Endless Dreams, Still Holding On - Mark Sloan

"Such A Bore" - Chapter Three

                Season 2, Episode 20 - Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole

Carolina's POV:

When I woke up the next morning my phone was dead and I smiled as I recalled the events of last night. Mark was right, life without him in it is boring, and Denny was right too, I am happier being back on speaking terms with Mark because I missed talking to him. I decided to go and visit Denny this morning, see how last night went with Izzie, once I got to his door I walked in and plopped down on the edge of his bed,

"Hey dummy, you awake?" I ask him, leaning down to be talking in his ear, admittedly too loud but oh well,

"Jesus Care, you scared the crap out of me." He scolds me making me laugh,

"So, I have 3 weeks to plan your 37th birthday, and I need to have two options because we don't know when you're getting out of here. So, what do you wanna do and what do you want?" I smile at him as he sits up against the wall, pulling me to sit next to him,

"I don't want you to get me anything okay? All I want is to spend time with you, have a proper movie night, all night with popcorn and chocolate and pizza." He looks at me with a sad smile on his face,

"No. Don't look at me like that. You cant look at me like that because the way you're looking at me is as if you're saying that because you think that it will be the last time and it wont be. You are going to be fine Denny okay? You have to be fine." I tell him looking at him seriously,

"I know, I just want to spend time with you just in case. Plus I've missed you so I want to spend time with you." He smiled at me happily,

"Okay, good, it'll be fun." I smile back and hug him, kissing his cheek,

"Don't you have patients to go see?" He laughed at me,

"Nope, not yet anyway. Soon but I wanna stay with you a little longer." After I say this Izzie, Burke and Alex walk in and stand around his bed,

"Dr Robbins? I didn't know you were on this case." Burke says and I shake my head getting off his bed,

"Oh I'm not, Denny here is like my brother, I've known him for years." I smiled at him, "I was just about to leave, I have a patient to see." He nods his head as I make my way to the door, he motions for Izzie to present,

"Denny Duquette. Age 36." She starts but Denny interrupts,

"37 in 3 weeks." He smiles,

"Old man." I shout walking out,

"Oh whatever you big baby!" He shouts back making me laugh as I walk to the pit, where I was paged to. I walk up to the doctor that paged me,

"You paged?" I ask him

"Yeah just got a new patient. Looks surgical. Maybe neuro."

"Okay, so where is Dr Shepherd? If it's neuro shouldn't he have been paged?" I ask him as she pulls back the sheet, I look down and notice the ice-pack on the mans groin, my eyes widen slightly, "Doesn't look neuro to me." I tell him turning around,

"Not him." He tells me sighing and my eyebrows furrow as I look at the couple confused,

"Oh no I'm fine. It's my wife, Sylvia" He tells me so I look at her,

"This is so embarrassing but we didn't know what else to do." She tells me and turns her head slightly to reveal a fork largely embedded in her neck,

"Oh. Okay, page Sr Shepherd again please."

"I've paged him multiple times Dr Robbins, he's not answering his pages." He tells me and walks away, I sigh and look at the patient, "Okay I'm just going to take a look if that's okay?"