Leah had made certain to wait a few days before her next move, knowing that she couldn't appear too eager with things. That would just make her look suspicious, and she couldn't have that, not at this early juncture. Even getting along with Serena had been a little easier, due to the fact that she had come away from her experience with Gaskell with no desire to see more from him.

Feeling emboldened by the fact that Hanssen seemed to take a shine to her, she had emailed him the previous day, asking if they could have lunch together, since he knew so much about the hospital and everyone that worked there. He had tentatively agreed, since there was a scheduled surgery that he had to perform. Still, she found herself counting down the hours until she could head up to Keller and join him in their break room.

"You are a million miles away today, Leah." She looked up at Donna and shrugged a little. "Have you met someone, then?"

"No, nothing like that." She smiled a little, though, unable to keep the expression from her lips as she thought about Hanssen. "I'm just trying to make a few new friends here, and it seems like I'm making progress on that goal, since we're going to have lunch together this afternoon. Is there anything that I need to be doing at the moment?"

"No, but I might try to make rounds a priority. Serena should be getting out of surgery very soon, and it would look better if you weren't dawdling here. I know that it's an easy day, but…"

Donna's face lost a bit of color, and Leah had to hold in her giggle as she nodded. "You said the words, I didn't. So if we get busy, then it will be on your head." Donna rubbed her lips together as she nodded in response, before letting out a forlorn sigh. "Don't worry, I'll help out, even if you should bear the brunt of everything." Donna reached out and smacked her shoulder lightly, and she rubbed the spot softly, giving her a mock look of hurt as she rose to her feet and began to make her rounds.

By the time she was finishing up with that task, it was close to the time that she and Hanssen had agreed to meet, and she made her way over to Serena's office, knocking softly before opening the door and sticking her head in. "Yes, Ms Faulkner?"

"I'm going to head out to lunch now? I have an engagement with a friend, and I've just finished the midmorning rounds. Is it okay that I leave?"

Serena nodded absently, and Leah gave her a relaxed, brilliant, smile before turning on her heel and heading to the break room to grab her lunch before heading out to the stairs and climbing up the few stories to Keller. It was hard not to pull a face at Essie as she passed by the nurse, though she did notice that the disdain on the other woman's face was harder to mask. That might come in handy later, but she knew that she would still have to tread lightly around the woman.

"You're Leah, aren't you?" She looked up into the face of a smiling bear of a man, his loud floral shirt telling her that he was totally harmless, and gave him a small nod. "I'm Sacha Levy, and Henrik told me to show you to the break room. He's just closing up, and should be with you shortly."

"Thank you," she said, smiling a little when he rested his hand between her shoulder blades and guided her over to a warmly lit break room. "So, what's it like up here on Keller?"

"Not was hectic as it is on AAU. Everything is a little more methodical up here, even when we are training new doctors."

A soft giggle escaped her lips as she nodded. "Are you trying to recruit me?"

"I'm just making a case for your next rotation." The sheepish grin on his face told her that she would get along well on this ward, and that it might be a smart decision for her to come up here following her time on AAU. "We're all friendly here."

"Even Nurse de Luca? I have the feeling that she doesn't like me very much."

"Ah, she can be a bit prickly, but once she's warmed up to you, it will be like you're standing in the middle of the sun's light."

"Is Nurse de Luca giving you more problems?" Hanssen asked as he strode into the room, and Leah quickly shook her head, giving him a soft smile.

"No, Mister Levy was just giving me a pitch for working on Keller, and told me what it was like to be in her good graces. How did the surgery go?" Sacha patted her shoulder a little before he made his way from the room, and she waggled her fingers at him as he closed the door behind himself. Hanssen got his own lunch out of the refrigerator and took a seat at the table. Leah followed suit, sitting across from him as she set out her lunch, noticing that he was just as methodical about his arranging his food as he was his desk.

"The surgery went well, and the patient looks to make a full recovery. It was the best outcome possible, and I am glad for that." She nodded, watching him pick up his sandwich and take an almost dainty bite. She followed suit and they ate in a companionable silence for a few moments before he looked up at her. "How are things working for you on AAU?"

"Pretty good. I'm still learning a lot, and Serena is an excellent mentor. So, you're both surgeons, and I'm assuming so is Mister Levy, but what about Professor Gaskell? What's his speciality?"

Hanssen swallowed and looked at her intently. "He's a neurosurgeon. Back in Rigden, that's what the three of us were supposed to come out as, but I couldn't commit to that line of work. Roxanna and John, they were brilliant, like twin suns that I orbited around. Their passion was working on the brain, discovering it's tics and workings, whilst I wanted to help the most people that I could. Not everyone needs a neurosurgeon, but a good majority of people need a good surgeon."

Leah nodded as she continued to eat. "That matches up with my philosophy of medicine quite well. I went into the profession to do the most good. I feel like I've made a few mistakes along the way that have not been beneficial."

"Are mistakes ever beneficial?"

She met his eye and nodded. "When you learn a lesson from them, yes. But sometimes, even the lesson that comes from the mistake isn't worth making it in the first place. There are a few things that I would love to go back and change, if I could, but time, unfortunately, marches ever onward."

Leah was surprised to see how Hanssen nodded sagely before looking down at the table. "There is a very profound truth there, Ms Faulkner. Though it sounds like you had to go through a painful time to be able to fully comprehend that. I would never wish that sort of endeavour on another soul." He glanced up at her, and in that moment, she saw a kindred spirit in his eyes. And she knew that she would do anything to be friends with this man who reminded her so of her father.