Title: A
Pivot For Your Sun
Author:
Noa
Genre:
Romance
Summary:
The one with the thinking, and a few other things as well.
Comments:
1. No, no smut in this one yet – but that will come too, I swear! I just need
to get over my irritating smut block first ;)
2. Title
comes from a beautiful song by Mandalay called “Insensible”
3. Jo
beta. She owns me now.
She was a
resident. He was a med student. In the ER, she was his resident, and he
was her med student.
For the
past three weeks, Abby kept finding herself repeating those three facts in her
mind endless times, hoping that eventually they will be so strongly enchanted
in her mind that she will never think of him in a way that
didn’t involve a lab coat, a stethoscope – an objective evaluation she is
supposed to hand out at the end of his rotation.
Each time
she caught a glimpse of his piercing blue eyes in just the right light, or saw
a gentle smile he gave a fearful kid, or that joyful laugh at another one of
Morris’ idiotic acts, Abby had to stop for a moment, stare, enjoy... and then,
the hardest thing – remind herself of those three irritating facts, and go on
with her work.
Because
Abby was a resident, and Jake was a med student, and she was his supervisor,
and there were some very strict rules against them dating, and Abby knew it,
and even Jake knew it {though it didn’t stop him from flirting, or her from
flirting back}, and now she had to apply them and never think about dating Jake
again.
And not that
Abby meant for this to happen, because she had become very good at following
rules, but when she and Jake were leaving the hospital after a
tiring shift, and he asked her if she wanted to grab something to eat, Abby
said yes – but only because she was very, very hungry, and the food available
in her apartment was at least a month old.
They went
to dinner at some Mexican place Jake said he really likes – and Abby
didn’t forget that fact even months later – and it was good indeed, and Abby
laughed a lot, like she hadn’t in months, probably. Maybe even more. And Abby
thought that if she weren’t a resident and he her med student,
she’d kiss him right now and tell him that he’s one of the nicest guys she had
ever met, and maybe he’d even kiss her back.
But she
didn’t kiss Jake, and Jake didn’t kiss her, but after dinner he did drive her
home, because he had a car and she didn’t, and who rides the El after midnight?
On the way to her place they laughed some more, though he tried not to laugh
too much because it collided with trying to drive, and he told her about his
family, and she didn’t tell him about hers – but promised to some other time.
When they
arrived at her place, he stopped the car and looked at her, and Abby
just forgot about the rules, and the objective evaluation. Instead, she may
have invited him for “coffee or something,” and may have let him kiss her when
they were upstairs, and may have asked to him to stay, and may have helped him
undress her, and may have helped him get undressed as well afterwards, and may
have forgot all about the coffee.
And in
the morning, when Abby woke up with Jake's arm wrapped around her waist,
holding her close, and his beautiful eyes staring directly into hers, Abby
didn't regret a thing.