Hey guys! I break up from school next week (I know!) and so I will be able to start posting more regularly again! Yay, but alas, I am going to be in the South of France on holiday- trust me, that never happens I am so excited- so I might be able to post, or I might not. Sorry!
But anyway, I hope you all enjoy it. And please, please, please review!
Hannah the Hobbit!
The next day, Lucie had thrown herself back into the full swing of things. Luckily so for the ED department, as they were bursting at the seams with patients. She darted from the cubicle, slipping on the wet floor. She shot her arm out to grab something to keep her on her feet, and grabbed Ethan's arm. He tumbled down with her, his legs sprawled out on the floor and Lily face-planted on the hard Hospital floor. She rolled over and glowered at Lucie and Ethan before noticing who they actually were. Lucie groaned.
"Sorry!" She called to Lily, utterly apologetic. Lily waved her apology away.
"It's fine." She replied, trying to stem the slow dribble of blood from her nose. Lucie smiled weakly.
"In that case," she wiggled her leg under Ethan. "Get off me you big lump."
Ethan got up quickly, and Lily handed him his glasses, which had gone skittering down the corridor. A hand wrapped around Lucie's upper arm and Cal smiled mockingly at her.
"Is this why you became a doctor? To treat all the casualties you cause?" He teased gently. Lucie saluted, nearly hitting Lofty in the face. After a quick 'sorry!' She replied;
"You bet your arse."
Ethan gently probed the bridge of Lily's nose. He had insisted on looking at it, to check that it wasn't broken. He lightly pressed his fingers into surrounding area. Lily winced slightly as his fingers squeezed the very top of her nose.
"You're completely fine, aren't you?" He muttered, sardonically. Lily pushed his hand away.
"Yes, I am." She snapped. "How many times do I have to tell you?"
"I'm just trying to help!" Ethan defended. He stepped back as Lily whirled around in a tirade.
"I don't need your help." She retorted. She stormed out the door, barging past Cal. He held up his hands in a 'woah' motion. He raised an eyebrow at Ethan questioningly. He opened his mouth to fire a sassy comment at Ethan, but a cry of:
"Caleb Knight; Don't You Dare!" Called across the ward. Ethan stuck his head around the curtain, to see Lucie looking up from her patient and pointing warningly at him. Cal closed his mouth. And opened it again.
"No." She commanded.
"Bu-"
"No." She repeatedly sternly. Max, passing pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair, mined the cracking of a whip.
"Shuddup." Cal moaned. Lucie grinned from across the ward.
Lucie held the mug out to Lily as she entered the Staff Room. Lily inspected the contents, and took an experimental sip before sitting down, assured that it contained a drinkable liquid. Lucie chuckled under her breath.
"You shouldn't be so hard on Ethan." Lucie said conversationally. Lily sighed.
"Are you going to lecture me again?" She rolled her eyes. Lucie rolled her head to look disapprovingly at Lily.
"Are you going to stop acting like you don't like him and so push him away in an attempt to hide your feelings for him? Cos, sweetie, trust me. You are that easy to read." She replied knowingly. Lily took a deliberate mouthful of coffee.
"I don't like Ethan." She mumbled. Lucie raised an eyebrow.
"Which is why half the ED is betting on whether you two will get together. Obviously." Lucie drawled. Lily frowned.
"Really? Who?" She demanded. Lucie got up, dumping her mug in the sink.
"I'll text you the list." She laughed, before whispering secretively. "It's quite long."
Robyn sighed, looking back down to the patient she was bandaging. The teenage girl raised an eyebrow at her expression.
"You look like your OTP has sunk." She remarked. Robyn smiled.
"I'm going to pretend like I understood that." She laughed. The girl laughed slightly.
"OTP is 'one true pairing', so the two people-usually fictional- you really want to get together, and sunk, well, they definitely aren't getting together." She explained cheerily. It was Robyn's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"That's actually scarily accurate." She finished up the bandage. "You see the doctor over there? That's Ethan. Well, he's got the lost puppy expression he always gets when him and Lily fight."
The girl's heart melted slightly.
"Aww, are they together?" She asked. Robyn shook her head, sitting down next to her on the bed.
"No, unfortunately. I mean they are so adorable together." Robyn sighed dejectedly. "But I kinda think she's just stringing him along."
Lily swallowed the lump in her throat, and, from the other side of the curtain, wiped away the single tear on her cheek. She pushed herself away from the cubicle and swiftly walked away.
Max leant over the counter to talk to Noel.
"Ethan's looking particularly pathetic this morning." He commented. Noel stood up slightly to look at the doctor in question. He craned his neck to look at Ethan, who was every ten or so seconds glancing up at Lily. He looked dejectedly at the clipboard, then hopelessly at Lily. Notes, Lily. Notes, Lily. And on it went.
"Hmm. Wonder why." He said thoughtfully. Max rested his chin on his fist.
"Well, it's Lily. She's probably yelled at him for something." He guessed. Lucie passed, grabbing a brown elasticated hair tie of her wrist. She followed Noel's thoughtful gaze to Ethan.
"Why are you gazing at the lost puppy? Trying to find its owner?" She scooped a handful of black curls in her fist and twisted it on the back of her head. Ethan moved over to the Holby ED computer, but none of the three of them noticed.
"Lily doesn't love him," Max continued. "Surely he can see that, she's just toying with him."
Ethan's head rose slightly, and his eyes grew wide. Back to them, he didn't see the disapproving look Lucie gave Max.
"It's true though." Noel agreed. "She's playing with his heart, kinda like Cal did with her."
Ethan shut down the programme and walked quickly away, too quickly to hear Lucie's reprimanding.
"Guys! Don't be douchebags, Lily isn't like that. And Ethan's not *that* pathetic."