So something I've never done in fiction land before is created my own characters! But I thought that it was time I gave it a shot! They may not appear immediately but anyway, here goes…..


Carla froze as she heard the words. Although she didn't hear all of them. Something along the lines of…Peter, hospital, bad way, was all that Carla had managed to grasp as she had gone into panic mode when Michelle had told her in the Factory that afternoon. She had come bursting through the Office doors in a right old state…..

"Carla Carla! Have you heard what's happened? Oh no of course you haven't. You wouldn't still be here if you had….." Michelle trailed-off in a panic.

Carla stood-up and held Michelle's arms still. "'Chelle calm-down what's wrong?!" Carla asked, she hadn't been given all that much of a reason to worry as yet.

"It's Peter….." Michelle began, and that instantly put Carla into panic mode. What had happened to him? "I've just seen him being put into the back of an ambulance…..He looked in a bad way Car…..The word on the street is that someone beat him up….." Michelle told Carla, but before Michelle could even stop Carla, she was tearfully making her way through the Factory and quickly heading towards the doors, before she then got into her car and drove-off at a fast-pace, leaving Michelle stood there watching as her car disappeared-off around the corner, in the direction of the hospital.


"What were all that about?" Beth asked her fellow workers.

"I dunno, but she looked proper upset like….." Sean trailed-off.

"Oh I do hope she's okay….." Hayley added-on, being the voice of concern amongst all this gossiping.

Fizz entered the factory. "Oh there's a proper commotion going on out there today, police, ambulances, Mrs Connor in floods of tears…..Good old Coronation Street ey?" She said as she bumbled into the factory and got herself settled-down.

"Ambulances? Ey you don't think that Peter's been hurt do ya?" Izzy asked.

"Ey he's that alcy ent he? I bet he's off his face….." Beth gossiped as Michelle stepped back into the Factory.

"Alright that's quite enough of that thank-you Beth. Now everyone if you haven't already gathered, Peter's been hurt so Carla's had to rush-off, and I'm just off to the hospital now aswell, so I'm leaving Hayley in charge." Michelle announced to them all as she approached Hayley individually to hand the factory Keys over to her, knowing that she was virtually the only responsible adult left in this building.

"Keep the gossip to a bare minimum ey Hayley?!" Michelle suggested to her softly.

"Yes Mrs Connor." Hayley nodded, it wasn't half confusing having two Mrs Connor's sometimes…..


When Michelle reached the hospital, she found Carla sat inbetween two guys, one of whom Michelle certainly recognised, the other one she wasn't so sure on. "Kieron. What the heck are you doing here?" Michelle asked-him as he stood-up and the ex-couple hugged each-other, they had left on good-terms and no love had been lost between them in their time apart, but Michelle was with Steve now and she had that thought firmly stuck within her mind throughout the whole hug.

"Me and Steven here came-down last-night to visit Peter today, Steven was in the Navy, just like Me and Peter ya see…..Except when we went to go and surprise Peter this morning, we found him lying unconscious on the street….." Kieron explained to Michelle, who sighed, she was just glad that Kieron and this Steven guy had found Peter when they did, otherwise things could have been a lot worse than they already were.

"And how you holding up then Car?" Michelle asked, causing Carla to stand-up as Michelle hugged her very best-friend.

There were tears from Carla as the two girls who were even-closer than any Sister to Sister relationship hugged each-other. "I'm so worried about him 'Chelle." Carla cried as they released the hug.

"Hey I'm sure he'll be fine." Steven finally spoke-up in a sympathetic way. He was a tall-man, but a little shorter than Kieron. Steven was from Newcastle, he had spiky brown hair and was covered in tattoos, just like Peter and Kieron were.

"I hope so." Carla said as the Nurse appeared. "Which one of you is Carla Connor?" She asked with a sympathetic voice and Carla turned-around to face the Nurse.

"That's me. Have you got any news about Peter?" Carla asked the Nurse worriedly, but the Nurse just smiled at Carla.

"He's doing just fine. You can come and see him if you want? Although, I'm afraid you're friends will have to stay here..." The Nurse trailed-off and Carla nodded. "That's okay." She replied before turning to Michelle.

" 'Chelle can you do me a favour? Let Leanne know, Simon will want to be here to see his Dad. And then let the rest of Peter's family know." Michelle nodded at Carla instructions as the Nurse lead her off to see Peter.


"Is Simon your son?" The Nurse asked Carla as they walked-down the long-corridor together.

"No but he's Peter's son. Leanne is Simon's Mother…..Well he's the woman Simon considers as his Mum anyway…..But that's a story for another time…..Are we almost there?" Carla asked the Nurse worriedly and the Nurse nodded at Carla re-assuringly.

"Here we are Carla." The Nurse said, opening the door to Peter's room. "I'll give you two some time alone together." She said and Carla just smiled at her. "Thank-You Nurse. You've been great." She finished-with as she held the door open for her to enter the room.


Carla headed-over to Peter's hospital bed and Peter shifted his legs slightly so that Carla could sit-down onto the edge of it. "Hey Baby." Carla greeted Peter with but she didn't want to kiss him in fear that she would cause him any amount of pain.

"Hi." Peter said croakily, he had a plaster just above his left eyebrow, a badly split lip, a nasty cut on the side of his neck which looked-like it had-had stiches put in it, and other general cuts and bruises which were the obvious result of some kind-of scuffle. He had also broken his right-wrist which had been bandaged-up now.

"It's not as bad as it looks." Was the first thing that Peter said.

"It flamin' well is baby. I've been so worried about you." Carla told-him truthfully as she picked-up Peter's good and unbandaged hand and toyed with his fingers whilst carefully and gently running her hand over his grazed knuckles which Peter flinched slightly at.

"You don't need to worry about me. I'm a big boy." Peter said and attempted a smile and laughed slightly, but this just caused him pain.

"Hmmm. Well you may be a big boy, but you're a battered big boy and you need looking after. Anyway can you remember what happened yet?" Carla asked-him but Peter just looked-down before he then changed the subject.

"Who found me?" Peter asked nervously, but he had avoided Carla's question and this hadn't gone unnoticed by Carla as she looked-at Peter suspiciously.


Kieron and Steven popped their heads around the door and laughed as Peter spotted them and smiled whilst they entered the room together. "Heyyy Big Man!" Kieron greeted his best-mate with. "Kieron Pal when did you get here?" Peter asked happily. "And you big Stevey!" It was safe to say that Steven was quite a large-man and 'Big Stevey' had been his nickname in the Navy, which had carried-on through to this very-day.

"Yesterday evening pal. Shame we had to find you in a such a state this morning though….." Kieron trailed-off sadly and Steven nodded in agreement.

"Should you two even be in here?" Carla asked them both before she then turned her attention back to Peter, gently squeezing and then rubbing the back of his hand in a comforting and soothing manner.

"Probably not….." Steven chuckled. "But who cares, we never have been ones for sticking to the rules aye Peter lad?" The man joked and Peter laughed, forgetting the pain that it caused-him to do so.

"Ouch. Looks painful man." Kieron stated in sympathy for Peter.

"It is painful. But look, I'm just glad that my girlfriend, my best-mate and me old Navy Pal Big Stevey are here to cheer-me-up and keep me going!" Peter replied, rather chirpily for a man who had just been beaten-up and hospitalized.


The loud laughs and manly banter coming from the three men had caused the Nurse to re-appear.

"I'm afraid Peter's strictly only allowed one visitor this evening, so if you don't mind lads?!" The Nurse asked politely.

"Awww no way….." Steven said disappointedly.

"Peter needs to rest." The Nurse told him firmly, so Kieron decided to turn-on the charm.

"And I'm sure you would like a rest too my darlin', but I bet you're working the late-shift tonight though huh? Well why can't ya be very kind to us lads and let us keep Peter here company for a while longer? What do ya say to that then huh?!" Kieron asked her flirtatiously in his thick Irish accent, Peter and Carla were just watching-on with cheeky grins plastered across their faces and Steven was just laughing at his friends attempts to flirt with the Nurse.

However, Kieron flirtatious attempts at winning the Nurse over had failed as she gave him a stern look. "No. Now if you wouldn't mind, I'd quite like you and your friend here to leave now Please? Carla you are welcome to stay here as you long as you like." The Nurse said and both Kieron and Steven left reluctantly.


"The lights will be going off in 10 Minutes okay Peter?" The Nurse told Peter and he nodded before the Nurse disappeared-off. Carla was still sat on the egde of Peter's hospital bed. "We should be getting you to sleep then Mister." Carla told-him gently.

"I wanna see Si….." Peter moaned.

"In the morning baby okay? Simon won't wanna see you all tired and groggy now will he?" Carla told-him and Peter nodded as she received a text from Michelle.

Michelle: Leanne is gonna bring Simon first thing. Hope everything is okay. Love you both…..XXX

Carla: Thanks 'Chelle. We're going okay. XXX

"Who was that?" Peter asked as he laid his weary head back against the pillow.

"That was Michelle. Leanne is gonna bring Simon first thing tomorrow morning okay Baby?" Carla told-him sweetly and Peter nodded as Carla gently stroked her fingers through his hair, she knew that this helped-him to fall-asleep…..It helped a lot of people to fall-asleep, but it worked magic on Peter.

"I don't wanna stay here over-night…..I'll be all lonely without you lying next to me….." Peter said tiredly which was followed by a long yawn, hurting the cuts on his face and causing Peter to wince.

"Well I can't lie next to you my darlin', but you certainly won't get lonely, because I'm gonna sit here until you fall-asleep tonight, and then I'm gonna go and try and sleep in that chair behind-me." Carla told Peter softly, referring to the chair at the end of Peter's bed as she continued to gently toy with his short brown hair.

Peter closed his eyes as she did so. Carla noticed that he was about to drift-off to sleep so she cautiously leaned-over to place the lightest of kisses onto his forehead before she then stood-up from the bed. "Goodnight Baby. I Love You." She said before she then settled-herself into that chair for the night. It was gonna be a long few days…..


So, we've had a brief-introduction to Steven, or Big Stevey as he shall be known! – What do you think? Do you like him?

Also, I hope you liked the first-chapter! Hopefully there will be more to come soon-enough!

And seeing as you've been so kind to read this first chapter then please feel free to leave a review for me! It means a lot.