Authors Note: Yes I'm back with a new story, my apologies for those waiting on other updates. This story has been one that I've been pondering over for a bit now and thought I'd put out the first chapter, see what everyone thinks and then decide if I should continue from there. It's a little bit of a different story, so please be completely honest with me on whether or not this chapter has you hooked to want to know more :) Now I won't ramble any more, other than like my other stories expect the rating to change once we get further in. Without further ado here is Chapter one of In His Arms She Fell
Chapter 1: Bullet Wounds To The Chest
"Look out!" she shouts as she runs past a group of nurses, all of which were standing around gossiping, she ignored the impulse in her body telling her to turn around and give them a piece of her mind, reminding them that this is a hospital not a book club. She didn't have time for that, she had just received the page to head down the ER, she had heard about the accident on the news minutes before she was paged, as she turned the corner she bumped into someone their grip grabbing her shoulders, stopping her from falling over.
"Gilmore" the man said sternly "this is a hospital, not a race track"
She grinned up at the man "Sorry Chief but we just received word that the ambulances will be here in two, Dr. Huntzberger said immediately"
The Chief closed his eyes inhaling deeply before looking into the blue eyes of the excited young surgeon "Fine go, but once the patient gets here remove that grin off your face, that's the last thing they'll want to see is you excited about getting to do surgery"
Her face fell, nodding her head understanding "Understood sir, face falls as soon as I hit the bottom floor" she turned away from him swiftly and continued running down the hall
"Watch your corners!" he shouted after her
She held her thumb up in the air as she ran, pausing slightly as she turned the next corner before she continued on her way almost bumping into a nurse as she did so, she apologize quickly before dashing off down the hall, leaving the man standing there shaking his head.
"My guy died" Paris mumbled as she slumped down in the nearby chair.
"At least you got to get in there before he croaked" Louise mumbled "My guy was dead when he got here"
Paris tilted her head "It doesn't matter he died, it's all the same, dumbass"
"God I hate days like these, the odds of saving anyone is slim to none" Louise said throwing the remainder of her carrot onto her plate.
Rory came bouncing through the door a wide grin on her face, Madeline following behind with a tray of food, "What's with the long faces?" Madeline asked cheerfully
Louise and Paris both raised their eyebrows in annoyance "Our patients died" Louise answered
"So much for my perfect record" Paris mumbled
Rory turned to her "Paris, you're a cardio surgeon"
"I could have been that one doctor" she mumbled again
"Where is your guys sense of sympathy? It's like doctor class 101" Madeline chastised
"It left when my patient coded" Paris mumbled under her breath as Madeline gasped at her response
Rory rolled her eyes before biting into her apple "Well my guy lived"
"Which one was that?" Louise asked
"He was the last one brought in separate accident in the woods, bullet wound to the shoulder" Rory shrugged
"Simple procedures no wonder he lived" Paris argued
"I wasn't done" Rory turned to her a smirk firmly in place "He also had two stuck in his mid-section, one in his leg, and another in his left arm; it's a miracle he survived without bleeding out"
"And what did you, oh great surgeon have to do to save his life" Paris bantered "Get a pair of pliers and pull them out, at least my guy died from me actually doing surgery on his heart"
Rory shook her head "No, we're not doing this, just because your patient died does not mean you get to take the light off the fact that mine lived" Paris stuck her tongue out a threw the remaining part of her cookie at Rory, who caught it gracefully and ate it. Laughing as she did so "Do you know what was weird though?" the three girls looked at her "Once I took the bullets out, little to no damage was done to his insides, he'll be fine in a couple of days"
Paris glared "We get it, you're a miracle worker stop rubbing our noses in it, not all of us get to be Richard Gilmore's granddaughter"
"But I wasn't…." Rory trailed off realizing that an argument with Paris was pointless at the moment. She kept her mouth shut and continued eating her lunch as if the conversation hadn't even happened. Replaying in her mind the procedure from moments ago, thinking of different ways she could have done things, overall she was proud of her performance.
She walked down the hall her nose glued to the current patient file. It didn't make sense; her patient had been in the hospital 3 times in the past month with severe injuries all of which should have taken months to recover, he was discharged days after coming in if not the exact same day.
"Dr. Gilmore" her nervous intern interrupted her thoughts Rory looked up at the short girl with brown curly hair and glasses hanging off the end of her nose
"Yes April?" she asked closing the chart and tucking it under her arm
"I just finished running a CT on Mr. Grimaldi" she whispered quietly, slowly handing them to her
Rory pulled them out of the brown envelope and held them up to the light. Her eyebrows furrowed as she stared at the scans "Impossible" she mumbled to herself tucking the scans back into the folder
"What is it?" April asked quietly
Rory looked at her, "The scan show minimal damage to him, barely any tears in his muscles what so ever"
"That's good isn't it" April questioned
Rory smiled sincerely at the young girl "It would be, if he wasn't shot in five different places, something just isn't adding up." She said shaking her head
"He sounds supernatural" April laughed skittishly, unsure if it was appropriate or not
Rory laughed as well "Now that would be something I've never seen before" she handed the scans back to April "Thank you for getting these things done so quickly" April nodded steadily before taking the file, "I'm going to check on our 'supernatural' patient now, bring those up to five and I'll be up after to take a closer look at them" April nodded again before turning away from her "Oh and Dr. Nardini" she called and April turned around immediately
"Yes" she asked
"I'm not Dr. Gellar, no need to be afraid of me ripping your head off" she smiled and winked at the young her as she nodded her head pushing her glasses up in the process, smiling weakly before turning back around.
Rory shook her head, she had been April when she first started, she had been nervous and hesitant as well, she thanked god that she no longer was that girl; this job would have eaten her up if she would have let it. She walked into to her patients room setting his file down at the end of his bed "Mr. Grimaldi, how're you feeling" she asked as the brown hair, blue eyed man turned towards her
"Like I have five extra holes in my body and not in any good places" he said smirking as he sat up straight in the bed
"Clearly a lot better" Rory mumbled looking down at the chart "Your recovery is going a lot quicker than I expected considering I only did surgery on you this morning"
He nodded his head "I've always been a fast healer"
"This is remarkably fast, I had a man a few weeks ago with one bullet wound to the arm and was here for two weeks, at the rate you're going you could be out by tomorrow" Rory said in complete shock
"Terrific, I have things to do tomorrow anyways" He said running his hands through his hair
"I'd like to do a few more scans if that's alright with you; I want to be sure that nothing was missed"
"You're very thorough" he commented raising his eyebrows "Why're you so worried about me?"
Her blue eyes shot up to his "Mr. Grimaldi"
"Call me Robert" he smirked
"Robert, I like to make sure my patients leave here and fingers crossed never have to come back" Rory told him
"You would think that my quick healing would have proved that I'm going to be just fine" he grinned at her
"Well yes, but this is unusual I just want to be sure"
"Whatever you feel is best Dr. Gilmore" he said as his grinned widened
"Uh oh" the sound of a new person filled the room "Sounds like someone's harassing the help" another dark haired man came walking into the room Rory presumed him to be Robert's brother
"No harassing, just teasing" Robert said raising his eyebrows towards Rory
"Now Robert that's no way to treat the pretty doctor" The man said to him eyeing Rory up and down "What would your mother say"
"The same as yours" Robert asked casually "Dr. Gilmore this is my brother Finn, Finn Dr. Gilmore"
"The fabulous surgeon that removed the bullets from my brother, fantastic" he said reaching out his hand to her, she extended and he took her hand in his "god with hands like these Rob you must've gotten the best feel up"
Rory quickly pulled her hand away from his, watching him grin at her as she coughed and avoided eye contact with him "Right well, my uh intern April will be down shortly to take you for those tests"
"Thank you Dr. Gilmore" the boys said in unison
She smiled uncomfortably at the two before heading towards the door, bumping into someone on her way out "Oh I'm sorry" she said taking a step back quickly, she looked up and gasped she was staring into the nicest blue eyes she had ever seen, and along with those eyes came one of the most gorgeous man she had ever seen, he had the sculpted jaw that women fawned over on Abercrombie and Fitch models, and his hair looked as if it had been done to absolute perfection. The man nodded his head before moving aside for Rory to scoot by; she scurried past him with her head down, cursing herself for not being more professional. What was wrong with her? She had seen gorgeous men like that before, and never did she act like that around them, but he… had to had to of been the most gorgeous man she had ever laid her eyes on, she believed it would be hard to find an imprecation anywhere on that man's body. She was quickly startled by two more men, almost as good-looking as the blonde in Robert's room walking up to her
"Oh excuse me doctor" the short black hair one asked "Can you point me in the direction of Robert Grimaldi's room please"
"Uh right down the hall 2430" she answered with a smile
"Fantastic!" he said as he started walking towards the room
The other stopped following and stared at her, he look vaguely familiar, better yet he reminded her of someone she knew "Can you point me in the direction of Dr. Huntzberger please" he asked, he had floppy blonde hair sticking up at the top of his head and smaller green eyes it was then that she recognized him
"You're Logan?" she asked bluntly
He raised his eyebrow "Yeah" he trailed
"I'm Dr. Gilmore, I've heard a lot about you" she said extending her hand
He stared down at it before extending his to meet her "Nice to meet you"
"I do a lot of things with your father" she blabbered, he raised his eyebrow "Oh god, not like that, I meant surgical, I mean professional thing, no that's not it either"
"I get it, I wasn't accusing you of sleeping with my father, don't worry" he grinned
Rory smiled weakly "He's most likely downstairs close to the ER" she told him quickly "I am now going to go dig a hole, hopefully a hole that will lead me far far away from this conversation" she mumbled "It was nice meeting you" she said quickly turning on her heels and heading the opposite direction
"I hear you have a super hero" Madeline said leaning over the counter
"What?" Rory asked confused
"A superhero, super gorgeous, super healing, I want him" Madeline pouted
Rory shook her head "He's being discharged tomorrow morning" Rory said getting up from the chair
"He was just shot this morning" Madeline questioned
Rory shrugged "I don't know, I've done test after test, and everything has come up clear the only thing of any concern is his temperature, which he doesn't seem to be complaining about"
"Boo" Madeline said sticking out her bottom lip "I was hoping for a doctor patient love story"
"I'm sure you were" Rory told her slipping the file on top of the stack, "Where's an intern I need help with these post ops"
"Was he really as gorgeous as the rumors say?" Madeline gushed day dreaming
"Go take a look, he's right in there" Rory said motioning towards the door
"How unprofessional" Madeline shrieked
Rory handed her his file "Go take his temperature again and tell me if it's dropped any" she said with a knowing look on her face
Madeline snatched it out of her hands with a smile on her face; she fixed her hair in the window behind the desk, straightened her scrubs, pushed up her chest and strutted into the room.
Rory tried to listened to the muffled conversation on the other side of the door, she heard the words 'hot' and 'higher' being used quite a bit, just as quickly a blushing Madeline came rushing out of the room, she mouthed the words "hot" to Rory as she quickly came to stand behind the desk with Rory just as the gorgeous blonde came walking out after her.
"Can I take a look at Robert's chart" he asked standing on the other side of the counter
Rory thought she had died; his voice was just as sexy as his appearance "Uh sorry sir, that's for doctor use only"
He nodded "I'm a doctor"
Rory raised her eyebrow "Where?"
"Private Practice" he responded he blue eyes connecting with hers
"We're only allowed to give this information to the family" Rory said quickly, her eyes widening
"So do I have to be a doctor or family to take a look at his file? Which is it?" he asked casually smirking at her as she stumbled
"Family" Rory settled on it
"I'm his cousin" The guy said quickly
"Has to be immediate" she fakes smiled at him, thinking she'd won
The man rolled his eyes before turning away from her and walking back into Robert's room, Rory turned to Madeline who had her mouth dropped and a look of shock all over her face. The man came out seconds later Finn following shortly behind him
"Immediate enough?" he asked leaning his forearms on the counter, Rory ground her teeth together before grabbing the file from Madeline's hands and handing the file to Finn. Finn opened the file up and the man leaned over to read it
Finn pulled the file away "Tristan, immediate family only" he teased grinning at Rory
"Give me the damn file" Tristan said snatching it from Finn and scanning it over "What's keeping him here?" he asked eyebrows rose staring a Rory
She had been distracted thinking in her mind that Tristan was the perfect name for someone like him, the name Tristan described as good looking as him with all his qualities, she quickly snapped back into the reality as the two guys stood staring at her waiting for a response. "Uh I wanted to keep him for observation" she mumbled
"I'm a doctor I'll observe him from home" Tristan responded handing her back the file
"Well you see his temperature is still higher than average, I don't feel comfortable with releasing him until tomorrow morning" Rory told him
"High temperature is something that runs in our family" Tristan told her "And like I said I can observe for you from home"
Rory shook her head "I don't feel comfortable with this" she said "It's not proper protocol"
"Protocol?" He asked "He's fine; he's going to make a full recovery no harm no foul"
"No harm no foul? Your cousin was shot five times" she snapped at him "This Morning" she empathized
"Your twelve dozen scans shows he's going to be just fine" he said motioning towards the file
"I was being thorough" she told him
"That's great, that just means there's more evidence as to why he should be able to leave" he told her for the fourth time
Rory glared at his stubbornness "I'm the doctor and I decide that he stays here until the morning"
"Yeah well I…." He was cut off
"Tristan! Finn!" Dr. Huntzberger called as he came walking up the hall
"Mitchum" They both responded turning towards him shaking his hand
"It's been too long, you two here to check up on Robert?" he asked
Tristan nodded his head "Yeah we got here as soon as we could"
"Well no worries, Dr. Gilmore here is one of the best" He said motioning to Rory who smiled weakly at him
Tristan and Finn's eyes darted towards hers skeptically; Rory ran her hand down her face in embarrassment "That's actually what we were discussing" Tristan said turning to Mitchum "Rob's doing a lot better, better than expected even. We'd like to take him home tonight if possible"
Rory's mouth dropped, he was not actually going to her boss, or head attending, or whatever he was "Rory let me take a look at his file" Mitchum asked reaching out his hand, Rory handed it to him glaring at Tristan in the process
Mitchum opened the file "He seems to be doing fine, Dr. Gilmore you've been very thorough as always" Mitchum commented "Other than his temperature which I'm sure will be back to normal in a few days, I don't see why he can't go home"
"But sir…" Rory began
"Rory no need to worry, Tristan is a fantastic doctor, and if Robert needs anything he's in good hands" Mitchum confirmed
"You're actually a doctor?" Rory said in shock
"Dr. Gilmore, surely you've heard of Dr. Dugrey?" Mitchum questioned "He was the youngest doctor to ever win a Wolf Prize"
"You're Dr. Dugrey?" Madeline gushed "As in Dr. Dugrey the guy who discovered that cancer cells including human tumor cells carry somatically mutated genes-oncogenes that operate to drive their malignant proliferation?" Rory turned to her in shock
"The one and only" Tristan said nodding his head
"Wow" Rory swore she seen Madeline drool
"Enough of this" Mitchum said swatting his hand "Rory get Robert's discharge papers ready for signing, I will sign myself if you'd prefer"
"No that's alright" Rory mumbled reaching to get his papers done "They'll be done shortly" she said smiling towards him
"Terrific!" Mitchum grinned "Well I've got a man with his ankle pushed up to his knee in trauma 2 Dr. Lynn care to scrub in?"
"Oh yes sir!" Madeline said cheerfully, "I'll be right down"
Mitchum nodded "Tristan, Finn I'll see the two of you this weekend" the two nodded as Mitchum walked down the hall he paused "Oh, and tell my son to stop hiding around corners, I always know when he's around"
The two laughed before turning back to Rory "If you wouldn't mind hurrying up, we have places to be" Finn teased
Rory glared at him as Tristan smirked at her "Let us know when they're ready" he said grabbing Finn by his collar and dragging him back into Robert's room
"Stupid, stupid, doctor, wolf fricken award, are you kidding me, he's gorgeous and smart, the lucky bastard" Rory mumbled as she worked "Stupid mutate genes-oncogenes" she said repeatedly, go figure that the one guy that shows up into the hospital that day turned out to be one of her biggest inspirations in the medical field also turned out the be the biggest pain in her ass, she continued to grumble as she typed until the report was finally done, she postponed as long as she could, before sending her intern in to do the job for her not wanting to face further embarrassment, she finished her post-ops for the day before finally getting to go home, after what felt like the longest day of her life, she was finally able to lie down in her bed and sleep for at least 5 hours before the next shift.