This story takes place about when season 16 would. All you have to know is that Joshua didn't die and Carter didn't leave. Obviously Kem's still there.
Everything belongs to NBC and all those ER peoples, except Robby and Tommy.
Fire. Flames. Heat.
A nine year old boy with no last name. He had been left on the doorstep of a Catholic Church with nothing but a piece of paper with Robby, written on it and a picture. The church was known for taking in orphans. He had ended up being raised by nuns. He was always the most restless boy they had. Now, Robby's home was being burnt down.
A section had been cleared out for the orphans to live in. A back door led out into a world pretty much none of them knew unless you had been old enough to remember it when you had been orphaned. All except Robby had escaped out of that door.
When he finally heard the fire alarm he had rushed to his quarters and opened his chest full of possessions. His most prized was hidden in a case of wood he had built himself when the nuns had got them carving knives and wood to play with. He pulled the picture out of the case and stared at it in a daze.
It was a simple picture of a man and woman. The woman was resting comfortably on the man's lap. Both looked content to Robby. Two bright smiles lit up the picture, he was obviously pulling her down for a kiss.
Robby figured they were his parents, but if they were that happy, why did they give him up? When he asked the nuns to look at the picture they refused.
On the back of the picture was written:
John and Abby Always Equal
LOVE FOREVER!
LOVE YOU GUYS!
XOXOXOXOXO From Susan Lewis XOXOXOXOXO
Christmas 2002, County General Hospital- ER
Robby had to find his parents, but that meant he had to find Susan Lewis first. She would lead him to his parents. Suddenly there was an explosion. He hurried thru the front door. The fire had been lit by him, in the conjoining room. He looked at the road sign which he knew would lead him to the County Hospital. His friend Tommy, a 19 year old orphan, had told him he remembered going there when he was sick and then being brought here. That was 11 years ago. He had Leukemia and was diagnosed there. The sign read- Cook County General Hospital, 2nd left turn. Then he ran.