Title – My Happy Ending
Author – JubilationLee
Summary – A devastating illness to one of their own causes mixed reactions from the staff of Sacred Heart.
Authors Notes – I don't think this is a very good chapter, but I have some ideas for the next one and hopefully it will be better. Blip.
Confession – In my memory I have swallowed a drawing pin, 3 buttons, an ice cube and 20cents.
Disclaimer – I don't own anything to do with Scrubs! Please don't sue me!
Chapter 3
JD was sitting on the cold, tiled floor of the bathroom, his head resting against the cool surface of the porcelain toilet bowl. His eyes were closed, but his breathing was steady as he willed himself to get past the intense vomiting, that had a minute ago, been wracking his body.
Walking through the apartment door, no less than an half an hour ago, JD realized he couldn't fight back the queasiness, which had plagued him for the better half of the afternoon. JD had rushed directly to the bathroom where he had emptied the entire content of his stomach in the toilet, not that there had been very much in his stomach to begin with. Lucky, he thought Dr Cox had sent him home when he did, how humiliating would it have been if he had been like this at work.
Focusing his eyes, JD looked at his watch. Ever since he had arrived home, time had lost all meaning and he didn't know how long he had been on the bathroom floor, but looking now, he found it was only early afternoon. Having felt the worst was over; JD dragged himself unwillingly to his feet for the 3rd time in as many days and stumbled to his bed. He was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
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At some unknown time, it could have been night or day, JD heard the door of his bedroom creak open softly, and as a figure poked its head around the corner, soft rays of light spilt into the darkened room causing JD shifted further under the covers in order to escape their prying grasps. Deep sleep had been evading him for hours and the fitful dozing was doing nothing to improve his lingering headache.
The voice spoke up softly, "You awake?" It was Turk.
JD gave a grunt of affirmation, not wanting to speak anymore than he needed, annoyed that the peaceful silence that he thought was lulling him to sleep, had been interrupted.
"You okay? I heard you came home sick, today." Turk seemed to be finding it hard to keep the worried tone out of his voice, as he cautiously entered a few steps into the room and peered over the edge of the bed covers, trying to catch sit of JD's face.
"I'll be fine tomorrow, just caught a bit of a bug off one of my patients" JD lied.
Not fully convinced Turk replied, "You sure man? I mean, you don't look to flash, maybe you should see another doctor"
The coupled feelings of being tired and sick caused JD to snap, "Thanks for your concern Turk, but in case you haven't noticed, I am a doctor, and I said I'll be fine"
"OK" Turk sounded defeated and began to back out of the room. "Sorry I even asked", he added as he left the room, returning it into darkness as the door was closed once again.
Feelings of regret, immediately began to well up in JD, I shouldn't have snapped like that. While contemplating whether he should get up and apologize for being so short tempered, he felt sleep beckoning him once more, and all troubling thoughts left his mind.
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JD spent the majority of the next day in bed, sleep coming in waves and although he didn't experience the pounding headaches and the gut wrenching nausea that brought him down the previous day, he thought it best learning from his own experiences and teachings as a doctor to take a day off and get this flu, or whateve,r out of his system for good. Besides, it's not like I couldn't use the sleep.
The sound of a key turning in the front door brought JD to attention and the awful noise of some obscure rap song being sung badly, alerted him to Turks homecoming. JD lay in bed for a while, stretching out the knots in his stiff limbs, before crawling out and stumbling into the lounge, noting as he passed, the completed cereal box puzzle proudly stuck to the fridge.
"Hi" JD said
Turk gave him a wary look before answering, "Hey"
An uncomfortable silence fell between the two before JD spoke up,
"Listen Turk, I just wanted to say sorry for snapping at you yesterday, I was just in a bit of a bad mood and being sick and missing work and everything, I mean I was just grumpy"
"Whatever, man" Turk replied with a shrug of his shoulders, his visible relief showing, "It's already forgotten".
JD also sighed in relief and flopped himself down of the sofa and switched on the TV, continuing the conversation as he did so.
"So, anything exciting happen at work today?"
Joining JD on the sofa with a suspiciously familiar looking piece of pizza, Turk replied.
"Not really but think that Janitor dude really missed you, all he did was mope around not talkin' to anyone, no pranks, nothin'. It was weird".
JD, not listening, watched tensely as Turk raised the pizza to his waiting lips, and in JD's mind everything was happening in slow motion as he dived forwards in an effort to knock the pizza out of Turks fingers.
"Noooo…." But it was to late, Turk already had the offending pizza in his mouth.
Snapping back to reality, JD quickly said, "I wouldn't eat that I were you"
"Why not?" Turk asked, stopping with the pizza, inches away from his gaping mouth.
"Because it's about 13 days old"
"Oh" Turk reacted by throwing the pizza on the table and focusing his attention on the afternoon cartoons.
"I'm gettin' in the shower"
"Hmmm" registered Turk. He followed JD with is eyes, watching him leave and when he had seen that JD was completely out of the room, he focused his attention on the discarded pizza slice, which he picked up, looked at it and with a shrug, continued to eat.
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The familiar walls of Sacred Heart Hospital were a welcoming site for JD as he returned to work the next day. Though he had only been gone a couple of days, he felt as if he had been away from "home" for eternity. So it was unsurprising that a bright smile was plastered on his face as he "skipped" gaily through the halls during his rounds.
The site of Dr Cox, fake giggling and clapping his hands while he jumped up and down outside of the room he had just exited from, caused JD to stop and stare.
When Cox spoke, it was in an exaggerated high pitched voice, "Oh please, pretty please teach me to be a girly as you Dorothy"
JD, though confused for a split second, also began to jump up and down and squealed "OK!"
Dr Cox gave him a disgusted look and stopped acting, "Get away from me"
"I missed you too!" JD shouted at Cox's retreating figure.
"What was that all about?" JD turned to find Turk staring oddly at him.
"Oh, Dr Cox just wanted to bond"
Nodding in a knowing way, Turk joined JD as he headed for the nurses station. Before he had even caught sight of her, JD heard the concerned voice of Carla as she called out to him.
"Bambi! Oh, you poor thing, are you feeling better? I was worried about you when you didn't come in yesterday"
JD saw her emerge from behind the desk and replied, "Yeah, heaps better, thanks Carla".
She turned and looked angrily at Turk, who immediately went into defense mode, "What! What'd I do?"
"You better have been taking good care of him" she said harshly pointing an accusing finger at him.
"I swear baby, I did" Turk said, raising his arms defensively and backing away.
Turning back to JD and laying a hand on his forehead, Carla said "Oh no, you're still feeling a bit peaky, you better take it easy today, here."
She handed JD one patient chart, dumping the other 16 clipboards in the arms of another waiting intern, who gave her a dirty look. She turned to face him full on returned his scowl with a "don't mess with me look" and the intern scampered off down the hall, an imaginary tale between his legs.
JD spoke up, "You know Carla, I feel fine, that's really not necessary" inwardly counting his lucky stars.
"Bambi, have you ever heard the term, "woman knows best". Well, I'm a woman and I know best"
"Yeah but-" J
"Ah" Carla cut him off with a raised finger and sent him off with a small push. "And you get to work to" she ordered Turk
"YesbabyIloveyou" he said quickly before racing to catch up with JD.
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Lunch rolled around quickly and it wasn't long before JD was grabbing his food tray and looking around for a place to sit in the cafeteria, finding it impossible not to see Elliot waving and beckoning to him, a little over exuberantly across the eating area. He moved across the room and sat down opposite her, returning her grin with a slightly more forced one. He already knew what she was going to say before the words left her mouth, the same words he had heard from about 27 people already that day.
"Are you feeling better?"
Losing his head for a second JD replied "No, I just thought I'd come back and help spread around a little more germs." The sentence was bit out and JD regretted his reaction immediately and as hewatched as Elliot's face fell and he raced to apologize.
"Sorry Elliot, I don't know where that came from"
"S'ok" but here mood seemed to have deteriorated dramatically. "I know you must be annoyed people asking you all the time, it's just that I was worried about you is all."
"Thanks Ell, but I'm fine, I swear."
Elliot gave him a small smile and he returned it and tried again to make up for his rudeness, attempting to lighten the mood. "You see that guy in room 3, who swallowed the ping pong ball?"
"Really? I heard it was a golf ball"
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After agreeing to meet up with Elliot after work, the two parted ways as they went to complete their separate duties. Time sped past and JD found himself with little to do as Carla kept on giving him less and less patients to see, insisting that he shouldn't "overextend himself".
Leaving the room of the patient he hoped would be his last for the day, JD let out a tiny sheik when the small figure of Dr Kelso stepped out in front of him. The miserable figure of Ted could be seen lurking in the background as Dr Kelso spoke.
"Ahh, Dr Dorian", said Dr Kelso in a formal greeting. "I see you've now used up 3 of your sick days. That would leave you with approximately; hmm let's see how many days left Ted?" Kelso put an expectant tone in his voice, but didn't bother to turn and face Ted as he addressed him.
The dry, emotionless voice answered mechanically, "2 days"
"Ah, 2 days left. If I were you Doctor, I would save those ones for a time when you actually are sick."
"But-"
Ignoring JD's oncoming rebuttal, Dr Kelso turned on the ball of his heal and marched away, Ted shadowing his movements as he trailed behind, throwing a depressed look over is shoulder at JD, as the two of them turned the corner.
Elliot appeared from behind him.
"Ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's go"
The two walked down to the exit, throwing "good-byes" and "see-ya laters" to the various people they passed. As they approached the hospital exit, JD slowed and mentally prepared himself for an immature prank from the one person he hadn't alreadys seen today. JD move toward the door with caution, from a distance, he could see the tall shape of the Janitor leaning cockily against the wall, his trusty mop and bucket ever-present at his side, a conspiratorial look gracing his face.
"Here, let me get that for you" gesturing at the door and moving to open it for the pair.
"Oh? Thanks?" JD said, still looking warily at the Janitor, looking for the sinister underlying plans. "But it's an automatic door"
"OH! Is it?" Sarcasm dripped off the Janitors voice, "Thanks for that, I didn't realize. I am only a janitor after all, and we folk, are a bit simple minded".
"No, I was just-"
"NO. Forget it. Forget I even asked. This is the appreciation I get for trying to help people"
JD and Elliot stared after him as the Janitor stomped angrily down the hallway. JD shrugged the confrontation off and he turned to walk out of the door, not hearing Elliot's warning "Wait!" before it was too late. The door wasn't opening, and he crashed, face first into the glass.
JD saw, from his position on the ground man who swallowed the golf/ping pong ball laughing at him "Heh, heh, you idiot".
And as JD and Elliot left the hospital the boisterous, evil laugh of the janitor, could still be heard echoing down the hall behind him.
EEK! The next one will be better I swear! thanks for reviewing