I woke to the touch of Tim's fingers on my shoulder. "Hey, sleepyhead -- did Beth forget to set her alarm? You're supposed to be there in an hour."
Beth sat up, rubbing her eyes. "Wups, yes. Thanks, Tim, you've saved our lives."
She glanced at me, grinning. "So much for all our imagining what we'd do when we woke up. Never mind, there's always tomorrow."
Beth and I jumped in the shower -- "No way we could have managed without a wash, after last night and this morning," she teased -- and pulled on our uniforms. "I even ran the iron over them after I'd washed them," offered Tim, getting a kiss from Beth as a thank-you.
He dropped us off at the front of the block -- "I'd better not come up, or you might end up late for work even though we're here on time --" and I gave him a more than usually passionate goodbye kiss. "See you in the morning."
Things on the ward were quiet again, and Beth pulled out the book she'd brought, one of our set texts. "Hmm, anatomy and physiology."
I grinned. "There are some bits of anatomy we're coming to know quite a lot about, aren't there, and Tim too --" Beth's expression mixed mild shock with amusement -- "Why don't we take a look at those sections..."
I flipped through until I found the chapter on the female reproductive system. "Hmm. Labia minora, clitoris, vulva... Maybe we could wind Tim up one time and use all the proper words for everything, when we tell him what we want him to do."
Beth looked thoughtful. "Or we could really shock him," she chuckled, "and say the ones that Mum always told me I wasn't supposed to."
I nodded thoughtfully. "Like, 'cock', you mean," I said, emphasising the consonants. "Hmm, it feels different in my mouth like that," I grinned, raising my eyebrows.
Beth groaned. "Alice, that's terrible."
"Sorry," I smirked, "I couldn't resist that one."
She turned the page. "Mm, I like this picture."
The diagram was of an erect penis penetrating the vagina, and Beth breathed in, obviously a little turned on even by the cold clinical presentation. "He really does go all the way in..."
"And if we really open for him we should feel our bones touch each other, sort of," I pointed.
Beth's face went a little pink. "I like it when I feel those -- bumping against me," she indicated, "nearly touching the other place."
"Mm, yes," I grinned.
I looked more closely at the diagram. "Why do you think the clitoris is there? It doesn't look like anything touches it when he's in us, not that way at least."
"To give his mouth something to do before -- or afterwards," laughed Beth. "I'm not expecting to see any of those other ways in our textbook, though."
She fanned her face. "It's not that late yet -- why don't we call Tim? If we were apart for a night I always used to ring him, and we'd -- you know."
I chuckled. "Phone sex, too -- the things I'm finding out."
Beth caught her lip between her teeth. "Um, actually it was on the computer, so we could see one another."
I blinked, raising an eyebrow. "And you --"
"God, yes," Beth breathed. "Toys, and all sorts."
I pulled out my phone, grinning. "Then we're definitely calling him."
I tapped the screen, putting the call on speaker and turning the volume down a little. "Hello?" we heard from the other end.
I put on my most sultry voice. "Hello, Tim. This is your two sexy nurses calling..."
We could hear him smile. "Some people pay money for that, you know. Not that --"
"Strictly for you," Beth reassured. "You weren't asleep, were you?"
"Not yet. How's it going?"
"Quiet here," I chipped in. "Actually Beth and I were getting turned on by our anatomy textbook."
A short pause, then "Oh, I can imagine -- I find the patella incredibly sexy, myself."
Beth smirked. "Very funny."
She threw me a grin. "I guess you're ready for bed, Tim."
"Mm-hm." We heard the mattress creak. "I already know what you're wearing," Tim mused. "I watched you put your uniforms on, and very sexy you both looked too."
"How would it be if you needed us to take care of you?" I suggested.
Tim chuckled. "What would be wrong with me?"
Beth glanced at me, raising one eyebrow. "You could have had that operation our pet patient had."
Tim was obviously considering. "It doesn't make any difference to --?"
"Absolutely not," I reassured him.
"So what care do I need, exactly?"
I grinned, forgetting Tim couldn't see me. "The main thing is that we have to get a sample. You can work out what kind, right?"
"We need it to check for -- what did Dr Patel say? Motility," added Beth.
"So, imagine you're in bed, starting to get a bit bored, and we turn up." I nudged Beth. "I wanted to imagine us just pulling the curtains round in the ward, but do you think it'd be too obvious?"
"I thought about it," Beth admitted, "but perhaps we'd better have Tim in a side room, with a slider on the door -- 'Treatment in progress'."
"So I bend over the bed, making sure you can see down the top of my uniform, oops, seems I forgot my bra. 'Mr Oates, we're here to help you with your sample'.
"I pull back the covers, and there's an obvious, um, bump in your hospital gown. 'I think the patient is responding well so far, Beth.'
"So I lift up your gown, you're pretty hard, and you look at us, start to touch yourself. Beth joins me, and we start to kiss."
"You won't mind if I, um --" Tim began, and I exchanged grins with Beth. "Oh, we were counting on it."
"So we're kissing," I continued, "and definitely our tongues are involved, and we start to touch, stroking each other's breasts through our uniforms."
"Of course that's not enough for us," Beth joined in. She flashed her eyebrows at me. "Alice is the first one to go further, she watches my face while she undoes three or four of my buttons, just looks at my breasts for a few moments with her lips moist, parted, then starts to touch again. I can't help myself, and I undo her uniform too, and we're caressing one another, our fingers on each other's nipples."
"What about your mouths?" I heard Tim's breathless voice, obviously well on the way to his release.
"Mm, not this time," I teased, "but there is one thing we both like, when I use my fingers to rub my nipples directly on Beth's. Mmm..."
"So I think our patient is getting pretty close, he can't take his eyes off us, and I kiss Beth again, then smile at him. 'Maybe you need a little help.'
"I put a finger in my mouth to make it wet, showing him it glistening, then I reach out my hand, and I just stroke the tip of my finger along his shaft from the bottom, slowly.
"I feel him tense, harden, then he groans really loudly -- we wouldn't have got away with just curtains, Beth -- and I take my hand away as he spurts. He remembers the sample jar just in time, and manages to catch most of it, but some goes onto his stomach. 'Oops,' I grin at him.
"So Alice reaches out to dip a finger in one of the sticky blobs, puts it to her lips. 'Hmm -- a very adequate sample.'
While I'd been speaking, Tim's breathing had quickened, and just as I finished, we heard him gasp, then a moan of pleasure. "Was that what I think it was?" teased Alice, and after a few moments Tim managed to reply, breathless. "Oh yes. I -- um, I'm going to need a few paper hankies..."
"Glad we could help," I chuckled, "though if we were there, I'm sure we could find a better way to clean up... Sleep well, dream of us."
I ended the call, grinning at Beth. "That was fun."
She nodded. "I --"
She stopped as we both heard the sound of footsteps, and a moment later a figure in a staff nurse's uniform appeared. "Hi -- I'm Maisie, Katharine probably mentioned I'm supervising the next ward. I've got a couple of students on 98 so I thought I'd come and see how you're doing."
"Fine," I smiled. "We were just about to do a round."
Maisie waved her hand. "I'll do that -- why don't you two take a bit of a break?"