Xeres Cayden Void wasn't a man who showed many emotions out in the open, especially around strangers. But as he waited in the waiting room at the hospital he couldn't help but let the worry and fear cover his face. This was supposed to be a nice day, full of happiness and love, so how did it become this?

The two of them had been out for a date at a small little cafe, celebrating their sixth year together and one month of being engaged.

But then the cafe had been attacked by an anti-creature group, and Grian was the only one in the cafe who had some sort of creature part, which was his wings. So they went up and grabbed him, and as soon as the first man laid a hand on his beloved EX pulled out a small blade and stabbed it into the man's arm.

"What are you doing?" yelled the man, clutching his hand in an attempt to stop the bleeding, "Why are you protecting that freak?"

"That 'freak' is my fiancé!" growled EX, taking a protective step in front of Grian, "So I recommend you back off!"

"Fiancé? You actually want to marry that thing?" questioned the same dude, face scrunched up in disgust, "And here I thought you didn't look that bad, seems like I was really wrong"

"Seems like it," hissed EX, "Now leave"

"Oh? And what are you going to do?" taunted the dude, completely not seeing or hearing the police who had just arrived.

"Nothing," grinned EX, before pointing behind him, "But their most likely going to arrest you"

And he was right, they were arrested. But as they were being led out one of the men, someone different from the dude who confronted them before, broke free and pulled a gun from an officer and shot at Grian.

Grian fell to the floor with a thud, wide scared eyes locked with Xeres' own terrified eyes, "GRIAN!"

The red clad Void ran up to Grian, kneeling down to put pressure on the wound, "C'mon Grian, stay with me here. HEY! A little help over here?!"

This set the rest of the people into action, someone calling an ambulance and others checking if they had any sort of medical supplies. Luckily one of the staff members was a resident at the Opal medical center, so she knew what to do. After doing some medical stuff (that I'm not going to explain, since no matter how many Chicago Med episodes I watch, I still don't know shit about this stuff) the ambulance soon arrived, and Grian was taken to the hospital, EX coming with him (Duh).

And that's why he was here currently, waiting for the doctors to finish up. For another hour he waited before they walked out, clothes slightly bloody but a relieved expression on his face, "Everything's gone well Mr. Void, Grian should be able to leave after he's awake as long as you make sure he takes all the potions he needs and that he rests"

"Thank you Doctor," said EX sincerely, "Can I go in and see him now?"

"You can. But as I said he's still unconscious, and he probably won't wake up for awhile," smiled the Doctor.

EX thanked the man once more and made his way towards Grian's hospital room, and as he entered he saw his love just laying there, looking more like he was asleep then unconscious. The Void sat down in the chair by his fiancés bed, taking the smaller hand into his own, "Please wake up soon G, it's really boring without you"

He stayed there until he fell asleep, and when a nurse came to check up on Grian he saw how EX was holding Grian's hand tightly. So he did a quick check and then put a blanket over the sleeping man before leaving, informing everyone to let the two sleep.

And the staff made sure to share that information with others that weren't there, they were all so happy for Grian for finding happiness. And they hopped this one could protect the dirty blond, he was in their care for to much.

Around midnight two purple eyes blinked open, the first thing that they saw was the sleeping form of one Xeres Void. Grian let out a quiet little laugh, "Of course you fell asleep in the world's most uncomfortable chair," he tapered off at the end and just laid still in the darkness for a while before drowsiness overtook him, "Night Xer, don't complain to me about your back hurting tomorrow"

Grian quickly fell asleep again after that, and when EX was sure he was fully asleep again he let a grin spread across his face, "No promises"

He then also fell asleep, snuggled up semi-comfortably to Grian.

And Grian was right, his back did hurt in the morning.

<>Kinda pointless backstory! This happened around two years before HC 6 started. Oh, and here's the "series" (Is this technically a series?) cover:

Have a wonderful time everyone!<>