I was so angry at Newbie for ruining my almost-kiss with Barbie.

I had followed her out of the closet but she must have ran after I saw her, because there was no sign of her.

Which left me where I was now. At the nurse's station, checking her patients.

"So when are you going to tell Elliot that you like her?" floated into my left ear. I turned furiously and glared at Carla.

"Well come on! You trapped her in a closet – oh yeah, Bambi talks – and now you're checking her patients' charts so you know where she is? Hardly the signs of someone who hates someone."

"For your INFORMATION, I was checking her orders for her PATIENTS. You know, the whole reason we're in this hellhole?!" I roared.

It wasn't true, not a word of it, and Carla knew. But she just smiled knowingly and ran after Gandhi, who hadn't noticed her at the nurse's station. Back to the charts. Barbie only had two patients at the moment, and it was most likely that she would be in room 117, as she had just ordered penicillin for the patient in 223. I strolled in that direction.

I passed Snoop Dog resident. He really was quite tall. I had never quite noticed it before. Suddenly I saw a flash of blonde from behind him.

"Snoop Dog resident! Remain where you are!" I ordered. He did, and Barbie crashed into him as she kept walking when he stopped moving. She stared at the wall.

"Barbie!" I called and whistled. Of course she didn't want to follow me, but she was too scared not to. I started walking in the general direction of her next patient's room, but at the last minute I grabbed her arm and pulled her into an empty room.

"What are you doing?!" she said, looking around wildly and blowing her bangs out of her face. I stepped closer to her. She stepped back. I stepped closer still. She stepped back against the wall. Again, she was trapped. In my head, I searched for words to say to her. A reason that I'd dragged her from work to a deserted room and trapped her in there, maybe. I couldn't think of anything.

I grabbed her head and pulled it towards mine. She struggled against the kiss at first, but after a couple of seconds she sighed and leaned into me. After a few more seconds she pulled away.

"Fuck you."

God, I love strong women. I grabbed her again, this time by the arms. She was taken by surprise and I took that as my cue to slip my tongue into her mouth. She stopped fighting it and joined the kiss. After about ten minutes of kissing she spoke.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because I hate you," I simply replied.

Her face fell.

"But unfortunately for me," I continued. "Unfortunately for me, I love you. I have done for quite some time now, you insufferable woman." I kissed her gently.

She leaned her head on my shoulder.

"I love you too."