Authors Note- A crappy chapter I whipped up a while back. Its more fun loving, fun for the whole family type chapter.
I found a chance to update!!! YAY!!! I was home sooner then expected, so here you go!
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"Carter?"
"Mmhm?"
"Can we-" He looks down at me, "Can we start over." I look him in the eye, a small smile spreads across his face. "Yeah, yeah we can." He intertwines my fingers with his. "Slow." He sighs, "We will go slow."
"Isn't that what we did before?" I laugh.
"True. Maybe slow doesn't work for us. So lets just go. We'll just go, and see where going takes us."
"Sounds good too me!" I exclaim. Maybe we won't be in a relationship right away, but just being with him again. Admitting, to my self at least, that I love him is a step in the right direction for me. I feel his lips against my forehead, god I love being kissed and held by him. "I'd wait forever for you." He whispers into my ear.
"Aw, isn't this a special moment? Really it is, but I need to interrupt." Bryce saunters in, sitting on the coffee table in front of us, smile spread across his face. "Can Dylan come over tomorrow?" I look at Carter puzzled, he shrugs, also confused.
"Dylan?" I question.
"Yes. Can Dylan come over tomorrow?" He pushes, his hands together, in front of his face. "Uh- sorry I work tomorrow." I apologize. Who the hell is Dylan? I've never heard his name before... oh well. He throws his head back and groans, immediately turning to Carter, Carter tosses his arms in the air. "Me too buddy. I actually start at one, and work till one."
"Perfect!" Bryce leaps in the air. "Really, I have a great idea. Dylan can come to the hospital..."
"How's Dylan going to get to the hospital Bryce? And do Dylan's parents want Dylan at the hospital?" I am not so sure about this, it sounds weird.
"Dylan's cousin, Robby's mom works about a block from the hospital, Dylan and Robby can come for lunch then we can hang out with Carter after." Bryce explains.
"Carter's sleeping after work, in fact he should probably be leaving soon." I look down at my watch 10, well he could stay longer, maybe we should try to sleep.
"That's fine... Alex is coming too so-" Bryce starts.
"Why don't they come to the mansion? I mean, the four of them can hang out while I'm sleeping and I can have Macy watch them." Carter offers up. I shake my head but he just rubs my shoulder laughing.
"Uh- okay, I'll come over and get them after."
"Or you ALL could stay for dinner." Wow, Carter is going all out. "It's Dec 22nd tomorrow, it will be like a Christmas dinner." He beams.
"Uh- okay, Bryce go to bed, and call your friends."
"No need to they know." He walks away from us, Carter laughs.
"That kid is smooth." He pulls me in closer to himself, "We get to spend the day together tomorrow." He whispers in my ear.
"Ha, with four bratty kids."
"Yeah, well I have a pool and a bowling alley in my basement, and a few other things. They'll be busy."
"And we are taking things SLOW!" I remind him.
"Yep." We sit in silence for awhile just enjoying each others company. Its nice to be together again after so much teenage drama. I felt like I was on a soap. He pushes loose strands of hair out of my eyes, and kisses my cheek. "I missed you." He says up against my skin. "Me too." I close my eyes and enjoy the moment.
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"Dad... I don't- Dad- Look..." Carter looks over and sighs. "No- maybe... I know its a tradition- Dad..." I wonder what they are talking about, whatever it is Carter seems to be getting all riled up about it. Luka tosses a chart in front of me. Ear infection, that's pretty simple. "Dad- I don't... I can't do that." Luka looks over at Carter too. Neither of us know what he is so upset about. His face is red and he continues to roll his eyes. "Okay," He seems to have surrendered and lost the argument. "December 24th, I'll be there." He wipes his forehead, and sighs defeated. "By myself." He scratches his forehead. "No dad, I don't-" His father seems to have cut him off.
"Mom-" I look over at Bryce, his hair is gelled, and he smells... weird.
"Bryce?" I asks.
"Yeah, what shirt is better?" He holds up a white long sleeve shirt and a button up blue shirt. Luka starts to laugh, and Carter cracks a smile despite his recent anger. "Uh- the blue." I tell him, I raise my eye brows. He is going out with a few boys, Dylan and Robby, from school. Well Dylan is from school, Robby is Dylan's cousin. Why the hell is he getting so dressed up? He throws the shirt over the white t-shirt he already has on. His pants seem to be higher too. "Bye dad." We all look over at Carter, who has now hung up the phone. "What you up to?" He walks over to Bryce, rustling his hair, Bryce shoos his hand away angrily. "Don't Carter, geese, I worked forever on my hair." With that he storm into the lounge. Carter points to him, "I don't know." I shrug, walking over to him, he starts to walk towards a patient and I follow. "What was that?" I ask chasing after him.
"I don't know, Bryce has been acting weird all-"
"Not with Bryce John." I cut him off.
"Oh, uh nothing. Just yah know, regular pressures." He shakes the question off.
"You can tell me you know, its part of our whole new thing." I smile, he smiles back, and takes a deep breath. "Well every year they have this party on Christmas eve and I- well I was trying to get out of it this year, I even though for a moment that it wasn't going to happen since my Grandmothers death, but it is." He sighs.
"And..." I push for more.
"They want me to bring someone, you know they bug me every year, they were bugging me to go, since I was refusing."
"I'll go." I offer. He turns and looks at me stunned.
"You will?"
"Sure- I mean, I can find some too look after Bryce, Eric even." I offer.
"Really, you do this for me?" He seems very sceptical. I am not even sure why.
"John, really." We both look over and feel eyes on us, sure enough it's Chuny, Malik and Susan gossiping. Frank and Jerry are watching from admit. All of their eyes dart around the hospital looking for other things to do. "I'm off." Frank shouts leaving.
"Okay." He smiles, patting me on the arm to go look after his patients. I mean we're not together, or apart... We are taking it slow. Oh god, I'm going to meet his parents. This could be bad. But its for John, and I love him. He may not know it, but its true.
"Excuse me?" I look over and see two little girls talking to Jerry, they are probably the offspring of that man who came in earlier, a hit and run. He lived. Just barley. Walking over to my patient, I hear Jerry calling my name. "Yeah?" I call.
"These little girls- they are-" I walk over to them and they are smiling widely, this is weird who smiles after hearing their father was in an accident. "They're looking for Bryce and Alex." He whispers. This explains a lot, but he never mentioned anything about girls, and I am not so sure I want my son dating at the age of ten. "I'm Dylan and this is my cousin Robby." So he did mention them, he just never specified the sex. They both have boys names, this is interesting. "What's going on?" Sam walks behind us.
"This is Robby and Dylan." I smirk. She looks shocked, his mouth has dropped.
"I thought-"
"Mhm." I nod in agreement.
"Oh." Is all she manages to say.
"Well, Robby and Dylan. Bryce and Alex are in the lounge."
"I'll get them." Luka calls as he enters the lounge. Sam and I look at each other, oh this is not good. "Oh, my mom said we could go over to Bryce's dad's house after too." Bryce's dad? Oh right Carter. I smile slightly. "Yeah, well I think I am coming too." I add.
"Me too." Sam says walking around the admit desk.
"Me too, what?" Carter says dropping charts off with Susan in tow.
"I am coming to your place tonight after work." Carter looks puzzled. "This is Dylan and Robby." She explains. Carter nods and starts to laugh.
"Hey girls." Bryce shouts walking out of the lounge with a big smile on his face. Alex follows him nervously. Their hair is brush, and they look very nice, unlike themselves. Each one is holding a flower. A fake flower. The girls walks towards them noticing the audience. "Bye Mom." Bryce waves to me as he leaves.
"No wait!" Susan shouts running over to the group with a digital camera. Everyone groans, but they huddle together and manage to make it through 3 pictures. "Only go to the cafeteria Bryce." I shout as they are about to leave.
"MOM!" He whines.
"I'll order in pizza." Carter offers. "You can have your date in the lounge, my shifts done in an hour then you can go bowling at my place." We all nod in agreement and the kids run into the lounge. "Were those the fake flowers from the lounge?" Susan laughs.
"I think so." Luka answers with a smile on his face.
"Luka, we are going to Carter's after our shift." Sam tells him.
"Okay." Luka agrees, obviously not wanting to argue with her about this.
"Yeah, come for dinner." Carter asks. I start to smile. He makes me so happy, he is the sweetest guy alive. I can't believe I even thought about getting back together with Ted, this man wow, he's just the perfect guy. I run my hands through my hair. Tonight will be fun it will be like a quadruple date. With my son, a bunch of ten year olds. I wonder if he mentioned anything to Carter about Dylan, probably not because Carter was there when Bryce asked to hang out with his friend, or shall I say girlfriend. Well tonight will be interesting at the least.
***RESPONSES***
CamilaC- Haha, Its awesome that you like this story, we work really hard on it!!! Carby fuzz is always good, I love watching it and reading about it in fics, angst isn't bad either as long as they dont break up :(
I will try not to decieve you readers anymore with the previews haha. I'm glad you feel like you know us, we feel like we know you through the reviews, so its good you guys get a chance at it too!
ER FANatic- Hey we are glad you have taken a liking to our fic, we tried to make it realistic, we don't want the characters to be different then they are on television, it would make the fic less realistic, and we want it to be realistic!!!! Thanks for reading and reviewing... We are honoured that you chose our fic outta all the other fics out there :)
carbylobsterandavrilfan: Haha yeah I knew that chapter would make people happy. lol.
kiehl: Couldn't agree more! They aren't meant to be together, I must admit though, I do like the angstyness of fanfics and the show. It adds for a great make up seen, its intense and keeps you wanting more! Thanks for reviewing!!!
Ashley: Thanks, we do our best to make it realistic. Love isn't just something that falls into your lap so we are making Carter and Abby work at their relationship. And just like in the real world there are misconceptions in this fic, and things that should have been said that weren't!!!! Thank you for reviewing!!! We live for reviews.
~Tilde84~: I'm glad you are excited for the next chapter, I hope it meets your expectations:)
MrsWyle: YAY! Is a good way to put it!!!!
Kellie: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW... thanks we love that everyone loves this story so much :):):)
Lisa: fuzz rocks!
Amanda: Thanks, I am getting an update in today, a late one, but one none the less!
***PREVIEW***
"Off to bed. You are going Christmas shopping with me tomorrow."
He looked up at me, sort of surprised by my latest comment.
"What? I have no clue what to get your mother."
Abby's hand slapped my leg.
"John!"
I started to smile, and Bryce was shaking his head at us.
"Victoria's Secret."
Abby whipped the pillow at Bryce's head.
I found a chance to update!!! YAY!!! I was home sooner then expected, so here you go!
~*~
"Carter?"
"Mmhm?"
"Can we-" He looks down at me, "Can we start over." I look him in the eye, a small smile spreads across his face. "Yeah, yeah we can." He intertwines my fingers with his. "Slow." He sighs, "We will go slow."
"Isn't that what we did before?" I laugh.
"True. Maybe slow doesn't work for us. So lets just go. We'll just go, and see where going takes us."
"Sounds good too me!" I exclaim. Maybe we won't be in a relationship right away, but just being with him again. Admitting, to my self at least, that I love him is a step in the right direction for me. I feel his lips against my forehead, god I love being kissed and held by him. "I'd wait forever for you." He whispers into my ear.
"Aw, isn't this a special moment? Really it is, but I need to interrupt." Bryce saunters in, sitting on the coffee table in front of us, smile spread across his face. "Can Dylan come over tomorrow?" I look at Carter puzzled, he shrugs, also confused.
"Dylan?" I question.
"Yes. Can Dylan come over tomorrow?" He pushes, his hands together, in front of his face. "Uh- sorry I work tomorrow." I apologize. Who the hell is Dylan? I've never heard his name before... oh well. He throws his head back and groans, immediately turning to Carter, Carter tosses his arms in the air. "Me too buddy. I actually start at one, and work till one."
"Perfect!" Bryce leaps in the air. "Really, I have a great idea. Dylan can come to the hospital..."
"How's Dylan going to get to the hospital Bryce? And do Dylan's parents want Dylan at the hospital?" I am not so sure about this, it sounds weird.
"Dylan's cousin, Robby's mom works about a block from the hospital, Dylan and Robby can come for lunch then we can hang out with Carter after." Bryce explains.
"Carter's sleeping after work, in fact he should probably be leaving soon." I look down at my watch 10, well he could stay longer, maybe we should try to sleep.
"That's fine... Alex is coming too so-" Bryce starts.
"Why don't they come to the mansion? I mean, the four of them can hang out while I'm sleeping and I can have Macy watch them." Carter offers up. I shake my head but he just rubs my shoulder laughing.
"Uh- okay, I'll come over and get them after."
"Or you ALL could stay for dinner." Wow, Carter is going all out. "It's Dec 22nd tomorrow, it will be like a Christmas dinner." He beams.
"Uh- okay, Bryce go to bed, and call your friends."
"No need to they know." He walks away from us, Carter laughs.
"That kid is smooth." He pulls me in closer to himself, "We get to spend the day together tomorrow." He whispers in my ear.
"Ha, with four bratty kids."
"Yeah, well I have a pool and a bowling alley in my basement, and a few other things. They'll be busy."
"And we are taking things SLOW!" I remind him.
"Yep." We sit in silence for awhile just enjoying each others company. Its nice to be together again after so much teenage drama. I felt like I was on a soap. He pushes loose strands of hair out of my eyes, and kisses my cheek. "I missed you." He says up against my skin. "Me too." I close my eyes and enjoy the moment.
~*~
"Dad... I don't- Dad- Look..." Carter looks over and sighs. "No- maybe... I know its a tradition- Dad..." I wonder what they are talking about, whatever it is Carter seems to be getting all riled up about it. Luka tosses a chart in front of me. Ear infection, that's pretty simple. "Dad- I don't... I can't do that." Luka looks over at Carter too. Neither of us know what he is so upset about. His face is red and he continues to roll his eyes. "Okay," He seems to have surrendered and lost the argument. "December 24th, I'll be there." He wipes his forehead, and sighs defeated. "By myself." He scratches his forehead. "No dad, I don't-" His father seems to have cut him off.
"Mom-" I look over at Bryce, his hair is gelled, and he smells... weird.
"Bryce?" I asks.
"Yeah, what shirt is better?" He holds up a white long sleeve shirt and a button up blue shirt. Luka starts to laugh, and Carter cracks a smile despite his recent anger. "Uh- the blue." I tell him, I raise my eye brows. He is going out with a few boys, Dylan and Robby, from school. Well Dylan is from school, Robby is Dylan's cousin. Why the hell is he getting so dressed up? He throws the shirt over the white t-shirt he already has on. His pants seem to be higher too. "Bye dad." We all look over at Carter, who has now hung up the phone. "What you up to?" He walks over to Bryce, rustling his hair, Bryce shoos his hand away angrily. "Don't Carter, geese, I worked forever on my hair." With that he storm into the lounge. Carter points to him, "I don't know." I shrug, walking over to him, he starts to walk towards a patient and I follow. "What was that?" I ask chasing after him.
"I don't know, Bryce has been acting weird all-"
"Not with Bryce John." I cut him off.
"Oh, uh nothing. Just yah know, regular pressures." He shakes the question off.
"You can tell me you know, its part of our whole new thing." I smile, he smiles back, and takes a deep breath. "Well every year they have this party on Christmas eve and I- well I was trying to get out of it this year, I even though for a moment that it wasn't going to happen since my Grandmothers death, but it is." He sighs.
"And..." I push for more.
"They want me to bring someone, you know they bug me every year, they were bugging me to go, since I was refusing."
"I'll go." I offer. He turns and looks at me stunned.
"You will?"
"Sure- I mean, I can find some too look after Bryce, Eric even." I offer.
"Really, you do this for me?" He seems very sceptical. I am not even sure why.
"John, really." We both look over and feel eyes on us, sure enough it's Chuny, Malik and Susan gossiping. Frank and Jerry are watching from admit. All of their eyes dart around the hospital looking for other things to do. "I'm off." Frank shouts leaving.
"Okay." He smiles, patting me on the arm to go look after his patients. I mean we're not together, or apart... We are taking it slow. Oh god, I'm going to meet his parents. This could be bad. But its for John, and I love him. He may not know it, but its true.
"Excuse me?" I look over and see two little girls talking to Jerry, they are probably the offspring of that man who came in earlier, a hit and run. He lived. Just barley. Walking over to my patient, I hear Jerry calling my name. "Yeah?" I call.
"These little girls- they are-" I walk over to them and they are smiling widely, this is weird who smiles after hearing their father was in an accident. "They're looking for Bryce and Alex." He whispers. This explains a lot, but he never mentioned anything about girls, and I am not so sure I want my son dating at the age of ten. "I'm Dylan and this is my cousin Robby." So he did mention them, he just never specified the sex. They both have boys names, this is interesting. "What's going on?" Sam walks behind us.
"This is Robby and Dylan." I smirk. She looks shocked, his mouth has dropped.
"I thought-"
"Mhm." I nod in agreement.
"Oh." Is all she manages to say.
"Well, Robby and Dylan. Bryce and Alex are in the lounge."
"I'll get them." Luka calls as he enters the lounge. Sam and I look at each other, oh this is not good. "Oh, my mom said we could go over to Bryce's dad's house after too." Bryce's dad? Oh right Carter. I smile slightly. "Yeah, well I think I am coming too." I add.
"Me too." Sam says walking around the admit desk.
"Me too, what?" Carter says dropping charts off with Susan in tow.
"I am coming to your place tonight after work." Carter looks puzzled. "This is Dylan and Robby." She explains. Carter nods and starts to laugh.
"Hey girls." Bryce shouts walking out of the lounge with a big smile on his face. Alex follows him nervously. Their hair is brush, and they look very nice, unlike themselves. Each one is holding a flower. A fake flower. The girls walks towards them noticing the audience. "Bye Mom." Bryce waves to me as he leaves.
"No wait!" Susan shouts running over to the group with a digital camera. Everyone groans, but they huddle together and manage to make it through 3 pictures. "Only go to the cafeteria Bryce." I shout as they are about to leave.
"MOM!" He whines.
"I'll order in pizza." Carter offers. "You can have your date in the lounge, my shifts done in an hour then you can go bowling at my place." We all nod in agreement and the kids run into the lounge. "Were those the fake flowers from the lounge?" Susan laughs.
"I think so." Luka answers with a smile on his face.
"Luka, we are going to Carter's after our shift." Sam tells him.
"Okay." Luka agrees, obviously not wanting to argue with her about this.
"Yeah, come for dinner." Carter asks. I start to smile. He makes me so happy, he is the sweetest guy alive. I can't believe I even thought about getting back together with Ted, this man wow, he's just the perfect guy. I run my hands through my hair. Tonight will be fun it will be like a quadruple date. With my son, a bunch of ten year olds. I wonder if he mentioned anything to Carter about Dylan, probably not because Carter was there when Bryce asked to hang out with his friend, or shall I say girlfriend. Well tonight will be interesting at the least.
***RESPONSES***
CamilaC- Haha, Its awesome that you like this story, we work really hard on it!!! Carby fuzz is always good, I love watching it and reading about it in fics, angst isn't bad either as long as they dont break up :(
I will try not to decieve you readers anymore with the previews haha. I'm glad you feel like you know us, we feel like we know you through the reviews, so its good you guys get a chance at it too!
ER FANatic- Hey we are glad you have taken a liking to our fic, we tried to make it realistic, we don't want the characters to be different then they are on television, it would make the fic less realistic, and we want it to be realistic!!!! Thanks for reading and reviewing... We are honoured that you chose our fic outta all the other fics out there :)
carbylobsterandavrilfan: Haha yeah I knew that chapter would make people happy. lol.
kiehl: Couldn't agree more! They aren't meant to be together, I must admit though, I do like the angstyness of fanfics and the show. It adds for a great make up seen, its intense and keeps you wanting more! Thanks for reviewing!!!
Ashley: Thanks, we do our best to make it realistic. Love isn't just something that falls into your lap so we are making Carter and Abby work at their relationship. And just like in the real world there are misconceptions in this fic, and things that should have been said that weren't!!!! Thank you for reviewing!!! We live for reviews.
~Tilde84~: I'm glad you are excited for the next chapter, I hope it meets your expectations:)
MrsWyle: YAY! Is a good way to put it!!!!
Kellie: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW... thanks we love that everyone loves this story so much :):):)
Lisa: fuzz rocks!
Amanda: Thanks, I am getting an update in today, a late one, but one none the less!
***PREVIEW***
"Off to bed. You are going Christmas shopping with me tomorrow."
He looked up at me, sort of surprised by my latest comment.
"What? I have no clue what to get your mother."
Abby's hand slapped my leg.
"John!"
I started to smile, and Bryce was shaking his head at us.
"Victoria's Secret."
Abby whipped the pillow at Bryce's head.