Connie opened the office door and held it open so that Rita could pass back out onto the ward.
She smoothed back her hair, tucking it behind her ears. She cleared her throat and watched as Cal, who was making his way towards them, stopped suddenly upon noticing them, a look of mild alarm gracing his features.
"Everything OK, Dr Knight?"
She asked, noticing how he glanced between the two of them, how he noticed the flush of their cheeks and their slightly dishevelled states...
"Oh god..."
He murmured, and made to turn around again. Connie could feel the eyes of the various staff members on the ward lingering on her, on Rita...she could feel their thoughts, their words, the rumours beginning...
"Dr Knight!"
She spoke louder, and more sharply than she had intended to and Cal stopped short in his movements and raised his eyebrows.
"Sorry, sorry...I just, I wanted your advice on a patient with abnormal lover function?"
"I'm sorry?
She asked, eyebrows raised, hands on hips.
"Liver. Abnormal liver function."
He corrected himself, his own cheeks growing pinker by the second.
"I think I can take this from here...I'll give him a hand..."
Rita spoke quietly and placed a hand upon Connie's forearm, squeezing gently, feeling how taught the tendons were beneath the freckled skin. How quickly she had tensed up...
"Cal?"
She asked, when Connie remained silent, and Cal cleared his throat, glancing from Connie to Rita. He gave a brief nod of his head.
"Yes. Yeah..fine."
He answered quietly, and Rita let her hand fall from Connie's arm, instead, turning to her, looking up at her. She caught the look in her eye, how she glanced about the ward, searching for the eyes that were turned in their direction.
"We're just fish in a bowl..."
She murmured, and Rita cleared her throat.
"Connie?"
Connie looked back down at her, having to force herself to look away from Robyn who stood on the opposite side of the ward, desperately trying to stop herself from staring.
"Mmm?"
She frowned, and Rita looked pointedly to Cal who shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other.
"Oh yes, right. Fine."
She waved a hand non-committally before letting it slap back down against her thigh.
"I'll meet you at the end of your shift. I'll drive you home?"
"Home?"
Rita repeated, smiling as she did so, noting the flicker of confusion that passed behind Connie's eyes before she realised her mistake.
"Mmm. Yes, well. We might have to do something about that."
Connie murmured, and paused, catching the glimmer of amusement that quirked Rita's lips into a smile.
"I'll see you later."
Connie said finally, and Rita's smile broadened, adoring the other woman's discomfort.
"See you later."
She said quietly, and with a glance back to Connie, she made her way over to Cal, raising an arm behind him to coax him into step with her.
"Stop looking at me like that."
She murmured as they turned a corner towards cubicles. Cal made an odd noise of defence in the back of his throat, a sort of half-laugh that made her look up.
"What?!"
She exclaimed, stopping, turning to him as he placed his hands on his hips and puffed out his cheeks.
"It's just all a bit unlikely, that's all. You and her..."
"What about it?"
She asked defensively, arcing an eyebrow.
"Well. I'm just saying...it's like..."
He paused, struggling to find the right words.
"It's like, she's a stately home in the country and you're a a motel off the M4..."
"Oh, thank you very much!"
She exclaimed, her eyes widening, though she failed to suppress a laugh of surprise.
"No, I just mean..."
"Can I stop you there? Trust me, there is no way you're getting out of that one."
She laughed, and again they fell into step, moving across the ward.
"Let me buy you a drink tonight?"
He asked, as they stopped at the nurses station to retrieve the relevant notes.
Rita raised her eyebrows, watching as he thumbed through the various files and folders until he came to the correct one.
"To apologise? Or so you can get me drunk in the hopes that I'm going to tell you all about sex with Connie?"
She asked, her bluntness taking him off guard and he fumbled with the notes so that the pages began to slip from within and he had to place them on the desk top to rearrange them.
"Am I that transparent?"
"Yep."
She grinned as he slotted the pages back into their places.
"So, about that drink..."
"Cal."
"Mmm?"
He cocked his head to one side and pursed his lips.
"I'm not telling you anything."
She bit her lip against a smile and watched as he exhaled, defeated.
"But how do you...you know..."
He gestured with the notes he held and Rita widened her eyes in mock innocence.
"Nope. I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."
She smiled, thoroughly enjoying his ever growing frustration.
"You know.."
He lowered his voice and gestured with the notes more forcefully, as if the motion of them would somehow jog her memory.
"Cal, are you honestly telling me that you have never watched lesbian porn?"
She asked, lowering her own voice to meet his own. She watched as he narrowed his eyes, contemplating what his answer should be.
"Uh..."
"From your hesitation I will assume that you have, and from that I can assume that you have a fairly good idea of how we fuck each other."
She let her voice fall to a whisper as she spoke and Cal's blue eyes widened, and again he cleared his throat and raised his free hand to the back of his head, rubbing the short hairs there.
"Oh God, I am never going to sleep tonight."
He exhaled, and turned on his heel to make his way over to cubicle six, leaving Rita to follow him, her face crumpling into a look of amused disgust.
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As promised, here is the second update! Hope it lives up to expectations. , I have just seen your review, thank you! I hope you enjoyed the Cal/Rita scene? LittleBooLost: Thank you! What a lovely review :) Wowstars: Oh! Your reviews make me smile so much! Thank you, thank you x
Oh, and just in case you haven't seen it, I wrote a Connie related one shot and published it on here. It's called, 'Echoes', just in case you would like to have a read. xx