pbIn the Family Way /b  pby: Linda Atkinson  PWarnings: This is
an AU piece. It contains male pregnancy, eventually. It also
contains the surgical mutilation of a main character for
reproductive purposes. There is also one rape, not violent, just
sneaky and creepy.  PbLos Angeles, California. July 22, 2021. /b
PThe emergency room of St. Mary Margaret Medical Center was
always busy on a Friday night. No one had ever been able to
figure out why, they just accepted it. Frankie Johnson, the
senior nurse on duty, checked the charts of the elderly woman
she was triaging, as the patient lay motionless on a steel
gurney. The small woman looked dazed and confused as the nurses
and orderlies scurried about the room on their seemingly endless
tasks. As Nurse Johnson removed the blood pressure cuff from her
patient's slender upper arm, the elderly woman grasped the
nurse's hand.  P"Is the doctor going to be here soon?" she
asked, "I really need to be getting home."  PThe nurse smiled
down at the pale drawn face, gently