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| exploradora | Nov 30 2004, 05:57 PM Post #16 |
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very very good!! please up date soon! |
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| lemonjelly | Dec 3 2004, 03:03 PM Post #17 |
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hello, after a little too much angst in that last chapter, i am breaking it up with some COMEDIC (hopefully) RELIEF! Thank you very much to: Samka_Fan, briana, abby_ness, ERfool89, I_Love_Samka and exploradora! do go ahead and ENJOY! love LJ xXx All I Ever Needed. Chapter Four. What I Can't Escape From Luka smiled when he saw her in the Doctor’s Lounge, sitting exactly as she had been before – head down and working, books piled up. “Did you even go home at all?” he asked her, cheekily. This time, she didn’t even look up. “Hello Luka, you smartass.” She greeted him, in a bored voice. He laughed and poured her a coffee as he made one for himself. “Here you go,” he put it in front of her. She looked at it for a while and smiled at him. “Thanks, but no thanks,” she said, sliding it back across the table. He raised his eyebrows. “Are you sure? I would’ve thought you’d need the caffeine boost.” He looked at her, genuinely surprised and confused. She smiled slightly but said nothing. “Lots of work?” he asked, trying to start up a conversation. “Yep.” she answered, flicking through a thick textbook on renal failure. He watched her for a while. “You thought right – Carter went back to the Congo,” Luka told her, confronting the topic he had been trying unsuccessfully to ease into. She looked up, suddenly. “How did you know?” she demanded. He stared, momentarily startled at the sudden defensive response and blinked. “You asked me to call them up. Yesterday – remember?” he reminded her, slowly. “How did you know already?” “Oh, he sent me a postcard from the plane, which was nice of him – wish you were here and all that.” She smiled a faint smile and rubbed her tired eyes. He glanced at a patch on arm when her sleeve lifted slightly. “You giving up smoking?” he nodded at the patch while he sipped his coffee. She lifted up her sleeve and looked at it, as if she herself had forgotten. “Oh. Yeah, I am.” She responded, slightly dazed. “Why now? It can’t help adding that to worry about, on top of all this work and everything,” he gestured at the mountains of textbooks and she laughed slightly. “Yeah, it doesn’t help. Perfect timing, right?” she grinned and went quickly back to work. * * * “So what movies did you rent in the end?” Susan called from somewhere in the apartment as Abby wrung the water out of her hair she had been washing over the sink and wrapped it in a towel. “I got Liar Liar, Pearl Harbour and Bridget Jones’ Diary,” Abby listed, rubbing her hair vigorously with the towel. “What was the first one again?” Susan appeared with a black garbage bag, halfway through taking out the trash. “Liar Liar. It’s a brilliant film – really good casting.” Abby told her, earnestly. “The actress in it is great.” “Okay then,” Susan began to empty the bathroom bin. “I don’t see why you can’t take out the trash sometimes – you practically live here, anyway.” “I’ll be gone soon, promise. And anyway, I don’t do dirty work anymore – I’m a med student, now.” Abby grinned with damp, ruffled hair. “Right, how could I forget,” Susan smiled. “You hardly ever take off your white jacket.” “Yeah well, it seems to give me more credibility. If I didn’t wear it I’d still be your average slave in the ER. They’d still be asking me to sit around in triage and fetch them all sorts of crap.” Abby turned to Susan, who had stopped listening and was just staring into the garbage bag. “Hey, are you ok?” Susan blinked and looked at her. “Huh?” she looked blank. Abby raised her eyebrows and took the bag from her. “Ok, fine. I’ll take it out. Put one of the videos on,” Abby called as she went outside. Susan shook herself and obediently picked out a movie. * * * “Want some coffee?” Susan offered, getting up from the sofa. Abby hesitated, shook her head and watched as Susan walked over to the kitchen. “No thanks. Hey, don’t you want to see what happens in the end?” Abby asked turning away from the final scene of Pearl Harbour. Susan shrugged. “Why bother?” she answered as she put the kettle on. “Ben Affleck always seems survive in the end of all his movies by saving his own ass and then pretending he gives a damn about his friends. Which he doesn’t.” Abby turned back to the TV screen. “Yeah, but he’s nice to look at.” She replied as the movie ended and credits rolled. She reached for the remote and flicked channels as Susan came in with a mug of coffee. “Ooh, figure skating,” Susan said with false enthusiasm as the remote switched to the World Figure Skating championships on some godforsaken channel. “Life doesn’t get much sweeter than this.” Abby chuckled at Susan’s sarcastic remark. “Pretty weird though,” Abby began, with a slightly dreamy look. “I had this dream last night that I was ice skating down a frozen up river and Luka was chasing me on a skidoo.” “Ha! Skidoo.” Susan snorted with laughter at the vision of Luka on a skidoo. “Yeah, I know. And then I skated off a waterfall and was falling when Luka jumped after me with a parachute and saved my life.” she remembered with a smile. “What happened to the skidoo?” Susan asked, with a grin spreading across her face. Abby shrugged. “Do you reckon it means anything?” she wondered out loud. “What? Luka on a skidoo?” “Ok, Suze. Get over it.” Abby told her, sternly. “No, I was thinking more about Luka saving my life.” “God, I hope not,” Susan said, a gravely serious expression replacing the smirk on her face. “Because I once had a dream that Romano saved my life with a parachute. I was skydiving with him when I couldn’t reach the parachute cord and his arm flew off and pulled it for me.” Abby looked at her and then burst out laughing. Susan grinned, “Seriously, it happened.” But as she watched her friend laughing hysterically at the mental image, she couldn’t help but think back to earlier as she took out the trash. She remembered Abby washing her hair in the sink. She remembered her talking about being a med student. And then she remembered her shock when she looked down at the contents of the bathroom trash can and saw a little white test stick with unmistakably blue lines, lying innocently at the top. |
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| Faith | Dec 3 2004, 03:52 PM Post #18 |
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More more more!! |
| There was a rabbit, in a bowler hat cooking an omelette... | |
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| ERfool89 | Dec 3 2004, 05:32 PM Post #19 |
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What she said ^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| briana | Dec 3 2004, 07:23 PM Post #20 |
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omg!!! POst more really really soon!!!! I really loved how she picked Liar liar and said the actress in it was great...that was very funny. The Ramono arm thing with Susan...that was funny too... The end!!!!!! PLZ...post more asap!!!
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~Briana --->Carby...even if its only a dream, its not one im willing to give up just yet... "We only part to meet again..." - Luka Kovac Abby: D'you realize you've been in there for 20 minutes? Carter: You miss me, or am I wasting water? Abby: Both
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| countygeneral04 | Dec 3 2004, 11:09 PM Post #21 |
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really good! more!!!! |
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| lemonjelly | Dec 4 2004, 06:22 AM Post #22 |
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thankyou very much for the reviews, all! i will post more soon, give it a couple of days though - i'm swamped in history coursework about Roosevelt and the 1932 election campaign! is it at all possible that this would be easier if i were american? does anybody know anything about this that i could include and make myself look amazingly clever? or even just adequately smart would work for me... |
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| Luka's Divota | Dec 5 2004, 06:16 AM Post #23 |
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OMG...please please please please please post more soon. I love this story so much
katie xxx |
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| lemonjelly | Dec 10 2004, 12:55 PM Post #24 |
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so here is the fifth chapter of ten for all i ever needed. thanks very much to: briana, exploradora and ERfool89 for all the very cool reviews. keep em coming, guys! but most of all, enjoy! Love LJ xXx here we go: All I Ever Needed. Chapter Five. What Could Have Been My Last Susan glanced over at Abby while they sat at her kitchen table; she couldn’t get the thought of her best friend being pregnant out of her mind. Her best friend being pregnant and not telling her. It had been six weeks since Susan had discovered the positive pregnancy test in the trash and since then, Abby had moved back to her own place, although most of her time was still spent at Susan’s. Abby looked up and saw Susan watching her over the top of a magazine who then looked away turning slightly pink at being caught staring. Abby sighed and put down her pen. “Ok, Suze. This time you have to tell me what’s up. This is about the millionth time you’ve been looking at me all weird,” Abby smiled at her friend’s guilty expression. “What’s the matter?” Susan sighed and put down her magazine. “Ok, fine. I’ll tell you, but you can’t get mad at me – I found out by accident,” Susan warned her. “Found out what?” Abby pressed. Susan ran her hand through her hair and took a deep breath. “Look, I know you’re pregnant, okay?” she admitted. Abby mouth fell open and she stared back at Susan, stunned; she hadn’t expected her to say that, of all things. “I’m sorry, I - “ Susan added, hurriedly. Abby just gaped at her until she finally found her voice. “What gave me away?” she asked quietly, looking down at the table. “Was it the fact that I’m giving up smoking? The way I don’t take caffeine anymore? Or could you tell I’ve been puking all morning?” Susan leant across the table and tried to get Abby to look up at her. “I found your test in the trash – ages ago.” Susan told her, gently. “It’s Carter’s, isn’t it?” Abby nodded. “Abby, why didn’t you say anything?” She touched her friend’s hand lightly but Abby pulled back like she had been burnt. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. Guess I forgot.” Abby answered briefly. She got up and headed to the bathroom. As she walked through Susan’s room she stopped at the full length mirror, stood sideways and pulled her shirt back tightly to see if there was any difference. “Hey, is everything alright?” Susan appeared at her bedroom door. “It can’t have just slipped your mind – these sorts of things are kind of hard to forget.” Abby looked at her. “Yeah, no matter how hard you try to,” she muttered. “But it’s like another reminder – he’s not here.” Susan bit her lip. “Oh, honey. Come here,” she murmured softly and drew Abby into a hug. “Tell me again, Susan.” Abby mumbled into Susan’s shoulder. “Tell me he’ll come back soon.” Susan stroked Abby’s hair kindly and sighed. “He will. And you know, if he doesn’t – he’s the stupidest guy in the world.” She whispered. The words didn’t help much – Abby still cried into Susan’s shirt, but it was such a relief, such a great comfort, to have someone to hug her while she wept. * * * They sat in their usual places in the Doctor’s Lounge: Luka and Abby. He sat opposite her and drank his coffee while he gazed at her working hard and offered any help he could. “Sure you don’t want any coffee?” he asked again and she shook her head. “How come you never drink it anymore? You must need it more now than ever.” She looked up and smiled at him. “Luka, I’m pregnant.” She confessed. He looked at her, surprised. “Carter’s, right?” he verified. She laughed bitterly. “Who else?” She turned back to her work but he watched her more intently than ever this time. “You want to hear something that happened while we were out there in Kisangani?” Luka said, finally, breaking the silence. Abby put her elbows on the table and rested her head on her hand. “Yeah, okay,” she agreed. He finished up his coffee in a gulp. “Well, alright – but this isn’t meant to worry you – it’s safer now,” he cautioned her. “When we were there, rebel forces came to take over the town where we were helping out. They usually just come to raid the people of food and supplies, but this time they had got weapons and were angered by us – white and black people helping each other out – they don’t seem to understand that it’s all to help their people. “Anyway, they had guns and they were angry. It was pretty chaotic there – we were forced to our knees with the barrels to our foreheads, there were people screaming at each other, rebel soldiers yelling orders in French. It was kind of hard to keep your cool. For some reason, I looked over at Carter – I guess to check he was okay; still alive. He was like us, kneeling in the dirt, hands behind his head and a gun pressed up against his skull. But he looked calm and he kind of had this lost look in his eyes, like he was staring straight ahead, but seeing something totally different. It might have been his last moments thought before a bullet went through his head, and he was thinking of you. He always used to look like that when he was thinking about you. Like he was somewhere else – like nothing that was happening to him mattered anymore.” Abby stared, transfixed by his story. Then she shook herself and laughed self-consciously. “You’re making it up,” she said, curtly. He smiled at her as his pager went off and he stood up to leave. “Abby, I don’t think I could,” he replied honestly and then went out. She sat there, books around her lay forgotten. If Luka had come back in he would’ve seen that lost look of Carter’s was now in the eyes of Abby – the same look she always had when she thought of him. |
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| lemonjelly | Dec 10 2004, 12:57 PM Post #25 |
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OH AND ALSO THANKS TO countygeneral05 AND I_Love_Samka!!! im really sorry, i dont know how i missed out your reviews!!! they were super, thanks xxxxxxxxxx |
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| Luka's Divota | Dec 10 2004, 01:48 PM Post #26 |
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lol...OMG...i love this so much...i love your style of writing. I need to read more soon
its such a good story, and the speech is so sweet, and perfectkatie xxx |
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| briana | Dec 10 2004, 05:46 PM Post #27 |
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That was awesome!!! I LOVED how Luka was talking to her...telling her about the "look" in his eyes. I really love ur writing style too!! More soon plz!!!! :lol: |
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~Briana --->Carby...even if its only a dream, its not one im willing to give up just yet... "We only part to meet again..." - Luka Kovac Abby: D'you realize you've been in there for 20 minutes? Carter: You miss me, or am I wasting water? Abby: Both
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| ERfool89 | Dec 10 2004, 08:35 PM Post #28 |
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Love it!!!!!!!! Cant wait till you post again!!!!!!!! |
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| DearAbby | Dec 10 2004, 08:38 PM Post #29 |
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More really soon! I love it! It's great! :lol: |
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| Yaysita | Dec 10 2004, 10:04 PM Post #30 |
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Love it, post more soon!!!!!!!!! |
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