He remembered that the road had been icy, however that was about it. When he awoke in the hospital he was told the car slid off the road, through the guardrail and down into the ravine. The only thing that kept him alive was his seat belt and the fact that the branch that went through his windshield missed his head by six inches.
It was a week before the feeding tube was removed. When he was first able to speak all he could ask of his family and friends were about work, what they had been doing. He tried keeping the conversation to normal day to day items. He could see by the way they looked at him however that all they wanted to talk about was the accident, and if he was o.k.
"Good morning Ken." Her name was Gerri. He found it greatly amusing that a nurse (an occupation of course that filled many of his fantasies) had such a name. It imbued sexiness without the person holding the name ever having to be sexy.
"Good morning." He had developed a somewhat flirtatious in relationship with Gerri in the weeks he had been in the hospital. He enjoyed the company, and since he had still not been able to get out of bed and move around he also found it enjoyable to be waited on by someone who was far more attractive that anyone who had ever paid attention to him.
She smiled at him with something more of a morning greeting. He could not help but notice the waft of her perfume as she leaned over him to check his I.V. She was wearing a skirt as well for the first time he had been able to recall. "Is that standard company dress? No need to dress all sexy on my account." He tried to play it coy, he had said far worse to her in his time at the hospital, but for some reason this one sentence seemed to catch her off guard.
She looked down at him, and the look on her face caught him by surprise. She recovered after a moment of fumbling with the bag, "And who is to say I wore this for you? You're not the only cute patient I flirt with you know." She finished checking on him, and as she walked away she turned back and winked. He was overwhelmed with a feeling of helplessness. Was she toying with him? Was she just doing her job to keep his morale up? He hadn't pretended the flirtatiousness between the two of them, he knew that.
She stopped in a few hours later to check on him. Walking in with a smile on her face looking at him in a way that scared him slightly. "I believe that it is time for your bath." She had changed into scrubs, and however less revealing they may be they seemed to turn him on more.