Authors Note; Hope you and enjoy and please review and let me know how I did :)
Summary; Ethan is jumped on a night out when Cal is late to meet him and Cal must deal with the worry and guilt over his baby brother.
Disclaimer; I do not own Casualty or the characters.
Warning; Includes one word of swearing.
Where the hell was he? It was late, dark and cold and Ethan was getting fed up.
He hadn't even wanted to go on this stupid night out with Cal but for some unknown reason, he had eventually agreed and now Cal couldn't even be bothered showing up.
Ethan had been waiting for 40 minutes now and was on the verge of leaving.
If he's forgotten about me to go off with some pretty girl he had met that night...
This was ridiculous. All Cal did was mess him around and he was sick of it.
He wouldn't even care he had made him wait in the cold for 40 minutes, damn Cal, he was so selfish, something he never grew out of.
It was when he had made his decision to just leave when the boys approached him.
"Excuse me, do you have the time?"
Ethan looked up, surprised to have been acknowledged by the boy and then his good manners (well at least ONE person in their family possessed them) kicked in and looked at his watch.
"10.30" Ethan said with a smile.
"Nice watch" the boy, who was only a teenager, stated then looked at his friends.
"Thank you", Ethan replied, feeling awkward.
"Must be pretty well of then" another boy said.
There was four of them.
Not wanting to discuss his financial arrangements with a group of teenagers he had just met on an alleway on Saturday night, he gave them a brief smile and started to walk off.
He didn't get far before the boys grabbed him, went into his pockets and started beating him up.
Shit.
Ethan was going to kill him, Cal thought to himself.
He hadn't meant to be late but it wasn't exactly his fault he had gotten ambushed by a gorgeous girl.
Guess he was just that irresistible.
At least he'd gotten a hot date for tomorrow night.
Still, he did feel a bit bad over making Ethan wait so long. Before, he wouldn't have cared but since the crash, he was more aware of things like this.
Only ever so slightly though, it was only waiting, not like Cal being late would kill him.
It was only when he turned the corner to meet his brother that he realized maybe it had.
"Ethan!" Cal shouted, staring at the bruised and bloodied shape of his baby brother on the cold pavement.
Authors Note; And that's it for Chapter 1! Will update soon, depends if anyone is interested in seeing this story continue. Thanks for reading and see you next time!