I Wanna Be Yours

"Chapter 2"

"Are you lost?"

Katie's voice makes Derek use all his powers of self-control not to smack her in the back of her head.

She's a child and she's injured, keep your hands on the gurney

She so deserves a smack.

"I'm not lost."

"You are! You might look like that, but no one is giving you a second glance," Katie snickers, and he is really, really close to killing her. Or he can let her die, yeah, that can work. "You're so lost."

Derek growls, turning the gurney into a hallway that looks strangely familiar.

"Do you think I will be able to watch Kelly Alcott fall on her ass on cable TV or we have to ride around this hospital for the next three hours before you put me into a machine?" Katie whines. "Is this your first day or something?"

Derek decides that it's better to ignore her than to poke the beast more.

"Hey, are you deaf?"

"Ms. Bryce," he sighs, trying to sound calm and collected.

"Wow, you sound like my teacher now."

Okay, that's enough. Interesting case or not, she's just a pain in the ass. He groans, hopefully loudly enough that she gets the message.

"For the CT and MRI it's the first aisle on the right, straight through." A tall, slender man with nurses' scrubs directs him, his dark eyes shimmering with amusement. "Nurse Tyler at your service."

Derek smiles gratefully, feeling himself blush. That man is his new hero. He needs to buy him coffee as a thank you or something similar.

"See, totally lost," Katie giggles, winning a glare from Derek. "I can't believe that I fell and now this. I need to be at that pageant; I can't let Kelly Alcott win."

"What's your talent?" he asks, wishing with all his might that if she talks about the stupid pageant she'll become slightly more pleasant. Maybe he just opened a can of worms, though.

"Rhythmic gymnastics."

"I see." He tries to be supportive, he really does, but her rants are wearing his nerves thin, and he has a long couple of days ahead of him.

"It's a pretty smart move. Nobody else does it..."

Katie's voice becomes just a hum as she goes on and on about her talents and her enemies' talents and the place and...his mind is numb.

He's grateful when they leave her in the CT machine and she has to shut up.

Quiet bliss. Just the hum of the scan working, and the light whistle of the technician. He should be polite and ask the guy's name, but Katie's chatting has drained him of all his social skills.

"That kid must be something." The tech smirks almost knowingly, and Derek chuckles at his amusement.

"You have no idea."

"First day?"

"I look lost, right?" Derek sighs and the guy laughs, their eyes watching as the image shows up on the screen.

"All looks clear," the tech announces.

"Strange." Derek frowns, this girl turning out to be more and more puzzling by the minute. "She's the picture of health, and she's having seizures. Something is not right."

"Well, it's up to you doctors to figure it out now," the tech shrugs, handing him the test results.

Derek sighs. Maybe he should have continued his job an assistant cook at the Italian restaurant where he worked for the past four years to put food on the table. Being a surgeon is the stupidest idea he could ever had.