Chapter 8: Thoughts Of A Doctor

When Haruka had finished eating, Michiru put the cart outside the room, leaving it next to the door. "One of the nurses will take it away later on." She explained when she noticed Harukas slightly questioning look. "But you should get some rest now, Tenoh-san. Want another painkiller before you go to sleep?" Haruka nodded, looking at her doctor with a strange expression in her eyes. "That, and something else, Kaioh-san." Michiru raised one eyebrow, slightly surprised. "Oh? And what would that be, Tenoh-san?" "Please…call me Haruka." Haruka replied, her eyes falling from the aqua haired woman's face and concentrating on her blanket while she spoke. Thanks to that, she didn't see Michirus smile at first; she saw it though when the doctor spoke up, smiling, making her look at her. "Only under one condition, Haruka-san." "Condition?" Haruka repeated, looking slightly worried all of a sudden. "Yes…an easy one, I think. I will call you Haruka…if you call me Michiru." Harukas smile appeared on her face like the sun breaking through a mass of clouds. "Gladly, Michiru-san." Michiru smiled back at her before she checked her watch and let out a small sigh. "As much as I hate the though…I really have to leave now, Haruka-san. I'll see you tomorrow?" Haruka nodded, stifling a yawn while she did. Michiru grinned at her and waved goodbye to her. "I'll send a nurse with the Novril to your room before I go home. We don't want you to stay awake because you suffer from pain, right?" "Right." Haruka confirmed before saying her goodbye to the aqua haired woman, who left and closed the door behind her. Minutes later, a young nurse entered the room, carrying a pink capsule and a glass of water. She helped Haruka swallowed it, then changed the bandages – which Michiru hadn't done for some reason – before she wished a good night to Haruka, who already started to feel drowsy from the medication. "Thanks." The blonde mumbled sleepily while the nurse already was on her way out. Only two minutes after the young woman had closed the door, Haruka was fast asleep, in the land of dreams.

At the same time Michiru arrived at her apartment; she threw her coat carelessly into the next corner – something she normally never would have done, but this time she had other things on her mind than her coat. Or more likely, one other thing – a certain blonde woman who laid in one of the hospital rooms, both of her hands bandaged. Letting out a sigh, Michiru let herself fall into the cushion chair that stood in her living room, staring out of the window deep in thought. A doctor never should fall for his patient. That's against our codex. the voice of her professor when she still had been at the university rang through her mind. The aqua haired doctor clearly remembered what she had thought when the professor had said those words; at that time, she had been convinced that she never would fall for a patient. She would be a professional doctor after all, right? And professional doctors didn't do stupid things like that. And here she was now, doing one of the stupid things – falling for her patient. For Haruka, the poor woman who's career had been destroyed within the span of one second. At least her spirit didn't get destroyed. The aqua haired woman thought to herself while running one hair through her hair. It did pull her down at first, but it seems as if she's coping with what happened…at least I hope she does. I wonder how I would react if something like that happened to me? Gosh, I probably would cry myself to death. The aqua haired woman let out another sigh and finally rose from her chair, making her way over into the kitchen. After finishing her usual evening routine – have quick dinner, followed by a quick shower – she snuggled herself into her bed with the book she currently read – Virus by Robin Cook, a book that made her feel kind of freaky at places, even though she was a doctor and knew that a virus like the one in the book was very unlikely to come. (A/N: Ok, so maybe not. But I just read the book myself and it scared the shit out of me! So let me use that to calm myself down a little ^_~) After reading almost twenty pages, Michiru could feel how her eyes became tired. Letting out a loud yawn, the doctor put the book aside after marking the page she had been reading by  folding the corner of it down, creating a donkey ear – a bad habit she probably never would get rid off – and turned off the light, pulling the covers over here. After a while of laying awake and rolling from one side to the other, she realized that sleep wouldn't come as fast as she wanted it to. And it was – at least partly – the fault of Haruka. "Why do you have to be in my thoughts all the time?" Michiru asked out loud, not caring if her neighbours maybe now thought that she went bogus. She rolled on her back and looked up at the ceiling, or at what she could see of it since it was dark outside already, the image of a chuckling Haruka soon appearing in front of her face. She's so beautiful when she laughs…heck, she's even beautiful when she's depressed! How can one single person be that cute? Michiru thought to herself, then she realized that she was thinking like some lovesick teenager. She giggled to herself, slightly ashamed though about the way her thoughts took. If I keep gushing over her like that, next thing I know is that she'll be my…fantasy when I feel lonely. That caused her to giggle even more, and she put one hand over mouth to muffle the noise a little. "My professor would be shocked if he knew how I think about Haruka by now." The doctor then spoke to herself, before another thought occurred to her, making her giggle even more. "And Haruka herself probably would be shocked too." She imagined the blondes face after telling her something like "Oh, and I felt lonely last night, so I did something about it…with you in my mind. Thanks to that, it was great." Oh stop thinking like that! She finally scolded herself, partly shocked about the direction her mind had decided to wander off to. Then, she decided that it was more funny than shockingly and giggled again before finally rolling over once more and slowly drifting off – with the image of Haruka in front of her inner eye.