I Take Care Of You
AN: Hi Everyone! I have been reading your Ethan and Cal fanfictions for the last few weeks and they are incredible! You amazing writers have been my inspiration to start writing some of my own! I absolutely love Ethan and Cal's relationship and the way Cal has protected him of late. This is my first fanfiction, hopefully the first of many if you enjoy! I welcome your honest feedback x
Love Lauren xxxx
It had started out the same as any other typical day. Caleb Knight had just about managed to get himself up for work, hungover after yet another heavy night on the tiles, not that Cal remembered much. He knew he should probably have left his heavy partying days behind by now, but Cal wasn't one to follow the crowd, he enjoyed living recklessly and breaking the rules once in a he knew his brother Ethan would never do, Cal knew that Ethan disapproved of his party animal antics, but winding Ethan up was all part of the fun.
He made his way through the doors and was once again consumed by the everyday life of a Doctor at Holby City Emergency Department.
Every second of the day patients arrived, were treated and then sent on their way, either home or moved upstairs to begin the next stages of recovery.
It was a never ending cycle of routine, paperwork and diagnosis. But Cal loved his world and everyone in it, he loved the feeling of being the person to save a life, or give a patient hope when they were suffering, he loved making a child smile by telling them they could still be a superhero with a broken arm. Granted there were the tough days, days when a patient would lose their fight and you'd have to be the one to break it to the family, to be with them while they grieved for the world they had once known, lost in seconds to a ruthless act of violence, a freak accident or a long term illness, those were the moments you have to turn off,
because it's to painful to look back and Cal knew that.
He was thankful for his position at Holby ED, but for a reason he kept only to himself. This was the place that had brought him and his brother together again, despite all the tension and constant confrontation between them, Caleb loved his brother unconditionally, and he knew that he would walk through hell and back if it meant keeping him safe. They were a family and there was nothing more important to Cal than that. Not that he ever said it out loud, why give up his tough guy image? Ethan knew how he really felt, he must do.
11am, Cal's head was pounding, the minutes were going by so slowly, he felt lousy and he just wanted to go home, he knew it was punishment for his antics last night, every single time was the same, working in a hospital didn't make it much easier either.
'Awww someone feeling a little bit rough today?' Max commented on Cal's state.
'Don't you have floors to clean? Someone else to annoy?' Cal was not impressed.
Max smirked, taking advantage of Cal's 'fragile' state was always fun. The smirk was soon wiped off Max's face as the figure of Connie Beauchamp came bounding through the doors, large as life, she was proud of the empire she had built, and she was not about to let anyone get in the way of that;
'Mr Walker, are you here to be a porter to the patients or leave them in the corridor while you treat this place as a playgroud'
Max did not need telling twice, he was gone.
Cal sighed, Connie Beauchamp in a bad mood only meant one thing, trouble, and Cal really couldn't be dealing with that today, not the way he felt right now. His thoughts were interrupted as the voice of Connie rang in his ears
'Dr Knight you can tell your brother from me that he better have a good explanation for arriving an hour late and I will expect to hear it in my office when he shows up.'
Cal stopped dead in his tracks, that wasn't possible, Ethan late? His little Nerd Brother?
He felt sick to his stomach..
How didn't he notice before? Had he been so unfocused that he didn't even realise the most important person in his world was missing?
He immediately pulled out his phone and began to dial his brother's number..
This was not like Ethan at all, he had a horrible feeling that something was wrong. He desperately prayed that wasn't the case.
People were screaming for help, screaming for their lives, Alone and gasping for breath, Ethan Hardy prayed that he would be found...