General Hospital

Hope slips into the room quietly, not able to tell if he's sleeping or not. She'd spoken to his brother in the hall and apparently the doctors are optimistic about all the injuries. Charming lad that Murphy, a bit less smooth than Connor though. Wow...she can't believe they're twins. She carries a small bouquet of flowers; daisy's and roses mixed with some lilac that gives off a beautiful fragrance of springtime meadows. She walks over to his bed and sets the flowers on the table beside his bed as she leans down and brushes his hair back from his forehead and places a soft kiss there.

Connor smiles as he stirs softly, he wasn't really sleeping, it was more of a dozing really..the same thing he had been doing for 24 hours on and off. His eyes flickered open and looked up at her sleepily. His mouth parted as he breathed a quiet 'hey', reaching out his hand for hers.

Hope smiles down to him, her eyes a bit red rimmed but the smile warm none the less. "Hey." she whispers back to him. "Thought you might want some company. Murphy said you've been trying to rest. I'm glad to hear it ya know." Her fingertips feather over his temples to his cheek as she looks into his eyes. "You feeling any better"

Connor nods, sitting up a bit more with a slight wince as his ribs reject the movement. "Aye, they're thinking I could be out in the next day or two as long as I take it easy once I'm out" He looks at the flowers with a smile and then back to her "Thank you for the flowers." Ironically they're sitting next to another bouqet and you know it's not from his hard ass brother.

Hope fluffs the pillow up behind his head as he moves an adjusts it behind his head. Her warm smile doesn't quite reach her eyes but she does make every effort to ease his mind. "Really? That's wonderful. I..I could help you get home if you wanted." she offers as she sits next to him and reaches over to touch the flowers and adjust them a little. "You're welcome. I'm not the first though it looks like." she teases a little with a wink. "But I think flowers always help you imagine you're somewhere else. In a happy place."

Connor laughs and looks at the bouqet "Well, ya know, the nurse is hitting on me while you're gone..." He's ignoring who they're really from at the moment, not wanting to damper the mood quite yet, he's just happy to see her.

Hope smiles a bit and looks down bashfully. Not that she can fault the nurse. He's a cutie. "Well I guess I'm gonna have to make sure to be around more often so I can point them in the direction of the brother that's still available then huh?" she teases back. Nope she's keeping her worries to herself too.

Connor smiles and leans in for a kiss, but before doing so mumbles something about her being around more, but it's offset by his focus on the kiss, not really caring if the words come out smooth or not. It's like in the movies where they talk before the kiss but nobody's really paying attention to the words

Hope giggles softly as she leans in, not wanting him to work too hard and gives him a chaste little kiss on the lips. But boy does it make her cheeks turn red anyway. She sits there a while silently, and ducks her head a little to try to hide her face. "So...are they treating you well here? No horrible food I hope."

Connor smiles "They're treating me just fine..." He tilts her head up so she's looking at him "Are you going to tell me wht's wrong or not hun?" His eyes are soft, he's not mad in the least, he just wants her to know that he'll listen to anything she needs to talk about...it's obviously something.

Hope looks up at him and smiles, it's a little forced but genuine. She can't help but to smile when she looks in his eyes. "Nothing's wrong." she says unconvincingly. Well she was just not ever a good liar. But she doesn't want to bother him. "Really."

Connor smiles back and gives her another soft kiss, deciding to speak afterwards seeing as the words are more important this time. "And you really expected me to fall for that?" His hand slips into hers reassuringly "You can tell me Hope..."

Hope shakes her head a little and smiles again after the kiss. She takes his hand in hers and covers it with the other hand. "It's nothing you can do anything about. So you don't need to worry yourself about it. Okay? You just focus on getting better." she says softly to him.

Connor smiles softly up at her "You're telling me later...." He uses his good arm to pull her closer "Until then..how'd christmas shopping with Sam go?"