"How's Louis doing?"
"He's doing okay. Ruby said he should be resting for a couple days and he'll have to work on learning to speak but he should be okay."
"Thank god." Aasim sighed and leaned on a chair
Not a minute later y/n walked out as she took off her gloves and shoved them into her pockets.
"Hey guys! He's stable. He's sleeping right now so you can see him in a little bit!"
"Cool! Thanks y/n!"
"No problem guys."

"Look here." Y/ns finger moved and and Louis's eyes tracked it. "And here. Now here."
Y/n was checking all of his senses to make sure the procedure didn't knock anything off balance.
"Everything looks good." She nodded.
Everyone crowding around her looked at her for more intel.
"So with Louis, since his tongue was completely severed and it had been off for a while, he most likely won't ever grow back nerves in his tongue. It's not impossible but it would be a miracle. It will also probably take a couple months for the muscle movement to come back. I don't know if he will be able to move the muscles past a certain point because the tongue was completely cut off. But he should be able to move the back area to control the rest of his tongue. Speech my be difficult but it's better than nothing, right?"
Louis nodded and so did everyone else.
"So I will end up working on exercises with him to get some mobility back and then we will start working on speech again."
"That's amazing. How in the world do you know how to do that?"
"Both my parents were doctors. I watched them do a lot of surgeries since the apocalypse started. I read books and watched demonstrations. I did my first stitching when I was 8."
"Wow. That must've been hard." Ruby sympathised
Y/n shrugged casually as she set Louis back down to go to sleep.
"Not really. It's always been a part of my life so it's never really upset me or anything."
"Weird. I know I couldn't do that." Aasim shivered.
"It takes a certain stomach to do what ruby and I do." Y/n smiled at her and she smiled back.
"Anyway, we should let him rest. You can come visit him later today!"
Everyone nodded and walked out of the room with y/n trailing behind.

"Two months in and you're basically talking again." I cheered.
Louis smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
"Okay. Can you say "hi I'm Louis'?"
"Hi... I-I'm... o-Louis."
"Good!"
"Can you say 'not today'?"
"N-not tothay."
Louis seemed disheartened by the slur in the word.
"It's okay. That's going to be normal for you. There are some letters you can't form anymore because you don't have the motion in the top of your tongue."
He nodded and tried to move the thought away from his mind.
"Okay! You're good for today! Go have some fun!"
Louis got up from the table and walked to the table.
"Y/n?" He asked as he stopped in front of the doorway
"Yeah?"
Louis looked down at his feet and then walked to me. He wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me into him.
I felt him pull my lips closer to his and he kissed me lightly.
My body froze as it cling onto him.
"I told you I'd kiss you when i was healthier." I smiled.
"Wha-?"
Without another word he walked out of the room.
I placed my finger tips on my lips which were still tingling from the kiss

"What is it Louis?" I ask as Louis waved to get my attention.
He held out a folded piece of paper and I took it from his feeble hand.
I open it and on the lined piece of paper there were eight simple words
'I'm going to kiss you when I'm better.'
I blushed heavily and smiled at Louis.
That'll be the day

A small smirk spread across my face and I scoffed. "That'll be the day." I whispered.