Chapter 11:

Cara wakes to the sun flooding through the gap in the curtains instantly blinding her as she opens her eyes, she begins to stretch until her leg makes contact with Raf's leg, she feels something around her waist she peers under the covers to see that Raf has his arm carefully draped over her waist with his hand protectively placed on Cara's stomach "Raf... Raf... wake up" she says as she starts to feel a little unwell.

The nausea starts to overwhelm her she isn't sure what to do, she finally bolts upright as the nausea starts to make her feel really sick, Raf still hasn't woken so she moves his arm from across her lap and gets up out of the bed and sprints for the bathroom.

she kneels down and places her hands either side of the toilet as she starts to be sick, She pulls away from the toilet and takes a deep breath in as she tries to steady her heart beat as she hates being sick as everyone else does and tries to calm herself down, "Oh god" she mutters as she jolts back over the toilet and another bout of morning sickness over runs her again.


Cara finally pulls herself together after a few minutes of not begin sick she makes her way back to bed as it is early morning as Cara is still really tired and she doesn't have to be in work until this afternoon which is relief because she really needed to rest.

"Are you okay?" Raf questions as he feels Cara cuddle back up to him, he opens his one eye to see Cara looks very drained, almost ill.

Cara gives a little groan and replies "Think I'm starting to get morning sickness" Cara says as she places her hand on her stomach as it feels very heavy and makes her feel even worse.

He opens his other eye and looks straight at Cara who looks likes she's seen better days "You should of woke me" he says as he plays with a strand of her hair and twirls the strand around his finger.

"I did" Cara mumbles as she starts to feel nauseous again.

Raf looks at her completely stunned "Well you weren't trying hard enough" he laughs as he kisses Cara on the cheek and continues to mess with her hair.

"Raf..." Cara stutters as she sits up right again and brings her hand to her mouth and stops for a second before making a hasty retreat to the bathroom once again.

"Cara?" Raf says as he gets up out of the bed and follows Cara through to the bathroom by the time Raf makes it to the bathroom Cara is already hanging onto the toilet "Cara are you okay?" Raf says as he isn't sure whether to kneel down next to her or not because he isn't sure if she wants to be left alone or not.

Finally Cara stands up and she washes her mouth out with cool water and looks up at Raf a single tear rolls freely down her cheek and Raf pulls her into a hug and rubs his hand up and down her back "What's up?" He questions as he pulls away from her and looks down at Cara who is smaller than him.

"I don't think I like this morning sickness" Cara cries into Raf's chest, he gives her a reassuring smile and pulls her back into a hug and holds her there for a while.


Once Cara had got herself composed and could no longer taste the horrendous taste of vomit, "So do you want anything for breakfast if the baby agrees?" Raf smiles as he knows the small things at the moment make Cara smile even though she has only known she's been pregnant for over four days now.

Cara manages to keep her breakfast down and after a while of thinking she is going to be sick they both get ready for work, "Raf please don't speak a word about the baby please" Cara says as she pulls her black leather jacket on.

"I won't and are you sure you want to wear a leather jacket its going on twenty degrees out there and its June" Raf says as he stands before Cara and looks down a little at her.

Cara rolls her eyes and shakes her head "I'm fine Raf stop worrying anyway aren't you needed in the ED today?" Cara says as she makes her way out the house and locks the door after Raf comes out.

"I'm not worrying Cara I'm just thinking of you" Raf replies as he unlocks his car and opens the car door for her she gives him a nod with a little smile and gets into the car she instantly begins to type something in on her phone but Raf just ignore it as he gets into the driver's side of the car.

Raf begins their ten minute drive to the hospital, from the corner of his eye he could see Cara smiling and start to wonder what she is actually smiling at "What are you smiling at?" he questions as he glances over at Cara who is still reading something on her phone before drawing his attention back to the road.

"Just reading an article on what your baby can do at thirteen weeks" Cara chirps and Raf gives a half laugh a little unsure to whether Cara should be reading these things as he didn't want her to jinx the pregnancy he has always been very superstitious about things like this as he always wonders if reading things like this can jinx this and he dreaded to think what Cara would be like if she ever miscarried.

"This is so good did you know at thirteen weeks that our baby can kick its legs, turning its head – even can swallow, yawning and hiccupping! How amazing is that!" Cara begins as she starts to read a bit more.

Raf swallows and replies "are you sure you should be reading things like that?"

"Nope I don't see the harm" Cara replies merrily.

"I know I may sound strange but you don't want to jinx anything" he explains but Cara isn't fazed by it "I mean what if... god forbid it though you miscarry?"

"Raf stop being all superstitious it says here that now I've reached the 13 week mark and my chances of miscarriage are so greatly reduced so technically nothing can go wrong and if it does well that's natures way of telling me I'm not ready yet" Cara reads and Raf seems stunned by how well Cara seemed to react to Raf's question.


Once they arrive at work Cara heads towards the cafe and a few minutes later Raf turns up in the queue, she turns and looks at Raf who is a few people behind her she gives him a friendly smile as she is called up to the counter to be served "Hi can I get a regular cup of tea to take away please, white no sugar please" she says politely to the Barista as she opens up her purse.

"That's £1.50 please" the Barista replies and Cara hands her money over and smiles and goes to wait at the other end of the counter for her cup of tea.

Cara thanks the Barista as soon as she gets her cup of tea and heads for the AAU locker room, once she is in the locker room she starts to get changed, Morven is also in the locker room too.


"Can I help you?" Cara questions as she notices Morven staring at her, It instantly kicks in what Morven is staring at and she breathes in trying to hide her stomach as she doesn't want to tell Morven she's pregnant just yet.

"Oh no it's nothing I'm just thinking about things" Morven jumps as she realises she is making it very obvious what she is looking at.

Cara gives Morven an unsure look and flattens down her scrub top and pins her name badge onto her top and leaves the locker room, She pulls her hair up into a neat bun as she enters the ward and to her surprise the ward is almost empty "What have you done with all the patients, shoved them in cupboards just to make this place seem tidy? Cara laughs as she makes her way over to the nursing station and smiles at Fletch who is messing with a rubik's cube "Do you know them things are virtually impossible to solve" Cara adds as she logs herself onto a computer.

"No there not Cara you've just given up early" Fletch says as his concentration remains on the rubik's cube.

"I tell you what if you solve that puzzle by the end of our shifts I will give you a fiver" Cara laughs as she knows he'll never do it.

"How about you buy me a drink at Albies after work?" Fletch smiles.

"Deal" Cara smiles "Oh and Fletch if you don't you'll have to buy me a drink" Cara says as Raf and Serena come onto the ward who also look like they are completely confused to where all the patients are.

Serena heads over towards them and says "Where are all the patients?" Cara shrugs her shoulders and looks at Fletch who was on the ward before anyone else.

"Exactly what I said" Cara replies and gives Raf a little cheery smile before looking back at the computer screen and reading through the discharges that have been made in the last 24hours.

Raf stands next to Cara and watches her read through the documents and before long Fletch starts to watch them both noticing something about them two, Raf gives Cara a little nudge as he notices in the corner of his eye Cara rubbing her stomach even though you can't really tell she is pregnant "What Raf? I've got a stomach ache that's all leave it" Cara snaps at Raf and Fletch watches them a little bit longer to see what they do.