OMG sorry for the hold up, I just was so busy with school and kinda stressed out so I just forgot about fanfiction until my friend asked if I was going to finish this story and I FEEL TERRIBLE I'M SO SORRY

Also I got my learners permit about a month ago and drove on a busy road for the first time last night, it was terrifying because I drive a stick shift, and at one point my gears were grinding and if I didn't change into overdrive my engine would stall and that'd be awkward because again, busy road and my rookie driver sticker had flown off the window because my truck doesn't have the curved windows that they're designed for. Anyway, I had to pull over and compose myself-aka not have a panic attack. But I also practiced reversing and I parked pretty well on my first try. Long story short-DRIVING IS EFFING SCARY AND HOLY SMOKES I KIND OF HATE IT

Enjoy :3

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Emily and...The Sick Baby

Emily wakes up and hears crying,

"Want me to get him?" Micah asks.

"If you want-" Emily begins but then she hears something that makes her heart stop and she sits up. Brian just coughed, a very large cough.

"He just coughed." Emily says.

"Emily-he has a cold. We agreed on this." Micah says as Emily jumps out of bed and over to his crib.

"I know, but this one was different. It was more gross." Emily says going over and Brian continues to cry.

Emily picks him up and pats his back gently as he keeps coughing.

"Look, let's stay calm." Micah says as he turns the light on.

"Micah he's had a cold for a week and his cough was light and now it doesn't' sound too good. He could have, pneumonia or bronchitis. I highly doubt it's a whooping cough since he's not having sudden fits. But his breathing is shortened, Micah can you set a timer for a minute. If he's under 55 breaths we need to take him some place. I mean it's probably nothing." Emily says her mind racing. "But he's only 3 months old so this could turn serious."

"Look we'll take him to Putnam in the morning. It's 3 and we have a 24 hour shift starting at ten-"

"Micah he's been having trouble sleeping all week with this cough. Do you think he's going to get much sleep?" Emily says. Okay don't panic, I mean you haven't checked his temperature yet so it could just be allergies or something. I mean allergies can happen in babies.

"Look Emily, calm down. Hand him to me and I'll take his temperature. You've been with him most this week think about symptoms but don't blow them up."

Emily thinks as Micah takes his temperature.

"He hasn't been eating with his schedule. I mean normally when we're here he's up every two hours to eat, but he's been waking up every two hours and crying and refusing food."

"Which is why you had trouble getting him to bed last night." Micah says.

"Yeah." Emily says as the thermometer goes off.

Micah looks at it and his eyebrows crinkle.

"Micah?" Emily asks.

"100.4." Micah says and at that Emily goes over to the closet and says,

"Get dressed, we're going to see somebody now."

"Emily it can wait-"

"Micah, he's barely 4 months old and he has a fever. We're going to the ER." Emily says.

"Okay, let me get changed and we'll go." Micah says kissing Brian before putting him in his crib before going to the closet next to Emily and grabbing some clothes for himself.

"Thank you." Emily says kissing him.

"Anything for you, and you probably are right. I'm half asleep and somebody could be dying on our doorstep from a knife fight right now and I'd be like 'get him a bandaid and tell him to leave'." Micah says.

"I know you're lazy and calm when you're tired. Anyway gotta get changed, be right back." Emily says. "Pack the diaper bag if I'm not out."

'Aye-aye captain."

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Emily sat in the waiting room, Brian still crying as Micah was talking with the nurse at the ER desk. Stop freaking out, okay you just have a crying baby who is starting to scare you because of their cough and just overall grouchiness when they're a happy baby. She kisses Brian's head from the front carrier she had him in.

"Please stop crying." Emily said getting up to go stand next to Micah.

"I'm sorry Dr. Barnes, but just because you work here does not mean you are put at the top of the list."

"My wife works here too, and our baby could work here when they're older." Micah says.

"I'm sorry Dr. Barnes you have to wait your turn-"

"Micah, Emily?"

Emily turns around and sees Tyra, looking like she had just gotten off of shift.

"Tyra, what are you doing back, you aren't supposed to be back for another week."

"Yeah well I've been back for two." Tyra says.

"Please Jane, for me." Micah said.

"Honey I would love to, but you've got a pretty little wife now. And our thing is long over, hell you were an intern who needed a woman on record." The nurse started.

"What?" Emily asks Tyra, choosing to ignore what the nurse had just said.

"Here, I'm on my way out but I'll take it. Come on you two-" Tyra begins and Micah's phone rings.

"Hello-Liz? Yes I'm still mad-what?" Micah asks.

"Micah stay here I'll be with Emily. She'll text you." Tyra says.

"Okay thank you Tyra. Love you Em-okay Liz start from the beginning and ask again." Micah says.

Tyra and Emily walk after Emily grabs the diaper bag.

"So, two weeks and you haven't called?"

"Haven't been in the mood." Tyra says.

"Tyra, what happened. You can tell me-"

"So what are we here for today?" Tyra asks getting on gloves and taking out her stethoscope.

"Well, he's had a slight cold all week but that wasn't really worrying. But for the last two days he's been waking up for his usual feeding schedule, and then refusing to eat." Emily says.

"Does he eat at all?" Tyra asks.

"Yeah, sometime, he had some this morning and when I got off of work-nobody could get him to eat at daycare. His nose is running slightly and he has this nasty cough." Emily says as Brian coughs again a few times and then cries again. "-that started tonight and he had a 100.4 fever at the apartment before we came here. That's why we came here he's barely 4 months and he had a fever and I freaked out."

"Okay, well I have a few ideas but I think you're thinking the same. So can I check him out really quickly?" Tyra asks.

Emily nods and unstraps him and lays him down on the bed. Tyra listens to his heart and lungs, feels his chest and breathing, looks down his throat, up his nose and in his ears and scribbles something down. She takes his temperature.

"It looks like it's a very minor case of pneumonia, nasty virus but we caught it early thanks to doctors making the most psychotic parents ever. Minor because his fever's down to 99.1. So I'm going to prescribe some basic antibiotics and if he doesn't start eating normally after the first two doses or his cough gets worse-and symptoms persist. Come back and we can test him more." Tyra says taking off her gloves.

"Okay now will you tell me what's going on? Why you've been back for two weeks and haven't said a word to me?" Emily asks.

Tyra sighs and sits handing Emily the prescription.

"I purposed to Molly when we were on the beach one day, broad daylight right by the pier, because we were having fun and I had the rings-"

"Two rings?"

"Matching ones, honey if I'm getting engaged, I'm getting a ring too-anyway. That night we went walking on the boardwalk and she stopped and looked at me. Said we needed to talk, and when I asked what about she told me that her ex-girlfriend called and wanted to follow through with their old relationship. To get married like Molly wanted, and Molly said yes." Tyra said. "To her, and not me."

Emily looks at Tyra and after strapping Brian back in she hugs her.

"I'm sorry. Where are you living?"

"At home again, my Dad's actually been a huge help through all of this." Tyra said.

"If you need a place-"

"I'm not living with your husband and baby." Tyra says laughing.

"I mean if you need a place to stay come July we do have a guest bedroom, the crib's in our room. And Micah's going to be in Baltimore." Emily said.

"Emily." Tyra says and Emily nods.

"He got an e-mail from the attending there, they're really excited to have him and he's flying out at the end of June and then he's there for a year.." Emily says.

"Wow, are you going to go with him to get settled in?"

"I don't really want to talk about it. Back to you, I'm sorry that your relationship fell through and that you treated my baby."

"You're welcome, now follow me to go get paperwork and find your husband. You've got work in a few hours."

Emily and...The Roommate

Emily wakes up and doesn't hear Brian crying. She reaches over to the other side of the bed and finds Micah gone. She sits up and sees the crib empty-and the sun was risen. What day is it? She thinks as she grabs her phone and unlocks it, it was Saturday. Okay it's my day off. I like days off, Micah must've woken up with Brian so I could sleep-jeez it's already almost 10.

Emily flips the covers off and sees a text from Tyra, asking her to lunch at 1. Emily texted back that she would love lunch. I should shower, nobody likes morning stink.

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Emily walks out of the bedroom fully showered with her hair in a braid down her back, wearing jeans and a blue turtleneck. She hears voices in the living room. We have people over? She thinks and when she enters the room she sees Micah on his laptop, on a video chat with some guy that Emily didn't recognize. The two were laughing very hard and Brian was playing happily on his playmat. Emily smiled and walked over picking him up.

"Hello baby." She says kissing him and Brian makes happy noises. She puts him down and smiles

She walks into the kitchen to grab herself some coffee, and watches him over the counter, smiling.

"Anyway-Micah who's she?" The guy on screen asks sarcastically.

"What?" Micah asks.

"The blonde behind you in the kitchen." The guy said.

Micah turned around and Emily saw his face light up.

"Hey, you're awake."

"Yeah." Emily says smiling and taking a sip.

"Come here." Micah says patting the couch next to him. Emily smiles and walks over to him and kisses him before sitting down.

"Who's this?" Emily

"Bro, nice." The guy said.

"Okay. Mark this is my wife Emily." Micah said.

"Oh! You're Emily. Wow what is a beauty like you doing with a guy like Micah?" Mark asks causing Emily to laugh and Micah to say,

"Hey!"

"Kidding." Mark says winking.

"You're very attractive." Emily says kissing Micah's cheek.

"See? love is blind, anyway so you like the apartment, and we're getting along so what do you say?"

"I still have to think about it."

"What hospital are you working at?"

"I'm doing the last year of my fellowship at John Hopkins-"

"Bro! I'm a pediatric nurse there!" Mark said. "My apartments across the street."

Emily smiled as Brian looked at her and made a whiney noise. Emily walks over and picks him up before kissing him

"Dude, you didn't tell me you had a kid." Mark said smiling. "I love kids."

"This is Brian, he's 4 months old." Micah said as Emily sits back in frame and sits back, Brian leaning against her chest making happy gurgle noises.

"Aw, he's so tiny and cute." Mark said.

"Thanks." Emily says and Mark laughs.

"Anyway, so apartment the rent is 700 a month so you'd be paying 350 and I'd be paying 350. It's two bedroom one bathroom, there's a balcony and a pool with the hospital across the street." Mark says.

"I think it sounds like a good deal." Micah says nodding and he looks at Emily. "What do you think?" He asks.

Emily looks at him and down to Brian. I know that I technically talked him into this whole thing, but now that he's looking for a roommate, a week before Christmas and that he's found one. It just makes it all real, I mean in a few months he'll be gone for a year-

"It sounds great." Emily says as she takes her empty coffee cup and goes to the kitchen. Brian on her hip.

Micah looks after her and sighs, she was upset and trying not to make a big deal out of it.

"What's up dude?" Mark asks.

"Nothing, I'll text you the details later, thanks man." Micah says and then he hangs up.

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Micah walks into their room where Emily's getting Brian out of his pajamas.

"Emily, what's wrong?" Micah asks.

"Nothing." Emily says. Don't make it a big deal, you asked him to take the job. You can't just tell him to change his mind, it would be unfair. I mean it's only a year and it's not like you're not going to visit each other.

"Emily is it about Baltimore?" Micah asks.

"Maybe." Emily says.

"Well let's talk about it, what's upsetting you?" Micah asks.

Emily sighs and puts Brian in his crib, as he was falling asleep.

"It's not that I'm upset, I just-I never realized how close it was. I mean it's December, about to be Christmas and it didn't hit me that you're going to be gone in 6 months for a year, until now. And the fact that you've been looking for roommates the last few weeks doesn't help." Emily says and Micah goes over and hugs her.

"Hey, I'll miss you too. But it's 6 months, so many things can happen in 6 months." Micah says and Emily hugs him back.

"I just-I feel stupid because I told you to take the job and now I feel like I'm being unfair for being this upset about you leaving."

"Hey, you're not being unfair. It's fine to be upset, so long as it's not at me."

"Of course it's not at you. I'm proud of you that you got this opportunity, and how can I be upset for that?" Emily asks.

Micah smiles and kisses the top of her head,

"So I heard about Tyra and Molly." He says smiling

"Oh yeah, how'd you find out?" Emily asks

"Molly sent a save the date card." Micah says.

"Yeah, it's sad. That they broke up that way-"

"Broke up?" Micah asks.

"What, yeah that's why she was home early Molly left her." Emily says.

"Then why did I get this with the mail this morning?" Micah asks leading her out to the counter and handing her a card.

Emily looks at it. It was a picture of Tyra and Molly lying on the beach, it was a picture of their faces facing each other and around their heads in the sand was a heart. That bitch. Emily thinks in a laughing voice before she says,

"This is what lunch is about."

"Giving her a surprise visit."

"You betcha." Emily says grabbing her boots.

"Love you!" Micah calls as she grabs her coat and bag.

"Love you too." Emily says and she closes the door before opening it again. "By the way tell Mark that I said thank you for letting you stay with him for the year you're there. He seems nice, but if he lets any woman into your apartment-"

"He's gay."

"Wonderful." Emily says smiling and they both laugh and she leaves again, and texts Tyra a photo of the card saying.

Lunch is moved to now.

And two minutes later she got a text back saying,

I knew you'd catch on my smart cookie.