I'll Be Back

The Sun Also Rises

Five Years Later...

Jennie is exhausted. Being named official head nurse, was something she thought would be a breeze. More of a figurehead position than anything. But she's finding quickly that is not the case. She's glad for Lia being in kindergarten already for the day, knowing with this position she can't play 'bring your daughter to work day' anymore. Nurses keep flanking her and when one of them makes a mistake, she's getting yelled at by the chief. After a nurse had accidentally given the wrong dosage to a patient who ended up seizing, Jennie is leaving the chiefs office after getting a serious chewing out. She wonders why the hell the nurse didn't get a chewing out and realized it's Jennie's duty now to go yell at him. She sighs and runs her fingers through her hair. She decides to hit up the cafeteria for some coffee first before she yells at the young man.

She enters the cafeteria and it's mostly quiet. She then sees her best friend slumped in the corner, reading over a file. Jennie grabs a shitty coffee and makes her way over to him.

"You look concentrated." Jennie states to Wells as she takes a seat across from him.

He looks up and smiles and nods. Wells had moved back to Polis two years before. When him and his wife had been trying to have kids, it wasn't working naturally. They went to a specialist and it turns out his wife had advanced stage ovarian cancer. She passed away only months later. Wells stayed in California for the next year then made his way up to Washington State to stay with his father. Two years ago he was then strolling into Polis Memorial as the new cardio surgeon. The two bonded over the loss of their spouses. Jennie was happy to have someone who understood where she was at and having her childhood friend back. She hasn't really had someone who knows that feeling of losing the love of their life. Gustus is pretty much the only one, but having someone her age know the feeling, felt good.

"Yeah, this case is going to be a hard one. Trying to study it as much as possible." Wells tells her as his eyes return back to the file. Jennie hums and sips the terrible caffeine liquid. He then lifts his eyes up and gives her a smirk. "I heard you got your ass chewed out by the chief. C'mon Kim, you've been head nurse for two weeks and you're already getting shit?" Jennie rolls her eyes.

"Not my fault they hired a shit staff that I now have to reprimand. Speaking of which, I probably need to down this coffee and go Rambo on the kids ass." Jennie tells him with a wink. He laughs heartily and nods.

"If you get him in the heart, send him my way." Wells tells her.

Jennie nods and starts downing her coffee. Then Wells studies her and begins to look at her nervously. Jennie quirks her eyebrow at him and swallows down the coffee.

"What?" Jennie asks him. He clears his throat and sits up straight in his chair.

"You want to go to dinner at some point in the next two weeks?" He asks her. Jennie shrugs.

"Sure why not?" Jennie says. He looks at her surprised and then smiles.

"Okay great. How about the new restaurant downtown, say two weeks from today?" Wells asks, hopefully. Jennie looks through her phone to make sure Aden doesn't have football or Lia doesn't have something. There's nothing there and she nods.

"Works for me." She tells him. He beams and gathers his files up and stands.

"Great! It's a date."

He then departs as Jennie begins frowning. Wait what? Did he just ask her out on a date? Jennie turns around to see if he's still in the cafeteria but he's gone. Jennie frowns even more. They've gone out together plenty of times, granted it was always lunch, but why would he ask her out? She's made it pretty clear she's not interested in dating anyone. After going out with Jisoo and Rose to celebrate their homecoming from their honeymoon two years ago, she drunkenly kissed their bartender and then proceeded to burst into tears. It was just a nice peck and it made her internally want to throw up. She swore off any romantic partners since then. It was something she has discussed at length with Wells before. Unless it's not actually a date and he just said that as a saying. Now Jennie is super confused at what she just agreed to. Her mouth hangs open with a frown on her face.