Stefan's POV

A throat cleared behind my back. I looked around to find gran's nurse, Ellie, grinning at us. Rosy released me immediately, her cheeks red as a tomato. I smiled too, happy at last to have held my Rosy to myself, although for a brief moment.

"Gran has been shifted to the ICU, she is groggy but conscious. Come and meet her before she goes off to sleep." Ellie said, smiling widely.

"When did you return?" Rosy asked nurse Ellie.

"When you were in the cafeteria," answered nurse Ellie.

We followed her to the ICU. Gran looked so frail, weak, and helpless that my heart went out to her....