DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to Mark VII. I own the character of Julianna and am boring the characters for my own enjoyment. :)
She arrived at the Station and everyone seemed glad to see her.
"How you feeling, Juli," Chet asked.
"Fine. I'm beginning to feel like a beached whale, though," she said.
Mike brought a stool and put his sister's feet on it.
"You're as bad as Johnny," Julianna said.
Mike just smiled and Julianna felt a twinge in her chest. Mike's smile was there, but it wasn't the same smile she had become accustomed to. The death of Tracy still hung over him. She knew he felt guilty because of what happened, even though it wasn't his fault.
"You still coming for dinner this weekend," Julianna asked Mike.
"Yeah," he said.
"You want to play cards with us, Juli," Cap asked.
"Sure. I didn't have any other plans and I know my brother is fixing his chicken tonight," Julianna said.
She played a few hands of gin rummy before Mike served his chicken and Johnny and Roy returned.
"Hey, Leelee! Figured you'd have headed home," he said.
"Guys talked me into playing a few hands of gin rummy and I can't refused Mike's chicken," Julianna said.
"I don't feel bad saying this then, but I like his chicken," Johnny said.
"I know, I know it's better than mine," Julianna said as she enjoyed her meal with the Station crew.
Julianna headed home. She was tired, but she didn't think she'd sleep that well because Johnny wasn't home. She picked up the house and fed Sisco. She jumped in the shower and crawled into bed. She picked up the book she'd wanted to read and fell asleep a few hours later. Johnny found her leaning on the bed, the opened book on her stomach. He smiled at the sight of his wife. He knew she hated sleeping without him and, now that she was pregnant, she did whatever she could to tire herself out so she could sleep.
"Hey, Leelee," he whispered as he got next to her in the bed.
She opened her eyes and saw the dark eyes of her husband. "Hey, tiger. Have a good shift," she asked, pushing herself up.
"Typical. How was your night," he asked.
"Picked up the house, had a shower and then fell asleep reading this book," she said.
"Glad you took it easy," he said, changing out of his clothes and into a pair of pajama pants.
"You want to take a little nap with me," he asked, kissing her.
"Yeah. I'm tired," she said, lying down in the bed and feeling Johnny's arms around her.
She laughed a bit. "What's funny," he asked.
"You used to be able to wrap both arms around me fairly easily. Now, well, it won't be long before you won't be able to wrap your arms around me at all," she said.
Johnny kissed her cheek. "I wouldn't have it any other way," he said.
They fell asleep and slept for a few hours before getting up for their day.
Julianna wanted to start a nursery for the baby.
"I think we should use the room across the hall as a nursery," Julianna said, eating her breakfast.
"Wouldn't you want one of the larger bedrooms," Johnny asked.
"Well, I thought the nursery should be small and only have what we needed for the baby. You know, crib, dresser, changing table and clothing. We can move the baby into a larger room when they're out of the crib," Julianna said, handing Johnny her plate.
"That sounds good. It'll be easier to get that room painted and get the floors done. I'll have more time to work on the bigger bedroom later," Johnny said.
"Well, I'm going to head to the grocery store. I know you have to do some work in the barn, so I should be back when you get finished with that," Julianna said.
Julianna and Johnny went about their normal routine when they were both home. Julianna enjoyed the little moments she had with Johnny.
They managed to clear out the bedroom across from theirs and Johnny had spent an afternoon painting the walls white. Julianna had made a list of the things they needed to buy since Johnny didn't want her to be around the paint fumes.
When their time off together was over, Julianna had not wanted to go back to work. She was working the next two days while Johnny was pulling his shift at the station.
She entered her office and immediately felt like going home. For some reason, she didn't want to be at the hospital today.
Sighing, she hung up her coat and put her purse in her desk drawer. She pulled her lab coat down and went out of her office and into the chaos of the Emergency department.
Julianna was actually an intern al medicine physician, but had taken a year of emergency medicine during her residency. Since Emergency Department's were being established in more hospitals, medical schools were teaching the required material to allow future doctors to handle a case in the Emergency Department. Julianna was anxious to find out if Emergency Medicine would become a specialty and residents could actually specialize in it.
She arrived at the nurses station to find Dr. Brackett waiting for her.
"Morning, Kel," Julianna said.
"Morning, Juli. I want to talk with you," he said.
"Sure. What about," she asked.
"There's a paramedic committee meeting in Sacramento next week. I'm supposed to go, but I wondered if you would like to take my place," he asked.
"Sounds great. When," she asked.
"Well, it's Friday. You would have to leave sometime Thursday since the meeting is in the morning. You'd come back Friday afternoon," Kel said.
"I don't have anything planned. It's Johnny's off day so I figured we'd do more baby stuff," Julianna said.
"Well, it just so happens that they've asked me to extend an invitation to a paramedic in our program. Since you're going, how do you think Johnny would feel about going along," Kel asked.
"He'd jump at it," Julianna said.
"Dixie's supposed to go along with you. So don't get an ideas," Kel said.
"Well, I'm already pregnant, Kel, so there's nothing to worry about," Julianna said.
They traded smiles and Julianna went to see her first patient.