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While Amory finishes the eggs, Blake takes the other frying pan and begins the pancakes.
When the food is done, the two of them eat and watch the sun rise. They have to wake up really early in the morning if they want to have time for breakfast before work, and it is important for them to eat beforehand. Working at the clinic takes a lot of energy and the food they have for lunch isn’t nearly filling enough.
“Are you ready to go?” Amory asks when they finish washing the dishes.
“Yep,” Blake says.
The two of them walk out together and walk to the clinic. Blake really wants to hold Amory’s hand as the two of them walk, but she doesn’t. She doesn’t know what kind of relationship she has with Amory, and she also doesn’t know how Amory feels about public displays of affection, even if it’s just hand holding.
Blake decides that she’s overthinking this too much, but in her defense, it’s been a while since she’s felt anything like this. Like Amory, she hasn’t dated much, mostly having relationships primarily for sex like with Jenna. She also realizes that she should probably talk to Amory about what she wants out of their relationship or what all she’s okay with. Blake doesn’t know if Amory is okay with handholding, but she should definitely figure that out.
She is glad that Jenna seems to be okay with her wanting to pursue a relationship with someone else. Thinking back on it, she doesn’t know why she was worried. She knew where their relationship stood, so she shouldn’t have been worried.
Blake goes into the clinic with Amory and then they both get to work, going their separate ways.
Blake has gotten a lot better at her job since beginning to sleep with Amory. She’s no longer insatiably horny, but she’s also had more time to get used to the work. She’s also learned how to comfort her patients without being able to speak their language. Blake isn’t an overly smiley person, but she has learned that a smile goes a long way in communicating with a language barrier. That and her other facial expressions and body language are often used when speaking to her patients.
She gets a hug from one of them after she treats them. She smiles to them and hands them the prescription for antibiotics. Technically, they’re not supposed to hug patients, but no one actually cares, especially when a patient is the one to initiate.
It’s kind of like that in the US. She’s gotten plenty of hugs from patients as a thank you or relief at good news. Blake kind of misses her clinic back home. She knew this would happen, that she’d get homesick, but she’s grateful it’s not too bad.
She remembers her first time traveling abroad for work, and how miserable she was at times. She loved it, and definitely loved the experience enough to do it again, but there were times when it felt unbearable. She thinks that Amory is starting to get that way a little bit.
Yesterday at supper, Amory kept talking about her mom and her work at home and all of her regular patients and how she worried about them and is excited to get back to see them when they’re done in Zambia. Amory works in family medicine primarily with children, not at an urgent care like Blake does. And Blake knows that the bonds formed between a doctor and patient in family medicine are much more intense than in her work where she often doesn’t see the same patient twice.
Blake felt bad for her last night and gave Amory a back massage, which soon devolved into sex, but at least it seemed to do the job at keeping Amory distracted from her homesickness. Blake decides that she’s going to try her best to keep Amory from getting overly stressed from being in a new location and tries to think about what all she can do for her given their limited resources. Maybe she can make a nice dessert tonight or something to cheer her up.
When Blake gets done with her work, she is ready to go before Amory as always, but she waits for her like usual. Blake loves it when Amory gets done and the two of them walk back to the cabin together. It’s very domestic even if it started off as Blake wanting to apologize without words for what she did to Amory.
It’s strange to Blake, knowing that she slept with Amory’s girlfriend all of those years ago and now she’s sleeping with Amory. It kind of hurts her brain if she thinks about it, so she tries not to. She does have to admit that she enjoys Amory more than she ever did Natalie, even if Amory is a little rusty.
Blake is also better at sex than back then, too. She was a lot less experienced all of those years ago, a lot younger and self concerned with her own pleasure. Now, however, she loves making Amory feel good.
When Amory finishes work, she walks over to where Blake is standing and Blake gives her a wide smile, noticing how exhausted Amory looks.
“Tired?” Blake asks.
Amory nods. “Yeah, and I got thrown up on earlier.”
Blake grimaces. “Gross.”
“Very,” Amory says. “I’m lucky I always keep a spare set of clothes in my locker, but I threw away the old ones.”
“I don’t blame you. How about we head over to the cabin and you can take a shower?”
Amory groans. “A shower sounds great,” she says, “I feel disgusting.”
The two of them walk back to the cabin together and when they’re almost there, Blake decides to bite the bullet and takes Amory’s hand in hers.
Amory doesn’t pull away like Blake was afraid of and instead, she squeezes Blake’s hand as they walk. Blake smiles to herself. This is exactly what she wanted, and it feels so good to get any affection from Amory. She wants to talk to her, to establish some sort of official relationship, but at the same time she’s nervous. She doesn’t want to scare her off.
When they get back to the cabin, the first thing Amory does is let go of Blake’s hand and walk inside to the shower. She leaves the bathroom door open and Blake looks over at it, tempted to walk in there with her.
Before she can decide to, however, Blake gets a phone call from Jenna.
“Hey, what’s up?” Blake answers the phone, concerned. Jenna doesn’t usually call her, preferring to text. She’s worried that something is wrong, especially since Jenna is the one house-sitting for her while she’s in Zambia.
“There’s a problem,” Jenna says.
