Turn Back Time (The Night Shift)

Chapter Two - Lies

"This is Taylor?!" Rick asked surprised. "Your daughter, Taylor?"

"Yeah." Taylor looked at Rick. "What's it to you?"

"Taylor!" Drew exclaimed, taken aback by his daughter's remark. "Let's go somewhere more private." Drew said. Rick nodded before Drew lead them to an empty treatment room. Taylor sat on the bed and Drew closed the curtains before he turned back to face his husband and daughter. "Taylor, this is my husband, Rick." Taylor glanced at Rick.

"This is just great." Taylor muttered. Drew took a closer look at his daughter.

"What are you on?" He challenged.

"I don't know what you mean." Taylor shrugged innocently.

"C'mon, Taylor. Your pupils are massive." Drew sighed. "What are you on?" He asked once more. This time, Taylor kept silent.

"Let's try a different question, then, shall we. What happened?" Drew questioned. "Molly said there was a girl with a hand injury, I'm assuming that's you." Taylor, again, didn't say anything so Drew looked at Rick.

"I was called to a noise complaint. There was a house party. To cut a long story short, Taylor ran, I went after her. She fell and cut her hand on some glass." Rick told Drew.

"I'll get a nurse in to clean up the wound and take you for an x-ray." Drew said to Taylor. "I'll then get someone in to stitch the wound up." He opened the curtains. "I'll be back in about ten minutes."

"You're leaving me with him?" Taylor raised an eyebrow, pointing to Rick.

"Be nice." Drew warned her before he walked away to find a nurse.

"So-" Rick started to say.

"Don't talk to me." Taylor huffed.

Sure enough, ten minutes later, Drew returned with Molly.

"Taylor, this is Molly. She's going to clean your wound and take you for your x-ray and then one of our doctors will review the scans. If there are no glass fragments in the wound, Molly will stitch you up." Drew informed Taylor. "Whilst she's doing that, we can have a little talk." Drew sat on the bed next to Taylor whilst Molly pulled up a stool alongside the tray with the cleaning materials and sat in front of Taylor.

"Does your husband have to be here?" Taylor asked him.

"Taylor-" Drew started to say but Rick cut him off.

"It's okay." Rick stated. "I've got to go and do some paperwork anyway." Rick walked out as Molly started to clean Taylor's hand wound. Drew looked at Taylor and rose an eyebrow.

"What?!" Taylor exclaimed.

"Did you really have to talk to him like that?" He questioned.

"It's not like he's family or anything." Taylor shrugged her shoulders.

"He may not be family to you, but he's family to me." Drew told her. "I don't want you talking to him like that again." Taylor just rolled her eyes. "Why are you in San Antonio?"

"I came to see some old friends." Taylor replied.

"Why didn't you call me?" He asked.

"I didn't think to." Taylor responded. "Ow!" She shouted at Molly as the antiseptic stung her hand. "Be more careful, would ya?!"

"Tay, she's only trying to help." Drew told Taylor.

"Well, she should learn to be more careful." She glared at Molly. Drew sighed in frustration.

Half an hour had passed. Taylor had been for her x-ray and as there were no glass fragments in the wound, Molly had sutured the wound shut and put a dressing on it. Once she had finished, she walked out of the room and Drew followed her.

"Molly!" He called after her. Molly turned and faced him. "I'm sorry about Taylor."

"Don't sweat it, Drew." Molly told him. "I've had worse." She laughed. "She's a teenager, it's to be expected." Drew just shook his head and laughed.

"True." He nodded. Molly smiled before walking away. Drew turned around and saw Rick, TC and Jordan standing together and walked over to them.

"How is she?" TC asked.

"She's fine." Drew nodded. "A bit aggressive, but she's fine."

"As Molly said, she's a teenager." Jordan pointed out. "Most teenagers are aggressive. Either physically or verbally."

"Taylor, though?" Drew shook his head. "I wouldn't have expected it from her. I knew something was going on from when I've flown over to Seattle to visit her, but I didn't know it was this bad."

Code Blue. Treatment 2.

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