I found someone for me
AN: This is my very first ever attempt at writing FF so many many sincere apologies if this is rough. I promise to keep working on my skills, things tend to be better sounding in my head vs. in words. Please just work with me if you like what I got let me know, if you hate it let me know nicely. With that being said I don't own NCIS or Say yes to the dress, or anything else recognized in this little fic.
Friday August 17 2012 approx 3 pm.
It was Friday afternoon and Dr. Emma Parker had exactly 2 hours 47 minutes and 26 seconds left of her 10 hour hell fest of a shift in the emergency department of Bethsaida Memorial Hospital. Currently she was hiding out in one of the break rooms daydreaming about a hot shower, bad food and cheesy movies. Unfortunately an ill timed knock brought her from her daydream. "Dr. Parker! I'm glad I found you. We've got one coming in for you, e.t.a. is 2 minutes."
Pulling herself up and quickly and rushing to the front desk of the E.R. Emma began quizzing the nurse on the details of the situation she was about to get into. "Alright Sophia, fill me in what do we have?" "EMT's called in a gunshot victim, Male 30's. Says he's a federal agent." As soon as the nurse was done speaking the EMT's rushed in with a young looking man on a stretcher who was protesting loudly to an older looking agent following behind, shaking her head Emma finished the quick brief from the EMT's and stepped into the room holding the now quiet agent.
Consulting the chart of information handed to her she looked over at the man on her table. "Well Agent McGee, My name is Dr. Emma Parker and let's see if we can't get you patched up. How bad is the pain?"
"You can call me Tim and its not as bad I'd say about an 7"
"Well you got lucky its just a graze, I'm just going to clean it to double check but I'm fairly certain that just a few stitches will fix you right up. So how on earth did you get on the receiving end of a bullet?"
"Uhh well it was supposed to be a normal go pick up a suspect, once we confronted him with the details and said we knew he was the killer…" At the word killer Emma's head popped up with a frightened look "What?!" At the sound of her own screech Emma seemed almost startled, "Whoa, hold up kid, what's the reaction all about?! Its normal right? Yeah, totally normal a cute guy gets shot at its completely normal to scream while stitching his arm up. Yep normal…
"Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!" Tim quickly recovered; at her nod he quickly continued his tale. "Our team responds to Major crimes in the Navy and Marines, anyway the guy freaks tries to bail and as we were chasing him he thought that he could escape by firing at us, both luckily and unluckily he was a bad shot. While my teammates Tony and Ziva finally got him tackled unfortunately the last shot he fired caught me right in the shoulder."
As soon as he finished he glanced over at his shoulder noticing Emma wrapping a bandage around his wound, with a slight grin he commented. "Wow Dr. Parker you work fast. Thanks!"
"Not a problem Tim, and if you'll hang tight right here for just a few moments I'll grab your release papers and a prescription for any pain you might have and send you on your way." With that she exited the room. While he was waiting on her return Tim couldn't help but think that she was quite cute, she stood about 5,6" with light, almost honey brown hair and bright blue eyes, which he noted from her expression when describing his incident, could be rather expressive. "Alright Tim, no need to go all DiNozzo here. She's a cute doctor big deal!" His brain practically shouted at him, but somewhere a small voice that he later decided only came from far too many years with Tony said. "Yeah, but you deserve to have some fun meet a nice girl, just try it." The internal debate went on for a few minutes longer but was quickly cut off when Emma re-entered the room with a smile and a clipboard.
"Okay Tim, these are your release papers for you to sign, along with a notice for you to take it easy on that arm for about a week, at least until the stitches are out." She began, she also reached into her coat taking out a bottle, "These are for any pain you have, 1 every 4 hours as needed. You should only need them for about 2 days but I added an extra day on there just to be on the safe side. Any questions?"
It seemed in that moment Tim couldn't help himself and it all seemed to just slip from his mouth before he could even realize what had happened. "The only question I have is if you would possibly like to meet up for coffee sometime?" The moment the words came out his mind instantly cringed and shouted "NO! BAD TIMMY! How could you? Now she's going to think you're a weirdo!"
There was an awkward pause it seemed to him that she was having an internal debate herself when she smiled and said "Yeah, I'd love to. Let me get you my number." Emma reached into her pocket and on the back of a business card she wrote her number and passed it to him saying, "Text me or call me whenever you wanna meet up." Tim took the card from her agreeing to do just that very soon. She walked with him out to the waiting area, noticing that older agent from earlier was sitting there waiting for him. "How is he Doc?"
"Agent McGee is fine Agent..?" She trailed off hoping that he would supply his name.
"Gibbs." Was the gruff reply.
Offering her hand she continued, "Pleasure, Agent Gibbs, I'm Dr. Emma Parker and Agent McGee is just fine. I have however recommended that he take at least the rest of today off."
"Not a problem Doc, I'll make sure he follows orders." With a nod Agent Gibbs moved toward the exit with a motion for Tim to follow. Before he left Tim turned to Emma, "Thanks for fixing me up. I'll call you later." Emma smiled and once more stuck out her hand "It was my pleasure Tim." And with a final goodbye the two parted ways.
Same day approx 6:30 pm. Emma
By the time Emma left the hospital and got to her apartment she was exhausted and ready to collapse into her bed, however it seemed that would not be happening. As Emma approached her door the sound of techno being blasted from inside her apartment made her groan and roll her eyes, knowing that the only human stupid enough to let themselves in would be her best friend Cora. Opening the door she yelled out " Cor, What the hell are you doing here?" She tossed down her keys and bag and kicked out of her shoes while waiting for her friend to appear from within her apartment with an explanation, she was turning off the music when she caught a flash of blonde from within the kitchen. "HEY!" was shouted but when Emma turned the corner into the kitchen Cora suddenly smiled, "Oops, guess I was being too loud. But hey your home and I just ordered out you ready for tonight?" Then only reply Emma could come up with was "What? Why are you here, not that I don't love when we hang out but I'm tired and want to relax." Cora replied with a slight pout, "You forgot! My place is being fumigated so you said I could stay with you since we both got a weekend off! And as for relaxing the food will be about 45 minutes so go take a shower and put on pajamas and I'll change and we'll just watch something girly and gross yeah?"
With a nod and a smile Emma hugged her friend, "Thanks Cor, that was my plan for tonight I am soo sorry I forgot you would be here." Within the hour the two girls we sprawled out in the living room with pizza and sodas, with TLC's Say Yes to the Dress on TV. After finishing her slice Emma turned to Cora to ask about her friend's day, "So Cora how was it up on the lazy floors today?" She asked with a giggle, always poking fun at her friend who was a nurse in the main part of the hospital. "Fine Miss I have to save the world. And yours?" Was the equally giggled response. Setting down her drink Emma looked over at her friend, "Long, intense. But the weird thing is I got a date out of my shift today." Cora squealed "OOOh who?! Was it that adorable EMT Jeremy? You know the one with the abs and the hair?" "WHAT? No, he's into that nurse Grace, you know the one that usually works with me, is always trying to give away kittens. Anyway, no this NCIS Agent came in, gunshot wound just a graze, but his name is Tim McGee, light hair, about average guy size, pretty freakin cute." Squealing once again Cora asked for details, which Emma happily told her. The two spent the rest of the night gossiping about co-workers and friends and family and watching girly television finally deciding it best to go to bed around midnight.
Same Night Tim
When Tim got into the car Gibbs was double checking that he was ok, which he confirmed to his boss, only asking that he get to stop by the office to grab his things and he would willing go home. Once inside the bullpen he was quickly assaulted by a giant hug from Abby, "Whoa Abs, easy does it. I'm fine see?" "I'm sorry Timmy I just got freaked out. Do you need anything you sure you're okay?" "I promise Abs I'm fine. I'm just here to grab a few things then I'm heading home to take it easy and rest for a bit." As he grabbed his things Tony and Ziva walked into the bullpen asking if he was fine, which he confirmed to them, he then turned to Gibbs, "Hey boss since we got the guy do we still get the weekend off?" "Yea, McGee. DiNozzo, David, finish up any paperwork from this week and you two will be free to go as well." Tim walked to the elevator and out to the car park and made his way home. Once inside his apartment Tim took notice of the time, and figured he hadn't eaten since breakfast and called for some take out. Once his food arrived he sat at his desk and ate, then decided to try to write for a few hours. After a few hours he again looked at the clock and decided it wasn't too early for bed and took a pain killer from the hospital and almost as soon as he got into bed he fell asleep.
Tim wasn't sure what woke him the next morning but he rolled over and looking at the alarm clock seeing that it was 9:30 he decided that he might as well get up. He shuffled to the kitchen and set his coffee to brew and then stumbled to the bathroom and stepped into the shower. Once done showering, he looked into his bathroom cabinet and grabbed some stuff to change the bandage on his arm, then back to his room to grab some clothes deciding on a pair of jeans and t-shirt. Just as he turned to go to the kitchen he saw his phone on the bedside table, he grabbed it and checked to make sure he didn't miss any calls or messages, just as he moved to put his phone in his pocket he noticed the business card under his phone. Mentally slapping himself for forgetting about asking the doctor from the day before out, Tim decided he had better drink some coffee and wake up further before calling her.
It was around 10 am when Emma woke up and unlike Tim she knew exactly what woke her up. Bacon. Stumbling out of her room and into her kitchen she saw her best friend standing by the stove perfectly awake and alert and cooking bacon. "Morning Sleepyhead." Cora said as she turned to face her friend sliding a plate with several slices of bacon and scrambled eggs to Emma. "Thanks Cor, and Morning." The two girls sat down with their breakfast and coffee when the chirping of a phone broke them from their conversation. "It's not mine, Em is it you?" Jumping from her seat Emma ran to her room where she grabbed her phone off the bedside charger seeing she had a new text message.
-Hey it's Tim. Wanna meet up later for lunch?-
Smiling she walked back into the kitchen and sat down. "Em, everything ok? You don't have to go back to work do you?" "Huh? No. It was Tim; he asked if I was free for lunch later. I haven't replied you won't be mad if I go right? I mean this was to be our weekend."
Shaking her head Cora responded with "Heck no, you haven't had a date in a really long time. Go meet him; I'll help you get ready. Besides I'll find something to do."
"Thanks Cora. You're amazing." With that all settled Emma grabbed her phone and typed out a reply.
-Hey good to hear from you. Lunch sounds wonderful, when and where would you like to meet up? Emma-
- How about 1pm at a place called Benjamin's?-
-I know the place! I'll see you at 1! Emma-
As soon as Emma put her phone down, Cora was all over her. "Soo? What's the plan?" "I'm meeting him at 1 at Benjamin's." Both girls glanced at the clock noticing that it was 11am. "Yikes Em, only 2 hours, quick head to the shower, I'll go through your closet and find something for you to wear."
At 12:30 Emma was being shoved by her friend out her door and towards her car in what Cora called the perfect casual date look. Emma was dressed in a dark blue knee-length sundress that was perfect for the August heat, with her left wavy and pulled into a loose ponytail and she finished the look with white ballet flats and a white clutch. She made her way through traffic and pulled up to the café, she looked around at the outdoor seating she spotted Tim wearing a stripped button down shirt with the collar left undone and the shirt un-tucked from his jean. She waved and made her way to the table to meet him.