Dean didn't remember falling sleep at all, one moment he'd been smiling at Castiel and then next moment he was being jarred awake by a loud blaring sound coming from his phone. The alarm. The alarm he set to wake him up every day at half past four in the morning which meant that not only had he fallen asleep on the couch in the world's most painful position but he'd also fallen asleep next to Cas. There was also the small matter that it was half past four in the morning and he needed to move his ass but the whole 'Sleeping on a couch next to Cas' took up most of the space in his sleep addled brain at the time.
Moving off the couch, and hearing several bones crack and pop loudly as he went, Dean stood up and silenced his phone before shaking a still sleeping Cas. The dude looked far too peaceful but there was no way Dean was going to let him sleep in. If Cas was late for rounds because of Dean then there was a very high chance Dean wouldn't make it to the end of the day without missing several vital organs. Cas mumbled something completely unintelligible and yawned loudly.
"What was that?" Dean asked. Once again Cas' reply was anything but comprehensible. With a small laugh Dean nudged Cas' leg with his foot playfully despite his sleepy state. "I still can't understand you dude." He said with a grin. Cas groaned and rubbed his eyes before looking up at Dean.
"I said 'Why are you shaking me?'" Cas said between loud and drawn out yawns. When clinging onto the last fragments of sleep Castiel was so much more human and less like the stoic cardio resident Dean was slowly getting to know.
"Because it's half past four in the morning. We sort of fell asleep." Dean said with an apologetic look because from the frown on his face Cas didn't appreciate being woken up. "Sorry about waking you. Do you want to grab a shower or something?"
"Please, it might help in waking me up." Cas said groggily. He pulled himself up off the couch and Dean winched when he heard several bones pop. "You weren't joking when it came to that couch. It's a menace on the joints." Cas declared.
"Yeah, I might get round to replacing it one day." Dean said absent mindedly. Since he'd moved in he had been meaning to get a decent couch but lack of funds and time made it an impossibility. Maybe he could convince his parents to buy him one for Christmas. It was a sign he was growing up when Christmas presents were no longer a record he'd been after or a stack of books he'd hopefully get round to reading.
"Hopefully sooner rather than later." Cas muttered stretching his arms over his head. "Which way is your shower?"
"Second door on the left, there's clean towels and stuff in my room. You can borrow a shirt if you want, save you going into work with last night's clothes. My room is the one next to the bathroom." Cas didn't seem like the type of person who would have ever done the 'Walk of Shame' in the previous night's clothing.
"Thank you Dean." Cas said with a sleepy looking but pleasant smile. A jolt went through Dean's stomach which he really hoped was just hunger pains because anything else was too confusing to think about right now.
"Dean should I be concerned by the half-naked woman asleep in your room?" Cas asked walking into the kitchen half an hour or so later. His damp hair was the only the sign that he had showered. He had dressed back into the clothes he had been wearing the night before apart from the shirt which was one of Dean's favourite shirts, a deep blue flannel shirt that was incredibly soft from being worn so often. The shirt fit Cas well. Hospital scrubs were evidently hiding a strong physique. That probably wasn't something Dean should have been thinking about so he was going to blame it on the lack of sleep or the alcohol consume the night before. Yeah blame it all on the alcohol. "Dean?"
"Huh?" Dean asked as he placed a new filter into his coffee machine and added the necessary coffee.
"There is a half-naked Joanna Harvelle asleep in your room. I wasn't aware that you two were an item." Cas asked. It took Dean a second to figure out what Cas was even talking about. Jo, Jo asleep in his bed because she hated the couch and they still hadn't got round the clearing all the crap out of the spare room. Cas also thinking that because Jo was asleep in Dean's room that made them a couple.
"Me and Jo?" Dean asked with a frown. Cas nodded his head with an expectant look. "We're not fooling around or anything like that. Her landlord put her apartment building up for sale and she can't afford to buy anything right now. I've offered her a place to crash for a while until she's got enough for a security deposit and the first month's rent on a new place. She's gonna be staying in the guest room, it was 'posed for my brother Sam, but it's full of my junk from back in Connecticut at the moment so she's in my room while I'm on the couch. We're gonna clear the guest room out sometime next weekend." Dean said adding more coffee granules because, what the hell strong coffee was the best kind of coffee.
"Oh." Cas' surprised tone was actually quite endearing. "That's nice of you to offer Joanna a place to stay."
"Well we're friends." Dean said by way of explaining. Truthfully Jo was a pain in the ass who ate all the cereal and deleted stuff off the TiVo all the freaking time but she was still good company.
"So you have siblings? You mentioned a brother." Castiel asked. Dean had learnt the night before that Castiel liked to ask a lot of questions and it seemed that he had more to ask. It was something he shared with Jo who needed to everything about everyone.
"Yeah just the one though. Sammy, he's just started over at Stanford." Dean mumbled absent-mindedly as he glared down at the coffee machine which had clearly decided not to work. If Jo had been pissing about with the settings again Dean was going to make her sleep in the bathroom. He gave the machine a hearty whack and nearly cried with relief when the pot slowly started to fill up with dark brown liquid.
"That's a very good school, I know several very gifted people who studied there. What is he studying?"
"Pre-Law, the dude wants to be a lawyer." Dean explained getting two mugs out the cupboard. He guessed that Cas would need coffee as much he did. "He's crazy smart so he got into Stanford on a scholarship. Whole family couldn't be more proud." Dean said. While he never really spoke about his family to other people Sam's acceptance and scholarship was big news, he was gonna brag about it as much as he possibly could. "I miss him like crazy but we talk all the time and he's dragging me into the twenty-first century by making me use Skype."
"It's nice that you two get on so well." Cas remarked with a smile.
"Yeah…I mean he's a little shit sometimes but he's a damn good brother at the end of the day. Plus having a lawyer for a brother could come in handy if I ever accidentally kill a patient...that was a joke by the way." Dean said.
"I realised that Dean, I do know how to joke now and then." Cas said raising an eyebrow. "I seem to remember making you laugh several times last night."
"Yeah well it makes a change from you yelling at me I guess." Dean said shrugging his shoulders. He raised a coffee mug towards Cas who nodded graciously.
"Please, I must admit I'm not used to drinking that much." Cas said.
"How did you survive med school without drinking?" Dean asked.
"I studied hard and came out top of my class." Cas said without a hint of arrogance. Honestly Dean wasn't remotely surprised to hear that, you didn't become the best resident by being second in a class. Dean handed him a large mug full of coffee for which Castiel gave him a smile. "Thank you."
"No problem. There's creamer in the fridge if you want it and sugar in the cupboard by the microwave, we should probably get going soon if we want to make rounds though." Dean said nodding towards the digital clock on his stove that proudly blinked out 5:10. It was a fifteen minute walk to the hospital but Castiel always liked the interns to be in early before rounds. "Jo's on her second ER rotation tonight so she's sleeping in." Dean added but he guessed Cas already knew that seeing as he had been the one to assign to Jo to the ER.
"Is that the polite way of saying not to wake her up?" Cas asked. "I was very quiet when I borrowed a shirt from your wardrobe."
"Basically." Dean supplied. "She'd probably hit you if you even tried. She may be small but the woman packs a mean right hook." Dean cleared the kitchen, living with his mother until he'd left for college had made him hyper aware of mess in a kitchen, and wrote a note to Jo telling her that there were bagels in the cupboard if she wanted them. "Want a coffee to go?" Dean then asked pulling out two travel mugs. Castiel nodded his head appreciatively. Dean poured coffee into the travel mugs and placed them on the kitchen counter top. "I'm gonna grab my jacket then we can get outta here."
Dean snuck into his room, trying not to wake Jo in the process, and opened his wardrobe door. He pulled out the thick Yale hoodie he'd worn throughout his time at med school. Sure it had been worn to death but it smelt like home and held so many memories within its fabric. He was pulling the blue hoodie over his head when he heard movement coming from the bed. Yanking the hoodie down he looked over but Jo still appeared to be fast asleep. With a relieved sigh Dean made his way towards the door.
"You are so telling me at lunch why Novak of all people was in the shower just now." Jo said sleepily. Ah fuck it.
Trying to think of anything clever to say completely went out the window as soon as Dean said "You're still dreaming." Genius Winchester, just genius. Thousands and thousands of dollars spent on an Ivy League education and the best he could come up with was 'You're still dreaming'.
"Like fuck am I still dreaming." Jo retorted smugly. "There was no way I was dreaming at two this morning when I found you two passed out on the couch together. It was very adorable Dean and Charlie agreed with me."
"What the fuck?" Dean groaned running a hand over his face in frustration. "You actually text Charlie?" he asked. That was it, he was going to hide the cereal for the next week and refuse to make Jo any coffee. Forget bagels as well, he was gonna eat the whole damn bag with Cas on his way to the hospital.
"Nope, Snapchat." Jo said sounding even smugger, if that was even possible. Dean didn't have a freaking clue what the hell Snapchat was, Sam probably would though knowing him, but the knowledge that both Jo and Charlie were discussing him and Cas was not something that filled him with joy.
"I actually hate you right now." Dean groaned.
"No you don't. You're gonna tell me all about why Novak was asleep on the couch and why he was in the shower once I'm at the hospital." Jo added making it clear that Dean had no other choice in the matter. Dean groaned but didn't bother saying anything to stop Jo because there was really no point. He had learnt that during one of their very first weeks at the hospital. "See you later princess." Jo added as Dean stomped out the room. Cas was waiting in the kitchen area, coffee tumbler in his hand, and as Dean walked in he raised an eyebrow.
"Is everything alright Dean?" he asked. Dean shrugged his shoulders absent-mindedly. "What's the matter?"
"Jo's being a pain in the ass, even half asleep she manages to be a pain in the ass. I'm gonna make her sleep on the roof or something for this." Dean grumbled as he grabbed his own coffee tumbler. "Forget Adam getting all my crappy patients, Jo can get them now."
"I'm not even going to ask why you're planning on handing all your 'crappy patients' over to Adam Milligan or Jo Harvelle." Cas said rolling his eyes and slipping back into 'resident' mode. Dean just shrugged, he wasn't going to start getting into why Jo and Charlie gossiping about them was such a big deal, and grabbed the keys to his car. It was still in the parking lot back at the hospital, along with Cas' car, and there was no way he was going to leave it there another night.
"Come on, you hate us being late so we better get a move on." Dean said.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Cas asked. Once again Dean shrugged.
"Yeah…yeah…I guess I'm ok. Just tired, that's all." Dean said by way of explanation as he picked up the note he'd left telling Jo about the bagels along with said bagels. She was being a gossiping brat so she didn't deserve cinnamon and raisin bagels.
"As long as you're ok." Cas said. Cas' concern was something new but Dean had a feeling this was just how Cas really was. The blunt and focused man he'd known for the past month has been the 'surgical' side of Cas and this caring and inquisitive side to him was his persona away from the hospital. It was very intriguing and Dean found himself wondering what else he could learn about Castiel Novak when they were outside the OR and away from the hospital.
There was a large and very smug look on Charlie's face throughout rounds that morning. Dean had put off whatever she, and no doubt Sarah as well, had to say by hiding out in the main coffee shop until the very last minute.
"You and Novak make the most adorable couch buddies. Actually adorable." Charlie said sideling up to Dean as soon as Cas had handed out charts and sent everyone on their way.
"How the hell do you know that?" Dean asked. "What did Jo say to you?"
"Dude she sent me a Snapchat of the two of you this morning." Charlie said shrugging. "So are you two friends now? Do we have to stop raging on him and calling him a dick now?" she asked looking incredibly disappointed.
"He lost a patient last night and it was the first patient he'd lost in a long time. He was pretty upset by it so I brought him a drink, it got late so he crashed out on my couch. That's all, end of story." Dean said.
"Not end of story." Sarah said appearing at Dean's other side. "You spend all your time calling the guy an ass and now you two are couch cuddling best buddies."
"There was no cuddling!" Dean shot back. Both Charlie and Sarah snorted loudly. "There was no cuddling at all. I fell asleep and so did he; that's all." Dean said though it was pretty clear that neither Sarah nor Charlie believed him as they both carried on smirking.
"This is all probably some scheme so you can get in on cool surgeries." Sarah said giving Dean a sceptical look over. Dean resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Sarah, as well as Charlie and Jo, could believe whatever they wanted and they probably would too. "Don't forget that Novak was pretty impressed with Jo and me during that ARVC case."
"Yeah but he knew full well that it was me that gave you two the idea of the ICD, he told he as much." Dean shit back because Sarah, as nice as she could be sometimes, was beginning to piss him off. He hadn't got nearly enough sleep the night before and half as much caffeine before he started his shift and he had a feeling that was going to end in him snapping at someone soon. "Look, I felt sorry for the guy and asked him if he wanted to go for a drink, that's it. I'm not being nice to him because I want the cool surgeries, I can get those by working hard. I'm being nice to him because he needed it at the time."
"Charlie was right, you do want to get into his pants." Sarah said bluntly before she took off down the hallway.
"What?! Wait! Sarah I don't!" Dean yelled back. He turned round to where Charlie was stood, still smirking away. "I do not want to get into Novak's pants." He said firmly.
"Maybe you do, maybe you don't but it's damn amusing to watch." Charlie said still grinning away. Her smile widened as Adam appeared with a large cup of coffee.
"Don't even think about it." Adam said shooting Charlie a warning look. He handed the coffee to Dean then held out his hand for Dean's charts. Sure Dean felt bad for treating Adam like a glorified scut monkey but Adam had agreed to it. "I heard the old guy from yesterday had an aneurysm then died on the table, sorry man. Must suck to lose your first patient." He said giving Dean an empathetic look.
"Yeah, yeah it did. He turned out to be the dad of a friend of mine…well we knew each other at Yale." Dean said with a shrug.
"Seriously? Damn I'm really sorry man. That must have sucked telling her and everything." Adam said genuinely looking concerned. "Sort of glad you took it off my hands now."
"Wait, Adam was originally on the case? And you just swapped with him?" Charlie asked cocking an eyebrow. Dean knew what she was thinking, that he swapped with Adam to get closer to Novak, and he knew that no matter he said she'd carried on thinking it.
"Yeah, Dean was a life saver last night." Adam said cutting in before Dean tried to think of something to say. "Lafitte asked me if I wanted in on a trauma case and after pretty much becoming his bitch for the next month Dean agreed to take the old guy's heart condition instead of working in the ER." He added. Charlie still looked sceptical but she shrugged her shoulders with she couldn't be bothered to even mock Dean anymore.
"Whatever, I've got labs that need collecting. See you guys at lunch?" She said. Dean nodded and watched her walk off with a wary look. Adam's eyebrows shot up and he rounded on Dean.
"Ok…what did I miss?" he asked with a furrowed brow.
"You don't even want to know...though you'll probably find out once Jo gets here." Dean said rolling his eyes. The sooner this day was over the better because he had the feeling Jo wasn't going to let Cas crashing on the couch drop any time soon.
The morning was packed with running labs and working in the ER. Being on Benny Lafitte's service was actually pretty cool. A varying nature of injuries or illnesses that came through the doors meant that Dean never knew what was going to happen next. Benny Lafitte, the head of trauma surgery, was a decent guy and seemed to actually like Dean which made being on his service less daunting. By the time lunch rolled around Dean had seen his fair share of broken bones and wavering degrees of trauma. He also had a message on his phone from his mother which was why he found himself in an empty hallway with his phone pressed up to his ear waiting to hear Mary yell at him for not ringing her back sooner.
"Dean Winchester you have been ignoring my messages." Mary Winchester said as soon as she picked up the phone. Damn she sounded pissed.
"I haven't been ignoring your messages mom, I've been kind of busy." Dean said bracing himself for whatever Mary was going throw at him, figuratively obviously seeing as she was hundreds of miles away in Lawrence.
"Too busy to call your mother? Sam is dangerously close to becoming my favourite son, I hope you realise that." Mary said but Dean could hear the laughter in her voice. "Now tell me all about everything that is going on with you. Sam mentions that you have a roommate." Dean rolled his eyes. Even out in California Sam was able to relay everything Dean told him via email or text message.
"Yeah I do, her name is Jo. She's an intern as well and her landlord was kicking her out so I offered her a place to stay for a while." Dean said balancing his phone under his ear while punching the button for the coffee machine. "She's pretty cool." He added.
"Really? Tell me all about her, is she pretty?" Mary asked. Dean could practically hear Mary's ears pricking up with excitement.
"Ma!" Dean whined even if he knew it made him sound like a child.
"Don't 'Ma!' me Dean Winchester. I'm simply asking a question." Mary said.
"Yeah I guess she is but it's not like that at all, she's more of a drinking buddy than anything so don't get your hopes up." Dean said. He picked up the Styrofoam cup full of coffee and leant against the nearest wall. This was the first break he'd gotten in hours and his body was craving caffeine. Well if he was being perfectly honest his body was craving sleeping for about a week and a half but that wasn't going to happen anytime soon so coffee would have to suffice.
"Ok, I'm just asking. So there's no one at the hospital that you're interested in?" Mary asked. After the initial shock when she found out about Michael, Mary had been incredibly accepting of her eldest son and was heartbroken when Dean had ended things with Michael. Mary probably just wanted Dean to be happy but he found it stifling sometimes.
"No mom, there's no one." Dean said rolling his eyes before he pushed himself away from the wall as quickly as he could. With a file under his arm and pager firmly glued to his hand Cas came striding down the corridor, only stopping when he looked up and saw Dean. "Mom I gotta go, I'll talk to you later."
"You better mean later as well and not in two weeks young man!" Mary retorted but once again Dean could hear the laughter in her voice.
"I promise mom, love you." Dean said hurriedly before he hung up. "Hey." He said pocketing his phone as Cas walked up to him. "Everything ok?"
"Yes, I'm just trying to sort out whereabouts to assign everyone next week before I assist on a surgery this afternoon." Cas said. He pulled a dollar out his pocket and placed it into the coffee machine. "Blake seems to have a knack and a passion for neurology so she's with the Chief for the week again. Neurology is a fascinating specialty but I don't envy Blake at all for having to work with the Chief…you didn't hear me say that though." Cas explained as a Styrofoam cup filled with coffee.
"Hey I'm not saying anything, I've seen the guy once and that was enough." The Chief of Surgery, a man named Crowley, also happened to be the head of the Neurology department. Dean had only really seen him on his first day for about two minutes but apparently it was best not to get on his wrong. According to several people Crowley made Cas look like a complete puppy. "Sarah will be happy though, she really likes neuro." Dean said with a casual shrug.
"Yes, the Chief said as much. I think she'll end up specialising in it. As for Milligan he's better off down in the ER on trauma with Lafitte. He's less jumpy down there. I think my yelling is getting to him." Cas said.
"The poor guy is scared shitless by you to be honest." Dean said smirking. He probably shouldn't be laughing over Adam, interns sticking together and all that crap, but it was kinda funny. Cas smiled at him like scaring Adam had been the plan all along.
"And I've put Harvelle on OBGYN."
"The Vagina Patrol? She is gonna be pissed man." Dean said once again smirking because Jo's face was going to be priceless when she found out.
"This is my version of bagel withholding." Cas said with a smug smile. "There's just you left now."
"Me? What about me?"
"Lafitte has been impressed with your work in the ER and he thinks you'll make a very good trauma surgeon but, with Milligan on his service, there's a spot open with me in cardiology." The nervous look on Dr Novak's face wasn't that of Dr Novak, Dean's resident. The look was that of Cas, Dean's friend. The look said that Dean had a choice; he could pass up the chance to be on Cas' service but Cas would be put out by the refusal.
"I guess I have a passion for cardio…if you want me on your service that is."
"You're a talented intern, pig headed and rude but very talented so I'd be happy to have you…as long as you're not planning on yelling at me in the OR any time soon."
"Well are you gonna give me a shitty, and kind of undeserved, nickname again?" Dean asked. Cas rolled his eyes and slapped a file into Dean's chest.
"You might have been exceptionally good company last night but I could still decide to assign you to do nothing but scut for the next week."
"You'd miss my gorgeous mug in the OR."
"Your 'mug' is covered by a surgical mask so I wouldn't get too self-assured about it just at the moment Winchester." Cas quickly retorted. "Self-assured or not though, I would like to return the gesture of last night by buying you a drink sometime. Sometime next weekend perhaps?" he then asked sounding so formal it was as if he was inviting someone to one of those afternoon tea parties his parent's next door neighbour used to have.
"Can't handle two nights running?" Dean joked. Once again Cas rolled his eyes and this seemed to be becoming a regular thing between them now.
"I'm a highly respected cardiothoracic surgeon Dean and I would like to keep my respect intact." Cas said with faux piety. "So if you are free next weekend I think it would be nice for me to return the gesture of the drinks you brought me last night. Though maybe not as many. Sleeping on a couch and going into work with a mild hangover is best left to people in their early twenties."
"That…that sounds good Cas." Dean said fighting the smile that spread across his face.
Yesterday had broken down several barrier between the two men for which Dean was grateful for. Knowing that it was possible to have a friendship with his resident made Dean more confident in the following months of his internship. Their first impressions of each other had been less than decent and the month after that had been full of cutting remarks but maybe now things would begin to look up. Dean was hopeful for once which was a new thing entirely.
"So spill." Jo said sitting down across from Dean in the cafeteria. He had barely even sat down before Jo had pounced on him. Dean shot Adam an exasperated look to which Adam replied to by handing over a large paper cup of what smelt like a mocha. This free coffee courtesy of Adam was definitely a perk. "I'll give you my cookie if you tell me." Jo added holding out her extra large chocolate chip cookie.
"You can't bribe me with a cookie." Dean said pushing Jo's bribery cookie away.
"Adam is bribing you with coffee!" Jo shot back.
"Technically it's coffee, pie, charting and all of his gross patients for the next month." Adam said grimacing. "If anything bowel related explodes and weeps then I've got no choice but to take them. I'll take the cookie if it's up for grabs." Adam added reaching for Jo's cookie. Jo scoffed loudly and shoved nearly the whole cookie into her mouth. "You're evil."
"You don't have to tell me that twice." Dean muttered. Jo grinned smugly, showing a mouthful of damn cookie. "Very attractive Harvelle."
"Almost as attractive as you find Novak?" Jo asked once she'd swallowed her cookie. If it wasn't a sure way to get fired Dean was tempted to stab her in the arm with his fork.
"I don't find Novak attractive." Dean said. He bitterly regretted ever telling Jo about Michael. If she had never found out that he was bisexual she wouldn't be pressing the point of him potentially finding Cas attractive. There was so much going on in his life, the internship and making sure he had time for his family despite being so far away from them, and he didn't need this going on top of that. "So just drop it already Jo." He added giving Jo a hard look.
"Oh come Dean-"
"No I mean it Jo. Drop it already because it's really starting to piss me off."
"What are we talking about?" Sarah asked sitting down opposite Jo, Charlie hot on her heels.
"About Dean finding Novak attractive." Jo said before Dean or Adam had a chance to say anything.
"I am going to make you move out, you can live in the intern locker room from now." Dean snapped as he glared over at Jo. "You know that we're interns right? We're surgical interns. You would think that we'd have better things to talk about than whether or not I find our resident attractive or not; which, for the record, I don't."
"Wow…someone is pissy." Charlie said as she opened her chocolate pudding.
"He's having an internal crisis or some shit like that." Jo said shrugging.
"I asked Novak out for a drink last night because we lost a patient. For Castiel it was the first patient he'd lost in about a year. For me the patient was the father of a friend of mine from Yale. She was a close friend of my ex and seeing her yesterday was a real shock. Having to tell her that her father died because of the surgery I was scrubbed in on was total fucking bullshit. So I asked Novak if he wanted a drink, not just because he needed but because I needed it." Dean snapped shooting daggers at Jo, Sarah and Charlie. "Both of us drank more than we probably should have and Novak lives across town so I offered him the couch to crash on. I was being a decent guy for once but clearly it's coming to bite me in the freaking ass because now you three won't shut the fuck up about it. Now if any of you say one more thing about either me asking Novak for a drink, him sleeping on my couch-"
"What about him wearing one of your shirts to work?" Jo offered.
"Or him borrowing a shirt so he didn't have to come into work wearing the same thing he was wearing yesterday." Dean countered. "If any of you say anything about that then I'm going to yell at you and convince Novak to stick you on every shitty procedure that Adam isn't given. Now shut the fuck up about it." Dean snapped slamming his hand down on the table to add to his point.
"Whoa…do you want that slice of pie now?" Adam asked while Jo, Charlie and Sarah sat there in silence, all of them wearing surprised looks.
"Yeah but if it's blueberry then don't even bother." Dean said before taking a generous gulp of his mocha. He wasn't one of mochas, they were more Sam's drink than his, but damn it was good and just what he needed. Well that, a huge slice of pie and Jo, Charlie and Sarah staying silent for as long as possible.
Medical Side Note:
OBGYN stands for Obstetrics and Gynecology which are the two specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs for both pregnant and non-pregnant women.