I think the first thing he does is plant Blair in his own big bed, because "I don't know how you can sleep on that lumpy piece of crap anyway, Chief. And this way I can keep my eye on you." And Blair goes along with it, a little dazed from the pain killers so Jim feels like he's taking advantage, and stays strictly on his own side of the bed, but sometime in the night Blair rolls over and thumps Jim with his cast, so Jim puts a pillow on his stomach and rests the cast on top, and of course that means he has to wrap his arm around Blair's shoulder to hold him in place so he doesn't get jostled and hurt himself. Pure practicality. Except now he has his arms full of Blair. Not a bad thing, really. He almost doesn't want to fall asleep.
So he doesn't. He just watches the clouds moving across the skylight and listens to Blair breathing slow and unlocks that little room in the back of his brain and hears himself think, Finally.
So he doesn't. He just watches the clouds moving across the skylight and listens to Blair breathing slow and unlocks that little room in the back of his brain and hears himself think, Finally.
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