© 2004 Kate

CHAPTER 11

AN: I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME! I went away for the summer for three months, but now I am back!

Abby's POV

FLASHBACK

I finish with the old man. He just needed a script refill. I wander over to the front desk and hand the patient off to the next doctor I see. Now it's time for business. "Susan!!" Patients must think I need a psych consult. "Susan!" I can't find her. I am flying down the hallway looking in every direction. "Susan!" I almost run into Chuny and she points to trauma 2. I stomp over and watch as two doctors and three nurses try to survive a young woman lying on the table. I watch as they continue to try for ten more minutes. Kerry shakes her head and says the time. Susan sighs and walks towards me, discarding her trauma clothes.

She reaches the door and slumps out. Traumas get to us all. It's hard. We are silent for a moment, maybe for the poor girl, maybe not. We don't know anymore. Finally she breaks the silence, "What's up Abby?"

"I need help." This was going to be difficult. I had to disguise this somehow.

"Sure. With what?"

"What time are you off?"

She checks her watch and smiles. "Twenty minutes!!"

She's excited. "Perfect. We need to go shopping."

He face perks right up. She's excited. "Wonderful! But you'll have to break the news to my couch, we had a date."

I laugh. "Sure. Listen, it' s 4:45 now, I have one last patient and then we can leave."

"Yay!" Wow, she needs to get out more. That was easy. I didn't have to tell he anything about Carter. I don't really want people to know yet. I turn around and start towards curtain two. Just as I reach to the door...

"Abby?"

Crap. I put on a sheepish smile and turn around. "Yes?"

"Why do you need to go shopping?" She smiles. "Other than, of course to spend time with wonderful, beautiful me."

"What ever Susan." I laugh and try to get away.

"Okay, you're not looking into my eyes." She chuckles to herself and begins in the street slang and trys to do that hand thing the kids do on MTV or whatever. "Sup, Abby, Sup? Yo, you got like a hot guy or something. Sup?"

This sends me into a fit of hysterical laughter. "A blind date." I leave her there smiling and run in the exam room. I could be kind of sorta, maybe not really compared to a blind date.

An hour later Susan and are stumbling out of the dress shop a few blocks down from the hospital. I picked out this dress that Carter will have to like. At the moment Susan is pounding me for information about this mystery guy. Boy, am I glad that I said it was a blind date and I had never met him. I am a really bad liar. We reach my apartment and I walk up the stairs. Susan begins to follow and I turn to her, "Oh, no you don't."

"What?" she asks innocently. "I can't meet him?"

"No way!"

"Why not?"

"Because...because you are not otherwise you would be spreading rumors and gossip tomorrow about him. I'm not even going to tell you his name."

She wiggles her eye brows at me and then says in a mock-disappointed voice, "Fine, but I hope you know what you are doing.'

"I think I can figure it out. Good-bye Susan."

"Bye."

I walk into the house carrying my bags as Susan heads down the street. I turn back to watch her go and low and behold here comes Carter. He is coming from the opposite direction that Susan is going, thank god! I know that he is worse at lying than I am...if that's possible. Now it is time to get dressed.

PRESENT TIME (Susan, Abby, Carter, and Molly are sitting in the hospital room)

"So that's what that was." Dr. Lewis says. "I remember that."

I laugh. Dr. Lewis brought Abby and Dr. Carter together even though she didn't know it.

We are all laughing and all of a sudden a shocked look comes across Dr. Lewis' face. "Oh my god!"

"What's wrong?" Abby asks.

"Was that Carter that night?" She looks grossed out.

Abby and Dr. Carter turn bright red and nod.

"Oh, I so didn't need to see that."

Dr. Carter's turn, "Then why were you using binoculars?"

Susan gives them a sheepish grin. Now I am really intrigued. "Binoculars? What happened? Now I really, really want to know!"

"Is it appropriate?" Susan asks. This makes me frown.

Carter catches my expression and give a suggestion, "Why doesn't Abby just not give all the, uh... details. Fair?"

I nod.

"Alright then," I continue, "Now where was I?"

Dinner was great; Carter took me to this little restaurant along the river. This springtime weather is starting to warm up and the light from the sun is just beginning to fade as we walk home. There is a cool breeze blowing around us that keeps us in our own little world. I gently lean into him as we walk and his arm slips around my waist. Everything feels so natural. I am definitely not regretting moving to Chicago at the moment.

We continue to walk until I turn up one street and head towards our apartments. Automatically we head to my apartment, his is right across the street, but I want to go home. Carter is more than welcome to join me, but I want to go home.

We step inside and Carter takes his light jacket from around my shoulders and hangs it up in the hall closet. I walk over to the refrigerator to see what I have to eat and/or drink...wonderful. I roll my eyes. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. None. I knew I forgot something.

"Carter..." I smile sweetly at him.

He can read my expression so easily and he replies in a 1950 TV show kind of way, "Yes dear?"

"I have absolutely nothing to eat or drink in this house."

"Abby, we just ate a three course meal."

"I know, but I'm hungry." I give him a suggestive look. "Feel free to pick up some strawberries while you're at it."

His eyes at least double their size and I laugh. "Go on Carter." He doesn't say a word, he just grabs his coat, kisses me, and then heads out the door. Once he is gone, I shake my head and head into my bedroom to change into something a little more...comfortable.

REVIEW RESPONSES:

Kattybaby2318-thanks. I wrote this chapter especially for you. I was just going to skip the beginning part of their relationship, but, now you have read about the date, lol. I think now I have to skip ahead some otherwise I will never get to the actual point in this story.

Hyperpiper91-thank you.

Emma-you should hear from Molly very soon, but I had to do their first date before I go back to her. I think I will have one from molly, then maybe one more flashback to fill in a couple more blanks (but I might not need it) and then continue forward with Molly's POV

SargeCruz- thank you! I've been waiting for your review, you're normally first

Sammi-thank you so much my dear! I will see you Thursday! Keep reading, I'm waiting for your stories to be posted!

Sci Fi Fan Gillian-thank you

Mrs. Rhett Butler-thank you, more is coming, I promise.

Riley (fairy-dust3)-thank you for your sympathy about the kids. Again, on a happier note. Luka and Sam will have some of their own chapters...they are coming. Sorry I haven't updated in a really long time. School is a bee-yotch. lol