Chapter 1

Harley

It's gonna be a long night and I've only been at work for about three hours now. We've already had case's of gallstones, appendicitis, and a broken femur and tibia as well as a car accident. I can only hope it gets better but considering I have nine hours to go I don't see it happening. It's a good thing that I'm working with my bestie tonight I don't know how I'd make it through without him.

Coleman Ethan Garrison better known as Coleslaw has been my best friend since I moved out here. He's funny as hell and keeps everyone laughing and on their toes. He's a fellow RN nurse at the hospital and we try to always be on the same shifts. I've been trying to set him up with my brother for a few months now. He thinks he's cute but when it comes to talking to him, he's actually very shy about it.

Henley actually works on the police force with Cole's older brother Declan. He's a captain on the force and my brothers a lieutenant. So, Coles known my brother for a few years now. Henley has been friends with Dec, Jax, and Hunt for about five years now. Hunter and Jackson are also Cole and Declan's brothers. Hunt is a paramedic for the squad an Jax is a fireman. They both work out of firehouse 38 on Lakeshore east.

They are all really good guys an extremely sexy. I've had a huge crush on Hunt, Jax an Dec since I first met them. I don't really think they know I exist though. I'm not bad looking I'm 5'0 foot tall and 120 pounds with red hair and green eyes. I don't think I'm bad looking but I'm apparently not good enough for any of them. No one knows that my brother and I are even twins because he's 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds with dirty blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes. Were a mixture of our parents our moms blonde with green eyes and our dads a red head with brown eyes. Thankfully that's all that we got from our parents.

We're now on hour five of work and things have calmed down a little bit. It's the usual crew working together. Were always on the same shifts and we're all best friends with the exception of one dr. Dr dick as we like to call him better known as Dr Bryce Hamill.

Emma says he just needs to get laid and he'd change his tune I'm not so sure though. Our usual crew is Cole, Emma, Lila, Dr Eric Radford, Dr Bryce Hamill, and myself.

We usually have the paramedics in an out through the night also. There is Hunter, Zeke, Parker, and Arabella. Ara is another one of my friends she's the only girl surrounded by boys at the firehouse, so we made her one of ours. So, every Friday when it's time to go out she joins all of us girls and Cole.

We always try to get together once a week and even during the week also if were not busy. We're all like one big family. We try to always get together on Sundays at someone's house for Sunday diner if were not working.

If I have it at my house my brother goes and hangs out with the boys. He says that even though he's gay he's still to manly to listen to the hens bitch about guy problems and sex. Even though he bitches when it's just me and him. Typical man right.

I think what his problem is, is that he actually likes Cole but is too afraid to say something. The last guy he dated was when we were in college and the guy was a big dush bag. After Henley left for Chicago, I ended up kicking the guy in the nuts for what he did to my brother.

Hopefully he'll be able to start trusting soon and finally move on an be happy. That's all I want for Henley; he's always been the strong one and been there for me and now it's my turn to be there for him.

Cole, Emma and I are standing at the desk at the er going over a file for a patient that came in when a call come in from the squad.

Cole answers the phone " Hello. Hey Hunter. What Happened? Ok. How far out are you? Ok we'll be ready for you. Hey girls the squads coming in they're about five minutes out. They've got a case of domestic abuse the patient is a 38-year-old female in bad shape. Dr Erics on his lunch break with Lila so this is on us an Dr Dick."

" Good luck getting him in here he's not wanted to come out of his office at all today" I said. "Well babe looks like you'll have to take care of this patient till Dr Eric gets back. You're a better doctor then Dr Dick anyways" says Emma.

"Emma you know I'm not a doctor I'm just a nurse, but I have to agree with you on that. His bedside manner definitely sucks as does his attitude. Who all's on the squad tonight Coleslaw"?

"Ugh you know I hate that name Leelee. Tonight's Hunter, and Parker on squad 8 and Zeke and Arabella on squad 13. Hunt and Park are on their way in now."

"There's your boyfriend now Harley. Ohhh he looks sexy tonight doesn't he" says Emma.

With a frustrated growl I say "He's not my damn boyfriend I don't even think he knows that I exist so shut up. We've got a patient to worry about get exam room 2 ready. Hey Hunter, Parker what do we got."

Parker gives me a big smile and says "Hey beautiful, we got a DA patient. She's 38 with lacerations on her arms, legs and back. I think she may have a broken nose and a fractured eye socket along with a broken arm and leg. Some of the lacerations are deep and will need stitches. She's also lost a lot of blood."

"Ok thank you Parker please take her to exam room 2. Cole were gonna need x rays done and then we'll need to stitch up her lacerations. I also want a complete blood work. I'm gonna try to find Dr Hamill to see if he'll come help me stitch her up. Dr Erics still on lunch for another half an hour".

"Good luck getting Dr Dick down here. If I have to ill help you stich her up" Cole says. "Whose Dr Dick?" Hunter asked.

"That would be Dr Hamill. He's the other doctor we get stuck with, but he doesn't like doing his job. He's always in his office on the 8th floor and don't like coming down here. The only time it's a problem is when Dr Eric Radford's busy or on lunch and rite now he's on lunch. So, like always that means that Harley will end up taking care of the patient and patching them up until Dr Eric gets back" Cole tells him.

I can hear them talking even though me and Emma are working on the patient. I can just barely make out Hunters words, but I think he asks why I can work on the patients but him an Emma can't do much. Cole says "She's a RN with a BSN and the head nurse so she's got more experience than we do. Whereas the rest of us are just RNs, but we can work on patients to. There's just only so much we can do though. She went to four years in college back in Boston with her brother and then another three out there while working the whole time. She even double majored and has a degree as an artist also. She's designing up a tattoo that I wanna get and she's gonna do it for me."

"She's a tattoo artist also that's awesome" says Parker. "Yea she did almost all of Henley's tattoos. Said he was the only one that would let her practice on him. She showed me pictures of them their bad ass" says Cole.

Hunter starts laughing "Of course you know what his tattoos look like you're in love with the guy."

"Isn't it time that you got your ass the hell out of here" asks Cole frowning at Hunter? "We're going but word of advice little brother don't give up because I'm pretty sure he likes you to. Keep at him, you deserve to be happy brother." "So, do you Hunt so maybe you should open your eyes at what's in front of you because I know a girl that likes you and Dec and Jax but none of you are smart enough to open your eyes and go for it." After that I can't here anything else that's said because Hunt and Park are leaving and I'm busy stitching up my patient.

After stitching up my patient for two hours were finally done. Dr. Eric had joined me to help after the first half hour and was mad because Dr. Dick wouldn't come down and help us out.

She had about seven really bad places on her body that required a lot of stitches. There were two places on her legs two on her arms and three on her back that were really bad.

Her nose and eye socket were both broke as were her right arm and leg. I was just finishing up with the last stitches when Henley and Declan came in to talk with my patient.

"Hey Leelee, we need to talk to Mrs. Bingles. We gotta ask her some questions about tonight" says Henley.

"Hey bubba we're almost done stitching her up then she's all yours." "How bad is she?" "She's got a broken nose, and eye socket along with a broken arm and leg on the right side. We also had to stitch up seven lacerations on her arm leg and back. Its gonna take a while for her to heal up but she'll be ok" I said.

"Hi Mrs. Bingles, my names Captain Garrison and this is Lieutenant McGummery. We need to ask you some questions when Nurse Harley's done stitching you up if you're up for it" says Declan.

"That's fine" she replays. The guys stand quietly in the corner talking while I finish stitching her up. Dr Eric comes in to see how it's going rite as I'm finishing the last stitch as I tie it off, he'd had to go see another patient that was brought in.

"Hey Harley, how is it going" he asks. "I just finished the last one. I'm all done now how does it look" I ask? "It looks good you did a great job like always. I still think they should just give you a raise and fire Dr Hamill. You're always doing his job. All that he does is sit in his office all night" he tells me as he's flirting with me on the way out of the room.

I notice that Declan's giving him a dirty look also. Hmmm Maybe he does like me after all. "Hey Henley, don't be too long ok maybe fifteen minutes then she'll be due for her medicine again and after that she'll be asleep." "Ok Leelee it won't take long then we'll be gone" Henley says.

I'm standing at the desk filling out paperwork when Cole walks up smirking at me. "What the hell's your problem" I ask?

"My brothers all like you but are to chicken shit to admit it or even fight about who's gonna ask you out but yet they're always giving me hell about your brother" he says.

"Yea I did see the look on his face when Dr Eric was flirting with me it was funny. And hey don't worry my brother will come around eventually. Are you ready to take our break I'm exhausted. After doing stitches for two hours straight and my back is killing me" I ask? "Yes, I am I'm starving let's go to the cafeteria and boy watch while we eat our lunch. Maybe we can both find some good men" he says.

I agree and then laugh because my brother an Dec were both rite behind us and herd the last part before they gave us dirty looks and then went stomping out of the hospital pouting. They never even said goodbye to us.

Cole and I let the others know that we were taking our lunch break and headed to the cafeteria. After going thru the lunch line and getting a bunch of carbs that are not good for us, we found our usual seats where we could sit and boy watch.

There are a bunch of good-looking guys that work at the hospital. Coles went out with a couple guys but said it just didn't work. I know that feeling I tried to go out with a couple different guys from the hospital, but it just didn't work out either.

The one was kind of creepy and the other was a big fat jerk bag. After what I went through with my ex-boyfriend its hard to date now. I never make it past one date, when I even attempt it, which hasn't been very many times.

Of course, Zeke Smith from the squad keeps asking me out but I'm not sure if he's serious or if he's just trying to piss off Hunter.

Every time he's asked me out Hunters been close by and once Jax an Dec was also. He got dirty looks from all of them, but he keeps trying.

I think I may just take him up on his offer the next time. What would it hurt rite? It's not like the guys I want actually want me or will even ask me out. And I know him so I should be fine going out with him, at least I hope so.

After our hour-long lunch, Cole and I head back to the er for work. Apparently, it got around to Dr Dick that he needed to actually work because he's in the er when we get back even though he's not needed now.

From what we just herd though the hospitals getting sick of him not doing anything also so their gonna be keeping an eye on him now. Other than Dr Dick being in the er the rest of the night goes by pretty uneventful.

The squads bring people in a few times, so I get to see Zeke and Arabella tonight. Zeke didn't get a chance to ask me out though because I was busy with a walk-in patient. By the time morning gets here I'm exhausted so after clocking out I head for home.

Henley and I are buying a house with twenty-bedrooms, twenty-bathrooms, and five half baths with an attached garage with an apartment above it. It's also got a huge underground pool and a hot tub. It's got a big living room and a huge kitchen with an island in the center of it and a dining room that's separate. The basement has a game room, gym and theater in it. Our rooms are on opposite sides of the house. I've got a huge bedroom with a king-sized bed and an attached room that I use like an office. It's also where I do all my drawing and painting at. My bathroom has a big jacuzzi tube and a standalone shower in it.

After working my twelve-hour shifts or eighteen hours, I'd love nothing more than going home and soaking in a nice hot tub, but my luck id fall asleep and drown in it.

When I get home Henley's trucks not there, so I know he's still at work. I go upstairs grab a quick shower and fall into bed, I'm so glad tomorrow's Thursday I really need Friday to get here so I can go out and relax and not worry about anything for a while.

As I fall asleep, I keep seeing eyes that are different shades of blue looking back at me. Three different sets to be exact, that belong to three different sexy guys. One day one of them will be mine I'm sure of it. With that as my last thought I fall into a deep sleep dreaming of my dream men.