Alice's breath caught in her throat when he appeared through in the door instead of once of the nurses. She would have cried if she hadn't started immediately fighting to put herself in proper emotional check but her eyes did fill a little. She was all out of whack. She let out the breath she was holding and it came out ragged and shaky.
"I'm anything but gorgeous today..." She rasped out, her throat still recovering. She looked like shit, she had bags under her eyes, she felt like shit and, oh yeah she had burns all over her. She forced a severely tiny smile. "Working late again, huh?"