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Emma continued to settle into her routine at Rittenhouse. She seemed to be doing well with her caseload even though one of her clients threatened to blow up RWHC and they had to have him committed. Her supervisor was great and everyone seemed impressed with her work overall. However, it turned out that Jerkson had threatened Nick with his job if he did not break up with Dana so they were seeing one another outside of RWHC behind his back. Lana was a lot of fun and Lu was nice but there was just something about Peter. He seemed so distant to her and she could not figure out why. Anytime she spoke to him, he barely smiled or mumbled two words. What was with this guy?

One afternoon, Emma was in the file room searching for some records of some patients that were moved to the Psyc ward after being examined by MD's. When she was in the room, she heard footsteps on the other side of a row of files. As she turned the corner, she saw that Peter was also in the room. Emma approached him with ease.

"Hi Peter, how are you? "

Peter turned and saw who it was. He mustered up a serious face and went cold.

"Hi!" He spoke rather abruptly

"So, how are you doing?"

"Fine" he stated with that same cold tone.

"So, what brings you down here to this part of the hospital?"

"What do you think brings me down here?"

"Well, it looks to me like you are searching for some files"

"Good observation" he stated in that same manner as he walked away towards the door.

Emma was puzzled, what was WRONG with this guy? What was his deal that he had to be so nasty? She would see him and he would barely speak. He had that same cold look in his eyes and why? Well, enough was enough. Emma was soon going to find out..before he could open the door to leave the room, Emma called him and he stopped and turned around.

"What" he demanded.

"Peter, look. I do not know how to say this without trying NOT to sound harsh so I am just going to say it. I have noticed you seem to be mad at me or something. Would you mind telling me what is wrong?"

Peter looks at her with the same coldness in his eyes.

"I have no idea what you are talking about" he stated coldly

Emma suddenly steps forward. Her demeanor changes from one of friendliness to defensiveness.

"Oh pullleeeze!"

At this point, Peter raises his voice and gets a little more defensive himself.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me, you can hear"

"Now, what did you mean by that remark, humm?"

At this point, Emma raises her own voice and Peter shuts the door to the room.

"I speak to you, am pleasant with you and what do you do? You blow me off. You have barely mumbled two words to me since I have been here. What IS your problem"

"Oh I think you are mistaken. If you will excuse me, I have work to get.."

"Oh don't EVEN go there, Peter" she interrupted

"It's not Peter, it's Nurse Riggs. NOW, if you will excuse"

"Hold up NURSE RIGGS!" She emphasizes, "I am not through here.."

"Look, I do not have time for.."

Suddenly Emma grabs his arm. She looks up into his eyes, reaches up and kisses him on the lips. He shoves her backwards and she steps back catching her balance. He shakes his shirt like she had just contaminated it with some disease.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? ARE YOU NUTS?" He storms.

Emma just smiles, NOW she has gotten what she wanted, a reaction out of him.

"Oh Peter, you KNOW you enjoyed it"

"NO, I DID NOT!"

"Aww come on, you KNOW you want more"

"What I want is for you to leave me alone" He yells with his face 50 shades of red.

Emma just smiles and stands there. Suddenly, her eyelids narrow.

"No, who do YOU think you are and how DARE you resist me!" She says cunningly.

Peter is furious now. His face is red, he just yells at her. Because the room is soundproof, nobody else around can hear a word being said between the two.

"Look little girl, I know WHO you are and WHERE you come from! You think you have everyone here fooled but I was right about you all along. Just some spoiled little rich girl coming in here trying to play savior to all of these people. BUT, you are just evil to the core and I saw it from the first day I met you! You think you have everyone fooled but you NEVER had me fooled, not for a minute!"

Emma continues to look at him with evil in her eyes. Then proceeds in her cunning manner

"Ok, you think you know me? Huh? You THINK you know me? So, who are you gonna run and tell, hum? Do you think anyone will believe ANYTHING you say if you leave this room and tell what happened in here?"

"So, what are you saying, Emma?"

"Peter, don't mess with me" She says in that same devious voice. I have more money than you and yes, money talks and it talks quickly. You leave this room and tell one person what happened in here and I will make sure that you NEVER work another day in not only this hospital but the State of Pennsylvania, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?"

Peter looks at her pathetically and just shakes his head.

"You make me sick and you know what little girl, you do not scare me, not one little bit" he whispers.

Next, he opens the door, turns around to look at her with disgrace and THEN, walks out slamming the door behind him. Emma just stands there and smiles. She opens the door, walks to the back of the hospital and walks up the stairs to collect her purse. Before she leaves, she walks into a restroom down the hall. Making sure nobody is around, she walks in and shuts herself in a stall. Next, she bangs her left knee against the toilet despenser making room for a bruise to form. She tears a hole in her hose where she knocked her knee. Then, she takes the handle that holds the toilet paper and hits it against her chest a couple of times and then across her left eye. She walks out of the stall and to the mirror. No bruises yet, darn! So, she takes her hands and ruffles up her hair to make it look like she was in a fight. Then, takes her make-up and rubs eye shadow on her left eye along with blush. Also, on her chest and knees where she banged them up earlier. She tears on both sleeves of her dress, puts eyedrops in her eyes to make herself teary eyed and walks back downstairs. As she made sure nobody was around, she went and knocked on Dana's door. Dana was sitting at her desk writing in her files.

"Come in" says Dana not looking up.

Emma walks in slowly and Dana looks up. Her eyes light up with shock.

"OMG, Emma! What on earth happened to you?"

Emma starts to cry (but not enough to ruin the make-up job on her eye) and Dana comes over and puts her arms around her. They go and sit on the sofa.

"Dana, it was so horrible" Emma cries

Dana keeps her arms around her and tries to comfort her.

"Emma, I cannot help you if you do not tell me what is wrong" Dana says softly

Emma cries "It's Peter"

Dana looks shocked. "Peter? What has he got to do with this?" Dana asks while confused at the same time.

"Oh Dana, He..he.." Emma starts to really turn those tears on now

"Shhh, take your time. What happened?" she asks gently

"Oh Dana, he ATTACKED ME!"

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