The hospital was quite calm by the time I arrived with my hands into the pockets of my coat and greeted some other coworkers on the way to Dr. Garill's office. He had not arrived yet when I took off my coat and only kept my nurse outfit.
"Ah, Elise good morning"
I turned to meet Jen who had just arrived too and started to take off her coat. I smiled at her before I knelt to tie the knots of my shoes.
"I heard you're babysitting Dr. Watson's child" Jen said as she tied her hair in a ponytail and I stood straight again.
"Yeah, who told you that?" I asked being kind of confused.
"Everybody in the hospital knows, dear" Jen giggled and smiled at me and we both started walking down the hallway heading to the children section "Hamish is a very special boy, just like his father".
"By special you mean he can solve crimes just like him?" I chuckled.
"He's got detective blood rushing through his veins" Jen's tone of voice got lower "He discovered where the corpse of one of their neighbor's dog had been buried"
I don't know how my expression looked but Jen could read surprise in all of it and said "Exactly…the kid is a genius, not to mention he has won several math and history competitions. Oh, and chemistry".
"That is surprisingly impressive, but…how?" I asked and Jen clearly knew what I was talking about and she laughed.
"I don't know the whole story, just that some woman lent them her womb and then voila…baby on board" Jen said smiling pleasantly "She owed that to them after they helped her to put her brother into prison. The bastard killed their father and their younger brother who protected her from being stabbed. Of course the woman got traumatized but she recovered pretty fast. John wanted to have children and this woman signed up".
"That was really fond of her to do" I replied after the entire story as we both entered to the children section.
"But how did you meet them?" Jen asked me as she plugged a transparent wire to an I.V. bag that hung beside a blonde boy. He was at least ten years old and got into the hospital after being diagnosed with diabetes. The poor kid arrived with high levels of sugar on his blood three days ago and we were still stabilizing him.
"My cousin introduced us" Jen knew Molly pretty well. They used to be neighbors at the medicine faculty a few years ago, and when I started college Molly introduced us. I never thought of her being one of my best friends by now.
"Ah, Molly" Jen smiled. "She used to take care of Hamish a while back, but you know…work's got her pretty occupied lately".
"yeah, I remember she told me about the kid...and how special he was".
"Don't worry, he'll like you with the time…and you know how to get to a child's heart better than me".
"If you're talking about food, then I nailed it today" we both laughed and kept checking Brett's sugar levels. We taught him how to use the insulin and the amount that he was going to be injecting from now on. Then I noticed the smile on his face and knew he was going to be okay.
"You'll be okay" I said and his big round gray eyes switched from the I.V. wire to meet mine.