Emily Owens, an intern at Denver Memorial Hospital, rushed off the elevators to make it to rounds on time. She didn't want to be late and give Dr. Bendari another reason to hate her. She walked to the nurses station where they were meeting and stood beside Tyra.
Late Tyra mouthed to her with a smirk.
Emily rolled her eyes and looked to Dr. Bendari who was speaking about a case where an inmate was being admitted and giving them the procedures for handling the patient.
"You will not walk in alone. Do not let you name badge show. Patient's name is Charlie Dixon. Do not ask why he was arrested. That is none of your business." Dr. Bendari informed the interns. "Dr. Collins and Dr. Owens, it's your patient."
Giving the chart to Will, the others walked away. Emily and Will headed to the patients room. Upon entering the room, Charlie looked up and saw Will and Emily enter the room. He stared at Emily as she came fully into view. "Hi, my name is Charlie."
"We are your doctors. What seems to be the problem today?" Will said before Emily could speak.
"Well, I have chest pains. Hurts real bad and even hurts to breathe." He said not taking his eyes off of Emily. "What's your names?"
"Doctors" Will replied sarcastically.
"We will need to get an EKG and possibly a chest X-ray to see if there is anything major going on." Emily said to Will.
"Yeah. I will do the EKG. You order the chest X-ray." Will said wanting to keep Emily as far away as possible.
Emily nodded and left to do order without argument.
While on her way to the nurses station, she bumped into Micah. "Oh hey, Micah."
"Hey" Micah replied shortly.
"I wanted to thank you for the my present. I loved it." Emily said with a smile.
"That's good." he said turning around to walk away.
Emily noticed that he was acting a little off. She ran to catch up with him. "Hey, Micah" she called when she got close enough behind her.
"Yeah." he said as he kept walking, not bothering to turn around and look at her.
"Did I do something wrong?" Emily asked.
With that, he stopped and turned around to face her, hoping that he could remain cold.
"No. You didn't." he replied.
"It just that you're acting a little off. It seems like I did." she replied
"I just think that we need to keep everything professional. I'm your resident, and you're my intern." he replied.
"Okay. It's just, I thought we were at least friends" she replied.
"yeah, and being your friend is getting in the way of me doing my job." Micah said.
"Oh. Okay." Emily replied not knowing what else there is to say. Emily was a little disappointed that he no longer wanted to be her friend.
With a nod as a dismissal, Micah turned and walked away leaving Emily to her thoughts.
Once she gathered her thoughts, she turned around and walked the other way. As she was walking, she heard shouting and looked to see that it was the inmate. "How long has he been doing that?" she asked the guard outside of his door.
"About 15 minutes now." he replied. "If it was up to me, I would leave him in pain. Can't be worse than the pain he put his victims through."
"Victims?" Emily said not realizing she said it out loud.
"He stalked this one lady and when she was on a date with another man, he attacked. They were at her house about to get it on and he attacked. he killed the man and beat the lady to within an inch of her life." The guard said.
Emily didn't know what to say. The man was screaming in pain and she was the only one there. She couldn't leave him there. If something happened to him, the hospital would be held accountable.
I'm just going to go in and see what's wrong. She said to herself.
Walking in the room, she made sure he badge was not visible. "Tell me what's wrong." she said trying to remain confident and not sound to scared.
"My chest is hurting." he said out of breath.
"Okay, I will do an EKG to see if there is anything." She said.
"Thank you" he responded.
Emily hesitated before going closer to adjust his hospital gown and stick the tabs on him.
"You don't have to be afraid of me. I will never hurt you." He said rubbing his hand up her arm. She started to back away and he grabbed her hand in a tight hold. "You know, it's been so long since a woman touched me."
Emily didn't say anything. Instead she tried to snatch her hand away, but he wouldn't let go.
"Come on. I just want to see how it would feel after so long." Charlie said as he started to move his hand to his private area.
"Let me go." Emily said. "Let me go now."
Meanwhile, walking down the hall, Micah and Will were discussing a case when they heard Emily telling someone to let her go. "That's that inmate." Will said as he and Micah ran towards the room she was in.
In the room, Emily was using all of her strength to try to get away. "No. Let me go."
"How about you shut up and open your mouth while bending over." Charlie said with a smirk.
"What is going on here?" Micah said as he ran in and saw that the inmate had a grip on Emily's hand.
As soon as he came in, Charlie let go of Emily's hand. "Oh nothing. Just a friendly chat."
"Doesn't look too friendly to me." Micah said.
"I was trying to do an EKG when he grabbed my hand and wouldn't let it go." Emily said rushing over to Micah.
"I will do the EKG." Will said walking over to Charlie.
