Arriving home to her apartment Dr Matthews kicked off her shoes and let out a tired sigh. Taking her coat off and glasses she flopped down onto the couch.
"Honey you home?" she called out. "Oh yeah didn't hear you come in" Captain Williams said coming into the room in a shirt and boxers with a drink in his hand.
"Aww why you wearing a shirt?" she said in a coy tone eyeing up her partner. "What" he asked freezing in place before slowly sipping his drink then setting it down. "Dang Stacy alright" he says followed by a sigh before beginning to sway his hips and tapping his toes. "Ooohh" Stacy hollers watching him sway awkwardly unsure what to do with his hands.
"Yeah baby. Get it Thomas!" she chimes bopping her head along to his rhythm watching his face turn bright red. Shutting his eyes he took his shirt off waving it above his head to the sound of Stacy now giggling.
"Yeahh" she shouts clapping with a beaming smile on her face. Standing up she goes around the couch and walks up to him and kisses him running her hand through his salt and pepper hair.
Later they sat on the couch cuddling up with her now fiddling with his chest hair. "Thanks for that babe I needed it, one of the kids got hurt and I don't know maybe I'm getting softer the older I get, felt bad for him I guess" she said.
"Oh you actually had a patient today" he replied chuckling. "Hey" she said with a giggle slapping his stomach. "Well no I well yeah this place is pretty peaceful and no one's ever sick besides that one kid with a cough" he replied.
"Kosi, yeah apparently he doesn't need the mask anymore" she said with an air of skepticism. "Oh, oh yeah I saw him this morning. You know he wants to try out for the Exploration Project. I tried to tell him no but well yeah he's his mom's son. Stubborn as a mule I suppose" he replied with a tired tone.
"No he's a sweetheart, I'm not sure whats going on with him now though" she said now sitting up to pour herself a glass of make shift wine. "Oh you mean him beating up the mayors kid?" he asked with a rye smile.
"Babe don't, he's a sweet kid I just think he's going through a lot" she said sipping her drink. "Not judging him that mayors brat a menace I'm glad someone finally put him in his place sorry you had to deal with him" he said sipping his drink. "What do you mean?" she asked looking up at him quizzically.
"Well you had to deal with him right guessing he was the patient with how fast I saw his dad stomp out. Guessing he was really hurt" Thomas said looking at her.
"Oh. No he wasn't there today weird, hope he's alright" she says shrugging. "Wait a second, was Kosi your patient" Thomas asked with his eyes going wide. "Can't talk about who it was you know that" she replied laying her head on his chest. Despite her holding up her patients confidentiality her silence spoke volumes causing Thomas to beam internally against his better judgment.
Meanwhile Rue was walking home with a silent Kosi who had crutches. "Um babe you..." she muttered before biting her lip. "Babe, you can't..ugh" she stopped herself unsure what to say. "Alright one second" she said running off while Kosi continued to hobble home.
A minute later, running back as quickly as she could manage Rue held her hands out to Kosi. "Your belt..." she said taking a second to breath. "Oh wow I really need to run more" she continued still hunched over. Stopping in his tracks Kosi turned to her and said "that things pretty heavy just give it to me".
"What is actually wrong with you. RICE" she said sternly. "In any case this is not meant for you" she said trying to place it around her waist only for it to fall to the ground which got a small chuckle out of Kosi.
Despite the embarrassment all Rue could do was smile at seeing Kosi finally begin to see above the dark cloud looming over him. She leaned in and kissed him, he instinctively kissed her back as the two shared a tender moment to themselves.
"Listen, even though this clearly amused you I got it for a reason" she said picking the weight up. "How long have you had this" she asked holding it to her side. "Maybe two years" he replied.
"Alright two years wearing this all the time, I have no idea what else because you were chubby when we were kids and you're in incredible shape now. So however many years and whatever it took for you to get here and you're just going to let a knee stop you?" she said eyeing him sideways.
"That's not you" she said pointedly. "You're a fighter and not just with headbutts. Fine knee hurts, we're going to get you home and you're going to take this getting better thing seriously and get back on your feet then you can so the trails. Got it?" she said emphatically.
"Yes mam" was all he said in response smiling. The pair embraced and continued their walk. "Cling clong cling clong" Rue said in time with Kosis crutches connecting with the floor.
He rolls his eyes in response "you're so annoying" he said chuckling. "Shh you love it"'she replied smiling. "No but I love you" he said with a wink. "I love you too Kosi" she replied.