Stuck in an Elevator AU
Brittany crossed her arms as Adam pressed the close door button.
"Brittany." He says simply. But she shakes her head and locks her jaw. "Look I'm sorry-"
"Save it." She says.
"No I won't. I know that what I did was wrong-"
"Adam it was more than wrong-it was just mean. I came here tonight so that you wouldn't have to humiliate yourself because you lied to your ex. But instead I got humiliated." She said.
"Brittany you got me at a bad time. I'm really sorry." He says.
"A bad time? You were by the punch bowl on your own." She says. He sighs and says,
"Look can we just put this behind us and apologize so we can handle this like adults."
"No because if we were adults this wouldn't've happened." Brittany said. He sighed and just shut up knowing it was a lost cause-until she felt the elevator stop, very suddenly.
Adam looked around and saw the screen showing the floor blank-then the lights went out. Brittany let out a small noise.
"Adam?" She asks.
"I don't know-" He begins but then he feels something release and they begin to drop. Brittany screams and holds onto the railing. He gasps and looks around-and then he feels them stop.
Brittany opens her eyes and asks,
"Adam?" Her voice wavering.
"I'm here." He said moving to her darkened figure. She saw him and then almost ran to him, wrapping her arms around him. He wrapped his arm around her back and held her shaking frame for a while, until she stopped shaking. At that point she slipped out of his arms and said,
"I'm still mad at you."
"That's a given, let me press the call button." He says and he does-but nothing happens.
"The power must've gone out." She said.
"No really?" He says sarcastically earning a glare from her and then they heard a cracking noise and a voice came into the elevator.
"May I help you?" The voice asks.
"Yeah, um the elevator is broken, the power appears to be out and I think we fell a good few floors." Adam says.
"How many people are in the elevator?"
"Two." He says. The operator disappears for a few moments.
"Sir we're going to ask you remain calm for the time being-it appears our elevator chords broke after we had a power flicker due to the storm. The fire department is on its' way but you may not be out for a few hours."
"Thank you." Adam says and then the voice disappears.
Brittany looks around, she hated being in elevators-she normally took the stairs herself, but for the party she had worn heels-she was actually proud of her outfit tonight. It was a blue evening gown (she had opted out of pink this evening) and black heels with her hair curled and in a half up half down hairdo. She had even put extra effort into her make-up.
"You look nice tonight if that counts for anything." He says.
"Thanks." She said.
"So can I please explain what happened?" Adam asks.
"We have a few hours so I guess." She says taking off her shoes and sitting down. Adam sits next to her smiles and then says,
"So as you know I had lied to Erin about having a girlfriend and going to the party with her, and then when I approached you about it you were happy to do me that favor. But Kenji had other plans. He told me about how you actually had feelings for me so I guess I felt kind of bad and a little bit scared too."
"You, scared?" Brittany asks snorting. Adam shrugs and says,
"Hey I'm human. But anyway so he was talking and he told me that if I led you on tonight that it wouldn't good to put it nicely. And then you walked in and I just kind of felt bad. I mean you put extra effort in your appearance and gave up your free evening to come to a hospital holiday party you weren't going to come and I guess that's a bit why I was awkward, I didn't want to lead you on-and that led to the whole awkward Erin scenario. But I mean I'm over her, we broke up a while ago and I guess it's easy to fall into old habits." Adam said.
"I know. And just so you know I'm not mad that you two kissed-I'm mad because you said you ignored me for half the night. I mean you asked me here and I thought that even though it was for a cover up, you'd still want to hang out because I'm still your friend right?" Brittany asks her voice going up a little bit.
"Of course, you're great Brittany. Smart, funny, and just a great girl. I didn't just ask you to be my date because of a cover up. I wanted you to go-and enjoy yourself because you bend over backwards doing whatever anybody wants you to do at work and then with your whole living situation because you broke up with that guy. I just wanted you to have fun."
"And I would've-if the person who invited me-who I dressed up for would pay attention to me. I mean it's like I see you at work and we're best friends. But if I wave to you at the store or anything you don't see me." She says with a bite at the end that makes him feel a bit guilty.
"I do see you-I promise I do. I'm just horrible at talking to people in public. And I'm sorry. I wish I had paid attention to you because if I'm honest you're beautiful Brittany, and not just right now but every time I see you you're beautiful." He says.
"Really?" She asks.
"Yes, why do you think that I interact with you so much more than the other nurses?"
"Because I'm the nurse assigned to all your patents."
"And not by coincidence. I assign you to them to get to know you better-and you're great with them." Adam said.
"What are you saying?" Brittany asks.
"That I like you Brittany-and I'm really sorry if I offended you or made you mad." He says. Brittany smiles and says.
"Okay-I forgive you."
"Awesome-and one more thing." He says.
"Go for it." She tells him and he leans over and pecks her lips.
She looks at him as he backs away and smiles.
"How about once we get out of this elevator we go out to eat or something?" Adam asks.
"Good with me." Brittany said smiling and he put an arm around her shoulders and she leaned into him, her head on her shoulder. He smiled and leaned his head on hers and eventually the both fell asleep.
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Kara watched as they got the elevator back up to the lobby using the ropes from the truck. When she had heard that Dr. McAndrew and Brittany had gotten trapped she had panicked a bit. Erin had texted her because she was supposed to be up in bed, but had sneaked out to have a smoke. She saw them pry the doors open and then a few of them chuckle. She looks past them and on the floor sees both of them sleeping, sprawled out across the floor, Dr. McAndrew around Brittany and her head buried into his chest. They were able to wake him up but not Brittany.
"Don't worry, I'll take her back with me. I was her date." Adam said to the people before gently lifting her.
"She was your date?" Kara asked.
"Yeah-now you might want to get out of here before anybody else sees you. Don't want you getting in trouble." Adam says before taking Brittany and putting her gently into the passenger seat of his car and buckling her in, making sure her head was positioned comfortably before getting into his side and driving off.
She smiled before walking inside to Kenji and holding out a hand. He grumbles and hands her a 20.
"Thank you." Kara said.
"Shut-up. Now get yourself up to your bed before I have you put on room arrest." He says. And she smiles, walking up to the staircase and going up.
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