I waited impatiently for a nurse to come so I could go see Harley. And call my family. Someone finally walked in. It was a 30s something woman with bright red hair. "Yes Mr. Crosby? Is there anything I may help you with?" She asked with a smile.

"Yes, I need to call my family. And I need to see a patient. Her name is Harley." She walked over to the other side of the room and brought over the table with the phone.

"For the patient, I will have to ask a doctor first. I'll be back as soon as I find out." And with that she left. I picked up the receiver and hastily dialled my home number. Someone picked up just after the first ring.

"Hello?" It was my mother's familiar voice.

"Hey, mom. It's me, Sidney." I replied trying as hard as I could to make my voice stop shaking. There was a long pause before she replied.

"Oh my God. Sidney. That was your flight I knew it. Are you okay? Where are you? Your father and I are coming to bring you home" I could hear her now begin to softly cry. It took all I had for me not to do the same as I heard my dad sniffling in the back.

"Yeah mom. I'm fine. It's a hospital in Maine, called-" I shuffled through a notebook on the side table to get the hospital name. "It's called The St.Marks General Hospital."I paused. "Hey mom...could you tell the boys for me what happened. And that i'm fine?" A single tear fell from my eye and trickled down my face at the thought of what would happen to them once they found out about this. Especially Geno.

"Yeah of course. I'll do it now." She replied. I looked up and Doctor Redwood was back.

"Okay mother, the doctor is here i'll talk to you in a bit. I love you." I hung up and turned to him. "Good news,
Sidney. You should be discharged from the hospital by the end of this week, or sooner. And the other good news is, you can see Harley now." I breathed in a sigh of relief. "If you can walk, I can take you to her right now, in the ICU. He helped me up from the bed and handed me a pair of crutches. I followed him through a series of hallways and a million turns. Finally, we stopped outside a room. He knocked, and then opened the door and led me in. He checked some monitors by the bed and wrote down the readings. Checking his phone, he turned me. "Well, i'll be back. I gotta check on some patients." And with that he left. The only sound in the dead silent room was the clock ticking on the wall. It was now exactly 5am. I walked over and sat on the chair by her bed and took her in. She was asleep. Now that she didn't have blood in her hair, and ash on her face, I realized just how beautiful she was. Her long blonde hair fell just below her shoulders, and her skin was smooth and flawless. There was a small cut just below her thin bottom lip but other than that nothing else. I sat there by the bed for about half an hour reading a cars magazine when her eyes slowly fluttered open. She turned her head to look at me. "Hey, it's you. Sidney." She spoke so quietly I barley heard her. I smiled.

"Yeah. It's me. How do you feel? Any better?" She nodded her head.

"So much better. Thank you...for everything you did." I shook my head.

"Nah, you don't need to thank me. Really. I felt the heat rising to my cheeks."

"No. You saved my life. How many people would run back into a burning plane to save a complete stranger? She reached out and took my hand. It was the most courageous thing anyone could ever do. So thank you." I nodded. We sat there in silence for a bit before Harley spoke again. "So...you may know, about..." She hinted.

"Yeah." I shook my head slowly. "The doctor told me. But you will be fine. I know it...say, the father, uh, does he know, like, did you call him or something?"

She sighed. "Yeah he knows. He's coming. He was first on my emergency contacts lists so the hospital called him. But i'm not with him anymore. We don't really care for each other. Well, I would, if he wasn't a complete jerk. It wasn't a serious relationship. We were into each other for a month, and then he turned out to be a bitch. He's only coming for the baby cause he says he cares so much about the child and he wants "custody" of the baby when he or she is born. Well, his parents coerced him into pressuring me to let him have full custody." I bit back a laugh. What the fuck? Was this guy for real?

"Wow. So he sleeps with you, gets you pregnant, and then starts this bullshit where he wants the baby to grow up with him and his family? Just so he can cut off ties with you huh? And keep your child..." I haven't even met this punk and I know how big of a asshole this guy is."

"Yeah...I don't know why but I just seem to attract jerks. Biggest mistake of my life has to be this guy."

"Probably because your really beautiful. You attract all kinds of guys."

She laughed. "Probably. So, do you have a girlfriend?"

"Ha, no I don't. Like you I attract girls who just want me and my damn money."

We talked like this for the next hour and a half, and got to know each other, until a knock sounded at the door and a nurse walked in. "Ms. Harley Kenway? There's a visitor for you here in the waiting room. Jonathan?" Harley nodded and the nurse left to bring him. I took a deep breath and took a sip of my water. For some reason I was feeling pretty nervous to meet this Jonathan guy. Probably because he was a jerk.

I nearly spit out my water, then fucking choked on it when I saw the guy who fucking walked in. No way, no way in hell this was the fucking guy Harley was having a baby with. This was Jonathan fucking Toews.

He walked straight towards Harley then stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me. "No fucking way. Sidney Crosby. This was your flight...wasn't it? Coming back to the States before the NHL season starts." He took a long hard look at me. "Damn...you don't look so good Captain Canada. You sure your okay?" I didn't say anything but just nodded and looked away. "Huh. But I know what you did, for Harley. Thanks. No one would do that for a stranger. Not even me. Seriously you do not know how amazing that is. He walked over and we shook hands. Toews proceeded to sit down on the edge of Harley's bed and this was my cue to leave. I told Harley goodbye hastily and walked out of the room on my crutches. Standing out in the hallway, I took a deep breath and began to wonder how all of this will play out.

Notes

Alright I know I made him a total jerk but it's only for the sake of the story. :)