After Celeste left, Chambers wasn't sure how to exactly process his infatuation with his nurse. He didn't know how much longer he'd be here, or how unhealthy it was to try to cultivate some kind of relationship. She had totally just touched his cock and balls, and a part of him was incredibly upset that he hadn't even been able to feel it. He tried to push that down, though, and pushed the buttons on the remote for the TV the gorgeous redhead had left in his hand before she left.

There wasn't a lot on, but Jason managed to find a UFC fight that he had missed over the course of the deployment and was being replayed on the Armed Forces Network. Robbie Lawler was a fighter he had remembered watching since the early 2000's, and it was good to see him competing at an elite level again. Watching the fight was a bitter reminder of his own injuries and new limitations, however. He remembered his time in the combatives gym back at home, and the local MMA gym he'd gone to as well. In his younger days, he had actually competed on an amateur level, and seeing two grown men in their physical prime test each other physically in ways that he didn't know he'd ever be able to again. 

Midway through the third round, Sergeant Chambers' attractive nurse returned, a tray full of food that smelled fantastic in her hand. Chambers sat quietly while she arranged dinner for the both of them. 

"Thank you," he told her before she offered a bite of a hamburger for him. He closed his eyes when he tasted the fresh burger and sighed. It was delicious, and for just a moment, he tried to stop worrying so God damn much about everything and just be a man laying in a hospital bed eating dinner served to him by a beautiful woman who seemed to actually want his company.

As they ate, Jason explained to her his own history with the sport of mixed martial arts while they watched it on tv. She continued to feed him his burger and coke and split her fries with him. It was DFAC food, but it wasn't bad at all. Chambers always thought it was weird that the Army trained cooks, but contracted out their food prep and cooking to civilian agencies. For the rest of the time that he could, he just tried to forget his problems and the future and the past and just be present with Celeste there. It was difficult, but for a few moments in that time frame, he was pretty happy.