Liaisons in the Vampire Hours

Disclaimer: Ah yeah well it is still the same I don't own them, won't claim to own them I am just borrowing them for a creative outlet.

A/N: I started writing this story back in June of 2004 and just rediscovered it tucked away in a folder on my pc. I am going to try and finish it now, please as always read review let me know what you think. Anna has always been one of my favorite characters.

Chapter 1:

Chicago February 2005…

Snow, it was snowing again. One would think that now that it was almost the end of February, it wouldn't be snowing anymore. Yet here it appeared that Old Man winter wasn't about to give up his hold on the windy city. It was cold, the grey skies that were hovering over the city didn't do anything to improve her foul mood in fact it seemed to make it even darker and more foul. She crossed the room and started the shower. She tried to ignore the soft snores that were coming from the other side of the bed. It would be just another one night stand that was laying there not awake and not aware of her moving through the silent apartment to leave before they awoke. There would be no awkward morning after conversation, no hard feelings that they would have to share, nothing that would remind her of the mistake that she had made.

She quickly showered and then gathered up her things. Not that she had brought much with her. She had picked him up the same way that she had picked up all the others, a friendly smile sitting at the bar looking alone. Guys seemed to flock to someone who looked almost desperate to find a man. And when you laugh at their jokes, let them buy you a beer or two, and then smile softly and say that you'd like to go someplace a little less crowded for a night cap, unless the man is married and happy to go home to what he has, you are usually taken up on it.

It saved her having to find a permanent place to stay. Worse case scenario and she wasn't able to find someone to go home with, she ended up on her brother's couch. Not that she was a whore, no, she didn't take money to do this, she just was looking for a different bed to sleep in, a one night stand, occasionally she did bump into the same guy and it would happen again, but for the most part, these were men that she only knew for a few hours, nothing more than a name exchanged between them, and that name would be forgotten by the next night. She would get up and leave and go to work like it had never happened. She never asked herself how a pediatrician who was also an excellent ER physician could fall so far so fast. She didn't want to go back to that place again.

Philadelphia November 2004

"Anna, come on put the bags down, we don't have to do this."

"There is no us anymore." She snapped as she threw the last of what she wanted to take with her into a bag. "You made sure of that."

"Please don't walk out, we can work through this baby, it's not over, I made a mistake it won't happen again."

"Max," She said turning to face him, "no forget it, I am not going to sit here and let you fuck any blonde young 20 year old who turns your head and be the bed warmer the next night."

"Anna that's not fair." He said trying to get her to stay.

"Oh well it's not huh," she yelled now done keeping the peace between them, "well that's sure as what it looked like when I came home from work last night. Whose patient was she this time, Daniel's maybe Trevor's? What were you thinking bringing her back to our house, screwing another woman in our bed?"

"Does it really matter?" He asked trying now to pull the bag free off of her shoulder.

"Oh you sure as hell bet it matters, I want to know which one of my doctors is setting my husband up with his little blonde toys." She snapped as she pulled even harder away from him, "forget it. I'm done with this it. You are so right it doesn't matter anymore cause I am not going to be around. You can have all the little blondes that you want." She flipped open her cell phone and hit the number for the ER where she worked. "Trevor good to hear your voice this morning. Put Nelson on the phone." Anna waited until she heard the man's voice come over the line. "Del Amico." She snapped into it, "I won't be in today, tomorrow or the day after that. I'm leaving for Chicago in 10 minutes."

Chicago 2 weeks later

"Anna, get up off my couch!" A voice yelled from the kitchen.

"I'm moving," Anna said as she sat up, god she needed someplace other than Jeremy's couch to sleep on.

"Coffee's in the kitchen move it our your going to be late again." Her brother snapped at her, "I am not your alarm clock."

She moved into the kitchen a got a cup of the hot coffee trying to remove the sleep from her eyes. "Thank Jeremy, come on you know I won't be sleeping on your couch for long."

"You'd better not be. You're putting a serious kink in my dating life." He poked at his sister.

"Oh now I can't be doing that." She jabbed back. "No I'll find someplace soon don't you worry about that now none, but it's not me that's responsible for your dry spell there in the dating department."

"I don't know why you didn't just go over to County and get your job back that you had there." Jeremy said looking at his sister.

"Because when I was there I was a resident. I don't want the long hours and the crappy pay anymore okay. Mercy is just as good, better hours and definitely better pay."

"Ahh." He said smiling at her, "better get a move on it then if you want to keep that better paying job or you will be back at County."

She reached down and picked up her bag. "I will don't, god you are such a worry wart, you need a life." She said as she headed for the door.

"I have one thank you and soon it will not involve my sister sleeping on the couch because she has no life." He joked back.

"Hey don't wait up for me tonight okay. I'm going to go out with some friends from work." She smiled as she headed to catch the EL train pulling the door shut behind her.

Chicago… current day

Anna is late and is hurrying to pull her clothes on now; she might just make it before he wakes up. "Damn it." She said as she accidentally kicked the bed frame.

There's a grumbling noise from the bed followed by, "are you sneaking out on me already?"

Oh what does she say to that, she is sneaking out on him? She rubs the foot that she is holding the one that she hurt; she can't remember his name this isn't good, she knows that the silence isn't good and that she should say something, "yeah I got paged sorry I have to go into work."

"You have too?" She hears the voice from the bed say to her. Damn why can't she remember his name.

"Yeah sorry I have to, hazards of being a doctor." Anna replies back, "I'm really sorry," she thinks really hard for a minute, "Joe?"

"Gary." He says laying back on the bed, "you'd better not keep them waiting there, I had to be the reason you are late," She hears him pause now as if he's mimicking her, "Bridget."

Anna pulls her sweater on now, "yeah that's right, I'm really sorry Gary." She makes it a point to say his name this time getting right since he just told her, "thanks for last night I had a really good time."

Granted she could remember any of it, but she'd say it any way as she headed for the door. She hated these awkward moments in the morning especially since she knew that there was nothing more that would come of this. She had gotten used to the one nightstand and was in no way ready to have anything that resembled a relationship after being cut so deeply.

She walked out the door and headed now almost at a run for Mercy. She knew she couldn't be late again; she was already walking on thin ice as it was. She would have to go back to County if she ended up getting fired from there. Maybe she should fix up her resume to be on the safe side, her odds at remaining at Mercy were getting smaller with every passing second.