Time Is All We Need

Chapter 8

"Spencer!" Alison hugged her best friend. To say her mood had skyrocketed in the past few days was an understatement.

"Hi." Spencer looked at her weirdly. "What did you finally get laid?" Spencer spotted Alison's blush. She was just joking with the girl, but she was a little surprised that it happened this soon. Alison had only known Emily for about a month. "Well you work fast."

Alison slapped Spencer with her clipboard. "Oh shut up." The two finished up with their charts and headed for the cafeteria. "I just feel..happy Spence. Like so happy."

Spencer tilted her head, nodding, mostly to herself. "Well if sex was all it took for you to be happy, I think I would've been throwing bodies at you a long time ago." Spencer half joked. Alison had been going through the motions for most of her life. She set out to get her degree, then her internship, then her residency, and the next goal was to be head of general surgery.

"Spencer, that's completely wrong." Alison shook her head and waved her fork at the girl. "Emily makes me so happy. We could abstain from sex and I would be happy. I mean the sex is amazing and I would miss it, but if I could have her in my life I would be okay. Oh, just so you know, her little red flag has to do with the bedroom." Spencer's eyes widened, and Alison smirked.

"Oh, well, I guess it's good that you seem to like it?"

"But Spencer, I thought I would only be happy if I was the head of general. I thought that's all I needed in my life. But I could be a janitor right now and not give two shits. Like I don't really know how to explain it. I'm just-"

"In love." Spencer smiles, shoving a grape into her mouth. Spencer has always felt sorry for the blonde. She was always determined to thrive in her field of work. She was always so focused, not to say that Spencer herself was not, but Alison always made it her number one priority and number two and number three and number four. Spencer knew that this wouldn't work forever, there would be a point where Alison would figure it out; that she would need a social life. She'd really only go out once or twice a month, third wheeling with Spencer and Toby.

"I mean how could I not be in love with her?"

"Yeah," Spencer sighed, smiling widely at her friend, "she is really something isn't she?"

Alison's pager went off halfway through their lunch period. The chief of surgery wanted to talk to her, and it made her nervous to say the least.

"Hey Emily." Toby called to the brunette who had just came off of her lunch break.

"Hi Toby." The girl muttered out, dipping her head and turning to walk towards her desk.

Toby grabbed her arm to stop her from retiring to her desk. "I actually need your help on a case." Toby smiled at the brunette, who smiled back at him. He knew that Emily loved working, and she liked to help people out when needed.

Toby, along with the entire department, always went to Emily for help. She was simply the best in the department. Almost everyone in the office believe that Emily herself will take over the chief's job position when he retires. Emily had a different angle of looking at things compared to everyone else. Somehow it seemed as though Emily knew exactly what he motives behind the crime were and could easily distinguish what happened, just by looking at the scene.

Toby and Emily spent a few hours in a conference room going over the case. Well, basically Emily going over the case and Toby running in and out of the room to get snacks and anything that Emily requested.

Emily looked at the clock and sighed. The department was darker, only officer Hanson was in, everyone else on the night shift was out patrolling. "Go home, Spencer's waiting for you." Emily told Toby, as she herself started to pack up the file.