Chapter Eleven – Old friend, New mentor.
"KATE! TESS! Come back here now!" We hear a masculine voice scream these words over the crowd of chattering nurses and doctors. He seems slightly annoyed. The voice is immediately followed by a calm mothering tone
"Girls come here you don't want to get hurt" The girls begin walking back to the crowd pouting. Carter comes to the admin desk to drop off a chart and stretches over the crew to see what is going on
"CAROL! Dr Ross! What are you doing here! Wait, are you Kerry's special guest?"
Doug grins slightly
"You sure have changed Carter. How about Kerry is she still the red hot limping devil?"
"Sure am. Welcome Back Doug. Carol."
Kerry continues to approach the guests while Doug blushed, once again, like old times, he had been busted insulting Kerry, but this time it was more friendly than anything. Kerry approaching the two young girls sitting by, "This must be Kate and Tess, they have grown quite a lot. Dad's face, mommy hair, beautiful girls!" Doug grins and rubs his neck.
Audrey begins walking back again to the desk she finishes signing her chart as Kerry drags Doug away from the chatter to make him fill his purpose, to help Audrey start out.
"Carol, I'm sure you and your nursing crew have a lot to catch up on so I will take Doug away, make him work." Carol nods, holding in a laugh, she turns back to the nurses.
"Give me the juice girls!" Haleh approaches Carol, gives Carter a look and says
"Carter And Abby."
Carter rolls his eyes, how did he expect that he would keep it away from the nurses. It's an impossible mission, he walks off to another patient, not wanting to hear everything they knew. Meanwhile Kerry is presenting Doug and Audrey.
"Doug will be here for the next 2 weeks, he'll help you out a little bit until we can find someone else in permanence, he will be under my supervision" Doug seems a little resistant to being under the supervision of anyone, but he knows he's doing it for a good cause, for kids. Kerry is about to leave the two alone but she wants to make one last point clear.
"Oh and Audrey, do NOT learn attitude from him" She smiles and walks off. Doug seems even more annoyed now. Audrey laughs and points him to new ER peds department. Just as Audrey is about to enter and follow him in, Ray walks in to his shift, she stares at him, she's still fascinated by him but she had never really got the chance to talk to him outside work. She's so concentrated into Ray that she hits her head up against the door on her in. Doug giggles,
"Yeh been there." Audrey blushes.