er - carter/megan - visible - rated PG
title: visible
fandom: ER
pairing: carter/megan (ofc)
letter: x for x-ray - table # 4, for a_to_z_prompts
summary: While at work, Megan talks with Susan about her relationship with John.
rating: PG.
word count: 590
warnings/spoilers: none really ;)
a/n: Dr. Megan Riley is an original character of mine who I'm pairing with Carter for my fic's in this challenge. You'll get to know more about her as you read :) ER timeline wise for this one, season 9.
disclaimer: I do not own the characters of ER. This is purely written for entertainment only.
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Halfway through her double shift, Megan found herself staring at the chest x-ray of her 36-year-old patient, Wendi, for the sixth time. She’d sent the woman to have a second scan when the first came back too foggy; but the second was just as hard to read as the first.
Dr. Susan Lewis, who was running the ER that night, came up behind her and inspected the x-ray as well. “Problem?” She asked.
Megan clucked her tongue. “Woman in her 30’s presented three hours ago with shortness of breath and a pain in the left side of her chest.” She informed her friend. “She stopped smoking ten years ago when she was pregnant with her first child, suspected PE but came back negative. This is the second chest film I’ve seen...”
“Pneumonia?” Susan suspected.
Megan nodded. “That’s what I thought, too, but it’s pretty advanced...”
“It’s winter,” Susan explained. “Pneumonia spreads a lot faster through the lungs.”
Megan made some notes on her chart and then slid the x-ray back in her file. She didn’t expect Susan to walk with her, but she did. They were pretty good friends, but Susan wasn’t one for heart to heart conversations.
“I noticed you switched shifts with Chen,” She said casually. “And you changed your whole roster.”
“Yeah...” Megan said quietly. “I don’t want to work with John... right now.”
Susan nodded. “Yeah, he came back to work last week. Looked pretty worse for wear. Why do I think that has more to do with you than Africa?” She smirked.
“He shows up back home in the middle of the night like nothing happened.” Megan revealed. “Like he can just slip back into our old life.”
“Well, he’s a man. On a whole they’re idiots.” She smiled comfortingly and shoved her hands into her white jacket pockets. “How’s Jayden?”
“Confused.” Megan admitted. “John’s with him now.”
“Is he staying at home?”
“No.” Megan said firmly. “To be honest I don’t know where he’s staying.”
“Abby told me she caught him sleeping in the on-call room on his night off.” Susan said.
Megan made a noise under her breath and paused outside Wendi’s room door. “I’m doing the right thing, aren’t I?” She asked Susan.
Susan could only smile. “I can’t answer that.” She said. “But if it were me? I would’ve done the same thing.”
Megan appreciated her honesty, thanked her, and then both women went back to work. She prescribed Wendi some medication and then left her to rest. This hospital was where she’d met John; fallen in love with him, delivered their son... and now it was the place she came to get away from him. She’d thought it would be difficult with him returning to work; but she hadn’t even seen him here since he’d come back. Megan felt it cruel to keep from him Jayden during the hours she worked, so allowing him to baby-sit seemed fair enough; although it spurred more questions from her son since John never stayed.
Signing off her chart and adding the paperwork to Randy behind the front desk to file, Megan picked up another patient and continued working. It was the only thing that kept her mind off John. Ironic, he was a doctor, too, in this very ER. But if she stopped even for one moment she’d be overwhelmed with the need to call him, tell him to come home and that she missed him. But she wouldn’t. It wasn’t going to be that easy for him. Or apparently for her, either.
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fandom: ER
pairing: carter/megan (ofc)
letter: x for x-ray - table # 4, for a_to_z_prompts
summary: While at work, Megan talks with Susan about her relationship with John.
rating: PG.
word count: 590
warnings/spoilers: none really ;)
a/n: Dr. Megan Riley is an original character of mine who I'm pairing with Carter for my fic's in this challenge. You'll get to know more about her as you read :) ER timeline wise for this one, season 9.
disclaimer: I do not own the characters of ER. This is purely written for entertainment only.
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Halfway through her double shift, Megan found herself staring at the chest x-ray of her 36-year-old patient, Wendi, for the sixth time. She’d sent the woman to have a second scan when the first came back too foggy; but the second was just as hard to read as the first.
Dr. Susan Lewis, who was running the ER that night, came up behind her and inspected the x-ray as well. “Problem?” She asked.
Megan clucked her tongue. “Woman in her 30’s presented three hours ago with shortness of breath and a pain in the left side of her chest.” She informed her friend. “She stopped smoking ten years ago when she was pregnant with her first child, suspected PE but came back negative. This is the second chest film I’ve seen...”
“Pneumonia?” Susan suspected.
Megan nodded. “That’s what I thought, too, but it’s pretty advanced...”
“It’s winter,” Susan explained. “Pneumonia spreads a lot faster through the lungs.”
Megan made some notes on her chart and then slid the x-ray back in her file. She didn’t expect Susan to walk with her, but she did. They were pretty good friends, but Susan wasn’t one for heart to heart conversations.
“I noticed you switched shifts with Chen,” She said casually. “And you changed your whole roster.”
“Yeah...” Megan said quietly. “I don’t want to work with John... right now.”
Susan nodded. “Yeah, he came back to work last week. Looked pretty worse for wear. Why do I think that has more to do with you than Africa?” She smirked.
“He shows up back home in the middle of the night like nothing happened.” Megan revealed. “Like he can just slip back into our old life.”
“Well, he’s a man. On a whole they’re idiots.” She smiled comfortingly and shoved her hands into her white jacket pockets. “How’s Jayden?”
“Confused.” Megan admitted. “John’s with him now.”
“Is he staying at home?”
“No.” Megan said firmly. “To be honest I don’t know where he’s staying.”
“Abby told me she caught him sleeping in the on-call room on his night off.” Susan said.
Megan made a noise under her breath and paused outside Wendi’s room door. “I’m doing the right thing, aren’t I?” She asked Susan.
Susan could only smile. “I can’t answer that.” She said. “But if it were me? I would’ve done the same thing.”
Megan appreciated her honesty, thanked her, and then both women went back to work. She prescribed Wendi some medication and then left her to rest. This hospital was where she’d met John; fallen in love with him, delivered their son... and now it was the place she came to get away from him. She’d thought it would be difficult with him returning to work; but she hadn’t even seen him here since he’d come back. Megan felt it cruel to keep from him Jayden during the hours she worked, so allowing him to baby-sit seemed fair enough; although it spurred more questions from her son since John never stayed.
Signing off her chart and adding the paperwork to Randy behind the front desk to file, Megan picked up another patient and continued working. It was the only thing that kept her mind off John. Ironic, he was a doctor, too, in this very ER. But if she stopped even for one moment she’d be overwhelmed with the need to call him, tell him to come home and that she missed him. But she wouldn’t. It wasn’t going to be that easy for him. Or apparently for her, either.
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