Returning to the nurse's station, you placed the bouquet of flowers and oversized teddy bear on the counter, so you could finish your paperwork.

"Has someone got a secret admirer?" You heard your colleague and partner chuckle as he joined you at the station.

"As a matter of fact, you do," you smiled, looking up at Abs.

"For me?" He laughed, lifting up the flowers to sniff them. "You shouldn't have."

You rolled your eyes at him, turning towards him, disregarding your work for a moment.

"I didn't," you commented. "I was told to give them to the handsome nurse with the boyish charms."

He looked pleased with the compliment, inspecting the teddy bear too. Both of you were nurses but Abs had always had a better rapport with patients, usually befriending anyone he treated with his pleasant demeanour, maybe that was what intrigued you and led to you being engaged to him.

"Well they certainly aren't wrong," he chuckled. "Who are they from?"

"Sophie Mason, the little girl who broke her leg?" You said, hoping he remembered her, and his nod suggested that he did. "Her mum popped by saying she and her daughter wanted to thank you for the help, and that Sophie has a little crush on you, so insisted you got flowers and a teddy."

He let out a laugh at the thought of the patient he treated a couple of days before. "So, I wasn't wrong when I said about an admirer."

You dramatically threw yourself onto the counter, resting the back of your hand to your forehead to look exasperated.

"How am I ever supposed to compete with a six-year-old in a cast?" You sighed.

Abs shook his head, leaning in to press his lips to your temple in a gentle and loving gesture.

"Well she isn't the one I plan to marry," he smiled. "I'm sure she'll realise we don't have much in common. You know her being in primary school and me only having the mental age of a child."

"You're too sweet John," you said. "No one can help falling in love with you so quickly."

He berated you for your cheesy words as you reached across the counter to grab the cuddly toy, that was rather cute and pleasant.

"As collateral to you finding someone else whom loves you, I claim the teddy, it's too cute," you grinned.

"Anything for you."

Abs leaned in to kiss you again before offering to take your new cuddly toy to your locker so that you could both get back to work.

~*~

Written by Charlotte.