Alex's Beginning

Chapter 4

"Ha ha..." Her voice was just dripping with sarcasm as she rolled her eyes. "You are such a comedian, dear Martha." She spun around on her heels and her first thought was that she was so glad that move had worked. She had done that many other times with hilarity as the result. She walked away with her head held high. Her luck was apparently running high today considering that she only tripped and fell onto her face when she turned around the corner. Martha hadn't seen it, which was great.

She wasn't sure if she should thank every deity she could think of that her luck was so high or start to worry about if it was going to end at any time soon. She picked herself up and then brushed off the slight dust before going into the dressing room. There were only about five or six others in there, and she felt awkward when a couple of them came up to talk to her. They knew her and she was able to figure out subtly that Alex had been doing this for a while. Oh that's just great.

At least it didn't seem that they noticed the fact she was a completely different person.

She knew it was hindsight, but come on it should be obvious that she was completely different. She really didn't want to think about how close her personality would be to Alex's if no one could tell. She chatted with the rest of the not-quite-nurses as they all gathered around. The head nurse came around and started to talk. She tuned her out, honestly, not quite sure why she was here. If Alex was a writer, then why was she here training as a nurse?

She tried to think of why she would do it, and figured that maybe Alex needed some research on a character that was training to be a nurse - or maybe was a nurse. That did make sense, now that she thought about it, and it was also admirable that Alex would take the time out of her day to do this kind of research for her work. She tried to pay attention, but it was a bit boring. The teacher had that perfect mixture of telling way too many stories in between teaching them and a dull soft spoken voice. Good grief it just putting her to sleep.

They were told to use their teachings now in a practical hands-on experience. That was nice, she thought, as she walked over to a couple of beds. She wasn't even paying attention to where she was walking. She picked up the doctor's chart at the end of the first bed she went to and then looked up at the patient.

Her heart stopped.

"Hello!" His voice was as cheerful as the bright sunny grin that covered his face. She felt a little blinded by the shine of it.

"Um... Hello..." She returned in greeting. Her head hurt way too much and she closed her eyes for a brief moment, she didn't even realize she was talking before she opened her eyes. "My name is Alex Harper, and I'm going to take a look at you before the doctor comes around." She came up to his side and then looked back at the chart to figure out what lie he had given to get in. "So, you've been experience some serious abdominal pains?" She couldn't help but look up at him with a slight raised eyebrow.

"Yes, ma'am." He said with a definite nod. Honestly, it was pretty stupid now that she thought about this. He was a doctor himself, he knew about science and she was pretty sure he knew his way around medicine as well. He couldn't come up with something more... concrete? Something as flimsy as 'serious stomach pains' just didn't seem to hold any dice, but maybe that was just her.

She did as regular a checkup as she could. When she was taking his blood pressure, she got some weird readings that she didn't understand until she remembered that she was dealing with an alien that had two hearts. Right, yeah, that changes things. She remembered this slight detail when she had to take his pulse as well. When she took that into account, she was glad that as far as she could tell, he was healthy.

Can't have the one thing that was protective this world from danger ill, can we?

She couldn't help but chat with him as she did her little check up. "So, interesting story... I was walking with my friend Martha on the way here, and we run into this guy who I swear looks exactly like you..." She put on her best poker face as she spoke this.

"You did?" The Doctor was so genuinely surprised that she had to smile.

"Yeah, I'm telling you, the appearance was... uncanny." She waved her hand, making a gesture that there was indeed no equal to how much they same they had looked. "Of course, I'm no fool. I'm sure you meandering about on the streets won't help your pains, sir." It was kind of funny how much joy she was taking in playing this out.

"It wasn't me." The Doctor insisted with a firm shake of his head. "I was here, in this bed, ask the other nurses."

She locked eyes with him and narrowed her own. She wasn't sure how the Doctor would feel about these brand new eyes that she has. All she could say for herself was that she's been startled by how sharp they are when she's happen to look in the mirror. Her eyes weren't just the color of ice, but as sharp as them. "Swear?"

She saw his lips twitch just the slightest bit, and she held back her own grin. "I swear to you. It wasn't me."

"Well then," she turned her head away and almost flinched when she happen to see her reflection. Good Lord, she could practically see her reflection with her eyes - they were just so clear. It was really weird. Well, she didn't want to be rude. Alex was probably more than use to it, and that was fine because she had grown up with it. She couldn't say the same though. Her true eyes were a much duller blue that it just kept feeling like a punch in the face every time she saw her new eyes. "How about a brother? Oh!" She turned back to him with a finger out and pointing at him. "Twin?"

This time the smile came to his lips with full force. "Nope. Just me."

"Damn." She sighed with some mock. "If that had been the case I would have been so proud of my deductive skills. Clearly I am no Sherlock Holmes." Ah yes, there was another well done English show. Of course it was made by the same people, so of course she would like it. She took great pride in the Doctor's slight chuckle, before looking away when she heard her name being called.

"Ms. Harper," A flush just barely came to her cheeks when she realized that she had taken too long and the lead doctor was clearly not happy about this.

"Sorry." She said and instantly stepped away from the Doctor. She turned to him and tried to hold an air of professionalism. "I hope you feel better, Mr. Smith." She walked away but froze when she heard a throat being cleared.

"You still have the chart, Ms. Harper." Oh, that did it. A flush covered her whole face and about all of her neck judging by the heat that she could feel radiating off of it. She turned around very slowly and then tried to quickly give the chart over to him before trying to make it quickly way from all of the giggling faces as possible.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid..." She muttered under her breath. Well, clearly her luck as run out. That's just lovely.