For Lindsay. I think she'll like this one.
I'm practically speeding down these back roads making the mad dash to get to my patients on time. I'm steeling myself for the myriad of apologies for late timing that I'm going to have to make today.
I still have to tell Jean Luc about Wesley, but I'm glad that he was honest with me in the end. I don't think that Jean Luc will be mad. I think, if anything, he'll be sad that Wesley felt that he wouldn't be proud of him. Their relationship has come a long way, but I think that Wes is still a bit nervous around Jean Luc. For such a long time he saw him as someone who was unreachable. And now, even though their relationship has changed, Wes still wants to please Jean Luc.
The parking lot in front of the office is full and I am reminded once again that I'm late. I told Hope so perhaps she's already made some supplication for me!
"Hope!" She's in between patients and eating cookies in our office as I stumble through the door.
"Bev! Hey! Good morning. Listen, Laney Devlin and her twins are in room 1 waiting for you. Luckily she was running late too, so you're in the clear," she winks her eye as she hands me my white coat.
She hesitates before handing me the coat, "Should I be ordering a size up in this?"
I look down, mortified. I haven't gained any weight. I don't even think I gained anything other than baby during my pregnancy…. And I wore this same coat! What does she mean?
"Hope, uh, excuse me?"
"Oh." Her face drops and she hesitates. "Um, nothing." She innocently shakes the crumbs off her hands and makes her way towards to the door.
"Eh!" I throw my arm out in front of her, "Not so fast. Are you saying I'm fat?" Yes, vanity is the way to get any woman's attention.
"WHAT? No, Bev. I thought that you knew."
"Knew what?!" What is going on?
"You're pregnant."
My eyes are bugging out of my head, "Uh, What? Hope, what are you? A human tricorder? I'm not pregnant! I'm just late this morning because I had a situation to deal with concerning my son!"
She starts laughing, "No, you're definitely pregnant."
I hang my head in amusement, "Hope, as much as my husband and I would love for that to be the case, you are sadly mistaken. And I – I have to get to my patients before they skin me!"