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[un_fallen]

It's late - or very early, depending how one measures these things - and the only light in the hospital room is a gentle glow from the medical ships coming and going outside the half-curtained window. Two security guards stand alert outside the door and another six are on guard at various points leading to the Senator's room, a comforting presence

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[gabriel_tam]

He's healing, and given the help he's received, faster than he would have otherwise, but there are limits, still.

One of them is to how easily he can sleep when the pain meds (which he hates and tries to limit his use of, even while he knows he needs them) start to wear off, as they're doing now.

Gabriel stirs, and his eyes drift slightly open in that half-daze between sleep and waking.

In the next second, they go wide in shock.

[un_fallen]

When he sees that Gabriel is awake, Raguel raises a finger to his lips in a shhhhh gesture. He points to Regan, asleep on Gabriel's other side. Her hand is still extended towards him.

[gabriel_tam]

He looks frantically toward his sleeping wife, and as he does an expression of terrified heartbreak crosses his face, replaced by desperate determination.

Gabriel turns back to Raguel and whispers, barely making a sound,

"Don't hurt her. Please-- I beg you-- she's done nothing wrong--"

[un_fallen]

One eyebrow goes up.

"Think so?" he says, the edge of a disbelieving smile hovering at the corner of his mouth.

"Come on. You don't believe that." But he leans back in the recliner, smiling cordially.

"But she isn't why I'm here."