"Stitches in Time" by ericastwilight

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When Doctor Bella Swan reads the chart of her next patient, her heart starts beating. Sitting only a couple of feet away from her, in an examination room in the ER, is none other than Edward Cullen. Dr. Edward Cullen. The same Dr. Edward Cullen, who apparently disliked her so much that he refused to take her as one of the new residents at the White General's Hospital in San Francisco three years ago. Trying to get rid of her nervousness, Bella walkes into the exam room and comes face to face with the one man she was unable to get off of her mind for years...

And he isn't alone. The handsome pediatrician, who has had a little accident at home and now sports a small cut on his arm, is accompanied by an adorable little girl, whose name, she finds out quickly, is Abby. Bella tries to treat her patient the best way she can but is getting more and more angry at Dr. Cullen's obvious hatred towards her. According to him she isn't doing her job right and is also behaving unprofessional when she flirts with her husband in front of the patients. Husband? And then, suddenly, when Bella explains that Edward is mistaken and she is far from being married, the man's countenance changes and he miraculously starts being more than nice to her. Because rather than hating Bella with a passion, Edward needs her like air to breathe...

ericastwilight managed to write a realistic and very entertaining one-shot. For example, Edward's decision to refuse Bella's application to become a resident did not happen out of sheer annoyance and hatred. Instead, he had good reasons for his actions, reasons which the reader only finds out about a little bit later into the story. Stitches in Times is written both from Bella's and Edward's POV, while ericastwilight wrote Edward's and the talented lisa89 wrote Bella's. It's a great story to read in between long multi-chapter ones, especially because the O/S includes a short future take, so the reader knows what happens to his characters after the main plot is over!

Stitches in Time is a one shot consisting of 14,349 words. The story is rated M for language and lemons.