"Mrs. Rogers is a real sweetie, I don't know why you gave her up," Alex said, sitting at the table, joking around.
I laughed, "Yes, well I'm glad you feel that way, Alex. I had to give her up because I'm working the Winchester case."
"Lucky! Again?" Bradley asked me. "Dang. What do I have to do to get on a case like that?"
"Okay, it's really not that interesting anymore. I mean, the surgery is done and over with. Now all he has to do is lie in bed and heal until he can go through PT and then go home," I said, defensively.
"Well, it must be specifically interesting for you," Katie added in, wiggling her eyebrows as she took a bite of her salad.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Alex asked as if what she was saying was complete blasphemy.
"Oh come on you guys! Please tell me you saw what happened when we got into that room," Katie said, looking at the two boys at our table as if they were idiots. "Seriously?"
"Uh no, I really didn't see anything," Bradley said.
"Me neither," Alex mumbled.
"Both she and Sexy Patient looked at each other and he smiled at her and Jennie was blushing like mad!" Katie pointed out.
"Well you don't have to point it out!" I exclaimed.
"See and she's not even denying it! You're so into him!" Katie exclaimed.
"Katie, I think it's because I've been boy deprived for like… all of my internship and he's very flirtatious. I'm not thinking anything of it and besides, I'm his doctor. That'd be inappropriate. Plus, what would our resident think about that?" I said, making my points.
"But you have to admit, he is attractive. No offense, honey, not that you're not," Katie said, directing her last sentence at her boyfriend, Bradley.
"None taken. I'm a straight dude and I'll even admit that he's a good lookin' guy," Bradley added.
"Okay, yeah, I find him attractive," I admitted.
"Like I said, Sexy Patient!" Katie declared.
I giggled, "Oh God."
"Okay, I'd rather not talk about guys it's just kind of, weird you know?" Alex said.
"Are you jealous Alex?" Katie asked, suspiciously.
"No! Why would I be jealous?" Alex asked back, defensively.
"But yeah, we should make up a nickname for him. Like… McDreamy or… McSexy. McLusty?" Katie suggested.
Bradley and I both burst into laughter, "Katie that's from Grey's Anatomy!"
"So? It's like they filmed our lives…," she defended, innocently shrugging.
I laughed, "Okay fine, we can call him McSteamy."
"I'm good with McSteamy," Bradley added.
We all looked at Alex, "Yeah, McSteamy, sure."
"What's his deal?" Katie asked.
Bradley shrugged but the look on his face betrayed him. He definitely knew something.
"Anyways, how are your patients?" I asked, curiously, trying to get the topic off of mine.
"Good, boring," Katie replied.
"No McSteamy to flirt with," Bradley replied, frowning falsely.
"Okay can we stop talking about that?" I exclaimed.
"I'm really perfectly content with that," Alex added, perking up a bit.
"Cool. Okay so new topic. Um… intern exams are coming and I'm freaking out," I said.
"Oh God, don't even remind," Bradley groaned.
"Yeah, we're not even talking about this. Anyone up for getting a drink after work?" Katie suggested.
"Sure," I replied.
"Me too," Bradley said.
"Gladly," Alex agreed.
Later on that day, I returned to Dean. Dr. Stevens called me in for another surgery and it was about the end of the night when I'd returned to Dean. I was off in about fifteen minutes but I needed to check vitals one more and chart before going home.
"Hi," I said, walking into the room.
"Hey, babe," he smiled.
"Dean, what did I tell you about the whole patient-doctor relationship? It should not be remotely romantic at all so that means you're not allowed to hit on me," I said.
"Babe, I've never played by the rules," he said back.
"And here were go again with the 'babe' thing," I mumbled.
"You leaving?" Dean asked.
"Yeah," I replied. "Is your brother stopping by again tonight?"
"Uh yeah but he has to leave town for a couple of days. It's kind of a… business trip kind of thing," Dean replied.
"Oh, okay. Well, I'll see you tomorrow then," I said.
"Hey, Jennie?" Dean asked.
"You're still stuck on the Jennie thing?" I asked back, turning around.
"Hey, you coming?" Alex asked, coming into the room and interrupting whatever Dean needed to say to me.
"Yeah, I'll be there in a minute," I replied.
"Okay," Alex said, leaving again.
"Never mind, I'll see you tomorrow," Dean said.
"Oh, okay," I replied, somewhat disappointed. Did I sound disappointed?
I headed over to the bar a couple of blocks from the hospital where I was meeting my friends. So Dean's brother was leaving? What kind of family member did that? Obviously, Sam was a good brother. I could see that he loved Dean a lot but it was still weird that he was going away, especially at such a weird time. What exactly did those two do? Why were they living together and how exactly had Dean ended up in the kind of medical condition that he was in? There were so many questions that probably didn't have answers at the moment and I probably never would find them out either. But I was so damn curious.