Authors Note: Hey all, first of all I just want to say thank you so very much for the reviews you have NO IDEA how much that meant to me. Like it was amazing and awesome and just wow. So thanks everyone who took even a second out of their day to drop me a line... Here is your second chapter, and I will tell you I have an idea that I really wanna follow through with so give me a chance with this. In a chapter or two it'll pick up a bit more. Also I did take a second look at the first chapter and I fixed it up a bit, nothing really added, more grammar and spelling.
(thank you's at the bottom)
Sharp pains shoot up and down, a loud thunder like noise rings in my ears, resembling the sound of a skull cracking in two. Sirens pierce the air, black looms over head, but I can't see it. Splashes of red and white creep in front of me. I try to pry my eye lids open, but I can't. Muffled voices veer around, the odd word sounding familiar, but nothing that I can comprehend completely. I'm living in a daze, falling into an endless hole. I'm trying to hold on but I can't. My fingernails dig deeper and deeper, scraping trying to free me from the endless pain that has encompassed my body. I'm not older than thirty-five, but I feel at least sixty years older. My body is numb and frail, my face feels as though someone is ripping my skin from me. I just want to move, stand up, and breathe. I try to wiggle around, the cement beneath me is no help, and it just pulls me deeper into my paralyzed zone. I open my mouth to speak, but the words don't come...
"Help." I try screaming it, I know nothings coming out, my voice is shrill, a thousand needles dig into my mouth, and blood chokes me...
"Help..." My efforts dwindling... It's useless.
"Help!" A voice filters through the peaceful silence. "Help..." Again, "help!" Bringing my fingers up to my throat, I realize it's me. I shuffle around on the bed beneath me, my fingers frantically searching my body, feeling every inch, exploring, the tips of my fingers run along my skin, roughly gripping at my tender flesh. In a gasp I am on my elbows searching the room with my eyes.
The exam room meets me, greeting me, as it does everyday, with the same bland hello. A tray lies beside the bed; I must have knocked it over in my dream state. More like nightmare. I can't even recall what happened. Everything is such a horrid blur. A few glimpses into the dream flash in front of me, but nothing to dig my nails into. Running my fingers over my tired face, I lift myself into a sitting position. My hair falls around my shoulders, a few strands crowding my view; I blow them out of the way haphazardly. I look like hell and I know it, soon the whole ER is going to, too. I throw an elastic in my hair, sloppily and pad out to the chaos.
"Abby." Sam says, cornering me with a chart. Great, I can just imagine this one; heartburn is my guess, the flu, or something trivial like that. Ah, the joys of being an ER doc. Mostly little knick and knack cases, but every once in a while you get a case that looks normal, but that is only on the surfaces. Those and Traumas are what keep the days from blurring together.
"What do we have?" I ask as I take the chart from Sam's hand, briefly flipping through it, as she gives me the bullet.
"12 year old took Viagra." She says coolly. Well isn't this a hell of a day. I sigh, trying to suppress my giggles.
"What?" My eyes widen as I choke back the escaping giggles.
She giggles before continuing, "he was visiting his grandparents, and I guess the drugs were accidentally left out on the table, and you know kids. He thought it was candy ending up popping a pill..."
"And now he has a permanent erection." I finish for her, letting a smirk cross my lips.
"Thank god my parents refuse to take Alex." She sighs, before following me into the exam room. I definitely could see her son taking Viagra, not out of nativity though, just to be a shit disturber.
"Yeah really." I grin. Together we push into the room. There sits what could possibly be the funniest sight in the world, that is if the parents didn't look like they were about to kill their son, as well as the grandparents.
"I don't know why you would keep them out on the table..." The lady, who, I'm presuming, is the mother, hisses. The grand parent's faces are flushed red, embarrassment is obvious. Yet not quite as embarrassed as the twelve years old boys, who hand are protectively covering his... erection. Sam and I gland at each other amused. I flip through the chart finding the boys' name.
"R-Ryder." I say, plastering a smile on my face. "How are you...?" I ask, taking a glimpse down at his hands. He looks up at me, eyes pleading with me to fix him and now. What would be the dream of a thirteen or fourteen year old boy, is what a twelve year old dreads. Funny. I know many men, most of my ex boyfriends in fact, who would kill for a permanent erection. Hell I would kill for them to have one.
"Good." He replies, eyes downcast face a deep shade of crimson. His hands are obviously shaking now.
"Okay then." I glance over at the parents, not really sure of what they expected me to do. "Mr. And Mrs. Garner, there is really nothing we can do for your son."
"Nothing?" Mrs. Garner's voice is just as desperate as her son's was moments ago.
"I'm sorry ma'm, but the erection is not permanent... permanent. It will go away, and Ryder will be back to normal. We would, however like to keep him here, just incase the drug has side effects that could harm him."
"Uh- Doctor..." I look over at the man sitting next to Mrs. Garner. "This won't effect his uh-"He tries gesturing with his hands, moving them in constant circles.
"Effect his?"
"Effect his... future..." I give him a quizzical look.
"His future erections." The grandfather blurts out. Sam giggles and I hold my hand out to her, signaling for her not to laugh.
"Uh- well..." I roll on the balls of my feet. "It shouldn't... I think he will be okay."
"Thank you." His father answers, I nod in agreement, bursting through the doors, with Sam on my heels.
The door slams into the wall as we make our way out of the room. I can hear Sam try to calm herself. Being a Doctor or nurse you see a lot of weird things, but for some reason none seem to add up to that. A twelve year old boy with an erection from taking viagra, yup this one definitely goes in the archives. I turn around to face Sam who is waiting for my orders. "Just-"I bite back a giggle, "this shouldn't be funny." I finish laughing...
"Oh it should, and it is. If Alex did something like that, well then it would be different..." She chuckles out.
"Something like what?" Pratt asks walking by.
"Take Viagra." Sam answers, he gives her a quizzical look. I look over his shoulder spying Susan in the corner flipping through charts looking less than thrilled. I watch her for a second as she breathes deeply, her eyes downcast, holding the pen absent-mindedly in her fingers. I wander over to her leaving the conversation.
"A penny for your thoughts?" I say warmly. She smiles up at me, her smile tired and sad.
"How have you been?" I sit down next to my friend.
"Oh well, you know between interns walking out on me, and a crying baby not too mention a shit load of work..." I laugh lightly, I guess yesterday was immature. No, I know it was immature, but sometimes my emotions get the best of me.
"Look Susan-"I place my hand on her arm.
"Don't worry I know Abby." She smiles, "and it's okay, you just owe me." She grins.
"Owe you?"
"Oh yeah... Dinner and a movie, your treat."
"My treat?" I laugh, pointing at myself.
"Oh yeah, hurry up Lockhart finish your shift, you have a date." She grins getting out of her chair, and leaving me stranded. Well, I guess a date with a married woman wouldn't be so bad.
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Anonymous: yeah I was a little tired when I wrote that, and this one too... But I looked over that one and fixed it up, and I tried my best on this one... I don't have a beta though.
ER-OC.Wot a Combination:I hope you like this... This chapter may have been a bit different than expected, but stick with it you might like it.
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