“Jess honey.” Jamie said, running into the ward. I jumped out of my chair as he wrapped me into a hug so tight that I was nearly knocked off my feet by the force of it. “Are you alright?” he asked holding me at arms length so he could critically evaluate me. I knew that I looked like crap but I was okay really. My throat hurt I had one or two deep burns and my eyes were still stinging but I had refused point blank to a few days ‘observation’. As I said we liked to remain inconspicuous when we could so I allowed my deeper burns to be dressed and ran up to sit at Ashton’s bedside . He was still unconscious apparently due to smoke inhalation and also had several deep burns especially on his hands but apparently was ‘stable’. He had come round for a while but generally in those periods he just
