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The Places We Find Love
Regina's pace was much slower 5 o'clock pm than than it was at any other time during her shifts. She was 24 years old, but boy did this job make her feel like she was a lot older than that. As she made her way, slowly and surely, to the break room just the next wave of people were about to clock in. She made her way over to the coffee pot and stared over to her nursing colleague Mary Margaret, who was carefully nursing her 4th cup of coffee since she started this morning with Regina. "Rough shift?" she snickered.
"Isn't it always?" she replied letting out a yawn. Mary Margaret did have a point, at Storybrooke University Hospital there was never a dull moment in sight, especially in the ER.
"As much as I love this work field and this job, I could really use a escape or something along those lines. It's getting harder and harder to get myself out of bed… my body is 100% exhausted", she confessed rubbing her eyes fighting back a much-needed yawn.
Just as Regina sat she heard an uproar, which wasn't out of the ordinary working in the ICU ward of a hospital, that sounded like someone in dire and critical need was lying on stretcher being transported into the hospital – which is how it sounded 95% of the time where she was peaked her head out from the break room and there was a man lying on a stretcher who seemed to be suffering from what looked like to be an arrow wound. Immediately she had thought to herself another night of drunken fun gone wrong. Alongside of actual traumas this is what she sees a majority of time especially during the summer.
So nonetheless because she was still at work, and she was looked upon highly by the vast majority of the staff she had no choice but to head back out into the field, scrub up and lend a helping hand to the rest of the crew. Teamwork was the motto they lived by because after all a huge part of the job was to work with the rest of the trauma team to help stabilize him or her as quickly as possible.
While the patient who was currently a "John Doe" to Regina had undergone a successful invasive arrow extraction she had successful read his chart, a typical procedure she did with everyone while making sure the room he would come back to a room that had everything ready to go at a moment's notice for patients arrival, which also included having fluids stocked.
"Hmm", she smiled as she went down his chart examining the basics. "Robin Locksley." Sounded really very familiar. As she read through his chart briefly she discovered that he was a 25 year old man, he came into the hospital with what seemed to be an elevated blood pressure most likely due to the pain and loss of blood, came in with a slightly elevated blood alcohol level – which made her question if the man on the offering side of the bow and arrow was ever more drunk than this Robin was because at his blood alcohol level he could still be able to make a rash decision; yet standing in front of a drunk man with a bow and arrow knowingly wasn't the brightest; but she also noticed from his chart he had had numerous trips to the ER as a result of prior senseless actions, but other than an arrow stuck in his abdominal area he was in good physical shape from what she could make from his past medical history.
Regina made her way back to the break room to clock out as she originally attempted to do roughly two hours ago, but this time she succeeded with ease. On her way out she grabbed David who was another trauma nurse who worked on their team and gave him the rundown of what they were dealing with, this of course would be a breeze for them but no two days or cases were ever the same, not every patient responded the same to medicine, not every patient had a positive response to all nurses. She left on a positive note as usual and though it was 7:15pm Regina was happy to say she was ready for a shower, a glass of wine, and her bed.
"Robin Locksley", she whispered to herself as she thought long and hard, "How do I know that name?" It bothered her until she fell asleep, but she knew she'd remember just how she knew this man at the most random time doing something that was probably irrelevant, like perhaps during shaving her legs in the shower.
Regina woke the next day luckily it was her day off, it was just in time and very much needed. She woke up to a nice text from Mary Margaret asking her if she wanted to do a brunch.
For the most part her and Mary Margaret worked a pretty identical schedule. Mary Margaret just recently switched her schedule due to the fact her newfound attraction to David, which of course was mutual. The two aimlessly pined over each other, and above all their relationship was a constant flirt and though it was fun, with such a serious job, there was no room for distraction or so they liked to tell the other nurses; but who were they kidding they were practically experts for they could do their jobs blindfolded. Regina and Mary Margaret really understood one another, they were fast friends, and something about them just cliqued. The two women made it a tradition to meet up two to three times a week to talk about life and the crazy things they'd seen in the emergency room, and between the two of them there was nothing they hadn't seen. Today they were eating at Granny's.
"So, how are things with David?" she said with a mischievous smirk.
"David is good, actually great." Mary Margaret couldn't help but smiling when talking about him. "It's me who is somewhat in a pickle", she said with uneasy look.
"And just what might that pickle be, dear?" Regina said looking down at the wine menu, this job drove her to drink.
"Well…" Mary Margaret began "I asked to change shifts because I thought it would be the right thing to do, you know not mix business with pleasure. Unfortunately mixing business with pleasure is the only way we get to see each other! We are on completely different shifts when I'm awake he's sleeping, when I'm sleeping he is awake." Regina could sense just a tad bit of distress in the other woman's voice.
"Well if you guys every get back in the same rotation, on the bright side you'll be sleeping together," Regina let out one of her oh so infectious laughs "Don't worry about it. It'll all work out for the best, wait and see." At times like this it's was nice to have a friend, particularly one that could make you laugh and give you a 'hope speech' at the same time Mary Margaret supposed.
The two women proceeded to order actual food for the sole fact that both of them were slender and as nurses, as well as women who enjoyed wine, they knew that wine did not suffice as a well-balanced meal. Regina was still thinking and pondering upon where she knew this man from, she had to know, more than that she was dying to know. Being that the food was on the way, what better opportunity to make more conversation.
"Does the name 'Robin Locksley' do anything for you…" she didn't know quite how to ask "does it, you know, ring any bells?" by the way she had asked the question, in a somewhat nervous way, it peeked Mary Margaret's' curiosity as to where she was going with this.
"It sounds really familiar...but no bells are ringing. Maybe you dated him" she put her thumb and index finger on her chin looking up as if she was hoping the answer would fall out of the sky onto her lap, but it didn't. Just as Mary's light bulb was dimming Regina's light bulb appeared, Robin Locksley was the boy whom back in the day Regina had a massive crush on, and he was quite fond of her as well (which than again made her ask herself why it never amounted to anything, they ran in the same circle and had almost identical friends until they went to college, or at least she went to college. She had no clue of what he did; clearly he was getting shot with arrows). She had to have been about twelve years old when his family moved here from England, specifically London. Her father Henry helped Robin's father get a job at the Railroad when they were new in town. Her family and his would always sit by each other at company picnics and often times they would come over for dinner. How could she have possibly forgot him, considering their families were pretty much best friends?
After a long brunch the two women parted for the day. Regina spent her off days cleaning her apartment, shopping (for herself, because a little retail therapy never hurt anyone), as well as grocery shopping. She really enjoyed her alone times and off days but lately she felt like she was seeing couples everywhere, the newest couple being her two best friends. It's not that she didn't want to be in a relationship, she was just independent and driven. She had an amazing career, but at times her career was, on more than one occasion, the reason that things weren't so perfect in her love life. She worked long demanding hours and though she loved it, the boyfriends didn't. Mary Margaret told her she just needed to find the right person, or someone who would embrace the whole package. Now Regina was learning to understand the concept of that bit more.
As Regina got ready for bed that night, for a long and probably entertaining day at work, she got a call from her superintendent asking if she'd be able to change her availability and work second shifts until further notice. Though she wasn't completely sold on the idea she figured maybe it would be a good way for her to catch up on some much needed sleep by not having to wake up so early, but with that benefit and that benefit alone she accepted the change of rotation. It was a partial answer to her prayers, or the next best thing next to a vacation.
*Okay, so i know this wasn't as OQ packed as your may have thought, but before you build your house you need a solid foundation. Tried to give like backstory kinda as to where I was going and as much as I know were all in love with Outlaw Queen, everyone loves to see SnowQueen frienship. Okay so fav/follow/review and i'll get the second chapter up between this evening and/or tomorrow evening. Ciao babes :)