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An: This story is much bigger that I thought. Originally I wanted to write a 4000-5000 words one shot….yeah that didn't turn out like that. The story is still not finish but I'm working on chap 4 as fast as I can!

Chapter 3

"It's Reid" The words kept repeating themselves in Luke Snyder's head. "It's Reid" Luke felt his throat closed up on itself, his heart started beating like crazy and the world started turning. He was barely aware of the strong pair of arms holding him still, keeping him from falling as his legs turned to Jello. "It's Reid" He hated those words it that tone of voice. It was telling him that something bad had happened to Reid. But what? Slowly Luke started to calm himself and was able to choke out a "What happened?"

"There was…He…well it's actually complicated. But he's at the hospital"

"He works at the hospital Alli. Of course he's there" Luke tried to joke.

"Luke man, you know it wasn't what she meant" Casey whispered softly.

"Ok so how bad is it? Car accident, food intoxication, what?" Luke asked. Again, Casey and Allison shared a look that Luke didn't like at all.

"Well, I guess that the reason is in a hospital bed right now is because he fell down the stairs. He was found unconscious and bleeding and they had to check if they was any internal bleeding and…"

"Was there?" Luke interrupted her "Is that why you're here? Reid's in surgery? With whom? Whose the surgeon?"

"Luke calm down" Casey said "There wasn't any need to operate"

"Then why isn't he fine? If you're here it's because something's wrong!"

"Yes. Chris said he might have slipped in a coma and comas are pretty unpredictable" Casey explained.

A coma. Reid was in a coma. Luke wasn't quite sure how to deal with this news. And why had Allison and Casey come to tell him about it. They didn't know he had had something going on with Reid before, did they?

" But there's more than just that Luke. I think you should sit down ok. You look like you're about to pass out." Allison added. Luke didn't make any fuss this time and sat down. He didn't like how his friend had said there was something more. "Something else is wrong with him. Something has been wrong for quite some time actually" Luke looked at her with a confused expression. Allison didn't know how to do this. How do you tell your friend that a man he obviously cared about had worked himself almost to death over the choice he made between professional and personal life?

"…*sigh* " Allison started again "is suffering for malnutrition and exhaustion. He…well…he looks…horrible. He's so thin you can actually see…" Allison choked a sob. "you can see his ribs coming out. He obviously hasn't been eating much more than the snacks I dropped in his office for him and uhm…he… Chris, Katie and I found out tonight that he had been working triple and even quadruple shift at the hospital in the last two months. My God, he must have worked close to, if not over, 90 hours a week. He…he didn't go home, he kept working and I don't know how he was still standing. We haven't had the results from his tests back yet."

Luke sat on the couch, looking straight in front of him, yet seeing nothing. How could this have happened? Reid and malnutrition? That man ate more than two starving truckers! He probably had the record of the biggest sandwich eaten all at once.

"I don't understand? Why would he?"

"We don't know man. Maybe he…"

"Actually, we do know Casey. Or at least Katie and I think we know. And I think Luke knows too" Allison looked at Luke who stared back at her blankly. "Luke, people who work themselves like this and don't eat, normally it's because they're avoiding something. Trying to distract themselves from emotional pain" Again Luke stared at her with blank eyes. She knew he knew deep down what had been happening, but right now, he was way too shocked to be able to figure things out. "This has been happening for the last two months, so logically, it's related to something that happened about two months ago….something to do with his personal life" Luke shoulders dropped as understanding filled his eyes.

"oh my god" Luke whispered. It was because of him. Reid was in this state because he had broken things up. Luke his head in his hands and started sobbing.

"Luke this isn't your fault." Allison started, rubbing Luke's back to try and comfort him

" Yes it is" he answered softly. "I'm the one who called it quits Alli. He wanted to wait until Bob retired and the hospital was bought to be together with me and I told him…I told him that I wouldn't be anyone's convenience. And I left. I caused this"

"No. Luke, listen, even if you had accepted 's proposition of waiting, these two months without you would still had been really hard on him. He might have not gotten in this bad of a shape, true, but he still would have been miserable. Luke, this isn't your fault. There was no happy ending in that stupid ultimatum. Either way, lost something that he couldn't deal living without. Either way, he would end up destroying a big part of himself. He couldn't take losing you over his job, and I guess, he decided to literally live solely for his job. But if he had chosen you, as much as he may love you, do you think he would have been happy without being able to operate on people?"

"She's right Luke. I don't know much about the guy, but if there's one thing I know is that this guy's really passionate about his job. It's not just a profession with him. It's a vocation. He needs to save people's life"

"You're right" said Luke "you're right. That's why I've been in doubt for weeks now. I've been wanting to go talk to him because I know how much his job is important to him and to the people he heals and I think I wasn't being totally fair with him, and I wanted to hear him out, but I didn't have the courage. I mean, he hadn't tried to contact me at all in the last two months so I figured…I figured he had moved on and wouldn't be interested in seeing me"

"Seems to me like the guy thought the same thing. He must have thought you were done with him and left you in peace" Casey added.

"Yeah….we're both idiots!" Luke said chuckling through his tears. Allison and Casey chuckled too. It was good to see their friend picking himself up.

"Ok, I'm ready now" said Luke "I wanna go see Reid" His friend nodded and helped him in the car. The ride back to memorial was the longest of Luke's life.

Slowly, Luke approached the room Allison and Casey had showed him. His throat hurt. Swallowing was hard and painful. As he reached for the door, hand shaking like never before, his stomach did a summersault. Luke put his forehead on the door as tears feel down his face. Even though Allison had told him what had been going on, he still wasn't sure what to expect on the other side of this door. And that scared him. But he needed to be in that room. Slowly, he opened the door and entered. He didn't even have the time to fully look at Reid before a crying ball of blond hair had jumped on him and hugged him hard.

"Oh Luke. I'm so happy to see you" Katie cried. " And Reid would be so happy to see you here too" Katie hugged him for a couple of more seconds before returning at Reid's bedside and holding his hand.

"Hey Reid" she told him "Luke is here to see you. It's great isn't it?"

"How is he?"

"In a coma" Katie sobbed. "But you know what they say. Some coma patients are able to hear what's going on around them and even remember some of it. I haven't…I tried talking to him but…" Katie had to stop there as her sobbing became uncontrollable.

Luke took a chair and sat next to Katie, holding her in his arms, as she cried herself to sleep. He didn't know how long she cried or how long he sat there holding her sleeping form. All he knew was that Reid looked worst than he had ever seen anyone looking before. This was even worse than seeing Noah after the explosion. At least Noah hadn't been hurting himself for months. Noah's accident couldn't have been stopped a hundred times. But this…this didn't have to get so bad. Something could have been done about this. Reid looked so sick and frail. His arms looked so thin. He had seen Reid shirtless before and the man was extremely good looking and had a very well toned body. But this…this didn't look like Reid at all. Luke reached out and grabbed Reid's hand (Katie having let go of it in her sleep) "My god Reid. What have you done to yourself?" said Luke, heartbrokenly. "Why didn't you come to me if you were handling things so badly? I would have given up whatever I was doing in a heartbeat to come to you, you big idiot!" he raged. "But I guess…I guess you didn't know that. Just like I didn't know you would be so affected by me breaking things up. I thought you didn't come to me because you didn't care. But you didn't come to me because you care too much about me, didn't you? Because it hurt too much." Luke calmly said. Then he started chuckling darkly to himself. "God we really are idiots!"

"Yeah, well I could have told you that months ago if you had come to me instead of trying to figure things out on your own" Katie softly said as she woke up. "Don't you guys know that men are useless in dealing with relationships? I could have told you a long time ago that you loved each other and I would have made sure that you two would get together even if it meant kicking Bob Hughes ass!" She ended on a rather angry note.

"Yeah well. I don't think Reid felt like talking anymore than I did in the last two months. I was miserable without him Katie"

"And he was miserable without you. See. You two are made for each other!" Both of them started laughing. It was silly, but they needed it. One of the most important people in their lives was lying in a hospital bed. The duo sat there, holding onto each other for dear life, fearing falling completely apart if the other let go and looking at their unconscious loved one. It was only over an hour later that Chris finally made an apparition in the room, holding some test results.

"Hey" he said.

"Hey Chris" answered Luke "So…what are the news?" Beside him, Luke felt Katie tensed up and she squeezed his hand harder.

"Well, our Doctor is in a bad shape. He is deficient in many vitamins and nutrients, and we'll make the necessary changes to his treatment to deal with that. He'll probably have to take vitamins and nutrients supplement for a while but eventually he should be fine."

"Why do I hear a but coming on?" softly asked Katie.

"But…but Reid also has a dangerously high level of caffeine in his blood and…also a high level of strong migraine medication"

"Migraine medication? Why?" asked Luke.

"Have you ever stayed awake without eating for a long time Luke?" Luke nodded at Chris' question. "Haven't you ever had a headache because of it?" Once again, Luke nodded understanding what Chris was getting at. Reid had been barely eating at all, so obviously the headaches he had gotten would have been full blown migraines.

"But shouldn't he have known better than to take too many medication?" Luke asked.

"Normally yes. But by the time he started taking them, I think Reid wasn't able to think straight anymore. He probably just wanted the pain to go away."

"So what will happen because of it?" asked Katie.

"Well, he might go into withdrawal, although it's not the medication I'm most worried about. " Luke and Katie looked confused.

"Caffeine isn't called a drug for no reason. It has addictive properties and with the amount of it that Reid has in his system, it's obvious that he's addicted to it. He couldn't function without it and took phenomenal quantities of it every day. The withdrawal he will go through will be painful. I know people who get a huge headache as soon as they skip their morning coffee. Reid has been functioning basically only on energy drinks for weeks now. It's gonna be tough. Then again, he might be too exhausted to feel much of anything. We can't know for sure"

"Energy drinks?" said Katie "We don't have any of those at home"

"Well Reid had some in his office here. A whole drawer filled with them actually. And I found a bag filled with empty cans too. He must have drunk a lot of it."

Katie and Luke looked at Reid once more. They couldn't imagine what he had put himself through. It must have been so hard. He must have been in so much pain. 'Oh Reid' thought Katie 'Why do you have to be so damn stubborn! I know I wasn't there for you much recently, but I still would have done anything to help you.'

Chris Hughes looked at the two people sitting at his colleague's bedside. He was lucky to have two wonderful people loving him so much. Now, all he needed to do was wake up and see how much they cared for him and let them help him. If he didn't, sick or not, Chris would rip him a new one. After all, he didn't want to watch Reid self-destruct completely either.

The nurses of the surgery department had all receive a call at 9 o'clock this morning from their colleague Allison Stewart concerning one jerk-face doctor named Reid Oliver. And they had all dropped whatever they had planned to go to the hospital and check up on things, most especially on Allison who, although she had never seemed closer to than any of them, was taking the situation very hard. It was almost funny. Out of everyone working in this hospital, Reid Oliver must have been the less popular and less liked of them all. Yet, this morning, every nurse who had worked with him, and who more often then not complained or conspired together against him, had shown up at the hospital in the wing where the man was and had all waited together to hear the news of his waking up. They took it harder than anyone would have thought. None of them particularly liked the arrogant doctor. Lord knows he was hard to deal with. And yet, underneath it all, all of them had had a glimpse of the humanity and the heart that Reid Oliver sported. Whether it was with a patient, a child, or Katie Snyder's son Jacob, had shown his capability at being a normal, decent and caring human being. And although his attitude and bedside manner left much to be desired, no one could say that wasn't the best, most dedicated doctor they had ever met. So learning that the big bad wolf of the Surgery wing was in a coma suffering from malnutrition and exhaustion, something any nurse would have been able to recognize the symptoms of, had taken a toll on those working with the said villain.

"You know, the first time saw me, he asked me if I had gotten lost on my way to elementary school and told me that he was sorry but the special aid class wasn't anywhere near here" reminisced a young nurse, chuckling softly. At the time, she had been flabbergasted, insulted and hurt. But now…now she just saw it for what it was: Oliver's way of socially interacting. It wasn't anything personal against her. He could have said the same thing to the nurse next to her. It was just how he acted with everyone. The only way he apparently knew how.

" And you think that was bad? The first thing he told me was "If you dunderhead could stop looking at me like chimpanzee that took too much weed and actually found that tiny little thing inside your cranium called a brain, you wouldn't have to bother me with such an insipid, idiotic question. You would be doing your job instead of being certified incompetent!" "

"Ouch" all the other nurses replied.

"Yeah. That man sure has a way with words, doesn't he?"

"Yeah. If ever he can't operate anymore or is bored when he retires, he could definitely open a business of hate cards. You know like "Your boyfriend cheated on you with your best friend's mother's second husband and you don't know how to tell him exactly what you think of him? No problem! Reid Oliver's hate cards are explicit and adapted to every kind of moronic behaviour! Can even be made on special demand!" Said another nurse using an announcer voice.

The lot of them just burst out laughing at that. Even Allison chuckled.

"You know" Allison said "No one can be as much of an ass and cold jerk as he can. But you know, he isn't a bad guy. He's not social by any means…and he really doesn't like people except for Luke, Katie and Jacob. And he's probably the most emotionally deficient man I've ever met, but…he's a good man. Even though his words can sound cruel, he really isn't. He doesn't mean it that way. And if any of us were in any kind of trouble, I think he would come to our help immediately. He would grumble about it and insult our intelligence a thousand times along the way, but he'd help. And you know, not every body's like that. Sometimes people are real nice yet they don't come through for you when you need it. Sometimes people are nice to you, but behind your back they bitch about you all the time. Dr. Oliver is a lot of things, but he isn't a hypocrite or double faced. If he has a problem with you, he'll tell you directly. He doesn't play stupid games with you. And that kind of honesty…not everybody has it. And you know, even though he's a jerk, it's kind of really refreshing to work with him. And…god if someone had told me two months ago that I would say this I would have send them to the psych ward, but…I actually miss all his snark and sarcasm. And right now…" Allison refrained a sob. "call me crazy but right now I'd give anything to have him scream at me and make a really sarcastic comment that'd make me want to punch him" The nurse beside Allison took her in her arms as she started sobbing after her speech. All the other nurses, were wiping tears of their eyes. Call them all crazy nutcases, but every single one of them missed their snarky, rude, and slave-driver of a doctor. And right now, they all really wanted to see him get out of that dreadful room and scream at them for daring laying around on the job.

After his discussion with his son, nurse Stewart and Katie Snyder, Bob Hughes had decided to go home and get some much needed sleep. Therefore, it wasn't until the following afternoon that he came back to the hospital and witnessed the state his staff was in. Nurses walked down the halls slowly, looking sad and confused. They looked like they had too much weight on their shoulders and didn't really seem to know where to go and what to do. A bundle of nurses from the surgery department were sitting together, shoulders hunched, eyes watery, silently sitting next to each other, holding the hand of the nurse closest to them, except for the two nurses surrounding Allison Stewart. These two nurses were too occupied rubbing Allison's back and whispering soothing things in her ears as she discreetly cried her eyes out. Bob Hughes was confused. What could have happened in his hospital since he had left that had affected his staff so much? Confused, Bob Hughes sought out his son in order to get answers and called his wife so she could come and comfort the nurse. She was much better at dealing with these kinds of situations than he was.

If Chris Hughes had been tired the night before, now he was exhausted. But it wasn't so much his body as it was his mind. Reid Oliver and he had disliked each other since their very first meeting. But unlike Reid, Chris wasn't always able to distance himself enough from his patients not to be affected on a personal level. He would have never thought that treating Reid could have touched him on a personal level, but it did. He really, really couldn't stand seeing the arrogant, infuriating man so still and devoid of life. It made him feel sick to his stomach. Reid might not have been a friend, but as his number one rival and number one pain in the butt, he had an important part in Chris' life.

"Chris, son. What is going on around here?"

"What do you mean?" Chris sighed, annoyed. He was tired, and worried, and felt guilty at not noticing Reid's state and angry at his father for the whole ultimatum thing. Now was really not the time to talk to him.

"I mean why is the entirety of our nurse staff looking like their puppy got killed?"

Chris couldn't help but chuckled a little at that. Reid Oliver a puppy? That mental image was just too funny. He sobered up pretty quickly though.

"Well Dad" Chris started on an irritated tone, "that would be because a respected colleague finds himself unconscious in a hospital bed due to a situation that could have been avoided if we had noticed it before" 'Or if you had minded your damn business in the first place and let Reid have the only damn thing that makes him socially bearable and had the potential of making him stop being such a miserable, work-obsessed sod.' Chris angrily added in his own head. Yep, today was not a good day for Chris Hughes. The nurses were so not going to appreciate his Reid-mood.

"What? What happened? Who got hurt?"

"It's Reid. We found him unconscious and bleeding after he fell down the stairs last night."

"Oh my." Bob interrupted him "Will he be alright. Did you need to operate?"

"No, it wasn't necessary. But as for him being alright…"

"Bob, I got your message. What is going on around here darling?" asked Kim.

"It's Reid there was an incident yesterday and he got hurt. But there's nothing to worry about. He'll be fine."

Chris wanted to cut in and rectify his father's statement but someone beat him up to it. Indeed, a tired and worried Luke had went out to pick up some food and tea for Katie and had heard the last part of the conversation.

"Nothing to worry about?" said Luke incredulously. "Nothing to worry about!" Luke screamed. Suddenly, everyone tensed up and went completely silent. They all knew something was brewing inside the young man and it wasn't going to be pretty if he exploded.

"Nothing to worry about! How can you even say that? Have you even taken a fucking minute out of your precious, busy life to take a look at him recently!" His voice started soft, but Luke couldn't help himself but scream towards the end. He was absolutely livid.

"Well I haven't noticed. I haven't noticed because Reid and I haven't been in contact with each other for two months! Because of you! You who I always believed wanted what's best for this hospital and the people working for it. Well, obviously I was deadly wrong there." Luke's tone was icy cold and his eyes had a murderous glare in them.

"What do you mean Luke?" asked a nurse who worked with Allison.

"What I mean, is that Doctor Bob Hughes over here, gave Reid Oliver, the best damn surgeon in this fucking country, an ultimatum. Now what kind of ultimatum you would ask, right? I'm sure most of you can think of dozens, because let's face it Reid isn't the easiest person to deal with. Maybe an ultimatum about his horrible bedside manner and his position as head of the new wing? Maybe! But no. You'd be wrong. Dr Bob Hughes told our Dr Oliver to choose between being with me and his job! He asked him to choose between having a personal life, because guess what? outside of me and Katie he has no personal life. He never had one. I'm the one who showed him how important it was to change that! And you asked him to choose between having a life outside these walls like everyone in else in this goddamn hospital has and saving the lives of people! Well what the f*ck do you think he chose, huh? Well I'll tell you what he chose! Neither!" Luke screamed at Bob.

"He chose neither because he couldn't deal with losing either one. Who the fuck could? Tell me Bob? Who could? Could you? If finding an investor for your precious hospital meant having to cut all ties with Kim, would you be able to do it?" Bob, who up until now had stayed silent due to the shocked of seeing Luke in such a state, had wanted to interrupted to explain how the situations were different but he never had the time. Luke wasn't finished. Luke wasn't anywhere near finished. The man he… the man he…damnit the he loved was laying half dead in a hospital bed because of Bob Hughes stupid decision!

"You know maybe you would be able to do it. You sure as hell had no problem doing it to Reid. How does your conscience feel about you right now Dr Hughes, knowing that you're the reason you're best doctor is in a coma and more than half of this hospital is in tears about it. Do you know why they're in tears? Do you even have the slightest idea as to why Reid is in that bed?" Luke paused, but didn't receive any answer. Nurses, doctors, other employees and even some patients had come closer to observe the confrontation. The tension was so tick you couldn't even cut it with a chainsaw.

"No, you don't. Where were you these last two months Bob, uh? Where the f*ck were you when Reid needed you! I left him in your hands. I chose to call it quits with Reid, not him. He didn't have any intention on giving up his job or me. He asked me for a break until everything settled down and I couldn't accept it. I refused to be his boyfriend only when it was convenient for him. But it wasn't convenient for him. Reid wasn't choosing the hospital over me. He wasn't showing me that his priority would always be his job and this hospital like I thought. He was showing me that he loved me, just as much as he loved being a surgeon. Being a surgeon is his life! It's his calling. He saves people Dr. Hughes! How many patients' lives were you willing to sacrifice, by risking him choosing me, over some stupid, unfounded ethical question?"

"It wasn't unfounded" Bob interrupted. Luke saw red. He had never felt so angry in his life before. Thankfully Chris had anticipated his reaction immediately and had posed a calming hand on his shoulder.

"Alright, let's ask the people who make this hospital worth something. Please people raise your hand if you believe that the head of the new surgery wing, who is one of the most professional doctor in this hospital since he never has problems separating his job from anything personal, being in a romantic relationship with the principal monetary founder of the said wing is unethical and can cause serious problems for the integrity of this hospital." No one raised their hands. "Come on people don't be shy. I swear I won't hurt you for giving your honest opinion even if I disagree with it." Luke added in a much nicer tone. Still, of all the people around them, no one raised their hands.

"Well would you look at that Bob." Luke said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "They don't care. Maybe you should have made a poll to see what everyone's opinion was before setting out to destroy one of your doctor's life"

"I didn't destroy Reid's life, Luke"

"Oh yeah?" Luke asked softly. "Then care to tell me exactly Dr. Hughes how the man I love found himself suffering from severe malnutrition, total physical exhaustion and having an extraordinary unhealthy and even dangerous amount of caffeine in his system?" Luke had stopped screaming now. Instead he was crying silently as he spoke.

"Chris" Kim said "Could you explain to us exactly what is going on? What is Luke talking about"

"'s been working himself to death. Literally" Allison answered, her voice hoarse from crying. "He has barely eaten or slept in the last two months. We looked at the work time records and you know what we found ? Do you have any idea of what we found in the files that you were supposed to sort through at the end of last month but were too occupied to even ask someone else to do it for you? Well we found that Dr. Oliver had been replacing doctors so they could take a day off quite often. We found that when I came to work in the morning and heard the night nurses talking about working with that night even though he had worked the evening shift with me the day before and I thought I had seen him during the day, that I wasn't hallucinating. We found that really did put triple and quadruple shift. You know what that means? It means that one of your doctors, one of the doctors that you are personally responsible for because you're his chief of staff, worked in this hospital for 48 hours straight. And you did nothing to stop it. You did nothing to protect your doctor and your patients! It means that one of your doctors has been working about 90 hours a week for two months. He did nothing except for work! Nothing! Now why do you think he did that?"

"Because he couldn't deal with the choice he was forced to make" answered Chris. "Because while Reid Oliver was surviving just fine in Texas having nothing else but his job, he discovered in Oakdale that this wasn't life. He discovered that having friends, having someone to spend time with was a good thing. He discovered that you were right when you said that having personal relationships was important. Reid has two personal relationships. One with Katie and one with Luke. The one with Luke however is much deeper. I'm sure Luke has seen sides of Reid that even Katie hasn't seen. And yet, you made him choose between the center of his personal life and his professional life. There was no happy ending Dad. Once you taste something so good, something that makes you as happy as Luke could have made Reid, you can't go back to being the cold-hearted workaholic doctor and be content with it."

"So Reid did the only thing he could think of doing." Luke continued. "He tried to numb the pain by working, just like I did. But here's the thing about Reid, he's much better at ignoring his emotion and cutting himself off from the world than I am. When he does something, he goes all the way. And all the way made him so sick that he still hasn't woken up from a minor head injury. This is your doing . You pushed him in that direction and then you failed to notice something was dreadfully wrong with him, even though Allison tried to talk to you more than once about Reid acting strange. But you didn't take the time to listen to her and now Reid is in that bed and we don't know when he's going to wake up and in what state he will be once he does." Luke's voice kept breaking with the force of his emotion. "This ends here. From this moment on, I will hear no more of this stupid ultimatum and what it implies"

", you can't just…"

"NO!" Luke screamed "I don't want to hear it. You have no say in what Reid and I do! There is nothing wrong with us dating! And if you don't back off, you're not going to like the consequences it will bring Dr. Hughes."

"Meaning "

"Meaning " Luke said mockingly "that I'm the one supporting this project financially. Meaning that I get to choose who my foundation gives money to and who my foundation decides to stop giving money to. I can stop supporting this project at any time I want. And if you think that all the people this new wing can help will stop me from taking action, think again. No, I wouldn't be so cruel or selfish as to destroy something that can help a lot of people. But I have a lot of money . If I wanted to, I would have more than enough to build a new wing at another hospital that wouldn't have any problems with me dating the future head of the said wing. You can keep the new wing , But if you think for one second I will let Reid work under someone like you, someone who couldn't care less about the people he hurts to get what he wants, you're more delusional than I thought. Because guess what Dr. Hughes? If I tell Reid that I want him to get a job at another hospital because I love him and worry about him too much at Memorial, he'll do it. It may take a while. He may need some convincing but I can promise you that I'll succeed in making him hand in his two weeks notice and getting him the f*ck away from you. I'd think about the options put before me if I were you, Dr Hughes" Luke ended, spitting the older man's name with something akin to disgust and walking right back into Reid's room.

AN: Holy crap! What the hell? According to Word, I've written like 13000 words since I started this story! All in a row! Although I haven't posted it here on all in a row. Sorry, but I just had to go to sleep at 2:30 am. I had started writing twelve hours ago! My right wrist still hurts Anyway, I'm working on chap 4 but don't know when I'll be finished. Hopefully before tonight 'cause I won't be able to write tonight. My sis is taking me to see "L'avare" de Molière at a theatre.