Chapter 2
Eliot drove home to her 3 bed semi detached house, 10 minuites away from the hospital. Ellie parked her car in the drive-way then went inside, turned on the hall and living room lights, placed her car keys down on the side board just inside the front door, then took off her scarf and coat and hung them up on the rack.
'First shift over. I think it went, Pretty good actually. Small quarrell with sam but besides that, yeah pretty dam good. My first patient had a hemothorax, i got to insert a chest drain unassisted for the first time in 9 'n' half months! I was petrified of doing it wrong, eccspecially scince was watching. Seeing sam for the first time in almost a decade was also terrifying. Not knowing how she'd react, what she'd say. Would she hate me?' She stood just inside the sitting room doorway letting her own words flow through her mind...
*knock, knock* Hearing the door go Eliot snapped out of her thoughts, shook her head. Walking through, she pulled open the door and gazed up to meet sam's face. Eliot was just, Emotionless.
"hi, eh..." Sam mumbled softly
"err, do you want to come in?" she said in stutters
The deafening silence said it all, Sam wasn't here to have a cosy little chat. "Just answer me one question...why did you leave without saying goodbye?"
Eliot bit her bottom lip, as the cold air blew her lock locks of brunnette hair from her face.
"I...i just, i guess i didn't want to dissapoint you" she persed her lips together and swallowed
"Why would you think that? You could never diswsapoint me El" She said softly.
"because...after everything you done for us, for me, for Renai...you done everything she...Rachel, was suppost to do for us! You were a mother when she wasn't! And i was being a coward, i was running away. I was leaving you behind." she rambled on feeling guilty and upset.
"I'd have never judged you for leaving ellie. I know how tough everything was on you!"
Ellie pulled her cardigan closed tightly hugging the curves of her slim, petite body. "it's cold out, please come in!" she said firmly, but gentle and Innocently.
Sam sighed then nodded, she wiped her feet on the mat then went inside. Sam and Ellie both sat down in the sitting room with the fire on, a cup of Hot Chocolate with scooshy cream each, the TV playing in the background with the lights dimly light.
"So, you descided to go to university then?" Sam smiled and sipped her mug.
"eh yeah, i left home, had a bad few years and then i changed. Descided i wanted more from life. So i got accepted onto this medicine program, not because of my reasonably brilliant grades, but because they liked my personal statement at my interveiw." Ellie smiled nodding. "5 years there, a year and a half at London General and here i am." she smiled "enough about me! what about you Sammy? How's your life?"
"Ehh okay i guess. Me and Dylan got a Divorce last month. " she swolled looking down into her lap.
"oh, sam, Im so sorry! Earlier when i said... im sorry!" Ellie looked resentful of her own words.
Sam was a little teary eyed as she looked up letting out a smile and a smal laugh "Bree..Brighton, I, we, we have a 6 year old daughter Brighton. She is beautiful, she reminds me of you at that age!" Sam smiled getting a small photo out of her purse and handed it to Eliot. A small blonde girl grinning in the picture. Ellies eyes too became tearfilled "oh gosh, sam, she's beautiful! she looks just like you!" She observed the picture closely before handing it back. "Im sorry your getting a divorce, but a child sammy...Im, so proud of you, you know that!" Ellie cried with a smile as she got up went over to sam and sat down hugging her from the side so that their heads leaned against each other.
They chatted til late hours of the night, Sam didn't leave til around 11.50pm.