A/N: Well, using the prompt table from the fanfic100 challenge, I've taken on a new endeavor. I'm not technically participating in the challenge, but I will use all of the prompts, and all of my drabbles will center around Cameron. (They might be longer than 100 words, though.) I hope you all like it. :)
Beginnings
Allison Cameron doesn't know it at the time, but taking a fellowship position at Princeton Plainsboro will change everything. Oh sure, she knows it will make some things different, but she is thinking more along the lines of perpetual tiredness, coping with losing patients, and accepting that she will never have a social life.
She never imagines she will change who she is, what she believes in, and the way she falls in love. She never imagines what he will do to her.
She gets an idea, though, when she finishes her first day. After she breaks more rules in one shift than she has her whole life, after she endures countless insults, after her very first patient lies to her and then dies, and after he catches her crying about it, she gets an idea.
One day, he tells her, you'll stop believing the best in people. One day, he tells her, you'll stop being so damn naïve.
It the start of what working for this man will do to her. It is the beginning of what is to come.