Bella's expected quiet day turned out to be anything but. First, one of her surgeon colleagues got held up in a surgery with complications, so Bella found herself with four students to entertain for a couple of hours. She finally got to her paperwork, but ended up needing to stay back until nine pm to catch up on it all when her mind kept straying ( 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... )

The phone call Bella managed to finally get a hold of Rick with lasted all of ninety seconds. Just long enough for her to agree to drop around after work to see him when he asked before her pager went off with an alert that one of her post-op ICU patients had just gone into cardiac arrest. Just about the rest of her afternoon was tied up, and she ( Read more... )

8.6. "Contrary to popular belief, I know exactly what I'm doing."
Iron Man 2

Co-written with bigbrothermojo
[Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]With an armload of patient files piled in her arms, Bella headed back to her office in the Oncology Department at Miami City Hospital, hoping to get a bit of a lunch break before her clinic started at two pm. She had been in ( Read more... )

Sex on the beach?

Well, I know I'm freaking jealous.

A is for age: 29
B is for beer of choice: Pass on the beer
C is for something you crave: Right now, Nutella
D is for your dog's name: My dog when I was a kid was called Angel
E is for essential item you use everyday: Stethoscope
F is for favorite TV show at the moment: Castle
G is for favorite game: Cluedo
H is for home town: Long Island, NY
I is ( Read more... )

8.2. "Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us -- and those around us -- more effectively."
Eric Allenbaugh

Co-written with 1twntyovreightyIronically enough, it turned out that Bella ended up staying at Chris' apartment for the rest of the night. Chris went to lie down in his bedroom once he ( 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 geniuscowboyIt 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... )

Rick had had booty calls before. He'd arranged meets with various women over the years, and he honestly couldn't remember feeling so nervous or awkward about one before. It had been his idea. He'd talked her into it, he'd charmed Bella into agreeing. And now he was forgetting how it was supposed to work. They were at her place, and he wondered if ( Read more... )

Bella entered Rick's hospital room with three medical students in toe. She had on her lab coat over her skirt suit with her long, curly hair pulled back at the nape of her neck. She turned to the next file in her arms, and couldn't help but note with a tiny flicker of a smirk at the corners of her lips that Rick was sitting on the side of the bed ( Read more... )