Marjoreece Oneshots

Dislocation

Tw: dislocation, panic attack

(Marjorie's pov)

"Okay Carly, take a breath, it's okay," I say down the phone, feeling Autumn staring at me confused. I hold up a finger to her, making her wait. "Carly, rest up my love. We will see you when you're better. Get better soon sweet," I say, hanging up the phone.
I look to Autumn, finally allowing her to speak to me.

"Is she good?"
"She isn't well. Which leaves us one staff member short, so......" I look to her, hoping she understands what I'm getting at.
"No Marjorie. I'm not doing that, I'm too close to my maternity leave," she says, staring me down.
"Ugh fine! I guess I'll go, unless...."
"Marjorie go!"
"Okay, okay!" I throw my hands up, making my way out the office and down to the rooms.

"Hi Marjorie?" She says, looking incredibly confused at my presence.
"Hi Charlotte," I roll my eyes.
"Are you lost?"
"Very funny."
"I was being serious. You never come in here," she says.
"No I'm not lost! I'm in here with you today. Carly called out sick, and we have no one else," I explain.
"Are you sure Autumn can't come?"
"Charlotte, you forget I used to work in the rooms before I became manager."
"Yeah that was a long, long time ago," she laughs.
"Hilarious," I say, a deadpan look on my face.
"Okay. So those two are yours. You are expecting another one if they turn up," she explains, pointing over to two toddlers babbling to each other in the home corner.
"Okay thank you."

I head over to the toddlers, introducing myself to them. They seem to be okay with me, both giving me a hug before trying to drag me off in different ways.
"Okay, okay. We can go both ways. There's only one of me," I laugh, going one way first.

*

By lunch time, I was worn out, more than the toddlers at this point. The rooms definitely are not for me.
I'm chasing one of them around the garden, trying to get them inside. It's only us two out here, the others inside with Sorscha and Charlotte.
I make a sharp turn to cut off the toddler, but instead of getting him, I feel a pop in my knee, and I hit the ground. I bite my lip hard, trying not to scream too much in an attempt to not frighten the small child.
"Harry love, I need... I need you to go get Charlotte for me please," I say, breathing through the pain.
"Otay," he says, waddling inside. Really?! That is all it took to get him inside!? Your joking! I am never working in the rooms again!

"Marjorie? Harry said you need me? I can't come out, we are barely on ratio as it is!" She yells from the door.
"Okay! Uhm... Get Aut. Tell her to ring.... ooooh ring an ambulance, now!" I yell.
I hear the door close, and I bang my hand on the ground, in extricating pain. This one time, I'm happy I went with wearing my skirt instead of my trousers.
I look down to my knee, seeing it sweeping by the minute, and quite out of shape.
"Oh god."

I look up when I hear footsteps, seeing Autumn shuffling out.
"Marjorie. I'm not ringing an ambulance if you've fallen over. Get u-" Her sentence stops as soon as she looks down at my knee.
"Ring that fucking ambulance Autumn, before I kill you!" I scream at her.
"Okay, ringing it now. Just stay calm," she says, raising the phone to her ear.

*

About 30 minutes later, paramedics arrive, making their way through the empty nursery. Thankfully, all the parents were understanding and cooperative, and when we emailed about the situation, they all came to pick up their child quite quickly. So now, the nursery was empty other than the staff as paramedics made their way to me.

"Hiya, are you Marjorie?" One of them asks, placing their bag down.
"Mhmmm," I groan, nodding through the pain.
"Okay, I'm Andy, and over there is my partner Millie. We will be helping you today. So it seems like you're in a lot of pain?"
"Yes..." I say through gritted teeth.
"Okay, we will get you on some pain relief for that. This is known as the green whistle, and it juts quickly administers the relief. So if you just breathe in and out through it, it should help soon enough," the lady explains, handing it to me. I do as she explained, waiting for the pain relief to settle in.