"Survivor, ER Style: Part 3"
By: Adrienne
Spoilers: Everything through "Survival of the Fittest" except Elizabeth's pregnancy and Carter's relationship with Rena.
Disclaimer: I do not own "Survivor" or "ER" and make no money off of this story.
Author's Note: The rules and everything aren't exactly the same as on "Survivor", so please bear with me here. I live for feedback, so please email me!
Day 3
(Morning at the MI camp. Mark and Jing-Mei are hovering over a sleeping Malucci.)
Mark (shakes him): Dave, Dave wake up!
Dave (thinking he's at the hospital): Where's the patient?
Jing-Mei: No patient, Dave. We just figured we should wake you up from that bad dream that you were having.
Dave: What did I say?
Mark: Same as yesterday. That you love Dr. Weaver, you think she's beautiful, blah blah blah.
Dave: Did she hear?
Jing-Mei: No, but if you would like me to tell her…
Dave: NO!
Mark: So, Dave, do you really have a crush on Kerry?
Dave: The Chief? I don't know.
Jing-Mei: Well, why else would you be having those dreams about her?
Mark: It must be subconscious. These things often manifest themselves in dreams.
Dave: Really?
Jing-Mei: Yeah, didn't you learn that during your psych rotation?
Dave: Wow, I have a crush on the Chief. I can't believe it. I need to take a walk, sort things out.
Mark: Okay, we'll be getting breakfast with everyone else.
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Susan: I'm already sick of the rice. I don't know how much more of it I can take.
Dave: Hey, look what I found! (Holds up worms.)
Jing-Mei: What are those?
Dave: Worms, of course.
Jing-Mei: How sad that you're so easily amused.
Carter: Are you actually going to eat them?
Dave: Sure, they're good for protein.
Anna: That's sick.
Dave: Any of you lovely ladies care to join me in a romantic dinner.
Kerry: Of worms? You call that romantic?
Dave: I can make anything romantic, Chief. Care to experience the charm of David Malucci?
Kerry: Not particularly.
Dave: Please!
Kerry: I said no Dave.
Dave (disappointed): Fine. What about you Susan?
Susan: No thanks.
Dave: Come on, it'll be fun.
Mark: Leave her alone, Malucci.
Dave: Fine, fine.
(Doug walks in, carrying fish.)
Doug: Look what I caught!
Susan: Fish! Oh my God, I'm dying for something besides coconuts and rice!
Kerry: They look great, Doug.
Doug: Paws off, Weaver, they're mine.
Dave: I hate to interrupt this joyous occasion, but those fish are poisonous.
Doug: What? No, they're not. You're just bullshitting me, Malucci.
Dave: I'm serious!
Carter: He's probably right. Dave went to med school in Grenada, he knows all about this stuff.
Doug: Well, in that case, Weaver, they're all yours.
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(At the PE camp.)
Robert: Did you sleep well Lizzie?
Elizabeth: Yes, Robert, for the third time this morning, I slept very well.
Robert: Just trying to make conversation.
Elizabeth: You keep asking me the same questions over and over and it's becoming quite irritating.
Robert: Sorry…so, did you sleep well?
Elizabeth: Argh! (Whacks Robert on the head.)
Robert: What was that for?
Kim: You deserved that, you know.
Robert: You stay out of this. I know what you're up to, trying to get on Lizzie's good side so you can turn her into a lesbian. Well, I won't let it happen!
Kim: You know, some people say that homophobics only fear homosexuality because they're afraid of confronting their own sexuality and what they may find.
Robert: What are you implying?
Elizabeth (laughing): I think she's trying to say that you're a closeted homosexual.
Robert (grabs a torch and starts chasing Kim): You're gonna pay for that, Legaspi!
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(On the PE beach. Randi, Carol and Abby are tanning while Peter and Luka are collecting firewood.)
Peter: No fair. We do all the work, and the girls just lay around in the sun all day.
Luka: No kidding.
Peter: Hey, you three! Why don't you come over here and help us?
Randi: Why don't you try and make me?
Abby: Hey, I do all your scut work at the hospital, I deserve a break.
Carol: Yeah, I put up with your crap for six years, Peter. You can deal with a little manual labor.
Luka: Come on Abby, please?
Abby: Luka, I'm sure you're handling it just fine by yourself.
Luka: That's it.
(Luka walks over to where they are laying and picks Abby up.)
Abby: Hey! Luka, what are you doing!
(He ignores her protests and walks out into the ocean and throws her in.)
Abby (laughing and soaking wet): You are so gonna get it now, Kovac!
(She pushes him over and they begin splashing each other.)
Peter: Kovac, get your ass over here and help me!
Luka (laughing): I'm busy Peter! Why don't you go find Romano?
(Luka trips and falls on top of Abby.)
Luka: Having fun?
Abby: Definitely. (They kiss.) You know Carol and Randi are watching…
Luka: I don't care.
(Abby laughs and pushes him off her and into the water again, and runs up on shore, and Luka follows her. They are sitting on the beach drying off under the heat of the sun when they hear a scream.)
Randi: What the hell was that?
Carol: I don't know.
(Suddenly Kim and Romano still carrying his torch run out from the woods onto the beach.)
Kim: Somebody help me! He's gone insane!
Carol: Oh my God, he really has snapped!
(Robert's running down the beach towards Randi, who puts her foot out and trips him. He lands face first in the sand.)
Robert (spitting sand out of his mouth): No fair, she tripped me!
Kim: Well, you were trying to kill me!
Robert: Excuses, excuses.
Peter: Where's Elizabeth?
Robert: We left Lizzie all alone. It's your fault it she was killed by a wild boar, Legaspi!
(Robert starts running back in the direction he came from to find Elizabeth.)
Randi: What was that about?
Kim: He thinks I'm trying to turn Elizabeth into a lesbian, and I hinted that he may be hostile towards homosexuals because he is one, and is afraid to admit it.
(Everyone laughs.)
Carol: This is a lot more fun than I thought it would be.
Peter: Not for me, I'm the one doing all the work.
Carol: Lighten up, Peter. We're on a beautiful tropical island for god's sake.
Peter: I can't help it!
Luka: Maybe we should get back to camp.
Abby: Yeah, Elizabeth might've killed Romano by now.
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Abby: I'm glad everyone's having a good time, we needed a break from the ER. It's great to see Luka smile so much, I don't think I've ever seen him so happy. This is a whole other side of him I haven't experienced before.
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(That evening at the MI camp.)
Mark: Hey Susan.
Susan: Hey.
Mark: Want to take a walk up to that cliff? We can watch the sunset.
Susan: I'd love to.
(At the top of the cliff.)
Mark: So how are Chloe and Suzie doing?
Susan: Well, Chloe's…Chloe. Still irresponsible, still dating drug-addicted losers. Suzie's great though. She's seven now, and so smart. She says she wants to be a doctor like me.
Mark: That's what Rachel says too.
Susan: So what does Elizabeth do?
Mark: She's the Associate Chief of Surgery.
Susan: Wow…have you two set a wedding date?
Mark: Not yet, we figured we'd wait to do that after we come back from this.
Susan: Planning on having more kids?
Mark: Eventually…it'll be hard for Elizabeth because she works so much, though.
Susan: …Are you happy?
Mark: …Sometimes I'm not sure…but yeah, I think I am…you?
Susan: Not as much as I should be…I guess I regret so many things that I've done…I think about that day at Union Station all the time…
Mark: Me too…
Susan: Well, that's all in the past…we've both moved on.
Mark: Yeah.
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Mark: Have I really moved on? I do love Elizabeth. I love her with all my heart, it's just that I can't help but think what I could've had with Susan…maybe what I still could have. I loved her, but more than that, she was my best friend…
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Jing-Mei: You okay, John?
Carter: Yeah, I'm fine.
Jing-Mei: You sure?
Carter: …I guess maybe not.
Jing-Mei: What's wrong?
Carter: …Anna.
Jing-Mei: What's going on between you two?
Carter: I thought that I was completely over her…she left three years ago and now she's engaged.
Jing-Mei: …You're gonna be okay, John.
Carter: You know, I've been to hell and back this past year, and I thought I was doing just fine…but now, seeing her again…it just brings up bad memories.
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Jing-Mei: God, I knew this trip wasn't a good idea for John. He has enough to deal with, and now stirring up the past…I'm just afraid of what he might do.
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Anna: So you and Carol are in Seattle now?
Doug: Yup, for about a year.
Anna: Have any kids?
Doug: Twin girls, Tess and Kate. They're a year and a half.
Anna: Wow…You like it out there?
Doug: Yeah, it's great.
Anna: How do you like being a father?
Doug: It's incredible…I thought that I would be prepared for it, but I wasn't…everyday when I wake up, they're there, smiling and happy. These two beautiful little creatures that I helped create.
Anna: I always knew you'd be a good father, Doug.
Doug: What about you? I heard you're engaged to Max.
Anna: Yeah. He went through rehab, cleaned up his act.
Doug: …You know, Carter—
Anna: I know…and I don't want to hurt him…but I just don't feel the same way. He was a great friend to me, but it would be unfair to both of us if we got involved.
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Anna: What I told Doug is the truth; Carter is a great friend, but just a friend. I love Max, and though he may have problems, he's gotten through them, and I need to be there for him. I really don't want to hurt Carter…it almost makes me hope I get voted off first.
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Dave: Hey Chief.
Kerry: Hi Malucci.
Dave: …So, you like it on the island so far?
Kerry: It's okay, I guess…I miss running water.
Dave: I think everyone does…You know, this is kind of nice, us talking like this.
Kerry: Yeah, you're not as much of a narcissistic macho ruffian as I thought you were.
Dave: Well, I'll take that as a compliment.
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(Evening at the PE camp. Carol and Elizabeth are on the beach looking at the stars.)
Carol: Aren't the stars beautiful?
Elizabeth: Yes, they are.
Carol: Sometimes Doug and I lay on the roof of our house and just look at the stars for hours.
Elizabeth: Sounds romantic.
Carol: Yeah, it is…I miss Doug.
Elizabeth: I miss Mark.
Carol: So how did Mark propose?
Elizabeth: Well, we were looking at houses, and he told me to look in the freezer, because it had an ice cube maker, and the ring was in there.
Carol: That's sweet.
Elizabeth: It was…I was shocked, I couldn't believe he was proposing to me.
Carol: I'm glad you two found each other. He was so unhappy for so many years.
Elizabeth: After his divorce from Jenn?
Carol: No, it was later than that. It began on the day Susan left. I remember that day because Lydia got married…Mark was moping around and finally Doug just told him to go to Union Station to tell her how he felt.
Elizabeth: Who's Susan?
Carol: Susan Lewis, she was a resident in the ER. She's on the other team, actually.
Elizabeth: I had no idea.
Carol: Yeah, they were best friends, knew each other since med school. I think Mark was in love with her for a long time, he was just too scared to tell her.
Elizabeth (lost in thought and worry): Oh…
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Elizabeth: In a way I'm glad Carol told me about Susan, but now I just can't help but worry. I mean, I trust Mark, but what if this Susan tries to get back together with him? I don't know what I would do if I lost him…
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Peter: God, I hate Romano.
Kim: Doesn't everybody?
Peter: I mean, he thinks he can walk over anyone and get away with it.
Kim: That's because he does it every day.
Peter: I heard he fired you.
Kim: Yeah, a couple times, but I got rehired.
Peter: He did the same to me last fall.
Kim: Really?
Peter: Yeah, he got fined for some EMTALA violation, which I reported, so he fired me. It was ridiculous. I had just gotten the surgical attending position too. Why'd you get fired?
Kim: For being a lesbian.
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Robert: So, Randi, why exactly does everyone hate me?
Randi: Do you really want to know?
Robert: Yeah.
Randi: Okay…Everyone hates you because you're a bigoted, mean-hearted, inconsiderate, narcissistic, homophobic Fascist.
Robert: …Well, at least you're honest.
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Luka: I had a good time today.
Abby: Me too, except for that part where you threw me into the ocean.
Luka: You deserved it!
Abby: I did not!
Luka (seductively): Well, since you feel that way, how should I make it up to you?
Abby: I don't know.
Luka: Something like this? (He kisses her.)
Abby: Perfect.
(They continue kissing, and it becomes more passionate, as the screen fades to black.)
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Donald: So, that's the end of Day 3 of "Survivor, ER Style." Murder attempts, poison fish, worm eating, bad dreams and water fights; what else could you ask for? Join us next week, and oh, we'd like to remind Dr. Kovac and Nurse Lockhart that this is supposed to be a family show. Thank you, and good night.
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