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Chapter 1
Back from the Dead
It had been a year after Lucy Knight's unfortunate death. Although she was still in the minds of all the ER staff, they were busy, working hard and doing what they always do. It was like she never existed. Carter still remembered, he had been very depressed ever since the night of his stabbing. He blamed himself for what had happened to Lucy, and ever since that night he had been become addicted to drugs. As far as Carter could tell Lucy was a thing of the past, and a part of his nightmares.
But there was something that had to happen, something that would change Carters life forever. A day before Valentines day, there was a knock at the door of Carters new apartment which his gradmother had given him. When he answered it, Jeanie stood at his door with a figure who wore a black mask and green coat.
"Hey Carter" Jeanie smiled
Carter leaned against the door frame "Hey Jeanie, what brings you here?" He gestured for her to come in
Jeanine walked in and the figure followed behind her. "I need a favor"
Carter sat back down on the couch. "Why don't you ask someone else?"
"She didn't want me to" Jeanie still stood by the person in the green coat.
Carter stood up "She?"
Jeanie looked over at the masked person who still stood by the door. Carters eyes followed Jeanies, and he saw something that he had never thought he would see. The figure removed the mask, and there standing right before Carter, was Lucy knight.
"Lucy?" Carter went into shock.
Lucy pushed her blonde hair back behind her face. She watched Carter slowly get out of shock. A couple minutes passed before Carter finally said something.
"Sorry I'm just a little bit shocked, i mean, you were murdered a year ago"
Lucy looked to the floor "Actually, I wasn't"
Carter sank into his seat, not taking his eyes off of Lucy. She walked across the room and sat beside him. "My twin sister, or at least she was my twin sister, came looking for me at the hospital the night of my, well, you know. She wandered into Pauls room, and got stabbed. I've been in hiding ever since, at Jeanies place, until we heard that Paul had either moved away or died. But.."
"Things got complicated" Jeanie interupted "I'm engaged, and lucy has nowhere else to go now. I was wondering if..."
"If she could stay here" Carter finished the sentence "Yeah, that's cool"
"Thanks Carter"
"i still can't believe that..."
Lucy smiled "That what?"
"Oh, nevermind"
Carter looked to the ground. He was still a little shocked, here he had been thinking all this time that Lucy was dead, and that he'd never see her again. Yet she was sitting right beside him, asking if she could stay with him. Suddenly he remembered his new girlfriend, Karla, she wouldn't like this. No girl wants to find out that another women was staying at their boyfriends home. Carter hoped that she would understand that Lucy needed a place to stay. For Lucy's sake, and his own, he would have to make up something to tell Karla. Jeanie checked her watch, her eyes widened when she noticed the time.
"Listen I gotta go, my shift starts in an hour. Listen Carter, you can't tell anyone about Lucy staying here, not until tomorrow" Jeanine frowned "Do you promise?"
"Yeah, I promise"
"Good" Jeanine got up and walked out the door "Thanks Carter"
As soon as Jeanine left, Carter stood up and headed for the fridge. Opening it up, he scanned the contents and pulled out a small bottle.
"Want anything to drink?" He asked Lucy
"No" she shooke her head
Carter opened the freezzer "What about food, are you hungry?"
"Yeah a little"
Carter grabbed a frozen pizza and threw it into the oven. "So, um, how have you been?"
Lucy stretched "What?"
"Well I haven't exactly seen you for what, a year, how have things been holding up?"
"Good I guess"
"When are you going to tell them?" Carter checked on the pizza "The ER staff I mean"
"Tomorrow, if you were listening to what Jeanie said. I decided that tomorrow would be a good time to let everyone know I'm alive and that...." Lucy paused "That my sister was really the one who was killed."
Lucy felt the tears gather up in her eyes. She hadn't been very close to Violet, but when you loose a family member, it hits you really hard. Carter sat down beside her and put his arm around ehr shoulders.
"I'm really sorry about your sister" Carter watched Lucy's face clear up "Were you two close?"
"Are you kidding me? Mom was closer to her. It just hurts a lot when somebody dies in your family" Lucy smiled a little bit "Remember the day before Valentine day, when Violet came to hospital to try and get me to quit"
"Yeah" Carter smirked a little bit "Then she ended up getting into a fist fight with me because I wouldn't let her get near you, under your request"
The stove beeped
"I'd better get" Carter stood up and walked over towards the oven. He put on the oven minutes and took the pizza out of the oven. A couple minutes later, they were sitting on the couch eating pizza, and watching a horror movie. The time went by so fast and pretty soon it was midnight.
"Wow, midnight already" Carter grabbed hte plates and put them in the sink, that's when he noticed a very large duffle bag by the door. "Lucy, is that yours?"
Lucy nodded.
"Okay, umm, there's another bedroom down the hall and to the right. You can sleep in there"
Lucy's mouth opened "Another room, I thought this was an apartment"
"It is, but a bit of a larger apartment, it's more a suite really" Carter glanced at the clock. 12:45AM "If you wish to see everyone at the ER tomorrow you better get to sleep, my shift starts at 9:30AM.
Lucy grabbed her duffle bag and headed towards her room "Yeah, okay, Night Carter"
"Night Lucy" And she dissapeared into the room.
Carter walked into his room and shut the door behind. Planting himself on his bed, he began to think. Why had he agreed to letting Lucy stay with him? What happens if Karla found out? And the ER staff, if they found out, he'd be a chicken with a cut off head. He rubbed his eyes, and fell into bed, letting the darkness close around him.
