Chapter 6

So far her morning had consisted of fallowing Dr. Matt Hunter around, and boy was it boring. All Matt seemed to care about was that everyone knew how great he was and that now he was passing his knowledge on. She liked Matt, she really did, but how had she never noticed how self-centered he could be. Right now Matt had her parading around the front office. He was supposedly showing her around, but she had grown up in this place so this "tour" was very much pointless.

Elizabeth had thought that on her first day she would be learning how to properly wrap an ankle, or ice a shoulder, but obviously Matt had other plans. All Elizabeth wanted to do was get back to the training room where Robin was and start learning and practicing her technique so that she could be a great doctor herself, not sit here and be Matt's pet.

Not to mention Elizabeth was trying to do everything in her power to avoid her sister and with Matt bringing her around the office it seemed it was going to be hard to do. Matt was currently chatting with blond woman Elizabeth did not recognize, nor cared to get to know at this point, especially since it seemed like Matt was flirting with the young blond so why would Elizabeth want to be in his way.

She was currently standing off away from the conversation just glancing around when she caught sight of Zander making faces at her outside the window. She couldn't help it she had to laugh out loud. This of course earned her funny looks from both Matt and the blond, which only made Elizabeth laugh even harder, this caused Matt to excuse himself and beckon for Elizabeth to fallow him.

This was when she caught sight of Sarah coming out of her office and she did not look happy. Great all Elizabeth was doing was trying to do was her job and now her sister was probably plotting something evil. Elizabeth let out a sigh. "Oh come on Elizabeth my company can't be that bad." Matt said.

"No, no, no that's not it." Elizabeth started to protest.

Matt gave her a dazzling smile, "I was only kidding. I know I can be a bit of a bore sometimes, but just bear with me." He patted her on the head, "I just like showing off my new pet." This just gained an eye roll from Elizabeth. "Besides if you were back in the training room Robin would just have you studying, and where's the fun in that?"

So being the good pet that she was Elizabeth fallowed Matt where ever he went that morning, and it seemed that Matt wanted to take her everywhere around the stadium. The only two places he seemed to avoid were the training room and the field. She was kind of disappointed in not going to the field; it would have been fun to see her dad and Steven. When she was younger she loved to sit in the stands and just watch her dad coach, and she always loved to watch her brother play ball.

Finally there was no avoiding the training room and she and Matt were headed back there now. That was when she felt the vibration from her back pocket. Pulling out her cell phone she saw the text from Zander

*I may be buying lunch, but that just means you're driving –Z*

Elizabeth just smiled and shook her head. Ever since she had bought her jeep Zander never wanted to take his old little pick up, he claimed his tuck needed a break every now and then.

*We can take my jeep, but you can drive. We both know that's what you want anyway -Lizbits*

She typed out her response and put her phone back in her pocket. Her best friend just had a way of making her day and she loved him for it.

"Are you sure you wanna go back to the training room" Matt asked her all of a sudden as they rounded the corner to the hall which the training room was on. "I'm sure we could go back to the front office. You know chat it up some more."

Elizabeth really looked at Matt and saw that he was nervous about something. For some reason he didn't seem to be his normal cocky self. "What are you trying to avoid?" she asked him.

"Me!" Robin said with anger in her voice as she came out of the door leading to the training room. "The great doctor is avoiding me because he has yet to fill out the necessary paperwork on all our new players, not to mention none of the players have received a physical for this season. You know what that means don't you Matt? It means none of them are medically cleared to play. Not a single player on this team is even allowed to be practicing at this point."

Elizabeth had known Robin for a few years now thanks to her brothers friendship with the Robin, and in all those years she had never heard her this mad. She was guessing the Matt neglecting his duties as head trainer for the team was a big no, no on Robin's list.

"Relax Robin," Matt tried to calm Robin, "I plan on having all the players have their physicals this afternoon before they leave. I was actually going to take Elizabeth with me to go speak to her father about making sure they all showed up." He tried to grab Elizabeth's hand and pull her in any direction other than Robin's.

"Oh no," Robin spat back at him. "She needs to get in here and start studying for all the work she's going to be doing this season. You have already failed at most of your duties for the beginning of the season and I refuse to have you fail at having a successful intern."

With that Robin took Elizabeth's hand and led her back into the training room, while Matt was left to deal with cleaning up his mess from his lack of meeting his responsibilities as head trainer. As soon as Robin had her in the training room she sat Elizabeth down with an anatomy book. She planned on giving Elizabeth a quiz on all the bones and muscles in the hand before lunch and wanted her to study up.

Elizabeth just smiled as she studied because Elizabeth was gonna ace this test. What Robin didn't know was ever since she had gotten the news that she was gonna intern with team Elizabeth had been studying her little heart out. She had been learning all the bones and muscles in the human body, had been doing as much research as she could on common injuries to ball players. Elizabeth wanted this very badly. She wanted to be just like Matt one day. She wanted to be a doctor and head up the training team of a baseball team someday. Of course she wanted to be better than Matt; her dream was to be the trainer for the New York Yankees. Her private secret made Elizabeth smile to herself, because no one knew her dream, not her dad or brother or Zander. This was a secret she kept all to herself.

Elizabeth had studied the book for at least twenty minutes before Matt finally made it back into the training room. He looked like he had conquered the dragon as he walked in with a triumphant smile on his face. Robin just rolled her eyes at him in frustration and shoved a bunch of files at him telling him he needed to fill them out.

About ten minutes later Robin came over and took away Elizabeth's text book. "I'm giving you fifteen minutes to finish this," she said as she handed Elizabeth her home made test. "You can break for lunch after that." So Elizabeth sat at the desk and filled out her test, just beaming from ear to ear knowing that she was getting every single answer on Robin's test right.

Just as Elizabeth was filling out the last answer on her little quiz Steven, came barreling through the door. He made a bee line straight to Elizabeth ignoring the other two people in the room. "I need to use your Jeep," he blurted out to his baby sister.

"Hello to you to Steve," Robin said in a not so nice tone to her friend

"Oh hey Robin," he said not even looking at her. "So where are your keys? Come on dad only gave us an hour for lunch and you know how he is when we're late getting back."

Elizabeth just looked at her brother dumbstruck. How dare he come in here demanding to use her care and not even bothering to ask. "I've yet to hear you ask me nicely," she said in that bratty little way she had as a younger sister.

"Please may I barrow you're car?" Steven said with annoyance at having to even ask.

"Why? what's wrong with your truck?" Elizabeth asked back. She was very protective of her car. While her both her brother and sister had been given a car when they had turned 18, Elizabeth had worked as a waitress to save to buy the car she had always wanted. She was proud that she didn't need anyone else to take care of her and she didn't just let anyone take her car.

"Nothing happened. I need your Jeep cause I need it." He responded.

"Well that sounds like a winning argument to me." Matt said from behind his pile of papers as he still continued to fill out the forms Robin had given him.

"I agree with Matt," Robin chimed in, "How could anyone deny you you're request with that?"

Now even more frustrated than ever Steven looked at his little sister and realized he would have to tell her is real motives into wanting to use her Jeep if she was gonna agree to letting him use it. "Look the top is down, and when I go out in my uniform I can get away with a few things. I can speed and the cops won't pull me over. I can go into any restaurant and can almost guarantee I won't have to pay for anything."

"You are so shallow Steven." Elizabeth said as she shook her head at her brother.

"Can I please barrow your car?" Steven asked one final time.

Elizabeth stood and walked over to her bag and pulled out her keys. "I get to use your truck," she said before she handed over her keys to his out reached hands.

"What? No! You are not going to take my truck." This caused Elizabeth to pull her keys back before he had a grasp on them.

"Then you don't get my Jeep." She said as she was beginning to put her keys back into her bag.

"Fine," Steven said back to his manipulative little sister, "You can have my truck, but so help me Lizzie if something happens to my truck….." he let his sentence hang with his brotherly threat.

"Same goes for my Jeep," She said as she handed her brother her keys. "Where are your keys?"

"In the locker room, in my bag at the bottom of my locker," he told her as he ran out of the room to make sure he could meet his dad's deadline to be back in time for lunch.

Both Robin and Matt were laughing at her as she turned around to face them with shock on her face. "So Matt, feel like taking a trip into the locker room for me?" she asked as sweetly as she could.

Before he even had a chance to respond Robin spoke for him. "While I feel bad for you Liz, I'm not giving him permission to get off of that chair to all those files are filled out." Robin shot Matt a dirty look for putting this off in the first place. "Besides I'm sure all the players have left by now. The locker room is probably empty. You could be in and out before anyone even knows you were there."

Matt looked at the young girl sympathetically, "Sorry Liz. I would help if I could, but I'm more afraid of Robin than I am of you." That comment got Matt hit twice, once by Robin and then by Elizabeth.

Before she could plead with Matt some more Elizabeth once again felt the vibration of her back pocket

*Ummm did I just see your brother leave in your car? –Z*

*Yeah, We'll be taking his truck. – Lizbits*

*Sweet, I'm still driving –Z*

Placing her phone in her pocket she looked over at the imprisoned doctor, "Thanks for nothing." With that she walked out of the training room and down to the locker room. She was gonna kill her brother for this. If there was one place she had never been in in the whole stadium it was the locker room. It just felt wrong to go in there, plus she was always afraid she would get caught or see something she didn't want to.

Being a big girl she pushed open the door and tried finding her brother's locker. Even though it was only the first day of spring practice, Elizabeth was assaulted by the smell of sweat. This was so not a pleasant smell and she hoped she could find Steven's keys quickly and get away from the horrific smell. It only took a minute to locate Steven's locker. She reached up and pulled open his locker.

There at the bottom was Steven's blue bag. She bent down to dig around in his bag for what she was looking for. Opening the bag Elizabeth almost gagged. It seemed that the smell that first assaulted her was coming from her brother's bag. She wondered how he couldn't smell this. Just as Elizabeth got a hold of her brother's car keys she heard the locker room door slam and then heard a loud crashing noise. Great, she thought, she wasn't alone.