Gabriel waited several minutes--to be sure Alaric was fast asleep--before he carefully extracted himself and crawled out of the bed. He was quite familiar with this routine; it seemed like one of them was always winding up here and heck, they'd practically begun their friendship with a hospital trip!
He paused to fix Alaric's covers, make sure his tray was close enough that he could comfortably reach his water and game, and then he left to head home--and hope that this trend of Alaric winding up injured would end. It killed him to see him hurt.
