Trouble
- Neela
Spoilers: Up to and including 11-05: "An
Intern's Guide To The Galaxy"
Neela sighed.
First she decided that she wasn't good enough for the world of medicine, then she was dragged right back into it.
Now her point was proven. As Pratt had cheerfully announced earlier, Barnett had discharged twice the number of patients she had, and she wouldn't be surprised if he had somehow trebled that number now.
She knew it didn't really matter. She was taking care of her patients and at the end of the day, that was what counted.
But it still pissed her off.
To cap it all, he was slimey. Bribing the nurses with baked goods, getting hugs from people he'd spent two minutes with and coaching the med students to be just like him. Brilliant.
And he called her Doctor Jumbomart.
Yet she still found herself unable to look at him during conversation for more than five seconds without finding a spot over his shoulder to fix her gaze on instead. He was undeniably attractive, dangerously so, and still had that look. That fresh-faced look of someone who hadn't yet been completely sucked into the County universe.
And he had that way about him. That casual, smooth way, as he had tried to reassure her about the leukaemia patient.
Ah, no. He was on 26 and she 16 - if she didn't count the pity patient he'd attempted to put against her name.
He'd approached her then, and she resolutely stood fixed to the spot, not daring to look from her chart. He put a chart back in the rack, leaning around her as he did so, speaking into her ear. His face was mere centimetres away and she could feel his breath as he spoke, the gesture unquestionably flirtatious in nature, displaying a level of intimacy far beyond that of two work colleagues who had met properly only that day.
He was trouble.
But she never flinched, willing to play this game with him, wondering where it would take them. The rush was exhilarating, a definite spark in every look, every slight touch - even when they were working on a patient, fitting a chest tube. They hadn't even got through a whole shift together yet, but already the tension was there.
Oh yes, he was trouble. The kind of trouble she'd like to be in...
