It started off like any other busy day in the ED. Cal was tolerating Lily thinking she was in charge, but mostly he was avoiding her in cubicles. He was laughing with Jacob about it as they were treating a young girl with a radial fracture. Ethan was busy having just called time on a cardiac arrest, a 65-year-old male, admitted having already arrested and there was clearly nothing that could be done despite full advanced life support. Lily had barked orders throughout the resuscitation attempt, but Ethan had just let her go and focused on the job at hand and then swooped in and shown his seniority by calling time first. Lofty, Robyn and Rita all agreed with Ethan and Lily had no choice but to fall in line and agree too. Not that she would have argued otherwise, she knew there was no more they could do, but she wanted to be the one who called it. She stalked out as the nurses started to tidy up and Ethan took a deep breath and picked up the patient's notes to write up the events that had taken place.

Cal had sent his patient to x-ray and was currently standing at the admin desk looking up some blood results for another of his patients, whilst simultaneously signing off an x-ray, chasing up a ward transfer and sipping his first coffee of the day.

"Pub tonight mate?" Jacob asked him as he came along with a drug chart for Cal to sign.

"Definitely." Cal nodded, leaning across and signing the chart. "Can you re-do the obs in cubicle 4 please mate?"

"Sure thing." Jacob replied as he headed off.

"Cal, I need you to look over my patient in cubicle 8." Charlie said.

"Isn't Lily around? I'm a bit tied up." Cal said apologetically nodding at everything he had going on.

"Actually, Connie has just called her out to pick up some audit work. But if you'll just take a look and sign him off I should be able to let him go." Charlie asked again.

"Ok Charlie, give me 5." Cal sighed, forcing a smile. It wasn't Charlie's fault after all. As Cal hung up the phone, filed the blood results, sipped a bit more of his coffee, he headed towards cubicle 8, desperately wishing for some action that might get him out of the ED for a bit. Just a nice little RTC or building collapse to get him outside in the sunshine that had descended on Holby this week. Ok, so building collapse was a bit excessive he thought and he knew it was bad to wish a car accident on anyone, but he just was feeling more frustrated than usual today. Little did he know he was about to get his wish, and more besides.

"Dr Knight, you're needed in the field. The paramedics have requested a doctor at the scene of a rollover RTC involving 4 cars. Certainly one entrapment with more details to follow. Get your kit. I'll send Ethan into cubicles to cover you and I'll cover resus." Connie said authoritatively.

"Sweet!" Cal grinned, practically throwing down the notes he had just picked up and rushing off. Despite his unprofessionalism, Connie couldn't help but stifle a small smile at his excitement. If anyone was going to enjoy a bit of drama it was always going to be Cal, and despite everything, he had definitely proven himself to be good in a crisis before now, especially those out in the field. When Cal reappeared with his kit, he was met by Iain and Jez who had dropped one casualty off and were about to head back out to the crash site.

"So, coming back out to play with the big boys then mate?" Iain grinned.

"You know me, can't turn down the excitement." Cal grinned back. "You coming to the pub tonight?" He asked the boys as he jumped into the back of the ambulance and they climbed into the cab.

"Definitely." Jez replied.

"Just try and stop us." Iain added as he started the engine of the ambulance and pulled out of the hospital carpark sticking the lights and sirens going.

Meanwhile, Ethan let out a big sigh once Connie had taken over from him in resus and informed him that he needed to pick up where Cal had left off in cubicles. He rummaged through the notes trying to work out where Cal had got to, but it was all in a mess, as per usual Ethan thought to himself, wondering why Cal just couldn't have an organised, methodical approach.

"I think he was about to discharge the patient in 3, and then the young girl in 6 needs her x-ray reviewing. Charlie has just let the man from 8 go. And I've re-done the obs in 4 but everything is looking stable for now and they are waiting for a head CT. I've got Mac staying to monitor him for changes." Jacob said, giving Ethan the kind of patient handover he needed.

"Thanks." Ethan nodded at the nurse and headed off.

Cal was busy at the site assessing and treating the worst affected patients, while Iain and Jez were preparing to take in another patient, who seemingly had a fractured wrist and a head laceration.

"Well, funnily enough I was on my way to Holby hospital anyway, I never imagined being taken there by ambulance." The girl half laughed to Jez, who was in the back completing her paperwork.

"Yeah? Why were you going there? Not somewhere I'd go for a fun day out."

"I'm looking for someone. He works there." The girl said timidly.

"Well, unless he works in the ED, you'll have a bit of a wait to find him."

"That's the strange thing, he does." She smiled wistfully. Jez looked at her, she had the look of a woman in love, and he wondered which poor sucker was in for finding themselves in a full blown stalker situation, because that was how this was feeling.

Before they knew it the casualties from the crash were filtering in and it was an all hands on deck approach as everyone got on and ploughed through the patients.

"Excuse me?" A female voice said to Noel on reception. He looked up to see a pretty young girl clutching her wrist in front of him. "I can see that you're busy, but I was wondering if a Doctor Knight works here?" Noel couldn't help but assume this was yet another of Cal's conquests, and also thought he had been crazy if he'd let this one go. Her honey blonde hair shone under the lights of the hospital, though it did contain a small amount of blood from a head wound, and her big brown eyes made her look innocent.

"Well, yes he does, but he's out at a scene at the moment." Noel looked apologetically. "But we have many other great doctors here who can help you." Noel added trying to be helpful.

"Oh, well I was hoping to see Dr Knight." She looked a little crestfallen.

"Well, he will be back, perhaps once you're treated you can see him." Noel said, not wanting to let the pretty girl down.

"Right, yes…yes, that would, that would be goo-" She started, to say, but the room began to spin around her as she came over somewhat faint. She grabbed the reception desk and Noel reached out to steady her, shouting out to Max to help and together they lowered her into a chair. Just then Ethan came past and ushered them into a cubicle he had just discharged a patient from as Louise quickly changed the sheet on the trolley, together they helped the young lady up onto the trolley.