Columbia Mercy Hospital

Lily West
As we all got up to walk out I caught the eye of one of the interns, someone I hadn't really met before but I knew her face as someone who'd been with us in the morning. She looked upset, much more upset than I felt, and I felt a stab of distress for her so I caught her arm.
"Hi," I murmured, "pretty rough, huh? You feeling alright?"
She just sort of nodded and her expression told me otherwise. I could imagine the thoughts running through her head, similar to my own. Why even bother with this any more? It's horrible, can't cope. I smiled my most encouraging smile (which wasn't brilliant) and walked with her out into the corridor.
"Come find a resident with me? Things'll get back to normal now. Much more boring, but probably less traumatic."

The place was starting to fill up again, almost as though nothing had happened. Good. That's what I needed, I didn't know how anyone else felt, but I just wanted to get on with it and pretend this incident had never occured. The last thing on earth I needed was to talk to some shrink about my feelings about the whole thing. I'd been to therapists before, cold, distant, calculating lunatics, adding you up using only the words you could formulate to show your emotions. How could any one discover a person's true problems that way? It was far too clinical.

Daniel

Grudgingly Daniel agreed that Des was one messed up woman and tried to edge the conversation towards his usual depth of humour:

"Ah but we both know who will fulfill her position." Sydney's beautiful face wrinkled into an expression of confusion and her eyes glazed over as she tried to think who he could mean. Daniel sat still, a knowing grin on his face as the sun streaked through a crack in the curtains, tousling his dark hair.

"Who?" Syd asked sulkily, reluctant to give up but adamant that she wasn't giving him a wrong answer.

"Sydney Parker," Daniel said, expecting a groan but all he received was a blink of her eyes. "Like Mother like daughter," he added. Then realised he'd gone too far and hit a sensitive spot. Syd averted her head slightly, looking to the window.

"Sorry," Dan said quietly.

"Could you open the curtains?" Sydney asked. Daniel nodded and walked over, stretching his tanned, athletic body to grip the tops of each curtain and draw them apart. The sun spilled over the hospital bed and lit upon Syd's cheeks, seemingly returning a little of their colour.

"That better?" Daniel asked. Syd nodded. The tension was palpable, eating into Dan's chest. Seeing her laid there, her lips slightly parted, her chest rising and falling with irregular movements, Daniel wanted to kiss her. He held back, feeling almost guilty to have such thoughts but he edged his chair a little closer as he sat back down.

I'm out, peace***

Annelise Martin

I smiled softly at Lily and nodded. It was embarrassing to look weak in front of other interns. We started out into the hall, the bright light smacking me in the face. I've been focusing on all the negative, not really paying much attention to all that was going on around me. People were walking around, some were doctors and others were interns. I've seen so many white coats and green scrubs that I'm sure I'm going crazy. Maybe I do need to see a shrink. Its not the most pleasant thing to let someone probe at your thoughts but it'll help.
It's not good to give up. Especially when you have so much talent.
Mr. Crane, my piano teacher's face flashed through my mind. He used to always make me practice my notes every Thursday and Monday. Of course he could have read a book while I did nothing and still got paid but he believed in me. Perhaps, I just need to believe in myself.
"Where is this resident?" I asked, my mouth feeling dry.

Jeremy Raynor
I hate it when I have to do resident jobs. Stupid interns, they all looked lost and confused and that was just annoying. What sort of a doctor can't cope with an emergency situation? That's our job isn't it? I sighed and waved me arms in the air.

"Okay kids, any interns who need a resident I'm a resident. Divide yourselves up, try and be orderly we really need to get on with our day now."

A few of the interns shuffled around each other, forming into small groups but others just stood like rabbits in headlights. Some of the more organised ones tried to nudge them into action, and it pretty much worked eventually.

To be honest, in 3 years here, this had never happened before, it was a sucky first day for an intern to have to cope with.

I ended up with 2 interns, and I had to go and sort out my stupid appointments now because of course, they'd been delayed and were waiting. Not that it made much difference, it wasn't like the ER when time was so important. My patients were all dying slowly, slowly. The interns followed behind me, mutely. I wished they would just talk amongst themselves or talk to me or something, they seemed so stunned.

Someone jump in here? What other interns are there apart from Lily and Annelise?

Annelise Martin

Jeremy Raynor seemed like he was annoyed he had to be with us. Lily and I followed him in silence. I looked down at my shoes, wiggling my toes. Everything was just so unnatural and boring around here. I didn't know where we were going but I hoped doing something would erase the fire burning in my stomach.
It would be nice if someone could say something. Then maybe I wouldn't feel so tangled.

Sydney Parker


She pushed herself up on the bed a little more and pushed the "up" button for the back of it. Sydney had never really been the kind to sit back and be babied...ever, even when she was sick or (apparently) shot.

She pulled her dark locks onto one side of her neck, attempting to tame them just a little bit. Her blue eyes turned to Daniel, her skin enjoying the last bit of sunlight as it made it's way down the horizon, "Have Emily or Roxanne said anything?"

Daniel raised a brow, attempting to figure out what she was talking about but her lack of hints floored him, "...about?"

Another "duh" moment for Sydney, clarity was apparently not her forte after surgery, "I mean about what happens next here. And what's going on with the interns and everything else, etc. etc."

Daniel shook his head, "I haven't seen either one for a few hours. I'll go check."

"No no, it's okay." Sydney may be the one in the bed, but she knew he was sick. They would come soon enough and fill her in, she'd wait. ...for awhile, anyway.

Name: Ravenn Ledger

Age:25

Position:Intern-Pediactric Specialty

Appearance:a blonde haired girl with really pale skin,emo hair cut. She weres loads of foundation and her eyes are covered in black eye liner. Her boss tells her that she cannot where her make up so she looks more normal.

Biography:Ravenn was brought up with her parents who were also doctors. Her family life seemed so perfect that she thought one day she would want her family to be like this. She loves children and one day hopes to be mother. Her nickname is Angel as she is very sweet and shy.

Roxanne Peters

Steadily the patient's chest rose and fell as Roxy peered down at the new nose on the woman's face. It was pretty: petite and cute, a sort of button nose that went well with the plump, juicy lips and manicured eyes. It was the sort of work Roxy hated.

"You was beautiful to start with," Roxanne murmured softly before indicating that the assisting nurse could wheel her out. "And if you weren't a member of this hospital, you would have waited your turn like all the more needy patients here." Roxy's lips puckered as she frowned but she smoothed her features before leaving the room.

"Roxanne!" Evan called as he rounded the corner. She turned and smiled tiredly in his direction. The poor mite looked broken, completely distressed. And an intern was trailing behind him.

"Is surgery free?" he asked.

"Just opened up," Roxanne said, preparing to hurry past.

"Is Syd..." his voice trailed off and he swallowed convulsively, looking down. Roxanne deflated and shrugged.

"I don't know," she admitted. "But I'm going to check." Her eyes took on their flinty, determined look and Evan smiled weakly, reacting to the familiar expression.

"I'll be there soon," Evan said. "Just got surgery first..."

"I'll let her know," Roxy said. She walked on, turned the corner and strode quickly down the hall, weaving in and out of corridors until she reached the right room. Dan was in there. Sitting, leaning over the bed, looking almost about to fall asleep himself. And Syd was... awake! Roxanne knocked and then stepped in.

"Sydney," she greeted and then frowned at Dan. "Why is there a patient in your room?"

"Good to see you too, Roxy," Dan said with a weak grin.

Raven

I walked up to the fornt desk. First day..eh....i am so nervious. The women at the desk looked over at me, and smiled. ''Hello, how can i help you?'' she asked. I read her tag 'Gemma' it read. ''um... im a new intern, and i ment to have somebody showing me around'' I replyed.

''Umm.. ok one seconds''

*can somebody be the person to show me around*

Paramore – As Via said, we’re not picking up anymore interns. Stay with Rebbecca, I’ll be putting her in my post as I need to distribute some interns. Don’t stress about it. There was an earlier post where I explained everything – It’s the last post on page 14.

Emily Darcy

Emily watched as the last stragglers left the room and cleared up her papers. This was a mess, Des should have been here, and where she was no one seemed to know. Walking out of the room, Emily noticed Raynor collecting a few interns, and scaring the rest into forming groups.

West and Martin followed him as he strode down the corridor looking fed up and grumbling to himself. The girls looked around but didn’t speak. With a sigh, Emily stepped forward into the group of left over interns.

“All right, then” she consulted her clipboard. “I see a lot of you have taken off. Ledger, Cromwell, you’re with Evan Kensington. Go, find him, he’ll be around somewhere, possibly in surgery. Castrovaci, You’re with Rebbecca Jones.” She directed the intern to the right where Rebbecca stood, watching everyone move about.

“Rebbecca, make sure she doesn’t get lost, and leaves at the end of the day, okay? I’m not putting up with any more missing interns.” Leaving them without waiting for a response, Emily walked down the hallway to her office.

A post-it note was stuck on her door: Congratulations new Chief of Surgery!

Emily stared at the note for a good minute until it sunk in. Then she swore violently, pushing into her office and picking up the phone.

Bloody Des.

*can someone help me? I have been sick and I'm really lost. My character is Brian, an intern*

Evan Kensington

It took everything I had not to completely rush through the surgery - I was so eager to see Sydney.

As it was, the surgery was easy and I quickly had it finished. As I was leaving, two interns walked toward me, confused looks on their faces.

"Can I help you?" I offered, knowing it was my duty.

"We're looking for Evan Kensington," one of them said. "I'm Brian Ledger, this is Tyson Cromwell." Tyson waved, but other than that remained silent.

"I'm Evan," I said, scanning the two boys. "You're interns, right?"

"Yup," Tyson answered.

"Well, I'm about to go check on one of the injured doctors. You can come with, if you'd like. If not...um..." I thought for a moment. "You can go wait in the break room, so I know where to find you..." I decided, knowing I'd probably be in a load of trouble if anyone caught me pushing off my interns just like that. But I was torn.

"I think it would be best if we followed you," Ledger said. I nodded my agreement, hoping they'd wait outside while I was with Syd.


**Hope that's okay. I don't know what to do for Isabella...**

Brian Ledger-

We followed Doctor Kensington through the busy halls. When we arrived outside a door that had a 'privacy please' sign on it. Tyson kept following Kensington but I stopped and grabbed him by the collar, "Hold up, let them have some privacy."

I leaned against the pale blue walls of the hospital and Tyson took a seat in a blue plastic chair. I wanted to bang my head against the wall. I was not having a very good day so far.

*all i can think of at the moment...*

Sydney Parker


I had to smile when Roxanne came in, though her obvious surprise to the fact that I was actually awake didn't do much to calm my nerves.

She exchanged a few pleasantries with Daniel and then turned to me, "How are you feeling?"

I shrugged lightly, though certainly not enthusiastically to avoid any possible new pain, "Ah, it's merely a flesh wound." I was glad to hear her laugh slightly, as I suddenly realized that she may not know that reference and I would look like an idiot or crazy, neither one you really want to portray after major surgery--people start asking questions. "When can I get out of here?"

Roxanne shook her head, keeping a smile on her face, "I think we better wait awhile. Even you need time to recover, and you are not out of the woods yet. We.."

I cut her off, I didn't need to here it again, "I've been told."

Roxanne nodded but showed more of a pity in her eyes, a kind of look that wasn't common nor enjoyed from her, I decided.

I glanced from Dan to Roxy, "How are...things?"

Roxanne sighed a bit, "That's really not important right now."

I narrowed my eyes a little as if she had forgotten that half of the hospital was in some how attached to me and rumors were what we lived on. She smiled slightly, "Fine. Des is gone, but she didn't clean anything out of her office so she may be back." She paused for a moment, talking about my mother with me was never easy for anyone--including me, "Emily is the new Chief, though, even if she does come back. The last I heard, the board decided Des was too emotionally crazy to do the job that needed to be done." The "crazy" was for my benefit only. "And the interns are a bit shaken up, but everyone else is fine."

Suddenly the door opened behind Roxy and Evan's head popped in. I still had a hold of Daniel's hand, I realized, but didn't much care at that point.