"I can't believe you're working today," said Felix stepping off the elevator still in his black tuxedo.
"People don't stop getting sick just because it's nurses ball today," said Sabrina slightly annoyed. She had already changed into her scrubs when Felix had tracked her down. Her gown now hanging in her locker as an ugly reminder of who she didn't have.
"I can't believe Obredht signed off on this. You're obviously not in a great place right now," said Felix slamming his hand down on the nurses desk out of frustration.
"Her performance had her in a good mood I guess. And there's nothing wrong with my state of mind," said Sabrina rolling her eyes as she picked up some patients charts. Almost yanking them away from his hands.
"I told you to stay away from him. I knew that whole dancing thing was not going to turn out well," said Felix watching his friend closely.
Sabrina stepped down from the nurses station intent on making her rounds in peace. She whirled around to see Felix still following her. "Go back to Lucas, Felix."
"He'll be fine without me," he pressed not sure what to do to help his friend.
Sabrina pressed her hand reassuringly on his shoulder, "No, I'll be fine without you. I haven't had anytime alone to figure out how I feel about anything. If and when I do I'll call you and Lucas."
"Promise," he said holding up his left hand and holding his right over his heart.
"Scouts, honor," said Sabrina holding up her hand.
"You, weren't even a scout," laughed Felix.
"Well, neither were you," said Sabrina playfully shoving his shoulder.
"Alright, then," he said kissing her forehead. "Call me."
"I won't need to," she said waving him away. She walked around the corner and leaned against the wall for support taking a deep breath before going into the first patients room.
"Hey, Felix. You look nice," said a nurse logging into one of the computers at that station.
"Thanks, Beth," said Felix pushing the elevator button. It was nice to see her wearing something else besides candy covered scrubs. The solid covered lavender scrubs suited her and brought out the color of her eyes. Not that he'd ever say that too her out loud. Thanks to her horrible treatment of Sabrina.
The phone rang with a shrill piercing the silence. "Hello, General Hospital."
He shuffled his feet and started thinking about Lucas. He hadn't been much of a good date today, but there was still time to fix that.
"Pregnant woman coming in. I'm getting the room ready. Want to clock in and help," said Beth heading for the stairs.
Felix let out an exaggerated laugh, "No chance at all. Who is it though anyone we know?"
"Maybe. Ava Jerome?" said Beth pausing by the stairs.
"Oh, definitely not doing it. Good luck though," he said stepping on to the elevator. He briefly wondered if he should have told her to keep Sabrina away from the delivery room. He shook his head. He can't protect her from everything. He had to trust she would do the right thing.
He got to the parking lot just as Britt was pulling up.
"Felix," said Britt stoically.
"The Britch."
Britt rolled her eyes and continued into the hospital. It took everything in her not to run as she didn't want to let on to Felix that anything was up. She tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for the elevator. It seemed to be stuck on sixteen and she was surprised the alarm hadn't gone off. She took to the stairs instead taking them two at a time. By the time she got up to the nurses station she was out of breath and holding her red heels in her hand. She stepped out onto the floor and Cheri was the only one manning the desk.
"Where . . .is. . .Sabrina," said Britt breathlessly.
"How am I supposed to know. I'm not her keeper. Instead I'm doing my job getting ready for an incoming patient," said Cheri eyeing the doctor wearily. She didn't want to admit it, but even sweaty the doctor looked like the picture of perfection. With her blunt bob and black pantsuit showing just the right amount of cleavage. It made her a little bit envious.
"Don't give me a hard time. I'll have you pushin' bed pans for a month," said Britt putting on her heels and standing at her full height. Which she knew could be intimidating.
Cheri smacked her lips and looked down at her watch. "She's doing rounds so right about now she should be in room 706. So check there."
"Thanks," said Britt heading off in that direction. Her heels clicking on the lineolumn.
"Right," said Cheri turning her back to the women and getting out her phone to text Beth. She had to let the other nurses know that the doctor was on the floor and on the war path.
"Sabrina, Sabrina," said Britt knocking obnoxiously on the door. She didn't want to just barge into a patients room. But she needed her to come out.
"Hey, hey, there's a patient in there trying to sleep," said Sabrina coming out of the room behind her. "What do you want Britt?"
The words caught in her throat. She wanted to do the right thing for once in her life. She wanted to do this for the baby that she lost under her watch. "Why did you come back to work?"
"Because I wanted to," said Sabrina closing the patients door and feeling exposed. She returned all the patients charts and was feeling a bit naked in front of Britts prying eyes as if she could tell what she was thinking.
"Or because you were running away from my brother," said Britt walking along side her.
"You saw the kiss too? I'm not talking about this with you," said Sabrina speeding up trying to get away from her.
"Wait," said Britt grabbing her arm. "I need to know if you love him as much as he loves you?"
"What?" said Sabrina surprised her eyebrows raised in confusion.
"I need to know that you'd protect him from anything because you love him that much," said Britt.
"Britt, what game are you playing now. He's with Maxie. He's made that clear more than once," said Sabrina wishing she could crawl under a rock and die. How desperate is she to be taking advice from the Britch.
"This isn't about Maxie. Here sit," she said leading her to a bench in the hallway. "He loves you and it's that simple. What's not so simple is the secret that's pulling you two a part."
"What secret?" asked Sabrina feeling a glimmer of hope that they might indeed end up together. Nathan never let on that he was keeping anything from her. Did she really know him as well as she thought she did.
"It's something that could land him in jail for a very long time. So before I betray my brothers confidence. I need to know that you love him that much. To keep it no matter what you hear," said Britt seriously.
"Of course," said Sabrina without hesitation.
"No, you need to really think about this. How many times did you turn me into Patrick?"
"You were telling one lie after the other to keep him. You never had his best interest at her heart and all you wind up doing was hurting him," said Sabrina incensed that even now she could think to play the victim.
"Right, I couldn't possibly love him," said Britt sarcastically regretting even coming here. She stood up to leave and stormed off.
"Wait," said Sabrina holding up her hand in a prayer. "I had no right to judge your relationship with Patrick. If you don't judge mine with Nate. I love him and I'm dying inside without him. I want to know if it's just in my head or if he could possibly love me too."
She turned around, "He does."
Sabrina shook her head and looked up at the ceiling blinking back tears. "I want to know that I'm not just some game he plays when he's tired of Maxie. So if this secret makes any difference tell me?"
Britt walked towards her slowly, stopping arms length away from her. "He asked me today what should he do about the two of you. I told him that he should stay with Maxie because there's no way you would accept him with the secrets he keeps."
"You did," Sabrina nodded the words coming out in a squeak as she rubbed at her red eyes. her vision becoming so blurry she could barely see who was standing in front of her. She guessed she did deserve that. It was just Karma for everything she had done.
Britt grabbed her hands, "But I'm going to need you to restore my faith in humanity, in love. That when you tell the truth. You can still get your happy ending the one I missed when I lied to Nicklous."
"Does he even love me?"
"He does chicka. He just doesn't want to hurt you by telling you that he knows who killed your baby."
"What!" said Sabrina taking her hand away from Britts.
"Rafe caused the car accident. Nathan's been hiding it because he believes Rafe's a good kid at heart, who just made a tragic mistake."
"Because he was on drugs at the time," said Sabrina too herself remembering all the things Nathan had said about him.
"Oh, I don't know I didn't ask for particulars?" shrugged Britt trying to gauge whether she was ready to run off and straight into the polices hands.
"I know. I sat across from that boy. I cheered him on at his football matches and all along they both were lying too me," said Sabrina anger dripping from her voice.
"If you've met the boy then you know that Nathan is right. He does deserve a second chance. Even if you don't believe that. You still won't say anything because you love him. Right?"
"I need to go," said Sabrina walking away.
"Wait, answer me first!"
"Back off!" screamed Sabrina holding up her hand to stop Britt from following her.
Britt watched her go, scared for what that meant for her brother. "Dammit," she thought kicking the wall with her pointed toe heels. Her mother would have her ass if anything happened to her brother and it was her fault. She had to do something.