CAT FIGHT!!!!

PG - For language. Okay, short chapter. I was gonna tag on the next scene to this chapter, but I thought this should stay in and of itself alone. This is my favorite chapter, yet.

Thanks RR Fan. I actually didn't know how to spell 'dyke.' I'm a little naïve. Thanks. The typos are fixed on chapter 12. Right after I uploaded it, I went back to correct those things, but then the site wouldn't let me back on all night and then it wouldn't let me upload things until now.

Chapter 13 - Cat Fight

"You cold-hearted bitch."

"Elizabeth, this doesn't concern you."

Elizabeth had slammed the door open to Robert's old office so hard it left an indentation on the side wall as it banged loudly against it. Elizabeth had obviously found things out from the nurses quickly. It hadn't even been an hour.

"Like Hell it doesn't!"

"He had it comin'."

"Oh, give it a rest, Kerry. What are you playing at?"

"He should have been fired years ago. He's argumentative. He doesn't respect authority-"

"He doesn't respect you, you mean."

"He doesn't respect anyone!" Elizabeth just folded her arms in front of her and raised her eyebrows snootily for only a split second. It was almost undetectable.

Kerry continued, "He's rude to patients. He's rude to nurses. It was one thing for him to be in surgery, but it's a whole 'nother ballgame down there and he wasn't hackin' it."

"Oh that's a load of crock, Kerry! What is this really about? How could you do this to him after everything he's been through?"

"I don't have anything more to say on the subject." At that statement she didn't look at Elizabeth. She merely went looking back down at the papers on her desk. Her lips were thin and she looked nervous.

Elizabeth just stood there staring at her with her mouth hanging open. The light dawned for Elizabeth.

"This is about you," Elizabeth stated directly.

"No-"

"Yes!" Elizabeth practically laughed with her mouth still hanging open shocked. Subsequently, she shut her mouth and got stern. "I knew you could be low, Kerry, and do whatever it took to get ahead no matter who you hurt along the way, but to destroy someone once you got there just out of spite I never knew you were capable of." She put a strong emphasis on 'spite' and whipped that sentence out in one breath so fast, it was barely comprehensible.

Kerry just sat there staring at Elizabeth unmoved. Elizabeth continued. She was starting to get a little emotional. "I can't believe you did this."

There was another long pause before Elizabeth continued. "So this isn't just some game to show him you have control over him or something. You're really not going to hire him back?"

"No," Kerry said quite clearly.

Elizabeth just looked away, but didn't leave and didn't speak. She was torn between trying to say something that would change Kerry's mind or to just say what she wanted and lash out irrationally.

Kerry then turned on the sympathetic attitude she always put on when she wanted to take the focus off of herself and her own faults. She wasn't really conscious of the fact that she did this so frequently. It just sort of came automatically.

"Elizabeth, I think it's clear what the real problem here is. You're obviously letting your personal feelings cloud your rational judgment of the situation." Her words came from her mouth like sweet venom.

Elizabeth looked back at Kerry exasperated. Her eyebrows were raised as high as they could possibly go. "I beg your pardon."

Kerry just went back to work seeing that all she did was get Elizabeth riled again. "I think this conversation is over," she said cordially.

"No...no! I don't think so. I want to know what you're implying." Elizabeth said defensively.

"You know exactly what I mean."

Elizabeth just chuckled softly, but then closed her mouth and narrowed her eyes proudly. She sauntered over to Robert's old desk and leaned forward getting as close to Kerry as she could, looking her straight in the eye. She then whispered powerfully, "Now you listen here you little worm, I don't know what you think you're playing at, but if you want to play that game, fine, I'll bite. For your information, there is absolutely nothing going on between Robert and myself, but let me tell you this, if there were, it'd sure be a hell of a lot better than anything you could ever get."

With that, Elizabeth strolled out of what should be Robert's office quite proud of herself and slammed the door behind her, shaking the dim, ugly, little lamp Kerry had placed on the corner of Robert's desk.