"Okay this is Lucas Anderson, Aged 8, fell-over playing football, was in a school-boy fight, urm, suspected neck-injury..." Jeff continued with the Paramedics-spiel as he was met by Adam and Jess, Adam as a Doctor,
and Jess as a Mother. - Obviously. Nick was already there, helping Jeff and Dixie to wheel Lucas into Resus.
"Bed 4 Please." Nick called as they reached-Resus.
"OWW I want my Mummy, OWW!" Lucas cried from behind the oxygen-mask.
"Mummy's here Lucas." Adam comforted. "She's just here." He told him before Jess made her way over to Lucas' bed as they lifted him-over from the stretcher onto the bed and took his hand, holding it tightly.
"It's okay baby, I'm here, I'm here." Jess said tearfully.
Despite being there as a Doctor, Adam couldn't help but comfort Jess as he watched her cry, putting an arm around her. "He's gonna be okay Jess. He's gonna be just-fine." Adam comfroted as Nick began an examination of Lucas, then spotted that Adam wasn't on task. "Adam I understand that Jessica is upset, but I could really use your help here, and if you're treating this as a personal-case, then please leave Resus and fetch Zoe for me please." Nick told him, firmly, but politely, understanding that the situation he was in can't have been easy for the Doctor.
"Nick, Zoe's broken her nose, she should be resting. I'm here to help, so where do you need me?" Adam asked.
"Right, well his airways are clear, but he's struggling to breathe still, but we won't know what's causing that until we find-out what's wrong with his neck, so I'm gonna give him a light-dose of morphine to help with the pain, and in the mean-time could you get onto X-ray, we need a spot, urgently." Nick ordered and Adam nodded before he headed-over towards the phone. Jess followed-him.
"Morphine?" She asked him worriedly as he picked-up the phone and called X-Ray.
"Yeah, it's help him to deal with the pain, you know that Jess." Adam replied, now in Doctor-Mode.
"Yes I know Adam, but it must be pretty-damn serious if you're giving-him Morphine." Jess panicked, trying not to get stressed at Adam, but it was difficult, understandably.
"Okay. Forget-It." Adam said angrily before he put the phone-down then turned to face Jess, placing his hands on the break of her arm. "Jess just calm-down alright? You heard-Nick, it's only a small-dose okay?" Adam said, trying to be sympathetic before he moved back-over to tell Nick the bad-news.
"Nick, X-Ray is packed-up for the next Hour." Adam said in a stressed-out-manner, he didn't want to let Jess-down.
"Okay, well we'll just have to do all we can now, can you check that he isn't paralysed anywhere please Doctor Trueman? I've got another patient in CDU to get back to, I'll be back in 10 Minutes max." Nick told-him before he left Resus.
Adam walked over to Lucas and took his hand as Jess appeared next to him. "Okay Lucas, can you look at me if you can hear-me?" Adam asked, and Lucas looked at him, trying not to move his neck at-all, but just using his eyes to look at Adam. "Alright, can you grip onto my hand for me." Lucas responded. "And push against my hand." Adam said, tensing his hand so that Lucas had to push. "Can you push any harder than that Lucas?" Adam asked, slightly-concerned that his pushing wasn't very-hard, although there was some movement.
He repeated this with LUcas' other-arm, and also both of his legs. His left-leg barely moved.
"No...OWWW." Lucas cried.
"Okay Lucas, hopefully the Morphine will start to kick-in soon." Adam said as Jess began to cry to herself quietly, gripping onto Adam's spare-arm and resting her head against his upper-arm.
"Adam, is his neck-broken or not?" She asked him tearfully.
Adam turned to face Jess. "I can't be sure Jess, not-until we get him-up to X-Ray, but there's some weakness in his arms, his right-leg seems fine, but it might be compensating for his left, which is barely active. So he's not paralysed, but his muscles are weak, and he's struggling to breath, so it's quite-possible that he's fractured his neck, or at the worst-broken-it, there are signs that he's broken-it...I'm sorry Jess." He broke the bad-news to her, quite-tearful himself as he pulled Jess in for a tight-hug.
"You can save-him though can't you? You can make him better?" Jess asked in a cry.
"Yeah Jess, yeah, of-course we can, but it's gonna take-time alright?" Adam whispered before Jess nodded then cried into Adam's chest as he held-her.
A couple of hours had passed and X-Rays had confirmed that Lucas had broken his neck. Nick had put his neck in a neck-brace and was now concentrating on improving his breathing.
Jess and Adam sat at Lucas' bedside as Lucas rested. "Will he need surgery?" Jess asked quietly and sadly, but the tears had dried-up now.
"I don't know Jess." Adam whispered in reply. "But you know the surgeons here are the best, so if he does, then he'll be in perfectly safe-hands you know that." He sympathised.
"Yeah I know, I just..." The tears began to well-up again. "I just want him to be okay again." Jess cried and Lucas woke-up as she hugged-Adam tightly.
"Mummy?" Lucas asked, the pain had gone-down a-bit after his-sleep.
Jess looked-up at her son. "Hey sweetheart, how're you feeling?"
"Someone told-me you've been getting into fights. That's the last-time you're staying-up with me to watch Ricky Hatton pal." Adam joked and Lucas attempted to smile slightly, he enjoyed watching the Boxing with Adam.
"Better now." Lucas replied tiredly. "My neck still hurts though." He revealed as the pain came-back to him again.
"Yeah I'm not surprised, the Doctor's think you've broken your neck sweetheart." Jess told him softly, but tearfully.
"Yeah, listen Lucas, you're gonna have to take it easy for a while." Adam began. "What happened in the fight mate?" He asked him gently.
"His names Tom." Lucas said before breathing into the oxygen-mask a few-times with Adam's help then continuing. "He's always fouling me playing football, so today I decided to get-him back and slide-tackled into his legs, like he always does to me." He said, choking a little as he ran-short of breath and his neck pained him.
"Easy there Lucas." Adam told-him as he placed his oxygen-mask over his mouth for a couple of breaths before Lucas then took-it-off again.
"Then what happened baby?" Jess asked, wanting to know the truth from Lucas.
"He pushed-me, so I pushed-him back, and then he hit-me...so I did the same, and that's when the fight-started." Lucas told-him as the tears building at the back of his eyes came to the front then began to fall from his eyes.
Jess sighed, she hadn't brought her children-up in that way, they were nice-kids, who walked-away from fights, not got themselves into them. What was getting into-him?
Adam and Jess then said goodbye to Lucas before they headed towards the doors of Resus. "We'll be back later sweetheart." Jess said before Adam put an hand on her back to encourage her along.
"Come-On, I'll make you a cup of tea okay?" Adam told-her gently as he placed a soft-kiss into Jess' hair.
"I only did-it because that's what Daddy told-me to do!" Lucas cried, afraid of telling the truth to his Mum.
Jess turned around on the spot as she took-in what Lucas had just said. She walked-back-over to him and took his hand. "Sorry sweetheart?"
"In Saudi, Dad said that if anyone tried to hurt-Me or Amelia, to get them back. To do to them what they did to us." Lucas revealed.
"Lucas. Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Jess said angrily.
"Heyyy, Jess, it's not his fault." Adam said to her softly as he approached them both.
"I wanted to tell you Mummy, but you and Daddy are always arguing! And I didn't want you to fall-out again." Lucas said tearfully. "I don't want Daddy to leave-you behind again. Why can't you just get back together...OWWW." He cried.
Jess sighed sadly as she began to cry aswell. "I'm sorry sweetheart." Jess replied as she looked-down. "But Me and Daddy aren't getting back-together, I'm with Adam now." She said, taking Adam's hand. "Lucas you said you liked Adam."
"I DO! He insisted, and he was telling the truth. "I Love Adam." He said as he looked at Adam. "But I just miss my Daddy, that's all." He said sadly.
Jess softly stroked through Lucas' hair before she leaned-over and lovingly-kissed his forehead. "Okay Lucas." She began with a whisper. "Thank-You. For telling me the truth." She said with a gentle-smile before she went to get a drink with Adam.
"WHY? Why would he tell them that Adam?" Jess snapped angrily. She wasn't angry at Adam though, she was annoyed with Sean, he should know better as a father or two-lovely young-children.
"Because he's an idiot who doesn't deserve such lovely-children. They're great-kids Jess." Adam told her softly as they walked through the corridor, towards the cafeteria, togehter.
"I know they are, I guess I just wish that they didn't have Sean as a father." Jess said, looking-down sadly.
"Well you heard Lucas, Jess, he misses-him. We're just gonna have to put-up with him, and I promise I'll try not to hit-him." Adam said with a light-laugh.
Jess laughed a little-too as she smiled at Adam and looked-him in the eyes. "I guess we will. But we'll get through this...together." Jess said as they reach the cafeteria together.
"Yeah we will." Adam replied happily before he hugged Jess tightly. "We'll get there." He whispered into her ear before kissing her cheek.
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