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Title: His Eleven Reasons Why - Hug
Author: Kipli
Email: Kipli at livejournal dot com
Series: Scrubs
Pairing: Cox/JD
Rating: R - Language
Word Count: 100
Fic Series: Part of the His Eleven Reasons Why.
Summary: Fic-let: Prompt: Hug
Notes: Part 10 of my 11reasons table. This scene... I could not smoosh it down. So it's 250 words instead of 100. But... it's perfect.
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Hug---
Sometimes the days fly by. The patients are all smiles and thank you's. The codes are non-existent. Even Kelso and Lurch leave us respectively alone.But for every good day, every great day... there are days like today.
Fucking hell, I mean, three crashes in one hour? All unexpected. All young, healthy, happy people. All tied to something that, in his mind anyway, he could've prevented if only he'd known about it. God damn it! This would fuck with even the most cold hearted of doctors... but shit...
I stare at him hugging himself in front of me. He's refused all of my touches. He just keeps pacing back and forth in front of the breakroom couch, mumbling about one patient before jumping to the next, and the next, and back to the first.
Truth is there was no way he could've prevented it. No way he could've known. With any of them. I should know. I should've spotted it too. But I didn't. God, I wish I had.
His voice breaks in his manic ramblings and I can't take it any longer.
I stand and grab hold of him before he can jerk out of my grasp again. I wrap my arms around him and pull him close, tight against my chest.
And then he breaks. His arms cling to me, quickly wrapped around my chest, as he sobs.
"It's not fucking fair," he shouts against my shoulder, face buried in the fabric.
"I know..."
But I'm here.
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