The Doctor will See You Now
So, the lovely @ainagren prompted me with “But I thought you were still sleeping”, and this thing just sort of wrote itself...it’s long- veeerrryyy long- and smuty towards the end. So I hope like it!
Also, for my darling @dismiss-your-fearsx is having a rough time, so this is for her as well!
Five points and a virtual cookie to anyone spotting the “Couplings” reference:)
Tuesday is one of his busiest days.
It is the day he spends at the clinic, instead of at the Hospital; taking in patients from 08:00 in the morning to 18:00 in the evening as one of the two gynaecologists currently employed at the health centre. The other doctor, Dr Behenna, works Thursdays from 11:00 to 15:00, but his appointments are rarely all booked, as Dwight's always tend to be, for the older man is not as gentle or as kind.
Or as handsome, as Demelza, the fiery-haired receptionist, tends to say.
Having just come from the pouring rain, Dwight shakes his shoulders and climbs up the stairs to the clinic's entrance, a plastic cup full of scalding coffee in one hand and a big, worn out leather briefcase in the other. With a tired sigh, conceived and born out of a busy late evening at the hospital, he leans against the door and nudges it open with his elbow. Demelza, already at her desk, lifts up her head at his entrance and beams at him.
"Dwight!" she cries invitingly, "you look like something the cat's dragged in! Had a brilliant night out, have we?"
Enys throws his briefcase into the chair closest to the door, places his coffee on another, and begins to shrug off his coat.
"If only," he drawls, hanging the sodden garment on a coat hanger, "three emergency c- sections, four standard births, and one placental abruption- all in one bloody evening; I came home at two in the morning. I'm so knackered; I nearly drove off the road on my way here."
Demelza frowns sympathetically at him and purses her lower lip.
"Why not take the Tube?" she asks, sticking a pencil into her wild hair and twisting it, trying hard to subdue it into a messy bun on the top of her head, "That's what I do. Driving is a sodding nuisance, anyway."
Dwight shrugs and picks up both briefcase and coffee.
"I like driving," he says, a tad defensively, "It clears my mind."
Before he has the chance to open the door to his office, Demelza clears her throat, and he turns around to look at her, one eyebrow arched in question. She looks uneasy, a frown marring her fresh face.
"Dwight…" she begins quietly, "the raptured placenta…did the child…?"
"Stillborn," he says with bitter finality and smiles sadly, "32 weeks; the mother slipped in the shower."
Demelza's face crumples, and she takes a deep breath, shaking her head.
"Oh Dwight…" she breathes mournfully, fully aware of how he takes every case of his to heart, "would you like me to cancel some of your appointments for today, love?"
He laughs unconvincingly and shakes his head and, tucking his briefcase under his arm, pushes the door to his office open.
"Goodness, no!" he cries, smiling at her, "if I were to cancel appointments after every bad patient outcome, I'd be out of a job, Demz. Now, who's my first?"
Thoroughly unconvinced with this feeble attempt at bravado, Demelza turns to consult the records. She frowns at the paper and taps her pencil- one that was lucky enough to escape the captivity of her curls- against the table.
"Well, it says here that your first appointment is a Keren Daniel; the name sounds familiar, actually…"
Dwight groans and rubs his eyes tiredly.
"Keren is an old fling…" he sighs wearily and curses himself mentally; today is going to be a long day, "the one who's married to Ross' mate, Mark; remember? She was a receptionist at the previous clinic I worked in; we –uh, that is, we-"
"Shagged," intones Demelza, unimpressed, "and now she comes for a pap smear? What, no other gynaecologists in Town?"
Dwight shrugs helplessly, trying to find an answer when the door opens, and Verity Poldark glides in, all smiles and unicorns.
"Good morning, darlings!" she sings and spins around, throwing her bag unto the counter with surprising accuracy, "any sick little angels for me today?"
Dwight and Demelza share a surprised look between them.
"Somebody's cheerful as a bloody rainbow," Demelza mutters and drops her gaze to her open records," you have seven patients today, Verity; did you have a good night?"
Verity sighs dramatically and drops into the nearest chair in the waiting area; Dwight leans against the counter and takes a sip of coffee.
"Oh, the absolute best!" she sighs again and looks dreamily at the ceiling, "Andrew's in Town; we went out, then came back to my flat. Don't tell Francis, he hates him."
Demelza laughs softly and leans back in her reclining chair.
"Well, at least somebody here has any sort of a social life; I must say, I no longer recall what a penis even looks like."
Dwight chokes on his coffee, and Demelza and Verity snicker in unison.
"Perhaps Dwight can open his trousers and show you," Verity says naughtily and cocks an eyebrow at her colleague in mock challenge "Go on, Dwight; do it for science!"
Demelza howls with laughter and rests her head on her forearms, her shoulders shaking with mirth. Dwight shakes his head in astonishment and backs away into his office.
"You two are raving mad," he mutters as the two women continue to cackle, "I'm barricading myself in my office for the remainder of the day, in fear for my virtue and modesty!"
He can still hear them laughing when- five minutes later- he exits the loo and shrugs on his lab coat, ready to begin the day. Another two minutes pass before he hears Demelza call, "The Doctor will see you now, Mrs Daniel", and Keren walks in. As always, she is a thing of wild attraction. Tight, revealing clothes adorn her body like a second skin; her hair unbound and gliding down her shoulders like an avalanche of liquid chocolate. Her elfish, keen eyes regard him hungrily as she walks in and closes the door behind her.
"Hello, Dwight," she says huskily, and something clenches painfully at the pit of Dwight's stomach; Keren was the first woman he ever loved, and it ended badly. Spectacularly so.
"Keren," he acknowledges with a tight smile and offers her the seat before him, "how can I help you?"
She lowers herself into the chair and crosses her legs.
"Well, Dr Enys," she begins, one side of her alluring mouth inching upwards, "I've missed my last two periods. I think I'm pregnant."
Dwight experiences a few seconds of sheer panic at her admission, until he realizes that the last time the two of them participated in any activity that might potentially lead to the conception of a human baby was more than a year ago; then, with a tiny breath of relief, he cannot help but feel a little tightening in his chest, and he grows somewhat angry and ashamed of his feelings.
"Well," he clears his throat and turns to his computer, "we shall see, shall we; last date of menstruation?"
"The fifteenth of January," she recalls effortlessly and leans back in her chair, "I'm tired all the time, Dwight; and my tits are sore. My tits are never sore, Dwight."
Dwight bites the inside of his lips and nods, for lack of a better response.
"How about a scan?" he says, his voice falsely bright, "we should be able to see quite a lot at this stage, as you appear to be ten weeks on, by the calculations. Hope on the chair, and we'll have a go."
Keren rises from her seat and climbs unto the examination chair, not bothering with the curtain. She slides down the seat and hoists up her miniskirt and places her feet in the stirrups; she's not wearing any knickers.
At his briefly astonished look, she smiles almost wickedly.
"I came prepared," she drawls, "aren't I a good patient, Dr Enys?"
Dwight nearly drops the ultrasound stick in embarrassment.
"Slide a little further down, please," he says instead, fumbling with the scanning machine, " and spread the legs a little farther apart- yes, just so; thank you."
She's pregnant, of course; just as she suspected, and the embryo looks well developed for this stage. He prints out the photos for her, prescribes vitamins and is just about to write everything in her medical file when Keren reaches out and grabs his hand.
"Dwight," she says, suddenly all serious, "will you be utterly shocked and angry if I told you that sometimes I really wish this child was yours, and not Mark's?"
He stares at her for a second longer than is polite, then shrugs off her hand and covers his tired eyes.
"Keren," he sighs wretchedly, "why tell me this? Why come to me at all? Surely, there are other doctors in your district? There's even another gynaecologist in this very clinic!"
"True," she acknowledges gravely, "but none as capable as you. We have a history, Dwight; but you are a brilliant doctor, and I want the absolute best for my unborn child. Will you take me on? Please?"
He looks up at her and seriously considers declining. Treating her, delivering her of her baby, committing to seeing her every few weeks for the next seven months – all these cannot be good for his mental health, even if he is over her and their somewhat hasty, torrid affair; even if there is another person currently sneaking her way into his heart. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath; undoubtedly he'll come to regret this.
"Come see me in a month," he says resolutely, and Keren smiles widely, "ask my receptionist to set up your next appointment."
"Thank you, Dwight;" she says softly, "you're a good man."
"What will Mark say when he finds out I am to be your doctor?" he counters, ignoring her flattery and challenging her to answer, to face the problem, instead, "I doubt that having the two of us in one room when you are struggling to give birth to your child is a good idea."
She rises from her seat and looks down at him.
"He'll live," she sums their entire meeting up, and walks to the door, "he'll want a healthy baby, and you are the best gynaecologist in Town; even he knows that… Goodbye, Dwight; see you in a month."
When Keren leaves, Dwight calls the reception.
"Yes, Dr Enys," Demelza's voice has a hint of surprise in it as she answers the phone, something only he can hear.
"Demz," he sighs into the earpiece tiredly, "can you delay the next patient for five minutes? I need to take a breather; wash my face."
"Not a problem," she says into the phone, and he can practically hear her frown; good ol' Demz; Mother Hen, she is. Off the phone, he can hear her voice again, this time directed at the patient who is no doubt anxious to be admitted to his office for an examination, "Mrs Richards, there is a slight delay, I'm afraid; I will let you know once Dr Enys is available."
"You're the absolute best, Demz," he mutters into the earpiece and drops the phone, leaning back in his chair and staring at the ceiling.
Keren Daniel. Of all women in this bloody Town, Keren Daniel had to first walk into his life, and then walk into his office. No rest for the weary; defiantly no rest for the wicked, and he is, undoubtedly, both these things.
Dwight inhales deeply and slowly lets the air leave his lungs. He no longer has any feelings for Keren, his affections these days lie elsewhere; with a woman so unlike Keren in essence, in mind – in anything that counts, really. He's free of that influence Keren had on him back in the day when he first started seeing her; that influence that had him break his own moral code and sleep with a woman who was already taken; that influence that made him get up and leave his workplace when things got bad, and it was either find something else or have the entire staff know what transpired between them.
Dwight inhales again and looks at the watch on the screen of his computer. Two minutes until the next patient is ushered in.
She tried to enforce that influence on him today again, by playing a merry tune on his heartstrings; knowing that he'll be powerless to resist accepting her as a patient if she mentions the safety of her unborn child. Well, he's had enough of toxicity to last him a lifetime.
With a sense of lighthearted finality, as if a great load has fallen off his shoulders, Dwight picks up the phone again and rings Demelza. She answers after one ring, and he begins to talk straight away.
"Demzi, you can send the next patient in," he explains, his voice firm and hurried, "and, please, reschedule Mrs Daniel to Dr Behenna; I find myself in a conflict of interests."
There's silence on the other line for a few seconds, and then the quiet tone of Demelza's voice calms him: "you've made the right choice, Dwight," she says quietly, and he breathes a sigh of relief, "Now; I'm sending Mrs Richards in."
Mrs Richards has a vaginal fungus, as do Miss Pine and Mrs Price who come in after her. Miss Hoblyn comes to get a prescription for the pill, because her cycle is all over the place and extremely painful, and Dwight sends her on a series of tests and asks that she'd return to him in a fortnight. Verity drops in between appointments to wish him a pleasant day, and leaves to spend the rest of her day with her unapproved boyfriend; Miss Teague enters soon after for a pap smear. Mrs Carkeek dawdles into his office for a routine checkup, her eight-month belly reappearing in his doorway before the rest of her does, and Jinny Carter comes complaining of pain in her lower abdomen and a high fever.
It turns out to be a uterine infection, originating in her IUD. Dwight prescribes powerful antibiotics, gives her the first injection himself and carefully removes the little copper wire from her womb. Jinny cries softly with pain.
"I am very sorry, Jinny," he says with feeling, standing up from his seat between her trembling thighs, and patting her arm a little awkwardly, "unfortunately, the pain was unavoidable; the entire area is quite inflamed. It was very good of you to come – very responsible – before this became life-threatening. Now, is Jim picking you up, or should we get you a taxi?"
Jinny sighs brokenly and shakes her head, too tired to move; Dwight helps her into a sitting position, and she smiles wetly at him, her eyes clouded with fever.
"Bless you, Dr Enys; but Jim is waiting for me in the waiting area. He got a bit of a fright, you understand."
Dwight nods and picks up the phone.
"As well he should," he concludes before Demelza answers his call, "Demzi, please ask Jim to come in and take Jinny home; she can barely move."
The young man bursts through the door half a minute later, eyes crazed with worry, and Dwight half-suspects that he might have to sedate the poor bloke.
"How bad is, doctor?" he asks frantically, leaping towards his wife, and helping her off the examination chair.
"It's bad, but not life-threatening; you came just in time," Dwight says kindly while he fills out the prescription for the antibiotics, "I gave her a shot and took the IUD out, but she must take these. You must stop at the chemist's on your way home and get the pills."
The young man nods frantically and takes the prescription with a shaking hand.
"Thank you, Dr Enys!"
"Plenty of fluids," Dwight adds when Jim stuffs the precious piece of paper into his pocket, "and a lot of rest; Jinny must help the body heal. Come see me in a week. If the pain grows worse, or the fever doesn't break; head straight to the Hospital and have them page me. Tell them you're my patients."
Jinny starts crying softly again, and Jim looks close to tears himself.
"Thank you, Dr Enys!" he says again and helps his wife lean heavily on him for support.
"No need to thank me, Jim; just get better," Dwight says and stands to open the door for them.
After Jinny and Jim Carter leave, and Dwight is sitting again, Demelza opens the door and pops her head into the room.
"Is Jinny going to be alright?" she asks worriedly; Jinny is a childhood mate.
Dwight nods and leans back in his chair.
"With rest and antibiotics she is going to be right as rain," he says and yawns, covering his mouth unsuccessfully, "did you need something?"
Demelza seems a bit uneasy and bites her lower lip anxiously.
"Actually, I need a little favour, darling," she whispers harshly, scrunching up her nose, "Could you possibly squeeze another patient into your hectic schedule? Pens just called, her pill's prescription is outdated, and she's out of birth control. Without those she can't shag that mystery bloke she's seeing, and from the way she goes on about him, the man's a bona fide sex god! Help a girl out, Enys? It will only be two minutes…"
Dwight looks at Demelza, battling the blush that threatens to overtake his face. Pens, or as other mortals call her – Caroline Penvenen- is Demelza's best friend from Uni. The girls, who used to share a flat during the crazy days of their English Lit. BA studies came up with ridicules nicknames for each other, based on their surnames; thus Caroline became known to the world as Pens and Demelza as Cars, and all their friends, Dwight included, became used to the silly names.
Dwight's blush spreads deeper and disappears into the collar of his shirt. Caroline Penvenen is a highly talented girl; among her many talents, is the gift of lying through her nose. Her birth control prescription is most certainly not outdated, and the reason he knows it is because he wrote her a new one only a week ago, when she was actually out of them and needed the pill in order to shag her mystery sex god bloke, who just so happens to be Dwight himself.
Unbeknown to their closest friends, Dwight and Caroline have been sort of a couple for the past six weeks; mostly meeting in secret at the large flat used by Caroline's uncle Ray when he's in Town. Their affair springs upon them suddenly, as if it was waiting to overtake them the moment they met, and they are helpless against it; helpless against their attraction towards one another. Their meetings are full of passion, combustive and consuming, and overpowering to the point of insanity, and Dwight knows that he's already in too deep to escape from this relationship unscathed if Caroline suddenly decides that she's had enough of him. He's almost ready to admit to himself – and to Caroline - that he's unbearably in love with her, but the matter of the secrecy still holds him back. The reason for this sneaking around is that Uncle Ray, the elderly git that raised Caroline since her parents died and who is filthy rich and entitled, thinks that his little girl should date an MP, if not Royalty, and that a middle-class NHS doctor who spends his days elbow deep in other women's vaginas, is simply not good enough for her. Caroline is horribly fond of the dreadful sod and takes special care not to trouble his feeble heart, and so no one must know that she spends her nights in the doctor's arms; least of all Demelza, who will no doubt have trouble controlling her face around Uncle Ray and probably reveal everything with one expression.
Dwight clears his throat and nods.
"Yes, absolutely," he says in a troublingly high voice, "tell her to be here by six, and I'll see her. Not a problem. Yes."
"Dwight, you're a bloody angel," Demelza says benevolently and blows him a kiss, before turning around and closing the door behind her.
Dwight exhales loudly and frowns.
The next hour passes in a troubling haze, and he can barely take heed of his patients and their problems, which is a dreadful problem. He takes a grip of himself halfway through a cervix examination and vows to put Caroline out of his mind until the time she comes to see him. Soon enough, it is 18:00 o'clock and the last patient leaves, and Demelza's soft 'you can go in now, Pens; Dwight's free' puts him on edge –
Caroline walks in and closes the door behind her, smiling wickedly.
Dwight gulps.
"Hello, Dwight," she says quietly, leaning back against the door, "I thought I'd pop in for a quick shag, d'you mind?"
And just like this, all the tension runs out of him, and he snorts in relief.
"Well, then you should have invented something more time consuming than a prescription renewal," he laughs quietly, "Demzi will expect you out in two minutes. I can't make it in two, Caroline."
"Oh," Caroline says and straightens, "well, if that's the problem…"
She turns around, opens the door, and leans out.
"Cars, Dr Enys decided to go for the full-on examination; do you mind waiting for a few? It won't be long."
Dwight rises from the table and moves to stand beside Caroline, his hand sneaking under her blouse and up her back. Demelza seems surprised at 'his decision', but not suspicious.
"Alright," she says, squinting at the clock on the wall, "there's plenty of time. Say, Dwight; we're going to see the new Marvel movie, and then we'll go for a few pints. Want to be a third wheel?"
Dwight hesitates for a moment and stops caressing Caroline's back with his thumb. She turns her head slightly towards him and smiles innocently.
"Yes, do come with us, Dr Enys!"
"Stop referring to him as Dr Enys, Pens!" Demelza admonishes her friend, trying hard not to laugh at the look on Dwight's face, "You're making him uncomfortable! Besides, you always call him 'Dwight', where is this 'Dr. Enys' nonsense coming from?"
"I'm about to show him my cistern, Cars; seems odd to call him 'Dwight' just now." She says cheekily, and he pinches her in retribution. Caroline tries very hard not to squeal and start. Demelza notices this and frowns.
"I'll probably fall asleep during the movie," Dwight says hurriedly, to distract her, "but if you girls don't mind, then, sure; I'll come."
Caroline pushes herself back against his hand and flexes her back muscles lightly.
"We don't mind, do we, Cars?" She asks sweetly, keeping her eyes strictly on her friend. Demelza's gaze turns somewhat predatory.
"Not in the least, Pens," she agrees and props her chin on her hands.
There is a moment of silence, and then Dwight clears his throat.
"Well, in you go; Miss Penvenen," he says rather awkwardly. Caroline turns around, winks at him, and saunters back into his office. He's about to follow her when Demelza calls out to him.
"Be gentle, Dwight," she smiles impishly at him and raises her eyebrows, "Pens is very fragile!"
A loud cry of 'sod off!' echoes from his office and Demelza laughs. Dwight leans in the doorway and smiles innocently.
"I'm always gentle," he says and shrugs, "That's why my Tuesdays are completely booked."
Demelza laughs again, and Dwight ducks his head and enters his office. Caroline sits up on the examination chair and dangles her bare feet like a mischievous child. She raises her head to look at him and bites down on her smile. Dwight closes the door behind him but otherwise doesn't move. Slowly, almost excruciatingly, Caroline pulls up the edge of her skirt, first up one thigh, then up the other; then, just as leisurely, she parts her legs and leans back on the chair with a wicked gleam in her cobalt eyes. Dwight inhales deeply at the sight.
"Come here, Dr Enys," she murmurs, and extends her hand to him, "it was always a fantasy of mine; to find a fit gynaecologist, who looked like a Greek God and could rip off my knickers and ravish me."
Dwight takes a few steps closer and comes to stand between her parted thighs.
"Well, I don't know about the Greek God bit, and it'd be a shame about your knickers," he smiles awkwardly and Caroline giggles, "But I could give the ravishing a go, I suppose."
She sits upright suddenly and catches him by the lapel of his coat, bringing him down to her level and kissing him wildly. Dwight's hands fly to her shoulders, pressing her closer to him, and Caroline's thighs clench around his hips in desperate need.
"Drop your trousers, Dwight," she breathes heavily against his mouth, and presses her palms into his buttocks, "now!"
Dwight fumbles with his belt while clumsily kissing Caroline; missing her mouth, and clashing teeth together. She moans against his lips, and he has to take one of his hands from the important job of opening his bloody trousers to press his fingers against her lips.
"Shhh," he whispers into her ear, "Demelza will hear you. I may be gentle, but nobody moans during my examination!"
He nearly chokes when he feels Caroline take the two fingers at her lips into her mouth and suck on them.
"Oh God," he breathes, and pushes his trousers down his legs, "where have you been all my life?"
Caroline laughs breathlessly and grabs Dwight's hand and guides it to her knickers. Being a bright boy, he understands the hint easily, even through the heavy fog of arousal in his brain, and he tugs the scanty material down Caroline's attractive thighs. She slides down the chair, towards him, and guides him into her effortlessly, and Dwight groans quietly in her ear at the joining, while she gasps into his neck.
"Oh," she breathes, barely audible, "Oh, Dwight; Oh, my –"
They don't have much time, and he's determined to give her pleasure in the little time they do have, so he presses his knowledgeable fingers against her clit and works his magic. Caroline cries out and bites on his shoulder, to stifle the sound. It doesn't take much time - for either of them - and soon both are very close to falling apart.
"Dwight," she cries in his ear, and he adds a little more pressure to his circling fingers, "Oh, Oh Dwi-!"
He follows her soon after, with a sharp little gasp of his own; as she presses his face to her breast and embraces him softly. They stand like this for a few seconds, recovering their breath, before Dwight looks up at Caroline; dishevelled and grinning.
"You couldn't wait, could you?" he asks rather smugly, and she rolls her eyes at him, already combing her fingers through her hair to submit it into a proper form again, "I would have come to see you after work-"
"Uncle Ray's in Town," Caroline interrupts him and scrunches her nose apologetically at his look, "But…" she looks up at him with a hopeful expression, "perhaps you could come to dinner tomorrow night…?"
Dwight, in the process of zipping up his trousers, looks up at her, completely stunned.
"Do you mean –" he asks in astonishment, and she nods sheepishly, a small smile playing on her lips.
"I find that I'm quite tired of secrecy, Dwight," she says and throws her arms around his neck, "I fancy you; you fancy me, right?"
"A bit," he smiles, and she bites her lower lip, rolling her eyes at him again," but won't your uncle through me out of the house?"
Caroline shrugs and pulls Dwight a little closer.
"Oh, he'll live," she sighs dramatically, "I was never going to marry that idiot Unwin anyway," then, leaning in, she mock-whispers in his ear, "he's shit in bed!"
Dwight snorts deliriously and plasters his palm against his lips to smother the sound before it escapes his throat; Caroline's eyes shine at his expression.
"Whereas you, my dear Dr Enys," she sighs and pulls his face towards her, "are a specialist."
"So," he asks against her cheek, "you're dating me for my skills in the bedroom?"
Caroline's left eyebrow arches artfully and her lips part in a witty smile.
"No," she says sweetly and kisses his grinning mouth, "I'm dating you for the hasty pill prescription, the 'skills in bed' bit is just an added bonus."
He laughs quietly and embraces her tightly.
"Let's tell the gang over dinner on Friday," Caroline whispers suddenly against his shoulder, and Dwight's heart begins to race in his chest. He clears his throat.
"I can't wait to see Demzi's face when she finds out that the mysterious sex god is actually me," he laughs awkwardly, his voice breaking slightly at the end of the sentence. Caroline lifts up her face from his shoulder to stare at him; her cheeks are flushed, but she looks at him slyly and cocks her left eyebrow at him.
"I really think it wouldn't shock her as much as you think it would," she says musingly, "you know, if she weren't so completely in love with Ross, she'd defiantly shag you."
Dwight laughs uncomfortably and shakes his head.
"No, she wouldn't!" he insists, blushing fiercely, and looks away. Caroline presses a few fingers to his jaw and nudges his face back towards her softly.
"Are you mad?" she asks, her smile infectious, "no woman in her right mind will pass on the opportunity to sleep with a man who actually knows where the clitoris is, and what to do with it!"
Dwight laughs again, still embarrassed and flushed, but nonetheless pleased with the complementing mood she's in tonight. He's about to reciprocate with a cute comment about her effect on him when he suddenly remembers his hasty retreat from her uncle's flat this very morning, no explanation offered. Dwight blushes again, this time in shame.
"And if we are on the matter of sleeping…." He begins hesitantly, and reaches with his fingers to stroke her cheek, "I'm sorry I left the flat this morning without saying anything. But I thought...you were still sleeping, and I didn't have the heart to wake you. You looked so peaceful, and I was so very late."
Caroline laughs lightly and turns her head to kiss his fingertips.
"It's alright," she says quietly, "I thought it was something of that sort."
Dwight smiles and continues to stroke his fingers, now against her lips. He's about to lean in for a mind-blowing kiss when an urgent rap on the door causes him to start and jump backwards.
"Oi, come on, you two!" Demelza's muffled voice is sharp against the wooden frame, "Chris Hemsworth and his heavenly abs await! If you want a proper examination, Pens; you can bloody well make a sodding appointment, you cow!"
"Coming!" Caroline cries, her voice trembling with laughter, "let me just put my knickers back on; you impatient arse!"
Dwight has to bite hard on his lip to not cackle like an old crone, his endorphin levels dangerously high; while Caroline tries to make herself presentable. He lifts her undergarments off the floor and presents them to her with a flourish, for which he receives a light punch on the arm and a quick kiss.
Demelza stands outside his office door when they finally emerge some minutes later, her arms folded across her chest and one foot tapping rhythmically on the floor in annoyance. Caroline twists her skirt slightly to shake it out and gives Demelza her most brilliant smile.
"Sorry for the delay, Cars," she says brightly, smoothing her blouse down, "we were busy shagging."
Dwight will remember the look on Demelza's face until the day he dies.
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