Going Up!

Chapter Twenty

"Only her, sir." She waves to Ben to sit back in his chair and he gives me a concerned look.

"I'll be fine, Ben." I try and smile reassuringly. Honestly, I'm nervous beyond reason and my hands are shaking slightly, but I follow the brunette nurse with her cute English accent through the double doors.

Stepping into the long hallway I'm starting to feel slightly uneasy. First of all, each wall is painted with scenes from children's books, every doorway appears to be smaller than normal, and every nurse is wearing brightly colored scrubs.

"I'm sorry miss," I say to the nurse. "Am I in the right place?" I ask her politely.

She lets out a small giggle. "Well technically, yes and no. Dr. Oliver is the best at what he does but he also only works in Peds now. It appears your boyfriend has the magic touch and pulled some strings to get you seen by him today." She winked at me. Boyfriend. We hadn't used that word. Funny, throwing out the L-word before actually putting the real label on it. We were so backwards.

"Ah. I see." I say as we turn a corner and she motions for me to enter the room on the right.

"In you go love, sit there on the chair and we shall get your vitals." She turns her back to me and starts grabbing a few instruments from the counter while I slide onto the chair she had just motioned me towards.

"So how did this happen?" She asked her back to me, gathering the items into her hands before turning to me.

I laughed as I answered. "Well I was trying to be smooth and pulled my," I paused. "Ben over to me and his elbow caught me directly in the nose."

"Oh yea. We've seen that a time or two over on ER side. It's always the friskies." She giggled and I couldn't help but laugh with her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name." I said as she started taking my blood pressure.

"Oh! I'm nurse Morgan." She beamed at me. "I work over in the ER normally but today you're my special patient per Dr. Oliver, who happens to be my dad." She said with a wink. "So we will get you in, and out as quickly as possible." Her smile was infectious and I was comforted quickly.

"So Dr. Oliver can just pull you from your ER rotations?" The more I thought about the fact that she mentioned that the more it nagged at me for her.

"Well, when you're on the board of advisors for the trust of the hospital I guess you get that pull." She rolled her eyes obviously annoyed at her dad.

"Well I'm sorry he did that to you, but I do appreciate you helping me get in and out quickly." I beamed a smile at her and she smiled back warmly.

"If you weren't a patient I would say we could go for drinks after this and you could tell me how this actually happened instead of the short version." She laughed a little harder now.

"Fuck, I don't even care that I'm a patient and I'm just as willing to take you up on it!"  I blew out a breath of air through my mouth trying not to laugh too hard and cause pain to shoot through my face again.

"Let's finish your vitals up and see what Dr. Oliver says then we can figure it out." She took my temp and pulled the small clamp off my fingers, typing my vitals into the computer.

"Ok, I'll go grab him and be right back." She said, before stepping out of the room and then right back in, "Oh, and did you want your boyfriend in here for this? Some people do some don't, it can get gross."

I thought on it for a second before deciding Ben had seen enough blood pour from my nose for one day and shaking my head no. She nodded and slid the door shut.