Chapter 13: The Whole Situation
"Jersey, what can I do to change your mind?" Dr. Burke asked, walking up to the sinks.
"You won't change my mind Burke, you will never change my mind. If I was the last woman and you the last man, and civilization itself depended on us dating and reproducing, I would rather shoot myself in the head then save the world. I guess you also forgot what I told you about hitting on your students."
"You're on your attending schedule right now. According to you, that's when you are not a student."
"That's right, that's when I'm your boss, go figure. As your boss, I can not date those that are I look over. Wait a minute, you fall into that category don't you. Why don't you go find someone else to screw, because around you my pants are staying on."
"Why won't you even give me a chance?"
"Don't you have a surgery to perform, or lives to save?"
"I'm on break, so nope."
"Your a doctor, you don't have a break. Your time isn't your own."
"Your avoiding the question, why won't you even give me a chance?"
"You want a list, fine. One, you are my teacher sometimes.. Two, I am your teacher and boss sometimes...Three, you're immature, rude, and egotistical, and four I have a boyfriend. I'm in a seirous relationship, I'm extremely happy, and guess what you don't make me any of those things. You drive me insane, give me headaches, and filing more reports for harrasing other interns then any other resident in this hospital. So get it through your head, if it wasn't the fact that I am your boss, that we both work at St. Mungos, and the fact that while I'm here, I forget about what's going on in my life, and focus on the lives of my patients, I wouldn't show up. I would get as far away from you and that Narcissus Complex you have. You need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around you, you are not God's gift to the world, but most of all you need to seriously get over yourself. Why do I stay with James, because he cares about me, he cares about the people around him, and goes out of his way to help those that need it. He cares more about his family then he does himself, he doesn't care about what he looks like, he is more close to being perfect then you'll ever be, and he doesn't even try as hard as you do."
"Fine." Burke said, storming out of her office. Jersey just sat there shaking her head while filling out paperwork.
"Let me guess Burke problems?" One of her friends asked, walking into her office.
"What else? I swear, he doesn't deserve to be a doctor if he can't remember the simplest of things. What's he going to do when he's in the operating room and things get complicated? It's ridiculous."
"Just because he won't give up on you, that doesn't mean he makes a bad doctor. It just means he has an obsession."
"Excuse me ladies, I'm not interrupting anything important am I? For you Marabelle." James took one of the roses out of a bouquet he was going to give to Jersey.
"Well thank you sweetie, I wish my husband would stop by once in a while and be as sweet as you." Marabelle said, taking the rose and kissing James' cheek. Marabelle was in her sixties, her husband, though romantic at times, had given up impressing her. "This one's a keeper Jersey." She winked before leaving the office.
"These my dear, are for you. I have to run though I have to get back to the office."
"Thank you. I'm preparing dinner for us tonight, so please don't eat before you get home like you usually do." Jersey took the roses, kissing James twice, before looking the flowers over. She picked up the note and smiled to herself, My Dearest Jersey, Here is a rose for every time I thought of you today. I love you, see you tonight... Yours, James.
"Earth to Healer Golleher."
"Huh?" Jersey asked shaking her head.
"Are you okay?" One of the interns asked, looking at Jersey funny.
"Yeah, I'm sorry I was distracted."
"I was wondering if it was okay to give Mr. Malfoy pain killers?"
"What? What room?" Jersey asked, grabbing her stethoscope and putting it around her neck before running out of her office.
"Um, the youngest one?" The intern said, though it was more of a question.
"So Liam?"
"Um, sure yeah that one."
"What room?"
"Exam room sixteen, third floor." Jersey and the intern ran up the stairs, as the elevator would be too slow, and into exam room sixteen.
"Harry, what's wrong with Liam?" Jersey asked, going behind the curtain. "Sorry, what's wrong with Dragon. My intern seems to have given me the wrong name."
"Withdraws are getting worse, Chastity's busy at the infirmary to take him, break out of Wizarding Flu." Harry said, wrapped in Draco's arms. Mat was sitting next to the bed trying not to cry, they had Dragon strapped to the bed for his own good since he was convulsing.
"Okay, Mat I need you to back up a bit please. Annie, go to Marabell tell her to take over the surgery I'm held up with a patient." Jersey took a needle out of her pocket and pulled the cap off with her teeth before injecting it into Dragon's arm. Almost at once, Dragon stopped convulsing and started to fall asleep on the bed. Once Jersey was postive Dragon was notgoing to start comvulsing again, she started running tests. "His sugar, blood pressure, and heart rate are still really high, though his heart rate is understandable. He's a bit dehydrated, but his body is going through a lot of caffine and nicotine withdrawls. Here Mat, I'm going to teach you how to read this, and I want you to check Dragon twice a day and if it falls below 150, I'm going to give you a pill you need to put under his tongue. It'll stop him from convulsing before it gets this bad." Jersey waited for Mat to walk over.
"Okay the spell is Commoveo Moveremovimotum, it means to shake violently. Now, this here says 30/500, that's his nicotine levels. When he was on drugs, it was up in the 500's zone, that's extremely bad, in leimen's terms that's about 5 thousand cigrettes a day, or 3 fairies and 9 pixies in a day. The 30's is what his nicotine levels are as of right now, because his body is so use to being in the 500's zone, to go from 5 thousand cigrettes to about 20 is a huge shock to his body. Now, this number underneath is his caffinee levels 40/900, 900 being about 17 six packs of soda, or 14 pixies, and 40 being around 2 six packs of soda. Obviously, going that low would be a huge shock for his body. Two huge shocks like that are what caused the convulsing, that's why the nicotine for the next two weeks needs to be in the 150's and the caffine in the 300's. We'll keep declining them every two weeks and his body should be over the shock in four to six weeks." Jersey placed one of the pills underneath Dragon's tongue.
"Thank you so much." Harry said, brushing Dragon's bangs from his eyes.
"Your welcome, I'll be back in a little bit to check up on him. If you want, James should be getting home shortly, he's at work right now though."
"Thanks, I might just Floo him." Harry smiled up at Jersey, before going back to watching Dragon. Jersey just looked at the scene before her before shutting the door and turning towards her intern. "May I ask you something? and I really want you to think about this before you answer." Jersey asked the intern.
"Sure Healer Golleher, go ahead." The intern said smiling.
"What are you doing in the medical field? Seriously, you had no clue who that child in there was, what his condition had been. You should have been able to stop his convulsing on your own, you should have taken a medical history. Those people in there, their family owns the wizarding world. The boy in that bed convulsing is in line for the throne, I haven't even been in England that long and I know this. Had he died, and his grandfather decided to take it up with the Chief, it would have been your job."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"Had it been any other family, it would have been both of our jobs, and let me tell you something. I'm not in this field of work for the money, I care more about my patients, then the nice check I get at the end of every week. I would be just as happy selling books at a bookstore. So before you're even allowed to walk into mine or anyone else's opertating rooms, you're going to have to tell me honestly why I shouldn't kick you out of the program, about what you really are doing here?"
"What made you go into the field? You said you'd be just as happy selling books at a bookstore." The intern asked, holding back her sarcasm.
"Have you ever been to the hospital and needed a surgery, and the doctors and nurses assigned to you didn't care if you were in pain, as long as they gave you the recommended amount of morphine. They didn't care if you were scared, if you felt alone in such a big room, all they cared about was getting that one surgery, getting that one chance at discovering something new or doing a new procedure, that you knew the only reason they paid attention to you at all was not because you were a human in pain, but becuase you might be a new medical discovery?"
"Once."
"That's why I went into the field, I want to change that. I want to get people to care more about their patients and their patients family, then they do the paycheck that they get, the surgeries they can perform, or the medical miracles they can be the first to discover. I wanted to work besides my idol, to change the world as much as they did. This job is why I get up in the morning and drag my butt to classes everyday, study every afternoon, and work every night. It's why I have almost no life, and the little I have is due to a very understanding boyfriend. I've learned more about life, Merlin, and the people around me through the people I've treated, then I could have in a hundred years. I've learned about wars, historic events, and economic problems, from the people who've lived through them. That's why I took this job, and I haven't regretted it. There hasn't been a day I wake up and regret doing what I do. I've never doubted myself or my job."
"Has it paid off?"
"Every day. I worked hard in school, and when I was accepted into medical school I got to work with my idol, I was taught by her, and now she's my best friend. I've helped discover many things that are used in today's society, and I'm actually looked up to in the medical community. I don't care about what surgeries I get, because I'm more involved with my paitents and making them comfortable, no matter if it's a common cold or a three day life or death tumor extraction. If it wasn't for this job, I never would have met James, because I never would have been taught by Chastity, or have become her best friend. This isn't about me though, this is about you, about where you stand and until you come up with the answer to that, you aren't to step foot into an O.R., there's the pit and prostate exams you can do everyday for the rest of your medical career if need be." The intern nodded her head before turning around to leave. "Oh yeah, and you might want to at least learn your patients names before coming to see your attendings for something so simple." Jersey watched the intern walk away mouthing 'bitch' as she went.
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Severus wrapped his arms around Chastity, before picking her up and carrying her over his shoulder. "Severus Snape, you put me down this instant."
"No, for the simple reason that you might just run away again. We have some serious talking that needs to be done before I can completely forgive you, but I am not doing that in the middle of the infirmary." Severus said, slapping Chastity's butt.
"Hey!" Chastity said, slapping Severus' butt, before pinching it.
"I didn't pinch, I just slapped. There's a difference." Severus said, standing Chastity up on the stone floor of the dungeon.
"Why are we here, in the potions classroom?" Chastity asked, looking around.
"Because, this is my second home. I feel safe here, in here things make sense to me, had we fought at the hosptail and it was you that needed to talk, we'd probably be standing in some operating room." Severus sat down in Draco's chair, breathing in the air deeply. An akward silence had stretched, but after a few moments, Severus finally spoke up. "Do you really think this marriage is that bad? Seriously, is it so bad that you couldn't come to me to get out of it? You had to wish your way out of it. If you want a divorce just say the word, I'll sign the papers and you'll be free to go."
"I don't want that, up until the incident I loved our marriage. Then you stopped talking to me, stopped playing with our children, you locked yourself in the dungeon and wasted away. I want a husband whose involved in our relationship and with our children, not a husband I have to worry if they're going to commit suicide or not. We haven't made love since Exton was born, we haven't kissed since today. The fates offered me a deal, they showed me what my future would look like with both of you, and I took the lesser of two evils. I was made better, the damage from Exton has been fixed."
"After you made the wish, why not tell me what was happening so I could at least spend the last bit of time with you? So that I could have a chance to convince you to stay, to pick me. I love you Chastity, before I met you I would have swore I had no heart, no feelings what so ever. You brought that out in me, and you couldn't even give me the last five minutes, let alone two, to try to convince you?"
"I figured it would hurt worse, plus we wouldn't have remembered it anyways. I'm sorry, I should have told you since it did involve your life as well. It's my fault, I know it is, and I'm extremely sorry. I tried all summer to get you out of your depression, and as a wife and friend I failed at that, but I didn't want to give up on us, which I ended up doing in the end. Please, just tell me what I can do to make it up to you."
"I don't know Chastity. I don't know how you can make it up to me because I know you can't force someone to prove that they love you, without knowing in the back of your head that they are only doing something because you told them. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go spend some time with our sons."
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"W-where am I?" Dragon asked groggily, his eyes staying closed.
"St. Mungos, you had a withdrawl attack. Your parents had to get back to Hogwarts to take care of your siblings, but they wanted me to tell you they love you very much, and they will come back as early as they can tomorrow morning." Mat said, taking Dragon's hand in his own two.
"How are you?" Dragon asked, squeezing Mat's hand.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Mat said, smiling a bit.
"No, because I didn't have to witness you going through a withdrawl attack. I didn't scare you much did I, I'm terribly sorry if I did."
"I'm fine, I was petrified when it happened, but I'm fine now. Seriously Drag, how are you?"
"My arm is a little sore, along with a few muscles but other then that I'm fine."
"Jersey had to give you some sort of shot to stop of the convulsing, that's probably why your arm hurts. Your muscles hurting is obvious though. How old are you today?"
"Back to normal, I'm 16." Dragon said, opening his eyes to look at Mat.
"That's great."
"So, I'm a very wise person huh?"
"Obviously, and you were right about that kiss thing. I'm suppose to get Jersey when you wake up, I'm going to be right back, lay back and rest." Mat said, going to leave the hosptial room.
"Mat, I'm sorry."
"For what?" Mat asked, turning around at the door.
"For doubting that you'd stick around once my withdrawls started. I was positive that once I started getting really bad, that you'd leave because you'd come to your senses about how messed up I really am."
"Of course I wouldn't leave you because of this, it means your getting better, not worse. It proves how strong you really are, and that's more important to me then if your messed up, because it proves you can do anything you set your mind to." Mat said, looking at Dragon lovingly. "I really should go get Jersey now, get some rest." This time Mat really left the room.
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"Burke, seriously get your fucking hands off of me." Jersey said, pushing Burke away from her. They were currently standing in one of the wash rooms, getting ready to perform a surgery.
"I was just going to help you get your gloves on."
"I still haven't washed my hands, and my hands are no where near my breasts."
"Your just so beautiful." Burke blurted.
"Fine, you want to touch me, go ahead but I won't be held responsible for my reactions." Jersey said, standing infront of him. Once Burke reached out to touch her again, Jersey rammed the heel of her palm up towards Burke's nose breaking it, before twirling around and elbowing him in the stomach. Burke doubled over in pain. "I did say I wasn't responsible for my reactions. Obviously idiot, I was already planning to react badly. Now, you can walk your ass to the chief and tell him what happened, and if I find out you left any significant detail of the last two weeks I'll be happy to hand over the memories." Jersey said, grabbing his nose between two of her fingers and twisting.
"Oh good Jersey, I found you. Dragon woke up." Mat said, walking down the hallway. "Are you okay? Mat asked, looking through the window of the room she had just left. "What happened?" Mat took her arm and led her into the closest room.
"It's nothing Mat seriously."
"Jersey, there's a guy in there bleeding from the nose, doubled over on the floor." Mat said, pointing to the closed door behind him.
"Mat, it's nothing." Jersey said, closing her eyes.
"Okay, would you like me to get James or Chastity for you?" Jersey stayed quiet for a couple of minutes, calming herself.
"I'm going to go check on Dragon, you said he was up right?" Jersey said, leaving the room. Mat went over to the fireplace and threw in a handful of Floo powder.
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"Dragon, this is for the aching muscles you probably have." Jersey handed Dragon a vial of blue liquid. "Other then that how are you feeling?"
"Worn down, craving some sort of drug. I mean, I have a buzz because of you all controlling the dosage amount but my body feels like it needs more."
"That's more then understandable. You must have been heavily drugged Dragon, I mean the 300-500 range means you were on drugs everyday, almost all day."
"I was, whenever I got time to myself I would pop something or inject something. It kept me up enough to study and read everything I had to, record what I had to, and spend time with everyone. It helped keep me up 20-23 hours a day."
"The time management you're always talking about. It had nothing to do with management did it, it had to do with drugs." It wasn't a question it was a statement.
"Jersey, are you okay?" Dragon asked looking Jersey over.
"Of course I am, why do you ask?"
"You have blood on the front of your jacket. I thought maybe you were cut."
"Oh that's from a patient. I must not have caught it before. Well, now that I know you're fine and not in some sort of coma or have amnesia, I'm going to go and let you rest. Mat should be in soon, I thought he was going to follow me but maybe he went to Hogwarts to check on Tiger or to inform your parents."
"Okay, I think I'll go back to sleep until he returns." Dragon said, closing his eyes. Jersey quietly took Dragon's chart and left the room.
"Jersey, what happened?" James asked, wrapping his arms around her.
"Why do you think something is wrong?" Jersey asked, hugging James back.
"Besides the fact that Mat Floo'd me and said that there was a man beat up on the floor of a room you just came out of, very angry I might add, and continued to try to keep your temper around Mat. I can look at you and know something is wrong, it has to do with that one Healer doesn't it?" James rested his arms on Jersey's waist, covering her butt with his hands. He didn't want anyone to stare at her butt when he was around.
"I took care of it."
"Yeah, by beating the shit out of the guy Jersey." The chief of surgery said, walking up to the couple. "Hello Mr. Potter, it's so good to meet you. I've heard a lot about you from Jersey and the other Medi-witches. I'm Healer Fray."
"Nice to meet you. Jersey what's he talking about?" James asked, smiling mischieviously at her.
"I didn't beat the shit out of him." She said, shaking her head.
"You broke his nose and rammed it into his skull fracturing the sides of his nose to his cheekbones, not to mention according to him elbowed him in the stomach. What is going on between the two of you?"
"Merlin Jersey."
"He keeps trying to ask me out, goes out of his way to try and touch me, and I'm sick of it. Today while we were preparing for the double bypass surgery, he kept trying to grab my breasts. I gave up and told him he could touch me but I wasn't responsible for my reaction, that was my reaction. He's even shown up on dates James and I have gone on, just to tell me to tell me to break up with James and go out with him. I've warned him as his attending, and as his student, to keep away from his students and other interns, and he has yet to listen."
"The next time, please come to me before kicking another employee's arse. I'll talk to him about it and see what I can do, why don't you take the rest of the day off and spend it with Mr. Potter here. I'll take over the Malfoy case for today, I'm sure he'll be sleeping most of the day anyways."
"Are you sure?"
"Jersey, your like a daughter to me as is Chastity, and the both of you work your arses off here. You come here after school every day and stay until Marabell sends you home. I have to hand it to you James, you barely get to see this girl, but you always seem to find time to visit. Please, talk to her see if you can get her to take a day off."
"Don't worry, I think I can get her to take the rest of the day off." James bent down and picked Jersey up over his shoulder.
"Oh come on guys, I'm not that bad." Jersey complained.
"You've worked here about two months, have never taken a personal day, a sick day, and you come in here and place your name on the on call list on your day off so that you're called in here to work at some point in the day. You need a day off, an actual day off. So yes, you are that bad. Mr. Potter, take her away." He said smiling. James started walking towards the closest room with a Floo connection.
"Where are we going?" Jersey asked, not even fighting James.
"This place Chastity was telling me about a while ago, it's called a beach. "
"We're going to the beach? Seriously."
"Yeah, of course." James placed Jersey down, handing her the Floo powder. "Though I'm sure you want to go home first and change."
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Severus sat down at his desk, looking through important paperwork for Hogwarts. Underneath a paper from the Minsiter of Magic in Australia, Severus noticed an envelope addressed to him.
Dear Severus,
I have done many despicable, underhanded things in the past few days. Most in the last forty eight hours, and figuring out how to makemany things up to you is near impossible, I mean how can you make up for wrecking someone's whole life? I took more away from you then I could ever have imagined, and I did it without an excuse, without reasonable cause, and without telling you. I made one wish and destroyed your whole life, and the lives of our children. I gave you so many precious gifts in life, and then took them away from you. No one can make up for that, no matter how hard they try. I understand if you're furious with me for the rest of our lives, you have every right to be. So I'm offering you the same thing you offered me earlier today, I love you with all of my heart, when we got married I could, and can, never see us splitting up. Thanks to my idiocy, I believe I have messed things up so badly between us that I am giving you an out, you'll notice that under this letter is a brown envelope. Inside this envelope, there are divorce papers, I've already taken the liberty of signing them. If you want to stay together, the fire is burning on your right, if not your pen is on the left in its holder. I'm staying at one of the Inns in Hogsmeade for the night, so if you do decide to sign the papers, there won't be any akwardness afterwards. Capucius and Exton are staying with Harry and Draco for the day, so take your time.
Sincerely,
Chastity.
Severus sat there reading the letter over and over again, sometimes letting his eyes wander over the tear stains that smugged the ink, the lines where the quill had slipped probably due to Chastity's heavy crying, and the fact that she wasn't use to writing with a quill. Just by looking the letter over, Severus could see how much it hurt Chastity to write what she had thought she needed to write. Eventually Severus picked up the folder on his desk, it was dotted in tear stains where Chastity had started to cry harder, after having to sign her name and place the documents inside. Severus slowly undid the prongs of the folder and opened it up, letting the documents slide onto his desk. Looking them over, he noticed that Chastity had left him everything, even the custody of the children, a lot of money for the raising of the children, only asking for visitation rights when it fit Severus' needs. She didn't ask for money, a place to live, or any of the other things that she knew Severus could have given her.
'She wants nothing Severus, all she wants is you. Had you been placed in her situation, wouldn't you have wished for something along the same lines that she did?' He asked himself, leaning back in his chair. Severus looked down at Chastity's signature, noticing how messed up it was. 'She wouldn't have signed if she didn't want out of this relationship either.' Severus said, while his hand reached for his pen on the left. 'Shouldn't you give Chastity what she wants?'
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D/N: Wow, Kime hasn't left a cliff hanger like this in a very long time! We hope you all enjoyed this chapter though, it was harder to write then most because Kime is slowly starting to run out of ideas, but luckily that Chapter has given her a bunch of them. Let's see, other then that, there's nothing much going on here. I'm all the way better now! WHOO HOO! Go me!Jersey kicked some arse in this chapter also, but what will happen at the beach? Hmm... Oh, 12 chapters already (This will be the 13th) and 93 reviews pardon my lanuage but HOLY CRAP! (Jaw drops in shock!) 93 already, this is the quickest and most reviews we've ever had for just 12 chapters, usually it takes around 20 to get this amount! I have a feeling Kime might just have to make a sequel after the 7th year. What do you all think?
Sarahamanda: YES! You love me! (Dragon jumps up and down in joy!) Hmm, I don't know what's going to happen now, maybe I can find a way to break that damn wizarding promise and jump Mat's bones.
Adrianna: James: Why?Why should I run? Kime: You mean Melissa's mum? Hmm, maybe I'll put that later, like some how add her in there, I wasn't planning to at all Sirius was just going to disappear for a few chapters. You know, trying to figure out how to hurt Severus. Harry: I'll work on it.
Kelly: I know! OMG the first time in your life! Did you enjoy the beach? St. Augstine is great! Daytona Beach is okay, I don't like it much because of all the construction, and Orlando is alright, I guess I've lived here too long to find it fascinating anymore. Don't worry about not reviewing the last few chapters, though I'm sure Adrianna and Timothy will probably have your head, but we don't care. Just so you know, since I don't know if you know or not, I made a deal with Adrianna, Orlin, and Bit that if this story or any years after this reach 200 reviews, I'll consider doing a spin off series for Dragon and Mat, it can't be 199 that won't cut it. If it's highly over 200 reviews, for example 210, then I will definitely do a spin off series after the seventh year is wrote. Dragon: Thanks, I wouldn't have had any problems if people didn't find it such a shock that I did drugs in the first place (Glares at the rest of the reviewers). Mat: Thanks, I may need all the luck I can get ; ).
SimplisticalyEternal: Yep, no more Sirius and Chastity. Yes, Dragon will once more become his age and work through his therapy. Oh, there's a whole lot of stuff that's going to happen between Sirius, Severus, and James.
Heather: Thank you.
Timothy: OMG you cursed! (Shocked expression!)