"Kristen is driving me up a wall." John fumed as he entered the hospital to see Marlena. "I can't believe the nerve of that woman. I can't believe that she would even try to make me think that Doc ditched me for Roman."
John made his way to Marlena's office when he suddenly saw something that made him stop dead in his tracks. John was suddenly overwhelmed with a sick feeling as he thought that Marlena had deceived him when she canceled her dinner plans with him earlier. He watched to see if Roman was going to go into Marlena's office.
"Do you know when Dr. Evan's will be back?" Roman's asked curiously.
"Nope, I can't help you Mr. Brady." Bridget explained to him.
"Do you know where she went to?" Roman asked her as he wondered where Marlena went off to.
"She said that she needed to run a few errands." Bridget explained getting annoyed with him. "I can tell her that you stopped by though."
"Forget about it." Roman said looking at his watch. "I'll come back after my appointment."
"Great." Bridget muttered sarcastically as Roman took off.
John decided that he needed to know what was going on. His stomach tightened as he pondered the thought of Marlena lying to him. He decided that before he would jump to conclusions about anything that he would ask Bridget first about it.
"Hey Bridget," John said walking over to her, "where's Doc?"
"She's not here." Bridget answered him.
"Oh, well I was wondering if you could help me out with something." John said glancing over her shoulder.
"Sure, what do you need Mr. Black?" Bridget replied carefully eyeing him.
"I was wondering what Mr. Brady wanted a minute ago." John said letting his curiosity get the best of him. "He didn't have dinner plans with Doc, did he?"
"Nope." Bridget said looking in the appointment book. "She's supposed to have dinner with you tonight, isn't she?"
"Yeah," John said smiling at her in relief, "I was just checking."
"Oh your funny." Bridget laughed at him. "I see why Dr. Evans likes you so much."
"Thanks Bridget." he said wondering what Roman was up to. "I'll be back later."
"Bye." she said watching John walk away after Roman.
"Damn it!" Roman yelled reaching into his pocket for the bottle of pills. "I just had them. Where could they have gone to?"
"Roman," Mike called out to him, "how are you doing?"
"I'm fine Mike." Roman said realizing that he lost the pills. "How are you?"
"Eager to see you recover." Mike informed him with a smile. "What do you say we get this blood test started?"
"Alright." Roman said with a sigh as he thought to himself. "I took one pill earlier today, so I should be able to get the results that I want on the test without having to take another one."
"Then let's go." Mike said leading Roman to the lab.
John stayed close behind Roman as he walked through the hospital. John decided that Roman might know where Marlena went off too since she wasn't in her office. He watched as Roman hurried through the busy lobby. As Roman turned around a corner a small little bottle fell from his pocket.
"What is this?" John asked bending over and picking up the small bottle in his hand. He opened the bottle and tiny, strange looking pills tumbled out of it.
"John, what are you doing here?" Lexie called out to him.
"Lexie," John smiled at her as he put the pills back in their bottle. "I thought you and Abe were supposed to be having a romantic dinner tonight."
"Well, it didn't work out. I guess that it's in the job description of being a cop's wife though." Lexie sighed looking at him. "He's working again, which is fine considering that I had some paper work to catch up on. Now what about you?"
"Well, I was coming to see Marlena, but she's not in her office." John explained to her. "Hey Lex, I was wondering if you could help me with something."
"What's up John?" she asked confused.
"Do you know what these are?" he asked handing her the pills.
"Where did you get these John?" she asked examining the pills. "I've never seen anything like these."
"Do you think that you could find out what they are?" he asked her.
"Sure." she said smiling at him. "Why don't you just follow me to one of the labs and we can figure it out?"
Marlena stepped off of the elevator and walked towards her office. She realized that she was going to have to talk to John tonight and she needed to think of a way to bring up the news.
"Hey, you had some visitors tonight Dr. Evans." Bridget informed her.
"Really? Who?" Marlena asked confused since she wasn't expecting anyone.
"Who do you think?" Bridget replied with a grin.
"Why don't you just tell me Bridget?" Marlena asked growing slightly irritated with her.
"Well, first Mr. Brady came to see you." Bridget said as she began to file her nails. "Then Mr. Black. I wish that my date card was as busy as yours Dr. Evans."
"I'll be in my office Bridget." Marlena said frustrated with her secretary. "Oh Bridget, when is Jenny coming back to work?"
"She's sick Dr. Evans." Bridget explained taking out a bottle of nail polish. "Personally, I think that Eric broke her heart and now she's stuck at home watching soaps and eating bon bons all day to get over her misery."
"Hey Bridget, could you go please go for some coffee?" Marlena asked her.
"Sure I'll go Dr. Evans." Bridget said jumping up from her chair. "I'll be back in a while."
"Thanks Bridget." Marlena said closing the door to her office.
"You're all set Roman." Mike said after he finished putting the bandage on his arm. "You can go home now."
"Great." Roman said pulling his shirt sleeve back into place. "I'm going to go see Doc."
"Just remember to take it easy Roman." Mike informed him.
"I will Mike." Roman said smiling as he started walking to Marlena's office.
Roman noticed that Marlena's ditzy secretary wasn't around, so he sighed in relief. He knocked on Marlena's door and her voice telling him to enter.
"Hey Doc." Roman said walking into the room.
"Roman." she replied practically jumping out of her chair. "What are you doing here?"
"I thought that I would catch you before your dinner tonight with Laura." Roman said moving over to her.
"Is something wrong?" Marlena asked standing up as he approached her.
"Can't a man just come over to see his fiancee?" Roman asked putting his arm around her.
"Roman, I'm really busy." Marlena began feeling dizzy.
"I understand that Doc, but I think that we need to talk." he said pulling her tighter to him.
John looked at his watch and decided that Marlena should be back from running errands.
"Lex, I think that I'm going to go see if Doc made it back to her office yet." John explained.
"Take your time John." she said as she continued looking into a microscope. "It's going to take me a while in here anyways."
"I'll be back soon." John informed her smiling as he thought about Marlena.
John walked to Marlena's office and noticed that Bridget was gone and that the door to Marlena's office was open.
"Good. She's back." John said feeling his pulse quicken at the thought of seeing Marlena again.
"Look Roman." Marlena said pulling back from him. "I have to get back to my work."
"Doc, would you just take a rest for a minute?" Roman asked tightening his grip on her.
"Roman I have to..." she began trying to think of a way to get rid of him.
"Doc," he said looking into her eyes.
"Roman...I really have to..." she began as he pressed his lips to hers as John stood out in the hall taking in the whole scene.
