Posted by Kim on 1/3/2002, 2:19 pm "Working," was Ellen's flippant reply to Lucy's interruption. "Hold on for a minute." After giving Grace a few more instructions, Ellen remained at the nurse's station but gave her complete attention to Ms. Lucy Coe, who was obviously very excited about something. "Oh, oh," Ellen said with a wary look in her eyes. "Every time I see you like this it means only one thing - trouble. Maybe I should make my escape now." "Not a chance," countered the flamboyant Lucy Coe. "You still owe me big time for saving your life in the woods last summer and this is a way for you to make significant progress on paying that debt." With great reservations Ellen asked Lucy for details and she was in total shock when she heard that Lucy had arranged for Matt, Kevin, Lucy, and herself to spend Valentine evening together at Luke's. Apparently Lucy had been unsuccessful lately in getting Kevin to agree to spend some quality, romantic time alone with her, so Lucy came up with a brainstorm. Maybe Kevin and Lucy could double-date with Matt and Ellen on Valentine's Day. In Lucy's opinion, the happy engaged couple were the perfect people to help Lucy put Kevin's mind on the romance track on Valentine's Day. Ellen tried to beg off by saying that she probably had to work that evening but Lucy had already arranged with her ex-husband, Alan Quartermaine, GH's chief of staff, to make sure that both Matt and Ellen would have Valentine's evening off. As Ellen continued to argue against meeting that evening, Lucy's mood changed from exuberance to exasperation. "Ellen, what is the problem?" Lucy pouted. "Both Matt and Kevin have already agreed; why are you resisting?" "What do you mean Matt and Kevin have already agreed?" Ellen couldn't believe that Kevin had agreed to Lucy's suggestion. "Well, I just saw Matt on the 6th floor when I was looking for you and he agreed immediately. And earlier today, after a few moments of resistance Kevin agreed also. You are the last person that I would have expected some problems from. You're going to do this for me, right?" Not being able to come up with a plausible reason for not accepting Lucy's proposal, Ellen finally agreed. Hugging Ellen and kissing her on both cheeks, Lucy soon departed. Tapping her pen on the counter of the nurse's station and deep in thought for a minute, Ellen forgot about continuing her work with Grace and she headed to Kevin Collin's office. Grace had been a silent observer of the Lucy-Ellen discussion and she watched Ellen as she headed down the hallway. "What? Did Burgess just do something to tick you off?" Chris Ramsey had just arrived and he saw the intense look that Grace had on her face as she watched Ellen. Ignoring his question, Grace turned to face him and asked, "Chris, do you have plans for Valentine Day already?"
Ellen was busy discussing a chart of a patient recently transferred from the emergency room with Grace Sullivan when she heard the exclamation, "There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Where have you been?"
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