any type of uniform who looked like she could use a shower and a good nights sleep asking for information on a patient. "If she is his sister then she deserves to know." the way those words were said, Meg felt a lead weight settle in her stomach. "Tell me what?" she asked slowly. The older nurse shook her head, "Ma'am we can not tell you-" but her coworker cut her off, "She deserves to know he didn't make it!" what was meant to be a quiet whisper came out loud enough that Meg could hear it clear across the room.

She felt sick and angry and cold. Meg shook her head, looking to her phone again she wished that it was not dead so she could call Lucas..call someone, but the first name that came to mind second to her fiancee was someone who was also in the hospital. If anything she needed proof, if Peter was dead then there would be a body. She needed proof. Older nurse was quickly scolding her younger counter part as Meg started towards the door, "Ma'am please give me a moment!" she called, but as soon as she was out the door Meg was sprinting down the hallway towards the post op rooms, both nurses running after her. She slid to a stop at the nurses station, glancing up at the board that listed who was in what room, her eyes quickly stopped on the two Harris's listed, one she knew was Stephanie, the other..Meg made sure she had the room right and hurried towards it. Pushing open the door she entered, mentally preparing herself to see something she did not want to see. Her brother was in his bed, unconscious still, hooked up to a variety of machines one of which showing a heart beat. The weight she had been (briefly) feeling quickly vanished and was quickly replaced with anger. Looking at Peter one more time to make sure he was actually there before turning on her heel and walked back out into the hall where both nurses were now waiting.

"Ma'am, what she meant to say." Meg held up a hand and shot the woman a look. "You told me he did not make it, when you also knew damn well that he did." unlike her older brother, when she got mad she was not known to calmly talk things out. Meg quickly went from zero to one hundred very quickly and if at all possible was known to throw or hit something. "She got him confused with another Harris." Meg scoffed, "So there was another Harris who came in with a major concussion, several broken bones, and loads of other injuries. And don't try and say you got him mixed up with the actual other Harris that I know to be in this hospital because she came in with an totally different set of injuries." there was one thing she learned from her more level headed siblings, that if you were going to verbally bitch slap someone, at least be tactful. She clenched her fist and then let it relax again, taking a deep breath she looked at the nurse, "Why did you tell me he did not make it." the nurse took a moment to respond, "I did not say such a thing." she replied.

And that was when the yelling really started.

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When Lucas came heard the voices he set the food down in the lounge and came over towards the others. "Is there a problem here ladies?" Lucas didn't play nice when it came to Meg being upset. Women or not they would get his bad side. They were lucky that he had settled down over the years and that he no longer chose to do something more than give them a look. Lucas took one arm and wrapped it around Meg. His sight was still with intent to get the others to back down.

Lucas knew all too well that his fiance could fight her own battles but he wanted to find out what was going on. "Meg tell me what happened" he instructed. One hand was securely around her waist as he stood behind her, one was on her shoulder. "You still hungry?" he asked. Right now he was just trying to break this cat fight gone south apart. There was no telling how long that was going to last.

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She wanted to throw something, better yet she wanted to hit something till her hands were bloodied and then she'd throw something because she would need a way to deal with the pain. "You don't just go telling people things like that! Where the hell is your bedside manner!?" she yelled back. 

"Is there a problem here ladies?" 

She had not heard Lucas enter the room and his voice sounded like it was coming from the end of a hallway, far as she knew she was still outside Peters room. Meg's chest was tight and her chest rose and fell very quickly, a strong arm slowly made its way around her waist and then where was a hand at her shoulder. Why was someone touching her? She did not want to be touched, especially by a stranger, she raised her elbow up to ram it into whoever was touching hers stomach.

"Meg, tell me what happened." she froze. Lucas was there. Lowering her elbow she brought a hand up and laid it over his that was on her waist. "You still hungry?" he asked. Meg took a shaky breath and looked around, when had she gotten back to the break room. Last she checked she had been talking to idiot nurse outside of Peters room. "Oh no..." she said softly, "Lucas...it happened again..." she added quietly. "I don't know how I got back here, I was standing outside of Peters room talking to..." she looked around the break room and realized it was only she and Lucas inside, alone. She felt her knees get weak and she shivered even though she was wearing a sweater. Ever since her attack five or so years ago she had PTSD and she thought she had a handle on, avoiding things that could trigger it. But the combination of no sleep and the emotional strain was getting to her, making it harder to keep everything in check.

Meg leaned back against Lucas and sighed, trying to slow her breathing down, "They told me he died....and I knew that wasn't true..and it wasn't he is perfectly fine, I mean he is in a bad condition but at least he is alive. So I asked the nurse what the hell she was thinking but that happened outside his room and then I ended up here...with you." she started rambling, her attempts at slowing her breathing down going out the window. 





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Lucas had seen this before with her. He supported her weight in case she buckled. He could feel her shivering with her sweater on. To say that Lucas was angry with the nurses? That was the understatement of the year. "Bast" he whispered just hugging her close. "It's okay you're safe right here." He moved some hair from her face kissing her forehead as he started rubbing on her arms to help aid in stopping her chills.

Lucas was no stranger to getting himself mauled by Meg when she wasn't really with him, but he narrowly escaped this time. "I brought you back here, it's alright" he could at least tell her what had happened, so she didn't freak out anymore than she already had. No, his goal was to calm her down. Lucas just rubbed her arms as she leaned back against him. He brushed some hair from face.

"It's just us. Alright. I'm right here." He knew she was upset. "Don't worry about them, they are just wanna be candy strippers that lost their lollipop." Oh yes he totally meant stripper and not striper. Lucas was by no means being respectful to the other nurses. "You are a thousand times the nurse they ever were or will be." He knew if they showed their faces again he would have no issue punching them. Hospital security be damned.

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Meg rested her head on his shoulder, like always he had looked out for her and made sure she had gotten back somewhere safe. She nodded as he spoke, letting him know she was listening, even if in her head she was still screaming. "It's just us. Alright. I'm right here." for a brief moment she was taken back to the night she had run into him in a panic, hurting and still drugged up a little. Her legs did not want to work back then either, and even though he only knew her from class, he still held her and calmed her down enough that she did not try ti rip his eyes out. "Don't worry about them, they are just wanna be candy strippers that lost their lollipop."

Wait, did he just say candy stripper? Meg lifted her head up and turned around in his arms to look at him, "Don't you mean candy striper? she asked him, It was a good distraction, "I don't think hospitals have strippers..." she added with a laugh. It felt good to laugh, it was something else besides anger, crying and just flat out worry. 

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When she started laughing, he knew it was a small victory. "I said stripper and I meant it" he added shaking his head. That was true. He didn't think very highly of those two nurses. That was what he had demoted them to Candy strippers and if it made his fiance laugh then it was TOTALLY worth it. He pulled her close and smirked. He didn't like it when she worried. So if he could distract her then it was so worth it right now. His hand just rubbed her back softly. Yeah they coud have a conversation about that.

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Once again she rested her head on his chest, though this time she was smiling more, "I don't think the strippers will be coming back..." she told him. Meg sighed, the weight in her chest lifting some, "I thought I was done with having days like this and might actually be able to function like a somewhat normal human being, but I guess I was wrong." Lifting her head again she glanced to the table where he had set the bag of food, she looked at it for a moment then looked back to him. "Did you eat already?" she asked him.

She remembered that was why he had left in the first place, "You've been traveling all day and need to eat something besides airport food, come eat." her sentence was a question but more so a command, she knew how he could get worrying about her but she could be the same way.

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When she mentioned the strippers not coming back he smiled. "Good, I only need one striper anyway," He carefully made sure to clarify. Though he knew Meg was a lot more than a candy striper he just felt like pushing his luck. Though the moment she started talking about having a not so great day he ran a hand through her hair. Lucas wanted to make a comment to go talk to Stephanie about it, he knew that while they didn't talk details they did talk about how to handle things a bit better. He knew Steph had confronted Meg about the tell tale signs. It had been upsetting but maybe a bit of a wake up call. Though he hardly wanted to mention a sister who was in ICU when she wanted to take her mind off of things.

"No Bast, it's courtesy to wait for you." He kissed her forehead and pulled set his hand on her back. "No one is protesting." He stated fishing out her sandwich and getting it to her. He took his sandwich out to show her that he wasn't about to forego food but really she was his priority. A sandwich would be there in a few minutes when he distracted his fiance.

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She wanted to fight him on his insistence that she eat first, but she also knew she wanted to do it just to do it, and she was not really feeling it that much. Sighing she took the sandwich from him and moved to sit down, setting the sandwich down on the table of the break room she wiped her eyes again, "I hate crying." she muttered as she finally sat down. Opening her sandwich she tore off a part of the wrapper and took a bite, she sat in silence as she finished chewing. "I'm eating now...so that is one less thing for you to worry about." she told him with a tired smile, 


 

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