Niko had just been filling Shannon in a little on family stuff, mostly. Shannon accused his uncle of looking like he was about to keel over from exhaustion, and Niko confessed he hadn't been sleeping too well, and the stress of Shannon's op had his blood sugar levels all over the place. So much so that he had to go to see his doctor here at the hospital in a little while to mess around with his insulin doses. Niko didn't usually say much about his diabetes, so the fact he had told Shannon he really probably wasn't feeling the best right now. Niko had promised his nephew that as soon as his doctor's appointment was done, he was going to go home to bed.

"You better," he said weakly, though he was smiling. He was still stuck flat on his back and stuck in a neck brace to keep his spine straight so the healing could happen around the new pins and plates at the injury site, but he was feeling in better spirits today than he had been. "Fuck, I missed you so much, babe. And I know I made you cry, I'm so sorry." Shannon had been in an out of it, drugged up on heavy medication. But there was one time he was awake, in awful amounts of pain they couldn't control, and all he had been able to do was cry. Yet, he had been aware of his surroundings that time, and had heard Fin crying his eyes out nearby. He hadn't been able to see him, though, because he had too many staff members around him trying to assess him.