Page 39 of Matched By the Dragon

“He’s asleep in the staff room, but I can wake him up if you need him and only him,” Ollie said. “But believe it or not nurses can handle most things. I heard about the chaos with the IV earlier. I’ve never missed a stick since being licensed, but your IV looks good. You want something to eat?”

“I need to get stuff done to get everyone home,” Durin said.

Ollie frowned and sighed before saying, “everyone is always in a rush to go home. You could try sleeping until morning but…” he eyed me. “That one is refusing to sleep.”

“I know,” Durin said. “Clyde said once I was able to be human again he’d get me back into the scanner.”

Ollie scrolled on his nurse’s tablet and nodded.

“Yep. You’re up for another head scan. Let me see if imaging is busy,” Ollie said, fingering his tablet. “Looks like they’ll come and get you in about 20 minutes. I’ll wake up Clyde since he wanted to see your scan results before anyone let you leave. Don’t sneak out on my shift, okay? I don’t feel like explaining to that wolf how I let four bears sneak by me because that’s what I’ll tell him. I’m not chasing a group of bears. That’s not in my job description.”

“I’ll be here,” Durin chuckled.

“You better, because Clyde will blow his top otherwise,” Ollie sighed. “Do you need anything while you wait? Some water maybe?”

“An extra-large coffee.”

“Friend, I’m sorry, but without a doctor’s order, I’m not giving you coffee at midnight,” Ollie said.

“I could go to the cafeteria and get it,” I yawned, standing up.

“I’ll be okay, mate. You try to rest,” Durin said.

“How about some water? One of those tiny sodas? A cup of herbal tea?” Ollie rambled off some options.

“Water will be fine,” Durin said.

I sat back down and yawned again.

“I’ll be right back with that,” Ollie said and left.

“When they take me down, you sleep in the bed with the babies,” Durin said.

“That’s your bed. They may need to put you back in it,” I shook my head.

“Mate, you’re pregnant, you need your rest,” Durin said.

“You have a head injury,” I said. “That trumps pregnancy.”

“I’m not so sure about that,” he chuckled.

Ollie came back a few minutes later with water bottles and some of those tiny sodas. I drank one of the sodas. It made me realize I was hungry, but I didn’t say anything. Maybe we’d go home soon.

“Your chair reclines,” he said to me.

“I know, but I gotta watch the babies.”

“If I bring a chair in here to watch them, will you try to sleep?” Ollie offered.

“No thanks,” I shook my head. “I have PTSD.” I mumbled the last part as if it explained everything.

“Fair enough,” Ollie nodded. “The offer stands.”

Not long after Ollie left, the guys from imaging came and took Durin. There were three of them as if he might run away if they weren’t all teamed up together.

“They’re omegas,” Ollie said. “Raccoon shifters. Smaller than bears. It’s not hospital rules, but that trio are always together.”

“Oh shit! Where did you come from?” I blinked.