Sabrina was due her break and boy did she need it, she'd been rushed off her feet all morning. It meant she had other things to focus on than Patrick and Carlos' childish squabbles. She hadn't seen Patrick last night, she went back to the apartment with Felix and having left her phone charger at Patrick's house meant that she'd pretty quickly ran out of battery, he was due to come on shift in an hour or two, so no doubt she'd see him them. Sabrina decided to spend her break with Mr Terrine, she loved listening to his stories and she thought it was only right to give some company to a dying man.
It had been decided yesterday that there was no more that could be done for Mr Terrine, and it had been his wishes to die gracefully, he didn't want to be hooked up to countless machines that did God knows what. When it was his turn to go, he was ready. Sabrina entered his room to find him sleeping, with very shallow breathing, as soon as he heard her enter he tried opening his eyes and smiling. "It's OK Mr Terrine, you just rest up I'm right here."
"Thank You Dear, how's that Doctor of yours?" he said in barely a whisper. "OK I think, I haven't seen him yet because I've been really busy this morning, but I'm going to take your advice and talk to him when he comes on shift." Mr Terrine smiled, and Sabrina just sat and talked to her through her entire break and more, losing track of time. She could snse he was about to go, and she didn't want him to die alone. Holding onto his hand, she heard the door open and found Patrick standing there, "How is he?" She wiped a tear from her eye, "I don't think he's got much fight left, he keeps drifting in and out of consciousness." Patrick pulled up a seat next to Sabrina and placed his hand on her knee, she looked up at him and smiled. "I didn't think you were in for another hour?"
"I came in a little early, I wanted to talk to you."
"What about?"
He took hold of her other hand and rubbed his thumb against hers reassuringly, "It can wait, I'm not going anywhere." They stayed that way for what seemed like hours but in reality it was only about 20 minutes, Mr Terrine muttering things about love and happiness. He suddenly went quiet, then whisperd "Hello again my Evie" and with that he was gone. Patrick pulled Sabrina into his side and kissed her hair sweetly, it's OK Beautiful, he's better off now, no more suffering. Sabrina knew that he was right. "I know, I've dealt with loads of patients especially older ones dying but why does this feel different."
"Because Mr Terrine was a different type of patient, he meant a lot to you. He was pretty special to me too." Before Sabrina could ask why Epiphany walked into the room, Patrick turned to face her, "He's gone." Sabrina got up and walked out, she needed to get out of there. Patrick and Epiphany stayed and sorted out the necessary procedures when losing a patient.
Sabrina walked to the changing rooms, she was going to have a shower then maybe go get some fresh air. Before she knew it she'd fallen asleep sitting back against her locker, Patrick had tried to find her with no luck. He'd asked Felix and Elizabeth who said she thought she saw her walking to the changing rooms. Which was exactly where he found her curled up in a ball against her locker door, he could tell she'd been crying yet still she looked beautiful. He reached down and picked her up in his arms, she stirred grabbing onto his shirt, "Patrick?"
"Ssshh it's OK sweetie, I'm here." He carried her over to the bench and lifted her onto his knee and pulled her close to him. Sabrina rested her had on Patrick's shoulder, "I'm sorry I ran off, I just needed to get out of there."
"Hey, its OK." he wiped a tear from her eye and kissed where her tears had been.
"You know, you never did tell me what Mr Terrine said to you..." He laughed, "Well it was last time he was here, I was all confused about my feelings for you and just when I decided to tell you how I felt remember at your graduation..." She nodded
"Milo."
"Exactly, Milo turned up. I rang and left a message, saying I wanted to speak with you," Sabrina nodded, this must have been the message Milo deleted. "Well he came to see me at work the next day, he said he could sense that something was going on between us. He basically wanted my permission to go out with you, well anyway I was trying to explain when you called him and said you wanted to meet him at the Metro Court. I thought I missed my chance again, so after speaking to Elizabeth I thought you had ended up with Milo and that he could make you happy. Anyway to cut a long story short, I saw Mr Terrine when I was on my rounds at the hospital, he started saying that you were his favourite nurse, and that he couldn't believe you were single. When I told him you were with somebody, he though it was me, that we were together. He said I was a "lucky guy", anyways I had to tell him it wasn't me. But it got me to thinking what if it was me, you know?" Sabrina just sat there and when he finished she pulled his face to hers and kissed him passionately with as much love as she could muster.
"I love you Patrick with all my heart."
"I love you to Sabrina so much, I'm sorry for being a jerk. I need to ask you something though..."
"Anything."
"If there's one thing I've learned today is that you can't let love slip away so, Will you move in with me and Emma?" Sabrina sat there not knowing what to say, "Now would be the time to say something."
"Really? I mean have you asked Emma? Are you sure that's what you want?"
"Emma has wanted you to move in with us ever since we met" They laughed, "And there is nothing else I want and need than to see your face first thing every morning, to go to sleep with you in my arms, to find those annoying hair clips of yours all over the place and to kiss you whenever I want." Sabrina smiled and kissed him firmly and deeply. "Is that a yes then?"
"Yes, Yes of course I'll move in with you." They hugged and kissed until Patrick stood up and took her hand in his, let's go tell Emma the god news. They gathered all her stuff together and went to walk home together, "I'm sorry I went all cave man on you." Sabrina laughed, remembering her earlier comment "It's OK, I like it when you go all cave man sometimes."
"Really?"
"Yeah, it's kind of hot." Patrick laughed as Sabrina blushed,
"I'll remember that tonight, Me Patrick, you Sabrina, home now!"
