twist of fate
Who: Frodo Baggins and Nienor What: Frodo visits her in the hospital When: Thursday Where: Irvine Hospital Status: In Progress Rating: PG-13, with Trigger Warnings for loss of life.
Frodo stood outside the room for a while, peering through a crack in the door, unsure if she was sleeping, unsure if she even wanted visitors. He wondered if it was even appropriate to visit her. Was this some breach of the patient-doctor relationship? Would she be upset to see him?
He'd pieced together what happened over the last few days: taking information from newspapers, phone calls, and a few other sources. When you had enough money, it wasn't difficult to convince people to divulge confidential information. So if she was about to accuse him of sticking his nose where it wasn't wanted, Frodo knew he had it coming, whatever his intentions. But he hoped she wouldn't.
He entered the room. He pulled a chair over to the side of the bed, but didn't sit right away. In his hand had been a bouquet of flowers, and he placed them on the side table first. Still he continued to stand, as if his knees refused to bend. He looked at her. She looked... like she wasn't pregnant anymore.
Frodo scratched the back of his head, fingers trembling a little. He tried not to think about how, while she had been laying here, fighting for two lives, he had wasted the day getting high in the park...