#fractured--bones

"Leonard--" Temperance pulled the good doctor aside even though they were in the middle of a shift. But things were slow. And things lately were just going so well for them that she felt like she just needed to say this to him. "You know I care, right? That I love you? Because--I do. And that's something that I don't think I can say enough." The thought of losing him crossed her mind already. To someone older than her. More like him. "I know that I'm a little young but like I said--I've got my head straight. And--" whoa breathe there, Temperance. McCoy just grabbed her shoulders and looked at her with those warm eyes of his "Temp, where is all of this coming from?" And she faltered some then "I--I just wanted you to know. We don't know what's going to happen while we're up here and I don't want anything to happen without you knowing." He hugged her and she wrapped her arms tightly around him not wanting to let go. 

Close that weary door like the house on the weary street."

"How can I help you, Doctor?" he smiled a little at her, scratching the back of his head.

               It ain't the same without you.

                        ... I love you.

               "Just gotta get... turned around, that's all."

              "Count me in, then. Christ, that five hours in surgery really did me in yesterday."

                              [Come talk to her in another hour or two.]