[Follows THIS]It was a few hours later before the dust actually settled and Bella made her way back to see Rick. What she had hoped to be a quiet day turned into anything but. She was tired, and although she actually planned on sticking around until Dave's family arrived, right now, she just needed to sit down and stop for the moment. She needed to ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS]Bella had been so tied up that by the time it hit lunch time, she had to call through to her second-in-charge to get the other doctor to at least start Rick's chemo. The longer they waited, the more anxious he would get. She had tried everything in her power to get away, but when the patient she had been operating on ended up having ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS]Bella kept her promise and drove Dave home to his apartment. She kept her promise and gave him sleeping pills in an effort to help him rest after the devastating news. She kept her promise of making sure he was okay by walking him up to his door when he could hardly remain on his feet. She kept her promise of staying with him until he ( Read more... )

[Backdated a couple of days to before THIS, THIS, and THIS]

Bella was back from her few days off in the wake of her lino face-dive in front of her students. She couldn't profess to actually be feeling better, but she wasn't feeling as exhausted or stressed as she had been. In the meantime, she had finally bitten the bullet to go to a highly- ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS]It took all of Bella's effort to save face and appear in the doorway of Rick's hospital room, her cheeks tinged red from embarrassment. Fuck, of all the times to choose to faint, it had to be on a student round in front of Rick. Of course, as soon as her colleagues were alerted to the fact something was wrong, she soon found herself ( Read more... )

It was now forty eight hours after the surgery, and Bella was more than aware Mrs Carla Deleo was in the house. So far, she had managed to be extremely busy whenever the woman was anywhere near her presence. Thankfully enough, or she may well have lost control of her emotions. They were precarious as it was now, and the only way she was coping was ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS and THIS]Bella clipped her pager to the waistband of her scrubs and gently tucked her hand in under Rick's. He had been trying to wake for a few minutes now and had gradually come-to, though he looked a lot like how Bella seemed to be feeling now... hungover, and like he wanted the rest of the world to disappear. The anaesthetic he ( Read more... )

[Simultaneous to THIS]Chris had left the office so quickly that even by the time Bella pulled herself out of the metaphorical blow that came with his warning and went to follow him to try and tell him Rick's condition was worsening, he was gone. And really, he probably didn't want to even look at her anymore, anyway, so he might not have even ( Read more... )

Bella was sitting at her desk in her office with her hand clamped over her mouth as she desperately tried not to be sick. Again. She had already spent the last fifteen minutes doing just that, and this was the first chance she had made it back to her office. The first thing she was met with as she walked into the clinic was her receptionist handing ( 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... )