Oh my goodness, you are all amazing! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing. I wasnt' sure you'd like it with it just being a small chapter! I'm sure you know how much it means to me and you Casualty fans are the best!

Another shortish chapter - hope it makes sense.

Chapter 2

Ethan gazed into the room for what seemed like hours, but in reality was only a few seconds.

"Dr Hardy, you shouldn't be here," he heard the quiet, calm tone of his clinical lead.

His sensible half knew that he shouldn't be there, but the brother half of him was not going anywhere.

"I'm not leaving Mrs Beauchamp," he told her in no uncertain terms.

"Ok," she whispered as she patted his back in a gesture of understanding.

"What are you doing to get them out?" He demanded, frantically looking from one person to another.

"We are weighing up our options," one of the detectives told him.

"Weighing up your options? That's my brother and friend in there - they are trying to save a life with a gun pointed at their heads!" he all but yelled furiously as he turned back to the window - fear coursing through him.

"What do you mean, you need to move him?" They heard yelled from inside Resus, as the man with the gun moved round to Cal's side.

Ethan tensed, sensing trouble.

"We've stabilised him but he needs surgery," Cal explained as calmly as he could.

"No! He's not going anywhere! You do it here!"

"I'm not a surgeon. If he doesn't go to surgery, he'll die! Is that what you want?"

"Let me phone the surgeon on call," they heard Lily suggest, as the gunman got right into Cal's face, "If he dies, you die - got it?"

Cal flinched as the gunman slapped him across the face, causing the younger doctor to flinch also.

The gunman whipped round to face Lily, "Call him!" He told her.

Ethan felt the blood drain from his own face, seeing his brother and friend in such danger. He went for the door, but was pulled back by Jacob, "Don't," the nurse told him, his face full of sympathy.

On hearing the commotion outside, the gunman turned and pointed the gun at the door.

Cal looked towards the door, shocked to see Ethan so close to the danger, then Ethan caught his eye. The younger doctor suddenly had a strong urge to cry. He had never seen his brother look so scared before. This was his cocky big brother laid bare - vulnerable, scared - and Ethan almost couldn't cope with that.

Cal sent him a subtle nod of the head, to reassure him that he was ok. Ethan smiled back at him as best he could, as Lily joined his brother once more after finishing her call.

Then an idea struck him.

He dashed off, much to the surprise of the others around him and returned a few minutes later, his green scrubs covered with a white coat.

So have you got any idea what Ethan is about to do? Stay tuned...