A/N To my bestest friend (and everyone in between) I hope it tickles the fancy! And to my bestest friend thank you for the song titles

"But in the back of her mind she would know what she finds if she looked a little deeper in you" Pantera

Chapter 1 Drag the waters

Harmoni Michales checked her pager tiredly, another bell was ringing. It made Harmoni want to throw the damn pager out the window. Sighing with annoyance she made her way back down the corrider, that clean hospital smell stuck in her nose. Harmoni had worked for Shadyside Hospital for almost four years now so she was used to late nights and long shifts. At times she thought her boss took advantage of her work ethic, funny thing was Harmoni really didn't care for once she was good at what she did and she was away from her sister Iziah, which was always a plus. Halfway up the corrider Harmoni met her partner for the night, Angela. She was shorter than Harmoni but then again almost everyone was small compared to Harmoni's five-eleven frame.

"What happened?" Harmoni noted the frustration over the smaller womans face.

"She pulled it out. Again" Angela rolled her eyes as Harmoni groaned. The she in question was a young girl who really hated the IV drip supplying her with fluid, the nurses had tried almost everything to keep it in but nothing had worked. Up until right now Harm had nothing to do with the girl but the others were desperate so she would be willing to give it a shot.

"Alright I'll see what I can do"

"No you can't choke her Harm" Angela laughed down the corrider, knowing it was the first soloution that would of cme from the young girls mouth.

Harmoni smiled tiredly "Damn, there goes that plan"

"Hey Kayla" Harmoni said nicely to the young girl in the bed. She looked up at Harmoni clearly taken aback by her appearance. She wasn't your typical doctor, for one thing she was young, for another she had normal street clothes on under her white doctors coat and she had a few tattoos running up her arms. Her long black hair hung free and in her left ear was a headphone.

"Your my doctor?"

"For now" Harmoni shrugged "Ooh I love this song"

"Are you allowed to listen to music while your working?"

"I don't know, I've never asked" Harmoni reattached the IV drip, instantly Kayla's hand went for it. Harmoni closed her hand over her's preventing her from pulling it out. "You don't wanna do that"

"Why?"

Harmoni may of been a very slim doctor but she held strength that was unimaginable "The more you keep ripping it out the more I'll keep putting it back in and eventually your arm will end up looking like this"

Her eyes bulged at the grotesque looking scar on her fore-arm. It made the entire arm disturbing to look at, Harm however was used to it and apart of her actually liked it, at least you could scare people with it.

"So I suggest you keep the drip in"

"Ok" Kayla looked at the arm purely terrifyed as Harmoni left the room trying not to laugh.

"There done and dusted" Harmoni told Angela coming out from Kayla's room. "Now I must go home and sleep"

The two women laughed "Well that is the dream Harm"

They took a seat in the small staff room for a short break, it was the good thing about nights, they could have a break whenever the hell they wanted. Harmoni pulled off her white coat and hung it on the hook, she wasn't going to put it back on for the rest of the night even though she still had at least six hours to go. They were silent for a moment and all that could be heard was the soft sounds of Harmoni's headphones.

"So how did you get her to leave it in?" Angela asked amazed, it had taken her ages to the thing into the stubborn girl whearus it took Harmoni roughly thirty seconds. Ang guessed that was why she was the doctor and she was the nurse.

"I showed her my arm" Harmoni shrugged scrolling through the music.

"Didn't your sister do that and not IV drips?"

"IV drips, Iziah its the same thing really" Harm laughed going to the coffee maker in desperate need of coffee. If she was going to survive this shift she would need it. It was her third one this week. Just as she was about to pour it the emergency bells went off meaning all medical staff had to go.

When they got to the room she was relieved that at least no one was on the floor dying, she didn't have time for anyone to die right now. Instead it was Melanie hovering over a youngish looking gentleman who held bloodied towels to his upper arm. The slightly older nurse looked at Harmoni sheepishly, "Sorry I pulled the cord out"

"Well put it back in" Harmoni snapped, she needn't have but she was tired and besides she could care less about Melanie and her feelings. Melanie was the opposite to Angela, while Angela was happy to take her commands from the young doctor Melanie hated it. At first Harmoni tried to keep the peace but there was only so far she could be pushed and eventually it escualated into a full blown war between the two women. Melanie muttered something putting the cord back in the wall, her patient however was staring at Harmoni intently, as if he knew her.

"And could you please stop staring its a little creepy"

"I like your shirt" He said simply still his eyes locked on the Pantera logo. His voice held a deep mysterious edge to it, slight chills rushed up her spine as he spoke again. "What are you listening to or is that a stupid question?"

"Pantera" Harmoni answered as Melanie fixed his arm up with stitches "What happened to your arm?"

"Gardening accident"

Melanie shot her a look clearly not believing him, for one thing it was half past eleven at night. For another there was no dirt on his hands.

"You realise that lying to hospital staff is a felony" Melanie spoke up, both of them just looked at her.

"Mel hows about you let a proper doctor finish off the stitches"

Moaning and muttering Melanie got up and Harmoni took over leaving her alone with this man. As soon as she was done Harmoni was going to smack Melanie in the face, that was not good safety skills. You don't leave a young woman alone with a strange gentleman even if that said woman did have military training. It wasn't the point.

"Must of been one helluva gardenin accident" Harmoni commented smiling gently at him. The last thing she wanted to do was piss this man off. Still she couldn't help but look over his huge muscular frame bronzed with dragaon tattoos.

"Thats what I get for gardening at half past eleven at night"

"I've heard of stupider things" Harm assured him thinking of her sister Iziah who once stuck a wet fork into a going toaster on purpose.

He looked her over again making her sightly un-easy, "My name is Ian"

"Harmoni" She introduced herself not looking up from her work.

"Your different from the other nurses I've seen"

"Yeah maybe its because I'm a doctor" She flashed him a grin making him laugh at her joke.

"I meant-"

"I know what you meant and I'll save some time. Not interested"

He looked at her, an amused smirk on his face. "Not even a drink Harmoni?" He stroked her scarred arm with his free-hand. The way he said her name bought back those chills and Harm felt herself wanting to say yes.

"No" At last she was done "And your done. I'll get Ang to bring in the papers for you to sign"

Harm just wanted to get the hell away from him, she wasn't sure if he creeped her out or intruiged her.

A few moments later Harmoni was finally able to sit down and have her coffee, unfortunately Mel joined her also. She didn't speak to the older woman she just popped in the other headphone and drunk her coffee in silence. She kept thinking about Ian and his cut, she knew it wasn't a gardening accident. To her it looked as though somone had done it to him in desperation. Shaking her head she stopped thinking like that. Definately too much time with Rae, now I'm paranoid.

"Harm?" A another older nurse asked trying to get her attention.

She took the headphones out and looked up at Gloria. Her sort blonde hair thrown about like she had just gotten out of bed.

"You ok Glor?" Harmoni looked to her friend concerned as she sat her large chubby frame down on a chair.

"Too many late nights"

"Maybe you should retire" Melanie cut in, she only said that because Gloria was hitting sixty and Mel wnated her job. Yeah that would happen over Harmoni's dead mangled corpse.

Gloria ignored her and continued her convo with Harm, "Heard you had yourself an admirer"

Harm laughed "He creeped me out"

"Did he?"

"No not really but there's something weird about him"

"Like?"

"Well who does gardening at half past eleven at night?" Melanie cut in just to be apart of the conversation. If it wasn't for Gloria Harm would of lept over the table and punched the bitch.

"Stoners, gardening enthusiasts, alcoholics, angry loners" Harmoni started to list them on her fingers. She wondered the same thing but this pissed Mel off so she would always take that option.

Melanie just ignored her and went back to her crossword.

"Define something weird" Gloria asked going back to the original point.

"That cut on his arm was not from an accident, someone did that. Someone desperate"

Gloria looked at her oddly "What makes you say something like that?"

Harmoni sighed "Have sisters like mine Glor and you learn to spot the difference."

"Well I think your being paranoid because your sleep deprived"

Harm laughed again "Geez Gloria I've only been here twenty-eight hours. I still got a while to go before I'm sleep deprived"

"Then maybe you should let the man take you out cause now it sounds like your deprived of something else" Gloria winked at the younger girl before going back to work.

Harmoni shook her head and went back to her music. She had to admit Ian was quite attractive weird attitude and all.