"Patient with chest pains, they describe as severe, squeezing and tight, its ongoing and triggered by exposure to the cold, exertion and taking deep breaths. The patient feels relief when they rest. Its accompanied by dizziness and shortness of breath." Josh smiled at Gil. "What do they have?"
"Smoker or non smoker?" Gilbert asked.
"Non." Josh confirmed.
"Young or old?" he asked.
"Ummm," Josh said looking it up "Young, nine year old."
"I'm going with Asthma." Gilbert smiled. "Too easy." Gilbert said. "Come on man, give me something challenging."
"Alright alright!" Josh laughed. "Okay, patient with abdominal pain, Onset is intermittent or episodic, Triggered or worsened by eating certain foods Accompanied by diarrhea, passing gas and nausea and vomiting."
"Another young patient?" Gilbert asked.
"Yes, five year old." Josh confirmed.
"I'm going with lactose intolerant." Gilbert said.
"Ding ding ding!" Josh joked, "we have a winner!"
Gilbert's arms went up punching the air with a grin. "yes!"
"Its the old jock in you showing again." Josh smiled at Gilbert.
"I was never a jock," Gilbert said then James snorted. "Well I wasn't here." He said tapping his temple twice.
"No you just played football and class president and..."
"I was in high school!" Gilbert tried.
"I was taking about undergrad..." Josh smiled "sorry I missed the fact that you're a lamb."
The class was called to a close and Gilbert and Josh packed their bags up. "What are you planning for tonight?" Josh asked Gilbert.
"More of Clinical Medicine, followed by psych, with a little bit of Physical diagnosis to round off the evening."
"You need to get out more." Josh shook his head.
"I need to pass my exams." Gilbert replied "and anyway I'm not reclusive, Anne is on the other side of my internet connection." Gilbert smiled.
Josh smiled for a moment before he said "You miss her, don't you?"
"Yeah, I do." Gilbert admitted. "Even more then last year." He said quietly, "But I can't changed not having her here." Gilbert admitted. "I've got to get on, otherwise being away from her would be pointless."
"Come out for dinner?" Josh offered after a short pause. "Come on its late already and its a Friday, plenty of time to study over the weekend..."
"No, no really, I just want to get back." Gilbert said with a smile. "Another time, yeah?" Gilbert asked him as they started to part ways on the court square.
"Alright." Josh shrugged defeated. "Are you coming tomorrow to the study group."
"Yes, I'll be there." He confirmed and with that the two men parted ways.
It was a month into school and Gilbert dragged himself across town into his building and into the elevator. He was dog tired and overworked. He knew he was overworking but he couldn't help but work, if he stopped working he's only think about missing Anne, what was once a balm was now a tease, she was just there, he could see her, but not touch! And it killed him. He loved her and missed her, he dreamed of her most nights and wished she was beside him.
The elevator binged where the doors opened he saw Anne standing there waiting for him. His eyes widened his arms out and around her and his lips pressing into hers within seconds of seeing her. "Anne." He whispered when he pulled back for a second shrugging off his jacket and bag.
"I know its your birthday next weekend and I'll be here anyway but I missed you!" she told him barely letting go. "I couldn't wait another day." She said.
With those words he scooped her up in his arms and ran them into his bedroom.
"Aren't you meant to be working?" Anne asked him half an hour later.
"Shhh." He said to her his lips caressing the tips of her body.
"No but you are, right?" she tried again.
"Shh." He said again moving across to the other.
"We made love already." She told him "Now we need to concentrate."
"I am concentrating." He told her his hand reaching across to her making sure she felt him there. "On making up for lost time." He told her.
She giggled and relaxed back "You're very persuasive Gil."
He shrugged and said "I know you have a weakness for extension of intimacy." He acknowledged.
"Ummm." She voiced in acknowledgement. "That I do." She admitted then in that moment he looked up into her eyes "Hello." She grinned.
"Hello." He grinned back "I missed you too." He said with a cheeky smile.
"What?" she asked him.
He laughed and said "Out there, you said you couldn't wait another day that you missed me." He clarified.
"Right!" Anne laughed. "Yes, I did say that, well I have." She smiled.
"Do you have a meeting with the publishers?" he asked her his head looking up her body to her face.
"No," Anne smiled "its not the only reason I come and visit you know, I quite fancy you." She said with a grin.
"Oh thanks." Gilbert said returning the grin "That's just the kind of thing a girl should say to her fella." He sighed "and by way of return for the compliment your eyes look gorgeous today." He said laying next to her on the bed and stroking her hair. "I'm the luckiest fella in the world."
She looked into his eyes and smiled softly "That's funny because I think I'm the luckiest girl." She smiled before they kissed slowly and lightly. "Hey love?" she asked him.
"Yeah?" he asked her.
"Aren't you hungry?" she asked him.
"Do I need to get clothes on to eat?" he asked her.
"Depends." She shrugged "are we ordering in?"
"We don't have to." He admitted "I have tons of food from mom."
"Avonlea take out it is then." Anne smiled.
"Not now though," he whispered kissing her more on her body "I'm hungry in a completely different way." He flirted. He reached round her hair at last and asked her "may I?" he asked. She nodded and he gently took out her hair grip where her hair, he stroked it down her past her shoulders, his fingers playing with the red. "So perfect." He smiled his eyes not moving from her hair. "I've had dreams in this colour." He sighed before he leaned using her hair as a cushion he snuggled into her neck and started kissing her there.
"Hey beautiful," he smiled his hair ruffled he looked confused standing in the doorway in nothing but his boxers he looked to her confused, her hair was in a messy bun she only had on one of his shirts as she moved round the kitchen.
"Hey you." She smiled, "You fell asleep, I thought you'd be actually hungry by the time you woke up so I thought I'd whip something up." She smiled at him as he came and snuggled into her back.
"Mmmm..." he murmured sleepily. "You're taking care of your man?" he asked her.
"I am." She smiled as he kissed into her neck.
"I'm not sure how this is more of a turn on." He whispered to her. "I thought you were perfect before."
"Well," she smiled and said "it helps when I have a teacher like your mom."
"My mom? You've been spending time with my mother?"
Anne smiled and nodded "she's showing me how you like all your food, I think she's worried I'll do it wrong or I don't know how to cook."
"Do you?" he asked her.
"I do." She confirmed. "You're mother calls me a natural but I've had some disasters in the kitchen." She smiled.
"Oh?" Gilbert asked.
"I was using a hand blender one day and the pan was still on the hob, I was whizzing up a soup, whiz and whiz and whiz, only to pull it out to have the plastic melted in the heat of the pan." Gilbert chuckled as she continued "and then of course there was one day I burnt a salad." She said.
"You burnt a salad?" he asked.
"Well it was in a bun, well a burger, I put it all in the microwave and the lettuce caught fire."
With that Gilbert started laughing heartily. "Oh my Anne-Girl!" he smiled still laughing, "well I don't need feeding really!"
"But I can cook now." She smiled to him "Marilla has taught me well." She said her little nose turning up.
"Come on then." He said with a smile "show me what you've got." He smiled. He watched her for a moment and he said "Oh, tomorrow morning I have a study session planned with the lads." He said suddenly remembering, he looked nervously to Anne which made her smile.
"Its okay." She said. "I have to re-write a section of my book, I should go somewhere which will inspire the thoughts, we can meet up after your study session if you like?" she offered.
Anne sat in the gazebo and took a deep sigh. She never meant for the book to be as personal as this, however the information was alluded to in another one of her tales, where the publishers asked her to expand on that story. She had thought to object but the words never left her mouth, and now she must write. She sighed looking at the old wooden faded sides of it, some of the memories were harsh but...
"Anne?" she heard the familiar voice which snapped her out of her thoughts.
"Roy." She said looking at him in amazement, she stood up quickly her cheeks colouring slightly but to her surprise he smiled at her and said friendly
"Hello."
"Hello." She said to him. "Um, how are you?" she asked him confused.
"I'm well, good, what are you doing here?" he asked her.
"Oh, I'm um, visiting my boyfriend." She said quietly.
"Gilbert." He said to her simply.
She paused for a moment looking for any sign of anger as she replied, "Yes."
He nodded and said "I saw on Facebook." He said with a nod, "you got together with him, not long after we spilt up."
"No, it wasn't that long." She admitted.
"Was he the one you talked about?" he asked her to which she nodded silently "I thought so," he acknowledged "You look happy." He acknowledged. They were silent for a moment before he asked her "Come for a coffee with me?" he asked her. "I want to tell you something."
They walked quietly to the coffee shop where they entered Roy ordered his coffee and almost ordered Anne's when she cut in "Iced Tea please?" she asked. "Here let me..." she started getting out her purse.
"No, please please Anne, let me?" Roy insisted, which she nodded. "You switched back to tea." He observed.
"I prefer it." She said finally admitted to him.
He looked to her shocked for a moment before he shook his head for a moment. They remained quiet again until they sat down he watched her for a moment before he said to her "I'm not angry at you Anne," he told her "in fact I wanted to find a way of reconnecting with you." He admitted.
"Oh?" Anne asked nervously.
"I found her." He told her with a twinkle in his eye, Anne looked confused for a moment before it hit her as he described "I met her at Dolly's debutante ball, I know I know what you're thinking its awfully late for a debutante ball now, and for what its worth I agree, but Doll has been insistent on being as normal as possible but mother finally broke her." Anne shook her head with a slight grin on her face, no it certainly was not what she was thinking but all the same "Anyway she was there for her little sisters debutante ball too and it turns out she is an heiress of her own fortune, so she would have no interest in mine, she was after true and real love and she understands, she understands what I want to do with my father's money and she agrees with me that my sisters should get a look in and a say and she's awesome actually she's going to be a lawyer and she smart and funny..."
"Your mother?" Anne asked him.
"Hates her," Roy said with a huge smile on his face "she has an unbending view and a loving heart and my mother does not phase her." He said "and I'm glad." He said taking Anne by her hands "You were right, my mother can't do anything, Jessica is in my social circle, my mother knows she's an heiress in her own right she has no interest in our money, she could live quite well off her own and so she obviously knows the responsibility of such a fortune and I'm free! I'm free of her grasp and I'm in love!" he proclaimed. "And I do love her Anne." Anne smiled at him fondly then looked down at their hand confused as to why his hands were still there "Oh sorry." He said taking his hands away with pink cheek.
"Its okay." She said with a smile. "Actually I wanted to connect with you, funnily," she said. "its about the way I approached, or didn't approach sex with you." She started.
"I'm sorry." He said immediately.
"S-sorry?" she questioned.
"Yes, sorry." He confirmed "I should never have cheated on you and I should never have tried to force you to go quicker then you wanted." She sat quietly for a moment before he asked "What?"
"Just I had some friends who are in an on again off again sort of relationship," she admitted quietly "and I know both of them really well and the guy has been sleeping with other girls in the 'off' parts and I thought maybe I'd been too hard on you." She said quietly "because he's a decent guy." She added.
He nodded thoughtfully before he said "Is he manipulating the relationship so he could go and have sex with other people? Deliberately make it so they are 'spilt up' because he knows she'll take him back?" he asked.
"N-no," she said. "No, its not like that."
Roy spoke softly looking at his coffee he admitted "I was." She looked at him wordlessly before he continued "it was wrong of me to treat you so badly Anne, I was controlling and manipulative, I want you to know, I was scared of loosing you."
"You did." Anne reminded him.
"I know." He told her and then with a grin he admitted "something came over you those last couple of months, some mischief some- thing..." he took a sip of his coffee and asked "you were back in contact with Gilbert weren't you?" he asked. She looked up at him as he looked at her a grin spread across both their faces. "You'll come to my wedding?" he asked her.
Anne looked to him "Wow!" Anne admitted "You aren't wasting anytime are you?" she asked him.
He smiled and admitted "I don't have much time to waste." He admitted "Jessica and I, we can make it work." He told her. Anne smiled and he said "You can bring Gilbert to the wedding, I always liked Gilbert, he's a good man," he tempted her "to show no hard feelings, please?"
Anne smiled and nodded "I'll see if Gilbert would like to." Anne said.
"You still at your Avonlea address?" Roy asked.
"Um, yes." Anne acknowledged.
Roy looked at her again before he said "it's good to see you again Anne." He told her before he commented "you have that necklace back on." He observed.
"Yeah." She said. "its part of me." She said proudly.
He looked at it confused for a moment "it looks different, is it missing a ring?" he asked her.
"Yeah." Anne said quietly "I gave it to Gilbert." She admitted.
Roy looked surprised before he said "and that little pink heart, you've added it..." he said nodded "from Gilbert."
She smiled "Yeah."
"Wow." He nodded. "You're in deep!" Roy said.
"Yeah." She confirmed.
He looked at her and said "You've had sex with him, haven't you?" he asked her. She blushed looking away before he sighed heavily went to say something then stopped himself then said "Good for you." Then added "He's a lucky man."
Anne looked at him and said quietly "Thank you."
He sat back and took a sip of his coffee before he asked "So what were you doing in our gazebo?"
"Oh, I'm um, I'm writing a novel." She said quietly.
"Really?!" he exclaimed "I didn't think you wanted to after Averil, I thought you thought it was a waste of time...!" he exclaimed.
"No," Anne said quietly looking at her tea "You told me it was a waste of time..." they were silent for a moment before Anne continued "Anyway I'm working with a publisher and there was a scene which was inspired by our first meeting and they wanted me to expand on it and so I went back there to try and capture the moment in my mind."
"You wrote something, based on me?" he asked her.
"Sort of." She said with a shrug. "Gil said inspiration is all around us, he gave me the idea in the first place, but its sort of the idealised version you know, one for the real romantics, so yes it is partly based on you."
He looked at her wide eyed "What will you write about me?" he asked.
"All the lovely things, all the kind things you are." She said. "Is that okay?" she asked.
He smiled and said "You're being too kind." He admitted. "Can I read it? In the book when it comes out?" he asked.
"Sure." She confirmed.
"Did I interrupt your inspiration?" he asked.
"No." She said taking a sip of her tea "No, you really didn't I think, I think bumping into you was just what needed to happen."
"So Gilbert is here? In Kingsport?" he asked.
"Yes, he's at medical school, he's just a month into his second year." Anne said.
"Wow!" Roy exclaimed "Well I knew the fellow was smart but I had no idea..."
"Oh, yes!" Anne exclaimed quickly "He is really, really smart!"
Roy looked to her surprised by her reaction "That attracts you to him." He observed.
Anne blushed with a grin on her face "Yeah." She whispered before her phone beeped in her pocket, she pulled it out looking at it for a moment "Its Gil, he's finished at his study class." Anne said "My cue." She said with a smile. "Thank you for the tea." She said.
"Your welcome." Roy said to her as she stood up, she smiled at him before she headed for the door. "Hey Anne?" he called after her she turned around and looked at him. "All the best."
She smiled and nodded "Thanks Roy," she said "you too."
"And then Micheal misdiagnosed the paper patient with Heart arrhythmia when it was hyperthyroidism." Gilbert chuckled as they came out of the elevator into the apartment.
"Wouldn't that be dangerous?" Anne asked him seriously.
"If the patient was real yeah." Gilbert admitted. "the real trick is understanding that nervousness can sometimes feel like anxiety or stress, the dizziness and light-headedness isn't necessarily..." he started when she captured his lips in surprise.
"You sound so smart when your diagnosing." She flirted her arms surrounding him.
"Ummm." He sounded appreciatively. "How was..." he lost his thoughts for a moment in her kisses before he tried again "how was your morning?"
"Oh, good." Anne said bringing her lips down to his neck "I bumped into Roy and we had a chat." She told him before she tried to return to his lips.
He pulled back and looked at her confused "Roy?" he asked her with a lump in his throat.
"Yeah." Anne tried to pull herself back into his arms when he pulled away an unfamiliar look on his face. "He saw me at the gazebo we met in..." Anne started.
"You went to the place you met him?" Gilbert asked her a feeling pitting in his stomach.
"Gil." She started as he pulled away and sat on the cuddle chair.
"You spent the morning with your ex?" he asked, Anne looked to him confused for a the few moments of silence between them before he asked "Is that why you came Anne, to catch up with Roy?" he asked her looking slightly hurt.
"What?!" she exclaimed. "No, no, don't be ridiculous!" Anne exclaimed "I come here to be with you!" she told him. "Gil we just met, I went out there to get some inspiration for a story in my book and we bumped into each other, we went to a coffee house he bought me tea we chatted he's getting married heavens..." she looked at his face and melted for a moment "are you jealous?" she asked him.
He shrugged as she sat on his knee, "You get all turned on and tell me you've spent the morning with him."
"I get turned on because you talk smart." She giggled, sitting down putting her arms around him "I think you're adorable when your jealous." His cheeks blushed for a moment before she whispered "Yes, I spent maybe an hour with Roy, but you want to know something amazing?" she asked Gilbert "in that whole hour there wasn't a single moment I didn't thank God I wasn't with Royal Gardner." Anne smiled. "You know I love you right?" she whispered. "I'm a total sapiosexual." She flirted.
His lips upturned and said "You're turned on by smart guys?" he asked her.
"Oh yeah." She whispered kissing his earlobe gently "and you know its a turn on you know what a sapiosexual is." She flirted. "You are so hot!" she assured him. "I love you Gil." She whispered to him "and there's only ever been you..." She said straddling on either side of his legs, she looked at his hand put his hand on her chest over her heart "...here. " she whispered looking up at him. She smiled sweetly "You still jealous?" she asked.
"No." He shook his head and he started to relax as she kissed into his neck again "Did you know there was a study done on jealousy..." he started "where they put some female monkey view of their male monkey partners with other male monkeys and the male monkeys partners showed heightened activity in the cingulate cortex – associated with social pain in humans – and the lateral septum – associated with pair bonding in humans. Combined, it looks like the feeling of jealousy is strongly connected to a stain on bonding and feelings of social rejection." He told her.
Anne pulled back and looked at him "Awww." She sounded sadly.
"The jealous males also showed elevated levels of the hormones testosterone and cortisol. This latter chemical, an indicator of social stress, was greatest in those that spent the most time looking at their partner next to a stranger male."
Anne looked sadly at him and stroked back his hair "You don't need to feel jealous with the other monkey's Gil." She said gently and they both chuckled "You can lower that cortisol hormone." She grinned.
He looked proudly at her "Good for you!" he said referring to her remembering the name of the hormone.
"As for the testosterone, lets see if we can make use of it." she said with a smile kissing him teasingly "hey, would this technically be make up sex?" she asked him.
He smiled and looked at her between kisses "make up sex?" he questioned.
"Well yeah, we had an argument..."
"If you can call it an argument..." he inserted.
"...and now we're making up for it." She shrugged, which for some reason made him start chuckling. "What?" she asked.
"Oh my god!" he exclaimed "was our first time technically make up sex?" he asked still chuckling which made Anne start giggling with him. "Oh, Oh I'm so glad we can do this." He continued.
"Have..." she looked at him confused "have make up sex?" she questioned.
He laughed "Well yes, but joke, have a good laugh." He smiled.
She sat back on his knee and nodded, "You know its something else I really missed about you when you were gone, we could always joke we could always laugh we could always cheer each other up." She admitted.
"Could Roy not?" he asked her, the hint of jealously still lingering a little in his voice.
"No, he never could." She admitted looking him in the eyes. "See, I'm a humorsexual? Is that even a word? I'm a humorsexual and a sapiosexual." She told him "and plus, you're really really hot!"
He smiled and looked at her again "well I suppose if those are the things which really turn you on..." he said with a smile.
"Oh they are!" she exclaimed before she claimed his lips as her own.
