Based on Pixelberrys popular book series 'Open Heart', this AU follows the often complicated relationship of now 27 year old Doctor Valerie Valentine and her 38 year old boss and famous diagnostician Doctor Ethan Ramey. Through scandals, medical dra...
AUTHORS NOTE: E and V are separated once again, but this time the stakes are much higher with Ethans career on the line. Valerie does everything to keep herself occupied, and avoiding tobias ends up futile when he wants to speak to her one to one...A mystery illness draws the diagnostics team attention, James is trying his best to keep his eye on V...and when Ethan tells V whats really going on....things really do seem back to 'Square One' . A little bit of angst drama and romance, this is chapter 26 and I hope you enjoy! :)
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Valentine
3 days.
3 days, and there hasn't been a single hour of the last 3 days where i haven't been confused.
where my mind hasn't been spiraling once again.
And the only thing that i can do, is push myself to my limit. maybe even further...but i've found myself, that in everything that i do, that i've been making sure i do it until i cant do it anymore. from working lates, to coming into work early just to work out-
anything. anything to stop the spiraling, even if for a moment.
and as for Ethan...
My god I don't even know whats happening.
He needed time. he needs, time. and i don't even know what its for. i don't know what hes done, and neither does the rest of the team. so a part from a few texts here and there, the odd phone call...our contact has been severely limited. which is why i think im really starting to crash here...
My brow creased, and i upped the level on the treadmill at the empty edenbrook gym, pushing myself to go faster, the pain in my knee only spurring me on as i continued to push, and push. letting every frustration build up and flow out like an ocean wave...because letting it erode me until there is nothing left, is something i refuse to do.
but eventually, even as i continued to go on and on, the pain in my knee started to grow too much...my limit finally peaked.
I gasped out as i turned to levels down, gripping the bars, and steadying myself as i looked down to the track, moving my pace slower, and slower, until at a walk. one of the things that i always regretted in my childhood, was the day that i screwed up my knee. i dont think ive ever fully forgiven myself for it.
out of breath still, i turned the mill off fully, and hoped off, sitting myself down at its very foot and picking up my water.
"come on Valerie..." i sighed as i put my head between my knees, keeping my breath at an even pace- or at least the most even i could keep it.
when i heard the main door open, i didn't lift up my head, but rather waited for whoever had entered to announce themselves. and its safe to say that i was less than impressed with who had decided to stop by.
