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Jack stumbled into Mark's office, seeing the file on his desk he grabbed it up and walked off to room 815, he didn't read through the file, this was just a check up after all, it would quick and simple.

Opening the door slowly, making sure the patient wasn't asleep, when he knew she wasn't, he addressed her "How are you tonight Ms. Austen?" he asked

"I'm okay" She replied, Jack looked up and for the first time he got a real view of her, he was taken back at her age, she was young couldn't be much younger than him, he felt his heart sink when he realized she was in the cardiac wing, this was the part of his job that he hated, she was probably young and healthy and than all the sudden she has a heart condition. Looking up at her again this time he smiled, she was beautiful. She had sea green eyes and brown curly hair that fell past her shoulders, the lamp next to her shined just the right angle for him to see that she also had freckles.

He was brought out his gaze by her voice "You're not Dr. Silverman?" She stated blankly

The doctor chuckled "No, I'm not, He had something come up, so I'm helping him out tonight"

Kate nodded "Well at least they sent me a cute one this time" She winked playfully at him

He simply laughed and replied "Okay let's check you out"

"Oh let's" She said laughing along with her words

Dr. Shephard just shook his head and walked over to examine her

Bringing his fingers up to her neck to check her pulse "Have you been feeling okay?" He asked

The brunette nodded

"Any pain, trouble breathing?" He asked again, he got the feeling that she would be one of those patients that wouldn't tell you anyways, they'd make you figure it out

"Nope, I feel fine" She replied with a smile

Wanting to change the subject back to the doctor she asked "So…Dr. Shephard, I haven't seen you here before?"

Jack raised his eyebrows "How did yo." He started, he hadn't told her his name, seeing her look at the left side of his jacket, and he covered his name with his hand and laughed, blushing a little

"I'm a spinal surgeon" He told her

"Oh, I see" She said smiling "So what makes a spinal surgeon cover for a cardiac patient?"

Jack ran a hand through his hair "I told you, Dr. Silverman had something to take care of"

Kate shrugged "That's all am going to get huh?

The doctor laughed "He's getting married"

Kate nodded again, looking down at his hands "So what about you Dr, Shephard are you married?"

Jack gave her an embarrassed smile "No, I'm not"

"You can't be single?" She said not having an of it

He laughed and opened her chart "I can be, I am" He said

Running a hand through his hair, was this getting out of hand? Should he be answering these questions, He wasn't sure but he liked talking to her

She was staring at him now, he felt shivers go down his body, he felt like she was staring him down, like his defenses were falling down

Clearing his throat "Umm, so looking at your file, you have Cardionyopathy" He swallowed hard as he said it out loud "When did you find out?"

"Almost 2 years ago" She said with a smile that was sad unlike the bright one he'd received walking into the room

"I'm sorry" He returned her sad smile, and her head went down to look at the sheets

Checking her heart beat and her blood pressure, once he was sure she was okay he closed the file "Well looks like you're doing okay" He told her sweetly

"Told you" She gave him another one of those smiles that made him realize that sure she was okay now, but really she wasn't okay

"Okay, I better get going" He said walking slowly towards the door

"Wait" She called out "I don't know your name" She smiled

Smiling at her, he went back and forth in his head, Dr. Shephard knew that it wasn't professional but Jack wanted to tell her, so for once in his life he let Jack win "I'm Jack"

"I'm Kate, but you already know that right" She laughed pushing a strand of hair out of her hair

"Goodnight Jack" She said, he walked out of the room smiling, he liked the way his name sounded on his lips

Jack finished the rest of his own rounds and deciding that it would be useless to go all the way home, go to sleep for a few hours and drive all the way back to the hospital, he just walked towards the on call room instead. Getting in the room, glad to see that no one else there, walking over to the bed and stripping off his coat, untucking his scrub shirt he laid down on the bed.

Putting his hands behind his head, he closed his eyes, fumbling with the sheets on the beds he couldn't seem to get comfortable. His mind was drifting to Kate, she was this bright shining person, at first glance you'd never think that she had this horrible thing happening inside her. He barely knew Kate, in fact he didn't really know her out all but something inside him, wanted to help her.

Running a hand over his face, he would find a way to help her, in the morning when Mark's shift started he'd talk to him, but right now he needed to stop thinking about her, right now he needed sleep.

Jack woke up the next morning to his pager beeping, picking it up he grabbed his lab coat and headed out the door. He met Mark in the main lobby

"Hey, you paged me?" He asked

"Yeah, I was just wondering how everything went last night?" The other doctor asked

Smiling when he's mind drifted to Kate he replied "Good, how about you, everything go alright with the caterers?" he asked changing the subject

"Yeah, you know I don't understand why it's so important what we serve everybody, they're all going to be too drunk to care what they eat"

Jack laughed "That bad huh?"

"Oh man, before last night I had no idea their was so many ways you can cook a potato"

Patting him on the shoulder "Well at least you learned something right" He laughed

"So about last night, Austen was doing alright?" He asked getting back to the original reason for paging his friend

"Yeah, Ka" He stopped himself " was fine, everything's normal"

Mark nodded "You didn't tell me so was so young" Jack added

Mark raised his eyebrows "Why does it matter?"

Shaking his head "It doesn't, it's just horrible that's all"

Nodding once again his friend added "She's a firecracker huh?"

Dr. Shephard laughed "Yeah, she is" Smiling as he remembered her shameless flirting the night before

"Listen I was hoping you could cover me again tonight, Marie's parents are coming, we're supposed to pick them up"

Enjoying the fact of seeing her again he nodded "Sure, man"

"Listen Mark, I wanted to ask you about her case" He shuddered

"What do you want to know?" He asked confused

Jack shrugged his shoulders "Just what are her options with this thing?"

"Why you so interested in this case Jack?" He friend asked suspiciously

Looking away rubbing the back of his neck "I was just wondering, that's all"

Mark nodded "She has Ischemic Cardionyopathy, her heart muscles..." He started before Jack cut him off

"Become inflamed causing them not to work as well as they need to, I know all that, I'm asking about what we've done to prevent it from getting any worse?"

"When she was brought in her condition was too advanced for us to simply put a pacemaker or a defibrillator but she isn't in bad enough shape to be put on the donor list" He answered honestly

Jack stuck his hands in front of him, holding him up against the head desk, taking a big breath and letting it out "So what, she has to get worse to be put on the list?" He breathed out angrily "What if by that time it's too late?"

gave his friend a sad look "There's nothing we can do Jack"

Jack nodded, grabbing his first patients chart for today, and made his way over to their room. He didn't know why he cared so much, he just knew that he did, and he had to find a way to help her.

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