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Chapter 2
The few hours Carlisle had been at work he experienced something very…different. When ever he had started at any hospital for the first time, his co-workers were very hesitant when approaching him, which was understandable. It's a basic human instinct that is hidden deep within that warn them to keep their distance. Yet when he first entered Sacred Heart no one was hesitant. He had been treated with such kindness that he thought it was all a hallucination. People here were just generally trustful. Well almost everyone.
Carlisle had only worked for half a day yet he already got into the flow of the mechanics of it all. He remembered every doctor, nurse, and orderly that had come to introduce themselves. All of them, well, with the exception of one.
Carlisle looked at a clock when he had finished some paper work. It was almost his break time. Even though he wanted to keep doing his job he didn't want any one to be suspicious so he decided to take a trip down to the cafeteria.
It's unlike Carlisle to be lost in his thought but with everything so new around him he couldn't help himself. He wished though that he had been aware of a man who lurked around a corner. Carlisle slammed into a very tall man in a jumpsuit that had popped almost literally out of no where.
"Excuse me sir, I'm sorry I didn't even see you." Carlisle said sincerely.
The tall man looked down at the doctor and glared. "You're lucky," the man growled. "I usually take people like you down to the morgue and hang you upside down, but I have another target."
Carlisle looked at him, confused. What did he mean by another target?
Suddenly without warning the man grabbed Carlisle by his lab coat. The man hid himself and his captive Carlisle behind a corner not letting go of his coat. Carlisle was way beyond confused now. The man gestured a shush signal to the doctor then peeked around the corner. Carlisle did the same.
He saw everything before the man had time to explain. In the middle of the hallway was a giant puddle of water. Down the hallway walking towards them was a rushed looking man who Carlisle had met earlier, J.D. Carlisle became wide eyed.
"Don't worry, he deserves it." The man said.
Deserves it? Suddenly he heard the sound of a shoe landing in the puddle and looked to see J.D sliding then falling flat on his face. "Ohhh."
Carlisle looked at the man who was thoroughly enjoying himself. The man released Carlisle and walked over to a soaked J.D.
J.D looked up to the man. "Why didn't you put a Wet Floor sign up?"
The man smiled, "I don't know, maybe you should ask the sandwich you stole from my tray yesterday?"
"I wasn't even here!" J.D exclaimed.
The man laughed, "Well then I guess I just did it for fun." And with the tall man left. Carlisle rushed from the corner over to J.D.
J.D growled, "Janitor,".
So that's who that man was, Carlisle thought. "J.D are you okay?" Carlisle asked. J.D looked up at the man perplexed. "Dr. Cullen! Oh, yeah I'm fine thanks." J.D hurried and stood up. Carlisle stared at the young doctor. He couldn't possibly believe that this man could have any enemies.
"J.D if you don't mind me asking-"
"Why does he have such a strong hatred for me? I have no idea." J.D smiled, "I'm sorry I didn't really introduce myself earlier I'm John Michael Dorian but as you already know everyone calls me J.D."
Carlisle relaxed, "It's nice to meet you." J.D looked at the clock. "Oh hey are you on break?"
"Yes I was just heading to the cafeteria."
J.D Looked excited, "me to! You wanna- "
"Mary!" Carlisle and J.D both turned their heads towards an angry doctor. Carlisle remembered the man from before, Dr. Cox.
"Look I know you and your new gal pal are having fun talking about what dress your going to wear to the sorority formal and maybe, just maybe, the man of your dreams will sweep you off your feet, but I told you to go get Mrs. Frye's blood work back."
"Dr. Cox, I was on my way down there but I slipped and then…wait have you met Dr. Cullen yet?"
Carlisle internally sighed, he could tell J.D wanted to change the subject. "Hello I'm Dr. Cullen." Carlisle said politely only to get a glare in return.
"Look, I'm not stupid. Of course you're the new doctor, but I re-hee-heally don't have the time to chat." Carlisle looked as the doctor turned around and walked away. A memory was nagging at the back of Carlisle's mind. That man seemed so familiar, but Carlisle couldn't recall any memory of the man. He had to have met him before, he was sure of it.
J.D sighed. "Sorry about that Dr. Cullen. Dr. Cox isn't really a people person."
Carlisle was pulled from his thoughts. "Ha-ha I can tell. Is he always so…angry?"
J.D laughed, "Oh you don't know the half of it."
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Carlisle finally made it down to the cafeteria. He got in line and only grabbed a bottle of water. Water didn't really have much of a taste to it and it made him look normal.
"Dr. Cullen!"
Carlisle turned at the sound of his name. The nurse from earlier, Carla, was gesturing for the doctor to come sit with her, her husband Turk, and Elliot. Carlisle smiled and took the empty seat next to Elliot.
"So Dr. Cullen, how's the hospital treating you?" Elliot asked kindly.
"Well so far everything has been going smoothly."
Elliot smiled, "I'm glad to hear it. So Dr. Cullen tell us about yourself. We hardly know anything about you besides the fact that you're an amazing doctor."
Turk laughed, "and so you two can get the juicy scoop on the new doc."
Carla smiled as she whacked her husband upside the head.
Carlisle laughed, which in turned made the two women swoon. "Well my family and I moved down from Washington. I worked in a small town there for awhile called Forks."
"Never heard of it. So Dr. Cullen tell us about your family." Elliot said a little demanding.
"Oh, well my wife Esme," all of the sudden Elliot coughed up her drink. "Are you okay Elliot?" Carlisle asked.
"Oh yeah, sorry, please continue," Elliot said wiping some juice off her chin.
"Alright, my wife Esme and I got married when we were young. Unfortunately, soon after, Esme's sister passed away and we adopted her niece and nephew Rosalie and Jasper."
Carla and Elliot were officially roped in. "Then soon after we adopted my sons Edward, Emmett, and my daughter Alice."
"Oh, wow how old are they?" Carla asked.
"Edward and Alice are 19 and Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett are 20. Rosalie and Emmett are currently studying abroad together. Alice and Jasper are attending college near here. My youngest son Edward got married last year to my new daughter-in-law Bella. They are currently living with us and are also raising Edward's younger sister, Renessmee."
Elliot and Carla both stared at him, "wow you certainly have a big family."
Turk snorted, "my goodness dude, how do you keep a sane head?"
Carlisle laughed, "Even though there may be times where we all disagree with each other, we're still a family. They are all the loves of my life. I don't know how I'd go on without them."
Elliot sniffed, "Dr. Cullen that it so sweet."
Carlisle smiled yet he didn't feel good about what he had just said. Oh yes he loved his family but he always hated lying to his co-workers about their situation and these three have been the most welcoming that it made him feel worse.
Suddenly J.D ran into the cafeteria. He looked around and saw where Turk, Carla, Elliot, and Dr. Cullen were sitting and hurried over, grabbed a seat, and sat next to Carla.
"Carla!" he hissed, "help me."
"Bambi, what are you-" but then a sound of doors being flung open made everyone's heads turn.
The Janitor came in storming in. He glanced around the room with his menace filled eyes falling on J.D. He growled and rushed over, Carlisle recognized his look. It looked very close to the same as his own…just before he was about to make a kill.
Right before he could reach J.D. Carla stood up and separated the two. "Look lurch, you better not be coming over here to torture Bambi. Because, if that's the case then it will end unpleasantly for you."
Carla and the Janitor both glared into each others eyes until the Janitor stepped back. "You wait Scooter, when Scary Nurse isn't around, that's when I'll get you." And with that the Janitor left,
"Yeah you better leave," piped J.D.
"Easy there Bambi." Carla said returning to her meal.
"J.D. What did you do to make him so angry this time?" Elliot asked.
This time? They must both be at each others throats a lot, Carlisle thought.
"Well I was paying him back for something he did earlier. He left a puddle in the hallway and I slide and fell because he claimed I stole his sandwich yesterday so I just gave him a sandwich in return." J.D laughed evilly.
"Wait, did you take the sandwich that we've left sitting under the couch for a couple months?" Turk asked, his interests peeking. J.D laughed, "you know it!" They both laughed hysterically.
Carla and Elliot gagged, "you two are idiots," Carla said.
"Sorry sweetie we were doing an experiment, we wanted to see how long it would take for Rowdy to go find it. Speaking of which," Turk turned to J.D. "you have to go get Rowdy a new bag of treats since you stole his sandwich."
"Rowdy is their dead stuffed dog," Elliot explained to Carlisle. "You see Turk and J.D have lived together ever since college. Right now though J.D lives with me since Turk and Carla got married…"
Carlisle sat in silence as Elliot continued on. These four were like one happy family. It was a rare sight to see in a place such as this and Carlisle had never seen a bond like the one these four shared together.
Suddenly a pager went off and J.D moaned. "Jeez it's Dr. Cox again. He's been getting on my back more than usual today."
"Give him a break Bambi, he's probably stressed about something." Carla said defensively as J.D ran out of the room.
"I wish J.D. wouldn't complain about Dr. Cox so much." Elliot said taking a sip from her juice, "doesn't he know how lucky he is that Dr. Cox can at least tolerate him?"
"I'm guessing Dr. Cox isn't the easiest man to work with?" Carlisle asked.
Elliot snorted, "Please, Dr. Cox is the most egoistical, stubborn, jackass in the world, but everyone here looks for his approval because he's one of the best."
"That goes double for J.D." Carla added. "J.D practically worships him. And even though Dr. Cox himself won't admit it, J.D is his protégé."
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The rest of Carlisle's day was spent taking care of his patients, well one in particular, Mr. Castillo. He was an older gentleman who was suffering from heart problems. Recently though Mr. Castillo's fever has spiked and Carlisle did everything he could to lower the mans fever. Besides Mr. Castillo the rest of his day went very well. Of course his patients were a little hesitant with the new doctor, but in was natural.
One thing did stir his curiosity. Whenever he was in the same room with J.D, the younger doctor was always being paged by Dr. Cox, even for the smallest things.
"What the crap!" J.D exclaimed.
"Something wrong? Carlisle asked.
"Dr. Cox wants me to go get him a cup of coffee! There's no way I'm going to be his errand boy!" J.D stomped his foot when his pager went off again. "You had better Kiki or you're going to find out what the ceiling tastes like," J.D mumbled. "What has gotten in to him today."
J.D stormed off and Carlisle turned to Carla. "Carla if I may ask, why is it that J.D has so many nicknames around here?"
Carla laughed, "Oh Dr. Cullen you are defiantly new here. You see only a few people have special nicknames for J.D like I've always called him Bambi. The Janitor, for some reason, calls him Scooter. My moronic husband and J.D call each other Vanilla Bear and Chocolate Bear. And Dr. Cox…well it's either Newbie or the first girl's name that pops into his mind."
Carlisle laughed, "you all seem to care about him."
Carla sighed, "well he is Bambi after all."
"Does Dr. Cox usually ask so many things of J.D?" Carlisle asked.
"Well not normally. I mean he hasn't paged J.D this much since J.D was a resident." Then Carla giggled, "if you ask my honest opinion," she leaned forward, "I think Dr. Cox is jealous."
Carlisle was stunned, "Jealous? Of me?"
Carla snorted, "you wouldn't believe how much of a god Dr. Cox is around here, but then you show up and everyone's paying attention to you?" Carla whispered, "I bet the only reason he keeps paging J.D is so that way he won't lose him to you."
Carlisle was confused, the human ego was such a delicate thing.
The human ego is such a delicate thing and as I rushed to Dr. Cox with his coffee I realized that maybe the reason he was paging me so often today wasn't just so he could be a major pain, but because he didn't want to loose me to Dr. Cullen…
J.D was standing in the ICU where Dr. Cox and Dr. Cullen were preparing to play that water shooting game that you see at carnivals. Behind the stand Turk was standing there with an intense beard and carnie clothes, "On you mark, get set, go!" Off they went. J.D became uneasy as both of the boxes started to rise to the top, any second now one of them would reach the buzzer and---
"Newbie, stop dreaming. Did you get my coffee?" Dr. Cox growled. J.D shook himself out of his day dream.
"Right here Dr. Cox. Oh and Perry," J.D placed a comforting hand on Dr. Cox's shoulder. "You don't have to worry, I'll always be you man."
Dr. Cox glared and growled at the younger doctor, "Look Felicia, you had better get you boney hand off me." J.D quickly put his hand to his side. "And another thing you can stop living in that little fantasy land where I actually give a crap about you because the truth is, you can spend all the time you want with that doctor and it wouldn't be anything less than a miracle that you actually stay away form me for less than two seconds." Dr. Cox paused while taking a sip of his coffee and let it soak in.
J.D just rolled his eyes, "please, I know for a fact that you'd be a mess if I actually left. I mean come on, you've paged me almost every fifteen minutes today. It can't just be that you want to get on my nerves and be an ass. Think about it." J.D did a sassy, girly snap and walked off, leaving Dr. Cox fuming.
"For the life of me, some one is going to pay."
"Uh-umm Dr. Cox?" Dr. Cox turned to see the sweaty face of Doug. A wide, evil grin graced Dr. Cox's face.
"Ahh, nervous guy. Lets take a walk."
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Carlisle had thought a lot about what Carla had said earlier about Dr. Cox. It was strange. He didn't think Dr. Cox was jealous at all. In fact, he had only seen him twice all day and yet he kept seeing the same people almost every hour. It was like Dr. Cox was deliberately avoiding him. Carlisle found himself staring out the window.
Night had completely swept over the entire hospital. Out in the halls he could he the quite, slow paces of footsteps. He sighed and turned to look at Mr. Castillo who was sound asleep. Carlisle had been off for a half an hour but Mr. Castillo had scared him earlier with his fever that he wanted to make sure he was doing fine before he left for his new home.
Slowly a new scent entered the room. It was one that he had remembered from earlier.
"Cullen, aren't you off?" Dr. Cox asked quietly.
Carlisle turned to the doctor, "yes I've been off for a while, but Mr. Castillo here worried me. He had a spiked fever earlier. He's fine now but I just wanted to make sure of it before I left."
Dr. Cox examined the patient and then Carlisle. His blue eyes boring into Carlisle's golden eyes. And then it clicked why Dr. Cox had avoided Carlisle. It was defiantly not because he was jealous, he was avoiding him because he didn't trust him. It wasn't just his human instincts, it was the instincts of a caring doctor and also a caring mentor. He didn't trust J.D spending any time with Carlisle because Dr. Cox didn't trust him as a person and he didn't trust him as a doctor because he had no idea what kind of person Dr. Cullen would turn out to be. It all made sense now.
Dr. Cox turned away from Carlisle, "Okay, night."
Carlisle smiled softly as the man left the room. He was a caring man. He may hide it well from others but Carlisle saw right through him. Also if Dr. Cox wasn't such a caring man he wouldn't have someone like J.D who worshiped him. J.D had a good judge of character, Carlisle could sense it.
"Good night, Mr. Castillo," Carlisle whispered as he left the room.
Still something about Dr. Cox seemed so familiar. Carlisle was a little frustrated. With a memory like his, Carlisle had no trouble remembering every face he had seen every scent he had smelled and yet Dr. Cox's were both familiar yet different at the same time.
His features relaxed as he walked out the doors. A familiar scent made him smile. Waiting for him at the bottom of the steps was Esme. She had been patiently waiting for her husband. Carlisle looked around. Her car didn't appear to be in the parking lot so she must have ran here.
"I guess you couldn't wait to here about my day?" Carlisle asked amused.
Esme giggled, "I've been worried about you all day. Alice and Edward have been acting very mysterious."
Carlisle chuckled, "it seems that they know something we don't."
Esme looked up at the sky with a smile. "Well I guess they wouldn't be Alice or Edward if they didn't keep a secret once and a while."
Carlisle wrapped his arm around his wife's waist as they headed towards Carlisle's car.
"So how was your day?" Esme asked. Carlisle gave a weary smile, "it was…different. Very different."
AN: Oh ho ho! looks like some thing interestings gonna happen! Not now but later. Does Carlisle really think he's seen Dr. Cox before? Akk I like this chapter I just wished I would have written it differently. I really want this story to focus on not only Carlisle's life at Sacred Heart but J.D and Dr. Cox's father/son type of relstionship. Plus be prepared...you all are going to be hit with a lot of Carlisle/Esme! I hate how you barely see any of their coupleness in the books! It's only focused on Bella and Edward...hahaha jk. I wish though the Stephine Meyer would publish book on Carlisle's history. I would love to see everything from his eyes from like when he was human up to the point where Edward meets Bella. haha that'd be a long series. Any who review please! meh ego needs it! Oh and thank you ILoveHarryPotterWithAllMyHeart and Talia Alli Cullen!! they were the first two who reviewed my story! you two made me so happy!