Timeline
Set after Going viral, 2x18 and 2x19.
Author's note
I'm back on the writing team with a fandom I'm just discovering so please don't hesitate to point out obvious mistakes.
Still french and not native english thus all spelling/grammar mistakes are mine :p
I'd love to read your thoughts about this first chapter ... six others are ready but I'm testing the water here. Thanks! :)
Chapter 1
Philadelphia County Medical Center
9:15 am
The always distinguished Doctor Megan Hunt glanced down at the phone vibrating on the nearby table with an exasparated sigh. She was deep down an autopsy and two other bodies were waiting for her. She really didn't have time for this.
Fearing an instant that her daughter was on the other side of the line, indicating that something was wrong (both needed to adjust to her recent diagnosis of Diabete I), her sigh turned to a growl when the ID of the caller identified him as Doctor Charlie Stafford.
Deciding that socializing with the virologist wasn't on her top priorities for the day, she left it go straight to voicemail. After the ordeal they went through the week before, she really didn't need him in her space. He was ok, rather competent, but all she wished for was to put all this behind her.
Plus the almost disaster was the reason they were short staffed: her boss, Docteur Kate Murphy, had been ordered a full month rest to recover from her encounter with the Marburg virus. She didn't resent her for taking the time off, God knew it had been a very close call for the young woman but she had her hands full and this tragedy hadn't stopped violent crimes from being perpetred. She'd return his call later, she promised herself.
She hadn't had time to return her attention to the body laying on the table that her phone buzzed again, caused by the same caller. She ignored it again until she realised he had left two messages. Then, on his third call, she picked up, muttering "it'd better be important" under her breath.
- "Megan, have you heard from Kate?", he requested abrupty by way of greetings.
- "My … my … good morning to you to", she retorted back, ready to bite.
- "Have you heard from her or not?", he insisted, ignoring her remark.
- "No … but you are the one who sent her home for a month, remember? I guess she followed your order", she reminded him.
- "I know Doc but I haven't seen her since last week and ..."
- "Geez, don't worry Doc. You saved her life, she won't go back on her promise to lend you the second basement", she retorted, a little annoyed by his insistance at reaching her boss when she had bodies waiting.
- "Docteur Hunt, you don't get it. She hadn't shown up for her weekly blood test nor renewed her prescription. And she isn't returning any of my calls".
That stopped Megan's annoyed fidgeting with her scalpel. Her boss was many things, the first being her total opposite in many ways, but taking her health offhandedly, especially after her encounted with Ebola's little cousin, wasn't like her.
- "Well .. I … no … I haven't heard from her. I'll check if Curtis did though. I call you back", and she hung up without letting him time to respond, her mind already on overdrive.
She was pretty sure Curtis hadn't heard from Kate otherwise he'd have said so.
That 'd mean two things:
a) she was gently resting at home, feeling well enough to not take her prescription (which as utterly stupid), or
b) she was home and not very well.
Deciding option b) was the most likely, she finished up her autopsy in a little under one hour and went to check on her boss.
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