Chapter 12
Phoebe's POV
We got home yesterday. Nathan is already at work and I am on my way out. I have my presentation to do. I have practiced it over and over. I could give it blindfolded.
I have my hair straightened and make up very clean. I am wearing a grey blazer and matching grey pants. I think this is called a women's power suit. I need the power suit feel today.
I have one cup of coffee and grab my laptop heading out. I drive to work and head into my office. I get a lot of hello Phoebe's and how was the honeymoon questions. It is so good to be back.
I smile as I see the label outside my office door has been changed to Phoebe Moore. Everything is so great. What I haven't told Nathan is that I have an appointment after work to get off my birth control. I am really good friends with the pediatric gynecologist here at Children's so she is going to take it out for me.
I head down to the conference room where my presentation is being held. I walk in and see the hospital tech manager. He is setting up the projector. I hand him my flash drive with the PowerPoint on it.
I watch as people start to file in. I get nervous, but take a deep breath. I'm an expert on this. I tell myself what my dad told me last night. I was having the worst anxiety, so I called my dad. He talked me off the ledge of anxiety. He is so good at that.
The general surgery/trauma medical team comes in and I smile at Nathan. He winks at me and sits at their assigned table. I see more and more people flood in. I have to remind myself that I am good at this.
The lights dim and I tap my mic making sure it is working. All eyes are on me and my PowerPoint is lit up. Oh boy.
"Hello Everyone. Thank you for taking time out of your busy work schedules to come listen to me talk," I say.
"For those of you who do not know me my name is Phoebe Moore," this is my first time introducing myself with that name. "I am the trauma/ general surgery child psychologist," I say.
I go into my speech talking about signs of mental health issues. I also talk about ways that being in the hospital can affect mental health and how we can spot those signs. I talk about what staff can do to be cautious of this especially in our teen patients.
I give scenarios and even play a short video. Everyone looks pretty intrigued and I see people taking notes which really flatters me. I finish off my presentation.
"Thank you everyone for listening and I will be up here if anyone has any questions," I say and close out. The rooms starts filing out but to my surprise people come up to me. First is an older woman.
"Hi I am Linda Last, I am the charge nurse of the ninth floor and I have a patient who I think could really benefit from your services. Is there a rehab psychologist," she asks me.
"Yes and I will give you her contact," I say and write it all down for her. "Tell her Phoebe sent you," I say and she smiles thanking me.
"Hi Phoebe, I am Michael Saw. I was wondering if you could come present to my team of endocrinologists," he says.
"I would love to," I say.
"I actually am from Bellevue children's hospital," he says and I nod.
"How did you end up here?" I smile.
"Well actually, I heard about you through our psychology department who is fascinated with your work," he says and I smile.
"Oh well thank you so much that means a lot," I say and he smiles. We shake hands after he hands me his card and he leaves.
I talk to a few more people. I clean up my stuff and head back into my office. There is a bouquet of beautiful white roses. Oh my heart. There is a note that says.
You did amazing. So proud to call you mine. X Nathan
I smile and put them in water. I have a patient visit shortly after this that I think Nathan will be at. It is a little girl who is 5 years old. She is in for a trauma. Her family was in an ATV accident in San Diego and got life flighted here. She broke a leg and a rib and fractured her hip.
I walk down the stairs and head into her room. "Hi Elouise," I say to her. She is so sweet. "Can I come in," I ask. She nods her head and keeps staring at the tv screen.
"What are you watching?" I ask her.
"Frozen," she says and I nod. I flip through her chart quickly as she watches.
"Elouise how have you felt recently?" I ask her.
"My hip hurts," she says and I nod.
"I didn't like when you weren't here," she says and I frown.
"I know, I'm sorry I had to leave, but I am back now," I say and she nods smiling.
"Is Dr. Moore coming in?" She asks me.
"Yes he is," I say and she nods.
"How do you feel about that?" I ask her.
"Scary," she says and I smile.
"Remember how nice Dr. Moore is. When he came in and talked to you about your arm," I ask. She nods and looks at her cast.
"When can I see mommy," she asks. Her parents are both at Seattle Mercy hospital. Both are in critical condition luckily for Eloise her grandparents are so attentive and have been here every step of the way.
"Remember how we talked about how mommy and daddy are getting better at a different hospital for adults?" I ask her and she nods.
"Well they are still getting better, but I will tell you what, how about we draw them a picture and we can mail it to them?" I ask her. She nods and smiles. I get out my art kit for the kiddos.
"Okay, what should we draw?" I ask her.
"A picture of me," she says and I smile.
"Good idea, here are some markers," I tell her and hand it over to let her have creative reign.
"How do you feel when grandma and papa are here?" I ask her.
"Happy because I love them. They are so nice and grandma sneaks me cookies," she says and I smile. I write that down to report back to social work.
After a few minutes of drawing Nathan comes in. Elouise doesn't really look up or notice. I smile as he comes in and squeezes my shoulder. He washes his hands and sits down next to me.
"That's a really pretty picture Elouise," he says and she thanks him quietly.
"Would you mind if we took a break from that and talked?" Nathan asked gently. She nods and puts her pencil down I move the tray table to the side so Nathan can exam her.
"So Elouise I have been gone for two weeks," he says. She nods and stares at him.
"Dr. Tolbert, said you were a great patient and were so good," he says and she smiles.
"Yeah I was because remember you said I'd get an Elsa sticker," Nathan has special sparkly Elsa sticker that smell like blueberries. Courtesy of me. He is now a child magnet.
"I did?" He says and feigns confusion.
"Yes yes yes silly," Elouise laughs.
"Okay well how about we check you out and then we can pick your sticker," he suggests and she nods. I stand on her opposite side. She likes when I stand above her head so she can see me.
Nathan lifts up her gown and rotates her hip. She doesn't seem to be as sore and has more mobility. When he hits a certain point she pulls away. He writes that down and continues working on it.
He then goes to her arm and checks it pretty fast. After that he checks her breathing because of her broken rib. He checks her back too.
"Okay Elouise you did great," he says.
"Do I get a sticker?" She asks smiling.
"Oooo I don't know. What do you think Phoebe?" He asks me joking with Elouise.
"Of course I do," I smile. He pulls them out and Elouise gets to pick hers. Nathan leaves and I tell Elouise to have her nurse call me if she needs anything.
I head up to my office to fill out some charts. At around 5 I head out. I have my appointment to get my IUD taken out. I walk down to Celia's office. Celia is the pediatric gynecologist here at Children's. She is amazing at her job.
"Hi Phoebe," she says and gives me a hug.
"Hi Celia, how was your day?" I ask her.
"Oh it was good, I had a heavy caseload," she says and I nod.
"You got through it," I smile reminding her.
"I did, okay so remind me you have the Mirana IUD?" She asks and I nod.
"Yes I had it put in two years ago in March," I say and she nods writing that down.
"Good good, okay so I am going to have you get undressed from the waist down and put that sheet over your lap. I'll be back in a few," she says and I thank her. I take off my pants and underwear and sit on the table. I have the sheet over my lap. I hate the gynecologist office.
"Can I come in?" She knocks and I say yes.
"Okay so I have your file you brought. Everything looks good. Can you lay back for me and put your feet in the stirrups?" I do as she says.
"Okay you may feel a little pinch," she says and I do. Ouch. It hurt getting this thing in.
"You don't want another IUD put in correct?" She asks and I tell her no.
"Is there a reason you are getting this out?" She says.
"We are going to start trying for a baby," I tell her. She smiles at me.
"Okay all done," she says. I thank her and begin to redress myself.
"Congratulations, you can now have a little baby Moore," she says and I smile. I hug her goodbye and head out.
On the way home I have sawyer stop so I can pick up food from our favorite deli. Even though he said no I pick up Sawyer a meatball sub. I get home and give Sawyer his sandwich before he goes back to his security room.
"You spoil me," he says.
"I learned from the best," I smirk and he thanks me heading back.
I put Nathan and my subs on plates and set them on the table. After I grab a shower and put on some comfy clothes. I head back out and grab myself a glass of wine.
"Hey Bee," Nathan says as he walks in.
"Hi baby," I smile and come over to kiss him. He is in his scrubs with a hospital jacket over.
"It smells amazing," Nathan says.
"I picked up Zo's," I say and he smiles thanking me.
We sit down together. I am kind of nervous to tell him about taking my IUD out. I hope he is happy. I can't think why he wouldn't be. He brought up the topic of kids.
"How was the rest of your day?" He asks eating his sandwich.
"It was good, I had some meetings and some patient visits," I nod and Nathan smiles looking at me.
"What?" I ask.
"You did something," he says. Shit did Celia tell him?
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"Phoebe, we've been together for almost 10 years now. I know the way your acting something happened," he says. Wow he's good.
"Okay, yeah something did," I say and laugh. He rubs my hand.
"Now this is reversible, and I don't want you to be mad. I thought this would be something that you want-" I start saying before he cuts me off.
"Bee, just tell me," he says.
"I got my IUD taken out," I spit out. He pauses for a second looking at me.
"I can get it put back in," I say thinking he is mad.
"So we can officially start trying," he asks smiling. I nod smiling so big.
He takes my hand and drags me to our bedroom. I am giggling following behind him. Right when we walk in he shuts the door and puts me on the bed. He takes off my pants quickly and then his.
He teases my slit before fully pounding into me. I moan and grip his back. 30 seconds ago we were eating subs. It feels so good though. I wrap my legs around his waist.
His hand slips down and starts teasing me before coming up to grip my breasts. I rub my fingers in his hair. I'm in pure heaven.
All of a sudden I begin to finish. Nathan does too right inside of me without a condom. He usually does this but we have the IUD to protect us. Why am I so excited right now. It's not like I'm going to be pregnant tomorrow.
I try to get up and Nathan keeps me down. "Let it sit," he says.
"It as in your sperm?" I say and he laughs.
"How are you a pediatric surgeon yet still so immature," I say throwing a pillow at him laughing.
"Hey I don't make the rules," he says.
"Whatever. Can we go finish dinner now?" I ask. He smiles nodding. We both clean ourselves back up then head back out to eat.
"Thank you for picking this up," he says and I smile.
"Of course baby," I smile.
"How early do you go to work tomorrow?" I ask him.
"7 am surgery, I'll be up at 5," he says and I nod.
"I have my first appointment at 8," I say and he smiles.
"Anyone I would know?" He asks.
"No a new patient. I think her doctor is Harold," I say and he laughs. He knows I hate Harold Jean with a passion.
"Oh baby I'm sorry," he says. I shrug and sip my wine.
"Yeah, I'm going to need more of this to deal with him," I say talking about my wine. He is so rude to the patients and me. He doesn't believe that what I do is important and shrugs me off. I love a lot of Nathan's fellow surgeons, but this guy I can't do.
"Yeah me too," he says and I smirk.
"How has Maisy been?" He asks.
"Good, she is into her third trimester. I think she is ready to get this baby out," I say and he laughs.
"She'll be a good mom," he says and I nod smiling.
"She will be," I say and I stand starting to clean up our mess. After Nathan and I head to bed. I clean myself off and brush my teeth. After I get into my pajamas and climb into bed.
"I'm tired," I say and Nathan nods climbing into bed with me in his boxers. He begins to cuddle me and I start to drift off in his arms. We both fall asleep easily.
We stay asleep until about 2 am. I get a phone call startling both of us. "Who the fuck is calling," I say groggily. I sit up seeing Olivia's name. I grab the phone quickly and answer. It could be Teddy.
"Olivia is everything okay?" I say and Nathan is rubbing my back watching me.
"Phoebe," she says sounding like she is crying.
"Olivia, is Teddy okay what's wrong?" I ask her.
"Phoebe, you can't tell your parents," she says.
"Olivia, what the hell is going on? Where is teddy," I ask her.
"I'm pregnant," is all she says before my world stops.