FTEC - Saturday Evening Shift [3/3]

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

The nurse had been a little concerned when 5pm came and went and Wilson didn't show up but since the clinic was quiet and she had his pager number, she didn't fret overly. A quiet night without a doctor to bother her was a blessing.

Too bad that in about an hour FHT the quiet night was going to be shattered and the clinic was going to find itself, very busy indeed.

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Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"All right," Bridge echoes in agreement.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Nodding, Wilson called in the nurse to assist with getting Bridge settled in for a night's stay.

While the nurse finished up, Wilson turned his attentions to Anders, who escaped the clinic's grasp with only a few stitches in his lip as a momento.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge is lying in the bed, not actually asleep but his eyes are closed.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

You'd think Xander actually had a car, judging by the time it took him to walk from MCA to the clinic. He also wasn't all that concerned with explaining who he was to the nurse, though he stopped long enough to sign in when it seemed like he wasn't going to get back there if he didn't.

Then he actually saw Bridge. And, y'know, remained completely oblivious to the fact that Bridge had already regained consciousness. Eye wide, he walked over and put his hand on Bridge's shoulder. "Bridge? Hey. Hey, wake up."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"M'up," Bridge says, opening his eyes obligingly at the sound of that particular voice. "You're sparkling," he observes.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

People in Toledo probably heard the breath Xander took then. The one in Spain.

"You hit your head." It'd been a long time since he'd been told he was sparkly, but he hadn't forgotten.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," Bridge says agreeably. "Stupid tongue thing draggin' me around. There was a rock. Well, there were a *lot* of rocks but then there was a *big* rock, and then I was here." He looks up at Xander and smiles. "And now you're here."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

It takes the flood of complete and utter patented Bridge non-nonsense to make Xander believe, really believe, that he's awake and alive and okay.

"Yeah, I'm here." And then his hand is on his mouth for a second, and then he's leaning over the bed and wrapping his arms around Bridge, and muttering, "Don't do that," into his shoulder.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Don't *mean* to," Bridge says, somewhat plaintively, clinging back just as tightly.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

"You scared me." Still not letting go. Some part of him might know it's not life and death anymore, that maybe this time wasn't even the most danger Bridge has ever been in, but that's not the part in the driver's seat right now.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Sorry," Bridge says apologetically. "Had to do it."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

"Yeah, I get that." He really, really hates that he gets that. "But I can't....do it again. I can't."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Can't do what again?" Bridge frowns, confused.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

Couple hours from now, he'll kick himself for saying it. Hell, a couple minutes from now. But Xander's really not thinking that far ahead. "Lose you."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

And every little bit of hope that Bridge has been clinging to these past weeks is paid off in those two words and the emotion he can feel behind them. "Not gonna happen."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

Xander closes his eye and smiles for a second, still not detaching from the hug, but eventually he has to. Because in fact here comes...well, not the kick, but at least the realization that he really needs to find a new roll of duct tape for his mouth.

"Yeah, well. Still gonna worry. It's my hobby. Some people knit."

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

And Bridge might let him pull most of the way away, but one of his hands searches out Xander's, as he's not willing to *completely* give up contact.

"Stay with me?" he asks quietly. "Please?"

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

Xander snags a chair with his other hand, and pulls it close to the bed. "You were under the impression I had someplace to be on a Saturday night?"

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Could be doing... building managery things," Bridge points out.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

"Well yeah, I was gonna beat some people up for their rent and kick a few old ladies out into the street, but that can wait." Xander realized he hadn't even asked, though he wasn't sure of his ability to get a coherent answer out of Bridge. "Did you find Bel?"

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge doesn't answer right away, his eyes going unfocused as he concentrates on the presence that's been lurking at the edges of his awareness ever since he'd woken up.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

Xander puts his free hand -- since Bridge hasn't actually let go of his other one -- on Bridge's shoulder, a little concerned by the drifting off. "Bridge?"

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Found him, brought him back," Bridge says, his voice a little distant.

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[needsaparrot]

"Good." Unlike with Buffy, there's not a lot of chance he didn't want to come back, Xander's thinking. "You okay?"

Re: Exam 1 - Bridge

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Bridge says, more focused now. "I wasn't awake when we came back," he explains. "But I... I can just *tell* that he's back at the dorms. It's kind of weird."