Disclaimer: Still no own-age
Author's Note: Woot-ness, another chapter up! And guess what, I have a new one shot that I'll post soon about the Janitor's squirrel army, ought to be funny! And sorry that this is a short chapter, lots of conversations.
Chapter 7
I woke up in a white room with the chest of a beautiful nurse pressed tightly against my face. This could easily have been heaven. Well...
I'm sitting in a room of candy next to Turk, we both have big wings. Carla and Elliot are there, only they're not wearing anything. A loud speaker announces "Dr Cox requests JD for his daily hug."
So not quite heaven...
"Carla," I gasp. "Enough hugging, you're choking me."
Carla smiled and let go. "I'm sorry Bambi, I'm just so happy you're okay. Never do that again, okay?"
"I wasn't planning on it."
"My turn!" Elliot said. Instantly I was being choked by chest again. If I have to die someday, I hope it's like this.
"Ladies, ladies, that is quite enough for now," I said, waving my hands. Turk stood behind the girls, looking sad. "Aw, get over here chocolate bear!"
Carla rolled her eyes. "I'll leave you love birds to talk."
Carla walked into the hallway and saw Dr. Cox leaning on the wall.
"Too familiar?"
"Not familiar enough," he groaned.
"She's a different person, a different story, it's not going to happen like last time."
"No, if it did I would've been the one in the bed."
"You would've been in the morgue."
Dr. Cox slid down the wall to the floor and Carla sat next to him. "He asked to change patients and I wouldn't let him."
"Don't blame yourself."
"I can't help but..."
"Feelin' alright man?" Turk asked. I nodded, which hurt.
"Wanna see the stitches?"
"Hells yeah!" I pulled the bandage down and heard Turk make a half grossed out, half excited noise. "Looks painful."
"Not when you're as tough as I am." Turk looked skeptical.
"You cried didn't you?"
"Give me the painkillers now!" I cried, sounding like a pregnant woman.
"Of course not."
"Right..." Turk rolled his eyes. He knows me to well.
"So, dude, I started thinking back to college..."
"The weird years?" He groaned.
"Yeah, so I was wondering...have I changed since then?"
Turk started thinking, I could tell because he was doing his "memories" dance. He does have a lot of dances.
"Yeah, definently. You haven't thrown anything at me in a long time, and you've stopped the random screaming of swears."
"Did I ever tell you what was going on?"
"I figured it was stress, we all had it pretty bad, I'm sure I was pretty beastly too."
I shook my head and rolled my arm over. "Look at these."
Turk stared. "Oh..."
Perry came back to the hospital a changed man. He seemed quieter, which worried Carla.
"PC, what's wrong?" She asked.
"It's Perry," he said, catching her off guard. "Do you have my charts?"
Carla reluctantly handed one to him. He took one look and gave it back.
"No, I'm not going back into that room."
"P, I mean, Perry, you have to. Dr. Elias would've..." He put a hand to her lip.
"Don't even finish it. I know he would've wanted me to, but I can't. I can't see that...that...that monster, he isn't even a patient to me anymore."
"Perry, don't. As soon as you start thinking that way you can't go back."
"Well maybe I don't want to..."
Turk sat in the chair next to me, taking it all in. "So, your fantasies..."
"Basically hallucinations."
"Whoa..."
"Yeah," I said, wishing there was more being said in the room.
"Have you told Cox? Maybe he wouldn't have made you be around that patient."
"I can't tell him," I said, sitting up so fast the IV in my arm tugged painfully. "I wouldn't want him to think lowly of me."
"You don't anymore, right?"
"Of course not," I said, guiltily remembering my jacket. "I OD'd and ended up in some hospital, after that I knew I needed to quit. I wish I could thank that doctor, he really helped me out. Sort of why I became a doctor in the first place."
"Really explains a lot," Turk said.
There was an awkward pause, one of the few in our entire friendship. It made me nervous about whether he could still accept me as a friend.
"I wish I could have some of those hallucinations."
I smiled. It seems like things will be alright after all.
"Give me Jace's chart," Dr. Cox said to Carla. "I'm taking JD off this case."
"Shouldn't you talk to him about this?"
"He wanted off of it weekes ago and I was to stubborn. I wouldn't blame him for not wanting to be around her."
"JD is not you, Perry." Carla said. Dr. Cox sighed and walked away.
"But he's damn close..."
Author's Rant: So yes, it's a short chapter, so sue me...actually don't...I'm broke...Besides, that means I'm getting closer to posting the next chapter!!!
