This story is meant to be read in sequence. Although not impossible to pick up the storyline, I hope you will read A Day in the Job Chapter 1 before reading this.
For those of you who are fans of Scrubs, Elizabeth Bogush played Alex the social worker in Season 1.
This instalment takes place directly after the events of Chapter 1, I hope you enjoy it.
Constructive feedback is always welcome!
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When I woke up the next morning, I was still sprawled out on the floor of the bedroom, still completely naked. Rolling onto my side, I found an equally naked Sarah Chalke lying on her back next to me, her firm breasts rising and falling slowly as she breathed. I lay there and let my eyes roam over her body, still unable to believe the night we'd spent together.
Suddenly, I remembered the amount of alcohol I had consumed last night, and then my hangover chose to kick in. My head thumped, my eyes felt heavy and my stomach was doing some intricate, gold-medal worthy gymnastic act in my abdomen. I groaned and cursed aloud, causing Sarah to stir.
She rolled onto her side, still beautiful, smiled at me and then her own hangover kicked in, causing her to scrunch her eyes and grit her teeth, letting out a pained grunt. I laughed, which just made my head throb even more.
She turned onto her stomach and draped an arm across me, kissing the side of my arm before pulling herself up onto her feet. I copied her, grabbing onto a nearby dressing table to steady my wobbly legs. She grabbed a couple of robes and we covered our nakedness, making our way to the kitchen for a much needed breakfast.
After breakfast, we quickly got dressed (I only had the clothes I had had last night, since I had spent the night at Sarah's) and left the hotel room. As we left the hotel we bumped into Zack and Donald, who had just grabbed a bite to eat. As both Sarah and myself squinted our eyes against the September sun, groaning as the light aggravated our hangovers, they both laughed and Don said,
"Good night Craig?" I grinned and gave them a wink, though according to Sarah, they knew about the "arrangement" that Sarah and Judy Reyes had to fuck the new members of the Scrubs team on a weekly rota. This thought still made me laugh.
I walked with them to the set, before dashing across the road to my hotel and quickly changing my clothes. Running back to the defunct hospital in which the show was filmed, I tried to hide the fact that I was suffering from the mother of all hangovers.
I spent the rest of that day falling over. Literally. My job here at Scrubs was to help them with some of the stunts they performed, jumping off things, falling over things, running into other things. It was only one day of stunts, the rest of the week I would be acting. After about 4 hours of running into things it was lunch time, and I was shattered, my hangover still lingering around like a bad smell.
I ate lunch with Zack, Donald, Judy and Sarah. I nursed a cup of coffee in my hands, hoping to wash away the dregs of my alcohol induced headache. We were discussing the show, how they had high hopes for it and how they were all really enjoying the work so far. Soon, the conversation turned to a new actress who was turning up tomorrow.
"So, Zack," Sarah said, "you looking forward to getting to grope Elizabeth? I hear she's gorgeous." The comment shocked me a bit, I hadn't expected it from Sarah. Nevertheless, we all laughed a bit and Zack looked quite sheepish.
After lunch, we were pulling a stunt which involved Zack sliding under a gurney as he ran down a corridor. It would be a tricky stunt to pull off. Basically, Zack had to run at the gurney, the camera would overrun him, then, when there was no camera on us, I would take the slide under the gurney. Zack would then pop up from the other side. I couldn't remember the proper name for the technique, but I called it "the switch-out".
Three or four attempts later I noticed that Sarah was standing watching us, the rest of the crew finished for the day. She winked at me as I caught her eye and prepared for the last take of the day. My back and hips were already smarting from the battering I had taken in the past few hours. That's the thing with stunts, no matter how many safety precautions you take, most of them still hurt like hell.
I stood behind the cameras path and watched as the film started rolling, as Zack hurtled down the hall at a sprint. He ducked suddenly out of the cameras view and the cameraman shot past me. I stepped out and threw myself forward, landing with my hips on the small square of cushioning on the floor, slid under the gurney and out the other side where Zack was already waiting. I stayed on the floor as he popped back into the shot before continuing his run to the nearest patient's room.
"Ok people, that's a wrap!" Shouted Bill Lawrence. From her vantage point, Sarah cheered and clapped. I grinned at her and stood up, giving my hip a quick rub. Zack came out of the room and gave me a high-five.
"Last thing folks," Bill again, "Tomorrow we have Elizabeth Bogush joining us for a couple of episodes. So the usual applies, treat her as part of the group. See you all tomorrow." There was a murmur of goodbyes from the crew and me and Zack walked over to Sarah. It was only about 3 o'clock and we decided to go grab a bite to eat.
It was amazing how quickly I'd become friends with these guys. At the restaurant we were eating in, I spent most of the time laughing at Zack and Don, who seemed to be best friends, even though they hadn't met each other before Scrubs. After dinner we started to walk back towards our various hotels, and soon I was left with just Johnny C McGinley, Sarah Chalke and Judy Reyes. Judy was the one cast member I hadn't really spent much time with or got to know, so I started to talk to her, trying to get to know her a bit better. She was a small Latina woman, of Dominican descent, she had pretty brown eyes and her silky dark hair fell straight down over her shoulders. She was 34 later this year, grew up in New York and this was her first major role in a TV show. I asked her how the arrangement that she and Sarah had had started and she just gave me a cheeky grin and said,