Okay apology time again! I really did plan for the next chapter to be up earlier, but then I got sidetracked with revision. This is why it's also a little shorter than I had planned. So here's the next chapter and thanks once again for the reviews and the patience.
Mark closed the door to his patient's room quietly behind him and began to walk down the corridor. Smiling he began to whistle a tune to himself, a tune that was stopped immediately when Norman Briggs, Hospital Administrator appeared out of one of the rooms, looking very stressed.
"Mark, a word please" the Administrator said as he walked passed the Chief of Internal Medicine. With a slightly amused look on his face Mark followed Norman into one of the supply cupboards and waited for him to speak.
"Well?" Norman asked politely.
"Norman, you're the one who wanted to speak to me; I should be the one saying 'well.'"
"I mean, well? Why on Earth have you let a person like Jesse Travis become an intern in this hospital?
"Jesse Travis is a very capable young man with lots of potential as a Doctor, his results were extraordinary and he has proved to be a hit with the patients so far. I see no problem with him."
"He has a criminal record." Norman had a look on his face that was a mixture between anger and smugness.
"A criminal record? That can't be right, he had a background check just like everyone else and he was clean."
"It say's here," Norman held up a piece of paper, "That he was involved in an assault investigation." Mark took the paper from him and studied it for a moment before replying.
"It say's that he was a witness to an assault when he was," Mark paused for a second, "Norman he was 8 years old at the time, and he was a witness, he wasn't the criminal."
"His step-brother is." Mark looked back down at the paper and nodded.
"Yes, but that doesn't mean Jesse is; now if you excuse me, I have patients to see."
At the same time as Mark and Norman were having their conversation Jesse was driving around aimlessly trying to figure out what he was going to do, Bryan wasn't going to just let him go, and besides Jesse had an obligation to the hospital, he couldn't just disappear. He had to stop driving for a while and get his head together, he had to go somewhere safe, a thought hit him, the beach, the one where he had gone to think the other day, the one where Mark Sloan lived. Where Steve Sloan lived, Steve was a cop, maybe he could help him. Jesse shook his head, he couldn't afford to risk his career, and he didn't know Steve that well, wasn't sure if he could trust him.
Despite Jesse's misgivings about the Sloan's he headed for Malibu, knowing that Bryan wouldn't think of looking there. He could call in sick to work, then maybe head home to visit Chris, Bryan couldn't touch him if he was with Chris, he would be safe.