37.5. Reluctant (from Week 30)Riley tried to stifle a loud, wide yawn as he dragged his bedroom blinds closed to shut out the bright morning light. It had been a hectic nightshift on the ICU and he had been looking forward to crawling into bed since he clocked off at 7.30am. He could hardly even remember having a shower and shave, having just gone ( Read more... )

29.3. How do you feel during the holiday season?Riley was wrapped up in a thick jacket with gloves and a scarf as he wrestled his way through the busy pre-Christmas rush of the New York streets. His aim was to at least try to get some Christmas shopping done while he was still in New York but so far he was still empty-handed. He was actually ( Read more... )

15.1. Time in a bottle

( Why couldn’t the time just speed up and the test results come? The three months had gone quick enough, so why did it feel like time had slowed down to nothingness now? He felt like there was a motionless clock ticking in his head but never turning over. How was he going to get through the next two weeks? )

15.2. What’s on your agenda?“You know, people usually only come up here to brood ( Read more... )

12.4. "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week." - WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959Nightmares weren’t exactly foreign to Riley, but they usually only plagued him when he was stressed or exhausted. He shouldn’t have been surprised they’d caught him on the Edinburgh trip when he was ( Read more... )

8.4. BatteryRiley wouldn’t have actually called the bar ‘seedy’ but it definitely wasn’t on par with The Blue Room karaoke bar in Princeton where Lachlan and Tara first met. He couldn’t even remember the name of the town they’d stopped at and this must’ve been the social hot spot of the whole area because it was packed to the brim with locals who ( Read more... )

8.2. Thoughts without wordsThey were about four hours into their impromptu road trip to Disneyland, meaning they were about two hours out of New York. Four hours was enough time to have already had three pee stops, four arguments over the radio station, one half of a Bohemian Rhapsody rendition before Riley broke into a sneezing fit and lost ( Read more... )

4.2 Justify your actions

[Co-Written with drcampbell]

PAST SCENE: Set just before Christmas, 2006…

“It just happened.” Riley averted his eyes and felt a flush spread across his cheeks as his best mate snorted sceptically and then sniggered as he lit up a cigarette. “It did,” he insisted, looking back up at Lachlan and then unable to help but laugh when ( Read more... )