"Thanks," she said, sinking into the wheel chair. She braced herself for the inevitable sting of the peroxide. She knew it wouldn't be as bad as she expected, but it was just her instinctive reaction.

"Its rather... busy around here," she said, to break the awkward silence that had decended like a hawk. Well, not exactly silence. It was noisy all around them- people bustled around, patients were not so patient, soldiers issued orders; it was a general chaos.

She was tempted to ask if Gabe had been checked in, but she figured he wouldn't know. It was a big hospital, and even without all the chaos she figured he wouldn't remember if he had seen someone or not.