Chapter 2: Ups and downs (Emily's POV)
Doctor Emily Grace carried on with her finishing touches of the reports after Lillian Moss stormed off, frustrated at her lack of desire to move to England with her.
There wasn't much for her to do after the reports were finished, so she clocked out at around 5:30 and headed home.
As she made her way out of the morgue, she walked passed a calendar.
One more week to go before George starts his new job at Station House 3 as a Detective.
As she thought about George, her mind traveled back to the day she first met him.
Three years ago, she was hired as the city's new coroner. It was during one of her first murder investigations as the city's coroner that she first met then-Acting Detective George Crabtree.
Their relationship originally started out as professional, but she first took an interest in him after George and Henry got injured in an explosion that appeared to be the doing of an anarchist organization a few months after she started out as the city's coroner.
Their relationship soon blossomed during the time Station House 4 competed with Station House 5 in a baseball game.
She was quite grateful when George stepped in to stop her ex-fiance, a hockey player playing for the Wellingtons at the time, from assaulting her.
Their relationship continued to grow after George invited her over to the New Years Police Ball, and they had their first kiss two years ago on a crazy day when an anonymous madman threatened to release a "Cloud of Doom" to the citizens of Toronto, a threat that turned out to be a hoax.
However, everything went sideways for their relationship in the past year following the death of Doctor Ogden's first husband Dr. Darcy Garland.
The late doctors younger, handsome brother Leslie arrived at Toronto, and she was charmed by his gentleman-like appearance.
Her interest in Leslie Garland stirred up tension between her and George during the time when Detective Murdoch devised a plan to stop Eva Pearce. Their relationship was quite shaky at that point, as she never got over George kissing another girl during a filmed production on Murdoch's adventures as a detective several weeks earlier.
George subsequently broke up with her when he witnessed her kissing Leslie at the station house when she was undercover during that scheme.
Leslie started to court her in the same time she broke up with George, but everything fell apart when they ran into Detective Murdoch, Doctor Ogden and Inspector Brackenreid during a date.
Turned out that Leslie was the one that was sending threatening notes to Doctor Ogden to stop her from marrying Detective Murdoch, and he was even proud of doing it, referring to it as "a joke".
Having realized the truth about Leslie Garland, she broke up with him with a slap and stormed off, trying hard not to cry as she did.
It was after her break-up with Leslie did she realized that she have made a huge mistake in dumping George.
One night, she came to him and tried to explain her actions to him, hoping that he could give her a second chance.
However, the damage was already done. George was still reeling by her dumping of him during the Eva Pearce sting, and he stormed off after telling her his thoughts.
But then, she managed to find a new close friend in the form of Lillian Moss.
She first met Lillian when she joined the woman's suffrage movement, and the duo became quite close friends.
While their relationship was close, it was also rather spiky, as Lillian seemed forced in asking her to do things, and the duo didn't see eye to eye on some things, such as her unwillingness to move to England with her to support the woman's suffrage movement there.
Emily considered the fact that she being a coroner was already a good enough symbol of woman striding for equal rights, whereas Lillian didn't have a known job other than being an activist.
Lillian countered that she should move to England to help with the woman's suffrage movement there instead of staying at her job in Toronto.
It was then that she stormed off, leaving Emily alone in the morgue.
At this moment, Emily decided to go for a stroll in the park to clear her mind before making her way home.
The sky was already dark outside, and there was snow on the ground. It won't be long before Christmas arrives.
It didn't take long for Emily to arrive at the park. As she did, she decided to take a walk on the path next to the frozen creek.
Walking towards a bench situated in front of the frozen creek, she spotted a familiar-looking custodian helmet sported by a man sitting on the bench.
Thinking it was a constable slacking off on the job, she decided to walk over when the figure turned towards her.
The dim lamp light shined down onto the man's face and Emily realized that the man was Constable George Crabtree, who was off-duty.
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