© 2004 Kate

CHAPTER 9

AN: I am so sorry for not updating this, in wow...almost two weeks! Omg, really sorry! Anyways, thank you so much to those of you who have been reviewing! I promise that reviews will become much more regular, when I started this I was on vacation and now back at school it is harder. Anyways, I am beginning to balance the two and have written a couple of chapters ahead so that should help until the weekend, anyways, read on...

Ps. I promise Sam and Luka and Alex will come into this kind of in a major way, I just have to show the carby part first.

PRESENT TIME Molly's POV

"What day? What happened?" This story is getting interesting. Dr. Lewis said that they were close friends, but I guess I never saw that along with the boyfriend/girlfriend thing they were also best friends.

Abby smiled at me and replied, "Well, it was nothing spectacular..."

Carter interrupted her, "Hey!" He feigned being hurt. "I would like to think that I was valiant,"

"Sure sweetie, whatever you say." Abby laughed and then hugged him and winked at me before continuing. "It just happened after an awful shift one day."



FLASHBACK Carter's POV

Today was hell. Every patient and every med student had different problems. Why did I take this job in the first place? I do love it here. Helping everyone, it's time well spent and I love my job and my friends. I ease myself down onto the couch, I lean back to take a nap. I know that someone will wake me up in a minute. Now is a time for strategy. I leave the lounge and grab a chart of the rack. The trick is to look like I need to do something important but really it's just a pretense so you can go to sleep in the on call room.

Time to put the plan into action. I look through the window. A Trauma pulled in five minutes ago so everyone who is needed is in there and it seems that everyone else is with a patient. This may be easier than I expected. I leave the lounge and head towards the rack. So far so good. I flip through and grab an easy one. Suture removal. Should be for a med- student, but there is no one else around, so why not. Just as I am heading off...

"Dr. Carter?" Lovely, a med-student.

I put on a fake smile and turn around. "Yes Alice?"

"I have I guy who says he is blind but because of his psychic powers can see through my clothes."

I look at her for a second. I really can't laugh. "Give him to George and call psycb." She nods and runs in the other direction. I head towards exam 2. Inside is a teenage girl in a softball uniform. "Hello..." I check the chart. "Meagan."

"Hi." She smiles back.

It ends up that there are only two sutures left from her orthoscopic surgery the previous week, Once I cut them she left and I snuck into the on call room next door for my nap. I would only have to make it through two more hours of this stupid shift. This was not the ideal place to spend a Saturday, but I had nothing better to do. The couples and families got the weekends off. All of us single people got to do the scud work. The lights in the on call room are off so I slip in after checking right and left to make sure no one is watching. All clear. I crouch down to take off my shoes and loosen my tie. I through my lab coat on a chair and put my hands on either side of where I presume the bed is. It is pitch dark in here; I cannot see a thing. I wander forward and reach for the pillow. I give it a tug and it doesn't budge. The damn thing must be stuck under something. It often gets hooked on the edge of the gurney.

I throw my hands through the dark and find the lamp. My hands run up and down the post looking for a switch. Finally I find it. I reach to flick it on but my hand catches on the inside of the lampshade. I pull back and the lamp comes crashing onto the bed. The soft "thump" I am expecting never comes, instead I hear glass breaking and a loud yelp.

"Ow!" A voice screams out from the pillow.

I stumble until I find the switch on the wall. I decide that that would be a safer bet, and I turn on the lights. As the room becomes white I see a helpless Abby sprawled out on the bed. I chuckle to myself and look at her. "Tisk, tisk. Second day on the job and already you're sleeping."

"Ha ha," is her only response. Her forehead crinkles as she laughs, "Ouch! Crap." Her hand leaps to her hairline.

I rush towards her and my hand follows her own to her forehead. I pull away to find my fingers covered with blood. "Did the lamp break on your head?" She nods her head sheepishly as I rip off a part of the sheet to put on her head. She laughs at this gesture. "What?"

She shakes her head, "Nothing, it's just that, that was so manly?"

"Excuse me?" I am astonished.

"You, know. The whole ripping the cloth to come to my aid. Seems like it is out of Survivor or something...good quality show by the way."

"Don't tell me you watch reality TV!" Now I am shocked, she didn't hit me as that type of person.

"Just a few."

"Okay," I laugh. "Let's go to a suture room, it looks like you need stitches."

She nods her head as I take her around the waist and lead her out of the room. It's funny how life is sometimes. Walking through the hectic ER with my arm around her back everything feels natural. I know this moment will last only a moment longer but everything feels right and I am happy. I just met this woman a few weeks ago. Come to think of it, it has only been a few days. Everything just seems right. A smile spreads across my face as I grab a suture kit and lead Abby into an empty room...

***sorry, that was a quick chapter and nothing much happened, but maybe I'll update later tonight if you are all good and review!***

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