Dr Carter 2.
I was really feeling like a nervous little girl on her first day in school. I was left by Dr Green with Dr Carter. This was so awkward, just standing there in front of him for some quiet moments.
My eyes couldn't leave him. He was looking so incredible I almost gasped.
Man, this wasn't in any way like when I used to see him on TV, this was totally different. He was actually standing just a metre away from me. He was really alive, Dr Carter was really alive. That had been my little secret dream forever.
And now it was fulfilled.
"So, you can follow me", Carter said after a moment by us just standing looking at each other. I almost could hear my heart beating when he was looking at me, at me, Carter!
Carter started off to the board and I was close on his feet. To bad the coats here are too long, because I couldn't catch anything of his ass. But I know it's great, but I don't know in real life, it must be gorgeous!
"We have a patient with too much fluid in his stomach", Carter said after looking at a chart by the board and I just stood there in front of him. I couldn't stop feel nervous, damnit. Did he have to look so sexy?
"Alright", I said fast and followed Carter into an exam room where there was lying a fat man on a bed.
"How are you feeling Mr Field?" Carter asked and walked up by the side of his bed. The middle-aged man looked up at Carter with a discomfort.
"My stomach hurts."
"Yes, you have very much fluid in you stomach. We're going to pump it out, then it doesn't going to hurt anymore", Carter explained and I was busy by just looking at him. He's hot even when he talks to patients.
"Oh, alright. Just get it over with, it hurts like hell!" the man said and Carter just smiled and gave me a quick look. I was almost fainting, his smile was just so much better in real life, and him looking at me again made it all worse.
"Ms Anderson, do you think you can handle to get an IV on Mr Field?" Carter continued and looked at me once again.
I that was totally out of any medical stuff by just staring at Carter felt like I woke up from a sleep.
"Oh… Yeah, I can do that", I answered quickly. I could? I just answered without thinking it over. But I guess I can do that, I've done it for some times.
Carter just nodded and walked away from the bed to get me room between the bed and the supplies that was needed for an IV.
Carter leaned against a wall besides me and looked into the chart and I started to feel uncomfortable. How would I be able to this with him there besides me watching. I would do it all wrong.
I prepared the man's one arm before picking up the needle. I could feel Carter looking over my back. And I could for a second feel him against my back, that touch made me totally unconcentrated and I could feel his breath on my shoulder. How was this going to end?
I carefully putted the needle under his skin in his arm. I didn't really know if I did well.
"Good job", Carter then said and I really puffed deeply. Thank god, I did it!
Instead of walking behind I was stepping out of the exam room right besides Carter and couldn't stop thinking about that IV I just did so well. Carter must feel I'm good at this. But by my known he doesn't really like students doing well at the beginning. Then he has nothing to complain and learn them about.
By it seamed not to disturb him because he just kept giving me a smile. I was almost turned on.
"You did well, been on a hospital before this one?" Carter suddenly asked when we were walking down the isle.
"Yeah, I was for some months."
That was the truth actually. I had been in Sweden. But now couldn't think about anything else but Carter. Was he really asking me that? Was he really interested?
"Which one?"
I almost stopped by his question but just walked further. He was smiling at me all the time. I was blushing. So god damn hot he was!
"Oh, in Sweden actually", I answered after some while.
"Really, you're Swedish?" Carter looked at me surprisingly and kept smiling. I smiled back. Dear god, I was almost exploding inside.
Before I was getting to the reality again by drowning in Carters smile that was turned on me I heard someone shout my last name. It was Green a couple of metres away standing by an opened door.
"I need you for a minute, Ms Anderson", Green shouted and I felt like to hit him. I wanted to be with Carter. It was just getting interesting.
"Yes, full blooded", I answered with a proud smile giving Carter a look before turning my back against him walking away.
Carter leaned over the bench as usual by Jerry that was by a computer.
"Guess what?" Carter asked Jerry with a smile.
Jerry just shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm the new students teacher", he said and Jerry smiled big.
"Now you know what I mean, huh?"
"Well, I have to agree with you about that", Carter said before Malucci came up besides him.
"Agree with what?" Malucci asked curiously with a smile.
"About the new med", Jerry said with moving eyebrows again and Malucci just smiled.
"Oh yeah, she's, man, she's, you know, hot!" Malucci laughed and Carter just felt stupid to even be part of this conversation. He didn't use to be.
"She's Carters new student!" Jerry whispered with his gossip-voice.
"Man, lucky son of a…. " Malucci bursted out before scratching his head.
"Look guys, she's very talented, just take it easy with the talk", Carter said after coming back to his mature way again.
"But Carter, come on, you admitted she's hot, do you know anything more about her?" Jerry asked and Carter just shook his head.
"Come on", Malucci said and slapped Carter easy on his arm. Carter couldn't really resist giving the guys the information that Jojo was Swedish. He had really liked that.
"She's Swedish, that's the only thing I know", Carter said fastly with a smile and Jerry smiled pleased.
"Oh yeah!" Malucci bursted out before walking away with his arms over his head. Carter just laughed and was almost regretting he had shared his information with someone as Malucci.
Jojo would obviously found out about this, and know Carter had told other people about her. He felt embarrassed.
I sat down in the lounge looking down in my books, my studies that surprisingly had been in my locker. Dr Green had told me it was a good time for me to study when a trauma came in. It was obvious they didn't want me in there watching. But I can't say anything against that because I'm totally freaked out to see something like that. I've never seen anything like that, or anyone dying in front of my eyes.
So now I sat safely in the quiet lounge. But understanding everything in my books was impossible. I'm not use to this English. These medical terms are so hard in English. I felt like to cry. I can't tell anyone about this.
They're going to wonder how I even got the spot on a hospital in the US. No, I won't be telling anyone.
I can still do this. I want to be here, even if it's a show and it's totally crazy!
But I have so many unanswered questions. Like, how long I am going to be in this world? Forever? Or I am coming back to my world in Sweden (the real world?) by stepping into the elevator I came from?
I'm NOT going to step into any elevator in this hospital or any other elevators. Not a single one!
Because I really want to be here. This life seems to be so much funnier than my "real" one in Sweden. People even seamed to notice
Quickly after my arriving here I realised it wasn't all like in the show on TV. This was more realistic, this was the real world the same time it wasn't. It wasn't so dramatic constantly it obviously has to be in TV shows.
Like, Marks father wasn't dying and Carter wasn't on drugs or something. At least of my known.
I was frightened when someone quickly walked in by kicking the door. I looked back and there Dr Covac stood.
"Sorry again Miss", he said with a smile. I was blushing by his smile, I really love it.
"It's okey…again", I said with a smile back and he laughed some before walking up to his locker and opened it.
"You must be Ms Anderson", he said after turning around to me.
"Yes I am, and you're Dr Covac, right?"
"Yes", he answered and smiled again. Of course he was Dr Covac, Luka Covac.
"But you can call me Luka", he said before walking out. It a strange but funny feeling to know anything about everyone and them not knowing about it.
In the same moment I was left alone Carter walked in. Was I having luck on purpose? But when I saw Abbey showing up behind him my luck seamed to turn a bit.
But I soon forgot about her and couldn't get my eyes off Carter. He gets hotter every time I see him.
"Hello", he just said with a smile at me before walking to the coffee can.
Abbey was quickly on a sit besides me and seamed happy to see me. I don't really know if I liked that or not. Maybe she isn't so bad. She just has to stay away from the cute doctors. Especially Carter that now held up coffee in his ugly cup. I mean it, it's really goddamn ugly. I've always noticed it.
"Doing well?" Abbey asked with a smile and I smiled back. She hasn't done me anything; she has on the other hand been very nice to me. So why not?
"I'm doing fine thanks!" I answered and Abby now looked happy. She really liked me, didn't she?
"So I heard you're from Sweden!" She bursted out after just a couple of seconds after me just looking at Carter when he walked up to his locker. But after Abbey talking he immediately closed the locker just after opening it.
I quickly turned my head to Carter that rushed out the room. I turned my head back to Abbey.
Wow, Carter really looked like a little guilty schoolboy after throwing stones at the teacher. At least the few moments I saw his face before he walked out.
I didn't know he was so much of a talker. But about me? I couldn't believe it was so interesting about me being Swedish. Or maybe was it just because it was info about me?
"Who told you?" I asked Abbey that seamed to get even happier by me talking to her.
"Malucci."
"Oh yeah, is Carter really a gossip-talking kind of guy?" I asked and Abby just looked at me surprised.
"That's why he had such a rush out here?"
I just laughed before Abbey hung along.
"Carter is hard to figure out sometimes", Abbey said after a while of us two laughing.
"When he says he's fine all the time: fifty percent of the cases are lies."
That wasn't new to me, not at all. I know Carter is like that (I even know Carter more than anyone else.) He drives his grandmother crazy. I guess she drives him a bit nuts too.
"You don't have to know him so well to know how to handle him", she says after a while.
"And don't take it personal when he tries to boss you."
I laughed. I really knew everything! That's why I laughed pretty hard.
Abbey was at the start to give me all this good for-the-newbie-info that I really don't need. But I can't tell her that of course. I can just enjoy it anyway. She can be my own med-friend.
"And do NOT come with better suggestions for a patient than him. He totally hates that!"
I was so close to say I already knew that but I stopped the two words on my tongue just in time.
"I'm going to do that anyway", I said instead and Abbey laughed a bit and almost looked at me as I was her favourite rock star or something. I don't get it really, but I totally love it! I have never get this attention before. Not like this, it's like I'm popular. And people talking about me.
But maybe I just fit better with Americans? And they maybe just have a thing for Swedes?
"You really dare to do that?" Abbey asked with that same look at me.
"Yeah, sounds like fun!"
She looked at me surprised but with admire. I still can't really get it. What's so special about me? I'm just a student, and this is my first day!
I'm not a well known doctor-of-the-year!
"Joj…Ms Anderson", I suddenly heard a familiar voice behind me. I turned around and saw Carter sticking in his head by the door. I was quickly up and walked to the door where Carter just disappeared. Before walking out I gave Abbey as smile. She understood that I was about to test that Dr Carter. She smiled back.
Jojo was walking up by Carters side and he still felt embarrassed. Especially after that in the lounge a while ago. He had felt like a red tomato when Abbey revealed him to Jojo for spreading info about her. He was walking out before meeting her look. He felt so stupid, and that he had told Jerry, the best person to tell in the whole hospital. That was more than stupid, that was totally intelligence free.
Now he couldn't look at her straight. He that almost even couldn't do that before.
"We just have to deal with a few patients before you can go home", Carter said trying to sound professional when they walked down the isle and him ignoring contact with Jojo. He just saw her beautiful curly blonde hair in his right eye.
He just felt so childish all the time. What was the deal with him as damn doctor constantly feel nervous against a student!? He had never been like this before. What was so special about this girl?
Now Carter just wondered if Jojo was angry with him because he had told "people" about her. No, she couldn't be. It couldn't be such a big deal because after all, she had shared that information with him. If she didn't want people to know, she wouldn't have told him.
But of course he still felt embarrassed. He wasn't that kind of guy who talks gossip about other people. A professional third year resident doesn't do that. And Carter had almost done everything to be a serious doctor.
But it soon came up to him, why was it such a great deal what Jojo thought about him? His job was just to teach her, and he did that right now. He didn't have to worry about anything else.
He felt dumb even giving it a thought. He would pull himself together right now and not be distracted by Jojo's stunning beauty.
"You've done well today, Ms Anderson", Dr Green said behind my back when I was at my locker. I had just got off and had been afraid of this all day. Where am I suppose to go!?
I was about to cry after discovering I had no coat or anything. I would freeze to out in that snow!
"I heard you live in a student corridor", Mark suddenly said like he had read my mind. Dear god, thank you! I had a place to go after all.
I locked my locker and turned around and looked at Mark that looked on some papers on the table.
"That's right", I said with a smile. I was happy again.
"Is it alright there?" he asked and I just nodded. I had no idea.
"It seems fine, I have after all just been there for two days", I lied and Mark gave me a smile. God, Elizabeth is a really lucky girl. Mark is a wonderful guy.
"Yeah, from Sweden?"
I just couldn't resist laughing a bit. Everyone really knew that by now. Maybe it had been for the best to not tell Carter. Everyone would now ask me about Sweden and stuff like that. I knew they would. Hey, they were already doing that.
But I didn't think it would come out through Carter. I wanted him to know about it and didn't think he would tell anyone.
"Yes, you heard that too", I said and continued to laugh.
"You know, everything goes fast on this hospital", Mark said smiling and I smiled back. He's kind of cute when he smiles.
Before I knew it Carter was walking in and both me and Mark looked at him. He stopped just by the door and looked back. I don't know about Mark, but I could stand there staring at him all day.
"Hey", Mark said and looked back on his papers. I still looked at Carter that surprisingly looked at me too! I couldn't even ask myself what was going on when I just continued staring at him.
After a long moment I stopped and walked up to him.
"Bye", I just said looking up at him before walking out of the room.
"So I guess you two did go well together?" Mark said when Carter opened his locker.
"Mhmm", he just mumbled as an answer and surprisingly felt like he'd just lied. It was true it had gone good, but something was still feeling "wrong."
"She's a very beautiful woman, don't make that distract you."
Carter looked at himself into his small mirror on his locker door before taking on his winter coat and turned around to Mark that was looking at him seriously. Green was always like Hannibal Lecter or something. He just knows what people think. That was just the thing that concerned Carter and Green just brought it up to his face.
Carter felt embarrassed as usual and just laughed to deny it. Of course Mark couldn't know he was right. Carter wasn't that kind of guy who didn't handle things at work. He was professional.
Mark still looked at him seriously when he laughed in his face and putted on his gloves.
"Carter, I've seen how you look at her."
Carter was surprised but mostly terrified. He had seen that!? He couldn't have looked so much! Man, he just looked a bit, just a peak.
"Now you're really on the wrong track", Carter laughed but Mark couldn't stop looking serious.
"I've seen how everybody looks at her, even the patients. That's no big deal Carter."
Carter could still not admit it. He couldn't even admit to himself.
"Think what you want Mark!"
Carter just shook his head before walking out the lounge with his bag on his shoulder. The last he saw of Mark was that same serious look on his face. He would never believe him.
Maybe it was true what everybody said about Carter. Like every time he lied it was like he had a sign on his forehead told "liar". He couldn't get why it was so obvious.
I was crossing my arms really tight when I walked out in the cold winter. The snow was pouring down. I really felt bad. I didn't even know where that student corridor was and I was almost freezing to death with only my shirt under the white coat.
I walked down to the road and looked in front of me. My feet were nearly dying down in the wet snow and cars were passing in high speed. On the other side of the road I saw that very familiar restaurant "Doc Magoos."
All people working at the hospital use to go here and eat.
I almost got ran over a car and slipped in the snow when I rushed over the road. I would get in to the restaurant and warm myself. I couldn't stand one more minute outside.
When I got inside in the almost empty place I wanted cried, it was so wonderfully warm. I never wanted to go outside again.
Finding myself "home" later was a problem I would deal with later on. Now I was getting food!
I ordered a lot of food and a cup of coffee. It was so good! I hadn't eaten since the morning after waking up, in Sweden! Now I was in Chicago! It was crazy.
After finishing eating my food and my cup was empty. I was feeling so tired. I really needed some sleep. And I was on 7.00 am tomorrow!
But I had no strength even to get up from that soft coach and sang along a bit to that Connie Francis classic. I was almost high by my fatigue.
Suddenly I heard somebody say my name when I just had my eyes shut and sang with my head leaned against the back of the coach.
I fastly opened my eyes and discovered Dr Carter in front of me! I was fast sitting straight and rubbed my eyes.
"Are you alright?" he asked and looked down on me with a worried look. I was getting hot down there.
"Yeah, sure."
"You look a bit tired, where do you live?" he asked. I watched him up and down. He was dressed formal. That looked good, but of course not as sexy when he wears work clothes.
"In a student corridor."
"Why don't you get home and get some sleep, we are after all on very early tomorrow."
Carter sounded really concerned about be. I really liked that, no, I loved it and didn't feel so tired anymore. But I was starting to wonder what I would say to him. The truth?
"Here's the truth, it's kind of embarrassing", I started after deciding I was going to tell him the truth. He deserved it.
He was quickly sitting down on the coach in front of me and looked at me. I couldn't even continue talking when he looked at me.
"I don't really remember where it is."
I looked down on the table avoiding Carter. It was really kind of embarrassing.
"You don't have to feel embarrassed about that, everybody has experienced things like that on this hospital, trust me."
Carter looked at me with a wide smile and I smiled back of course.
"But come on, I get you there", he said and got up. I was fastly up too and happy like a little bird. Carter would give me a lift!
We walked up to Carters jeep and I smiled a bit for myself. I even know what cars they own!
I got up to the passenger sit before Carter sat down besides me. Of course I looked at him as usual. He was really getting hotter by every time I saw him.
He looked back at me and then I immediately looked in front of me.
Carter parked by the sidewalk by the big building. My new home.
There I couldn't resist look at him and now he was looking at me too.
"Thank you Dr Carter", I said smiling and he smiled back while we looked at each other.
"Please, you can call me John."
I was surprised; he doesn't let many call him by his first name! And now he asked me. I was feeling so special.
"Okey, good night John", I said smiling before opening the door and hopped out of the car. I was nearly in love, haha. I couldn't stop thinking about how he had looked at me. And I loved when I called him John.
I had run around in that student corridor for a long time when suddenly a woman called my name. In the other side of the corridor there stood a dark woman in her PJ's.
"Jojo, why are you wandering around out here? Can't find our room?"
She smiled and I walked up on her. I assumed she was my roommate. But it was strange she had seen me before. But I didn't get to think about that right now, I was just so happy she had found me so I could get to sleep soon, I was so tired.
"I don't remember", I mumbled and the girl just kept on smiling. She looked very nice.
"I had a long day", I continued.
"Come on."
She took my arm and we walked down the quiet empty isle.
"Is it so nervous the first day in hospitals as they say?" she suddenly asked when they came into a small apartment with two beds in front of each other, a coach and a TV. Then a small kitchen and that was it.
"Yeah, I guess", I just mumbled and discovered my familiar bags and clothes on the floor besides one of the beds. It was a miracle, I had clothes!
But without thinking over how my stuff got here I laid down in the bed after taking off my white coat.
"And they certainly get you tired", was my last words to the girl that sat down on her bed before I got into sleep. I was exhausted.
