I'm on a roll here! THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMPLEMENTING ME ON MY FIRST STORY! EVERYONE IS WONDERING IF THE BABY WILL BE OKAY AND TO MAKE SURE OUR GOOD-LOOKING, FUN-LOVING AND HANDSOME ITALIAN SPIKE IS HAPPY ABOUT THE PREGNANCY. Thanks to 15 seasons of ER, I am able to know about hospital procedures. Continue to read and find out if the baby lives.
I also drew the cover picture for this story. It's what Cass looks like. Is it good?
*I DO NOT own Flashpoint, ER, or anything belonging to any of them. I only own the character Cassidy Maclaren because I made her. :)
Two ambulances drove off with Spike in one and Cass in the other. There was no room in their for any SRU officer to ride with them so they had to drive to the hospital in the SUVs. The ambulances got to St. Simon's with the trauma teams ready for the officers. The paramedics explained the condition of the patients as they rolled them into the joint trauma rooms.
"Thirty-four year old male. Has two two-inch laceration on either side of his chest. Major bruising on the chest and abdomen. Cigarette burns on the back of his neck. Complains of chest pain and his vitals are normal."
"Take him to Trauma One," one of the doctors said. He ran towards the other ambulance as the paramedics opened the doors. "Twenty-nine year old female. Stab wound to the left hamstring. Lost a pint of blood in the field. Had a loss of consciousness. Vitals are normal."
"Trauma Two," the same doctor went with Cass as he rolled her to the second trauma room. Team One got there when the ambulances did and tried to follow them in the rooms but the doctors said that there wasn't enough room so they had to wait outside the rooms, but they stayed close. Both patients were hooked up to IVs and monitors reading their heart rates. The main doctor, named Dr. Lancaster, was ordering medicine and tests for Cass when interrupted.
"Cassidy," they already asked her her name. "If we don't give you medicine and test, you might die."
"Please, I'm pregnant and the officer on the table in that room is the father. He doesn't know. Please don't tell him."
"Thank you for telling us so we'll treat you differently with special medicine and different tests. Doctor-patient privilege so I can't tell him but I think you should."
"What are they doing to him now?" She tried to see into the other room but the swinging doors were blocking her view.
"It looks like they just put in a chest tube."
"What's your name sir?" another doctor, named Dr. Wolfe.
"Mike... Scarlatti," he struggled to say.
"Okay Mike, we're going to to put a tube in your chest to re-inflate your lung. It collapsed." The doctor prepped Spike's chest to cut and put the tube in. While the doctor put the tube in, Spike just breathed like he didn't feel the tube go in.
"You didn't feel that going in?" a young intern asked Spike, amazed at the fact that Spike didn't flinch.
"I was just tortured," he replied he tried to joke. "And I'm an SRU officer. This is nothing."
The tube was successfully inserted in Spike's chest as a nurse came in from the other room to ask Dr. Wolfe if they could open the door so the two patents could speak to each other. The doctor agreed and the nurse kept the door open so Spike and Cass could talk.
"Michael," Cass called out to him. "You doing okay?"
"Wonder Girl," Spike answered. "I just got a tube put in my chest."
"Sexy," she laughed gently. "Michael I need to tell you something." She was ready to tell him that she was pregnant, but her heart started to go into an abnormal rhythm which caused her to lose consciousness.
"She's in V-fib! Get me an amp of epi and charge the paddles to 200!" Everyone was frantically running around the room trying to save Cass and the door shut, causing Spike to not see what was happening.
"What's happening in there?" Spike asked extremely concerned.
"They're shocking her heart and giving her medicine to get it pumping again. Now we need to get you a CAT Scan in case there is any internal bleeding. We're taking you up now." The doctors rolled Spike's table out of the room almost running over the other SRU officers.
"Where are you taking him?" Ed ordered. "And what about Cassidy?"
"CT," Dr. Lancaster answered as he and a nurse went into the elevator. "And you'll have to check with the other doctor working on her." The elevator doors closed leaving Ed to check on Cass. He ran to the other trauma room only for the doctors to roll her out to get her to surgery. Ed asked them what was happening.
"Sir, if you're not family I can't explain her condition."
"We ARE her family!" Ed was surprised for a second that he said she was family. "She's one of us. I'm her team leader."
"We have to take her up to surgery. She has lost too much blood and we have to fix it before she loses anymore. Hold that elevator!"
"Tell me she's going to be okay!" The doctor and nurse got into the elevator.
"We're going to do everything we can." The door shut and Ed was left with his team. He knew what it was like now, when he told victim's families and friends what the doc told him now. Ed could only pace back and forth, Greg trying to calm him down.
"They're going to be okay," Greg comforted his team leader and friend. "You know Spike, he's strong and as for Cass, she's stubborn. I don't think she would die even if she looked death in the face." Ed cracked a slight smile.
"Greg Parker?" a nurse came running down the stairs.
"Yes?" he answered to her. "What is it?"
"Cassidy wants to talk to you before she goes under." Greg followed the nurse up the stairs; she said it was faster to climb the stairs than wait for the elevator. "Team," Greg loudly said before slipping upstairs, "stay here. I'll stay up in surgery until she's out."
The team was left there, standing in fear, praying and hoping that their two team members come out of the hospital alive.
Spike was in the CT machine, just lying as still as he could. He could get up and leave even if he wanted to; he was too weak from the beating and there was a tube sticking out of him. The table he was on slid into the hole of the machine as his body was being scanned for any bleeding. After the scanning, he came out and Dr. Lancaster came in the room.
"Mike, you have a tear in your spleen. This can be serious if we don't operate on it. You'll have to sign a consent for the surgery. You can sign once we leave the room."
A couple of hospital employees helped Spike move from the CT machine to the gurney for he was still too weak to move. They rolled him out of the room and Spike signed the consent for the operation. When he was being rolled to the elevator, Ed came running up the stairs before they could get in it.
"Spike you okay?" Ed asked out of breath.
"Yeah, I just need an operation," he said so calmly. "Hey Ed, could you do me a favour?"
"Anything."
"Can you tell Cass that I love her?"
"You can tell her yourself. But I will anyway." He smiled at Spike as he and the doctors rolled into the elevator to go to surgery.
"Wait! You knew?"
"Of course I knew," Ed smiled as the elevator doors closed. Spike smiled at the fact that Ed knew about him and Cass.
Cass was in the surgical prep room, waiting for the surgeons finish scrubbing. She asked for Greg because she had to talk.
"Hey you wanted me?"
"Greg, I need to tell you some important things. First, I'm pregnant."
"Oh, that's wonderful! May I ask who the father is?"
"Spike."
"Our Spike?"
"Yeah. I haven't told him. Please don't tell him. I was scared and I still am, but I'm also excited to have this baby. And another thing, before you guys came he told me that he would haunt me for as long as I live. I hope that when you did your research on me, you learned that when Alan says he's going to do a job, he does it. He will try to find me again and kill me, and he'll probably try to hurt me by hurting you guys. Whatever happens to me, Greg, I died. Promise me you'll tell the team that I lost too much blood and my heart stopped beating."
"We can protect you Cass. You're going to be fine and we're going to find him."
"No Greg. I know Alan and I know he's relentless. He's going to find me and hurt the people I care about: you guys. I need to go into witness protection. No one can know where I am. Please Greg. Please, you can save me by telling the team I died and if they want to see me, tell them I didn't want them to see me like this: opened up and equipment hanging out of me. Promise me!"
"I think I miss you already," Greg said sadly to her. He took her hand and petted it. "Okay. I promise to tell the team you died. Can we at least keep in touch? Check in on how you're doing?"
"Yeah," Cass smiled at her sergeant.
"Sir," the surgeon came from the scrubbing room, "we have to go now."
"Boss," Cass said before the door closed. "Tell Spike I love him."
"I will," and the doors closed. Ed then came bursting through the doors of the stairs, out of breath and looking for the Sarge and Cass.
"Greg," Ed said out of breath. "Where's Cass?"
"They just took her to the operating room."
"Spike wanted me to give her a message."
"I think there's an observation room." The two senior officers went to the observation room to find Cass. They found the room and went in and saw a giant window showing the operating room and a speaker on the same wall. They walked to the window and pressed the button.
"Hey doc," Greg said in the microphone. "Can you hear me?"
"Yeah," the surgeon answered. "What do you need? I'm ready to operate and she's already out." Cass had a tube in her mouth going down her wind pipe, which was connected to a ventilator.
"I wanted to give her a message, but I guess I'm late."
"Buddy, I can give her the message. You should wait with the team, they need their team leader. What's the message?"
"Spike wanted me to tell Cass that he loves her."
Greg smiled. "Can you tell him the same thing? She said the same thing."
Ed smiled as he nodded his head and left the observation room to find Spike. Greg sat in one of the chairs as he waited for the surgery to be over.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team had slowly followed Ed upstairs to the surgical floor and waited in the chairs outside the main rooms. Ed saw them as he was about to go into another O.R. and just shook his head. He knew his team wasn't going to wait in a busy E.R. where the rest of their team wasn't. Ed found the O.R. where Spike was and he was about to go under with the anesthesia. He pressed the button and spoke to Spike.
"Spike, whatever happens, Cass loves you too, and always will," Ed had hoped that Spike heard. As Spike drifted off, those words repeated in his head: Cass love you too.
Hours seemed to go by as the team waited for their team members to get out of surgery safely. Ed came out first and let the team know that Spike was going to live. They sighed a sigh of relief at the news. Everyone was hugging each other laughing with happiness. Greg then came out and saw how happy the team was. Leah ran towards Greg and told him that Spike was going to be okay. He enlightened the news but his body language was telling another story. The team stopped celebrating when they saw that the Boss wasn't happy.
"Boss," Sam asked, "what is it?"
"She didn't make it," Greg lied. She had survived the surgery and was put in the ICU so as not to see the other SRU members. "She lost too much blood. The knife hit an artery and she bled out too quickly to be saved."
Everyone was in shock at the news. Jules cried into Sam's arms as he started to cry too. Leah sat back in the chair sobbing. Ed just stood there, his head turned to the floor, angry. Greg knew he told them a lie, but Cass told him to, as long as she was alive, Alan would find her and take her team down. The Sarge left to go tell Spike the horrible news.
Spike was waking up from the anesthesia. He looked around the room and saw other beds with people in them and a tube in his mouth. He felt it in his throat and noticed that it was VERY uncomfortable. "No wonder they put you out when they put these things in," he thought. A doctor came in the room and saw that Spike was awake.
"Mike," the surgeon said. "The surgery went well and we managed to mend your spleen. Do you want to take that thing out now?"
Spike nodded and the surgeon took the ventilator off and used a syringe to push something in.
"Now when I pull this out and say so, you cough okay? Ready, and cough."
The surgeon pulled the tube and Spike coughed. It hurt when he pulled it out and coughing wasn't helping.
"Don't try to speak. It'll hurt too much."
Spike nodded his head and just laid in the bed.
"Your team sergeant is outside. Did you want to see him?" Spike nodded. The surgeon left the room and came back with the Boss. The surgeon left the room to give them privacy. Spike mouthed 'hey', trying not to talk. He pointed to his throat, saying that he couldn't talk for a while.
"Spike I need to tell you something and you have to be strong." Spike listened closely at what he had to say. "Surgeons worked on Cass but her heart went into an abnormal rhythm. They shocked her heart and gave her medicine but her heart couldn't take anymore and she died."
Spike heart sank at the news. Memories came flooding through his mind: Lew, his dad. Everyone that was close to him was slipping away from him, he told himself that one day, and he felt he was right. He let Cass get close. That day when he made love to her, it wasn't about protocol, it was about her getting close but he went where his heart told him to go. He felt like a disease that when anyone got close enough to him, they'd leave him.
He shook his head and tried to say 'no' but it hurt too much. Greg needed Spike to believe the story so he told him again that Cass was dead. Spike started to cry and put his hands on his face. It hurt Greg to tell Spike a lie like this, but he had hoped that they would see Cass again. Sarge left the room to give Spike a couple of minutes alone to absorb the news. Spike was left in his hospital bed, sobbing over Cass' death. The tears stained the sides of his cheeks and pillow he was laying on. His body too tired to stay awake, eventually fell asleep crying softly.
Oh no! Spike thinks Cass is dead and she is actually alive. I hope when you read it, you understood why she had to 'die'. More chapters to come so stay tuned!
