@paramounticebound asked: [ hospital ] sender wakes up in a hospital bed and finds receiver sitting by their bedside (( for hicks! ))
He almost couldn’t believe they were both in one piece. A little beat to hell but nothing that they wouldn’t recover from. Well that’s what Hicks kept telling himself. Apparently, it depended Khan waking up to know for sure. From what he could tell the man was too damn stubborn to let himself go out like this. So he was sure he was going to wake up sooner or later. Hicks’s treatment didn’t keep him out of here for long. He had a few nurses and doctors trying to tell him to go back to his own room. He simply refused. He wanted to be here if something changed. He owed the man that much.
Hicks had learned to catch sleep wherever and whenever he could. So slumped in the chair next to the bed legs stretched out in front of him and arms crossed over his chest wasn’t even in the top twenty strangest places he’s slept. He hated being in places like this. Hospitals were not his favorite place. But he knew that sometimes it was necessary. Like now. Waiting for the man to wait up.
Something woke him up. He didn’t know if it was movement or something with the machines. Or it could have been a dream. He tended to have some pretty rough nightmares. Didn’t matter. Because something finally changed. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes has he moved forward some ignoring any protest from stiff muscles or annoyed injuries. “Mornin.” He greeted with a smirk. “Finally decided you were done sleeping?”