Chapter Twenty-Two

After a long week of going over how to get custody of the baby, Peggy was happy to be able to do something at work. The girl was standing in the clinic with Alex tying her scrub gown. When Christina rushes over, shoving Lexie out of the way. "Three, move."

Lexie becomes startled, "Is everything okay?"

Christina rolls her eyes as she stands behind the girl, "Shut up. Don't move."

At that moment, a man walks into the room and stands in front of the large curtain, "Hi, I'm Dr Hunt. Over the next few months, I will be teaching; you how to work quickly and efficiently to keep someone alive in circumstances where the safe bet is they're dead by the end of the hour. Now, does anyone have a problem working with live tissue? Anyone? Speak now. In fact, leave now. If not, I own you for the rest of the day." When no one speaks, he nods, opening the curtain and showing them four tables with pigs on them.

"Good. Here we go. each resident gets a pig. Interns assist. Hang on." He stops them from moving forward while pulling out a knife and stabs all four pigs. Peggy slaps a hand to her mouth as she lets out a small scream making Alex reach over and hide her face in his chest. "Go ahead. Save their lives."

The group all stare at him in shock before Izzie shakes her head, "You're a monster."

Dr Hunt shakes his head, "They're 'under'. They didn't feel any pain. Ask the veterinarian."

The blonde wasn't having it and glared, at the man, "You stabbed them."

Christina starts to smirk and moves forward, "So we can save them."

"We can practice on ... on surgical mannequins. We can learn to do the exact same stuff." Izzie continues to shake her head.

The man raises an eyebrow, "Does that mean you're out?"

She nods, moving towards the door, "Yeah, I'm out."

Dr Hunt nods, "In that case, who wants two pigs?" All the residents raise their hands except for Peggy, who grimaces, walking towards the door. "And where do you think you're going?"

Peggy turns to the man raising an eyebrow, "I'm not going to contribute to the inevitable death of four living things."

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Peggy was walking down the hallway towards the ER but stopped when Mark comes up to her and grabs her arm. Looking at her confused he glances behind her, "What are you doing out here? Don't you have a skills lab today in the clinic?"

She looks up at him annoyed, "The new Trauma attending stabbed a bunch of pigs and I'm not participating in their deaths."

Mark nods his head, "Well Callie paged me to an On-Call room so let's go."

He goes to walk down the hall when she stops him by grabbing his arm, "Woah! What do you mean she paged you? I didn't get any pages."

Mark pulls out his pager showing her the message across the screen, "Maybe she just forgot to page you."

The two began walking once more as she shakes her head, "Let's make sure that doesn't happen again. We're a couple so any sex that happens the two of us need to be there for it."

He nods his head as he wraps an arm around her shoulder, "Okay I'll make sure to talk to her about it."

The two make their way into the room where they find Callie laying down completely naked. The woman throws her phone down upon seeing them, Mark rips his shirt off as Peggy moves to lay next to Callie. "I love this hospital."

The woman waves him off, "Yeah, enough small talk. Come on."

He moves to remove his pants as they look at her confused, "More lessons?"

She shakes her head upset, "No, no lessons. Just sex. Nothing fancy. Just plain old missionary, boy/girl, penis/vagina sex." She lays down before jumping back up to look at Mark, "Hey, hey, I mean it. No dirty talk. No Erica talk. No talk. Just grunting and grinding."

He smirks jumping under the covers with them, "Now who's talking dirty?"

She yells at him, "Shut up."

Peggy raises her eyebrow at the woman, "Why are you so vanilla today for?"

Callie sighs, "I'm testing a theory." She then grabs Mark's face pulling his lips towards her.

Moving to rub her boyfriend's back Peggy sets her other hand on Callie's arm, "Am I included in this boy/girl, penis/vagina sex?"

Callie shakes her head, "Not with me. You might mess up my test, play with your horny boyfriend."

Peggy just shrugs before laying her head on the pillow next to them to rest her head on Callie's neck nuzzling her. "But why, you love when I touch you." The woman starts moaning at Peggy's lips on her becoming distracted from Mark's. "See? I told you."

Once the two were finished, Callie got up and hurriedly got dressed in her scrubs. The woman was fumbling as she cursed under her breath, "Damn it."

Mark raises his eyebrow, "What, it wasn't good for you?" He looks over at his girlfriend with a smirk as he whispers, "Impossible."

Callie sighs, "It's not that it wasn't good. it's that it was." She then gets off of the bed and leaves the room with a sad look on her face.

The two on the bed look at her confused, "A "thank you" would've been nice." Mark wraps his arms around Peggy as he raises an eyebrow, "What do you think that was about?"

She shrugs her shoulders, "Maybe Erica's bad at sex."

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Peggy was standing in front of a patient in the ER when Dr Hunt walks up to her raising an eyebrow, "Why are you here Dr Gallagher?"

She looks at him confused, "I'm a doctor in this hospital."

Dr Hunt rolls his eyes, "I'm pretty sure you walked out of a skills lab. So what makes you think it's okay to be working on patients in the ER."

"Because that's my job," She drags out before taking off her gloves. "Look Dr Hunt, I'm a doctor. I know what's going to happen the second they finish saving the pigs, so I will not waste my time when I could be helping people. So if you'll excuse me I have patients to attend to and you're in my way."