A question will be answered for you guys in the next chapter...I actually already have it typed up and ready to go for you guys. In this chapter it's just going to be some Carlisle/Brooke stuff at the hospital...expect something...steamy. :D

Chapter 25

The following evening I walked through the doors that lead into the Forks Hospital waiting room.

I had not yet had the luxury of seeing Dr. Cullen since my return. Bella, Edward, and I had arrived late from Alaska, and I was too exhausted to do anything. So I went straight to sleep upon my return home.

That morning I had visited my grandfather, and picked up my cat to take her back to my apartment. While I was there, my grandfather and I made arrangements to meet for lunch on Thursday.

Dr. Cullen had to work the night shift that night, so I was going to work as well. He knew I was coming, so I wasn't surprising him by showing up.

I noticed Gertrude sitting at her desk, and she noticed me as well. She looked up from what she was doing at the computer and smiled at me.

I decided to enter the danger zone and approach her.

"Hello Gertrude." I said, putting a smile on my face. "How are you?"

She squealed in delight. "Just wonderful Brookie...just wonderful! It's so nice to have you back for good!"

"Thank you."

"Gosh you really don't know how much you were missed around here. Especially by me. I've gone crazy with all of these files." She said, throwing a few papers behind her. I wasn't sure how that helped the filing situation.

"Yes, I guess I usually help you with those...don't I?" I said.

She nodded. "You truly are a lifesaver Brooke."

I laughed. "Have you been working on your high score?"

She grinned. "Yes...still haven't beat Dr. Cullen out though. Darn him for being so perfect."

"Yes, it's not very fair that he's so perfect...is it?" I said.

"Gertrude." A nurse said, approaching the desk. "These are all clean now." She said, setting a stack of bed sheets on the desk.

"Alright...thank you Quinn." Gertrude said, pushing some papers aside to make room for the sheets.

I looked around the waiting room and noticed it was empty.

"Is business a little slow tonight?" I asked.

"Oh yes." She said, taking off her glasses to polish them for a moment. "Which in our field...I guess very little business is a very good thing."

"Yes...it is." I said, nodding my head in approval.

"You should see the emergency room! There's no one in there!"

"No one?"

"No one...not one person."

"Wow, that is good...I guess." I said, shrugging my shoulders.

"Yes I suppose it is." She replied, replacing her glasses to their respective spot. "Speaking of the emergency room...that's where those sheets need to go."

"I'll take care of them." I said, lifting the stack of sheets into my arms.

Gertrude smiled at me. "I absolutely love you Brooke."

I laughed. "Thank you Gertrude!" I replied, as I disappeared down the hall that led to Dr. Cullen's private office.

I stopped in there only momentarily to put on my lab coat and drop off my purse, then I picked the sheets back up and began my hike to the emergency room.

Gertrude certainly was right...there wasn't a soul in the emergency room. The light wasn't even on. However I didn't bother to turn it on, since I knew that was going to be a hard task to accomplish while holding a large stack of sheets. Besides, there was enough moonlight streaming in from the room's one sole window that I could see well enough.

Two beds on the right side of the room, near the back wall, were not made, so I assumed that was where the sheets belonged.

I walked over to the bed closest to the wall, which was also directly under the window. As I was making the bed I looked outside and noticed there was a full moon out that night.

I moved over to the second bed, and finished making it quickly. When I was done, I stood back with my hands on my hips and admired my handy work. While I was standing there I thought I saw a hole in the curtain that separated the bed from the bed beside it. I walked over to the curtain to investigate, and sure enough, there was a baseball-size hole toward the bottom of the curtain. I made a mental note to tell Dr. Cullen about that.

I turned around and looked out the window again, simply admiring the beauty of the moon. I walked back over to the right side of the bed and sat down, that way I could look out the window better. I wasn't sure how long I sat there, but I was very content to simply sit there and let my mind unwind.

All of a sudden, I heard a noise, so I turned around to see what it was.

He had entered the room, and the noise I heard was the sound of the doors opening. The sight of him was enough to instantly send my heart racing. His white lab coat was flowing behind him, and he appeared as though he was walking on air. His angelic smile was plastered all over his face, and the moonlight streaming into the room hit him just right.

This all made me remember what I thought when I first met him, that every time he moved it was like a choir should be singing somewhere behind him.

"Hello my dear." He said, looking down at me, his smile never leaving his face.

I didn't respond...I couldn't respond.

He laughed and sat down beside me on the bed. He leaned over and gently kissed my cheek.

"I am very glad that you are back." He said, resting one of his hands on my knee.

I nodded, still unable to speak.

He laughed again. "Gertrude told me that you were probably in here. But in the dark?"

I looked down, feeling my cheeks turn hot. "I didn't feel like turning on the light."

"Ah." He said, smiling at me. He obviously noticed the not-so-normal expression on my face. "Are you okay?"

"Am I okay?" I said, laughing a little myself. "Oh I'm just peachy. I simply cannot breathe, my heart's racing at an erratic pace, and I swear I nearly wet myself...but other than that...life is great."

He laughed, this time a little louder. The sound was heavenly, and I would compare it to the sound of church bells ringing.

"You cannot do that to people!" I said.

"Do what?"

"Just enter a room like that and expect people not to immediately develop heart problems because of it."

He laughed. "You didn't actually urinate...did you?"

"No! Gosh no! I have a little bit of bladder control."

"Just wondering." He replied...a smile creeping onto his face.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing...it's just that I never knew that I caused females to lose such control of their bodily functions simply because I entered a room."

I shook my head. "No I believe you are fully aware of that."

He shrugged. "Ah, perhaps I am." He removed his hand from my knee and moved to lay down on the bed.

I looked over at him. "What are you doing?"

"Laying down. That fantastic entrance knocked the wind out of me as well."

I laughed and decided to lay down beside him. "So you do plan your entrances?"

"Well of course." He replied, wrapping an arm around me. I snuggled closer to him, resting my head on his chest. "Brooke dear...you should know by now that I am slightly full of myself."

"Slightly...that's an understatement."

"Maybe it is." He said, shifting his gaze to the window. "You know...it's a very...sexy in here."

Did he just say sexy?

"I didn't know sexy was part of your vocabulary."

"It is my love, it is." He said.

"How is it sexy in here?" I asked.

"I don't know." He replied, still looking out the window. "Just the dark, and the moonlight coming in from the window...it makes it a very seductive atmosphere." He turned his gaze back to me, and I starred right into his brilliant, topaz-gold eyes.

Any female with common sense would be turned on by Dr. Cullen simply by hearing his voice. I of course...was no exception. However, I had never really pushed the physical side of our relationship. Like I had told Lacey, we really didn't need to. Whenever we would make out, it never was anything too steamy or over-the-top. We were both always very careful with how far we took things. In the whole year I had been dating him, I had never really thought about expanding the physical side of the relationship even farther.

But here recently I was thinking about him in that way more. I didn't know if it had to do with the fact that I had missed him a lot while I was in Alaska, and now I wanted to be even closer to him, or if it had to do with the talk I had with Lacey about a month ago, or if it was related to a comment Emmett had made to me on the phone earlier that afternoon...asking me if his father and I had ever "Played doctor." Yet...to quote him.

I had always been one to believe in waiting after marriage..and in truth I figured I still was that way.

Starring into Dr. Cullen's eyes wasn't making the situation any better.

Then I thought about something. Why was he bringing up the seductive atmosphere? What was on his mind? Was he thinking that way as well?

"What are you implying?" I asked him, not moving my eyes from his perfect face.

"What do you mean?" He asked, almost whispering, as he moved closer to me.

"What are you implying...about the atmosphere being seductive and all?" It was very hard to form complete sentences when he was so close to me. "Are you trying to say that we should get it on in the emergency room?"

He laughed again, but softer than before. "No Brooke. Gosh you are so wrong."

"Oh." I said, suddenly feeling very embarrassed.

"Everyone knows the doctor and his assistant get it on in his private office."

A grin instantly appeared across his face.

"You are terrible." I said, shaking my head in disbelief...but I was smiling.

He placed one hand on my cheek. "Really? Am I really so terrible?"

"Yes." I replied.

"Well..." He said, moving his face even closer to mine...if that was even possible. "Let me see if I can change your mind."

And with that he kissed me, this time much more passionate than ever before. I felt something different in this kiss, something different than I had felt in any of our kisses before. I found myself simply wanting to get closer to him.

Both of his hands slid down my side to rest right along the middle of my waist. I secured my arms around his neck, placing one hand higher than the other...as I pulled his head closer to me. I pressed my lips harder against his in an effort to get everything out of this that I could.

After some time he moved to kiss along my neck, and this allowed me to catch my breath for a moment. He would always return back to my lips though, each time kissing me a little more passionately than before.

It was almost odd, kissing him in a sense. His lips were hard, and cold. But yet at the same time it was so enjoyable, and such an overwhelming sensation that none of those oddities seemed to matter.

I don't know why...but I had this insane desire to take this a little further than I normally wanted it to go. I found my hands reaching up around his shoulders, trying to remove his lab coat. I succeeded, and much to my immense pleasure...he didn't protest.

At some time I became aware that I was no longer laying on my side, and that Dr. Cullen was over top of me. Realizing this only made me more excited, and I soon found my hands moving to remove his tie.

The whole time he still continued kissing me, and I swore I was in another world. I had almost managed to remove his tie, when all of a sudden an announcement blared over the loudspeaker.

"Dr. Cullen, you are wanted in room 73."

He stopped kissing me then, and I groaned in response. He got up and fixed his tie while I muttered random curse words under my breath.

His eyes drifted to the floor, where he noticed his lab coat. "What is that doing there?" He asked.

I was still laying down, because I did not feel like I was able to do much at that moment.

He picked it up and laughed as he put it back on. "Well you obviously were the culprit there."

"My bad." I said, closing my eyes as I tried to remember how breathing worked.

He laughed. "I'll see you in a minute my dear." He said, before leaving the room. Lucky for him his hair wasn't messed up, poor Gertrude would come to so many crazy assumptions.

I wasn't sure how he could walk after kissing me like that, and I wondered if I would be able to walk myself. I doubted it, since I was still having difficulty performing basic tasks such as breathing.

I remained where I was for a little longer, before I gathered up enough strength to somehow make it to his office. He was already in there when I came in.

"Stupid loudspeakers...they deserve to be shot." I said, collapsing into the chair behind his desk.

"Yes you never really have been fond of loudspeakers...have you my dear?"

"They suck."

He laughed. "I guess I could understand where you are coming from." He looked over at me, and laughed again when he saw the expression on my face. "I bet that affected you much more than my entrance into the emergency room."

"I won't fight you on that one." I replied as he walked over to where I was sitting. I turned the chair around to face him.

"So tell me something Brooke."

"Alright."

"Do you believe that the phrase "hiding our relationship in public" means "remove my clothing in the hospital emergency room.""

"Um...no." I replied, smiling. "And hey...you weren't arguing against it."

He smiled. "You are very right...I was not."

"Then you shouldn't be pointing fingers at me."

"Of course...of course." He replied, walking toward the door. "Come on...I know you would rather be doing something else, but we unfortunately have work to do."

I blushed as I got up and followed him down the hall. As I was walking, I looked up and noticed one of the speakers that the announcements could be heard over.

"I hope you tell your inventor that they are a terrible, terrible person." I said to it , and according to the sound of angelic laughter...I knew that Dr. Cullen heard me.

Well I hope you like that one. Haha...that was very fun to write. ;)

Thanks for reading...please shoot me a review with what you think so far!

~Hazl~