Scrubs
My Idea Of The Norm
My Torn Apart Heart
I have two ideas for a sequel to this story.
One: JD's imagination wanders too far from home as he wonders what life would be like if Max were a boy.
Two: An accedent leading to the death of a main character. NOT MAX!
I have both ideas forming, and their both getting a stellar story line. I just can't choose which one I want to do... That's where you come in! Which do you like better? Idea one? Or idea two?
Disclaimer: Oooooooh, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? If he held a saw in his little paw, a ton of wood he could. I don't own Scrubs.
Ugh... Any other day at Sacred Heart...
JD sighed, hopping up onto the Nurse's Station counter. "I'm soooo bored, Carla!"
"JD, you better get off the counter," she said. "And, besides, you're at work. Go check on your patients."
"Evalynn!"
JD sighed, rolling his eyes. Another rant, another girl's name...
"Evalynn, I couldn't help but notice that you've been standing in the same spot for most of the time you've been on call! Now, I know during the day, you can just mosey around, have your interns do your work, and just gush over that cute guy in radiology. 'Oh, my God! He winked at me! He winked!'" Perry's rant took a quick intermission, and he mimicked a fake JD, and then composed his face. "But you can't do that right now. Just about all your interns are gone, and you need to be in the ICU. So-" He stopped again, beginning a straight gait down the hall. "Gooooooooooooooooo!"
JD rolled his eyes again. "Yup, just another day at Sacred Herat."
Carla raised her eyebrows. "That was very... ominous... Were you talking to me?"
"Maybe..." JD said, walking off, lazily towards the ICU.
Max blinked. "Okay, there's definitely something in the background of this picture..." she mumbled.
She'd been staring at the picture she took of her and Perry on Halloween for what felt like weeks; because it was weeks...
And, even though she'd been staring at it, she couldn't quite tell what that fuzzy white figure floating right above her head was. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock on the wall. It was eleven-forty pm. She was going to have to find Perry ans ask when he got off work. Whenever he got off, she could go home to fall asleep on the leather couch in the living room.
Max stood from her table in the cafeteria and started for the ICU, blinking several times to keep her eyes open. She thought it wasn't uncommon to find an on-call doctor in the ICU, where most problems occured, and this was true, seeing as she found JD there, flirting with a nurse named Claire that was completely uninterested.
"Yo, JD," she said, tapping his shoulder.
He spun around, his attention shifting from Claire to Max. "Hey, Max! What's up?"
"Shouldn't you be working, not hitting on the nurses?" she asked, smirking at him.
"Aw, come on, Max!" he yelled. "You're starting to sound like Perry!"
"Speaking of," she said, spinning around to face him. "Have you see Per-Per anywhere?"
JD thought for a moment. "No, actually. He's up here somewhere, though. I think..."
"Aw, that sucks. I need to know when I can go home!"
JD stopped and so did Max. "Why didn't you just go home with Jordan?"
"Because she's crazy," she said. "And she'd make me put on girlie clothes..."
JD's head tilted to the side, and he drifted off into a fantasy.
Max chuckled. "Wow," she mumbled, turning and walking off. "Perry..." she mumbled quietly. "Oh where is Perry....."
She walked past an empty patient's room then. Well, empty besides Percival Cox. He was standing very still, hands in the pockets of his white coat, staring very intently at the wall. Were his lips moving? Who was he talking to? He must be having a crazy moment...
"I'll come back later..."
"That's not answering my question." Perry flicked his noes and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Yes it is. I mean, how clear do you want this answer to be?" Ben grinned. "Think about it, Per-Per. If I talk to you, let you know I'm here, I can see her grow up for alittle bit longer."
Perry's face twisted up. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
"No, no, remember than one time we were at that bar and that random chick ran up to us and was like-"
"Ben. Shut up," Perry said. "That's not important right now. I wouldn't even honestly believe this was happening if it weren't the second time it was going on. Now, if I'm hearing you right, you have to let Max know you're here to go to 'heaven' or forever be forced into purgatory?"
"Yup."
"And, you don't want to show her because then you'll miss her growing up?"
"Yeah, that's the main idea."
Perry frowned and spun towards the door. "Well, Ben, I'm just not gonna help you with that," he admitted. "If you want to get to your 'heaven' but you also want to see Max 'grow', you're gonna have to figure that out for yourself."
Ben fallowed him out the door. "Aw, c'mon Per-Per! That's not fair!"
Perry rolled his eyes. "I know." And then it was quiet.
"No one, no one, no oooooone! Can get in the way of what I feel for you! Oh oh oh oh ohhhh! Oh oh oh oh ohhhh! Oh oh oh oh oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Ooooooohhhhhhhh!"
"Max, please shut up."
"Dude, Alicia Keys is raw!" she yelled, listening to 'No One' come to an end. She grinned at Perry who sent a sarcastic grin back her way.
"Hey, Per-Per, I saw you talking to a wall earlier. What was up with that?"
"I'm crazy," he half-lied. "Crazy people talk to walls."
Max shrugged. "That's reasonable..."
Max was sleeping. That was the most obvious thing about the pretty little teen that lay across the couch. She held two pictures in her limp hand. Ben knew both of them too well by now.
One of both he and Max, a long time ago. The other taken weeks ago of Perry and Max.
If Ben really thought about it, heaven could wait. Nothing could break him away from watching his daughter grow, even if it she couldn't see him. Even if it meant purgatory. And what really mattered to him... was her.
Having to choose was hard. Having to pick between his soul and his daughter was almost too much the bare. But, he had to choose. And with the shattered pieces of his torn apart heart, he made his choice.
Yeah. Another day at Sacred Heart.
Dr. Cox ranted and belittled JD. Called him a girl's name.
Elliot lost something new that wouldn't fit in her tote bag and went screaming through the hospital looking for it.
Carla was all sass.
Turk and JD were.... Well, they were Turk and JD.
Everything was completely normal.
Today's been really quiet... JD blinked, looking across the lunch table at Carla and Perry.
"Hey, Dr. Cox," JD began to say.
"No, Carol."
"But, you didn't even listen to what I was about to say!"
"I know. I just enjoy saying that to you."
"Jerk..."
It became ridiculously quiet, and suddenly a shrill voice screamed, "Oh my God!"
Every head in the lunch room jerked towards the door. Max was stomping inside in yet another outfit picked out for her by Jordan.
"Perry!" she yelled, waving a picture back and forth. "Perry, look! Look!" She ran up to him and shoved the picture in his face.
He looked at it closely. And his eyes widened. "Whoa..."
"What?" asked Carla. "Let me see." She leaned over, taking a glimpse at it. "Wow." she mumbled quietly.
I wonder what it could be...
JD's head slowly tilted to the left.
"Wow!" Carla yelled.
"I know!" Perry said in agreement. He shoved the picture at me.
"Oh my goodness!" I yelled. "It's a dinosaur!"
"JD! Look!" Max yelled, and JD's head snapped back forward. She held to picture up to him. It was a picture of her and Perry. In the background, however was a very transparent figure.
JD squinted. "Is that..." He blinked hard. "Wow."
Ben Sullivan.
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Epilogue
Maxien Lear-Sullivan was fifteen years old. Shoulder-length, wavy brown hair and bangs that cut right below her eyebrows. Her eyes were a pale blue and she wore a jacket the same color of her eyes every day, with blue jeans, army boots and a random shirt; she never really cared to check what was on it. Always, a digital camera could be found, handing from her wrist by a lanyard.
It had been two months almost since Max entered out lives. And you could ask anyone, not just me, and they would say that nothing was ever going to quite be the same. This teenaged girl simply showed up one day and the whole world seemed to change. This cool, quirky, weird girl simply showed up and completely warped our idea of the norm.
And I, John Dorian, wouldn't want it any other way.