Morning. It came far too quickly for Savannah who couldn't even remember falling asleep but apparently she had as she woke up to find herself looking straight into the back of a head full of dark hair with her arm wrapped around a bare chest and her legs entangled with somebody else. Wrapping the comforter around herself to provide some modestly, Savannah sat up in and for a moment she watched as Nick peacefully slept beside her and it made her smile. It seemed like only yesterday that Nick had accidently ran into her and she was giving him her number but they were six months down the line and things were going great. Nick made her happy and Savannah was pretty sure she made him happy as she glanced back over at her boyfriend. As she sat in bed, Savannah realized that she was in a desperate need for a class of water and so she had to carefully untangle herself from Nick as not to wake him. Looking sheepishly around Savannah saw no traces of her clothes and assumed that most of her clothes were downstairs where she and Nick had left them when they stumbled in last night, taking each other's clothes off without even a second thought or glance. So Savannah dressed herself in one of Nick's t-shirt which was too big for her and ending up skimming her thighs which suited Savannah just fine before leaving his bedroom and heading downstairs. It was quiet in the house for obvious reasons and the only sound that Savannah could hear was the sound of the rain outside. Savannah found her clothes and along with Nick's where she suspected as she headed to the kitchen where she grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator. Upon hearing footsteps coming towards her Savannah turned around briefly to see Nick making his way down the stairs and towards her just dressed in his pyjama bottoms.
"I was wondering where you go to, I woke up and to my surprise you were gone…" Nick began as he made his way over to Savannah and standing behind her he wrapped his arms round her waist and kissed her neck. "I thought we agreed that we were going to spend the entire weekend in bed and right now neither of us are in bed. It was your idea after all Sav…"
"I know what I said, I just came downstairs for some water as I seemed to have worked up quite a thirst. I didn't want to take you so I just snuck on down here." Savannah said in an offhanded manner as she let out a content sigh before turning her head slightly so that she could look at Nick a little bit better. Right Savannah felt as content as she could ever possible be, standing in Nick's kitchen with his arms around and not caring in the world that he was seeing her first thing in the morning without make up on. Savannah had never been one to care about that or freak out about having her boyfriend see her without make up on. She felt comfortable with and without make up as there were days where Savannah could not be asked with make up especially on days when she was pulling a double shift. Never one during the time she had stayed over at Nick's did Savannah wake up in the morning and scramble around to out her make up on before Nick could see her. He didn't seem to care, let alone comment on it. Savannah guessed there was never a need to as the two of them were very comfortable with each other.
"I had fun last night." Nick quietly murmured.
"I know you did." Savannah quipped as she turned to face Nick as she thought back to everything her and Nick had gotten up to last night, when they spent time together like this it made up for all the time that they had to spend apart because of work. It was going to be hard for Savannah to leave and go back to work when this weekend came to an end. But Sav told herself not to dwell on that, instead to focus on the here and now with her pretty amazing boyfriend. Well he had to be pretty amazing to put up her insane work schedule even after six months. But Nick was pretty understanding about that, he knew that her job was demanding and he seemed comfortable in trying work around it. Nick was great like that, he was funny and sweet not to mention unlike previous boyfriend he enjoyed hearing about her work. Then there was the sex, which was great but their relationship wasn't just sex. The two of them could talk and laugh about the silliest of things. It was nice.
"You good in the t-shirt Sav, since you love it so much it's yours…" Nick noted and Savannah grinned as now that Nick had given her the t-shirt, it meant that she didn't have to steal it.
"I can just imagine you back in the day at college, the handsome college frat guy who liked to party but also had a brain. I can just image that all the girls noticed you and that you weren't shy of company on those lonely night on campus." Savannah stated and she watched the expression on Nick's face as he tried to explain how to begin to deny it.
"I had fun, I'll admit that."
"Of course you did." Savannah drily admitted in an amused tone of voice.
"What about you Sav? I've never heard about you talk about college or even mention which schools you went to, just that you went out of state for school and returned to Vegas for your fellowship. You must have some stories to tell and I can just imagine what you were like in college." Nick questioned and Savannah pursed her lips together, whatever Nick thought he was very wrong.
"Well I went to Stanford for college and it was interesting, college was a whole new experience for me and it took a while for me to settle in and start to enjoy myself. I can tell you for a fact that I didn't have as much fun as you did as I was pre-med and that involved a lot of studying and classes but I did have some fun. Then after Stanford I packed up my bag and headed to the east coast to attend Columbia for med school which got a bit crazy at times I will admit and there was an incident with a fire extinguisher, tequila and accidently dropping a pig's heart out the window. It was a lot of work but then came my residency over at John Hopkins. Intern year was the hardest and longest year of my life but it was amazing. I had my M.D and I was doing surgery and everything felt right, the interns who were assigned to the same resident as me sort of became a surrogate family to me as I was so far away from mine. We'd party a bit too much and worked until we literally dropped and then when it came to studying for the intern exam and later on our boards, if we weren't working then we were studying. I couldn't do anything wild constantly because of all the studying as the last thing I wanted to do was fail my exams and be kicked out of the programme but I had enough fun. Things got easier the further along my residency where I could afford to get my head out of a book for a few hours and attempt at having a life. Now am I working for my fellowship and teaching as I am now working at a teaching hospital."
"Very impressive, looks like the student is finally becoming the master." Nick quipped and Savannah shook her head, she wasn't that good. Whilst she was a good surgeon, Sav knew that she still had a lot to learn, and a lot of hell to do if she wanted to be one of the greats.
"Won't become the master until I become an attending or even the head of peds or even chief of surgery, but you never know…"
"Why'd you come back to Vegas Sav? You've gone to some of the best schools and hospitals in the country but in the end you came back to Vegas." Nick asked and Savannah couldn't help but smile.
"My family. That's the thing about the Wilde family we may not always be together; sometimes we're not in the same state, country or continent for lengthy periods of time but we always come home to Vegas. This is my home and I missed Vegas when I was away, I missed family and whilst I had a lot of good offers I wanted to come home. I had been away too long and I missed my family, I missed the weather." Savannah admitted, well aware that it made her sound like a wet blanket but she didn't care. Home meant something to her and there was nowhere she would prefer to live then Vegas.
"Your parents must be very proud of you." Nick noted and Savannah couldn't help but laugh.
"They are proud of all their children. But my parents weren't one to place everything on academic achievements, my mom believe that intelligence can't be accurately measured. Getting the best grades in school wasn't the most important thing to them although it was nice, but as long as tried our hardest and gave a 100% they were happy. What mattered most to my mom and dad was that the five of us were living our own lives, being good and healthy people and doing whatever made us happy is what makes them proud. Let's them know that they've done their jobs as parents…"
"They sound like good people."
"The best." Savannah replied with a bright smile.
"It's your birthday soon, November 24th right?" Nick asked.
"Yeah. Two days before thanksgiving this year, which is great because the two greatest days ever are so close to each other that's why November is my favourite months ever! Speaking of which, you got any plans for thanksgiving?" Savannah questioned as she had an idea that she wanted to run past Nick.
"I don't know yet."
"Well if you want and don't think too much of this or that you'd have to say yes to this but if you don't have anything to do you could come join me at the hospital. I picked up a shift and I figured if you didn't have anything to do then you could come down and we could have dinner together. Then I could show you some of the interesting cases that I work on as well as the Thanksgiving pageant. Every year the peds department put it on and this is my first year so I'm really excited about it." Savannah explained in an excited manner as there was nothing she loved better than the holiday period especially Thanksgiving as her birthday was so close to it.
"Sav… you're working on thanksgiving? Voluntarily?" Nick sceptically asked.
"Yeah of course! Why wouldn't I be?" Savannah asked slowly as she didn't see the problem with working on Thanksgiving.
"Because it's thanksgiving! Why would you want to work? Wouldn't you prefer to be with your family?"
"You know how crime goes up during the holiday for obvious reasons?" Savannah questioned and Nick nodded. "Well that's kind of the same for hospitals… Now I love the holidays, I'm a big fan of them even more so since I became a surgeon."
"Really? Would you care to expand on that more?" Nick asked and Savannah could see that her boyfriend was missing the bigger picture here, which made her even more determined to get him to join her at the hospital on Thanksgiving.
"Well it's the holidays and during that time people spend it with their families but too much family time never ends well for the family. Everyone knows that the holidays are when depression rates spike up because your forced to spend your time in small spaces with your family where people eat and drink too much, repressed rage comes out and then there are the arguments over the t.v remote and what not. It's human stupidity at it's best…"
"And?" Nick said not really getting the point.
"The stupidity of the human race is the greatest thing to a surgeon because people lose their tempers, get violent and they do incredibly stupid things that they wouldn't usually do in normal situation. But it's the holidays and someone always ends up getting hurt and for a surgeon that means lots of surgeries. Last thanksgiving I had this patient whose spleen I had to remove because his wife stabbed him because he wouldn't turn off the t.v and come to the table. It was amazing…" Savannah explained unable to help herself when it came to smiling as it had been a pretty interesting case which involved her talking to the police afterwards.
"That is incredibly twisted Savannah."
"But so true, which is why I am working this year and I stop round my parents house first thing in the morning to see them. But me working isn't considered a big thing because the whole family has to get together a couple of days later for mine and Tristan's birthday. Every year we rotate, one year we'll all be there for thanksgiving or for a birthday party. My mom is cool with it as long as I am definitely home for Christmas. She can excuse thanksgiving but not Christmas. So think about the thanksgiving thing, but it's no big deal if you don't want to do it and just get back to me whenever." Savannah stated in a calm and collected manner as she didn't want Nick to feel pressured into doing it or giving her answer right now. Nick didn't say anything, he was just looking at her with a smirk on his face. That was, until he scooped Savannah off her feet. "Nick what are you doing!"
"We had a deal Sav, we'd spend the whole weekend in bed and this is certainly not my bed!
