"Okay. Okay, I think I can deal with a couple of hours." Maybe the IV could wait.

"Although, I have to say, it would really suck if I came back and found everything was a hundred years later, okay, because I just asked someone out on a date and I don't want to go back to find that a) she's already married with grandkids or b) she's dead. That would be terrible."

Conall lay back on the covers, panting. That had taken a lot of energy out of him, but for some reason he felt better.