Title: Too Kind a Heart

Author: Emo Barbie

Summary: "One of these days your generosity is going to kill you." J.D's a kind person, always has been always will be. But one of these days that kindness and generosity is going to kill him.

Chapter 2:

Sleeping Beauty

Now listen here Newbie, I've been here for six hours straight now, looming over this bed, and I swear that if you don't open those little perky eyes of yours soon I'm just gonna have to open them for you. And Believe you me, ha ha, it won't be pretty. Now how about you say we open those little pretty blue's there? Huh? How about it...come on kid...God, J.D just open them once...for me...

There has been a voice in my head for quite some time now...it sounds a lot like Dr Cox, and he keeps asking me to open up my eyes. But...for some reason I just can't seem to find myself enough to actually do so.

It's a little weird too, I've felt this calm for so long...but I think I can actually feel something...

There was the sudden chill that ran up J.D's back, and all at once this agonizing pain hit him, his sudden calm gone as the sound of beeping and voices filled his ears. And in one big wave he was up, his eyes shooting open as he let out a loud gasp, chocking on the large intrusion in his throat.

"Whoa, there kid. Settle down." J.D heard the familiar voice of Dr Cox, and felt a hand brush against his cheek before the actual doctor came into his view. "Hey, Carla, Barbie!" There was the loud shout, and the noise pounded in his head, like a drum.

"Ow, ow..." J.D tried to vocalize his pain but the tub that was jammed down his throat only caused him to choke more.

"Hang on there Bambi, we'll get it out." Carla was at his side and suddenly so was Elliot, both trying to ease the tube from his throat with a slowness that only heightened his pain.

"Hey, there, girlies, I know you're tryin' not to hurt the kid, but all you're accomplishing is agonizing the kid more." Dr Cox's voice rang in his ear again, and with a last tug the tube was out, and he was coughing up a storm. "Here, drink this." J.D felt a cold object pressed into his hand, glancing down a small dixie cup came into view. "It's water, it's not gonna hurt you there, Sandra."

A small smile formed on J.D's lips at the familiar name calling and he gulped down the drink, the sound of a sigh echoing in his ears.

"Thanks..." He stated hoarsely. J.D handed the cup blindly towards Dr Cox, his eyes still not having adjusted to the bright lights of the... "Where am I?"

"Your at Sacred Heart...you do know what that is right?"

"Yeah..." J.D nodded. "It's the hospital that I work at."

"Good." Dr Cox handed him another cup of water in which he threw back as well. "What else?"

"I'm a doctor, Doctor John Dorian, your Perry...hi Per-Bear." J.D cocked his head as his eyes finally focused on his beloved mentor.

"Watch it there, Newbie." The older doctor snarled, but J.D didn't miss the smile that followed it.

"What happened?"

"You, being an idiot, went into a burning building-"

"Yeah...I had to save those kids."

"No." Dr Cox snapped. "You didn't have too, you idiot. Your stupidly to protect people blindly guided you to save them."

"I still saved them." J.D muttered, leaning back onto the pillow.

"Yes..." Dr Cox sighed, standing up so that J.D could once again could see him. "And...they thanked you for it, the mother at least. She waited in the waiting room for hours, but you never came too so she eventually left. She'll probably be back later, her kids are still in the burn unit, so most likely that's where she left to."

"How long have I been out?"

"A little over 23 hours, almost a day"

"You never left did you." A knowing grin crossing the younger doctor's lips.

"What are you talking about, Janet, of course I left, you think I'd stay here and worry about some brat like you? I have a life, ya know."

"Your still wearing the same clothes."

"Newbie, a lot of my clothes look alike, thank you, I'm a man after all, I'm not like you with "A different outfit for each day".

"Your clothes are still covered in soot." J.D pointed out with a smirk which only grew wider at the others silence. Dr Cox knew he had been caught and so instead simply settled with plopping back down into the chair that he had made his own for the last, yes, 23 hours.

"I don't want anymore of those stunts you pulled yesterday."

"Why?" J.D muttered, his eyes slowly closing.

"Cause I don't want to have to come after you again. That's already taking to much time out of my own schedule to deal with you then I like."

"Is that...all?" J.D's words came out mumbled, giving into the sudden fatigue that had over taken him even though he had been asleep for so long. He allowed his eyes to close and he listened to the slow breathing of the doctor that sat across from him, before a sigh met his ears and maybe it was just his imagination at work. Maybe he really had been dreaming, but he had the words loud and clear.

"No...I hate having to worry over you, idiot."

And they were the sweetest words that had ever crossed his ears.

J.D had awoken the next day, and though he would have hoped for the chair beside him to be occupied still, it was in fact empty, but it did give him time to fully gauge in what kind of situation he was in. From what he could make out he wasn't to bad, could of been worse. There were a few burns here, a few there. His arms looked like they took the brunt of it, but there were a few good patches of burned skin that decorated his legs, must have burned through his scrubs. His right hand was bandaged pretty well, most likely from the doorknob incident and there was definitely an intense pain every time he tried to move it.

The worst of it all...was his hair.

His poor, poor hair had been cut down. Butchered. Into a short tuff of hair that barely gave him enough to even run his fingers through. It stood up in spiked, uneven, jumbles that looked like maybe a lawnmower had run him over.

"I see you've finally seen that new haircut." J.D placed down the mirror he had been staring into, Dr Cox coming into view, a coffee in each hand. "They paged me you were up."

"You left me." J.D pouted, sticking out his bottom lip as he was handing one of the coffee's.

"Hey, I'm not gonna sit around and watch sleeping beauty in her eternal sleep, thank you. As I said before I do have a life."

"But I am your life..." J.D tried for it but the coffee he had been reaching for was quickly taken from his grasp.

"Newbie, no matter how much you dream of standing next to me every second of the day, your still not going to be there, and your still not going to be a part of my life." J.D pouted until he was met with the warmth of a coffee cup back in his hands. "There."

J.D took a sip with a smile, but a second later he was pulling back with disgust. "Ew!" He declared. "What is this?"

"It's coffee."

"No." J.D turned to glare at the other. "It's a black liquid that states like bitter beans."

"Well, Newbie, that is what coffee is made of." Dr Cox rolled his eyes.

"But...But where's the sweet? Where's the sugar and Carmel? Where's the nice mocha Latte's I always have?" J.D pouted.

Dr Cox growled but still produced a good two creamers and a few sugar packets. "There...idiot." He muttered tossing them to the other.

The only thing was that J.D wasn't aware of the Latte that Turk was suddenly carrying.

"Turk? Where'd you get that?" Carla narrowed her eyes on her diabetic husband.

"Baby-" Turk shook his head. "I don't know. One minute I had coffee...the next a Latte..." The man shrugged.

I had taken this chapter down cause someone had said that they didn't like the fluff in it...but I tried to go over it and change it, but I guess my fluff side must be like broken, or somethin cause no matter how I looked at it, I couldn't find THAT much fluff. I was supposed to change the ending, but all I took off was: In the end Dr Cox had ended up panicking and switching the Latte for a Coffee, He wasn't about the show the kid he knew THAT much about him.

But I couldn't bare to erase the Turk part XD, I just LOVE it! So sorry if it still seems like fluff ^_^ IT's also a lot shorter, but that just means I'll be putting up more chapters then I first thought so it's all good ^_^

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