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"No! I wasn't taking any shortcuts. I was doing my job. It just so happens it was quicker than you." I snap back at him.
"This hospital isn't just about a speedy visit, this hospital is to make sure the people in this community, the community that I've lived in all of my life, have quality and thorough care. We do things a certain way here for a reason. Either you figure it out quickly, or you can go ahead and have the contractual agreement for your services terminated early. Now escort the patient back into the waiting room and when I'm ready to meet with him, I'll call." Dr. Dracos says and walks out, leaving me there to process the verbal ass whopping I just got. I look over my shoulder and the patient quickly diverts his eyes.
How embarrassing.
My cheeks go red, and I keep my eyes down to the floor. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to waste your time, but could you please go back out into the waiting room and wait for one of the nurses to call you in?" I tell him, and he gets up right away, leaving without so much as a word.
I walk out of the room a minute or two after the patient and go to the nurses station. The entire area feels like it's suffocating under Nic's wrath.
Ardi was right. It was good while it lasted. I don't want to give up hope, but he's surely making it a bit hard.
As the day goes on, Dr. Dracos anger begins to ebb and there were even certain times that I'd catch him looking at me in a remorseful way, but he would instantly mask up and set a scowl on his features.
I'm not just going to gloss over the fact that he humiliated me in front of a patient when he didn't need to. I'm going to need a real apology about that one.
By the end of the day, even though we weren't laughing and joking around like we had been in days past, at least all the nurses were back to being happy.
One of the last patients of the night is in the room with Dr. Joyner, a new doctor who only started a week ago. She'd been in there a while already, and when she stuck her head out the door with a scowl, I knew things weren't going as planned.
"Sorry, ladies. Can one of you page Dr. Dracos for a consult, please?" She says, and we all groan.
He'd been hiding out for the last hour, and right now, I prefer him doing that.
A light bulb goes off in my head and I realize that right now could be my chance to let him know how I and probably every other person in the building feels about him right now.
"I'll do it." I smile brightly as I pick up the phone and activate the overhead announcement system.
"Consult request for a Dr. Douche. I repeat, consult request for a Dr. Nic Dracos Douche." I say as cheery as possible, and all the nurses gasp at my audacity. If he thought I was being insubordinate before, he's going to love this. If he wants to fire me, then I guess today is going to be that day.
I wait on pins and needles and when I hear his door open, everyone sucks in a panicked breath.
He storms around the corner and his eyes go wide when he sees me. Everyone cringes back, waiting for the scary wolf to huff and puff and blow us away. I don't shirk away.
He stares and scowls, his shoulders go down, and the scowl turns into a sad smirk.
"Someone rang?" He says with a shrug.
I turn away from him and give a small smile to the nurses behind the desk who are all looking at me with bright smiles.
Nah, it's not over yet. I sigh and that warm feeling I had last night comes over me again. There's still hope for him yet.
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I deserved that.I'll take the moniker of Dr. Douche if it means she'll smile at me again.
I'm such a dumb ass. All day, I've been barking at anyone that dare come close to me, simply because that's what I used to do. Everyone who tried to be friendly to me until I realized that it was precisely what Cynthia was manipulating me to do. She wanted me to be the same miserable man she knew from before because it meant that she had a chance to get back with me or at me or whatever she was planning.
Cynthia doesn't want me to change because she doesn't want me to be happy.
I'm not going to stop my life because I've suddenly deviated from her plan. I'm not going to turn into a full-fledged clown, but I will admit that I did deserve to be poked a little.
Still, even after the tension seemed to die down throughout the day, Nyla hadn't said a word to me after that blow up between her and I in the patient room.
I figured I'd let her have the day to be mad at me, and then tomorrow I'd try my hand at an apology.
As the clinic is closing up, I go upstairs to check on the patients one final time before I leave them in the care of Dr. Mason who is on call and Ardi who is the nurse scheduled for overnight care.
