Brooke's apartment

[Kasten Hunter]

"Can your nanny come watch him at this time? Can we drop him off at her place? If not, we're bringing him with us. Difficulty breathing isn't something to be taken lightly, Brooke," he scolded her, taking Prescott back to his crib to lay him down before packing a bag with extra clothes in case they stayed overnight. Then, he started on a bag for the baby's supplies. He did everything quickly so as to not waste any time lollygagging.

Kasten stopped to look at Brooke for a moment. "Can you walk or should I carry you? I'm serious. Where is your car parked?" He seemed to be asking her questions without even pausing to take a breath. As much as he hoped that she would be alright, Kasten also wished for the doctors to order that she stay overnight because he really wanted to have a word or two with Clark.

[Brooke Parker]

Brooke was caught off guard by all of Kasten's questions and she honestly didn't know how to answer them all! "Um.. The nanny lives next door.." She reached for her phone and called quickly and luckily the other woman was soon entering the apartment. "I can stay with him as long as you need me to." She assured over and over but Brooke still felt a little uneasy about leaving him especially since it could be potentially overnight. She'd never left him overnight before! "Kasten... I can walk." She was only going because she knew that if she had broken a rib or something then it wasn't going to heal itself. She struggled to her feet and sort of inched her way to her purse and jacket. "My car is parked in the garage... I'll lead the way." She groaned in pain as she slipped her jacket on.

Well.. This was fun.

She had never believed for one second that Clark could hurt her like this but now she could see all of the signs pointing this out. She could see what she had been fighting so hard to ignore for years even small things. "Kasten... I need help." She hated the way that she sounded when she said that but walking was becoming more and more painful so she described her car and the location it was in before moving close to him for balance. What if she had broken a rib or two? She would need to take time off of work...

[Kasten Hunter]

Kasten nodded, relieved that Brooke had made a wise choice in choosing a nanny that lived very close by. "Thank you," he said after greeting the woman. "I'm the dad," he added with a quick smile. Despite the urgency of Brooke's condition, he couldn't let his first opportunity to brag slip away.

"I got you," Upon hearing her plea, Kasten was at her side in an instant, wrapping an arm around her waist to help her move. The bag with her clothes and other toiletries hung on his shoulder like a purse. What, a man this sexy could only look even sexier doing so—at least that's what he believed. "I offered to carry you," Kasten said, shrugging his shoulders as if Brooke had turned down a million bucks.

Kasten helped her into the passenger side and leaned over her body to secure the seatbelt before tossing the bag into the backseat. Then, he made sure her legs and feet were safely inside the car before shutting the door and making his way around to the driver's side. The car started smoothly and they took off for the nearest hospital. "Hey, don't go into the light, okay?" he joked.

[Brooke Parker]

Brooke raised a brow at Kasten's comment about going into the light mostly because she knew that laughing was going to hurt like a bitch. "I'm not dying, Kasten." She felt like it needed to be said just in case he was actually unsure about what was happening to her. She couldn't fault him for showing genuine concern! She could only be upset if he didn't give a shit about what happened to her as long as he got to raise his son in her awesome apartment. "I'm going to be just fine, honey." Honey? What was she doing? They were not a couple!

The drive to the hospital didn't take long at all actually! She was worried that it was going to take forever but it really wasn't long at all before she was being wheeled into the emergency room by a nurse and then examined by a doctor who did some quick x-rays and told her what she already kind of knew which was that she had three broken ribs. She wasn't expecting him to have the nurses get her set up in a hospital room! She thought that she was going to be able to leave!

"I can't... Kasten..." She didn't know what to say to get them to not keep her! She couldn't be away from her baby for that long, could she? But the doctor seemed pretty confident that she did, in fact, need to stay overnight so she wasn't sure that she'd be able to convince him otherwise especially now that she was laying in a hospital bed in a gown. "You sustained serious injuries, Miss Parker... You're lucky that you aren't in a more serious condition. You have three broken ribs and bruises covering your body." He felt like he needed to remind her that she was in bad shape. "Mr. Hunter, we would like to keep your girlfriend here and you'll need to pick her up in the morning because she shouldn't drive whilst on her pain medication."

[Kasten Hunter]

Kasten kept his eyes forward as he drove, but his rosy full lips curved into a smile when Brooke let yet another pet name slip. "I know, sweetheart. You'll be fine. You're a strong girl," he said, moving his hand from the gear shift to Brooke's. He gave it a quick squeeze before turning into the hospital where an emergency team was there and waiting to bring her in. How fancy. The last time Kasten had to go to the ER, he had to walk himself in and then lay there for at least three hours before someone poked their head in to make sure was still alive.

The wait for Brooke's x-ray results was nerve wracking. If Kasten had nails, he'd chew them all off. Luckily for him, his hands were rough and calloused and so he had no thoughts of putting them anywhere near his mouth. Three broken ribs! This was ridiculous. He'd served seven years in the U.S. Army, deployed twice overseas, and not once did he so much as fracture a single rib. Clark needed to know that it was not okay to do this to anyone, let alone a woman.

"You heard the doctor, Brooke. I'll stay here until you fall asleep and then I'll run home to check on Prescott, does that sound good?" he bargained as if she had a choice. Kasten was going to take the car anyway, so unless she felt like walking home, Brooke was going to be stuck at the hospital until they released her. "That's fine, doctor. I'll come back tomorrow, thank you," he shook the doctor's hand before taking a seat next to the bed. "So your butt is hanging out the back of that gown, huh?" he asked with a grin.

[Brooke Parker]

Brooke didn't want to stay! She wanted to go home to her newborn son and then go to work in the morning just like she always did but nothing about tonight was exactly usual as she didn't normally run into the father of her son and break up with her boyfriend of four years nor was she usually calling someone that she had loved and lost 'babe' 'honey' etc within a day of seeing them again so it figured that something like this would happen. "Okay.." She sniffled before laying underneath the thin hospital covers. "I can't believe that Clark did this to me." She wasn't in much pain anymore as she'd been given some hardcore pain medication and she was on a morphine drip which was very very nice in her opinion.

She giggled when he mentioned that her butt was hanging out of her hospital gown. "I bet that you're going to like the view, pumpkin." Three times. She had just given him three different pet names within a few hours time span! It was painfully obvious that she wanted to give them another try just in how she was looking at him like he was her hero or something and he was in a way. "I think I might still be in love with you, Kasten and I know that you're going to need time to feel the same about me but I want to be more than just ... sort of kind of dating. I want a future and a marriage and maybe another baby."

She would have a daughter for him. She had never wanted one before but maybe it would be okay if she had one considering everything that they had been through and well you don't pick the gender of the baby anyway so it was a fifty-fifty shot.

[Kasten Hunter]

Kasten scooted the chair closer and moved her hair away from her face. Brooke had beautiful, long brown hair, but sometimes he wondered how the hell girls put up with it all the time. It must be so hot during the summer and God knows how long it takes for it to dry. His facial expression changed to one of concern when he heard her sniffle. "Are you cold? Should I ask the nurse for some more blankets?" Kasten knew hospitals kept their air conditioning running 24/7 (sound like someone's apartment?), but he wanted Brooke to be comfortable especially if he wasn't going to be there at night.

"I'd have you show me if you could," he said, referring to her gown. Kasten had a cheeky grin and his eyes stared at Brooke's in a mischievous manner, as if he was thinking of things that the hospital staff would frown upon. He got serious when she began her confession. "I've always cared for you, Brooke, since high school. As for love, I'm already loving the woman you've become. And—wait marriage? Another baby? Did you just propose to me?" he joked.

Leaning closer, Kasten's voice is just above a whisper now. "If you'll have me, Ms. Parker, I would like to be a part of your life; to care for you, support you, and protect you. I know I've said that I wanted an independent woman, but that was years ago. I know now that that's not what I want because an independent woman wouldn't need me and well, what was the point of a relationship if you didn't need each other, right?" He was making a big decision, but every fiber in his being told him it was the right one.

[Brooke Parker]

Brooke blushed when Kasten asked her if she had just proposed... had she? She was worried for a minute that it was going to potentially turn him off of pursuing another relationship with her but then he spoke once again and relief washed over her body. She didn't say anything at first because her actions said it all - she leaned forward and planted a tender kiss on his lips to show that she still cared even after all these years. "I missed you, Kasten." A tiny part of her was very confused about what had just happened but she was really happy.

She had the father of her child back in her life! How could she not be overjoyed? If she could then she would show him physically how much that she had missed him but she wasn't sure that was such a good idea considering that he would have to be as gentle as a tiny bug resting on a flower. "Um... we can't have sex tonight or tomorrow but I promise that I am going to rock your world when I heal."

She would give him the world if it made him happy! Relationships are give and take and that was why she figured this was a good idea. She could /give/ him her body if he gave her the time that she needed to heal properly. She actually was freezing as the hospital blanket did very little for warmth but it didn't seem like the right time to ask anymore.

[Kasten Hunter]

Kasten smiled into the kiss, but didn't tell her he missed her back. Truth be told, his heart yearned for love, but for the past seven years his mindset was "out of sight, out of mind." It didn't mean that he didn't remember the people he cared for now and then, like his family, Brooke, and Rhett, but he always kept himself occupied. Nevertheless, making things right with Brooke gave Kasten a sense of relief, like everything would be okay from now on.

He grinned at her sexual offer. They always did have really great sex. Though he anticipated her promise, Kasten wasn't rushing her. He wanted Brooke to heal completely so that it would be as enjoyable as possible, for the both of them. "Take as long as you need. And for the record, we don't have to have sex for me to rock your universe," he whispered into her ear, his lips just grazing her lobe as if there were people in the room and he didn't want them to hear.

Even though Brooke didn't answer his question about extra blankets, Kasten stepped outside to flag down the nearest nurse, who gladly handed it to him. "Just in case," he explained before leaving the neatly folded pile at the foot of her bed. "Now rest up. The more sleep you get, the faster you'll heal. I'm right here," he told her, taking his seat in the same chair.

[Brooke Parker]

"How are you planning on rocking my universe without us having sex?" Brooke asked with a raised brow, she was honestly curious! She hadn't had a single orgasm in a four year relationship so she was a tad frustrated in that sense. Her last good sexual experience had been Prescott's conception where Kasten re-introduced her to the wonderful world of multiple orgasms. Yeah... he was always the best in that regard, hands down.

It was always Kasten. She couldn't explain how wonderful that he was to anyone who asked simply because there weren't words in the dictionary that fit. "Now I'm going to dream of you and I .... getting intimate." She was starting to feel a little drosey like she could pass out at any time but she was fighting her sleep. She reached out for a second blanket and laid it over her body before moving to 'rest her head' on one of the pillows.

It wasn't long before she was falling asleep and her mind went different places... different ways that he could rock her universe without them having sex... like oral. "Oh yeah... oh yeah... oh Kasten... oh yeah. Oh yeah... oh fuck! Keep going!" If she was aware that she was moaning in her sleep then she would be mortified.

[Kasten Hunter]

"That's for me to know and you to find out... later," Kasten replied, his hot breath on her ear. He knew some tricks here and there that seemed to be a crowd pleaser, not that he had sex with a crowd of girls, but the number of girls that he's slept with could very well make their own little village. Kasten particularly enjoyed sex with Brooke however, because they cared about each other's pleasure whereas his one night stands only cared about themselves.

He was a bit shocked to hear her tell him that she was going to dream about them. Now, Brooke had always been a suggestive kind of girl, but considering the fact that the two have only been reunited for a day, things were moving pretty fast. Then again, it wasn't as if they were strangers. It was more like picking things up where they left off.

What really caught Kasten off guard was that Brooke had actually dreamed of them having sex. How did she do that, dream of exactly what she wanted to? Perhaps it was something that had been on her mind for a while. His eyebrows rose and he looked around the room before scratching his head and playing innocent. However, the little tent pitched in his teal scrub bottoms said otherwise.

[Brooke Parker]

Brooke had been sleeping peacefully enjoying her dreams of her and Kasten getting busy and she was clearly enjoying herself in this dream. "Oh Kasten! Oh Kasten! Keep going! Right there! That's the spot!" She was practically screaming in ecstasy! She woke up when a nurse nearby in the hallway had dropped something and it actually startled her. "Oh God." She woke up actually feeling kind of violated like she was naked in front of a crowd of people but she couldn't quite remember what she had been dreaming of.

Weird.

She glanced over to Kasten and gasped when she noticed the tiny tent in his pants.. Oh dear. Had she somehow done that to him? Or was he seriously playing with himself while she was laying in a hospital bed? She didn't want to think about that so she was choosing to just pretend that he hadn't gotten that on purpose. "Do you need some help with that, Kasten?" She was kind of drowsy from the pain medication that was still being pumped into her veins but she figured that a quick blow job or hand job wouldn't be too terribly difficult, right? He had done so much for her tonight that it was really the least that she could do for him.

"I can give you a blow job or a hand job or..." She yawned and snuggled into her pillow, "or... we could have sex." She didn't mean that as much as she did the other ones because she really wasn't in the mood despite her erotic dream.