AH episode 6 (2/9) [FanFic]

[Joseph Morreale]

Mike did not look very happy when he finally showed up at the front
desk. "Where has she gone off to now?" he said.
"You mean Heather?" Toni asked. "She said she had some things to do in
the east wing."
"I've been looking for Nurse Farley all day, and she always seems to
avoid me. She knows this is nurse evaluation day. Why does she always do
this?" He stormed off down the east hall, and the look on his face caused
quite a number of doctors and nurses to decide they suddenly needed to be
somewhere other than near him.
Once he was out of sight, Heather rose from behind
Toni's desk. She was munching on a jelly donut. Toni gave her a baleful look,
snatched the donut away and wahpped her on the head with a clipboard.
"Ow!" Heather complained. "All right, all right." She rummaged through
her purse and withdrew several bills. "Thanks for covering up for me."
Toni was meticulously shaving off a thin section of the muched donut
so that as much of it could be saved as possible. "Twice that now," she said.
"The original deal didn't cover my donuts.
Heather looked annoyed, but reached into her purse
again. "I hate nurse evaluation day. Mike's always so strict about it."
Toni looked at her again with a slight smirk and said,"You want a good
excuse that'll keep you away from Mike the rest of the day?"
Heather's face lit up, but then she glanced protectively at her purse.
"Maybe," she said.
"No charge," Toni assured her.
"Please!" Heather said, falling to one knee and taking two handfulls
of Toni's skirt while she begged.
Toni put her hands on her hips and said, "Stop being so pitiful." With
one fluid motion, she kicked on of her drawers and it calmly slid open.
Inside, scrunched up in a fetal
position, was Toni's daughter. Toni reached inside and lifted her sleeping
daughter out of it. "Your father was worried sick about you, you know that?"
Billie was trying to look guilty and wounded at the same time. It
wasn't working. "How'd you know?" she asked.
Toni brought her daughter right to her face and with a feral look in
her face she said, "I know everything."
Billie grew appropriately terrified and was shaking slightly when Toni
set her down. The beleagured mother looked at Heather and said, "Take her on a
tour of the hospital. She's been bugging me for months about it, so I figure
this would be a good way to get her to shut up."
Heather looked down at the child, who's face had
suddenly grown hopeful beyond compare. Supressing a sigh, she said, "All
right."
"Yay!" Billie immediately shouted. "I get to see the Animes!"
This immediately got the attention of all the otakus who were sitting
in the lobby, and they began to approach the front desk. A hard glare from
Toni sent them back to their seats. "Make sure nobody else finds out she's
mine, you got that?" she warned the departing nurse.
After they faded from view, Toni breathed a sigh of relief. Then, when
she glaced up, she nearly choked. A-ko and B-ko were both approaching the
desk, the only thing breaking up the looks of concern on their faces being the
glares they gave each other.
"I'm here to see C-ko," they both said in unision.
"Why am I not surprised?" Toni asked.