[Follows THIS]As soon as Bella received the page that Dave had been rushed to the ER, she just took off. She had been sitting with Rick, just as she promised, and when the page had come through the beeping of it had woken Rick but all she could do was apologise to him, promise he would be moved to his hospital room ASAP and then she bolted to the ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS]Bella couldn't believe how long this day felt and it wasn't even lunch time. She was at the nurses' station in the Oncology ward in her scrubs following two small surgeries early that morning for biopsies, but the way she had been feeling only succeeded in making the day feel like it was dragging. When she woke up, Aaron had been ( Read more... )

7.4. "The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Co-written with halfway2heavenIt was around nine at night when the buzzer at Chris’ apartment door sounded. He couldn’t deny that he was surprised to hear it. A large part of him didn’t think it would happen. ( Read more... )

It was standard practice for any post-op patients having important body parts removed be put in the ICU for a day or so to monitor their condition. Chris had demanded Rick have a private room, though, and even though the unit was busy at that point, Bella was able to see his demands were catered to. Private was a bit of a stretch of the description ( Read more... )