Road Trip - Part 14
by Céindreadh
ceindreadh@eircom.net

Kerry & Luka & Dave & Carter

Previously on ER
A grateful (and rich) patient (Mr. Byrne) invited some of the ER doctors on an all-expenses paid trip to Ireland to attend a conference in Galway. Drinking in the College bar, they made some new friends. Dave and Carter were invited to a party, but Kerry and Luka decided to go back to their accommodation. Reaching the apartment Luka swept Kerry off her feet and into the bedroom. Meanwhile Dave had a 'discussion' with Kendra, and Kim and Susan had a 'debate' with Carter. When they eventually returned to their rented apartment, Carter had to climb in the window to let them in - having inadvertently left the keys behind earlier - and managed to sprain his ankle while doing so.



Half an hour later, Carter was sitting on the couch looking miserably at his swelling ankle.

"I told you to be careful," said Dave as he applied a makeshift ice pack to it.

Carter winced. "Could you *be* any rougher?"

"Could you whine any more?"

Carter glared at him. "This trip is becoming a nightmare," he groaned. "My clothes are either filthy or soaked, I've sprained my ankle, I had to sleep with Dr. Kovac..."

"But you did get laid," reminded Dave. "It hasn't been all bad. And besides...the trips not over yet."

Carter sighed, "Yeah...I guess it hasn't been all bad." Pushing himself up off the couch, he groaned at the pain that shot through his ankle and clutched at Dave for support.

"Why Carter...this is so sudden," said Dave with a grin as he instinctively grabbed at his friend to prevent him from falling.

"Great," groaned Carter. "I can't even walk on it...this conference is going to be a nightmare."

"Quit complaining...it'll feel a lot better in the morning...and if not...well there's three hospitals in the city...I'm sure one of them will be able to lend you a set of crutches."

"Maybe...but what do I do now? Crawl to my room."

Dave grinned evilly. "No problem." Before Carter could react, Dave had slung him into a fireman's lift and was heading for the bedroom. Carter yelped as he narrowly missed banging his head on the doorframe.

"There," said Dave, as he unceremoniously dumped Carter on the bed. "Sleep well, and I'm sure things will be better in the morning."

"They'd better be," mumbled Carter.



Kerry writhed sensuously on the bed as Luka started kissing his way up her legs. "Oh God, yes," she moaned as he applied his attention to the back of her knees.

His arms gathered her close and he was about to cover her face with delicate kisses when suddenly there was a loud ringing noise.

Kerry opened her eyes blearily and groaned as she realized that the ringing noise was coming from her phone.

Grabbing it she held it to her ear and snapped, "Yes?" while thinking that whoever had woken her had better have a good reason.

To her horror, she heard Dr. Romano's voice on the other end of the line.

"That's no way to speak to your Chief of Staff," he said.

"Oh shit," thought Kerry. Out loud she said, "Robert...what a 'pleasant' surprise...but what are you doing phoning me at..." She glanced at the clock. "Six a.m.?"

"My apologies. It's just gone midnight here...I didn't realize how early it was."

"Yeah right," muttered Kerry under her breath, sure that he had known exactly how early in the morning it was.

"Well, I just wanted to phone you and make sure that the members of your 'entourage' are behaving themselves. Remember that you are representing not only County General, but the entire medical profession of the United States," he said a little pompously. "And if this goes well, then it's entirely possible that Mr. Byrne will provide funding for other conferences...he may even be prevailed upon to fund some research in the hospital. There's a lot riding on this Kerry...don't let those residents mess things up."

Kerry rolled her eyes, "I'm sure that Dr's. Carter and Malucci will be on their best behavior throughout this weekend." She involuntarily crossed her fingers, hoping that that was true. "In fact," she continued, "I believe they have already made some 'useful contacts'..."

Kerry could hear Romano sniff disdainfully, "Well, anyway, just keep them out of trouble...god only knows why he had to insist on them going with you in the first place."

"Because they happened to save his life," said Kerry patiently. "And he was so grateful that he insisted on paying our way to attending a conference in the College he studied in."

"Whatever. If they do anything to tarnish the good name of County General..." Romano let his words hang ominously in the air.

"I'm sure they'll both behave as perfect gentlemen," said Kerry, wishing she could reach down the phone lines and shake him until what remained of his hair fell out.

"Well, see that they do," snapped Romano. "I'm holding you personally responsible."

"Goodbye Robert," said Kerry finally. "I'll talk to you when we get back to Chicago."

Quickly she broke the connection and buried her face in the pillow. Trust Robert to interrupt one of the most erotic dreams she'd had in ages. Of all the rotten timing...Kerry's thoughts trailed off as she remembered what had inspired her erotic dream.

Sitting up in the bed, she quickly pulled back the covers...revealing a naked Croatian at 'half-mast'. "Oh baby," she thought to herself with delight. "Now *this* was something worth getting woken up for."

"Thank you Romano," she said.

Luka's eyes flickered open. "Please let me still be dreaming," he mumbled. "Surely you cannot be mistaking me for our 'illustrious' Chief of Staff?"

Kerry laughed wickedly, "I'd have to be blind to do that...and even then..." She reached out and grabbed on, "even then, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't mistake you for him."

Luka sighed softly, "I sincerely hope not," he gasped as he grabbed Kerry and rolled on top of her.

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Luka slithered his way down Kerry's body. He was about to see if he could break his all time record when there was a loud banging on the apartment door.

"Jebi ga!" swore Luka. "Odiebi!"

Kerry slapped him on the shoulder, "I somehow don't think that that was Croatian for come on in," she hissed at him.

"Do you want me to stop what I'm doing?" asked Luka.

Kerry groaned inwardly. "No," she admitted.

Luka lowered his head again, but Kerry took hold of his hair and lifted it. "I don't want you to stop," she said, "But I think we'd better find out what's so important that there's someone banging on our door so early in the morning."

Outside the banging persisted. Kerry quickly pulled on a pair of pajamas and grabbed her crutch. "Perhaps you'd better wait in here," she said to Luka. He shrugged, but since he didn't fancy getting up anyway, he was quite happy to pull the bedclothes around him again.

To Kerry's surprise, Dave was standing outside her door. "Morning Chief," he said with his trademark cheeky grin.

"Malucci? You had better have a good reason for waking me up at this hour."

"Waking you up...yeah sure," smirked Dave. "Sorry about that Chief...but I just wanted to get the keys to the car."

Kerry rubbed her eyes tiredly. "Why do you want the keys to the car?" she asked wearily.

"Um, cause I need to take Carter down to the hospital...see he sprained his ankle last night...climbing in the window...and we need to get him a set of crutches so he can get around okay...so we figured if we went in early enough we'd be there and back before the conference stuff got going."

"Is John all right?" asked Kerry, a note of concern in her voice.

"Yeah, it's just a sprain...but he won't be able to walk properly on his own...so can we have the car...please 'mom'?"

Kerry rolled her eyes...and then realized that if Dave and Carter were hanging around at the hospital...then no one was going to be hanging around the apartment.

"Of course you can have the car keys," she said sweetly. Retrieving them from the table, she handed them to Dave. "Don't worry about getting back on time...take as long as you need...it might be no harm to get an x-ray as well...just to be on the safe side."

"Sure thing," grinned Dave. "See you'ze later." He turned around and headed down the hallway. "Oh, and Chief?" he turned around and called out to Kerry. "Tell Dr. K. that if he sleeps on his side he won't snore as much...that way he won't be keeping you awake like he did me and Carter."

"Goodbye Malucci," said Kerry, before shutting the door and returning to the bedroom.



To be continued

Author's notes - **time-lapse** is Role Playing Game shorthand for having sex...but I'm pretty certain you already figured that out.
Jebi ga! = Croatian for F**k it
Odiebi! = Croatian for F**k off
Translations were found at http://members.nbci.com/elips_kosak/swear.htm