Chapter sixteen – Patience is a virtue
Abby walks into the ER, she seems like she isn't a force to wreck with today. She slams charts on the admin desk, she then mumbles off into the staff lounge where she loudly slams the door of her locker shut after changing. It's has become obvious to Susan who was standing by that she was not having a very good morning, and as an attending she had to make sure everything was all right.
"What's wrong Abby?" she asked as softly as she could as to not to upset Abby further.
"Nothing. I'm FINE. Where's Carter!" Susan shrugged and let Abby walk off, it was clear that she didn't want to talk.
In fact, Abby was quite mad at John, after he promised to pick her up this morning he never showed up, instead a taxi showed up and cost her a fortune. That is of course after Mr Carter never came home the night before, he was not at the hospital and she had no clue where he spent the night. Now what really made her flip was that today was their one year anniversary, and he didn't seem to care. There he was standing at admit like nothing was happening, she stared him down like there was no tomorrow. She approached him, trying to keep her calm in front of him.
"John, what time do you get off? Maybe we could grab dinner, we do need to talk…"
"Sorry Ab, I took Susan's shift tonight to help her out maybe tomorrow" Abby was fuming inside, she once again slammed charts on the desk and walked off. Meanwhile, Jerry was trying not to laugh at the situation, and as soon as Abby was out of hearing range Carter and him both burst into laughter. John had planned all this, he wanted to surprise her, to show her that she could trust him she just needed to be patient.
The time passed, pretty good day for the emergency room physicians only one death, a DOA off a shout out in the street. Abby hastily walked off to the door, she yelled something like
"Tell Carter I'm gone." to frank, she was so frustrated she did not even want to see his face, she couldn't believe he OFFERED to pull a double on their anniversary. She walked out the sliding doors to find a young boy holding a rose, the young boy asked her name and as she replied he handed the rose to her along with a note.
'Go inside the ambulance of unit 34' She looked around to see a parked ambulance she wasn't sure what to expect but she opened the doors inside was a beautiful black dress, with a silver diamond neck lass. The dress had a note 'Put it on and walk out to the front of the ambulance' Abby, knowing this was probably the work of John Carter, was beginning to feel silly about being mad a him all day. She walked to the front, where a long white limousine awaited her. As she approached the door, John pulled out and kissed her hand, he was wearing a very fancy tuxedo suit.
"Abby, I love you. And before I take you out on the most magical evening of your life, I want to know something." He then bends down on one knee "Will you marry me?" He presents her a beautiful diamond ring. Abby is astounded. She truly doesn't know what to answer, she is awfully afraid of commitment, it has never been her thing, but maybe with John it would be different.
"I guess we can give it a try." Wiping a tear from her eye she chuckles a laugh "yes…"
John slides the ring on her finger and kisses her before opening the limo door for her to take her on a magical evening of romance a la Carter.
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