Disclaimer: The Strong Medicine characters mentioned in this story belong to the writers of Strong Medicine and to Lifetime. This story is co-written with my friend Erin, and we only borrowed these characters for the story. We hope you enjoy it!!

Rittenhouse women's heath center was busy as usual. The hustle and bustle of patients had been running in and out of the clinic all day. Lu Delgado was especially feeling the stress of it all. After a particularly difficult explanation of a rare condition to a really good friend of hers, she was just about to crack. "God, when is this day going to be over?" She thought to herself, as she stared at the clock, hoping it would be time for a break. "It's only ten o'clock, ohhh." Just then the familiar sound of a pager going off filled the room. Lu grabbed her pager, and saw who was paging her. "The E.R. that is just perfect." Lu commented sarcastically as she hurried out of her office and made her way up to the E.R. "Elevator's down, you'll have to use the stairs." Lana told Lu as Lu groaned and turned back to the stairs. "Great, that's just great." she muttered to herself. "What else does this day hold in store for me?" Of course anytime somebody says that, something usually does happen.

As Lu made the climb up the stairs she felt her high black platform shoe slip from underneath her, she tried to catch the ramp, but it only made her fall worse and she tumbled backwards and sideways, and smacked her head really hard against the railing. "SMACK." Lu tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't and then she heard a voice. "Lu, oh my god, are you ok?" It was Peter, he had been coming down the stairs when this had happened and had seen the whole fall. Lu opened her eyes up at him as Peter tried to help her up. Lu ignoring the awful splitting headache she suddenly had, and the slight double vision, laughed at Peter. "Gees, I can be such a klutz sometimes you know. Guess I shouldn't wear these.these.these." Lu couldn't finish her sentence a throbbing in her head had broke it. Peter looked even more concerned and tried to help Lu up, but she wouldn't have it. She got a burst of determination and got herself up, ignoring the spinning of the room. As Lu got up, she revealed a puddle of blood that had come from her head, and there was blood on the railing. "Oh god Lu, let's get you cleaned up, and this should be cleaned up too." Peter then helped her to an exam room, and tried to examine her head wound. Lu was defiant, she thought she was just fine, and she didn't need any further tests or anything. "Lu, c'mon this is pretty deep, I think it needs stitches, and let's just get a neuro exam on you." Lu scoffed at the idea of stitches and let Peter put a bandage on her head. She again reassured him that she was just fine, and before he could even suggest a head CT, or a neuro exam that she was going up to E.R where she was needed, and there was nothing that Peter could do that would make her change her mind. Peter knew that she would never admit that anything was wrong, and feeling exhausted himself, refused to argue with her. So he let her go up the stairs to the E.R. and he continued on with his day. He did notice however that Lu was holding the back of her head and walking very slowly. "Gosh, she should really let our neurologist check her out, or at least get a head CT, that was a nasty fall." Peter thought to himself as he hurried back to the clinic waiting room.

That's the first chapter, we hope you enjoyed it, look for Chapter two really soon!

Your authors, Erin and Val