"Man, where have you been lately?" Tracker asked Sean, annoyed. He finally got his brother back from the army, and a few months in acoma, and he was still barely around.

Sean sat down and smirked while shrugging, "I'm..." he admitted, "In love." he sheepishly looked at his brother for a reply.

His mouth hung, "you're serious?" he asked.

Sean nodded, "One of the nurses from the hospital, it's serious." he confirmed and smiled shaking his head, "Can't get her out of my head."

"Dude, who are you? And where's my brother? My wing man!" he joked.

"I'm still here." Sean assured, "She just makes me...happy."

Tracker softened and cracked a smile, "Well good. I'm glad. What's her name?"((**))

"ELLIE!" yelled Snake, he stood over a patient and the red head came running. The heart monitor was crashing and the old man in the hospital bed was gasping for air as Snake tried to pump his chest.

Ellie took over and Snake flashed a light in the mans eyes.

"Sir try to look at me, try to breath."

Meanwhile outside the room, everything else today was hectic, and Emma went through files as a woman was yelling at her. The woman was trying to find her husband who had a heart attack..

"Floor 9!" Emma finally snapped when she found which room he was under and the woman stormed off. Emma sighed and ran a hand through her long blonde hair as Jay came up from behind and Jt came up from the other side.

"I got a woman over there whose got a badly cut up arm, but she won't let me do anything." he informed Emma and Jay. Jay sighed, he was really stressed from all the other patients. A lot were car accidents from the snow outside.. Could summer come sooner?

"Why would she come here and not get it checked?" Emma asked, confused.

JT snickered, "She insists she can do it herself, she just wants a private room."

Jay had to laugh a little himself. A patient who thought she could stitch her own arm? Amusing.

"That or she said to get Snake." Jt added.

"Why only Snake?" Emma asked confused, almost sounded like her-

"Because your mother knows best." taunted the petite brown haired woman now standing infront of them and Emma's mouth fell. The woman was good looking for her age, maybe in her late forty's. She must of had Emma young. She also didn't look like she was in a good mood. She had Emma's eyes though, and fire.

This was Christine, also known as Spike. Emma's mom.

Both boys turned to Emma whose mouth hung until she blinked and looked away. "Give her a private room." muttered Emma as Jay looked between them. This was her mom?

"But-"

Emma cut JT off, narrowing her eyes at her mom and mumbled, "She use to be the top surgeon here, she can do it herself." she simply explained before walking off.

JT looked at Spike who raised a an eyebrow at him to get a move on. Jay eyed her closely and took notice Emma didn't seem so thrilled to see her.

((**))

"Can we do this here?" whispered Manny to Craig, laying on a hospital bed in a private room and giggled, kissing another.

Craig grinned and shrugged, "Who knows, makes it more exciting." he leaned down.

Manny winced and moved away from his kiss and as he pouted, she laughed but cringed. Reaching behind her, she took out a needle and threw it to the side. "Ouch," she pouted. It had stabbed her in the back. Right in the spine.

"Oh fuck." Craig said, scrunching his face up, "Guess this was a bad idea."

Manny looked really uncomfortable and nodded, "Maybe get Emma."

"Why?"

"Craig my eye sight is getting blurry. I can't see." she informed and his eyes widened and he shot up, pushing the code blue button.

Meanwhile, Ellie was leaving a patients room as someone grabbed her from behind and hugged her to him tight from behind.

"Sean!" she laughed, and turned, "What are you doing here?!"

He shrugged and smiled down at her, "I was out, near by so decided to come see you." he paused. "You get off near dinner?" he asked.

"Actually I do." she admitted, putting her hands on her hips, "Why, what do you propose?"

"Dinner with me. I'll wait til then." he informed, walking off.

Ellie blinked and turned, "Wait, like, wait wait? For hours? here?" she looked around the hospital and back at him.

He turned while still walking backwards and grinned, "I'd wait forever for you, El." he declared and her heart melted, watching him walk off. 'El'. Her heart skipped. Usually people just called her Ellie (Her real name was Elenor), or as annoying as it was, Red.

"I'm introuble." she whispered to herself, falling madly in love with Sean.

((**))

"Spike." Snake said, rather amused she was back in their hospital. They use to work together, Oh the stories he could tell. But won't. Some were..private. Very.

JT and Jay leaned on the wall in her hospital room as she stitched her arm back up.

"Now what happened here?" Snake's voice softened, eying her wound as she gently smiled up at him from under her eye lashes and finished up her work. When she looked back up, her eyes twinkling a bit..

"Just a clumsy cut while cooking, Snake."

"You don't cook." Emma said, coming back in and eyeing the scene between the two. Jay looked between them and could of sworn he saw Emma glaring at Snake and then her mom.

Spike gave her daughter a look, "I cook sometimes, Emma." she looked at Snake and snickered, "Kids."

Snake coughed as he glanced at Emma and took a step back away from Spike. "Been a while since we've seen your famous mother." he told Emma. Emma just gave him a look. Even Jt and Jay shared a look.. there was a lot of tension in this room and for once it wasn't fro Emma and Jay.

"Missed it here." Spike said and glanced to Emma, "How's she doing here?"

Snake swallowed and nodded, "Good, good. Shes one of our top best interns.. she works along side with our new top surgeon." he nodded pointedly at Jay. Emma tried to hide her blush when she noticed her mom eye him and then back at her.

"Top surgeon?" Spike repeated, eyeing Jay and Jay could feel the jealousy since she was once in his position. Why'd she stop? Or quit? Or whatever. "I'd probably still be at the top too if I didn't have a kid 24 years ago.." sighed Spike.

Emma bit the end of her tongue and muttered, "You barely did the raising so you could have found the time..."

"Emma." Snake and Spike both snapped but Emma shook her head and stormed out, rolling her eyes.

Jay looked back at Snake who seemed un easy now and then Jay chased after Emma. She was storming off but he caught the back of her arm before she turned the corner and then he opened his office door and pulled her in.

"What was that?" he asked, leaning her on the desk to control herself and calm down and he stood in front. For some reason, his hands on her made her calm down.

She shook her head and stared out the window and slowly back at him, "She's never stopped reminding me it was me who supposedly ended her career, but that wasn't it."

"What was it?" Jay asked curiously and softly, knowing this had her rattled up. His eyes scanned her up and down curiously.

Emma sighed. She couldn't believe she was telling him this. "She had an affair behind my Dad's back with Snake." Emma finally revealed.

Jay's mouth dropped.

"After my 8th birthday, my Dad, Shane, went into the hospital.." Emma drifted off a little shy to tell him this, "An institution hospital. He drank a lot, fell off a bridge near our neighborhood and it caused severe brain damage. He's still locked away cause he can barely take care of himself and my mom didn't want to take care of him. That happening to him was like her way out." Emma looked off as she bittered and crossed her arms, "A clean divorce."

"But her and Snake-"

"He had his own wife." Emma laughed bitterly, "And unlike my moms luck, his wife wasn't about to just fall off the face of the earth any time soon. So he ended it with her. That's when shes quit."

Jay raised his eyebrows. "Wow." . . . ."holy shit."

((((((******))))))))

Meanwhile, Ellie flashed a light in Manny's eyes, "Can you see anything?" she asked as the brunette laid in her hospital bed, Snake now on her side too and Craig holding her hand. Snake eyed that but let it go, a fellow nurse was in trouble. Manny was one of his favorites, a spirited, sometimes out spoken, but lovable girl.

"A small flash." Manny whispered, scared out of her mind. She was literally blind now, could only see black.

Snake cleared his throat and spoke up, "So you somehow, fell back into a needle? It might of hit your spine, and went up to your brain so it's just having some trouble getting you back to normal. We need to find out what that needle was-"

"I can see." whispered Manny, cutting him off. Her eyes blinked and she smiled at them. Craig flashed her a grin and crossed his arms. Thank god!

Manny stared up at him weirdly though and he tilted his head wondering what was wrong.

"Manny?" Ellie said, but Manny didn't turn to look at her.

"Manny can you hear us?" Snake said and got nothing, Craig shut his eyes.. she was deaf now. Manny touched her ears and groaned, knowing she had lost her hearing now too. What was next? Loss of hair!?

"Get her the help she needs." growled Craig, looking at Snake who looked taken back but nodded and left.

Ellie passed Manny a note book and pen, and Manny rolled her eyes but wrote on it and showed Craig.

"How long do I have to be deaf?" Craig read out loud and chuckled, leaning down and kissing her, "1 hour tops.." he lifted a finger to show her and she nodded.

"She's probably just having weird side effects. She'll get over it soon." Ellie said and then Manny wrote down Emma's name and Ellie nodded and went to go find her.

Meanwhile, J.t went up to the pharmacy... actually he's tried to go up to the counter a few times now but he was felt..nervous. He itched the back of his head, cursing to himself and went to leave to take a deep breath and change his mind again.

Liberty leaned on the counter, reading a magazine. When she looked up, she raised an eyebrow when he came over to her. He put down the prescription he needed and cleared his throat, "Hello Liberty."

She looked at the doctor note, then turned to and went to grab what he needed. He frowned deeply and wished he knew what to say. Why was she so angry at him?!

"How are you?" he asked.

"Tired." she informed and just laid down three bottles of pills.

He awkwardly laughed, "I hear that!".. . I hear that? God. What was wrong with him!? From behind him, Jay stopped and waited for him to move so he could grab something too. He noticed Libertys uneasy smile to Jt and she left. Jt stood their in silence and feeling like an idiot.

"Good one casanova." laughed Jay.

JT closed his eyes and finally turned to Jay, glaring and stormed off. Jay laughed again, shaking his head.(((((((********))))))))))

Craig walked into Snakes office. Snake had asked for him and he swallowed hard coming inside. "shut the door." Snake told him.

Craig bit the end of his tongue. Was in trouble? He knew he over reacted and wished he didn't. What's worst was he yelled at his own boss.

"Due to the fact it was just Manny in there," Snake said to Craig, "I can't ever have you talking to me like that again."

"Sir I-"

"You're lucky your a good doctor, and that I've known you since you learned to crawl."

Craig nodded, looking down and ashamed. With that, he went to turn and go but Snake spoke up again.

"Also, a relationship between a doctor and nurse is not right." he confirmed, "Could get messy, ruin work, distract you. Didn't anyone tell you that? Don't you know the rules?"

Emma had walked by a few moments ago and when she heard that she silently snickered. She stepped inside, and crossed her arms as tilted her head at Snake.

"That's kind of hard to take seriously from you."

Both Craig and Snake turned to stare at Emma and Craig gave Snake a look. Wow. Burn.

Snake looked choked up and he looked down before he clenched his jaw. "Craig, go." Snake told him and he nodded but stopped by Emma.

Craig explained to her, "Something's happened to Manny, she's okay but she wants you. She's in room 120."

Emma nodded and watched him go before she turned to Snake and shrugged. What could he possibly want to talk about?

Snake took a deep breath and crossed his arms, "I didn't think you knew." he admitted. His eyes held regret but Emma wouldn't take it.

"It's hard not to when my mom use to scream at my dad as I was a kid, wishing she'd pick the other man and bluntly telling him that." Emma told him.

Snake looked away and muttered, "I wished you didn't have to go through that." he whispered the next part, "And I'm sorry what happened to your dad when you were a kid."

Emma ignored the pity. "Do you really think she cut her arm from cooking?" Emma asked Snake, ignoring her father part. Emma didn't know what it was, but as soon as Shane left and Snake broke it all off with Spike and she quit, she turned into a manic depressant. She sometimes had good day but usually had bad ones. Sometimes she forgot time has moved and she didn't work here at the hospital anymore. Sometimes she still thought she was with Snake.

Snake tilted his head confused, "Why? Didn't she?"

"A cut facing the right way to cut open a vain?" Emma laughed shortly, and looked around as she confessed, "Its not her first time. She's once over dosed too. Was hooked on pain medicine once before as well after her career ended. Well, when your relationship ended. That's when everything ended."

He looked speechless and he looked down regretfully, "I didn't know she'd take it so hard, Emma. I was trying to do the right thing. I loved her. But I was married."

"So was she. Didn't bug you for the first few years."

"It was complicated" he tried to explain. Silence. "We've been over for more than 10 years, Emma."

Emma just bit her tongue and went back out the door but turned before she left. "I'm not saying she's suicidal or anything Snake. I'm saying she just needs an excuse to come visit the hospital and it's not me who she wants to see." With that, she walked off..

Snake took a deep breath and rubbed his hands down his face, "Oh Spike." he whispered.

((***))

Emma ended up with Manny and was told what was going on. When she laid down beside her on the hospital bed, she had changed out of her scrubs and into her black mini skirt and tank top with her long blonde hair naturally wavy.

She titled her head and leaned it on Manny's shoulder sadly. Manny offered her the note pad and Emma sighed but nodded, sitting up and wrote on it.

Mom visited hospital today, slit wrist, and I told Snake finally that I knew about the affair.

Manny knew about it too, Emma had told her when they had begun working at this hospital. Emma never though he'd STILL be working here. She tried to make the best out of it and be mature, but she couldn't.

Manny's eyes widened and looked at Emma, "Really?!" she exclaimed rather loudly. Emma giggled a little, knowing it was because Manny couldn't hear the pitch of her own voice but nodded.

After some silence Emma sighed and shook her head, "I hated going around all these months acting like I didn't know about him. I knew he knew who I was. He was always watching me."

Manny gasped happily, "I can hear." she then turned to Emma who smiled back at her but she frowned, "And Emma, maybe Snake cares deep down. I know he tore apart your family but love is messy and..and maybe it was bad timing when they fell in love but he did end it, right?"

Emma got lost in thought, and Ellie came on in and smiled, "Good, here's your test results and why you went all coco bananas." she used Manny's phrase and the girls laughed.

Ellie handed Manny's file to her and Emma got up, "Time to go home."

Ellie nodded happily, "I have a man waiting for me in the waiting room." she said and gushed. Emma hugged Manny before she left and then grabbed her jean jacket and put it on.

"You going somewhere?" Manny asked eying Emma's long black fashionable boots and little black skirt, "You look cute."

"Nope." Emma shrugged and then waved, walking off.

((***))

Meanwhile, also in the waiting room that Ellie was walking to, was Emma's mother sitting there. As Emma passed, she sighed and stopped before going over. She was so close in leaving.

"Mom..go home. Okay?" Emma said to Spike.

Spike snapped out of it and looked up, "I'm waiting for something.." she sighed and leaned back, crossing her legs.

"For him." Emma bittered.

Spike blinked and looked up to then huff, "You don't understand, Emma. You never did."

"I was 8 years old and I knew too much!" Emma shook her head, "You should of just left Dad if you weren't happy. Now you're still mooping around about it! Your going crazy!"

Spike looked away from her, and ignored her, biting her lip from trembling though and Emma huffed and stormed off. Unfortunetly, love always seemed like a 'weakness' to Emma because of how her mother acted with it. She never wanted an unhealthy love like that.

Meanwhile, Snake was around the corner and saw the scene. He dug his hands into his white jackets pockets and slowly came up from behind Spike's chair, "Christine, you're unstable" he told her.

Spike got up and turned, hearing his voice. "Snake.." she drifted. She didn't see him there.

"You hurt yourself didn't you?" Snake asked her. He didn't want to believe it, she was never this kind of woman. He had really hurt her hadn't he? Made her lose everything.

Spike looked away, slightly embarresed. "N-no I wouldn't-" she saw the look in his eyes and she shook her head, trying to fight tears, "I just wanted..."

Snake looked sadly at her and where Emma left, "You have a great daughter, she could one day be as great as a doctor as you were.. don't blame our past on her. Don't put her through anymore. She's a great kid."

Spike avoided his eyes, looking choked up. "You really hate seeing me."

He shut his eyes, "Spike I'll always love you, but.. we can't keep doing this to ourselves. I'm STILL married to Daphne." he said painfully, and looked down at his ring on his finger and then took a deep breath, "And you have some patching up to do with your daughter." He passed her a card, "Call this woman, she's a really good therapist okay?."

Hurt, Spike watched him turn but he turned back halfway. He mumbled softly, "She helped me a lot." he confessed, letting Spike know it was hard for him to let go of her too and she nodded, feeling a bit better by that and looked down at the card before she sniffed and turned, and left.

Meanwhile Ellie finally entered and saw Sean sleeping in one of those chairs and giggled, going over and shaking his shoulder. He woke up confused and looking around until he looked up and laid eyes on her, smiling dreamingly and she smiled back. "Hi."

"Hi." he lazily greeted back cutely and got up, "Ready for dinner?" he slipped his arms around her waist.

"I am." she declared until she heard Snake greet someone who walked into the hospital doors.

"Oh Mr Adams!" Snake said delighted, "Glad to have you back." Ellie's eyes widen and she turned, tearing away from Sean and looked at Mr Adams.. Jesse.

She turned back to Sean, looking torn apart, "Sean I'm SO sorry."

He gave her a careful gentle look, "Why?" he asked as this Jesse saw them, and came on over while shifting his eyes between the two.

"Ellie." Jesse greeted huskily. He was tall, buff and looked maybe two or three years older. Since Snake knew him, he must of been a Doctor. He glanced at Sean, "Ellie's friend."

"Ellie's boyfriend." Sean corrected, seeing the way this guy looked at Ellie and didn't like it. Ellie shut her eyes, feeling her heart break and looked up at Jesse, shaking her head.

Jesse laughed a bit amused and pointed at himself, "Ellie's husband."

Sean's mouth dropped and darted his eyes at Ellie, who couldn't even look at him and gave Jesse a look of betrayal.

"Ellie..Nash?" Sean said, in a bit of shock. She was married? She NEVER said anything, didn't wear a ring. She still wasn't.

Ellie's eyes started to water and went to open her mouth but Jesse cut her off, "Is her old last name, now it's Ellie Adams.. we didn't divorce. I've just been away at Boston hospital during our time of.." he drifted off for the word..

"Of being DUMPED" Ellie growled at him, her heart breaking, "You left Jesse! We're not together."

He raised his hand, flashing his ring to Sean, "We're still married though, and I'm here to claim my wife back. Thanks for keeping her warm though." he grinned sharply. Sean stood there, confusion and hurt across his face.

Wow. So this is what it felt like when he crushed other girls hearts? It sucked..

"Sean!" Ellie called but he stormed off and didn't turn back. She gasped and covered her mouth, tears falling. As he stormed off, he passed an also heart broken Spike who was trying to light a smoke. Her fingers were shakey, still upset. On the other side of the street, Emma was trying to catch a cab. What a hell of a night.

(Leona Lewis- Bleeding love)
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

The blonde sighed and crossed her arms, waiting for that damn cab impatiently now. "I get it now." she heard his voice and turned around to Jay. He changed too, back in his jeans and t-shirt, a wind breaker on since for once it wasn't snowing.

"Huh?"

"Their the reason you won't give me a chance, isn't it?" he asked her. "It's not me."

Emma stopped breathing and closed her eyes before she took a deep breath and turned around. She shook her head at Jay, "I cant do this right now" she told him.

"Won't." he corrected, walking around her to make her face him again and looked down at her seriously. Emma tensed, he was too close..

"Jay don't." her eyes looked up at his hopelessly, "Please." He shook his head no, "Not a chance Emma, not when I'm finally figuring you out.""Oh please! So I have daddy and mommy issues, that means nothing! I'm sure you're way more fucked up Jay."

"Maybe." he simply said, shrugging. He stepped closer to her. "But I'm not talking about that. You look at us and you picture your mom and Snake don't you?"

Emma fumed, not liking this conversation. Where the hell was the cab!?

"I'm not some married man Emma. We're not having some steamy affair for fun on the side of work." he threw his arms out, looking into her eyes desperately, "I'm in love with you!"

Emma's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. What? She looked like a deer in the headlights.

His shoulders dropped and he looked away but confessed, "I loved you ever since I laid eyes on you and you came into this hospital, beating me at answers for my own patients."

Emma softened and bit her lip and he licked his nervously.

"You're not someone I thought I'd ever fall in love with." he admitted, and she looked a little taken back. "But you're also someone I never thought existed. You're perfect."

Her eyes shimmered as he pressed his hands on the side of her face gently, cupping her face and leaned his forehead down to hers and she sucked in a shakey breath.

"Why can't you see I'm smitten with you?" he teased and she sadly laughed, looking down and back up into his eyes. He leaned forward and they paused before the kissed. "You're the one for me and you know it." he whispered, his fingers carressing slowly through her blonde hair.

Emma shut her eyes tight and kissed him deeply, throwing her arms around his neck. He was right about that. And God knows it, she was in love with him too. After they kissed passionately, they pulled apart breathless. Jay's eyes were still closed but he raised his eyebrows. Wow. He was shocked she heard him out and kissed him back.

"Take me home." she demanded teasingly and he smirked.

Why the hell not?

I Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love