On a chilly Sunday morning Bo was a mile from her destination at the end of her run when the cell phone started going off. A quick glance showed a local area code attached to a string of numbers that she did not know and thus on silent it went to ring until the caller got her voicemail. Either they would find it important enough to leave a message or would get the hint that after six rings she wasn't going to answer.

Resuming her run towards the apartment complex she had called home for the last several months it would just be a few more minutes of peace before she had to start facing the end of her weekend and she really did not want to spend any of them on the phone. Unfortunately, that literally seemed like all the peace Bo had earned that morning as not fifteen minutes later Bo was feet mere steps from the entryway to her building when the cell phone went off again.

She wasn't entirely sure but the number looked like the one that had called minutes earlier and it was either some insurance company, in which case they could enjoy being the newest addition to her blocked callers list, or something might be up at the hospital and someone was just using a different line. Pressing accept, the woman put the phone to her ear to see what the caller had to say.

There was no sound coming from the other side for a couple of seconds but she moved the phone away and almost shut off when a single word came over the receiver.

"Hello?" Lauren hesitated when the call connected and there was no greeting, but she had dialed the number for a reason and it was too late to change her mind now.

"Doctor Lewis?" The voice was a little off from when compared to how it normally sounded but a cell phone can do that to a person. Placing the phone against the side of her face, Bo was quick to voice her own confusion, perhaps faster than was normal for someone who had been looking to avoid talking to people.

"Doctor McCorrigan. I wasn't sure if I got your number right. I realize it is sort of early, and it is your day off, and you were probably asleep, but I wanted to call before I had to go to the hospital for a couple of hours." Lauren wanted to kick herself. She should have just left well enough alone, but she wanted to get to know the woman better away from the hospital. She had judged her without knowing her and maybe she could now do something to make up for that.

Bo thought the explanation seemed more out of place than the random Sunday morning phone call before ten am. It had to be work related but why something work related couldn't wait until at least she was at the hospital was answered when a sudden panic set in.

Last time she had seen the blonde had been Thursday night when they talked. Well the woman talked and Bo hit on her before giving out the very number Lauren had now used to get in touch with her. She remembered exactly how she carried her side of the conversation, not to mention the way she handed the paper to the other woman. There was no explaining away that she had made several suggestive comments at her boss.

This was the call telling her not to bother showing up for work tomorrow and that a restraining order would be in place. There wouldn't even be a helpful letter from Hale to make sure she could find another job. Actually the Chief of Medicine was probably putting together a list of people to alert that she had previously been accused of killing a patient, drug abuse, and recently sexually harassed a colleague. In short she would made out to be a crazy woman who could not be trusted under any circumstance.

"Doctor McCorrigan?" Lauren was still on the phone and somehow hanging up right then did not seem like a practical escape plan from making a fool of herself.

"Yes?" Bo waited for the hammer to drop. She might find a job on the other side of the country working in a clinic barely one step removed from a back alley, if she was lucky.

"I was wondering if you had any plans this afternoon, say around two?" A casual launch seemed like a good way to start getting to know each other and yet Lauren felt oddly nervous, especially when there wasn't an immediate reply.

She wouldn't have put past Hale to drag her into the office only to have security remove her but Bo had a hard time imagining Saint Lewis being that petty over some flirting by a coworker. "Why?" The annoyed tone even caught Bo by surprise but if this woman was going to drag out the day just to fire her in person she at least deserved to know it in advance.

"Oh…well I was wondering if you wanted to get some lunch. It would be my treat. I know the hospital doesn't exactly offer satisfying compensation for all the work you have put in after your shifts and plus I owe you for the other night. Though if you are busy, or something, I understand. It was just I am not going to be able to get free until after one and given how things at the hospital have been I doubt either of us will get have enough time off next week." Lauren took slight pause, not really long enough for the other woman to say anything but long enough for her to take a breath. "You probably have already plans though, and I shouldn't have called this early, so I'll just see you around the hospital."

Bo could not really think of a single thing she actually had to do. It was not that early to where it was unreasonable for someone to call. A couple of hours ago the phone call would have replaced her need for an alarm clock but she wasn't that lazy as to sleep in until noon after a couple other days off. Besides finding out she wasn't fired had a surprising way of adding news to the day that requires some celebration. She really didn't know the woman, but if Lauren was offering her a free meal instead of ending her career after that conversation the other night than she should change that. It would also be a good chance for her to prove that she could be friendly without giving off the impression that she was strictly doing it to better her odds of getting into the other woman's scrubs.

"Lauren?" There was no immediate response but when Bo took a quick look at the phone confirmed it was still tracking the seconds the two had talked for so no one had hung up.

"Yes Doctor McCorrigan?" Lauren felt her nerves start to shake and couldn't explain why.

"I'll see you around 2:30?"

"Ok."

"Ok." With that, Bo ended the call. Despite finishing a run not more than a few minutes ago she felt rather calm. Deciding to try that same route again next weekend and checking the time on her phone she had more than enough to continue her usual routine of taking the stairs to the roof than back down to her apartment. That wouldn't take more than few minutes really. Then she could get everything else done before meeting Lauren for lunch. The only real problem would be that she had no idea where they were going to have lunch, what they were going to eat or what they could possibly have to say to each other. "Shit!"

Taking a quick look at her reflection in the glass walls that separated the building from the street Bo took notice of how she looked for the first time in a while. It was not just looking good enough to pick up a random few hours of fun and turning some heads at the hospital; she needed to make the right impression today. If the impression she was looking for was sweaty, dehydrated and suddenly panicked workout clothes demonstrator than she was ready to go. The respectable doctor and friendly neighborhood lifesaver look though was going to take some effort to achieve. The other option was of course calling Lauren back to find out where they were going to lunch, or just canceling claiming she forgot something important.

One option made her sound like an idiot and the other a complete jerk. Not liking either of those two options she opted for the third; even if that meant dressing for an occasion she had no idea how to dress for and going in completely blind. Overall, there did seem like there was a lot of work ahead of her for a day that technically involved doing very little and then getting lunch with a coworker.

The clock in her car was showing 2:09, which meant that she had officially been sitting in her car for the past five minutes. It was a stupid thing, being nearly a half hour early just to find out where they where they were going to eat, yet waiting in a car out of fear someone else would agree with her did not seem a whole hell of a lot better. Reluctantly invoking the premise that there was no time like the present, Bo shut off the car and forced her legs to move her out of the vehicle.

Being in the hospital on a weekend had been a rare event since the transfer, even if it came with the price of Bo not getting the luxury of leaving the hospital much on the days before hand. Though she would have thought that after a few 80 hour weeks that she would know where the office for the head of the department was at.

Spotting a nurse near the front of the hospital that did not seem to be doing anything was a positive sign to start things off. "Hi, could you tell where I could find Doctor Lewis's office?"

"You are?" Nadia didn't look up from the folder at the intruder. Probably another sales rep the Chief of Medicine had dumped on Lauren as if the woman didn't have enough to deal with.

"Doctor McCorrigan." Bo got the instinct impression of being ignored, but the caramel skinned woman at least seemed to be doing her job so Bo tried to keep that mind.

"Doctor McCorrigan?" Nadia looked over at the visitor dressed too casually for a doctor before resuming filling in patient information. "I don't think you are not scheduled to work today nor are you on call."

"Very true, Doctor Lewis's office?" What the hell was this woman's problem? There wasn't a response for several seconds as the nurse simply glared at her.

"Why are you looking for Doctor Lewis?" She didn't trust the woman's sudden interest in Lauren.

"There was scheduling conflict for my shifts next week. Her office would be…" Bo wanted the strange conversation over with, but wandering around a hospital looking for an office didn't sound appealing either.

"It would probably be one on that says Doctor Lewis on the door." Nadia turned completely away from the intrusive woman, intent on sparring Lauren from having to deal with her.

About the time Bo was considering asking again, with a few choice words mixed into the question, a familiar voice got her attention instead.

"Bo?" Lauren had gotten use to surprises since Hale called her into his office to meet one Doctor McCorrigan, but seeing her talking to Nadia wasn't something she hadn't been ready for in the slightest.

Bo saw her companion for the afternoon walking towards her but the mountain of folders the blonde was carrying did not exactly raise her hopes that showing up early would be a welcomed surprise.

"Doctor Lewis. I was just trying to find out if you were in your office still." She gave her would be lunch companion a smile that would hopefully make up for the fact that she was sort of lying.

"I was just heading that way now." Lauren cast a last look between the two women before deciding it was best if she got them away from each.

Taking the hint the younger woman followed, ignoring the glares she was getting from the receptionist except for offering a salute with her middle finger to the annoying bitch. Bo did not fully understand why she felt the need to make a good impression on the ER doctor that had offered her lunch but she did.

As they entered the office, the brunette watched as Lauren attempted to flip on the overhead light before settling on the fact that dumping the paperwork on to her desk first would be a requirement. Noticing the distress and deciding something of a helpful hand would be proper Bo switched on the light. Observing as the office's usual resident went through the effort of putting each folder into one of two piles based on some system she didn't get. Whatever it was that required that Lauren bend slightly over the desk though Bo was not going to complain.

In fact the choice of the woman's office attire of black slacks, a dark brown fitted shirt, which Bo noticed had ridden up the small of the blonde's back, and short heels did not offer any reason to complain either. The outfit wasn't obscene, or even borderline scandalous, but it was one of a handful of times the two women had crossed paths where the department head wasn't dressed in scrubs. Not that it should matter if Lauren wore office clothing, or scrubs, or if she wondered around the hospital naked, because the brunette should not be staring at the remarkably fit woman for any reason. Her focus should have been entirely on just getting through lunch like it was a requirement for job security. It shouldn't matter if it was the 5'5, blonde haired, brown-eyed woman who had asked her to join her for a meal because at best they would be friends.

However, if they were friends, there was nothing saying that her eyes could not wander over Lauren's form from head to toe strictly out of curiosity for how Lauren looked right? As long as it was from a safe vantage angle it could not hurt to look to see exactly how the clothes fit.

No. Bo was going to look at Lauren strictly as a coworker and possibly as a friend but not as someone who could offer her a new workout routine. Besides whatever curios interest she had, she didn't even know if the blonde doctor was single.

"I hate to do this but I have to cancel lunch." Laruen had never felt regret for needing to put work ahead of something personal. She had canceled lunches before without any concern about the impression it would create. Today though she had made plans she truly wanted to keep, especially after it taking all morning to work up the nerve to make a simple phone call.

Bo suddenly found herself in reality again. It had been a rough trip as she felt a lurch in the pit of her stomach. As the woman turned around, but didn't truly face her, she felt bad that the blonde seemed so upset over what could be chalked up to a minimal problem at its worst.

"Someone messed up the expense reports. According to the budget committee the ER just ordered eight new bed sheets and 200 new office chairs along with some other minor inconsistencies that didn't make any sense. I tried to assure the committee that the numbers could be easily corrected in a few minutes during the session but they are insisting on a whole new report before Monday." Lauren figured that would be the end to whatever friendship they might have developed, but she couldn't let the ER shut down because of the mistake either.

"They are making you do all that by yourself?" That was definitely not what Bo had expected when she showed up. A bit of paperwork left undone, maybe, but having her afternoon completely turned around by some group of paper pushers being a pain in the ass didn't sit well. She couldn't believe that they were that obsessed with reports that they would kill the efficiency of the ER over them. No. That definitely was not going to happen. Not after the effort it took to find her favorite pair of dark grey jeans and a black top that wasn't a v-neck cut.

Shrugging her shoulders and hoping to make the best out of the situation Lauren managed her side of the conversation why preparing to spend the next several hours buried under months of reports. "It is either I do it or the ER goes without supplies."

Bo decided that if lunch meant doing expense reports and eating take out then so be it. "How do you feel about Tai food?" The brunette took out her phone and began scrolling through the list of names looking for a new restaurant that she had found.

"I have never had it but this thing with the committee shouldn't mean that you should get stuck here." Lauren smiled at the genuine consideration and she had to busy herself with a folder when the other doctor never wavered even when she protested.

Bo confirmed their orders and moved to get a closer look at the paper work after hanging up. Watching the woman make notes throughout the reports she quickly noticed a problem with her offer to help. "Your hand writing is awful, even for a doctor."

Lauren sat the first folder on her desk before grabbing a hold of a stack of loose papers that she had written on just days earlier. The comment ignored until she finished writing her sentence. "It is not. My writing is perfectly legible and I have never had a complaint about it."

"I am sure you haven't." Bo was certain there were a great many things no one had to the doctor before, but tried to keep her mind focused on the scribbled words and numbers.

"What is that supposed to mean?" The blonde placed her hands on her hips and stared at the internist, challenging her to explain the comment.

"You could easily win the world's nicest doctor award, and are a strong contender for the general human being category. That is not someone most people are going to tell that their writing is so jammed together that it is almost looks like serial killer wrote it." Honestly it did have a bit of 'murderer' vibe the way an entire paragraph took up no more space than a couple of lines and Bo wasn't certain the numbers were Arabic numerals or some alien language.

"Yeah, well, you hold your phone weird." As Lauren realized she had insulted the woman trying to help her, she immediately felt regret.

"Sorry, I didn't mean that." The word came out with a sort of hurt sigh that followed the woman taking a completely vulnerable stand. There was no sign of the defensive posturing that she held a moment ago.

For Bo she was still trying to process the remark as it's not everyday someone comes up with the world's strangest insult, but when she noticed Lauren looked as if she if it was some ruthless personal attack and Bo had to smile. "I think I can take a comment about the way I hold my phone Doctor Lewis. Though for a second I was sure my life was over." Her lighthearted attitude about the whole thing quickly drew the blonde's attention, which lead to the brunette seeing a look of annoyance in those brown eyes before something a bit more devious took over.

"Oh I am sure it was not the first time you had to face an angry woman after saying the wrong thing. Though compared to the usual experiences you have with women I suppose it makes sense you are able to move on so quickly." Lauren put herself inches from the other woman. It was time to turn things around.

That, Bo did not except and the sudden lack of personal space as her coworker got closer definitely added to that surprise.

"Lucky for you I have never been one to mix words with a wasted a drink on a bad date. That is where your good fortune ends though I am afraid as I promised to pay for lunch but I never said anything about buying you a drink." Lauren didn't move, waiting to see just how long it would take for the brunette to catch on to the situation she had put herself in.

The innocent, love everyone that walks into the ER with a screwdriver stuck in their head, doctor was without a doubt crossing a line. It might not have been the four-lane highway Bo had crossed but it was still something.

As the two stared at each other, both trying to react to what the other one would do before either one could do anything, there was a ringing sound in the background that added an annoyance to the room that hadn't previously been there. Neither pair of brown eyes moved from the other as seconds went by with the ringing continuing in the background.

Finally, Lauren looked away, with a small smile on her, creating space between the two in order for the blonde to answer the phone. It was the briefest of calls with the doctor just saying yes and thank you before hanging up.

"One of the nurse's needs some assistance. If the food arrives before I get back I'll bring it with me." And with that Lauren walked out the door without saying anything else. The scene was so familiar yet the setting and the one left were so different.

Realizing that she needed to move before Lauren returned with lunch Bo decided that going and getting a couple of drinks wouldn't really violate her own cardinal rule of seduction because she was strictly going stay friends with woman. At least it seemed like a good enough excuse to put her ego aside and go get something for Laure. Except she didn't know what the woman liked to drink. "Shit!"

Sorry for the delayed update on this. Last week I got to enjoy four days off in a row and this week I got to suffer having four days of work to catch up on. I do hope to update this again in the next 48 hours so keep an eye out.