Disclaimer : I don't own any of the characters. If I did, I'd be in my penthouse right now, writing an episode which brings Doug back ;)...I rated it PG-13, just in case...
What happened so far : Susan left from her own birthday party. Doug found her crying on the roof and wanted to take her home. She asks him in, they get drunk and end up sleeping together. When waking up together, they realize what they've done to Mark and Carol
LATE FOR WORK
Meanwhile at County. Dr. Kerry Weaver was standing at the admit desk, having a furious expression on her face. "Where the hell is Dr. Ross? I have 6 patients lined up for him," she said angrily.
"I'm afraid, but he isn't in yet," Randi replied without looking up from the magazine she was currently reading.
Kerry pulled the magazine away from her. "I suppose you don't get paid for reading here," Kerry scolded.
"I was only reading Chicago Medicine, " the dark-haired admit clerk protested.
"Whatever. Can you get Dr. Lewis please. She will have to cover for Doug"
Jerry approached. "Sorry Dr. Weaver but Susan isn't in yet either."
"What a funny coincidence." Randi chuckled.
Kerry raised her eyebrows. "Why is everybody late for work today? Call them in. I need them. NOW! " she hissed and left for her office.
Back in Susan's apartment, Doug and Susan just stood there, looking at each other, both still in shock, when the phone rang. Susan grabbed the receiver and answered it. "Hello," she said.
"Dr. Lewis? Hi, it's Randi. Weaver asked me to call you...she's furious..."
Susan glanced at her watch. It was almost 11am and she was supposed to be working since 10 am. "Oh my god...I...I... slept in... I'll be over in half an hour, " Susan promised before she hung up. "Weaver's pissed. I should have been at County an hour ago, " Susan said as she put the phone down.
"Ohh. Me, too. She'll kill us."
They both grabbed their clothes and put them on as quickly as possible without exchanging any words. When they got to the hospital, they still hadn't spoken to each other. "You go in first, " Doug said. Susan nodded and headed towards the entrance.
Kerry was already waiting for her at the admit desk, looking as if she was about to eat her alive.
"I'm sorry Kerry, but it got really late last night...I slept in...I'm sorry...," she muttered.
Kerry nodded angrily. "Make sure that it won't happen again. And now please go to work. " She handed Susan a pile of charts.
"I'll take care of them right away...but first I have to get myself some Aspirin, my headache is killing me, " Susan said under her breath and walked down the corridor.
In the meantime Doug had come in, too. After Kerry reproved him, he got himself some Ibuprofen and got to work.
"I was wondering why they both said that it had got late last night, considering that Dr. Lewis left the party early and so did Dr. Ross, " Jerry whispered to Randi."And they were both late for work...." "But they wouldn't....or would they?"
Later that day, Susan took care of a little girl with a broken wrist. The events of the last night were still distracting her and she could barely concentrate on her work. She was only glad that Carol had the day off, because she had no idea how she would tell her or if she should tell her at all. If she told her, she would definitely loose risking her best friend, but keeping it as a secret wouldn't be any better. Either way, Susan had to talk to Doug about it first. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't even hear Clara, the little girl who's arm she had just fixed.
"How long will I have to wear that cast?" Clara asked again, this time louder.
"Pardon? Sorry sweetie I wasn't listening...what did you just say?" Susan looked up.
"I asked you how long I will have to wear that thing," Clara said, pointing to her cast.
"It's quite a complicated fracture. It could take up to six weeks, but we don't really know yet...Just come back here in 3 weeks for x-rays and I will be able to tell you."
Suddenly the door flung open and Haleh came in.
"Dr. Lewis, a trauma just came in and they could probably use some help, " Haleh said as she walked over to Susan.
"I'll be right there. Can you take of Clara here?"
"Sure." Haleh introduced herself to Clara while Susan washed her hands.
"Trauma 1," Haleh said before Susan left the room.
Susan quickly ran over to the trauma room and opened its doors. "Oh great," she said under her breath when she saw Doug. Among him were a couple of nurses and Peter Benton.
"What do you have?"
"Jason Baker, 15, car accident. Has internal bleeding and most likely a liver rupture. Critical condition but stable. We're about to take him to the OR," Peter filled her in.
"You don't need me here anymore, do you?" Susan asked.
Peter shook his head. "No. But thanks for coming." Then he turned to the nurses. "Let's go upstairs. They're already waiting for us," Peter said and they took Jason up to the OR, leaving Doug and Susan alone in the room.
"I..I...think we need to talk..." Susan muttered, still avoiding eye contact to Doug.
Doug nodded. "This should never...," he began when his beeper went off. "Uhh, this is important. Probably another trauma." Doug headed for the door.
"But this is important, too."
Before he left for the admit desk, Doug finally looked at Susan and said "I know. We'll talk later."
"Yeah. Later."
....TBC....
Chapter 5 will be posted within the next days. Please keep on reviewing it... I really live for reviews....
I know that a lot of people could never imagine Doug and Susan together... well, I can. In my mind, Mr. and Mrs. Beautiful would be perfect together. Let's see if I'm going to let this story end up Dousan or not ;)