#doctor joel goran

[stelacole]

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[z1bells]

Since I'm one episode away from finishing Saving Hope, here's some of my thoughts (I will edit this post tomorrow)

! Warning: Long post !

- 1st impressions:

I thought having a storyline of a doctor talking with ghosts was weird at first...

But my curiousity got the best of me and I started liking the show

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- The Charapters:

• Charlie Harris (The main charpater): I love him sm, he's definitly one of my favorites, his style reminds me of Conrad Hawkins (The Resident), I loved how he tries to help the ghosts.

• Alex Reid (The 2nd main charpater): I love her sm and I feel so bad for her😭, in just 5 seasons she lost her brother, colley, mother and husband.

She might be a little annoying sometimes, but she's fine overall

• Joel Goran (The fan favorite): For some reason, he reminds me of Douxie Casperan (Tales of Arcadia), but I love him sm too, its sad that he had to die on "All the pretty horses" (Last ep from S3)

• Maggie Lin: LOVE LOVE LOVE HER SO MUCHH💗🫶🏻! I loved her smm on S3 (S3 Maggie on top>>) She might had left on S5, but hey! She's happy with her gf (Sydney)

• Sydney Katz: Sydney ily but how many times you had to left😭, but I love her sm too!

She might had left for the hundred time, but hey! At least this time she's with her gf (Maggie)

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• Dawn Bell: I feel like this will be contervercial... But... I liked Dawn

I do admit...I didn't rlly loved her on the 1st seasons. But her charapters develoment was amazing! (Dawn pls take a break)

• Zack Miller: Another charpater that deserves better. But he's a decent charapter, I feel bad for him on "All the pretty horses" after witness Joel's death (Him and Joel were friends)

• Shahir Hamza: ONE OF MY FAVORITES!! Has a autistic person, I loved how it was well protacted and respresented during the show!

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- Extras charapters:

• Wayne Sharp: He deserved more screentime. But he's a nice charapter

• Jackson: I love his humor, he didn't had alot of screentime, but during it, he was iconic

• Jeremy Bishop: Probably another fan favorite, he didn't had much screentime, but hey, him and Charlie were friends and I loved that

• Dana Kinney: MY GIRLL!! I loved her so much! She deserved so much better, her and Alex are a inseperable bond>>>

• Cassie Williams: Her charapter develoment>>>, in the last seasons she was amazing!! I loved her energy so much!

Sad to see her go, but at least she's working with her idol

• Dev Sekara: Another charpater who had a incredible develoment, him and Cassie were so cute togheter!

• Asha Mirani: She didn't had alot of screentime, but she deserved so much better, I feel so bad to her

I have nothing to say much about hed since she left during S4

• Kristine Fields (Another ghost speaker): At 1st she was fine...But after her incident she started to be a little annoying and even she went to the point to haunt Charlie during her sugery😭

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Series Finale / Final thoughts:

Just finished watching "First and Last".

When I said that Jackson deserves more screentime... THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT

You might think its getting worst? It does, when they all waiting for Jackson, a huge acident happend. And just like the description of "Hope Never Dies"... "They can't safe everyone"

I. AM. NOT. READY FOR THE FINALE

Finished "Hope Never Dies". I cried at the end of the episode

Charlie's gone, gone in his own series. The series started with him in a coma, ended with him brain dead.

Alex deserves so much better, I feel bad for her...

The hole episode reminds me from "The Long and Winding Road" - The Resident: S5, ep 3 (Trust me, I'm still in denial with that episode after a year ago), but a little bit more extreme...

Overwall, I loved the show sm!! Its sad it didn't got another season but I enjoyed watching it

Let me know what you think about this!

[elejah-verse]

joel x elena_

[elejahfanfic]

FANFICTION

Part 2

A Joel Goran x Elena Gilbert

_a crossover fanfic, but still tvd

_AU of course

a/n: Elena leaves Mystic Falls to live in Toronto. There she meets Joel, who if course us Elijah's doppelganger...

_song is I just Wait by Paloma Faith

link to part 1

tag_ @eternityunicorn @beautyandwords @elejahforever @bulldozed88

*

Toronto, Canada

Hope Zion

"I don't know if I could describe it as love at first sight. I think there’s an energy that some people have where they elicit all of the stuff from you and you suddenly become the best version of yourself around them. It’s as terrifying as it is magical." Joel said to Alex as they were discussing his recent great interest in one particular woman that seemed to have changed his behaviour, finding him ordering flowers for that special someone.

"Where have you read that?! There is something so strange about you lately. It's like you have become this calm and colkected and soulful person. No flirtations. The nurses are bewildered. It can't be that this woman out of nowhere just changed everything... and you are actually dating her the old-fashioned way?! That is so not your style?!" Alex said.

"Maybe I will start believing that some women do possess the gift of witchcraft. I have to prepare for the OR!" Joel  his fellow collegue behind the OR prep.

Whatever it was Joel Goran was mesmerized by Elena Gilbert. They had a lenghtly talk in the cafe and asked her out for lunch straight out. And they did have lunch, as well as dinner and they didn't even kiss let alone end up in bed, which for him was like eating breakfast. And he sent her flowers, big bunch of red tulips.

"Maybe she has just awaken the gentleman in him!" another nurse remarked to Meg. The gossip wouldn't stop and everyone was eager to meet her.

*

In Elena's apartment, Elena answered Bonnie's call.

"So, what have you found out? He can't be a doppelganger, can he?!" Elena said.

"We have resurrected old witches, and you saw your own doppelganger, why is it weird to believe that Elijah couldn't have a doppelganger?!" Bonnie said.

"He is - yeah- totally looks like Elijah, but he is different. I made a mistake and aaid Elij...oel to him."

"Elijoel, ha?!"Bonnie remarked.

"Oh, I will take a photo of him and send it tonight. He is taking me out to a jazz club! Figure that." Elena said,

"I wanted to say no... and just leave Toronto, all this is too much, and then, I just can't. I find myself in this weird moment when I look at him and he is so normal and I want to tell him about Elijah, but then I see him run a mile if I tell him that witches and vampires exist."

"You don't have to tell him anything. You are free of Klaus and you only now have a witch friend and a vampire friend." Bonnie exclaimed.

"Just one vampire friend." Elena said.

"I thought Stefan left?!" Bonnie asked.

"Yes, but we still kinda speak," Elena confirmed,"why does everything always have to be complicated?!"

"Nothing is complicated. Just go out with Elijoel and... have fun! I will call you if something weird happens!

"Ok. Talk to you later." Elena said and hung up.

She looked at the flowers. It screamed Elijah to her.

"Huh" Elena huffed a little. It felt like fate played a trick on her and the tables were turned. 

Hours later, Joel was in his office, the night had fallen and he just finished with his daily paperwork. He turned to look outside the window. It was a supermoon night. 

"Hey. mate!" Joel said jokingly to the moon," are you going to cause havoc tonight?!" 

As he turned away his eyes caught a reflection on the window of himself but something was unusual. It was as if he saw himself in a suit and yet he was wearing a T-shirt. He looked back and then shook his head.

"I am too tired!" he said picking up his phone, pressing the speedial with Elena's number.

"E-Joel?!" Elena said as she picked up the call.

"Elena- are we still on for tonight?"Joel said.

"We are." Elena replied.

"Good. Shall we grab something to eat, first?!" Joel suggested.

Elena agreed with all and they soon met in a bistro to Joel's liking. The place or the time was not important to Elena. She wanted to get to know him. And he was pleased to tell her some of his life story. Elijah with a New Zealand accent and so cool- Elena thought. And the mannerisms were all Elijah. Elena flashed back to a day ago when she followed him to the hospital. He was wearing a suit and she watched him talk to a hub nurse, explaining something official. 

It was so Elijah. When it came to her to tell how she came to travel the US and Canada for two years, Elena found herself masking the truth, telling white lies and omitting the supernatural part of her life.

At one point her looks swayed to the supermoon outside. He noticed some strange longing in her gaze.

"Don't tell me you believe in all the crazy superstitions about the moon?!"

"Ha?" Elena looked back at the surgeon, "sorry-uhm- it looks beautiful -superstitions?! Me?! But I believe in vampires, werewolves-I am only joking," she said chuckling a bit and then thought, "if only you knew."

"A friend of mine has a theory that moon does affect some people deeply. She said something about the blood moon after the harvest- anyway, I have nothing against folklore and myths. The stories are deep and carry  great morals." Joel said.

The waiter came to offer desserts but they declined. Soon they were on their way to the club.

They were ushered to their table as they got in. They  ordered their drinks. The show had already started. The singer was introducing the next song. 

"Oh, I've seen her in Chicago!" Elena remembered.

"She is really good, I heard- from the nurses!" Joel smirked cutely.

Elena laughed a little now, " so, this date thing was the idea of the nurses?!"

"No. I just heard them talk about Paloma Faith and..."

"It's fine. I will tell you something you probably wouldn't believe" Elena said but Joel cut her off midsentence.

"Oh, don't tell me- your ex was a werewolf and I should actually be beware of him because we have a supermoon outside"

"Yeah!" Elena chuckled a little,"no-it's- I can't remember when I was on a date the last time?!"

"Ok. Let's then do the whole date thing- do you want to dance?" Joel offered his hand.

Elena nodded. They walked to the dance floor.

.....The twinkling in your eyes makes me wonder if I’m dead or alive,

And I, I just wait.

How many clues you need me to leave you?

I feel like I leave ‘em all the time.

Spending days together, I just,

Can’t help wondering when you’ll be mine.

If I could hold your hand, yes I would,

Be with you every day, if I could ....

Joel looked at Elena as if she was this mysterious woman, as he thought. There was something magical about her and although he kept denying it, his soul knew it was love at first sight, the moment she turned and looked at him at the cafe. Again, she was looking at him with familiar eyes that twinkled with a strange invitation making him wonder if he was dead or alive and he now pulled Elena into a gentle kiss as his hand glid up her neck feeling her skin tremble with sweet sensation of the union.

When you gonna open up your eyes and see,

That you and I could always be.

Put your palm into mine,

And stop wasting time.

My heart is breaking, without you,

I don’t wana live another day.

And tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, I’m waiting.

[umaficwriter]

thinking all love ever does is break, burn and end... but I watched it begin again

[elejah-verse]

Daniel Gillies/

Dr Joel Goran

[super-gates-blog]

(My gifs)

[aceofwhump]

For the anon Greys Anatomy has great doctor whump with quite a few of the guys in it! Alex Karev, Derek Shepard, Owen Hunt and some more. The good doctor Shaun Murphy. 9-1-1 Lone Star TK Strand (he's more of a paramedic in the field but he has great whump) New Amsterdam Max Godwin Saving Hope Joel Goran

Fantastic!!! Thanks for the add ons! I cant believe I forgot about Saving Hope!!! How could forget the show where Michael Shanks is in a coma for the whole first season!! And the Joel whump is great too. Thanks for the reminder!

[eternityunicorn]

🌟The Vampire & the Doctor Meet🌟

“Who the hell are you?” Joel quietly demanded.

Elijah smirked, “I already told you who I was, Dr. Goran.”

Joel rolled his eyes and sighed exasperatedly, “You know what I mean.”

“I do,” nodded Elijah, his smirk fading. “Yet, I think this conversation would be better served in private? Let’s go to my office, shall we?”

A Preview of Chapter Four of ‘Mirror Image’

[maybebanks]

Kook Princess Part 2

Part 1 here

You’re falling out with Rafe, JJ being the one to help you recognize his violent ways are not boyfriend material. Who knew leaving JJ for only a second, Y/n would end up in the hospital.

⚠️- violence, abusive relationship

“Oh it’s beautiful, JJ,” you tell him, in awe. He took you to the beach, early in the morning for the sunrise. You both camped at John B’s place, and pulled an all nighter.

He didn’t respond, so you turned to look at him. His eyes were on you, trailing your face. When you caught him, he turned away.

“Yup, it’s pretty cool. I knew you’d like it,” JJ says quickly, taking about the sunrise before you.

There was tension between you JJ, it felt like there always was. Since day one.

You shifted closer to him, rocks crumbling beneath your feet.

Your hand brushed against JJ’s. You felt his knuckles, so again, you moved your fingers to touch his.

He looked down. And that’s when you took the chance and entertained your fingers.

Holding hands with JJ made your feel safe. There was also those nervous butterflies in your stomach.

“What are you going to tell your friends?” You asked, thinking about how JJ wanted to avoid them last night at the Chateau.

“What are you going to tell Rafe?” he said.

You tensed and almost pulled your hand away. But you sighed, “if your going to tell me to break up with him, I’ve already tried,”

“What do you mean you’ve tried? Breakups usually work even if their not mutual,”

“I said I wanted to...but then I got...um he- look I just don’t want to deal with that again,” you said.

JJ’s jaw visibly clenched, “I want to kill him,” he muttered. He knew exactly what you meant but your stuttering.

“I’ll figure it out. Maybe if I tell my parents-“

“Tell them you want to drop the most successful kook’s son for a pogue like me? They’ll never support it,” JJ scoffs.

“They don’t have to know about us,” you tell him, but you instantly regret it. Was there an ‘us’ to JJ?

JJ smiles, “I like the sound of that,”

A few moments later he lead you to the HMS pogue boat. And he took you on a quick ride. Just so you could feel the wind in your hair.

When you return, Kie runs towards the dock.

“What’s up Kie?” JJ asks, calmly.

“Rafe! Rafe showed up,” she breathed.

“Oh my gosh. Is everyone okay?” You ask, assuming Rafe was angry at you.

“Yeah everyone is okay. Just the usual threats,” Kie told, “but he said he needs to talk to you. He said, and I quote, ‘tell your boy I know what he did’,”

You frowned. JJ didn’t do anything. And if he got the punishment, you would never forgive yourself.

“I should go talk to him,” you mutter, stepping off the boat.

“No. Wait Y/n. You can’t see him. Not without me there,” JJ defends.

“It’ll be fine,” you brushed him off and kept walking towards his car.

“Y/n. Don’t push me away,” JJ persisted.

“I do need a ride. But I don’t want you to get involved. It could provoke him. He already knows I’m here. Thank god we were on that boat,”

“Alright. I’ll stay in the car,” JJ states. Opening the door for you to enter the passenger seat.

Once arriving at the Cameron mansion, you stepped out of the car and headed to knock on the door.

When you entered, you heard Rafe and his father arguing.

You stepped back, they were talking about a watch. That Rafe was stealing, and you know Mr.Cameron wouldn’t tolorate that. In his own home.

You felt partially responsible, if you had been at the party, Rafe wouldn’t need money to steal, he would have made enough to pay the drug dealer.

You started walking backwards down the path, slowly. Ready to talk to JJ about what your next move should be.

But the door bursts open, and an upset Rafe storms through.

“Y/n?” He says, his voice cracking.

“Hi. Hey, are you okay?” You asked in a concerned tone. His cheeks were red and so were his eyes. He wiped under his eyes aggressively.

“Yeah. Yes I...fuck. I really fucked up. I’m a mess, Y/n. What am I going to do?” He crumbled. You had never seen him so vulnerable. He was crying, infront of you.

“Oh Rafe. I’m so sorry. We’ll fix it okay? You’ll find a way,” you pleaded, pulling him into a hug.

“My dad kicked me out. He doesn’t trust me,” Rafe cried.

“You can...you can stay with me. My mom likes you. It’s alright,” you comforted. Truly, you wanted to help him. It was in the heat of the moment that you forgot all his recent behavior and just saw him as an unloved boy.

“You’d do that for me?” He sniffled, trying to wipe away any signs of weakness.

You sighed, “it was wrong what you did to me. But you’re still my friend, Rafe. I can’t let you-“

“Boyfriend.” Rafe corrected.

You bit your tongue. After your time spent with JJ, you couldn’t exactly stay with Rafe romantically.

But in his damaged state, you couldn’t break the news. You you just caressed his face, wiping a few tears.

“You’re so good to me, how can someone be so gentle?” He asked. He probably was never treated this way. So you let it go.

“I have a soft spot for broken boys,” you reassured.

At this moment, you remembered JJ. JJ was the one that kept you safe when Rafe was high and didn’t know what he was doing. JJ was still waiting in the car.

You looked to the left and noticed JJ standing out of the car, resting his back against the door.

This made your stomach drop. If Rafe saw JJ he would get angry.

“Rafe I have to get going,” you tensed but began to stand up to cover it up.

“No,” Rafe demanded, “you can’t leave,”

“Rafe-“ you began cautiously, stepping backwards.

You watched Rafe’s eyes manically dance from you to the road. His glance switching.

He saw JJ.

“You’re not going with him. No way, babe,” Rafe ordered.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t control who I hang out with,” you retorted.

Everything that happened before flashed before your eyes, Rafe was never a good boyfriend to you. He was harsh, and violent.

But you couldn’t bring a break up into the conversation, not in his state.

“He’s why you missed the party,” Rafe paused to grab your arm, he pulled you close until you collided with his chest.

“Ow,” you whispered.

“I can’t let you slip away,” He muttered.

“Last night you nearly pawned me off for sex! I have to be done Rafe. This isn’t good for me,” you admitted, pushing back at his firm chest, “let me go,” you demanded.

“That was for us!” Rafe argued.

You couldn’t argue, there was no point. It would just get you hurt.

“I need you to listen to me. Please,” you pleaded, hoping he would finally give you a chance, “I can’t stay with you. You don’t treat me-“

“Treat?! What you think you’re some fuckin princess? Well you’re not! You do what I say. And you love me, if you know what’s good for you,” Rafe responded.

“Love? You just threatened me to love you? Don’t you see that this is toxic?” You pleaded.

Rafe pulls you close to him again, but this time, forces you against the house, one of his hands meets your neck and squeezes it.

You cough, choaking.

“Keep talking huh?! Keep fucking talking,” Rafe seethes.

You felt it like you have lived in this moment. JJ was approaching. Your eyes were wide as you clawed at Rafe, to let you go.

Your air was restricted.

Splotches of black started to enter your vision.

“Rafe...” you whispered, pleading him to stop as you continued to try and breathe.

Suddenly, some white stars entered in the abyss of black. You could barely see Rafe infront of you.

3..2..1

Black.

-

“Let her go!” JJ screamed angerly. Rafe turned around and saw him, his hands eased off of you.

But it was too late. Your limp legs could not carry you. You collapsed towards the dirt and gravel ground. Falling gently into unconsciousness.

“What the hell did you do?!” JJ asked the rhetorical question to Rafe.

Instead of running over to you, JJ threw the first punch at Rafe. Rafe ducked and punched back. Both of them getting hit.

A few blows later. Rafe had JJ in a choke hold. JJ fought and punched. His desire to avenge you was strong.

He jumped back and Rafe hit his head on the gravel. His forehead began to bleed. It was only a scrape, but it caused him to panic, and stay low to the ground.

JJ, breathing heavily, headed to you. He picked you up, and in his arms, carried you to the nearby van.

Placing you as carefully as possible, he drove to the hospital.

He kept blaming himself. He knew that he shouldn’t have let you talk to Rafe alone.

“She’s awake,” JJ heard the nurse inform the doctor. He headed inside.

JJ stood up in urgency, but the nurse shushed him and gestured for him to sit down again.

“What about the police?” The nurse said in a hushed tone.

“Hold them, for just a minute,”

“They can’t wait any longer,” she said, but the doctor just ignored her and went inside your room.

You gulped at the sight of him, he sighed and took a seat next to the hospital bed you were laying on.

“How are you feeling?” He asked you, leaning over slightly.

It hurt your throat to try and talk, so you just nodded. Figiting nervously with your fingers.

“What’s your name again, darling?” He asked, clutching a clip board.

You took some shallow breaths, looking up at the doctor, he looked in his 30’s, with a scruff beard and normal length brown hair.

You didn’t want to be questioned. You didn’t want to be here anymore.

Then you thought of JJ. If you had arrived here than JJ must have intervened with Rafe. You wondered if they had assumed it was JJ.

You looked around the room, “um..is JJ here?” You asked him.

“You mean the blond boy who brought you here. He’s outside waiting,” the doctor explained.

“I..I want to see him. Can I?” You asked.

The doctor sighed, “we have visitation restrictions, at least in the first 12 hours. Family only,” he answered.

Your family. You didn’t want them to know you were here. You didn’t want them to know why.

“Please?” You asked.

“Answer a few of my questions first, please. Then I can invite your friend in,” he said.

You nodded reluctantly, looking out the window mostly covered with blinds.

“My name is Dr. Joel Goran. You can call me Joel if you’d like. Would you walk me through what happened?” He questioned, trying to seem as friendly as possible.

You didn’t want to answer, you couldn’t admit it. Would he even believe you?

“Um..I don’t...” you paused, and studied his expression, “I don’t feel like I can....I mean I don’t..know,” you lied.

Dr. Joel sighed, “alright. I’ll tell you what I know, you were strangled, there are bruises on your neck by hand. You lost consciousness, and that’s why you’re here. Sound about right?”

You shrugged, crossing your arms.

“Can I please talk to JJ now?” You asked.

“Is..JJ you’re boyfriend?” Dr. Joel asked.

Surprised by the personal question, but you answered, “no,”

“Was he there when you got hurt?” He asked.

“No,” you lied, so that they wouldn’t question JJ.

“But he found you seconds after? And drove you here?”

You avoided eye contact, “um I guess,”

“Did he choke you?” Dr. Joel continued.

You furrowed your eyebrows, “No! What are you, a detective? It doesn’t matter who did it. I want to leave now,”

“It’s either me, or the police. And it does matter who did it, this is an assault crime,” The doctor said, in a disappointed tone.

“No...so they’re gonna arrest someone? It’s fine..I don’t...I didn’t press charges,”

“I can tell you don’t want this. This is a stressful situation-“

“No. Please clear me. I’m healed right? I should leave,” you said quickly, starting to move the covers and get up.

“On the contrary. You have some brain damage and need to stay until it can easily be healed. Don’t worry. Nothing too serious.”

You gave him a worried look, breathing heavily.

“Can you tell me your full name? We would like to call your parents,” he pressed.

You looked the opposite way, “can I see my friend now?”

He sighed, and looked at you, “okay,” he nodded, then slowly left the room.

While he was gone, you looked for your phone. It was in the pocket of your previous clothes. You were now wearing a hospital gown.

You found them in a bag and pulled it out. Before you even unlocked it you could see threats and apologies from Rafe.

You slammed it down on the table.

Then the door was pushed open. You tensed.

JJ walked in first, then Dr. Goran.

“Hey,” he said, looking at you with slight worry.

When he got close enough you wrapped your arms around him.

“Thank god you’re here. JJ I can’t do this. I have to leave, okay? Can you get me out of here?” You asked.

The doctor was still standing by the door.

“Y/n..I don’t know. Are you..okay? Did he hurt you bad?” JJ asked, brushing your hair to the side.

“Ah shit,” he muttered.

“It’s fine. I don’t need to stay here! I want to go home with you,” you admitted.

JJ began to say something, but stopped when he heard arguing by the door.

“She’s not ready,” your doctor said to two officers.

“We need to start looking for the suspect. It could happen again if we don’t,” the policeman said.

“No. JJ no...I can’t tell them. He’ll kill me,” you whispered.

“No he won’t, Y/n. I’ll be there to protect you the whole time,” JJ reassured.

The officers entered, despite your doctors protests, and began questioning you.

“Please describe the identity of your assailant please,” the officer began, pen ready on a pad.

You found JJ’s hand and gripped it right, “Nothing...” you started but realized lying wouldn’t work. Instead you just shut your mouth.

The officer then turned their attention to JJ, “would you please exit the room. To provide a more honest space for her,”

“No. No JJ don’t leave me,” you pleaded.

The officer shoved JJ out of the room gently.

“No!” You screamed, but they shut the door.

You crossed your arms and took a deep breath.

“Describe your assailant, now Miss,” the officer proceeded.

You ignored him for a minute.

“Miss?”

“I’m not telling you anything,” you admitted.

They sighed, “you have to tell us who hurt you. We’re only trying to help. Whoever you’re protecting-“

“I’m protecting myself.” You interrupted, “I’m not answering any more of your stupid questions. So please, leave me alone,”

The officers nodded in disappointment and Dr. Goran lead them out.

“If I may say one thing. Telling the police won’t get you hurt. They can arrest him,”

“You don’t know him,” you whispered, you’re voice breaking slightly.

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This is kinda bad and I have no idea where this is going or if I’m gonna stop now! Thx for reading tho!!

[stelacole]

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[finnismyoriginalsin]

Elena is working at Hope Zion Hospital when she is introduced to a man that looks remarkably like Elijah, as Dr. Joel Goran.

7 Years post season 8 TVD finale, Season 5 TO, Season 1 Saving Hope: Doctors AU.

Normally she would be calling Elijah about this. About anything to do with his family. But it’s been too long since she’s spoken to any of the them.

She tries Rebekah first, but that line is long since dead. It's not like any of them probably keep a cell phone for long. Most likely their phones are often lost or misplaced, or covered in blood or some other human substance and thrown away to be replaced.

So she’s left with Klaus. She supposes she could have asked Caroline to call for her, but she’s another friend of whom she has mostly lost. Sure they still talk sometimes, or more often text, but Caroline is almost always on another side of the globe. She had left after the girls were in school but, Elena thinks she’s trying to outrun her grief over Stefan, other times her desire to see Klaus and feeling like she’s betraying Stefan’s memory; their moment of marriage in a sea of other moments of time.

The line rings and rings and she feels as if this is her chance, just hang up the phone, disconnect, don’t worry that there is someone here claiming to be a doctor that looks just like Elijah, but clearly isn’t Elijah.

He finally picks up.

“Elena? What a surprise”, he says, genuine warmth in his voice.

She’s so shocked she almost drops the phone, hearing his voice on the other end of the line, the one she hasn’t heard say her name in that way in so long.

“Elena I know your there, I can hear you breathing love”.

She stammers, “Yes, yes I’m here, Hi Klaus”.

“To what do I owe the pleasure?” he asks.

She decides to jump right to the point, that way she can quickly end this call. “Is Elijah there with you, in New Orleans?”

There is silence on the other end for a few seconds before, “Actually no…he’s currently in Canada I believe. Why are you asking?”

“Because I am in Canada. And there is a man at the hospital I work at claiming to be a doctor Joel Goran…who l'm fairly certain is Elijah.”

She can hear him curse on the line and then, “Your right of course, that is in fact Elijah, we had to make him..." he pauses searching for the right words and fails, "forget whom he was so to speak.”

Sighing, she doesn’t even want to know why, she just asks, “Is there any reason I may need to be on my guard or…is he going to be here for awhile pretending to be this doctor?”

She can hear Klaus conferring with someone, Rebekah maybe before, “We don’t actually know how long. There’s not really a time table here. Long story short, we gave him a new life. But you say he’s become a doctor though? Our Elijah? I suppose that’s not out of the realm of possibility, he did talk quite a bit about wanting to be a healer for a time.”

“You need not fear him though Elena, he doesn’t remember anything about being, well, himself. Moonlighting as a doctor though, that is interesting…and smart, plenty of blood bags I suppose” and he chuckles.

“I guess your right” she says then, “I just wasn’t sure if he was in fact pretending, or if this was some other ruse or another of your devilish plans made to trap me into…something again” she trails off.

He laughs again over the line, “No need to be afraid of that my dear Elena, all of my devilish plans as you say have since failed with you, plus I have enough Hybrids, though you are human again aren’t you….”

She hangs up on him before he can continue that line of thought.

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She rubs her forehead, the beginning of a headache forming. Well, she thinks, at least this will definitely be an interesting year. What will she tell Damon? Does she need to tell him? She can’t lie to him, after all this time and yet…

That warm feeling she used to get in her gut starts when she thinks of him, of her Elijah…the one she used to know. The one she knew before betrayal after betrayal. What if this was her chance to see him again? See the one person she thought of in such high esteem, the one she greatly admired and held such affection for. Even after all this time, she still remembers their first negotiations. She can feel her face flushing remembering that time in her life; she had always privately thought of that time as their idea of foreplay.

Going back into the hospital she runs right into him. “Oh god I’m so sorry” she says,  his hands immediately catching her around the shoulders before she can fall.

He looks at her, with the strangest expression as she straightens back up. But just like that, the expression is gone and in it’s place is a sheepish look. “No please excuse me, I wasn’t looking where I was going..umm..Kathy was it?” he asks.

She freezes at that, the name too close to Katherine. She looks down to gather her thoughts and train her face back into a smile before answering, “Actually, it’s Elena” she sticks out her hand to shake his; their hands meet and for a split second that wondering look is back on his face, before it's gone again when they shake hands. “Nice to meet you again Elena, I’m sorry I’m terrible with names” he says.

“That’s alright Elij—I mean Joel. I meant to introduce myself to you yesterday, but time just has a way of slipping away around here”. Now she looks sheepish, a blush coming to her face.

“Yes well…it’s a hospital so…” and he laughs, this look of pure joy crossing his face, and lighting it up in a way she had never seen before. He must love it here. She had never thought of him as wanting to be a doctor before, but now it seems so, so, him. Still trying to be the Noble brother.

She cannot help but stare as he continues talking about the joys of working at the hospital, her eyes on his mouth and, “Wait, what were you saying?”

He smirks at her, which is something completely new. It makes him look more like his siblings, and here she thought maybe this was her chance to get to know him in a different way, to see a side of him she never saw before.

Maybe this is worse, a narcissistic version of Elijah.

“Sorry, I just, I completely spaced out there for a minute. It’s just, you look like someone I used to know”, she says and oh god it just slipped out.

“Someone good I hope? An Ex boyfriend perhaps?” and he laughs that big laugh again, all teeth and shining eyes.

This time she’s ready, “No, just, never mind…” she’s going to walk away when he stops her, his hand cupping her wrist.

“I’m dearly sorry Elena, I didn’t mean…” he looks away, “It’s just you look familiar to me as well, but I can’t quite place you…” and he’s looking at her so earnestly, so openly, and it’s here that she knows she could fall for him again.

But she can’t. The engagement ring on her finger a constant reminder that she is in fact in love with someone else.

They hadn’t had time yet to actually get married, between everything that had happened with Stefan, and Caroline, and Bonnie. All of her lost friends.  Damon grieving over his brother, while dealing with her happiness at being human again and wanting to be happy with her, happy for her. Then she was in school, and interning, and just, they hadn’t had the time. Always thinking one day, one day soon, but yet that day hadn’t arrived yet.

Elijah…Joel had let go of her wrist in the meantime. He was still searching her face, searching for answers, for some lost truth.

She remembers lies are part of that foreplay, and smiles at him again, “It’s okay, I just have one of those faces” she says.

He smiles back at her.

As they go their separate ways he says, “Well, I guess I’ll be seeing you around Elena."

She looks back at him once, one more time, and says “Definitely."

[elejah-verse]

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[elejahfanfic]

The Vampire Files/8

Fanfiction

Part 8

AU story, with characters from tvd/to, featuring Joel Goran from Saving Hope

Nick and Elena are FBI Agents investigating supernatural activities and homocide caused vampires and demons.

Expect witches, demons, vampires. Inspired by X-files, Twin Peaks, and many other shows

Main pairing_Nick Amaro & Elena Gilbert

tag_ @miguelsbrat​

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The New Orleans dawn was breaking. The remains of the night were slowly being washed away by the  first rays of the sun. Elena was gazing out of the hospital windows into the horizon blank waiting for the results of Nick's check up. The attending came up to her informing her that Nick will be left for observation as he had lost significant amount of blood, and being an FBI agent they didn't want to risk anything by releasing him, even though his blood work showed that he wasn't in any risk at all. As the nurses left, Elena walked in the room they transferred him to.They wereboth silent.There was so much explaining to follow, but at the moment they just felt it wasn't the time or the place.

"I owe you my life" Nick said, swallowing hard.

"No, you don't. This is what partners are for. You saved mine, remember?"

"It's not the same."

"We are not keeping score. You got to rest. I will head back to the hotel, get a shower and change. I think they will let you out later today. I need to go meet Stavros. And interview the voodoo woman. I will swing by the magic shop later."

"Ok" Nick said closing his eyes. He was tired.The magic of the ointment Elena applied had worn off and now he felt the aftermath of the horrific ordeal he went through.

She looked at him warmly, making a small mental sigh. She enclosed him in her heart that night they played Monopoly. He shed his Agent demeanour off, and shown her a person he really was deep down. Kind, warmhearted, sweet.

Flashback

"I want justice for the victims. This is what drives me. Cold cases were the most challenging. I love challenges."

"Well, you are in the most challenging section of the FBI now." Elena said.

"And think that you are in it for the same reason. You care about the people. At least that's what I could say about your reports."

"Yeah. But I don't always manage to get it. You read that, too. There’s too many dead ends��

“I know. But you are not giving up - and I admire what you have accomplished. I do.” Nick said with a meaningful glimmer in his eyes.

Elena now took hold of his hand and squeezed it.

Nick fluttered his eyes open.They softly connected with Elena’s, making her shudder slightly. It had happened the first time they met, and they knew that there was this something deeply rooted.They both had felt it. Their souls connected before they were even aware of it.

“I got to go” Elena pulled her hand away. “See you later.”

Nick nodded, watching her get out of the room, his heart quivering dreamily. A secret smile curved his lips.

Outside, Elena pulled her phone out and dialed Jenna's number.      

"Morning you," Jenna said as she picked up the call,"how are things? Is he going to be all right?"

"Yes," Elena replied,"I need you to send me all about the Bloodborns"

"So, you haven't talked?!" "He is still processing. I would be after the night he had. Sorry to wake you" Elena said apollogetically.

"You think I have slept?!"

"Hope Alaric has" Elena said. "Yeah, he has a full day at the University. So, you think this will complicate things?" “Things are complicated, but they actually are getting clearer”

"Elaborate" Jenna said, not understanding her niece’s logic.

"I can't. You would be involved an it is not goo at this point of investigation"

"Right. Be careful. My gut feeling tells me this is way bigger than just some random ritual killing" Jenna sighed.

"Yeah -got to go." Elena said and hung up.

At times Elena felt like she was reliving the twisted version of the 'Groundhog Day' movie. But here, no matter how hard she tried to get it put things right, things would always get even more tangled up.  

Flashback

Years back, when she was about to enter the FBI Training Academy

"You know why they are recruiting you?" Jenna said.

"I know. It's not because I am so good at biochemistry" Elena replied.

"Straight to the special program?," Jenna continued, "I am not sure about this"

"I am going there, because of the resources. Because- the darkness is taking over and I have to do everything I can to stop it."

Jenna enveloped her niece a warm hug.

****

In Washington DC, a few hours later

Caroline walked in her office. Klaus saw her come in and went to her, knocking at the door out of courtesy.

"Today you have to slay. Take Liv with you and get make the summons on this case be worth our while" Klaus in a serious manner.

Caroline nodded. It was obvious the magic of him being this great comprehensive charmer disappeared over night and he was his usual emotionless sour self.

Why did she care. They had a job to do. Prosecute  criminals and put them in jail. Stop thinking with your heart. Echoed in her head. He is just another waste of time. That's how she labeled some of her men. She called Liv over to her office and they went through the case in question.

Rebekah's day started with somewhat better. One of her patients showed great improvement. But still there was no answer from Marcel. At times she wished she could just tune out.

****

In New Orleans, a few hours later

Elena stuffed nearly a whole beignet reading what Jenna had sent her. But there was nothing that could establish the connection to Nick and his blood needed to be used for a ritual.

"What is not right in this picture?" she muttered going through some of the facts of the Bloodbornes again.

Her phone rang and it was Agent Stavros, notifying her that he was now at the precinct.

"I am on my way" Elena said hanging up.

Meanwhile, in the hospital, Nick woke up with a throbbing headache, born from the strange magical potion Elena gave him. It had kicked something in him, bringing out a memory that rose up like a wind from nowhere.

Flashback

25 years ago

"You will forget about all of this," Dita Galindo said to Nick,"there are no monsters. That are just stories people invented. There are good and evil people. It is as simple as that. Now eat your dinner"

"But I know what I saw. That changed into a wolf." Nick said.

"No. The man befriended the animal. That is all. And your imagination is running wild. But it is all right. You're ten. You will grow out of it."

Dita Galindo did everything possible to make sure Nick didn't know anything of his origin. And he never bothered to find out. He concentrated to work hard at school and get out of Louisiana and get in the FBI. He was diligent, silent, dark and very meticulous. And the name vulture he got always digging into cases that were impossible to solve, digging into dead meat, as some of his colleagues would say.

Nick brushed his fingers over the side of the neck where he was bitten. He took a deep breath. The sudden realization that monsters that bit him were very real, shook him. These monsters wanted him. Why him? Who was he?

He got up and as he wanted to get up he felt faint for a moment. The nurse walked in suggesting he should lay down.

"I want to discharge myself," Nick said,"I will sign any paper. I am not staying here. I need to go"

The nurse checked his IV and then looked at Nick who closed his eyes for a moment. The images of the vampire biting him appeared again. He opened his eyes and now asked the nurse to call the doctor.

“You should rest.” the nurse tried to calm him down, but Nick was too agitated to listen to her.

“I want to see a doctor now! Get me the Attending. Now!” he demanded.

"You are not fit to do anything today" the Attending said.

"I am leaving, so can you just give me whatever I need to sign to get out - and you will be clear form any possible repercussions that might occur" Nick sat up. He pulled the IV needle out of his backhand.

The Attending could see that no matter what he said Nick was determined to leave. He bandaged his hand, and told him that the nurse would be with him shortly.

And so, he was out of the hospital, finding a cab in front that took him to the nearest rent-a-car place. His phone rang and it was Elena. He looked at it and thought for a second whether he should answer or not. The hospital must have told her that he had left. She was his partner and by rights, he had to answer her, but he chose not to and blocked her. But Elena rang again and he blocked her call again. He was not in the mood to talk to her. Not yet. First he had to get some answers himself. Then his voice mail alert came on and he now played her message.

"Whatever you think you are doing. Don't! I know it is not easy to process all what's happened. Been there.Call me back."

Deep down he knew she meant well. He knew that he was now led by his emotions that were jumping all over the place, like someone put him on live wire. But he left the reason behind and now drove like mad to Carencro, where his adoptive mother Dita lived.

Outside the Magic Shop, Elena was pissed that Nick took off without calling her and she now told Agent Stavros that they had to postpone 'scouring' the place.

"I have released Davina's body to the family. But they will not have the funeral till- " Dean said referring to the woman's heart.

Elena sighed. "You believe that it can be retrieved?"

"I heard what Agnes said to you." Dean replied.

Elena was quiet for a second. She could not pull the wool over his eyes. Dean was involved with Davina, but he didn't know how deeply involved she was in the vampiric world.

"Can I help you?" he offered.

"Nahh- plus- you need to rest. This is not over by far. I will need you fresh and ready for what's to come. See you tomorrow" Elena said jumping in the SUV.

"Bloodborns  are described as the offspring of both an Angel, and a Demon. However, users of this power will have the potential to become more powerful than either side.

This is due to the fact that said spirit would be neutral and possess power from the forces of both Light and Darkness. These beings are based off of the Nephillim, the hybrid offspring of an Angel and a human, with the only difference being that both parents are immortal spirits. Their children became Witchers, monster hunters."                  

"Answer, dammit!" Elena kept pressing the speedial with Nick’s number over and over again, but there was no answer. She drove like mad hoping to catch up with him before he got to Heloise's house. And she managed to get there some twenty minutes after him. She could hear Nick asking question after question and Dita not giving him any answers.

Elena knocked on the door and walked in, apologizing to Heloise for being so forward. Nick now looked at her surprised to see her there, "How did you know”

“Where you were?" Elena finished his sentence and sighing a little replied."I know - about you and where you lived as a kid."

It felt like he was slapped on his face. She could see the rage and disappointment rise in his eyes, "What a great partner you are?. What else do you know?"

Dita looked at Elena now, who gave her a nudge with her head to leave them for a moment on their own.

"I know that you are angry right now. And everything that had happened last night isn't helping" Elena said to Nick.

"You are kidding, right? Is this some kind of a sick joke to all of you? All my life I have been lied to. I want answers. But I don't want them from you. I don't know what shit you will tell me to cover something up" He felt faint again and now spat back Elena about the strange thing she gave him that probably was the reason for making him feel weak.

"Ok. Sit down. You are not back to yourself. You have lost a lot of blood."

"The magic makes him like that" Dita said.

Both Elena and Nick now looked at the witch’s direction.

"What magic?" Elena asked straight forward, as she knew that thing could get bad if there was a clash of magic inside a person.

"Set on him, to keep his real nature subsided" Dita said.

Nick sat down now as he was not feeling good.

"Right. Now you have tell me what magic was used on him" Elena said in a steady calm voice. It was clear that Dita was nervous, but she loved Nick, and clearly didn't want him to suffer.

Nick now started sweating and Elena now looked for some cold water and a towel to ease his condition a bit.

He gulped looking at her now. "Tell me- what am I? Why did they take me?"

"I will. But now- we need to get this magic out of you," Elena brushed Nick’s forehead with a damp cloth,"I am sorry that I kept things from you. Big mistake. Fucking big mistake"

Nick now took hold of the brunette’s arm looking at her with eyes that indicated he is going to slip away, but he managed to mutter. "Fucking big mistake, Gilbert"

"Yeah. Later- you can shout and be pissed as much as you want- but now- I need you to stay with me- do you hear me- Ok?"

Nick nodded a little- feeling like his whole body yet again felt like it was going to lose life.

Elena now ordered Dita to get the witch who had done this to him.

"She is not alive, anymore" Dita said.

"Then some other!, Elena said. "This has to be done. He will not make it otherwise. I am fucking serious!"

Dita just waved off with her head. “There is nobody. I’m sorry.”

Elena now took her phone and dialed a number.

"Valerie," Elena said and proceeded explaining what had happened.

"Right. This what you will do,” Valerie said to Elena, who now found a silver knife in the kitchen,"as you cut the blood from your wrist and you pour it in a clean silver bowl, put the dagger on his chest- as you tell the words- conlidam in sanguinem"

"This is going to work?" Elena said in desperation.

"It will"  Valerie said.

"All right," Elena said hanging up,"come on"

She pulled Nick up in a seating position and took his sweater off, and as she helped him lay back, she proceeded with the ritual.

[ao3feed-klaroline]

Frozen

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by OriginalPrncss95

Everything seemed like a normal trip out of the country until a storm capsized a ferry boat with students on board. The doctors at Hope Zion are put to the test until they realize that one of their own is affected.

Words: 1115, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Originals (TV), Saving Hope (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Elijah Mikaelson, Joel Goran, Alex Reid, Klaus Mikaelson, Davina Claire, Kol Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson (in Kaleb Westphall)

Relationships: Elijah Mikaelson/Original Female Character(s), Joel Goran/Alex Reid, Davina Claire/Kol Mikaelson, Caroline Forbes/Klaus Mikaelson

Additional Tags: Jalex - Freeform, Klaroline, Doppelganger

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2YYLcWq

[z-wonderland]

Start Again/1

Fanfiction

Part 1

AU TVD/TO story

Klaus Mikaelson x reader/Elena Gilbert

Joel Goran x reader/Elena Gilbert

Prologue: Y/N/E moves to Toronto getting a job as a surgeon in Hope Zion, to start over, after her husband dies. it is part human, part supernatural story,

a/n: I hope you like this story. Thanks for reading xoxo

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Y/N/Elena Gilbert grew up in Mystic Falls, she was a doppelganger, a vampire and became human again. She fell in love with Damon Salvatore, her High-school sweetheart, who was a vampire, and then also became human again. She went to study medicine, and he studied sociology. After they graduated, they got married and she got a job at Whitmore Hospital and he was a teaching job at the Whitmore High-School. Some five years after, he dies in a car crash. Devastated Y/N/Elena one day decides to take a job in Hope Zion Hospital in Toronto. 

tags

@rissyrapp20 @captainshurley @elejahforever @cassienoble2000 @goddessofthunder112

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Preface

A couple of years after

"Why are you moving all the way to Canada?"- Bonnie asked.

"I need something different. New. An adventure. I don't know. But I decided that I am going and I will go. I'm sorry, Bonnie, but I just need to do it."

"I get it. I hate to admit it, but I get it."- Bonnie said.

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Six months after moving to Toronto

Y/N/E walked into the bar across the road from the Hospital called Klaus', and like the first morning when she came in as she had arrived to Toronto, she ordered a black coffee without sugar. Now the bartender/owner poured her a cup.

"Make it triple, please"- Y/NE said.

"Tough night?!"- Klaus stated as he topped the cup up.

"Yeah. The crash on 402 was really a mess."- Y/N/E replied now taking a good sip of coffee.

"Something tells me there is more to it?"

Y/N/E sighed a little and said-"This thing with bartenders being psychotherapist is actually real."

"Yeah, if you actually have a degree."- Klaus said.

"And something tells me that you have a degree?!"- Y/N/E then said.

"I might."- Klaus replied with a bit of a smirk.

"You are actually serious?! How come you- never said?"

"You never asked."- Klaus replied continuing-"and now goes the question of why am I actually not working as one, but tend the bar?!"

"Hey, everyone does what feel is best. At least that is what I hope people do. I am for one glad you are making coffee."

"I do it because there are nurses and doctors, who work unbelievable shifts, and most of the time the machine coffee is vile."

"It really is."- Y/N/E said with a little smile.

"So, whose foot did you step on?"

Y/N/E made a face like not going to spill.

"It's not going to go further. It's like doctor-patient privilege."

"I stepped on the feet of a fellow. I saw that he wasn't - well, his hand is not properly healed and- I asked him to leave the OR."

"Oh-"- Klaus said-"That didn't go down well!"

"You're kidding."- Y/N/E said-"but the patient comes first."

"Did you get reprimanded?"

"No. He did. And I just feel bad for some reason."- Y/N/E said.

"So, you are not such a cold heartless witch after all."- Klaus said.

"What?"- Y/N/E now looked stunned at him.

"Ahm, sorry. I don't know what possessed me to say that."- Klaus said apologetically.

"That's what everybody says about me, don't they?"

"You have not really made any friends, have you?"

"I- came here - to work. And that's what I do. I work."- Y/N/E said.

"Something bad had happened, right? You were once a very kind and warm person, the heart of the party."

"Not doing this, Dr Freud."- Y/N/E said getting up now paying for her coffee, leaving a generous tip behind.

"Don't go."- Klaus now said-"I was way out of line here."

Y/N/E stopped for a second and said taking a long deep breath- "I - just not ready to talk."

"Fair enough."- Klaus said now pushing the money back to her saying-"this one is on the house."

Y/N/E shook her head a little, taking her jacket from the other stool and her bag now.

"That's for the session."

She exited the bar then.

Klaus cursed himself mentally for stepping over the line, but ever since she walked into his bar six month ago, she was like this enigma that he wanted to decipher. But, she was a hard nut to crack. He now took the money and put in the box for tips. 

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In the Hope Zion hospital, somewhat earlier

      "Dr Goran, in my office, please!"- Dr Dana Kinney now said to the fellow to follow her.

Joel Goran went with the feisty chief-of-staff. He knew that the incident in the OR would have repercussions.

"Please close the door behind you."

Joel did as he was asked.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid."- the Chief-of-staff raged a bit at the surgeon-"a bar-fight? A fractured hand?!"

"I know, but on the upside - these are insured."- Joel said.

"That is not the point. We are paying you for those hands. But that is not the most what really pisses me off. It's the fact that a resident has asked you to leave the OR."

"I didn't leave. I stayed."

"You followed the protocol. Thank God for that. But, what were you thinking. Why didn't you have the hand looked at?"

"There was no time."- Joel said-"we were all paged and I got in. I scrubbed and - "

Dr Kinney was feeling somewhat less mad at her colleague.

"I know. It was an emergency. But, this doesn't excuse you. You always have to be on top of things. That is what your station requires of you. Thank God Y/N/E is - an overachieving genius, and she could do the job, but- I will not tolerate this cowboy behaviour of yours again. No matter how good you are. I am going to put you out for two weeks."

"No, please."- Joel now said serious- "I can still work."

      "You can't do surgery."- Dr Kinney said.

"I can diagnose. I can still consult."- Joel said nearly in a pleading voice.

"Joel, you have just lost a patient."

"It comes with the territory."- Joel said.

"The man committed suicide. It affected you even though you are not willing to admit it."

"Dana, I am fine."- Joel said trying to reassure the Chief.

"I don't think you are. Still, I will think about it and let you know."- Dr Kinney said and now took her tablet, and looked at her e-mail messages.

Joel still stood there looking at her. He was not happy with the decision she had made. As he wanted to add something more, she now raised her head and said-

"You are still here?"

"This is it?"

"As I said- I will think about it and give you a call. I am sorry, but I have to attend to these."

"All right"- Joel said and left the Chief's office miffed. But, he knew that he made a very bad call and now he was reaping the consequences. Walking down the corridor, he shook his head not believing how this spiralled into a mini- nightmare for him. With his thoughts wondering all over the place he walked into the cafeteria and asked for a sandwich and a coffee.

"You're still here?"- Dr Maggie Lin said as she saw Joel zoned out.

"What?"- he looked at the resident.

"I thought you'd be long gone. Didn't you just pull a triple- shift? Oh, what happened to your hand?"- she now saw the splint.

"I had an accident"

"Accident-?!"

"Yeah."- Joel said.

Dr Alex Reid now walked in and seeing Joel asked him straight out-

"A resident whooped your ass- ouch!"

Maggie now looked at Alex not understanding what had happened. And Alex now told her friend and colleague about Y/N/E telling Joel to step away, taking over the operation.

"You are loving this way too much."- Joel said.

"Yep."- Alex said-"I really don't want to be mean, but- it serves you right."

Joel was about to say something to it, but his phone rang, and he now answered-

"I thought about it, and I am allowing you to diagnose and consult. I am also assigning you to help Dr Y/N/Gilbert with all her cases."- Dana said.

"Excuse me?"- Joel couldn't believe what he was hearing. The last thing he wanted was to work alongside Y/N/E for a while.

"She has a couple of cases she's writing a paper on, and since I am assigning her to take over some of your surgeries. You have a presentation to give at the ICORS Conference in New York in a couple of weeks, and I found out that you still need to put it together. Dr Y/N/Gilbert is willing to help you."

"She is?"

"Well, I have kindly asked her. "- Dana said. But in other words, knowing the Chief, it actually meant that this was a way to deal with what had happened in the OR earlier that morning.

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The next day, Joel arrived at the hospital in a taxi. Y/N/E was approaching him from the parking lot, giving him a small hello.

"Hello."- Joel said back.

"Dr Goran, I apologize for the way I acted in the OR. It was out of place."- Y/N/E now said.

Joel sighed a little and now said looking at her seriously-

"I should have known better. I am your superior. But for what's worth, you made the right call."

Y/N/E nodded kind of relieved. And now continued- "Dr Kinney said to take over your scheduled OPs. And the presentation for New York."

"Yeah. I can't really type and do it with the left hand will take forever."- Joel said, both now entering the building.

"Right."- Y/N/E said and instead of going to the elevator with him she turned to take the stairs.

"I thought we cleared the air Dr Y/N/Gilbert"- Joel now said.

Y/N/E turned back to him and said- "Yes. But I just prefer the stairs. I will see you later."

Joel was like ok, and went to the elevator. Y/N/E was a puzzle to him and others as well. She had not made friends, but she was nice and good with everyone. She worked hard and exceled in all she did. And she kept to herself. They thought of her as the nerdy overachiever ever and a recluse.

And she would go for a drink after work at Klaus' like everyone did whenever they had time off. But stayed only for one drink.

Little flashback

"What is her deal?"- Dr Maggie Lin said to Dr Alex Reid once as Y/N/E left the bar after a celebration.

"She- well, she lost her husband in a car crash. And ahm- she went to the crash site with the paramedic, and - she couldn't save him. After his funeral she just shut down, and she is the way she is."- Alex said.

"How do you know all this?"- Maggie asked.

"I met a colleague of hers, Jo Parker, when I was at the Cardiovascular Congress in July."

"Oh! This is tough."- Maggie exclaimed.

"Yeah. They've been together since High School. I can't even think how I would feel if I lost the love of my life."- Alex said.

"Talking about love of your life"- Maggie said-"what is going on between you and Joel?"

"Me and Joel?"- Alex looked stunned at her friend.

"Yeah. You were once - and it feels like there is unfinished business there between you two."

Alex knee that Maggie was actually asking if it was ok to get it on with Joel.

"Oh, we are so finished."- Alex said-"a little warning - make sure you wear protective armour for your heart."

"I don't plan to fall in love. Just have fun."- Maggie said.

"Then Joel is your guy."- Alex said.

¤

A couple of weeks later in New York

Y/N/E and Joel travelled together to the ICORS Conference, to give the presentation on a new surgical method. As Y/N/E improved the method even more, Dana thought the should present it together.

Already  as they set off, on the way from the city to the airport, they had to stop as there was an accident on the part of the highway that was under construction. A man's leg was caught in one of the pipes that tumbled over. Both Joel and Y/N/E were there hands on, dealing with the situation before the ambulance arrived.

As they finally arrived and checked-in the hotel, they had something to eat and Joel suggested they go out for a drink. Y/N/E was reluctant, but then said yes.

"What are you having? Bourbon?"- Joel said.

"Yeah."- Y/N/E said.

Joel got their drinks and brought them over to the table Y/N/E sat down at.

"They didn't have Elijah Craig, so I got you Jefferson's."

Y/N/E looked surprised that he knew that she only drank one particular brand of Bourbon.

"It's ok."-Y/N/E said.

"Why do you only drink Elijah Craig?"

"Because it is the best. And I like the name."- Y/N/E said.

"Elijah or Craig?"- Joel asked.

"Elijah."- Y/N/E replied-"I don't know why, just- there is this something- old, noble about the name."

Joel smiled now at her charmingly.

"What?"- Y/N/E uttered taking a sip of the drink.

"My father wanted to call me Elijah."

"What? You are making this up."- Y/N/E now said.

"No. It's all true. You can ask him when he comes for a visit. He always comes for a visit for Christmas."

"So, I guess your mom wanted to call you Joel."

"Yes."- Joel replied-"And you?"

Y/N/E took another sip and said-"I don't know. Both of them, I guess. I was adopted."

Y/N/E then got up and said-"Let's play darts. I haven't played - like - forever. We always played pool."

"Yeah, ok."- Joel got up and joined her for a game. And Y/N/E had fun. She was beating him.

"Is there anything you are bad at?"- Joel asking jokingly.

"A lot. I am a bad friend. I am a bad daughter. I am a bad sister. All I can do is be a good surgeon. That is the only thing I am good at. One thing, I am good at that one thing- so pathetic."

"What I saw there today, wasn't just surgery. I was inspired. I have never seen anyone so cool and collected. It was like you switched your emotions off  and you saved the guy's life."- Joel said.

       "Can you not do this."- Y/N/E said back.

"Do what? Y/N/E, it was - insane, it was dangerous and it was monumentally sexy."

      "Please, Joel.  Really. Don't. I am not that amazing. And - just- stop hitting on me."

"I am not hitting on you. Well, maybe I am a little. Ah, but, really - I think you are kind of amazing, Y/N/E. You are amazing. I think you should probably acknowledge it to yourself." 

      Y/N/E looked at Joel and the words he said transported her to her High-School days, when Damon told her the same flattering words. And there it was, emotions charging up. Emotions, she thought she had under control.

Y/N/E put the darts aside and said that she needed a drink, walking away to the bar. Joel turned around and followed her not understanding her abrupt behaviour.

"Bourbon large"- she said to the bartender.

"Are you all right?"- Joel asked.

"Yeah."- Y/N/E took the glass as it was poured and downed the drink in one go. She then put the glass down on the counter and looked at Joel-

"I am going back to the hotel."

"What just happened there?"- Joel asked looking at Y/N/E seriously-"I- sorry if I was coming on- I thought that -"

"No, I am sorry, if I gave you any kind of mixed messages. I really didn't want to."

"You were not. But- I - just- the last couple of weeks- we -" Joel paused for a second and then continued-"we worked so well together on the presentation and  in the OR. And - I saw - you- it's like you showed me you, not Dr Y/N/Gilbert, the cool, level headed medical genius. You are so beautiful and sexy- and-"

"Yeah, we worked well together. And- this is how I want to keep it. Night."

Saying that, Y/N/E went out of the bar.

Joel stayed behind gazing in the direction she had just exited. For a moment there, he thought he saw a glimpse in her eyes, a  glimpse that had a certain sweet, loving warmth.

Outside, the bar, Y/N/E fought her emotions that rippled open. Again she shook her head. No. Where were these emotions coming from? Y/N/E now took a deep breath, and stopped her heart from humming.

The next day, both of them didn't talk about what had happened at the bar. It was like nothing ever happened. They both acted professional and the presentation was done as such.

All the way back from New York to Toronto, Y/N/E was like absent-minded. They didn't speak much. Y/N/E kept herself busy reading different medical papers. As they touched down and went through the border control, Joel asked if she wanted a ride back into the city as he had his car there.

"Thank you-"- she started and he cut in-

"But you prefer to take the taxi."

Y/N/E then changed her mind suddenly and said-"I was going to say- but can you drop me off at the Hospital."

"Right."- Joel was surprised-"but you start tomorrow."

"I just need to see a patient."- Y/N/E said.

"Yeah, ok."- Joel replied and they went to the parking lot.

As the arrived at the hospital and Joel pulled in front of the building he said-

"I know we are colleagues, but can we be friends?"

      Her heart beat fast and completely erratic fighting a new flood of emotions as she looked at him and replied- "Yeah, we can."- and got out of the car.

¤

Days after

"New York was good."- Y/N/E said to her friend Bonnie-"I wish you could have come."

"No can do. Have to keep this Vampire Central under control."- her friend Bonnie replied.

"Did you hear from Kai?"- Y/N/E now asked.

"No. He is not answering any of my calls."- the witch said.

"So there are no bloody trails?"- Y/N/E referred to Kai, who was very unstable after his best friend's death, and they had a hard time keeping track of him.

"Alaric has promised to keep an eye on him."- Bonnie replied-"Ok. Now I want to hear gossip. Tell me you will have fun today, and that you will not work all day long on your birthday."

Y/N/E sighed a little and then said-

"Well, I - ok- I - well, I started to have feelings- for this guy. Actually, there is two of them. And- it just- oh, it feels like- it is all so- then I feel so bad, because I have these feelings, because-Oh, I am so messed up, this is so not right-"- Y/N/E said-"I really don't know- what to do" -"

"Y/N/E, you have to get out of this. The whole reason of moving away was that you get on with your life. It's been nearly two years now, and it's ok to - go on. He would want you to move on."

"Go for it, Y/N/E. It is good that you started to have feelings and- yeah- Just - get out there. Date. And - live again. You've like through Hell and back ten thousand times."- Bonnie said.

"Literally."- Y/N/E said.

"Exactly, so- it's ok to love again. "

"Yeah, I guess."

And she got dressed, and  went to work. This was going to be a day that she will - go on. Move on.

And the first thing she did as she saw her colleague Alex to invite her for a drink at Klaus'

"It's my birthday."- Y/N/E said-"and so- if you don't have anything afterwards."

"No. Great. I'll be there."- Alex said and then went off as she was paged.

Y/N/E also got on with her patients. The morning was busy and as she finally got time around lunch, she went to find Joel. Approaching from the side corridor, she saw him with Maggie and then heard him say this-

"It's time for me to try and be more generous with you"

"Is that code for you wanna be exclusive?"- Maggie asked.

"I think we should give it a shot?"- Joel asked. 

                 Maggie now latched onto Joel in a kiss, and Elena stepped backwards and went to an opposite direction.

Klaus' bar that evening

"See you"- Alex said to Y/N/E picking up her bag-"Happy birthday."

"Thanks. See ya."- Y/N/E said sitting  back at the bar.

"So, is it's your birthday?!- Klaus stated, having overheard them obviously.

"Yep. But it is not a big deal."- Y/N/E said.

"Which one if it's not a secret?"- Klaus said.

"30th."- Y/N/E said.

"Oh, You should have said- I would have made it to be a blast."

"As I said it's not a big deal."- Y/N/E exhaled a little.

"Here"- Klaus now put two glasses down and poured them the Bourbon-"Happy birthday."

Y/N/E looked at Klaus and he at her.

"I should go."- Y/N/E muttered.

"I guess you should."- Klaus muttered back not taking his eyes off of her. She was not moving,

He now neared her and kissed her.