I want to apologize for not updating the story almost an entire year. I just graduated college and the last two semesters were really rough ones. My classes where really hard and I had to work three jobs, so finding the motivation to write this story was really hard. I tried to sit down and write a new chapter but I was finding it hard to think of anything to write. It has taken me almost an entire year to write this chapter. I am not giving up on this story I promise. This is my first story and it means a lot to me. I am going to jump a head in time to skip some of the little things. I am thinking of starting another story. I am hoping that if I can get my other ideas out of my head it will help me write this story. I am not sure if I am going to complete the other story before I upload it or if I will upload it as I write it. I appreciate all the support and the positive feedback I have gotten this whole time.

It has been three months since Troy was transferred to Melrose-Wakefield. Dr. Watkins is still at Mass General and hasn't assaulted anyone but she is getting more daring with some of the male nurses in the ER. Troy's transfer was a little rough at first but Troy soon fell in love with the kids that he treated at Melrose- Wakefield. The commute in the morning took longer than the one to Mass General which meant that Troy had to wake up earlier than Gabriella but she enjoyed his different ways of waking her up before he left. It was tough on both Troy and Gabriella not seeing each other as much as they use to but they are getting into their new routine.

Tomorrow is Nicky's fourth birthday and the plan is for Troy to go in the morning and then Gabriella will join them after a night shift. Right now Troy just got home from a shift and was ready to just sit back with a beer and relax. First it was his job to wake up sleeping beauty. He took off his jacket and put his bag on the counter.

He made his way to the bedroom and slowly opened the door and saw her sound asleep on his side of the bed. He smiled and looked at his watch; she didn't need to be up for another hour. He took his shoes off and walked over to the bed. He stripped down to his boxers and set an alarm on his phone and laid down next to her. She groaned lightly and opened her eyes.

"Shh, go back to sleep," he kissed her head and pulled her close. "You have another hour."

She moved closer to him and settled into his arms, "give me a kiss first."

Troy smiled, "No, you have morning breath."

Gabriella made a face, "I don't care I haven't seen you in like two days, kiss me."

She tried to kiss him but he moved his face away from her, "no, seriously you have morning breath," Troy said laughing while dodging her kisses.

"Troy," she whined pulling away, "I just want a kiss so I can sleep for another hour."

He smiled at her and leaned in, "Okay put just on the lips," he kissed her lips and she smiled.

"Thank you," she settled into his arms again and fell back to sleep.

Fifty-five minutes later Troy's alarm went off. He rolled over and turned it off. He looked at Gabriella, who was still sleeping, and smiled. He started to kiss her neck, and she moaned. He pulled away and just watched her.

"Don't stop," she said rolling towards him.

He smiled, "You have to get up and shower."

"Mmm, I like it better when you kiss my neck." She said opening her eyes and looking at him.

He smiled down at her, "If you get up now maybe I'll join you for that shower." He said as he leaned in and kissed her.

"What about my morning breath?" she said running her hands through his hair.

He moved to sit up and walked around to her side of the bed, "I don't really care about that. What I care about is you sleeping on my side of the bed."

"I hate sleeping in the bed by myself and lying on your side helps me sleep."

"And the reason for you being naked?" he said as he pulled the sheets away from her body to reveal that she had no clothes on.

She smiled up at him and sat up, "I had a really dirty dream while you were at work."

Troy raised his eyebrows, "and you took your clothes off?" he said as he pulled her up so she was standing.

"Well I was hoping that the dream was going to come true," she said with a bigger smirk and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Troy smiled and placed his hands on her hips, "Oh, and what happened when it didn't?"

Gabriella smiled, "who said that hasn't happened?"

Troy continued to smile as he wrapped his arms around her naked waist and pulled her up against him. "So what happened in this dream?"

Gabriella leaned up and kissed his neck, "Well, you come home from work and bring me into the bathroom," she said as Troy smiled and did as she said.

When they were in the bathroom, Troy looked down at her, "What now?"

"Now you turn the shower on," he did as he was told, "pick me up and put me in the shower."

"Is this another fantasy where there is no sex?" He said as he put her under the stream of warm water.

Gabriella smiled as she put her head back, "No there is definitely sex in this one," she looked at him and saw him staring at her body, "Hey my eyes are up here."

Troy smiled and looked up, "Yes but your boobs are down here, and they have water on them." He looked back down and continued to stare are her breast.

"If you join me, I might let you touch them," she said as she reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him under the water with her.

"Mmm," he slid his hands over her waist again and pushed her against the wall of the shower. He kissed her neck. He moved his hands down to her ass as he moved his kisses towards her mouth. He kissed her deeply causing her to melt into his arms. He lifted her legs and wrapped them around his boxer covered hips.

"Please Troy do something," she moaned out as she pulled his boxers as far down as she could. "I have to leave in like thirty minutes and I can't make it through another shift thinking about how all I want is for you to do dirty things to me."

Troy went back to kissing her neck and slowly slid into her. As they made love in the shower, Troy's boxers slowly made their way down his legs. "Oh babe I'm going to fall."

Gabriella threw her head back, "Oh but I'm so close."

"Me too," Troy slid into her a few more times before they both reached their peaks.

"Oh god, that was amazing," Gabriella gasped out as she slowly brought her legs down.

Troy leaned against the wall and pulled his boxers down all the way, "it's always amazing with you."

Gabriella smiled at him and kissed his lips softly but with a lot of love. She got out of the shower and grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her. She walked out of the bathroom and put on her scrubs. Troy exited the bathroom ten minutes later.

Gabriella turned and saw him standing there butt naked, "What no towel?"

Troy smiled and walked up the laundry basket that was full of clean clothes "No they are all here." He wrapped one around his waist.

Gabriella walked up to him and ran her finger down his chest to the top of the towel, "I liked it better when you weren't wearing this," she pulled it and it fell to ground. She looked down and bit her lip before looking up again, "oops."

Troy grinned at her and placed his hands on her face and pulled her in for a kiss, "You have to go to work, beautiful."

Gabriella smiled at him, "Yes, I do." She grabbed her bag as Troy picked up his towel and followed her to the kitchen.

"I will see you tomorrow at my parents?" Troy asked as Gabriella reached the door.

She turned and looked at him with a smile, "yes you will."

He walked up and kissed her again, "good, I miss you already."

She smiled up at him and kissed him again, "Don't forget the present okay? It's in the closet under my shoes."

"Okay," he kissed her again, "Love you."

"Love you too."

She left and headed off for work. When she arrived at the hospital Dr. Brady was talking to Dr. Watkins in the ER. "Good afternoon, Dr. Brady." She smiled at him and sent Dr. Watkins a small smile.

Dr. Brady turned and smiled back, "Good afternoon Dr. Montez. How are you today?"

"I am doing well."

"Why are you working tonight? Don't you usually work mornings?" Dr. Brady asked leaning against the counter.

"That's true, but I am covering for Dr. Jones. Her little girl turned two today so she wanted to be able to spend the day with her and not sleeping."

Dr. Brady nodded his in understanding. Dr. Watkins looked at Gabriella and smiled a creepy smile, "How does Troy like Melrose-Wakefield?"

Gabriella looked at Dr. Brady and then back at her, "He loves it there. He was saying how a part of him wants that doctor to not come back," she lied with a smile on her face.

The smile on Dr. Watkins face faltered as Dr. Brady spoke, "Well, I'll see what can be done about that. I want my doctors to be happy, whether it's in my hospital or not." He smiled at Gabriella and winked at her.

"I'm sure he would be very happy about that."

"Don't you miss working with him?" Dr. Watkins said fishing for something.

Gabriella smiled, "Of course I miss working with him, but there are perks to not working together."

"Like what?" Dr. Watkins asked with an attitude.

"Like making more of the time we are together. Being able to see him after a long shift is always the best."

"Well that's nice," Dr. Watkins said sarcastically.

"Okay well we have to continue up to the third floor," Dr. Brady said while walking towards the elevator.

"Have a good day," Gabriella said as she picked up a clipboard and started her shift.

The night was a pretty busy one. Gabriella had to help five kids that fell and hurt themselves while playing, a couple of elderly people that had fallen and it their heads, and one women that was rushed in while in labor but that one didn't take that long. There was a car accident on I93 and Gabriella had to work on a 23 year old male who was in critical condition. She worked on him for thirty minutes before his heart gave out on him. Losing a patient was never easy but it was always harder when they were around her age. For most of the resr her shift she wasn't just dealing with the patients but also put up with Dr. Warner being especially flirty. She couldn't wait till 11 and she was able to leave this place and just hug Troy.

"Hey girlie," Sara said as she walked up to Gabriella who was at the nurses' station looking over the file in front of her.

Gabriella looked up and smiled, "Hey Sara, what's up?"

"How was the night shift?" Sara said taking her jacket off.

"It was eventful," Gabriella answered with a sigh.

Sara frowned, "What happened?"

Gabriella closed her file and put it away before turning towards Sara and leaning against the counter, "There was a rollover accident on 93 last night,"

"Oh no"

"Yeah, there were four people in the car. The only survivor was the 25 year old driver. I had the 23 year old male in the passenger seat. The two others were DOA but we tried so hard to get this kid stabilized and it just wouldn't happen. There was nothing that we could do. We tried everything and nothing worked."

Sara frowned even more, "I am so sorry Gabs."

Gabriella stood up straight turned and grabbed another file, "On top of that Dr. Warner has been flirting with me all night."

"I thought he was backing off."

"Me too. He had been good for a while but last night it was like he went back to how he was before he knew me and Troy were together. It's annoying."

"How is it going with Troy? It must be so different with him being in Melrose."

Gabriella couldn't help the smile that came on her face when thinking of Troy, "It's been good. We have finally got into some sort of routine of him leaving right around the same time I have to wake up to get ready,"

Sara smiled, "which means a lot of, um, fun ways to be woken up with."

Gabriella giggled, "That's a nice way to put it. But it's really nice to be able to go home and see him after a long day, or night, like this one."

"So are you guys just going to spend today being lazy?" Sara said as they started walking towards the locker room, for her to get ready to start work.

Gabriella shook her head, "No actually today is Troy's little brother, Nicky's, 4th birthday. We are going up to Nashua for his birthday party."

"That's exciting." Sara said as they entered the locker room.

"Yeah getting to spend the day with all 63 members of his family, including, his uncle Daniel who is 46 years old with two sons, one is 28 and the other 26, his girlfriend who is 23 and his ex-wife who will also be there."

Sara just smiled at her, "Wow… you need to let me know how that one goes down."

Gabriella sat down on the bench waiting for Sara to get ready, "Yeah it's going to be interesting. The overall opinion on this Sam is that she is a gold digger and she's a bitch, and she hits on Troy whenever she gets a chance."

Sara laughed as they reentered the hallway, "Is that why she's a bitch?"

Gabriella smiled, "No, I'm use to girls hitting on him. He doesn't even know that they are, he is so oblivious to that stuff. She's a bitch because she is rude to everyone. Especially Nan and Grandma and they are the nicest people in the world so I don't understand how she can be rude."

Sara just shook her head, "what time do you get out here?"

"11."

Sara looked her watch, "So only two more hours."

"Hopefully it goes by quickly," she said as she and Sara went their separate ways.

Two and half hours later Gabriella was finally heading out of the hospital while Dr. Warner called her name. Gabriella sighed and turned around.

"Yes, Dr. Warner?"

"You're leaving already beautiful?"

Gabriella sighed, "Yes my shift is over."

"Oh man, what am I going to do without you here?"

Gabriella shrugged her shoulder, "Oh I don't know your job?"

Dr. Warner smiled a smile that made the hair stand up on her neck, "Come on Gabriella don't keep playing like you and Troy Boy are happy. I know for a fact that that isn't true."

Gabriella just rolled her eyes, "Dr. Warner, I don't know where you are getting your information, however, me and Dr. Bolton, are doing fine. And even if we weren't I still wouldn't give you a second look. I don't go for men who walk around like they are God's gift to mankind."

Dr. Warner frowned, "Oh and Troy doesn't do that?"

Gabriella laughed, "No he doesn't. It is frustrating how he has no idea how amazing he is sometimes. He literally as no idea what he does to every female he walks by. He is the most humble, down to earth, nicest, most beautiful man I have ever met."

"Oh please, he is not nice,"

"To you," Gabriella cut him off. Her phone started to ring and she looked down at it. "If you excuse me, I have to take this." Gabriella answered her phone, "hey babe." Dr. Warner rolled his eyes.

"Hey beautiful, where are you? I thought you would be here by now." Troy responded through the phone.

"I know I am leaving now. There was a last minute patient that came in but I am heading up now." Gabriella said as she walked away from Dr. Warner without a second look. "I would have left ten minutes ago however Dr. Friendly was bothering me." She said when she was out of ear shot from Dr. Warner.

"Oh man he's back to his old ways?" Troy said as the background on the phone went from loud to silence; Gabriella assumed he walked in the house.

"Yeah he flirted with me all night. And tonight was not the night for it." Gabriella said as she got in her car and started it. "I'm about to start driving so I'll see you in like forty minutes okay?"

"Hey,"

Gabriella sighed, "Yes?"

"I love you."

Gabriella smiled slightly, "I love you too."

"I will see you when you get here and I will give you the biggest, tightest, most awesome hug you have ever gotten."

The smile on her face got bigger, "I can't wait."

They hung up and Gabriella went on her way. An hour and twenty minutes later Gabriella pulled up to the Bolton's house and took a huge sigh of relief. She didn't think that she was ever going to get here. She got out of the car and headed towards the house. No one was in the actual house so she continued out to the backyard where everyone was spread out. Her eyes searched for Troy to find him playing basketball his brothers Scott (37) and Nicky (4), his nephews JJ (15), Jiffy (15), Andy (9), Connor (11) and Willie (10), his cousins, Hunter (25), Dominic (23), Cooper (28) and Henry (19). Nan saw her first and called out to her which made Troy stop what he was doing and smile before passing the ball to little Nicky before walking off the court, which caused all the other boys to groan.

"Come on Uncle Troy, you can't just walk off the court," JJ said before shaking his head.

Troy laughed, "Come on we were playing six on six. You can handle it being five on six for like ten minutes."

Troy continued towards Gabriella who smiled at him but her smile grew when she looked beyond him and she ducked under his arm and walked over to his sister Bethany (34) leaving Troy with a pout on his face.

"Give me that baby," Gabriella said as she took the 4 month old out of Bethany's arms. "Hello beautiful baby girl. Aren't you the most beautiful baby in the world." She cooed at the baby.

Bethany laughed as she saw the look on Troy's face. "Aw it's okay Troy, no need to cry."

Troy glared at his sister, "I'm not going to cry BJ."

The smile on his sister's face went away as soon as he finished talking, "don't call me that."

Troy smirked, "I am not the one that named you after mom."

Gabriella shook her head at her boyfriend and his sister, "Troy leave her alone."

Troy looked shocked, "What! You are picking her side." He looked at his sister who was smirking. "First you dodge my amazing hug that I had waiting for you and now you pick my sisters side?"

Gabriella just smiled at him, "I couldn't deny a baby."

Troy just looked shocked. When the voice of a newly four old boy yelled out Gabriella's name. Gabriella smiled even bigger and gave the baby back to Bethany and turned to catch the birthday boy in her arms.

"Hello birthday boy" she said as she hugged him tightly.

"Oh great he gets a hug before I do." Troy said quietly as he sulked over towards the basketball court where some of his nieces and female cousins joined and they formed a boys versus girls game.

"What's wrong with Troy?" Nicky asked Gabriella as she sat down with him in her lap.

"He is upset that I love you more than him," she said loud enough for Troy to hear. He turned around and looked like little puppy who was left home all alone. Gabriella couldn't help but laugh, "oh come on Troy you always knew that Nicky was my favorite Bolton."

"Yeah well it's not his name that you say in your sleep," he shot back with a grin.

Gabriella looked at him with her mouth open, "I cannot believe you just said that."

Troy just smirked as Nicky looked at her, "What does that mean?"

Gabriella who was glaring at Troy now, "that means that your brother is sleeping on the couch tonight."

Troy's whole family started laughing as the smirk on his face was wiped away.

"Nice job Uncle Troy," Jiffy said from the basketball court.

"If I shared a bed with her I would make sure that I never did anything that would change that," his cousin Henry said while eyeing Gabriella.

Troy whipped his head towards his cousin and glared, "Watch yourself Henry."

Gabriella just shook her head as Henry's mom scolded him for saying what he said. Gabriella let Nicky go play with his cousins as she walked towards Troy. She heard Henry tell his mom that it wasn't his fault that she was hot, she ignored that as she reach Troy. "You know I could really use that hug."

Troy looked at Gabriella for a second, "What happened?"

Gabriella sighed as she went back to her previous mood before she arrived to the Bolton castle. "I lost a 23 year old."

Troy's eyes closed as he pulled her close, "I heard about that on the news but I thought that you weren't down in the ER tonight."

Gabriella closed her eyes as she took in his scent, "They needed the help. It was a busy night."

They just hugged each other as his family went back to what they were doing before his dad announced that it was time to eat. They all got in line and grabbed some food and found a place to sit and eat and talk with the people that were around them. Soon after it was time for Nicky to open his presents. The family gathered around the little area where the presents had been sitting all day. Troy sat down and Gabriella curled up on his lap and watch as Nicky opened his presents with a smile on her face.

Before she knew it, it was 10 o'clock and Troy was carrying her to his car.

"Mmm, where are you bringing me?"

Troy smiled down at her and kissed her head, "I am bringing you home, beautiful."

"But my car," she said as she tucked her head into his neck even more.

"We are going to come up back to tomorrow to pick it up. I promised mom and dad that we would have lunch with them just the two of us, them, and Nicky."

"Mmm, sounds good, hot stuff."

Troy just smiled even bigger as he put her in the front seat of his car and started the trip back home.