✒He’d been standing there for five minutes, at the bus stop. This was his home town; he was home, and yet he wasn’t sure where to go. His house? The hospital? No, no he wasn’t incredibly fond of that idea.
Yeah… yeah he’d just go to the house. He’d go by the hospital later, as per recommendation; after all, he didn’t like walking with a cane either.
“Hey, soldier.” Summer greeted him casually, offhandedly; nobody who’d grown up where she had would think of ignoring a soldier, especially one who looked so fresh from deployment. “Welcome home.”