Title: Heal
By: lewis771750
Challenge: Heather Nova titles
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, Jerry and the people at CBS would never be quite this twisted:) But it is all just for fun, honest.
Spoilers: No
Words: 728
AN: Well some of you asked for a follow up to "Maybe an Angel" and to know why Sara was in hospital. Brace yourselves for more fluffiness and the answers to those questions.

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Sara was stir crazy, at breaking point. Two weeks ago she'd been shot, woken up in hospital the next morning and had seen Catherine as an angel in the light streaming through the window. Three days after that she'd been released from hospital, and allowed home on sick leave. She was still on sick leave and it was killing her.

She knew it wasn't fair, but she was taking it out on Catherine, because Catherine was the only one she could take it out on. She'd always been a bad invalid, and she'd warned Catherine that she would be again, but Catherine had swept all the protests aside, saying she would cope, and that Sara couldn't be worse than Eddie. Sara wasn't sure, but had trusted Catherine enough to try, trusted that their love for each other would see them through.

Now, she wasn't sure about that any more. She still loved Catherine, and Catherine still looked like an angel, but Sara was pretty sure her lover thought she was the devil incarnate. She hoped that Catherine still loved her, but she wasn't quite sure.

Sara was sat there, pondering, wondering what she could do to show Catherine that she still loved her, and more importantly, even if she moaned about needing it, that she really appreciated her TLC. Not yet fit to leave the house Sara decided to hit the internet and she what she could find for Catherine.

Half an hour later she was cruising a virtual jewellery shop with an outlet in Vegas. She wasn't really that rich, and Catherine didn't wear that much jewellery, but eventually she found a ring she liked and that she knew Catherine would like. She clicked through to buy it and have it delivered, gift-wrapped and with a suitable message to her belle. She was pleasantly surprised to see it would be delivered within hours.

Meanwhile, a blonde woman was cruising the shelves of her local jewellery store, wondering what she could buy her lover to show that, despite the stress of her lover's healing and immobility, she still loved her. Her eyes settled on a ring that would do the job admirably. Looking around for an assistant, she was looking the other way as the very ring was taken from the display. As usual in a jewellery shop she was greeted by an assistant within seconds, turning back to the display, she was horrified to find that the ring had gone. She spent a little while longer looking, but there was nothing else that caught her eye as suitable for her recuperating Sara.

Dejected she headed for home, buying flowers on the way as a token for what she had wanted to buy. Perhaps this time it was the thought that counted.

Arriving at home Catherine could tell Sara was not as tense as over the last few days, and although she strained to hide it she felt a sense of relief deep inside. As she went to hug Sara she noticed the brunette was standing in a slightly awkward pose, but with a smile on her face rather than an expression of pain.

They hugged, and kissed each other tenderly, then Catherine held out the flowers to Sara and started to tell her about the ring.

Before the words could properly form Sara stopped her by saying: "Catherine my love, I know I'm not easy to live with whilst I'm convalescing, and I know it's not been easy for you. But I wanted to show you that I still love you, and although I don't say it enough I do appreciate what you're doing for me."

So saying she held a box out to Catherine, a box the right size for a ring, from the store Catherine had been in earlier that day.

Catherine opened the box, somehow knowing before she did what she would find inside. Smiling she was proven right. There inside was the ring that she had wanted to buy Sara. With a smile she put it on her own finger, then kissed Sara deeply before telling her why it had brought such a smile to her face.

The common impulse had healed the strains in their relationship and, although Sara would still be convalescing for a few more days, they both knew that eventually the experience would only serve to strengthen their togetherness.

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