The Solider and the Doctor

chapter 7

After dropping Meghan off Gabe went to one of his friend's houses on base. When he walked in all of his friends were sitting around on the couches. One looked at him, "hey man I never heard you come in last night." He wore a smirk as he said it. "Yeah, I stayed over at a friends last night." Gabe replied. "Come on James, give us something." The man replied. Gabe simply laughed and said "if you'd get a life of your own, I wouldn't have to tell you about mine." His friend sat up, grabbed a magazine and said "find me this woman and I'll never have to ask you about your life again!" Gabe couldn't contain his laughter when he saw who his friend was pointing too, they all looked at him as if he had lost his mind. "I actually know her. We were close when we were younger, she's a doctor now, surgeon actually. SJ and her are close friends." If he had a camera he would have taken a picture of the jaws on the floor. "Man what the hell you never told us that!" Gabe leaned back on the couch "okay? We had lost touch a while ago." "Had?" One of the men replied. "I definitely heard "had"." Another added. Gabe said nothing further on the subject though he was still badgered.

4 hours later Meghan was getting dressed in her normal clothes she felt the weight on the loss on her back, "what could I have done differently?" She asked herself. "Nothing. You did everything you could, there was too much damage from the MVA." She jumped and spun around to find Damian leaning against the door way watching her, "I hate loosing a patient." She replied. His eyes trailed her body before meeting her gaze, "if you came to gawk at my body go buy a magazine or better yet look it up on the internet." She snapped. He gave her a half smirk, "so rumor has it you've got arm candy." She gave him a bored look "since when is that any of your business?" She fluffed her hair out of her shirt and proceeded to grab her purse slipping her Jewelry on. She turned to walk out of the door where Damian stood in her way, "knowing if I have competition is good." She learned into him and gave a flirty smile," funny because you're not even running in the "competition"." She dropped her smile and pushed past him and walked out of the hospital, making her way home.

There he was sitting with his phone in his hands with a half written text, trying to decide if he should finish it or if he should just leave her alone. Gabe finally decided to finish and send it, " hey how was your day?" He heard a *ting* as he set his phone down, "it was a hard day." Was all Meghan replied. He looked at his phone having a battle with in himself on what to say back to her. "What happened?" Is what he settled on. "I lost a patient today." He felt as if he was feeling the pain she did, "do you want me to come over, we can talk about it" he was hopeful as he sent that. "You know where I live." She replied. He quickly got up and got dressed and went to see her.

It wasn't long before Meghan heard a knock on her door, "hey, come in" she said as she stepped back for Gabe. He entered and followed her to the bar where he could see flour all over the counter, "I see you still bake while you're upset." She held a sad smile as she looked at him from under her lashes while stirring the icing she had made. He sighed as he watched her. "Wanna talk about it?" She stopped for a moment "it was an mva and there was too much damage, but I worked for 4 hours keeping him stable until he flat lined on the table and I never got a pulse back." He just watched her, "so now I am making deserts that I will probably never eat and the nurses will. You know, I like them better! I'm tired of the other residents treating me like I am just a prize in a competition." Gabe felt uneasiness and a bit a jealousy stir in his stomach but kept his face neutral. "As if I'd give any of those idiots the time of day. At least I know the nurses love me, I think I'm the only one that treats them with any respect. I mean to Christ's sake, I rely on them to alert me when something is wrong and they spend more time with the patients than I can. They're fucking awesome." She realized that her mixing had gotten very rough when Gabe placed his hands on hers and slowly took the bowl away from her. She looked up at him, a bit embarrassed and said "sorry.." quietly. He smiled at her "it's okay, it makes sense on why you are upset."
She sighed, "I shouldn't be letting it get to me. I go back to work tomorrow and have to be on top of my game." She looked so stressed out, he was strongly fighting to urge to go hug her and comfort her. She rubbed her shoulder and tried her best to just relax. After  icing the cupcakes she placed them in the fridge. She looked up "wanna go watch a movie?" He nodded and let her lead him to her bed room. He noticed the smell of her perfume as she floated in front of him. They reached her room and he felt like he was in high school, about to get in trouble for being in a girls room.

Meghan proceeded to turn on Netflix as she sat down and patted her bed for Gabe to sit. He was a bit cautious but sat down and laid his back against the headboard. He laughed when he saw "greys anatomy" in her recents, "you watch greys?" He said
She shrugged "it's not real medicine and half of that crap is bogus, but it's funny and drama filled." He saw how defeated she looked and realized she just needed someone there, so he was. She finally landed on playing super girl and laid back against the head board as well. It wasn't very long until she was leaning over on him and asleep. He slightly moved his arm around her and felt her snuggle closer into him. After a while he started to get up to let himself out, but as he tried to move from under her she gripped his shirt and the faintest " don't go" came from her lips. So he gently moved down in the bed with her and placed her under the covers as well as himself.

He woke up with her still in his arms, her head laid on the edge of his chest. He just looked at her, it was as if he was looking at her when she was 17 again asleep on his chest. He slowly rolled her off him, she stirred a little bit but stayed asleep. He went down to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee and called his friend. "Hey man." Gabe said "Hey where are you?" Dan replied. "I'm at Meghan's." Gabe said quietly. "You're where?" Dan practically yelled. Gabe held the phone away from his ear, "yes you heard me correctly. Just don't say anything." There was silence on the other end for a minute then a quiet "okay" came. "She had a hard day yesterday and I fell asleep with her, don't be a pervert." Again silence was held. "Hello?" "Sorry sorry man I, um, wow. Wait is this the same Meghan that you talked about at boot camp?" Gabe scratched the back of his neck before pouring a cup of coffee, "yes, it's that Meghan." "BRO that Meghan is the model that we all gawked over and you never said anything?" Gabe had moved to the balcony she loved so much "I was proud of her, and anyway it wasn't my place to say anything. I knew her before that. I didn't know that her" Dan quickly replied "Damn man. She is the one." Gabe laughed "is it that obvious? I told her when we were 17 that she was going to be Mrs. James,  I've never loved anyone more." Dan sighed "man what are you going to do?" Before he could reply he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Gabe quickly got off the phone and walked back in as Meghan was coming down the stairs to the kitchen. He began making her a cup of coffee, she smiled at him and said "I could get used to this." He smiled as he passed her cup to her, "good morning meg." She brought the cup to her lips and took a sip, "Good morning Gabe." Her eyes lingered on him for a brief moment, she knew how he still made that bubbly feeling happen in her chest and she wondered if his lips would taste the same. She quickly shot that thought from her mind. He saw her linger on him, even looked at his lips. He involuntary licked his lips and continued starting at her, thinking to himself how much he'd love to hold her again all night and kiss her again. When she broke the look he realized what he was thinking about and felt a slight pulse run through him. She stretched and finished her coffee in the comfortable silence before she spoke. "Thank you for coming over, I'm sorry I fell asleep on you. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable." Gabe laughed a little, "If you would have made me uncomfortable I would have left." She smiled again as he thought "should I tell her what she said?" He decided on letting it just be the sleepy talk and her needing someone there.

"Gosh I feel like I stink." She said as she made a contorted face at herself in the mirrors of her gym. Gabe watched her and laughed as he sniffed the air and crinkled his nose. She swatted at him "hey joe muscle man you don't smell like roses." Gabe threw a hand over his chest in a dramatic way and gasped. Meghan quickly gave a devilish smile and said "i think I will go shower" and began to walk towards the door before throwing her hair over her shoulder and saying "if you'd like to join." With a wink. Gabe stilled and watcher her closely "what did she just say?" He thought to himself & couldn't deny how sexy and enticing that sounded. (What he's a man?) He coughed to break a bit of the sexual tension they shared, she still held a devilish smirk but her eyes showed just a bit of sadness for a half moment. "Suit yourself you know where the guest room is." She said and walked to her room. She made herself walk slowly despite the pounding in her chest, once she was in her room she hurried into the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. "You're not some school girl and he sure in hell isn't some immature boy anymore." She berated herself.

She moved to turn on the hot water letting the stem build as she removed her clothes and jumped in. Gabe was in the bathroom of the guess room quickly showering not being able to get that smile out of his head, he knew that smile. That was the same smile she'd wear when they were younger and she knew she'd get whatever she wanted. He got out and just wrapped the towel around his waist and before he knew it he was walking into her room, half naked, as she was coming out of her own bath room just wrapped in another fluffy red towel. With out a thought he grabbed her and caged her to the wall and crashed his lips to her.