“So it’s fucking mutual then,” Bea filled in, trying not to analyze how he was acting. Something was off, but it wasn’t her business. One of his best friends had been out for days, that had to be a fucking nightmare. “We ran into each other. I’m just lucky I didn’t land on my ass.” That would have made the whole run-in worse. “Nothing like having to ask a medic for ice, then having to explain why.” It had happened before, but she’d been able to scowl enough that the medic at MSG hadn’t dared laugh at her misfortune. “Ty would have a fucking field day with it.”
Maybe most people would have followed that up with an apology, but not Bea. It wasn’t like she’d said something untrue, even if it had been blunt. “No fucking kidding,” she replied. It was harder to envy the people that had gone on the raid when at least a percentage of them had returned injured, and it left the people that loved them in a state of limbo for days. “Heard it’s gotten better around here, though.” Not the most subtle of ways to ask about Silas and Evan, but hey, Brandon was here, and he’d know just as much as any of the medics she thought.
“Fuck, Stone,” Bea muttered. That was a long time to be in one place. And what the hell was that last part supposed to mean? Was he doing some martyr bullshit? Or a vigil, or whatever they were called. She knew that most of the Stones had been in and out of the infirmary, because of Evan, but she hadn’t figured they’d taken up residence. It wasn’t fucking healthy. “Are you waiting for one of them to wake up?” Dumb question. Of course he had been. Why else would someone hang around the infirmary like that.
Pushing a stray hair back behind her ear, she shifted, taking stock of him again. He still looked ragged. The few minutes standing there hadn’t done much to change that, and before she’d really even thought it through she opened her mouth and said, “You should get out of here a while. It would be good for you. Get some fucking coffee or something.” Or a shower. But she was afraid to find out that maybe he hadn’t bothered with one of those since the raid.
“I could keep you company even, I only came in for an update anyways,” she offered. If he said no, she wasn’t sure if she’d let it go. He just had that look like he needed to be somewhere else, at least for a little while.