As the nurse kept Katie in her place, Doctor Mike had stepped away and tossed out his gloves.

"Hey Jen? Can you prep Katie for the procedure? I need to check on that patient who came in earlier for the IUD and make sure she's doing ok," he called out to the nurse.

"Will do Doctor Mike!" responded the nurse, Jen apparently, in a cheery voice.

Katie thought Doctor Mike had already left until she noticed a warm hand pushing her hair back out of her face. There he was, Doctor Dreamy... No no no no no! Do NOT do that, Katie! She heard him speaking to her softly, so she turned towards him and listened.

"I won't be long ladybug, and I'm leaving you in good hands with Jen here. When I come back we'll get this 5 minute procedure done, easy peasy, and that's everything. Can you be a good girl for me a little while longer?" he asked.

"Mmhmm! Yes, doctor, I'll be good." replied Katie in a small voice. She didn't even care now, she was lying on her back, weak in the knees, and her doctor, the man who is taking care of her, just asked if she would be for him. Umm....YES? How about yes, does yes work for you? Katie nodded her head as she walked Doctor Mike walk out the door.

"He's such a sweetie, isn't he? We all just love him here!" exclaimed Nurse Jen...from between Katie's legs!

"Oh! Yes.. He's.. Ummm.... very nice." replied Katie, as the blood started to rush to her cheeks.

"Mmhmmm....yes, very nice." Jen repeated, playfully. He's particularly good at keeping his patients calm and comfortable. We just can't quite figure out how he does it, but we're very glad that he does!" insisted Jen, with a bit of a smirk. Yeah, you can't figure it out, thought Katie. He's playing me like a fiddle right now, and you think it's just hilarious, don't you? Well, maybe he is, but I don't care, and you don't have to know that I know, so I'll just lay here like--

"Whaa?" gasped Katie, startled, as she started sitting up.

"Shhh, it's ok! I'm so sorry, I totally forgot to warn you, it's just the antiseptic solution. It feels pretty cold, huh?" Katie laid back nodding. "Doctor Mike just wants me to get you ready, that means making sure I've disinfected you, put some drapes down, and a couple other items. This cold stuff is the worst part though, and I really am sorry!" she apologized again. Katie wasn't sure if she believed her, but even if it was intentional, Katie knew she was feeling a little light headed thinking about Doctor Mike, could she really blame her? Hmpf.

"Lift your hips for me Katie?" directed Jen as Katie did as she was asked, and found some kind of absorbant sheet being tucked under her bottom.

"What's that for?" inquired Katie.

"Oh, that's just a chux pad. It's just a disposable sheet intended to catch bodily fluids, blood, tissue, that sort of thing." explained Jen. Bodily fluids? Blood??? Katie started to very much not like the sound of this "procedure" anymore. Tissue?? Like .... my tissue??? Noononononooo, cried Katie in her mind, hoping she'd have the fortitude to make it through all of this. While Katie worked on calming herself down, Nurse Jen continued to work, now laying dark green towels over Katie's legs, abdomen, all around, and the only thing left uncovered was her vulva. It reminded her of tv shows and movies where they would show people in operating rooms, totally covered up except for the part where they were cutting into them! Ohmigodohmigodohmigod, she was thinking, again trying to calm herself down, when a knock at the door came and in walked Doctor Mike.

"Everything set, Jen? I don't want to get half way through have to ask you to go find me something like the other day, right?" queried Doctor Mike in a serious tone, but when Katie looked over at him she saw a little smirk on his face.

"Yes, doctor, everything is all set. The patient is prepped, your instruments and material for the procedure is on the tray, and your coffee still does not count as required material!" retorted the smirking nurse.

Laughing, Doctor Mike shook his head at Jen's firm response, and picked up his sterile gloves. With a look, Jen came immediately to the doctor's side and assisted him in putting on his gloves. He needs help? With putting on gloves? Ohnoohno, I can't do this I don't want to do this!!

"Mask?" he directs, and Jen ties his surgical mask on over his face. Dear Lord this is really happening please let me survive! A real doctor, with really sharp and pokey things, is about to start using his sharp and pokey things right on my kitty!! No, no, no, no, please let this not be happening! panics Katie in her mind.

"Hey princess," calls Doctor Mike. "You still with me? Let's take some deep breaths now, in ..... and out..... in ..... and out ..... good girl!" praised Doctor Mike. "You looked like you were going off into panic land for a minute, that's no good, you stay here with me, ok?"

"But ... in panic land, they don't use pokey sharp things ... down there ..." meweled Katie.

"Princess," admonished the doctor, "these are just tools to do a job, like a carpenter and a tape measure, ok? You don't have to worry about them because I've. Got. You. You hear me? I've. Got. You." Wow, thought Katie, as her knees felt weak and the butterflies kicked in again, he's good! He's....really good! He's .... really damn hot, too!

"You okay ladybug? Looks like you're back, right?" grinned the doctor, knowing exactly how his words worked on Katie and almost seemed to read her mind and understood what she was thinking, and why she gave a little grin of her own there!

"Remember, I've. Got. You. Right? Okay, I'm going to start out really slow. I promise, this will be an entirely painless procedure....except for this next part." Katie was relaxing into the doctor's words, but when she heard, "except this next part" she started breathing heavy again. This time, though, Nurse Jen was by her side and brushing her hair aside whispering gentle platitudes in her ear.

"Shhh, it's okay little girl, the doctor's going to give you a little pinch and make you all numb, okay? Nothing to worry about," Jen softly spoke to Katie. She kept talking, and talking, and looking Katie in the eye, giving her chin a little nudge when Katie tried to see the doctor. "Eyes up here right now, just keep your eyes up here..." Right then Katie heard distantly, "here's a little pinch," and suddenly felt an sharp piercing sensation right by her vaginal opening. She gasped.

"Owieee!" cried Katie, but Jen was right there pulling her attention away. "Shhh, it'll be over before you know it, just a little pinch, you can do this!"

"A little burn now Katie," warned the doctor. But he lied. He lied through his lying teeth. Liar. Liar. Liar! It was a BIG burn! Katie pulled her bottom in as if to pull away from the pain. "Stay with me Katie! Don't move while I'm working, ok? Be my brave girl, I know you can do it..." encouraged Doctor Mike. And she tried. She really, really tried to be his brave girl. She was brave for the first shot by her vagina. She was brave for the next shot on the other side of her vagina. She was so brave for the one at the top of her vaginal opening, and at the bottom, too. She really was! She wasn't sure how many of Jen's fingers she'd broken while squeezing her hand, but she did know one thing. She was a brave girl!

But she couldn't be brave forever, could she?

"You're doing so well, Katie-ladybug, I'm so proud of you!" encouraged the doctor. Katie let his praise fill her with warmth, maybe it was all over and she could finally relax! "I've only got one more injection and you'll be all finished, and everything else will be totally painless, ok princess? Hang in there just a little longer..." spoke Doctor Mike while he nodded to his nurse. She felt him pull her lips further apart while pressing down on her abdomen with his elbow. "Need you to be brave just one more time..." he encouraged her, as she felt Nurse Jen lower herself onto Katie's chest somehow. She had her torso pressed against Katie while her hand was squeezing Katie's, and her other hand was petting her hair so gently, whispering, "Shhh, last one..."

All of that took a few sentences to explain, but it all happened simultaneously. And, a fraction of a second after that, Katie felt the needle enter her hymen.

The thing about local anesthetics is that they tend to burn when entering tissue. The human body has a pH of about 7.4. For those who don't know, ph runs from 0-14, 0 being super acid-y, 14 being super base-y. 7 is in the middle. Neutral. Like water. The human body is full of water, so its ph is around 7. Anesthetics like lidocaine have a pH of around 3. Pretty acid-y. All of which means that the burning sensation you feel from the shot is the acidic burning of your nerve endings until they finally become numb.

Now, the thing about hymens is that they tend to have a very high number of nerve endings. No one quite knows why, they just do. So when you inject an acidic substance into the hymen, there are a lot of nerve endings that report the burning sensation before they go numb. And the more nerve endings telling your brain that they're burning? The stronger the "feeling" of that burning becomes.

Of course, Katie didn't know any of this. In fact, it's not really all that important, but it does help explain why when Doctor Mike pricked her hymen with the needle, it was a very strong piercing pain, worse than the others. And when he pressed that plunger, Katie felt it. A lot.

Gasping, Katie cried out "Pleeeasse, please, please! Take it out! Take it out! It burns so bad, it burns so bad!!" and Katie's cries degenerated into loud sobbing.

"Hey, princess!" called Doctor Mike as soon as he finished. "It's over. All done. Fini. No more shots, no more pain, okay ladybug? I've. Got. You." he spoke very reassuringly. Katie, on the other hand, was dealing with the aftermath of her sobbing, mostly a lot of snot and tears, and a little bit of saliva as well.

"O--o---okay...O--kay, Doctor Mike." sniffled Katie. "I'm....okay," she finished.

And she was. At that moment she felt like she'd be permanently traumatized by that last needle, but in time -- fairly quickly, in fact -- the acute burning sensation she remembered started to fade away, being replaced by a general sense of "wow, yeah, it hurt a lot, but it was over quickly, and Doctor Mike is sooooo sexy!" Most humans' memory of pain fades soon after it occurs, it's an evolutionary thing. Really! After all, what woman would give birth more than once if she could really, truly remember how it felt to pull that 15 pound turkey out of that tiny little opening?

From that point the procedure finished up very quickly. Katie couldn't really see or feel anything anymore, but she guessed from what little she saw what happened. The doctor put some clampy things on something, he cut something, cut some more probably, then did some sewing for a little bit. And then, tada! No more hymenal pain for Katie! Yes, it was mostly a miserable experience, but it did end, and she was better off, and she did get a clean bill of health, and she did love her new doctor, Doctor Dreamy....errr, Doctor Mike. And she promised to be such a good girl and come back every year for her check up no matter what!