Hey, so this is my first fan fic, I'm sorry if it's bad, but please R&R, constructive critisism is always appreciated!

Chapter 1: Accidents Happen

'…and the guy in exam 1.' said Abby, handing over the last of three charts to Neela. Abby had had a long night shift and was glad to be finally getting off home. The early morning was the quietest time in the ER, the drunks had all gone home, most people weren't even awake yet; it was taking all the coffee she could find to keep Neela's eyelids from collapsing. She went through the first half hour in a sort of daze, checking on the patients who had stayed overnight and ordering tests on the women who had just arrived with a broken arm.

And then the emergency response unit called in. No one knew how, but two of the el trains had collided at a station not far from county, and they had been designated primary hospital, and ordered to take in 5 of the critical patients an countless walking wounded. As the team, Kovac, Pratt, Moris, Neela, and Sam kitted up, waiting for the impending storm, the tension was practically audible. They had taken major incidents before, but with 5 critical casualties the team knew they'd be stretched.

It was 10 minutes later when the first casualty came in. Neela and Pratt ran over to help the paramedic. 'White female, early 30s, a pole went through her stomach, she has a ruptured spleen and internal haemorrhaging.' The paramedic reeled off. 'Heart rates down, BP's low, and her sats are down too. It wasn't until Neela looked down till any of them realised who it was. "Abby?" Neela was shocked and stopped, but Pratt's voice made her act as he shouted "get her into trauma room 1."

Neela and Pratt worked hard on Abby, finally managing to get her stable after 2 and a half hours in trauma. Kovac had made one of the patients stable, and one had been DOA, but he was struggling to get his patient, a white male, late 20s, stable.

Walking out of the trauma room, to go and get some test results back, Neela bumped into Sam, carrying 4 units of blood. She avoided Neela's eyes and darted into trauma room 2. 'That's odd', thought Neela, but she put it to one side, filling in the forms to go off with the tests. When she finished the forms Pratt handed Neela a pile of charts. 'You need to get through these stat,' he told her. "We've all spent so long in trauma that no one's been attending to the walking wounded."

Neela threw herself into attending to the walking wounded, seeing mostly to broken arms and minor burns. Even when, 2 hours later, they had seen to all the wounded from the accident, and she was explaining to a hysterical mother that her daughter's nose bleed wasn't going to kill her did she realise that she was trying to avoid something. She almost bumped into Sam in the corridor for the second time that day when Sam stared at her.

'Have you taken a break yet?'

Neela shook her head

'Over 4 hours and you didn't think to get a glass of water?'

Neela shook her head again. Now she came to think about it, she did have a headache and she was hungry, and thirsty.

'Go and get one, and you could probably do with something to eat. Then you can go and see Abby, she's back from the OR and her test results are back too. She should be fine.'

After a coffee and a muffin, Neela went to see Abby. They had a quick chat, then Neela went back to work. She was walking over to Kovac, to get him to check the chart of the girl with the nosebleed when she saw who was lying in trauma room 2 with tubes sticking out of him. Ray.

Well, that's the first chapter, i hope you all like it. Please Please Please review. Thanks. Upside-down Dreamer.