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into their small community. She chats with Doc
about her background as a dental hygienist, offering her services.
They are none too happy to take her up on her offer since they have
not been able to provide dental
services yet. With the winter season fast
approaching, it’s hard telling what they’ll see this year as far as
sickness goes and adding to that is the lack of dental care people
are receiving which isn’t going to help. He’s just
glad he got his braces removed a few months before the fall.
Pulling those suckers off with a pair of pliers would’ve been
painful.
    “Hey, Simon,” Reagan says, taking him to the
side. “Will you and Sam clean up the last two exam rooms and pack
up our gear? I still have one more patient and so does Grandpa.
Paige can help, too, if you want. You don’t mind, do you?”
    “No, that’s no problem, Reagan,” he tells
her. “I don’t need help, though. I can probably do it myself.”
    “I can help!” Sam offers with a bright
smile.
    She’s obviously overheard their conversation, as usual.
He should’ve known. She’s never far from him. Simon grimaces and
walks away.
    “I’m going over to the wall where John
and Kelly are working. I want to check on an area where I think we can make an
improvement,” Paige says.
    “Ok, well, you guys work it out,” Reagan
says. “I’m headed back in to get my last patient.”
    Doc also leaves, Jackie hangs around with
Cory, and Simon prepares to clean rooms.
“I’ll walk you over to the build site,” Cory says to Paige.
    She retorts with, “No thanks.”
    Simon barks testily, “Paige! Just let him.
Good grief, we don’t have the wall done yet. You know the rules.
None of the women in our group just go bee-bopping around town
without one of us. You don’t even have a weapon today.”
    His sister looks offended, which makes Simon
feel like crap. He’s not as frustrated with her as he is with
himself.
    “Fine,” she mumbles.
    “Can you guys drop me back at my new house?”
Jackie asks kindly.
    “Sure thing,” Cory says to her, grinning down
into her brown eyes. “Then I’ll escort the beanpole over to the
work site.”
    “Ugh,” Paige complains and storms out the
front door.
    Cory and Jackie follow after her, also taking
her son and Damn Dog.
    “I’ll take room three. You can have room two ,” he grumbles.
    “Ok,” Sam perks up and bounces off to
clean the exam room .
    As he sanitizes and re-organizes the room,
stacking equipment and storing things away, he has time to reflect
on his friend. Cory has been leaving every night after dark and not
returning until nearly dawn each morning. When he’d questioned him,
Cory had told him not to worry about it. He doesn’t know where his
friend is going at night when he leaves, but soon he plans to
follow him and find out for himself.
    “Need help? I’m all done,” Sam offers from
the open door a short while later. She’s usually faster than him at
sanitizing the rooms.
    “No, I’ve got this,” Simon tells her.
    She ignores him, comes into the small
exam room and helps anyway. When they finish, they go to the
storage room to collect the basketsful of items that get taken back
to the farm for safe keeping. The light is the dimmest back in this
space, and they usually need to use flashlights to better see. The
solar power at the clinic is not as powerful as the system that fuels the big house
back at the farm.
    Sam bumps into him occasionally, which does
nothing to calm his nerves around her. He reaches over her head to
a shelf above her and pulls down a basket of syringes.
    “Excuse me,” he tells her cordially. Simon
has been trying his best to keep things light and emotionless
around Sam ever since she’d drawn that picture of him in the woods.
That had been too intimate, too much of a personal examination of
him. He has no idea why Sam would draw pictures like that of him,
but he hopes it doesn’t happen again.
    She just chuckles at him, “No problem,