Okay, so the last fic I was working on didn't pan out, I'm afraid and I haven't been in the mood to write smut, but I have been in the mood to write something family like so here it is; Nurse Me! I hope you all enjoy, it's been too damn long since I've updated anything!
Warning: Right off the bat, this story is going to be dealing with serious things, like illnesses and death, it's going to be light hearted for most of the time, but there will be periods of tearjerkers and sadness. This is a Babe, but a slow building one, mkay!
Disclaimer The characters in this story do not belong to me, save for the original characters. J.E owns them, not making any money from this, it's for fun! Okay? Kool!
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Nurse Me!
Chapter 1
"I can't just sit around here, Joe, I need to do something else, other than being just a housewife, this wasn't what I signed up for, when I agreed to marry you."
Stephanie Morelli, Nee Plum rubbed her face and looked at her reflection in the master bedroom ensuite. She narrowed her blue eyes and said, "No….no, we'll just dissolve into an Italian argument, if I say that, which I don't want."
Stephanie pouted and then began to brush her wet curly brown hair to pull it back in a ponytail. Her eyes drifted to the photo that was tucked into the edge of the mirror frame. It was a picture of her and her husband of five years, Joe Morelli. Stephanie smiled softly, but then frowned. She loved him so much, but, sometimes, Joe suffocated her.
They had dated on and off all through high school, but then Joe went off to do other things, while Stephanie went to college and then off to nursing school to be a registered nurse. That's how she met Joe again, she had been working at one of those emergency room type clinics when he came in with a bad knife wound. She found out that he had gone off to California, L.A. and became a detective there. He transferred back to Trenton, when he got an offer to become the new lieutenant of Trenton P.D. After that night in the clinic, Joe asked her on a date, and then 7 months later they were married. Five wonderful years but….Stephanie was lacking, Stephanie wanted to help people, she wanted to go back to doing what she did best; being a nurse. Joe told her, four years back, to stop working, after a person, high on drugs, held the clinic up, looking for drugs. She did, but, she wanted to go back to work, she wanted to be a nurse again, which is why she went and took her nursing test again, got her RN certifications reinstated. She could officially go to any medical place and be a nurse again.
"Which is why I need…to bite this damn bullet and tell Joe that I'm going back to work," Stephanie said to herself, looking in the mirror, "I'm Stephanie Plum, RN."
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"It's just a little headache, Papi," a child's voice said, in soft tone, "I'll be alright, once I get some sleep."
"A little headache, Bella," A man said, his voice tight, "The school nurse didn't call me to pick you up for a small headache, you had a fever of 103 andyou told the nurse that your head hurt so badly, it felt as though someone was hitting your head with something hard."
"I know, Papi, but, I should be fine soon," The child said, leaning back in the seat, "These headaches come and go, I must not be getting enough sleep."
"You're 15 and sleep a solid good 10 hours every night," The man pointed out, making the child roll their eyes, "Is it about a boy? Classes, what's going on, Bella?"
"It's nothing, Papi," The child said, leaning back in the car seat and closing her eyes, "It's not about a boy, I don't even talk to the opposite sex, I scare them and you reinforce that. It's not school or anything like that, they're just headaches, that's it."
"Well, you've been getting these headaches a lot," The man said, turning to look at his child, "I've set up a doctor's appointment for you tomorrow, so we can get these headaches nipped in the bud."
"All I need is some advil and some sleep," The child said, leaning forward to look at her father, "Don't worry Papi, I'll let you know when a boy is on my mind."
The man smiled at his child but frowned, seeing blood drip from her nose, "Bella, you have a nose bleed, have you been fighting?"
"No," the girl said, grabbing a tissue from inside her backpack and dabbing at her nose, "It might be the air here, all dry and junk, not like Miami, where water seems to form puddles on your skin."
"I'll get a humidifier for you," The man said, pulling the car into a driveway that led up to a large ranch style home, "For now, we'll start you off with some Advil and some rest."
"I don't see why we had to move from where we were living and move all the up to New Jersey, I was fine in Miami," The child said, climbing out the car, once it was parked in the garage, "We were fine there, Pap."
"You know why we left," The man said, opening the door to the house, "I opened up a brand new branch of Rangeman and I need to be here to head it."
"Papi," The girl said, stopping and turning to her father, "It's alright, you know, if you wanted to get away from all the bad memories, sometimes, I want to get away from them too, you know, the ones of Momma, you can tell me that, remember, we don't keep secrets from each other."
The man smiled at his child and said, wrapping an arm around her, "I remember, but, the move wasn't about your mother, it was about us, and your future, which is tied into my business thriving, now, come on, Bella, let's go get you up to bed. Ella made some ice cream and brought some over, would you like a bowl?"
"I would love that, Papi," The girl said with a smile, leaning against her father.
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She had gotten a job interview for the position of second head nurse at Trenton's Children's Hospital, in the serious illness ward. Stephanie had been over the moon, the moment she had gotten the call. She had yet to tell Joe about her going back to working in the medical field, but she would tell him…sooner or later. When the time was right, for now, she had to get through some interviews.
Two weeks later, Stephanie was sitting across from Joe, serving him his favorite dish and sitting on the news that in a few weeks, she would be back in the work force, at the children's hospital. Which was why, she would break the news tonight, over his favorite meal, that way the argument during it wouldn't be so bad.
"This is good, Cupcake," Joe said, as he ate his way through a plate of baked ziti, "You outdid yourself, this is what I needed after a day of dealing with crime."
"Thank you Joe," Stephanie said, finishing her meal and pushing her plate away, "Joe, I have something to tell you."
Joe looked up from his glass of wine, his brown eyes on his wife's form. Stephanie gave him a nervous smile and said, "Well, I wanted to tell that I'm going back to working as a nurse."
Joe placed his wine glass down saying, "You are? But you don't need to, all you have to do is be my wife and take care of the house."
"That wasn't what I signed up for, Joe, when we got married," Stephanie said, playing with her napkin, "I understand you were concerned for my safety, when the clinic I worked at got robbed, but that was four years ago, besides, I'll be working at the children's hospital, not in some clinic."
"Cupcake, I don't like the idea of you working, I make enough money for the both of us-" Joe started but was cut off by his wife.
"It's not about money! It's about me wanting to be a nurse again, I want to help people, and being a nurse lets me help out several people," Stephanie said giving Joe a look, "Please, Joe, don't argue with me on this one, I love being a nurse and this is what I'm going to do for a long time, in fact, I'll be working again in two weeks."
Joe let out a sigh, and then smiled, saying, "I can't talk you out of this one, can I."
"No you can't, besides, that means you can see me in those cute cartoon themed scrubs," Stephanie said, smiling at Joe and getting up from the dining room table to grab dessert, "Plus, you get to call me Nurse Stephanie…."
Joe smiled and said, "I like the sounds of that," getting up and going over to Stephanie, "Nurse Stephanie….let's go check on my temperature."
TBC…..
*Ducks and hides* Don't kill me! It's a Babe! A slow Babe, okay! Trust me! Please, tell me what you think about Nurse Me! I've always wanted to write about Stephanie being a Nurse.
Later gators!