[ He manages a small smile at that -- and tries very hard not to have those dark thoughts like, What if I hadn't? or What if I had been too late? And he tries not to think about how the site of Rose in this hospital bed reminds him so vividly of Mom, surrounded by machinery and dim lights and unfamiliar sheets.
Peter's eyes flick down to the bedspread (a plain, solid thing that grounds him a little) before returning to her. If he had seemed pensive just a moment before, all evidence of it is wiped from his expression. ]
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Peter's eyes flick down to the bedspread (a plain, solid thing that grounds him a little) before returning to her. If he had seemed pensive just a moment before, all evidence of it is wiped from his expression. ]
You need me to get you anything? Water? Food?