Hey! Thanks to everyone who read the first chapter. Here's the next one:

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John Carter walked into the ER and headed to the lounge to put his stuff away, hoping to catch Abby so they could talk. The door to the lounge swung open just as he was reaching for it. On the other side was none other than his tired-looking girlfriend, Abby.

"Hey!" he said brightly, pulling her into a hug. "You were gone before I was even awake this morning. What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing Carter, just leave me alone. I've got patients to see."

"Come on Abby. Something's wrong and you can tell me." He leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Last night was amazing. But I know you well enough to know that something's not right."

Abby looked up at him with anger in her eyes. "So just because I want to have sex with my boyfriend that automatically means that I have problems?" That sentence came out way louder than she had intended. Some people sitting in chairs had looked up, and Haleh and Chuny were looking on with interest.

"Okay, let's not do this here," Carter said lightly.

"Whatever," Abby rolled her eyes and stalked away. She picked up some charts and walked into an empty exam room where she could just sit and be alone. Abby knew that she should have told him why she was mad. She should have told him that he kept letting her down, and she couldn't take it anymore. She should tell him a lot of things, but communicating wasn't her strongest point. Abby was overcome with a wave of sickness, and she ran to the sink just in time to vomit all over herself.

"God I'm an idiot," she told herself as she changed into a new scrub top. She played it off as a sign of stress and went back to work.

Sighing, Abby left the exam room after she was cooled off a bit and went over to curtain two, pulling up a stool beside a patient. "Hi, I'm Doctor Lockhart, it says here that your wrist has been hurting a lot lately?" Plastering a fake smile on her face, Abby pretended to be listening as she watched Carter make his way to admit.

His bouncy mood now gone, John grabbed a chart and turned around. He saw Abby watching him, and their eyes locked for a minute. She looked away but he kept on staring. She was so beautiful. He wanted this to work so badly. He wanted to be with her without having issues or baggage messing up their relationship.

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Watching her boyfriend go on break and head over to Doc Magoo's, Abby quickly decided that she was on break too, and ran out the doors to follow him.

"John!" Abby called out as he was halfway across the street.

Carter turned around and looked back at her, narrowly escaping getting hit by an SUV barreling by at a high speed.

"God Abby, you almost got me killed!" he exclaimed when they were both safely across the street in a booth at Doc's. He wiped the smile off his face when he noticed how solemn she looked. "I was just joking, I'm fine. Really."

"I….." Abby couldn't get the words out. She wanted to tell him how she loved him, how much he meant to her. She wanted to apologize for all the times she hurt him, and tell him why she was always upset.

"I love you too," Carter told her, his eyes shining. He took her hand in his and kissed it softly.

And Abby knew that everything would be all right.

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