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There were fourteen patients; three in critical condition, nine stable and two ready to be discharged. There were ten bunches of flowers; four mixed rose bouquets, one tulip bouquet, three lily bouquets and two wild flower bouquets. There were four nurses on shift, one orderly and a tea lady named April who did in fact know how to make a proper cup of tea and of course there were the Other Doctors who Coraline mostly seemed to ignore especially the handsy one. Some of the Other Doctors were idiots, the nursing staff on the other hand were quite good and April, April was a saint. Especially when she bought her a cup of tea in the middle of an eighteen hour shift.

"Hello Miss Spink," Coraline asked, brushing her hand on the shoulder of one of the new nurses before leaning across the desk to take the mug from her. Taking a mouthful Coraline let out a low happy moan, her hand tightened on the shoulder before she let go and smiledbrightly at the tea lady. "Miss Spink you are a lifesaver. How's your knee?"

"Oh, you know can't complain. It's Miriam's hip that are the problem, when we used to tread the boards we never had any troubles but now everything aches and creaks." Coraline smiled, turning before hopping up onto the desk swinging her long legs back and forth as she drank the tea. Looking down startled at the handsome man staring up at her, Coraline flushed as he stared intently at her. No one really looked at her like that before not like they wanted to... um, eat her. It was kind of creepy and a little bit hot. "Here Aidan dear, I made you a nice cup of coffee."

Coraline swallowed her tea as he reached over to take the coffee, his intense stare lightening as he smiled at Miss Spink.

"Have you met Aidan yet Caroline? Aidan is one of our nurses, he's taking over some of Rebecca's shifts. Aidan this is Doctor Jones."

"It's Coraline actually, Coraline Jones. Hello," Coraline said offering her hand.

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Coraline began to protest, smiling as Aidan ignored her and headed to the bar. Turning her head, she almost jumped out of her seat at the man sitting opposite her. Her smile faltered for a moment, brow furrowing before she smiled a little brighter at him. Aidan was right, everyone really did come here. Even the cops. Well, out of uniform cops.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's alright... Lieutenant Bishop, right? I've seen you at the hospital a few times," Coraline said offering her hand to the man who took the hand and smiled, all teeth at her. Coraline frowned, trying to place why that felt... familiar.

"Call me James and it's Caroline isn't it? I didn't realise you were friends with our Aidan," Bishop replied.

"It's Coraline, not Caroline and yeah, we're on a da-" Coraline cut herself off as she studied the man, staring intently at her. The way he looked interested when she said... weird. "Yeah, we're friends I guess."

"That's good, Aidan needs all the friends he can get right now." Coraline looked at the policeman curiously, into Bishop's eyes, wondering what the hell he meant by that. "Can you tell Aidan something for me?"

Coraline looked up at the sound of glass on the table, snapping out of it before smiling more relieved than anything. There was something about policemen, well maybe just that policeman in particular, that Coraline didn't like. But then she'd always distrusted the police.

"Hey, you just missed your friend." Coraline said, pointing at the door swinging shut before reaching for her pint. Coraline smiled as she dragged it across. "He said to say hi and to give him a call in the morning if you needed help? Except he seemed to say it in an entirely creepy way, really you should probably tell him how not to creep or maybe just how to smile a little more."

Aidan was a little puzzled as to why Josh would be coming to the bar to say something like that, especially since Josh should be heading out to the woods right about now so that he could wolf out. It was a bit risky to come here so late in the evening.

"Josh doesn't mean to come off creepy, he really doesn't," Aidan said. He wasn't quite sure how Josh meant to come off, but it usually wasn't how he did come off. "He's just excitable and he's got a big night tonight."

Coraline turned towards Aidan, sitting a little closer to him as he returned. Cheeks blushing, Coraline shook her head paying her drink attention as she picked it up.

"Oh, no not Josh. Josh is a complete puppy, definitely an excitable puppy no it was-" Coraline paused, to take a mouthful of the drink before placing the glass down on the table again. "-Mmmm, so good. Oh, right it was your cop friend? James? Um, Bishop?"

Aidan froze at the mention of Bishop's name. The fact that Bishop was taking an interest in people Aidan hung out with wasn't good. The reminder of just how poorly Aidan dealt with the last girl from work he had hooked up with was very sobering.

"Bishop's friendship is... complicated," Aidan said. He wasn't even sure if he could always say Bishop was his friend. More his father than anything else. "Sometimes I'm not sure if he's a friend. I'd stay away from him if I were you."

Coraline looked at Aidan curiously, reaching out to touch his hand when he looked like that. Curling her fingertips around his hand, Coraline squeezed his hand gently before tugging him closer to her.

"Ah, you shouldn't have said that." Coraline said admonishing Aidan lightly, ducking her head with a slight smile. "When people tell me to stay away from things, I tend to stay away from them by investigating thoroughly why I need to stay away from them. My parents always said I'm far too curious for my own good."

Coraline's hand remained with Aidan's, thumb absentmindedly stroking the back of his hand. Coraline looked at Aidan curiously, her nose wrinkling as she studied him.

"Do you have a lot of complicated friendships?" Coraline asked.

If Coraline was insistent on finding out why she should stay away from Bishop, he might have to use some of his more unpleasant abilities to make her forget all about Bishop and himself. If he thought it would work, Aidan would just avoid Coraline, but that sounded like that would make her more eager to look into what was going on.

"Nurses hours make it tricky to have a lot of close friendships," Aidan said. It wasn't the whole truth, but it was close enough. Trying to fit in though, you couldn't completely isolate yourself so he was fairly good acquaintances with people at work and around the neighborhood.

"I hang out with some people at work now and then though and I couldn't ask for a better friend in Josh."

"So, let me guess you're both..." Coraline paused, leaning forward as she looked at Aidan cheekily. "... mimes and he wants you to embrace the mime lifestyle but you're kind of conflicted about it because you hate the whole stripey shirt look. Which you probably could not pull off."

Coraline laughed, stretching her hand forward onto his leg as she smiled at him.

"Nurse hours, doctors hours, cop hours... I get it. Sometimes I'm just so wired after work and then most people are in bed or out at work so it kind of makes things... complicated I guess. Not mime complicated obviously," Coraline said poking Aidan in the side as she teased him lightly. Leaning against his body for support as she began to oh boy feel the affect of that additional pint. "You guys are really close aren't you? It must be nice having someone like that."

"You've discovered me secret," Aidan said with a laugh, hugging her a bit closer as she leaned up against him. If she got drunk enough, it would be much easier to make her forget all about him later. He hated to do it, it was a violation and he genuinely liked her, but it was for her own safety.

"But promise me you won't say anything to the others? Will you swear the silence of the mime to me?"

It was odd, how relatively close she was to the truth. Just replace 'mime' with 'vampire' and there you go. Fortunately, not many people would assume vampires. Not that many would assume mime either.

"But Josh and I are close. We'd... probably be lost without each other."

Coraline leaned against him, her hand sliding up his leg innocently. Well, okay maybe not so innocently but really flirting had never been her thing. Ever. Not even when boys sort of cottoned on to the fact that she was a Girl.

"Oh, of course not. You can trust me, I'm very good with secrets." Coraline said before she held her hand out and mimed a brownie promise and swear. Coraline dropped her hand back against Aidan's stomach, her fingertips brushing against him slightly before she flushed as she listened to him talk about Josh like that.

"Oh! Oh, right. Sorry, I just assumed- with the flirting. Which I mean, was probably all me and you never said it was bothering you so I thought... but you and Josh. Right! Sorry!" Coraline said feeling a little flustered. She had no idea what Aidan must have thought of her throwing herself at him like some... floozy. Okay, well at least she hadn't invited him home or tried to snog him or anything because that would have been awkward. More awkward than that time her and Johnny had been... oh wow, nope this was definitely worse than that. "I'm just going to drink this and hope the ground swallows me whole. This is why I never flirt ever, disaster area."

Aidan struggled not to squirm as Coraline put her hands all over him. Well, not all over him, but in places that people didn't usually just casually brush their hands. He was wondering if she was just a tease or if she was honestly going to go somewhere with it.

When she suddenly became awkward, he couldn't help but laugh loudly at what she had obviously thought he meant when he said they were close and would be lost without each other. While Aidan had dabbled in that sort of thing in the past, that was DEFINITELY not how he viewed Josh.

"That's not what I meant at all," Aidan said, pulling her closer again. "I'm not with Josh in that way. I'm very single right now. Although it's good to confirm that you were flirting with me."

Coraline blushed, her cheeks flushing a brighter shade of pink as Aidan corrected her little misunderstanding. Coraline reached for her drink pressing the side of her glass against her cheeks for a moment before she swallowed. Placing the glass down, she moved as Aidan pulled her closer pressing her hand against his chest.

"Ground swallow me now," Coraline said sliding her hand up, beneath Aidan's jacket to rest against his shoulder. Biting her lip, Coraline licked them as she looked at Aidan curiously. Or rather looked at his lips. Feeling a flush of desire, her heart picking up speed a little she busied her hands in the fabric of his top. "You mean, you couldn't tell I was flirting by my awkward flailing at you?"

"I didn't notice the flailing," Aidan said, leaning forward as he watched her lick her lips. If he was going to erase all memories of him, it would be wrong to kiss her, wouldn't it? Or since she seemed to want it too, was that okay?

"I did notice all the touching though," he added, growling happily as she slid her hand along his shoulder.

Coraline was about to mutter about the flailing when Aidan Growled. Breath catching in her throat at the noise, Coraline supressed the tiny shiver that send a little flush of desire through her. That was kinda hot, no one had really ever growled at her before not like that anyway.

"I'm- I like touching people, it reminds me that they're real... alive. And okay, it's a little flirty." Coraline said rubbing her lips together as she looked at Aidan's lips and swallowed a little as he leaned forward. She could almost brush her lips against hers if he leaned forward a bit more.

"Well, why don't you really make good and sure that I'm alive," he murmured as he leaned forward, kissing her softly as he spoke.

This was a bad idea. Really, really bad in fact but he couldn't help himself. She was so irresistibly tempting and he wanted her. He wanted to feel the heat of her skin and the taste of her lips. Her blood pumped through her veins so loudly it was like a rushing in his ears and Aidan had to fight to keep himself from doing more than just sliding his arm to her waist and pulling her close.

"Because this isn't mmph-" Coraline found herself cut off by a soft, gentle kiss to her lips. Coraline's eyes widened, hesitant in returning the kiss before she pushed that little part of her that said run aside and kissed him hard. Curling her fingers round his shoulders, she tugged him close as she leaned into his kiss. Leg sliding up against his as he pulled her close. She wanted him and it freaked her out a little how much she wanted him.

Pressing her bare fingers against her neck, she almost slid onto his lap before hesitating at the very public location.

Aidan was surprised at how hard she kissed him back, but it was certainly a pleasant surprise. He could feel her shift against him, but he knew that it was a bad idea. Even if it weren't a very public place, he could feel the hunger in him bursting to be let out.

Slowly pulling away, Aidan closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against Coraline's. He could feel his fangs partially out and was sure that if she could see them right now, his eyes would be black. He took several deep breaths before he was calm enough again to open his eyes.

"So... how alive am I?"

Her lips followed Aidan's for a moment as he pulled back, pressing his head against hers. Feeling a little breathless, Coraline bit her bottom lip tugging as she looked at Aidan with his eyes closed shut. Brushing her lips against his, she slid her hand beneath the back of his top and let her fingers run along his neck.

"The test results are inconclusive," Coraline said seriously, her leg running up his as she shifted beside him. "We should double check to make sure before we prescribe any treatment for lack of aliveness."

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