A/N Sorry it's taken me so long to get this up. I've been so busy with other things. I'm going to try and post a chapter a day from now on : )

As Abby pulled out of her hug with Neela she saw Maggie standing in the doorway of her room. "Hi Mom" Abby said.

"Hi Sweetie. Now, where's that grandson of mine?"

"Mom, what are you doing here?"

"Luka called and told me that Kyle had arrived, so come on Abby where are you hiding him? Oh, hello dear" Maggie said, glancing over at Neela.

"Hi Ms Wyzinscki. Abby I'll see you later" Neela said walking out of the room and heading back to the ER.

"OK, bye" Abby said. "Um, Luka can I see you out here for a moment?"

"Yeah just a sec"

"NO NOW!" Abby yelled towards the bathroom; that got his attention and he came out with Kyle in his arms. As he looked over in Abby's direction he caught a glimpse of Maggie and knew he was in big trouble.

"Hello Luka. Is that my grandson? Can I hold him?" Maggie asked with a glint of excitement in her eyes.

"Hi Maggie, here you go" Luka said handing Kyle over to her. As Maggie was totally engrossed in fussing over Kyle, Abby dragged Luka over to the other side of the room. "What were you thinking calling her?" Abby asked.

"Who? You're Mother?" Luka queried.

"Yes"

"You just had a baby Abby and I though that she should know that she had a grandson, don't you?"

"I guess. But, did you have to invite her over?"

"I didn't?" Luka replied.

"So what is she doing here?" Abby whispered.

"I s'pose she wanted to see her grandson and just maybe her daughter" Luka responded.

"I'm still dealing with being a new mother Luka, I don't know if I can handle dealing with Maggie as well"

"Abby, she's on her meds and you don't have to deal with her by yourself anymore. You have me and besides it looks like she's really good with Kyle" Luka said, kissing Abby.


"OK, let's go" Abby said and Luka picked up her bags whilst Abby picked up Kyle who was already in his car seat. As Luka and Abby were going down to the ER before going home to introduce Kyle to the staff Maggie decided to go and would see them later. Luka had invited her to stay at his apartment for a few days. Once Maggie had walked down the hallway and was out of earshot Abby slapped Luka on the shoulder saying " Why did you go and do that for? Do you have any idea what it's like living with her?"

"Come on Abby. It's only for a few nights and she is your mother after all"

"Well as a punishment you're waking up with Kyle for the next week. I think I deserve a bit of beauty sleep."

"Yeah you're probably right you are starting to look a little rough around the edges"

"Check you out, and the saucer of milk goes to Dr Kovac" Abby replied to Luka's sarcasm.

Luka and Abby had just stepped out of the elevator and already people were pouncing on them wanting to catch a glimpse of Kyle. Chuny and Morris were the first to come over and walked with Abby and Luka to admit. "Ahh he's so cute" Chuny said.

"Yeah good job there Mom he'll make a great ER mascot" Morris chipped in.

"Morris, first of all I'm not you're mother, second of all our son is not is not an ER mascot. Got it?"

Abby said.

Morris was about to come back with a witty retort when Luka put his hand over his mouth knowing it would only end in tears. As soon as they reached admit they became completely swamped with people.

"He's got your eyes Abby" said Haleh.

"And you're nose, Luka" added Ray.

"Hello again little one" Neela said, bending down to play peek a boo with Kyle which set him off gurgling.

"Ahhhh!" chorused everybody.

Weaver walked in and said "What's going on here people? You have jobs to do, patients to treat. Oh Hi Abby, Luka and I presume this is Kyle?"

"Yes this is our son Kerry" Abby replied.

"I'm glad to see you up and about Abby" Kerry said "You gave us a bit of a scare there"

"I'm great. About that I just want to say a massive thank you to all of you. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if it wasn't for you guys" Abby said, tearing up a little.

"Yes, thank you" Luka re-iterated whilst hugging Abby, having seen she was a little emotional.

"How's Jerry getting on?" Abby asked and then felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Boo" it was Jerry.

"Jerry, glad to see you're OK" Abby said giving him a one armed hug as she still had a hold of Kyle's car seat.

"Hey it takes more than a bullet to stop me"

"And back at work already/"

"Well you know the ER and the slave driver that the chief is. I would make the most of the maternity leave if I were you"

"I'll bear that in mind Jerry"

More staff came over to admit as it was the shift change. After they had all had a look at Kyle and said hey to Abby, Luka began giving Pratt and the other residents the run down of the patients. "OK, we have a lady who has been experiencing joint pains following an attack of mumps and her left knee is slightly inflamed, hot to the touch and has a small effusion waiting for rheumatology to do a consult where she will probably admitted for an arthroscopy and synovial biopsy. Hypertensive man in exam 2 waiting for his labs, lady in curtain 3 is waiting for an orthopaedic consult after X-ray showed degenerative changes in the left hip joint with complete loss of joint space and distortion of the femoral head probably related to avascular necrosis may be a surgical candidate. In Trauma 1 we have Henry Watts a young boy involved in pedestrian versus auto has a lac about 22cm running across the back and left hand side of his scalp. X-ray of the skull show a hairline fracture but there is no evidence of intra-cranial drainage, lac needs suturing. Also waiting on a maxillofacial consult has fracture of both zygomatic arches"

Pratt interrupted at this point "OK, med students who can tell me what zygomatic arches are more commonly known as?"

"The cheekbones?" replied Harvey questioningly.

"Right you are man" Pratt said "And for an extra bonus point can you tell me which bones unite to form the arch"

"The temporal and malor bone"

"Excellent, please continue Dr Kovac"

"Thanks Pratt, Mr Watts also has a fracture of the right scapula and therefore requires a sling. Moving on, lady in exam 1 came in with attacks of breathlessness and intermittent wheezing with a cough. On examining her I appreciated a wheeze on expiration and a decrease in the systolic blood pressure on inspiration. I've ordered a chest x-ray, CBC and peak flow measurement and am just awaiting results of these tests, in the interim I have her on Prednisolone 7.5mg once daily and then to finish up there's a few lacs in sutures and I think that's about it"

"OK time to take the brood home" Pratt said ushering Luka away. Luka turned around to get Abby and realised she wasn't there unaware that whilst he was running the board the nurses had taken Abby to the lounge to present her with a diaper genie and a massive teddy bear.

"Oh my God, thanks you guys" Abby said.

"After what you've been through you deserve it" Chuny said. Luka walked in having found out from Frank that this is where Abby had gone.

"Wow, look at the size of that thing" he said looking at the teddy bear. "It's a good job I brought the car imagine trying to get that thing back on the El!" Luka said.

As Abby looked around the lounge at all the nursing staff she noticed that there was one face missing "Where's Sam?" she inquired.

"We haven't seen or heard from her since last week's incident when Steve dragged her away in the van" said Malik.

"I hope she's OK" Abby said worryingly.

"Steve is an ass but I don't think he would hurt her being that she is the mother of his child" replied Luka. "OK missy I think it's about time we got you and the little one here home" Kyle had fallen asleep by this point.

"Don't be a stranger Abby" shouted Haleh.

"I won't" Abby said.


As Abby and Luka were walking out of the ER the paramedics were wheeling another patient in "Female, late twenties looks like she's been beaten pretty bad, intubated on scene, resps shallow, pulse thready, BP 90 0ver 60 was unconscious from when we arrived" Doris said wheeling this patient in who was completely covered in bruises and cuts from head to toe and her face was so puffed up Luka doubted that anyone would be able to ID her, behind Doris was Zedro

"Male, 13 years of age normal........"

"Mom" shouted the boy interrupting Zedro, as he came through the doors Abby and Luka recognised that this kid was Alex.

"Alex, where's your Mom?" Luka asked.

Alex was in hysterics and couldn't answer the question. "Doris came in with the mother" Zedro replied.

Both Abby and Luka looked at each other totally dumbfounded and said at the exact same moment "Oh God" and that's when they heard Doris shout.

"She's in cardiac arrest, starting compressions"