"I need you tonight, 'cause I'm not sleeping..."

[literaryella]

Who? Ella Wilson and Dave Tynan
What? "So slide over here and and give me a moment..."
When? After work
Where? Ella's apartment

School was winding down, busy though it still was, and there was nothing in the word that Ella was looking more forward to. It would mean more time with her brothers (hopefully, and of course, provided Trey passed the bar and was able to actually have some time that he wasn't studying), and with Dave. Their relationship was still in its early days, but it was something that Ella was very quickly coming to grow used to and enjoy. It was nice... not complicated or confusing at all. They were dating. They spent a lot of time together, and Dave just seemed to get her, which was something she really couldn't say about any of the other guys she'd dated. Not that she'd dated awful people in the past, but there had never been a situation as easy as the one she had here with Dave.

She thought about that quite a lot... the fact that she didn't have to think about everything. With Dave, it just came naturally... it was simple and fun, and she loved that. After having lost her mom, it was nice for her to have something that was fun and light and comfortable... a guy who made her laugh, met her for quickies sometimes in the morning before work, spent nights and the mornings that followed them curled up in bed with her, naked and enjoying every single inch of each other's bodies. It just seemed to fall into place, and while neither of them had really put too much time and effort into explaining it, instead just taking it as it came, there was a part of Ella that knew she was falling fast for this guy, and really hoped that it would continue the way it was ging.

She'd sent him a text to meet her at her place once school was out if he wasn't busy, grateful to find that he wasn't. They arrived with nearly perfect timing, and she smiled at him playfully when he arrived, pulling him close with a deep kiss. "Hi, gorgeous," she said with a teasing smirk. "Miss me?"

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[surgeonshands]

Dave was still in the mindset of taking each day and see how it all pans out with his relationship with Ella. He had dated Aimee for a healthy amount of time, and they were still very close friends, but with Aimee so career-focused and working her butt off in her residency, they realised it just wasn't functioning like a well-oil wheel and it was tough to nail quality time together. Quality time was what it was all about, they both realised this. It came to its natural fade-to-black and they chalked it up as a nice time together, and no hard feelings, remaining friends in the wake of it. He had met Ella one night in a bar, and they just struck up a conversation together that was so easy. One thing led to another, and they soon came to be officially dating.

Ella had recently lost her mother, and cancer was something Dave literally understood first hand, because he had come close to losing his fight himself a few years back. His world had come crashing down around him, so he knew what a terrible time it could be. Especially knowing not everyone survived it. Dave was the sort of guy who thought laughter really was the best medicine. He had a wicked sense of humour and like to make people smile. It was just how he had always been, and Ella seemed to appreciate his type of humour. They laughed together a lot.

He smiled back at her teasing. "Oh, I don't know. I was so busy being all important and saving lives, that I maybe completely forgot to miss you," he joked and gave her another kiss. "How was your day?"