first ever Holby fanfic!
Moving from Keller to AAU was tough. There was no doubt about that. Lofty missed the extra time he could take with his patients and he wasn't keen on the very fast paced environment, not to mention getting to know a whole new set of faces on the ward.
Never the less, Lofty was a calm person and took everything head on with a smile, except today his head wasn't giving him a smile but and awful migraine.
"One of those days then eh' Lofty!?" said Fletch sitting at the desk, pulling Lofty out of his blank daydream. He was starring absentmindedly at a load of files in his hands, not really taking in the names of his patients he had to see. The throbbing in his head was so distracting, it had been keeping him up for the past 2 nights.
"Uh yes, i uhmm..right" he clutched his files, gave a false smile to Fletch and went to find his first patient. Fletch just chuckled to himself. He had been the new boy on the ward himself and knew that lofty was going to have to work hard to get his feet on the ground, the thought of the girls teasing him was especially funny.
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Over on Keller..
Dom was busy juggling 5 of his patients, they were low on staff and so he was covering for 2 missing doctors. He had the night shift and was desperate for a coffee before he left his shift at 10 - that was providing he got all his paper work out of the way.
Whilst talking to patients and trying to get a diagnoses he was getting little flashes of Lofty in his head. Oh how he felt rubbish about it all. He never wanted Lofty to leave keller, he just wanted to punish him, but for what? There was no reason to punish Lofty. He was kind, honest and just too good to be true! but that was the problem. Dom couldn't face the reality that Lofty was just so perfect. He had been there before and had been heartbroken. But deep inside he knew that Lofty was different. He was going to change that. There was no way in hell Dom could let someone like this go..he needed to apologise.
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back on AAU
After setting up Mrs Johnsons syringe drive and changing several other patients dressings Lofty was already looking at his watch for the time. 10.00AM. He had only been working 2 hours and he was shattered already. He had already dosed himself with Cocodamol and it wasn't even touching his migraine.
A hot sweat went over him and felt slightly breathless.
Lofty decided to make a quick exit from the ward with the hope of nobody noticing, just to cool down for 5 minutes in the stairwell. It was his first week on the ward and he didn't like letting people down. just 5 minutes.
He slammed the door behind him in the stairwell and turned to clutch his head against the door hoping nobody would come from the other side, praying for the pain to reside. It was a sharp throbbing that felt like someone was dragging a sharp blade through the back of his eyes. The pain was excruciating.
He looked down at his watch and noted it had been 4 hours since he last had Cocodamol, time for something stronger. Lofty fumbled through his pockets, feeling dizzy doing so, and pulled out a pack of Tramadol.
Screw the water, he thought, and took 2 large pills. He then resided to resting his head back on the cold door for some relief, waiting for the Tramadol to kick in.
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next chapter coming up...