“That is mean.”  Neela said and Abby stood at the desk her arms wrapped around the chart, leaning on the desk and watching as Archie began to chat up Robbi who was staring at the new digital x-ray machine.  “He deserves it, but it is still mean.”

            Abby watched as she turned to Morris and smiled at him.  Roberta’s grey eyes were luminous from Abby’s vantage point.  She was wearing dark green scrubs and no lab coat.  A dark green stethoscope hung around her neck and she played with it as Morris gathered up the courage to ask her out.  A hot rush passed over Abby and she realized it was anger.  What was she angry about?  Her jaw bulged as she bit down on her own tongue.  She turned on her heels and walked away without witnessing the fireworks when Robbi told Morris she was ***** and not interested.

ERERERERER

            “She said yes?”  Abby almost yelled as Sam told her that Robbi and Morris had a date for later that night.  Abby felt her face flushing and she turned with a jaw-dropping look to stare at Robbi who was walking towards the doors of the ER bay.

            “To Morris?  You can’t be serious?  Is she serious?”  Neela asked and Sam shrugged with noncommittal shoulders as Robbi announced a trauma.  Neela moved to the gurney and stopped cold.  They had, at the new doctor Clem’s insistence formed teams.  Robbi and Sam were on trauma detail everyone was waiting for those fireworks because Sam looked to be seething.  The rest of them were on regular duty, Robbi pulled the gurney hard to the left, cutting off the view from the desk.  Neela stood at the head of the gurney and shook hard at the sight.

            “Sam why don’t you check on Mr. Mandrake, I’m going to get Clem to help me out on this one…”  She stated with a hint of something in her voice, and Sam saw the look in the woman’s eyes.  She was still angry with her but knew that something was amiss.

            “Who is it?  Alex?  Oh god it’s Alex isn’t it?”  She scurried around the desk and Abby was hot on her heels seeing who it was and her hand shot to her mouth.  The blood sent her back stepping for the first time in her life.  Her heart slammed to the bottom of her stomach.