Title: Rage Against the Falling of the Night
Pairing/Characters: Larry/Megan, Charlie
Rating: T
Summary: Megan wakes up
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: Nope
Notes/Warnings: This is a Wormhole Fic.
Disclaimer: I may own a calculator, but that doesn’t mean I own Numb3rs.
Larry had expected (hoped) that his wife’s awakening would be a gentle and quiet moment. A slow fluttering of the fingers nestled in his hand, of the eyelids that had been closed for far too long.
However, Larry’s expectations (hopes) were not to be realized.
Megan awoke with a scream being ripped from her throat and the desire to fight against her restraining arm and leg casts.
Megan struggled against her husband’s hands holding her shoulders to the mattress.
Megan screamed her daughter’s name, her husband’s name and seemed unaware that the force holding her was the very man whose name she called.
When she had suddenly and violently awoken, Charlie fortunately had the presence of mind to get a nurse.
Larry watched, hopelessly, as a nurse pumped into his wife’s IV medicine that would again take her away from him. As the medicine returned her to the world of healing sleep, Larry sunk to his chair.
Only then, as Charles knelt before him wiping his face and arms with a damp cloth, did he realize he was bleeding from the small marks of his wife’s nails.
He could only hope she would fight that hard to get well again.