At work Ethan had been exceptionally quiet and had gone missing a few times during the shift which was very unlike him. Charlie being the observant one had seemed to be the only one that noticed. Seeing Cal stood at the nurse's station reading something on the computer Charlie decided to take the opportunity to have a chat with the young doctor.
"Cal." He spoke as he subtly stood at his side glancing at the computer screen.
"That's me." Cal smiled and turned to look at Charlie smiling. "What can I do you for?" He asked assuming he just wanted him to look over some notes.
"It's about your brother. Is something going on with him?" Charlie asked quietly.
"No, everything has been fine lately. Very fine actually which is a first." Cal smiled obviously oblivious to his brother's odd behaviour.
"It's just he has been very quiet and keeps disappearing during shift, that's very unlike him." He pointed out.
Cal frowned and looked around hoping to spot his brother and dismiss Charlie's concerns but he was nowhere to be seen. "I don't know where he is…"
"Well no, I didn't expect you to. I just thought I should point it out so you could maybe have a word with him." Charlie suggested. "Has he dealt with your Mother's death properly?"
"Charlie that was weeks ago…" Cal shook his head.
"Sometimes grief can just sneak back up on you though." He told him.
"No." He shook his head. "He definitely got everything out of his system at the funeral believe me."
Charlie nodded. "Well I'd tell him to watch out because if Connie notices he will be in hot water." He spoke before walking away.
Cal sighed and checked his phone, if Ethan had to nip out for anything chances are he would have left a message for Cal to cover for him, but nothing.
He quickly finished off with his patient and discharged them before going on his break and hunting down his young sibling. He'd just put his huddy on and got out of the front doors when Ethan stormed past him clearly angry.
"Woah wait up." Cal spoke grabbing Ethan's arm stopping him in his tracks and bringing him outside way from the door. "What's got your knickers in a twist."
"Nothing." Ethan spoke harshly.
"Clearly it's not nothing…" Cal commented noticing Ethan's hands were curled into fists and had spots of blood on his cut knuckles. "What you done?" He asked nodding towards his hands.
"Like I said, nothing." He then stared at Cal.
"Ethan, you vanished during a shift and have come in a rage with bleeding hands." Cal raised an eyebrow. "Now if I didn't know you better I'd say you'd hit someone."
"What do you know ey!?" Ethan snapped. "You know nothing ok! Nothing!"
Cal stood shocked and stared at Ethan before the younger man stormed away and back into the ED leaving Cal feeling very confused and quite concerned.
He then went to try and find out what had happened, he checked around the peace garden and found nothing, it wasn't till he reached the bins that he saw someone sat on the ground leaning against the wall. Blood on his face and a bottle in his hand.
Assuming it was just another drunk who had gotten lost on route to the ED Cal went over to him. "Alright come on, let's get you inside." He spoke and crouched down in front of the man.
It wasn't until the figure looked up at him that he realised who it was. He stood up and took a step back, now he knew exactly who Ethan had punched and exactly why he had punched him.
"What the hell are you doing here?" He spoke quietly.
Ok so here is another chapter, again not very long but I am trying to give updates regularly and I struggle to make them long so just have patience with me. Someone has guessed who it is, well done them and thanks for all your reviews/favourites and so on.
To the girl who sent the review. I'm no longer going to dwell on the situation and if you do not like my writing don't read it. I did what I did because the rating of that story was inappropriate. This story is not. If you think I am not capturing the characters fair enough, but in all honesty I can't see a self harm story with these two being realistic either. Don't like my writing, don't read it. Simple.
Love you all. J x
