Hi Guys, I know I said the next chapter would be up in the next couple of days but I as in the mood for doing it now. Hope you like it. Any suggestions to what you would like to happen. Slightly longer chapter. Chapter 2. Unfamiliarity.
Liz Merrick was too busy to notice that Jenny wasn't herself. Well, she was, but not like usual. She always had a lot of work but nothing like today. The surgery was packed to the brim with patients and Liz was continuously opening and shutting the door, introducing herself, diagnosing problems, prescribing antibiotics and saying goodbye again. Jenny was at the front desk, taking patients names, calling patients names, handing out the antibiotics already prescribed by Liz and generally feeling run down. She carried on, trying her best to ignore the knowing feeling of having to go home and arrange wedding plans for her brother, funeral plans for her husband's father, sort out all her paperwork and generally run the home. "Surely I shouldn't be doing this when I am pregnant?"
After finally realizing that he wasn't going to answer and acknowledge him, Ventress retired back to his flattened seat at his desk and started peeling his boiled eggs that the missus had prepared. The door to the station opened and Phil Bellamy and Steve Crane appeared followed not long after by a man that none of them recognized Bellamy and Crane went over to their desks, whilst Ventress took it upon him to welcome the new visitor. "How can I help, sir?" Ventress said, trying desperately to swallow the egg he had shoveled into his mouth. "Is Dennis available?" Taken aback at the fact that a visitor had used the Sergeants first name in an informal way, he stumbled his words out. "Erm, yes...no, I don't know whether he is or not, sir. Excuse me for a moment would you?" "Yes, of course." The man said. Ventress retreated back to the sergeant's door and knocked, this time using dialogue. "Sarge, there is a man here to see you". Almost immediately, the door flung open and Merton pretty much ran down the corridor to the front desk. "Ray, thank god your here." Dennis beckoned for him to follow and without saying a word to any of his colleagues, went back to his office, shutting the door behind him. "What on earth is going on today?" Crane returned to his typewriter and continued working.
Gina Ward was having a kind of relaxing day. Having hardly any customers was a bit off-putting as she didn't know where they were, but she welcomed the quiet, peaceful, occasional dinging of the till. Oscar Blaketon had been called to help out at a local fair where they were holding a beer tent and Gina was relieved, for the quietness allowed her to regain her thoughts of everyday life.
Back in the surgery, things were going as busy as ever. Liz hadn't seen Jenny for over 3 hours as the amount of patients and paper work meant Jenny would send them in and Liz would send them out. They hadn't been this busy for a long time. It was nearing winter and everybody was coming down with colds and chest infections. However, after 10 minutes of a stopped flow of patients, Liz thought she had better check up on Jenny seeing as she couldn't have possibly gotten through all of her patients already. Besides, Jenny would have told her if she had. Liz opened her door to find Jenny lying unconscious behind her desk. She ran over and checked her pulse, relief washing over her as she found one. She rang an ambulance and, once Jenny had been safely taken away to hospital, continued seeing to her patients.
Gina entered the hospital with a bunch of flowers to find that Jenny had already left. She was surprised that she had been allowed but she had passed the checks and was only allowed to leave because she had collapsed of stress, not pregnancy. Gina left the hospital and went to Jenny's flat to find her sitting at the table with a bunch of leaflets and flyers of wedding organizers "Who's getting married Jen?" She asked setting the flowers in a jug of water. "My Brother, Steve." She said. "He can't seem to fit organizing his own wedding around buying drugs. Typical Steve. I don't mind doing it though." She said. As she did though she rubbed her eyes and stifled a yawn. Thinking Gina didn't notice, she carried on flicking through the leaflets.
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