Chapter 6

Becca's Apartment

Early Morning

Claire stirred on the couch out in the living room in the small apartment that the two shared. Claire's boyfriend had stayed the night but had decided to leave in the middle of the night; he knew that the two friends had an early morning and a long day ahead of them. He didn't want to be around in the morning when they had to leave. Becca stood in her room looking out of the window staring at the snow as it came down slowly, the sun had yet to rise but she had to be up for work. She quickly through on some scrubs and pulled her hair back into a bun and walked out into the living room to wake up her friend and put on a cup of coffee.

"Claire, wake up," Becca said as she patted her roommate on the shoulder and Claire stirred.

"Okay, remind me why we decided to become doctors," Claire said sleepily.

"I don't know," Becca said, "a change of scenery,"

"Ha… ha… ha…" Claire said.

Becca laughed slightly and walked over to the counter top and pulled out the coffee machine and began to make some coffee. Claire finally got out of bed and walked over to the counter and grabbed her cup and put some coffee into it. Claire put her coffee cup down on the counter and walked over and into the bathroom, she throw on some scrubs and grab her cup as the friends left their warm apartment.

County General Hospital

Morning

"Med students with initiative, that's what I like to see," Dr. Pratt greeted the two students as they walked into the hospital.

"Good morning, Dr. Pratt," Claire said as she walked into the lounge and put her purse in her locker. The group was soon greeted by Luka and Abby who was soon followed by Neela. Neela held a cup of coffee as so did Abby. Abby rubbed her eyes as she took her purse off her hip and through her coat and purse into Luka's locker.

"Good morning, Dr. Lockhart," Claire said to her.

"Hello, Claire," Abby said to her, "No, major breakdowns today, I hope,"

"I hope not," Becca said from behind the locker door.

"Are you ready?" Abby said as she walked out of lounge and toward the admit desk. Sam stood there with her young son, Alex. She had been there for a while as Alex sat in a chair trying to concentrate on falling quickly asleep at the admit desk.

"Hey, Sam," Luka said as he walked up to desk, "what are we doing here so early?"

"Trying to get an early start," Sam answered. Alex stood behind the admit desk with his head buried in the book. He tried not to look up as Luka walked over to the desk.

"Say Hi," Sam said as she hit her son playfully on the shoulder.

"Hey," Alex said quietly.

"Some one's not awake this morning," Luka said.

"It's six in the morning I don't think anyone could be this lively this early in the morning," Alex said. He sat back down in the chair and put his down on the desk and began to fall asleep.

"Go in the lounge if you're going to fall asleep," Sam said to him.

"Okay," Alex said as he got up and walked over to the lounge.

"Hey, Alex," Neela said as she walked passed him.

"Hey," Alex replied quietly.

"That was odd," Neela thought to herself. She passed it off; Alex had always been a little weird to her. Neela walked up to the admit desk and met Claire and Becca who had already had a sheet handed to them from Sam.

"So, what do we have, Claire?" Neela asked her student. Abby walked over and saw that Becca had walked into the suture room and began to stitch up the hand of a young male patient. Abby went into the room and noticed that she was doing just fine, this was a lot better than the last time Becca had to stitch someone up.

"You got this, right," Abby asked her student.

"I think I'm fine," Becca said.

"I'll be in the other room when you finish," she said.

"Okay, I'm almost finished anyway," Becca said to Abby. Abby walked out of the room and into the room next to the suture room.

"Well, were all finish, a nurse will come in and have your discharge instructions and tell you what to do," Becca said to the patient.

"Thanks," he said.

Becca walked into the room next to find Abby evaluating a patient. Becca walked up to Abby and notice that she had already finished most of the stuff that you would give a student to do. Abby was good at giving Becca all the easy stuff to do and Becca secretly hoped that she would have something more challenging for her to do. Becca had hoped for a while that there would be something more exciting for her to do, she was bored out of her mind.

She walked around the admit desk as she waited for Abby to finish up with her patient. There wasn't a lot to do and it seemed like it was going to be a long morning. Becca sat down at the desk as Abby walked up to her.

"Did you finish?" Abby asked her.

"Yeah, Sam's in there giving him the discharge info," Becca replied.

"That's good," Abby said. The two walked into the room to see Sam giving him the papers as she walked out.

"Everything's okay with him," Sam said as she walked back to the admit desk to see that Jerry had just walked in. Jerry put his coat on the back of the chair and walked into the doctor's lounge to get a coffee.

Back in the room Abby began to lecture to Becca about something or other but Becca seemed to block it out or something else like that. She chose not to listen to the remedial things that Abby had her do. She wanted to do something more exciting than suturing up cuts and bandaging ankles so an attendee could get to do the cast. She secretly hoped that something exciting would happen soon. Becca had no idea how close that exciting felling would be coming. Horns blared and lights flashed on and off as several ambulances enter the ambulance bay. Secretly Becca was happy that something major was about to happen.