"Hey Al, I miss you, I’m not good at this kind of stuff, I’m sorry….shit Alice just hurry up and get better." Shane spoke quietly to Alice. Dana saw that Shane was struggling with her words and she reached over and rubbed her leg letting her know that it’s ok. Lenore went out for a walk and Shane and Dana chatted about the latest in the press about the accident. Shane stayed for about 40 minutes talking then she took Lenore to Dana’s condo to get settled in.

Chapter 6 

A few days had passed and Alice’s condition had not changed although the scans did show the swelling was going down and the doctors had decided to reduce the amount of sedation that Alice was getting. It had been 5 days after the accident. Dana was in the routine of staying at the hospital everyday going home to Alice’s apartment to sleep and get showered and return to be by Alice’s side. Dana wanted to be there when Alice woke. Lenore had left this morning promising she would be back in a few days to visit again. All the group had popped by to visit even Jenny took time out of writing her book and she and Max came by to visit. Dana had an appointment to see her trainer this afternoon at 2pm to see about cutting back on the training just now till Alice got better. Dana would still do an hour’s training in the morning and an hour at night but she wanted to spend as much time with Alice as possible. She didn’t start back till Monday. Dana was walking out of Al’s apartment to go to the hospital on Thursday morning when Helena pulled up.

"Hi Dana, sweetie I am so sorry to hear about what happened, I called the hospital this morning to see if there was anything I could do but they couldn’t tell me any details of Alice’s condition with patient confidentiality and all that but I told them that anything Alice needs was not a problem, apparently she already has the top neurologist in America taking care of her. If you feel she needs a private nurse or that just let me know I will pay for it all. Anything to get Alice back on her feet." Helena stopped talking and looked at the tired figure that was standing in front of her "Dana you look really tired are you ok?"