“I know it seems like a long time to be…”  Kerry began and Robbi interrupted her with a soft voice.  She sighed ever so slightly.

            “An eternity…”  Robbi said softly rubbing the bridge of her nose.  What was she going to do for a month?  Go shopping?  Rest?  Get more than three hours of sleep in a night?  The first thing she’d done after finding out that Robert had died was find a job.  One day after she’d arrived she was looking for a job, being a doctor was the only thing she knew.  She’d become a doctor at 25, done her internship in Boston and at 28 she’d gone off into the jungle to play doctor.  She’d never had the luxury of a real life and she wasn’t sure she wanted to start now.

            “I can offer you something?”  Kerry said with a smile that seemed to be flirtatious.  Robbi’s eyebrow shot up and she leaned back crossing her legs.  She was wearing old jeans and a battered Rolling Stone’s concert T-Shirt.

            “Ah yeah?”  Robbi said with an equal amount of flirt in her voice.  She liked Kerry and not for her sexual preferences, she ran the hospital with a strict hand even though her departments were under funded and understaffed.  They’d disagreed on the Morris issue, but after that it had been much smoother sailing.  She’d given the young man a stern talking too. 

            “Let’s talk about it over dinner?”  Kerry asked and Robbi nodded with a lopsided grin.

            “Sure.”

ERERERERER

            “Like we need one less attending on the floor?  This is dumb; we have interns who don’t know a toe from a spleen.”  Ray said with a grunt referring to a new batch of interns that had graced them with their presence that morning, when he heard that Robbi had been canned for a month and then Neela added with a snort.

            “Two.  Do you think Luca is going to be down here being a doctor any time soon?”  A silence over the area and Abby walked over and whispered.

            “That means we are stuck with Clem.”  They collectively look over and stare at Clem who is showing off his newest gadget to Inez.