It was 12:30 and Gabriella was sitting in the cafeteria having lunch and looking at her phone. She was a little upset that Troy, again, did not wake her up that morning before he left, but she wasn't going to let it get to her. She was playing a game when she noticed someone sit across from her, she looked up and saw Troy sitting there.
"Hey, can I talk to you about something," he asked quietly while looking around.
Gabriella finished chewing the food in her mouth a little confused, "Yeah sure, what's up?"
"Um, I don't really know how to bring this up, and I feel weird doing it here but I have to ask because it's been on my mind all day,"
"Troy,"
"I didn't even do the surgery because I couldn't focus,"
Gabriella placed her hand on his arm, "Troy," he stopped and looked at her, "you're rambling. What's going on?"
"Um, well this morning when I woke up, I was getting some cereal,"
"Okay,"
"And I noticed your birth control sitting on the counter,"
Gabriella looked even more confused, "You're freaked out by my birth control?"
Troy took a deep a breath, "no not your birth control."
"Then what?"
"According to your birth control you should be on your period." He said pretty fast and Gabriella just sat there.
"But I'm not on my period," she said not getting where he was going.
"I know. Has your period ever been off while taking birth control?" he asked leaning forward so no one could hear.
Gabriella sat up straight as the realization of what he was really asking clicked in her head. "Oh my God."
Troy got up and moved so he was sitting next to her, "What time does your break end?"
Gabriella couldn't answer him, she was sitting in shock.
"Baby," Troy wrapped his arm around her shoulders, not caring who saw them, "We don't know anything right now, we can't freak out. Let's go see Dr. Brown and have her take a test. What time does your break end?"
"I have another half an hour."
Troy stood up and pulled her with him, "Let's go talk to Dr. Brown, okay?"
Gabriella nodded her head and helped him throw away her stuff and then heading towards the elevator. Once they were in the elevator Troy pulled a quiet into his arms just holding her. He pressed a kiss to the side of her head. The doors opened and Troy grabbed her hand and laced their fingers while leading her to Dr. Brown's office. They entered the waiting room and Troy walked up to the secretary, "Excuse me, is Dr. Brown available?"
The secretary looked up and gave him a flirty smile, "Yes she is, you can go right back there."
Troy didn't even smile back, "Thanks."
They walked back and found Dr. Brown talking to a nurse. She looked up and saw they walking towards her, "Dr. Bolton, Dr. Montez, are you two?"
Troy smiled, "Good we were wondering if we could talk to you for a second, alone?"
She looked at the nurse, "Let Brittany know to hold any call for the next few minutes okay?"
"Yes doctor," the nurse walked away and Dr. Brown led them into an exam room.
They went in and sat down. Dr. Brown looked at them for a second before speaking, "Okay, what's up guys? You're both pretty quite."
Troy looked at Gabriella quickly and could tell she wasn't going to speak, "We think that Gabriella might be pregnant."
Dr. Brown sat back a little with a smile and nodded her head, "Okay, why do you think that Gabriella?"
Gabriella finally looked up from the spot on the ground that she was staring at, "Um, according to my, um, birth control, I should be on my period."
"Okay," Dr. Brown turned and started typing into the computer, "Have you ever missed a period while on birth control?"
Gabriella just shook her head.
Dr. Brown looked over at her, "Okay and when did you start taking birth control?"
"Um, I was sixteen, I had really bad acne."
"Okay," she continued to type into the computer, "who is your primary doctor?"
"Dr. Anderson, her office is in Reading."
"Yes Beth, I know her very well. Have you ever had a pregnancy scare before?"
"No."
"Did you guys use a condom?"
Troy spoke up, "There was one time without it."
"Okay," she finished typing into the computer. "I am going to get a cup and then, I am assuming you two have to get back to work, I will get the results as soon as possible and then page both of you, okay?"
They both nodded and she got up and left the room. At first there was no talking and then Gabriella spoke, very softly, "What are we going to do?"
Troy looked at her and squeezed her hands, "I have no clue, but we are going to do it together, I know that."
She looked up at him, "I'm scared Troy."
He saw the tears gathering up in her eyes and he pulled her towards him, "its okay baby girl, me too."
They sat there for only a few more moments when Dr. Brown walked back in, "Okay here you go," she handed Gabriella the cup, "You can use the bathroom down the hall and go by yourself or have Troy go with you, whatever you want, okay?"
Gabriella nodded and stood up and started walking towards the door when she stopped and then turned towards Troy, "You're coming with me."
Troy looked surprised, "Oh I thought you would want to do that alone."
"What happened to doing this together?" she said sarcastically.
Troy let out a chuckle, and stood up, "alright let's go piss in a cup."
Dr. Brown let out a laugh as the two walked out towards the bathroom. When they go in there Gabriella headed towards the toilet and placed the cup on top of the toilet paper thingy. She turned to pull her pants down to see Troy staring at her, "You can turn around."
Troy laughed, "I thought you wanted me here?"
"Yeah but I don't want you staring at me while I pee into a cup, that's weird."
Troy put his hands in the air, "Okay, okay I'll turn around. You let me know when you're done."
Five minutes passed and nothing, "You okay?" He asked.
"I can never pee in the cup, it's weird."
Troy just laughed, "do you want me to turn on the sink?"
"Yeah but don't look."
Troy rolled his eyes, "Yeah because I have never seen you naked before."
Gabriella shot him a look, "Shut up, this is different."
Troy turned the sink on and fifteen minutes later Gabriella was done. She washed her hands and brought the cup back to Dr. Brown. They headed back to the elevator and went back down to the ER floor. They got out of the elevator and Troy walked Gabriella back to the nurses' station.
"I only have three more hours left of my shift and then I have the next two days off, so I am going to go home until Dr. Brown pages us and then I am coming back so we can meet her together okay?"
Gabriella nodded and grabbed her charts, "Okay."
Troy looked at her, "What no bye, no I love you, no kiss or hug?"
Gabriella turned toward him, "One we are at work, so no, no kiss or hug," she smiled, " and two I wasn't sure if you were leaving yet and I didn't want to say bye too soon and have you think that I was pushing you away."
Troy smiled back at her, "Okay that's fair." His pager went off, "That means I have to go."
"Bye. I love you," she said with a smile.
He smiled back at her, "I love you too. I'll text you whenever I get the chance today."
Gabriella laughed, "okay."
Troy had just finished his shift when he was heading towards the locker room to change out of his scrubs when Dr. DeSantis approached him, "Dr. Bolton, wait up a second."
He turned back to see her approaching, "Yes ma'am."
"I have been wondering this for a while but I just want to ask, are you and Dr. Montez, down in the ER, together?"
Troy's eyes went wide, "Um, like dating?"
"Yes."
"Yes we are."
She just nodded her head, "I thought so. I was wondering if you would like to go back to your old schedule."
Troy didn't know what to say, "You mean no more early morning shifts?"
"That's right."
"I would love to go back to my old schedule, but if you don't mind me asking why did you change it in the first place?"
Dr. DeSantis sighed, "Dr. Warner said that Dr. Montez said you were, um, not leaving her alone. And that you kept asking her on dates and she didn't want that."
"So you put me on at three in the morning?"
"That was the only time I could fit you in, and knowing how good of a surgeon you are, I knew that you would be sleeping when she got off most nights."
"So what changed your mind?" he was trying to stay calm, but he was pissed that Dr. Warner would do something like that.
"I saw you two earlier walk off the elevator holding hands and that was when I knew for sure, but there have been a few times that I have seen you two outside of the hospital at the grocery store and stuff. I am sorry for the last couple weeks." With that she walked away.
Troy was pissed. He stormed into the locker room and ripped his locker open, "That fucking guy is unbelievable." He pulled out his regular clothes and changed. He went to place his scrubs back into his locker when he felt the palm of his hand be ripped open by a piece of metal. "Son of a bitch!" He pulled his hand back towards him and saw a ton of blood. "Shit." He ran out of the locker room and down the stairs, four flights, to the ER. He rounded the corner and saw Sara standing at the nurses' station. "Sara!"
She turned around and saw Troy approaching her with blood covering his shirt, "Troy! Oh my god!" she turned back, "I need a room ASAP!" she went over to Troy, "What happened?"
Troy let her grab his arm and lead him towards the room, "I was putting my scrubs into my locker and it caught on a piece of metal."
Sara looked at him, "That's it?"
Troy looked up at he, "What do you mean that's it? This hurts like a bitch."
"With all this blood I figured you gotten stabbed with a scalpel or something."
The nurses were moving around them setting up what was needed to stitch him up. Sara grabbed gauze, "Hold this," Troy grabbed the gauze and pressed it up against his hand. "I am going to go get out of the way."
Troy looked at her, "What do you mean get out of the way? You want me to stitch myself up?"
She laughed, "No, I am not on duty, so the resident doctor that is will take care of you."
"And who is tha…"
"Hello, I am Dr. Monte…" she looked up from the chart when she read his name. "Troy!" she ran over to him, "What happened? Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'll be fine."
Sara started laughing, "Wow."
Gabriella looked at her, "What?"
"He was just freaking out."
Gabriella smiled and turned to see Troy glaring at Sara, "Oh are you trying to be brave for me?" she ran her hands through his hair before grabbing his hand and looking at it. "Can you tell me what happened?" she turned and started to work on his hand.
"Well, I talked to Dr. DeSantis about why she changed my schedule all of a sudden,"
"Uh huh,"
"and it turns out that it was because Dr. Warner told her that you told him that I was bothering you and asking you out all the time,"
She looked at him quickly, "What!?"
"Yeah, that was my reaction, well in my head, anyways she changed my schedule back because she asked if we were dating and I said yes, and then I went to the locker room and had changed and wasn't paying attention so when I put my scrubs back in my locker I cut myself on a piece of metal."
"Yeah, this is more than cut sweetheart," she turned to grab a piece of gauze to wipe away some more blood.
"Yeah, there was a lot of blood. I tried to keep most of it on my shirt." He turned to Nurse Nancy who was standing there, "Hey Nance, could you do me a favor and call the cleaning department and see if I dripped any blood in the staircase."
She smiled at him, "Oh course sweetie."
Gabriella looked at him, "Staircase? Why didn't you take the elevator?"
"I don't know," he looked over at her as Nancy left. "I panicked and just ran down the stairs."
"You do know that means you brought your heart rate up, causing you to bleed more." She said smiling at him.
He smiled back at her, "yes I realize that know Dr. Montez."
"Shut up, Troy."
She finished stitching up his hand and cleaned up around the stitches before placing the bandaging on his hand. Has she finished, their beepers went off. Dr. Brown. They looked at each other.
"Before we go," he said getting off the bed, "Can we stop at my locker and grab a shirt that isn't covered in blood?"
Gabriella laughed, "Yes, let me just finish my charts at the station, it will only take five minutes."
They started walking towards the nurses' station, when Gabriella turned to Troy, "You know you should probably just take your shirt off."
He looked at her, "oh yeah that would be great. The ladies here already stare enough, the last thing I need is for them to see me without a shirt."
She just laughed and started on her charts. They were standing there for a few minutes when Troy asked a question that had been on his mind, "what do what the results to be?"
Gabriella stopped for a second and looked up at him, "I'm not sure? One minute I want a baby, and the next I don't think I am ready."
Troy nodded, "Me too. I know that I want a baby, a lot of babies, with you," Gabriella just rolled her eyes, "but I'm not sure right now is the best time."
She finished her last chart and turned towards him, "Well, we are going to find out in about twenty minutes or so whether it's the right time or not."
Troy smiled at her and grabbed her hand with his good hand, "come on let's go see if you're going to be my baby mama."
"Shut up," she laughed at him as they headed towards the elevator to meet with Dr. Brown.
