:) I'm so glad that so many people seem to be enjoying my story. :) Thank you, my reviewers: Bells of Tomorrow, Witty-Kate, spidersfrommars, gottaluvscrubs, darkorangecat, hurkydoesntknow, and WHPIAR.

Because of what I have written in this chapter about JD living with Turk and Carla still, we must assume this story takes place before he moved out of their apartment... Clearly... but I wouldn't want you thinking that I'm a moron and missed a huge chunk of the show. (Although I haven't really seen much of season 7... so I don't know where they are all living now...) :)

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JD looked nervously up at the janitor.

"Let's go then," the janitor said, grabbing JD's arm.

JD pulled his arm back, "I can get there myself," he said.

The janitor shook his head, "nope. You might be able to get there yourself, but when you pass out in the hallway somewhere, I don't want Dr. Cox blaming me for it. I'm walking with you to make sure you get there."

"Fine," JD agreed.

The janitor walked close beside JD, but didn't hold on to his arm as he had originally, as he knew that JD might freak out and refuse to walk with him. When they reached Dr. Cox car, JD pulled on the handle only to find that it was locked.

"Okay. I made it. You can go now," JD told the janitor.

"I'm just going to stay here with you until Dr. Cox gets out here, okay?" the janitor told him.

JD sighed, "I'm not a little kid," he said tiredly, "I can wait out in the parking lot by myself. He should be here soon anyway," he continued, leaning against the side of his mentor's car.

"Come on... I don't know why you're so scared of me," the janitor argued.

"You don't? You don't know why I am scared of you? Are you serious? Who wouldn't be scared of you?" JD retorted.

The janitor sighed, "you and I both know that there is a time and a place for me to mess with you. And you and I both know this isn't the time... It would be a nice place though..."

JD looked worried, "I wish you'd just leave me alone."

"No you don't," the janitor said, "it would just be weird if I did."

They stood there silently for a minute and then JD saw Dr. Cox walk out of Sacred Heart. He sighed with visible relief and looked up at the janitor.

"See ya later, Scooter," the janitor said, walking back toward the door of the building, "make sure you get better fast... it's no fun picking on a sick guy..." he yelled back to JD as the janitor walked back into the hospital.

Dr. Cox hit the unlock button on his keys, "get in Newbie," he said.

JD nodded and climbed into the passenger seat of the car as Dr. Cox sat down in the driver's seat.

As they drove, Dr. Cox noticed that JD looked nothing short of completely miserable, "you gonna be okay, Newbie?"

JD just nodded, not saying anything.

"Newbie?" Dr. Cox called over to JD. The younger doctor had closed his eyes and didn't seem to be paying attention to what Dr. Cox was saying.

"Newbie!" Dr. Cox said again, "Hey, Karrie! I'm talking to you."

JD sighed and turned toward Dr. Cox, "yeah?" his tired voice managed.

"Do you need me to call someone to stay with you until Turk or Carla get off work?" he offered.

"I'm not a little kid," JD argued, "I don't need anyone to watch over me. I just need to sleep for a while."

Dr. Cox nodded, "Alright."

They pulled up to JD's apartment building, and JD stepped out of Dr. Cox's car. Cox had intended to simply leave as soon as JD reached the building, but when he considered that the younger man had lost consciousness due to his illness just a short time before, he thought it might be best to walk with him up to his apartment, just in case he passed out again. As annoying as his protege was sometimes, he didn't deserve to have to risk losing consciousness in the hallway of his building, and to have no one there to help him get where he needed to be.

Dr. Cox quickly opened the car door and stepped out, running around to JD's side, "listen up, there, Gretchen," he started, "I'm walking up there with you, just to make sure you make it there without passing out, kay? But this doesn't mean you can consider this a date."

JD couldn't help but smile, even though he felt awful. He nodded and led the way up to his apartment, with Dr. Cox close behind.

They walked into the apartment where JD lived with Turk and Carla.

"Thanks, Dr. Cox," JD said, walking toward his bedroom, "I'll see you at work tomorrow."

"No you won't," Dr. Cox told him, "I doubt you'll be over this in just one day, Newbie. If you come into work and you're still sick, I'm sending you right back home, so don't even bother."

JD shrugged, "whatever," he quickly gave up arguing, as he was completely exhausted, "I'm going to sleep... I'll see you... just later... sometime." Without even closing his bedroom door he crawled onto his bed and under the covers.

Dr. Cox sighed and turned to leave, but took one last look at JD before he left. The older doctor was off duty at Sacred Heart for the time being... and he didn't really have anything else to do, so he supposed that he could stay here for just a little while. It would be irresponsible of him, as a doctor, to allow JD to stay alone, right?

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I was going to leave it at this... but I have decided to be nice, and I'm going to write up one last chapter for you guys. :) (But it probably won't be very long... Not that my chapters are ever long anyway...)

And as always, I'd love to read your reviews. :)