Winchester Legacy 1.2

I think sometimes my home life was affecting my work life. I would have never done anything that foolish before but I was trying to stay at work just a little later. Do you see what that got me? I’d worked hard for those points. Having to speak to myself over and over again in the mirror to perfect my speeches wasn’t my idea of a good time. And I’d lost two of those points in one fell swoop. Hopefully Gordon’s day turned out better than mine.

He came home earlier than expected with a glum look on his face. We didn’t say a word to each other just stood and hugged in the living rom before going about our usual day. Every career had its set backs. Hopefully we’d both survive these two in one day.

Unfortunately the shower head broke. Fortunately I had been reading books on the mechanics of various machines so I didn’t have a problem fixing it. Although Gordon had been upset because he didn’t know how to fix it and he insisted that it was his job to fix the broken things around the house. I told him to get busy reading and then we wouldn’t have this problem. He’d stormed off and ripped a book from the bookcase . Shaking my head I went back to work.

Can you believe I didn’t know that Marissa worked at the same hospital as me? I mean seriously, how weird is that? Oh, don’t you remember her? She’s the same woman I caught in bed with Joe. Apparently I wasn’t the only one he liked to play doctor with. I find it funny now and Rissa and I would swap stories about Joe. It’s odd, I know, but we became friends. We had a lot in common and it wasn’t her fault that she hadn’t know about me.  It felt good to have a female friend that I could confide it.

That didn’t mean that I trusted her in the house alone with Gordon. I’d rather be wary than fooled again. Marissa said she was in a committed relationship now but for all I knew she might be like me. In a committed relationship physically but not emotionally.

Gordon told me a funny story. He had just received a promotion when a pretty girl came strutting down the sidewalk and flirted with him. I laughed right along with him but it got me thinking. Wouldn’t I have normally have been insanely jealous? And the way Gordon was looking at me I think that he wanted me to be. But, I just couldn’t be. It wouldn’t break my heart if he found happiness with someone else. He deserved to be happy. He was the sweetest man I knew, the kind I used to dream about having as a little girl. Well, my dream guy had been insanely rich but still. Gordon was everything Joe hadn’t been but I had fallen madly and totally in love with Joe.  Sometimes I just didn’t understand myself.

Gordon had taken up painting in his free time. He was extremely good at it. He would stand at that easel for hours on end and whenever he finished I would stand there in awe at his talent. I could tell  by looking at him that he found enjoyment doing this. So, while he painted I would go outside and work at my own worktable. The house wasn’t big enough for it and sometimes I would get some involved in working on the cadaver that I would lose track of time.  I was working on an extremely difficult procedure when the scalpel suddenly dropped from my nerveless fingers. I suddenly realized that I must have been outside longer than I thought.

When I got inside I punched in the number for my doctor. Blue was not a good color on me.  I told him what had happened and he suggested that I take a nice, hot bath. Since we didn’t have a tub I took a nice, long shower and that seemed to clear it up. I didn’t have any lingering numbness in my fingers which is what I had been worried about. What kind of doctor would I be if I couldn’t wield my scalpel with minute precision? Not a very good one that’s for sure.

I did feel ill for a few days after that but I chalked it up to a lingering cold.

It wasn’t until I started to vomit first thing in the morning and almost after every meal that I realized just what these symptoms were.  I groaned when I heard the sound of the camera clicking from behind me. I couldn’t even tell her to stop taking such unflattering pictures as I continued to empty out the contents of my stomach.

I didn’t have a cold. I was pregnant.

Writer’s notes:  These two have two bolts but they never really spend any time together! Except, apparently, when ACR comes into play! Also, I had it on fast forward when Toni was outside because I was trying to get Gordon his creative point before heading to work. I didn’t realize she was frozen until she came inside to answer the phone. *cough*

Toni brought Marissa Bendett home with her from work one day. I was staring at her thinking she looked familiar when it hit me. LOL!! And those two are now best friends. Geez!

There really is no window in the bathroom. At least there wasn’t at this point.

I hate chance cards!!!!