Donna had to sleep.
She knew that, she knew that she had to be awake and alert tomorrow, ready to take notes so at least one of them knew how to take care of Josh.
Her stomach flipped at the thought of being able to take him home. She hated visiting him in the hospital, even though she would never tell him that. No matter how many times she went there, all she could think about was when she first found out, how Toby had to tell her, how she watched them work on him, how Mrs. Bartlett held her as she cried. She hated seeing him in that bed, unable to believe that Josh Lyman could be confined to a bed, that a bullet could take him away from her.
She hated the hospital.
But she got to take him back to his apartment tomorrow. Actually, today, since it was already two in the morning. She wondered if he was awake, just as she was. She hoped so, it was comforting to think of Josh lying awake as well, so that she wasn't completely alone.
She finally sighed, knowing that she wouldn't be falling asleep anytime soon. Her air conditioning wasn't working and on the eleven o'clock news they were marveling at the heat wave that was wrecking havoc on DC.
Donna went into her kitchen, laughing to herself how much her refrigerator looked like Josh's. She had a few frozen pizzas, some milk that was probably yogurt by now and a pathetic looking apple. There wasn't even some Ben and Jerry's.
She settled on the pathetic looking apple, wishing that it was Cherry Garcia instead. She went back to her living room, hoping that there would be some sappy movie that she could vegetate in front of for a couple of hours. Luckily Pretty Woman was on, one of Donna's favorites. If only romance was as easy as Julia Roberts and Richard Gere made it out to be. Of course, she thought bitterly, Julia didn't have to deal with a demanding boss who never let her out of the office until late at night, always had an "emergency" when she had a date, who was heart wrenchingly cute when he was jealous…
She really didn't need to be thinking about Josh like this.
Donna sighed, hoping it was just lingering relief that he was alive that she was feeling instead of the crush she was pretty sure she was developing on Josh Lyman.
Julia and Richard rode off into the sunset, her apple was eaten and Donna was still awake.
She would need stop by Starbucks before she faced Josh Lyman.