ROAD TRIP 14
Kerry & Luka & Dave & Carter
Previously on ER
A grateful (and rich) patient (Mr. Byrne) invited some of the ER
doctors on an all-expenses paid trip to Ireland to attend a
conference in Galway. Drinking in the College bar, they made some
new friends. Dave and Carter were invited to a party, but Kerry
and Luka decided to go back to their accommodation. Reaching the
apartment Luka swept Kerry off her feet and into the bedroom.
Meanwhile Dave had a 'discussion' with Kendra, and Kim and Susan
had a 'debate' with Carter. When they eventually returned to
their rented apartment, Carter had to climb in the window to let
them in - having inadvertently left the keys behind earlier - and
managed to sprain his ankle while doing so.
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Half an hour later, Carter was sitting on the couch looking
miserably at his swelling ankle.
"I told you to be careful," said Dave as he applied a
makeshift ice pack to it.
Carter winced. "Could you *be* any rougher?"
"Could you whine any more?"
Carter glared at him. "This trip is becoming a nightmare,"
he groaned. "My clothes are either filthy or soaked, I've
sprained my ankle, I had to sleep with Dr. Kovac..."
"But you did get laid," reminded Dave. "It hasn't
been all bad. And besides...the trips not over yet."
Carter sighed, "Yeah...I guess it hasn't been all bad."
Pushing himself up off the couch, he groaned at the pain that
shot through his ankle and clutched at Dave for support.
"Why Carter...this is so sudden," said Dave with a grin
as he instinctively grabbed at his friend to prevent him from
falling.
"Great," groaned Carter. "I can't even walk on it...this
conference is going to be a nightmare."
"Quit complaining...it'll feel a lot better in the morning...and
if not...well there's three hospitals in the city...I'm sure one
of them will be able to lend you a set of crutches."
"Maybe...but what do I do now? Crawl to my room."
Dave grinned evilly. "No problem." Before Carter could
react, Dave had slung him into a fireman's lift and was heading
for the bedroom. Carter yelped as he narrowly missed banging his
head on the doorframe.
"There," said Dave, as he unceremoniously dumped Carter
on the bed. "Sleep well, and I'm sure things will be better
in the morning."
"They'd better be," mumbled Carter.
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Kerry writhed sensuously on the bed as Luka started kissing his
way up her legs. "Oh God, yes," she moaned as he
applied his attention to the back of her knees.
His arms gathered her close and he was about to cover her face
with delicate kisses when suddenly there was a loud ringing noise.
Kerry opened her eyes blearily and groaned as she realized that
the ringing noise was coming from her phone.
Grabbing it she held it to her ear and snapped, "Yes?"
while thinking that whoever had woken her had better have a good
reason.
To her horror, she heard Dr. Romano's voice on the other end of
the line.
"That's no way to speak to your Chief of Staff," he
said.
"Oh shit," thought Kerry. Out loud she said, "Robert...what
a 'pleasant' surprise...but what are you doing phoning me at..."
She glanced at the clock. "Six a.m.?"
"My apologies. It's just gone midnight here...I didn't
realize how early it was."
"Yeah right," muttered Kerry under her breath, sure
that he had known exactly how early in the morning it was.
"Well, I just wanted to phone you and make sure that the
members of your 'entourage' are behaving themselves. Remember
that you are representing not only County General, but the entire
medical profession of the United States," he said a little
pompously. "And if this goes well, then it's entirely
possible that Mr. Byrne will provide funding for other
conferences...he may even be prevailed upon to fund some research
in the hospital. There's a lot riding on this Kerry...don't let
those residents mess things up."
Kerry rolled her eyes, "I'm sure that Dr's. Carter and
Malucci will be on their best behavior throughout this weekend."
She involuntarily crossed her fingers, hoping that that was true.
"In fact," she continued, "I believe they have
already made some 'useful contacts'..."
Kerry could hear Romano sniff disdainfully, "Well, anyway,
just keep them out of trouble...god only knows why he had to
insist on them going with you in the first place."
"Because they happened to save his life," said Kerry
patiently. "And he was so grateful that he insisted on
paying our way to attending a conference in the College he
studied in."
"Whatever. If they do anything to tarnish the good name of
County General..." Romano let his words hang ominously in
the air.
"I'm sure they'll both behave as perfect gentlemen,"
said Kerry, wishing she could reach down the phone lines and
shake him until what remained of his hair fell out.
"Well, see that they do," snapped Romano. "I'm
holding you personally responsible."
"Goodbye Robert," said Kerry finally. "I'll talk
to you when we get back to Chicago."
Quickly she broke the connection and buried her face in the
pillow. Trust Robert to interrupt one of the most erotic dreams
she'd had in ages. Of all the rotten timing...Kerry's thoughts
trailed off as she remembered what had inspired her erotic dream.
Sitting up in the bed, she quickly pulled back the covers...revealing
a naked Croatian at 'half-mast'. "Oh baby," she thought
to herself with delight. "Now *this* was something worth
getting woken up for."
"Thank you Romano," she said.
Luka's eyes flickered open. "Please let me still be
dreaming," he mumbled. "Surely you cannot be mistaking
me for our 'illustrious' Chief of Staff?"
Kerry laughed wickedly, "I'd have to be blind to do that...and
even then..." She reached out and grabbed on, "even
then, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't mistake you for him."
Luka sighed softly, "I sincerely hope not," he gasped
as he grabbed Kerry and rolled on top of her.
**Time-lapse**
**Time-lapse**
**Time-lapse**
Luka slithered his way down Kerry's body. He was about to see if
he could break his all time record when there was a loud banging
on the apartment door.
"Jebi ga!" swore Luka. "Odiebi!"
Kerry slapped him on the shoulder, "I somehow don't think
that that was Croatian for come on in," she hissed at him.
"Do you want me to stop what I'm doing?" asked Luka.
Kerry groaned inwardly. "No," she admitted.
Luka lowered his head again, but Kerry took hold of his hair and
lifted it. "I don't want you to stop," she said, "But
I think we'd better find out what's so important that there's
someone banging on our door so early in the morning."
Outside the banging persisted. Kerry quickly pulled on a pair of
pajamas and grabbed her crutch. "Perhaps you'd better wait
in here," she said to Luka. He shrugged, but since he didn't
fancy getting up anyway, he was quite happy to pull the
bedclothes around him again.
To Kerry's surprise, Dave was standing outside her door. "Morning
Chief," he said with his trademark cheeky grin.
"Malucci? You had better have a good reason for waking me up
at this hour."
"Waking you up...yeah sure," smirked Dave. "Sorry
about that Chief...but I just wanted to get the keys to the car."
Kerry rubbed her eyes tiredly. "Why do you want the keys to
the car?" she asked wearily.
"Um, cause I need to take Carter down to the hospital...see
he sprained his ankle last night...climbing in the window...and
we need to get him a set of crutches so he can get around okay...so
we figured if we went in early enough we'd be there and back
before the conference stuff got going."
"Is John all right?" asked Kerry, a note of concern in
her voice.
"Yeah, it's just a sprain...but he won't be able to walk
properly on his own...so can we have the car...please 'mom'?"
Kerry rolled her eyes...and then realized that if Dave and Carter
were hanging around at the hospital...then no one was going to be
hanging around the apartment.
"Of course you can have the car keys," she said sweetly.
Retrieving them from the table, she handed them to Dave. "Don't
worry about getting back on time...take as long as you need...it
might be no harm to get an x-ray as well...just to be on the safe
side."
"Sure thing," grinned Dave. "See you'ze later."
He turned around and headed down the hallway. "Oh, and
Chief?" he turned around and called out to Kerry. "Tell
Dr. K. that if he sleeps on his side he won't snore as much...that
way he won't be keeping you awake like he did me and Carter."
"Goodbye Malucci," said Kerry, before shutting the door
and returning to the bedroom.
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To be continued
Author's notes - **time-lapse** is Role Playing Game shorthand
for having sex...but I'm pretty certain you already figured that
out.
Jebi ga! = Croatian for F**k it
Odiebi! = Croatian for F**k off
Translations were found at http://members.nbci.com/elips_kosak/swear.htm
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