Chapter 11
It's drawing close to Christmas, it was snowing outside and awfully cold. The past few months had been good for the two, Raf and Cara still hadn't been found out, it was still there little secret that no one knew.
Cara wakes to find Raf's arm around her waist still. She puts her hand on his arm and smiles to herself. Her head is banging and she feels a little bunged up. Raf eventually awakens, he smiles at her. "Morning beautiful" he says before giving her a kiss on her ever so slightly pale cheeks.
"Morning" Cara says in a croaky voice which Raf finds incredibly cute, she clears her throat and cuddles into Raf.
"Someone doesn't sound good this morning" Raf says as he kisses her head and smiles at the pale nurse lying in his arms. "You are slightly pale Caz" he says as she looks up at him. "Are you feeling alright?" he asks making sure she was okay.
She nods and clears her throat "I am fine" she whispers.
"Are you sure?" he asks as he's not convinced. She nods and stands up, her head seem to bang even more when she is sitting up.
Raf puts his arms around her waist and kisses her waist and she whispers "just going to get some paracetamol and a drink" "So you're not feeling too good are you?" he asks. She nods "I feel like I've just ran into a brick wall" Cara mumbles as she gets up and grabs her dressing gown.
Cara makes her way through to the bathroom and goes through her cabinet and realizes she hasn't got any paracetamol. She goes back to Raf. "Do you ever, carry paracetamol around with you?" she asks as she doesn't have the energy to go out and buy some so she thinks it's worth a try to ask.
"I have some of that high dose stuff, in my bag it's from when I injured my shoulder at the gym" Raf says as he gets out of bed and Cara sits back down on the bed and rubs her forehead. "Would you like some of that?" he asks as he goes and sits next to her. She just nods and lies back down, "are you coming to work because if you're not up to it I can just say you text me to tell them you're too ill?" Raf questions.
Cara clears her throat the best she can and mumbles "I will be fine anyway were short staffed as it is" He smiles at her, "good because I enjoy your company" he says.
"You better not fall asleep on me today! These can make you sleepy" he explains before giving her them. Cara just nods even though she isn't listening properly she just nods along. "Thanks" she smiles as she takes them with a glass of water.
Once she's done that she gets ready for work with Raf who is still worried about her. After her shower she seems a bit brighter but Raf still isn't convinced she's 100%. He goes to the shower himself and leaves her to get ready.
In the car Cara starts to drift off to sleep, and Raf tries to keep her awake because he doesn't want to have to wake her when he gets to the hospital because he hates waking her when she looks so peaceful. "Don't fall asleep on me please" he laughs placing his hand on her thigh.
Cara gives a sleepy smile and mumbles "don't worry I won't."
"You will!" he laughs.
"Talk to me to keep yourself awake" he laughs giving her a little shake.
"What about exactly, Serena?... Well she hates me" Cara says as she starts to drift off again.
"Oh Caz don't be so hard on yourself!" he says to her. Cara smiles and looks down at her phone before drifting off again.
They finally get to the hospital and Cara is just about awake. "Don't be falling asleep on me on ward round today!" he laughs.
"Well you can wheel me around in a wheel chair and when you need me you can wake me" she says as she gets out the car and starts to sneeze.
"I don't really think Serena would approve of that" he winks. Cara sighs and gets her stuff out of Raf's car and smiles at him before walking into the hospital, Raf follows soon after. Raf knew she wasn't feeling the best at all.
When he got to the ward he went to the locker room to get changed for a rather quiet day at work. Cara smiles and she sees Raf come into the locker room. Raf gives her a smile, she is now more paler than she was this morning he had happened to notice. "Are you sure your okay Caz?" Raf questions as he comes over to Cara and puts his hands on her waist. "I'll be fine, promise" she says putting on a smile and looking up at him.
Later on Cara is sitting at the nursing station staring at the computer screen slowly drifting off to sleep, she feels awful as her head is killing her, she has stomach ache and she feels sick all at the same time. She feels absolutely rotten, she wants to go home but there short staffed so she would feel guilty going home.
She decides to go do a ward round with Raf to try and wake her up a bit. "Cara your sweating is everything alright?" Raf questions as Cara starts the rounds with him.
"Yea I'm fine, just a bit hot... Is it hot in here?" Cara questions as she fans herself down with a patients notes.
"No its not hot in here, are you sure your okay to work?" Raf asks concerned about her. Cara nods and carries on filling in patient observations.
Raf carries on doing observations but keeps an eye on Cara, "right I need Mr Jones has some abnormalities so I need someone from Darwin to-" Raf cuts himself off as Cara doesn't look right at all, "Nurse Martinez ? Do you want me to get someone to take over from you?" Raf adds and Cara shakes her head.
He continues for a while then Cara slams her files down on a table and says "I'm going to be sick" and runs off with her hand over her mouth. Cara appears back on the ward moments later, she is stopped by Raf.
"No, no, no, you are not going anywhere!"
"Raf, I'm fine really" she says trying to put on a fake smile even though inside she felt rotten.
Raf looks around and the back at Cara, "you are going home right this instant" Raf demands but Cara is having none of it.
"Raf give me five minutes and I will be fine again" Cara says as she touches Raf's arm.
"Cara you're not well and I'm telling you to go home!" he says to her in a stern tone of voice. She shakes her head once again, but it's too late she knows she is going home after what she is about to do. She looks at Raf and then her hand flies to her mouth and but she can't run and it's too late she is sick onto the floor, missing Raf's feet by inches.
"Home, now!" Raf says as he goes to clean the floor up. "But Raf..." she is cut off by Raf
"No buts Cara, you're not well" he says. Cara mutters to herself and the leaves for the locker room. She thought to herself, 'Raf is right I guess, I'm not well, maybe I do just need to go home and rest for a bit.'
Not only was she feeling sick, she was slightly embarrassed that she had vomited on the ward in front of both Raf and Fletch...She heads home once she has got changed and goes straight to bed where she remains until she needs the toilet, she also checks her phone where she sees a text from Raf 'need anything at all?'
'Paracetamol' she texted him back.
Meanwhile, it was drawing close to the end of Raf's shift, himself and Fletch were finishing off a patients observations. "What's up with Nurse Martinez?" he asks. "I'm not sure, she was just nearly sick over me" Raf says as he puts his stethoscope in his locker.
"Ay you never know she could be pregnant" Fletch jokes but Raf takes it seriously and goes oddly quiet. He leaves the locker room and heads for Cara's. He doesn't really know what to make of what Fletch said to him, he knew he was joking but it could be a possibility.
He also gets another text from Cara while he is on his way out saying "can you get me some tissues as well because you love me?" He decides to stop off at the shops before heading to Cara's house to grab a few things for her.
Once he's got what he needs from Cara's he goes to his house where he sent Cara after the shift. He heads into his house and finds Cara in the bathroom...vomiting. "Cara?" He says as he goes to her and places a soft hand on her back. She stands up and looks at him.
"I'm really sorry about today" she says. "I probably shouldn't have went in, in the first place" she says.
Raf Laughs "well I did tell you to stay here but you didn't listen" Raf says as he hands a glass of water to Cara.
"I know and I guess you were right!" she says. "I feel like crap" she complains to him.
"Cara I need to ask you something, well erm..." Raf says as he starts to get a little embarrassed.
"No actually it's quite the opposite" Raf says and Cara gives him a confused look.
"What is it Raf, I don't get you" Cara says in a confused tone.
"Is there... Any possibility... Giving your being sick... Could you be pregnant?" Raf says awkwardly and Cara's mouth drops.
Cara stutters then says "I can't be Raf... I'm on my period" she whispers in embarrassment.
"Oh woah, well done Mr. Di Lucca that was embarrassing for the both of us..." he says blushing slightly and Cara does also.
Cara smiles and says "as much as you would probably like me to carry your child I'm not ready to be a mum" she laughs as she walks out of the bathroom and back through to the bedroom.
"Sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you there" he laughs. He lies next to her on the bed, "how are you feeling?" he asks.
"Like crap" she says as her voice starts to go. "I feel freezing too but I more than likely have a temperature" she says with a croaky voice.
Raf puts his forehead against her head and says "your boiling" he says as she sneezes. Raf's her the tissue box and smiles at her "you still look gorgeous" he kisses her head and smiles.
"Well that's funny considering, I've been sick about a million times since I got home and I can't stop coughing nor sneezing" she says as Raf pulls her close into a hug.
Raf pulls her close and says "I don't care how ill you are, you are still my princess" Just as Raf says that.
Cara sneezes all over him "I'm really sorry Raf...I didn't feel that sneeze coming on!" she says blushing her cheeks a rosey red tinge to them.
He smiles and laughs it off, Raf gets up and says "do you want to try and eat something?" Raf questions. "The last time I ate was breakfast" she says unsure whether she should try and eat something in case she brings it back up.
"Dry toast?" Raf questions as he kisses Cara on the head.
Cara nods and says "just one round of toast then please" He smiles and goes to make her some. Cara lies in the bed and looks up at the ceiling.
When Raf comes back as asks him a question "Here you go my darling" he smiles as he hands her a plate with a piece of dry toast on it.
"Raf can I ask you a question!" She says and Raf nods happily at her, "Do you want to come with me to my mum's for Christmas ?" She questions while she messes with her hands. Raf looks at her and gives a smile.
"It's just an offer, you don't have to come if you don't want to or have other plans" she says.
"No I would love to come with you!" he smiles and kisses her forehead. She smiles and hugs him, "oh thank you Raf" she throws her arms around his and he pushes her away a little.
She gives Raf a funny look and he adds "I don't want to catch what you've got" he laughs.
She giggles and says "well at least I don't have to listen to my mother going on about how I haven't got a boyfriend... Oh and if she says anything about children just laugh it off she's desperate for a grandchild, and well she doesn't do it to my older sister" she explains to Raf.
Raf smiles at her and gives a nervous laugh. "Is she likely to ask loads of questions? If she's anything like my mother that'll be a yes!" he laughs as
Cara sneezes again. Cara nods as she blows we nose, "My mother tends to ask really personal questions which you don't have to answer and if she asks about your job please don't tell her about the pay... She will think I'm only with you because of the money" Cara explains again and Raf laughs.
"What so you want me to just sit there and not socialise with her?" Raf laughs. "What am I suppose to say if she asks what I work as?" he says looking at Cara confused.
"Say you are a doctor and you work in emergency medicine which you do" Cara smiles as she cuddles next to him. "Okay" he laughs looking down at her.
He kisses her head, "But no I would love to come! Besides she can't be as bad as my mother, she never stops with the questions!" he laughs.
"So tell me then Raf what type of questions does your mother dearest question?" Cara says as she pulls herself onto Raf's lap.
"Well, she's forever asking me about a girlfriend and if so the looks, personality...things like that! But I guess all she wants is for me to be happy" he smiles at Cara who listens to him contently. Cara smiles
"My last boyfriend I had my mum scared away by saying have you two thought about children... I mean come on don't get me wrong she wants a grandchild but what ! We had only been going out for a month" she giggles then sneezes.
"I'll not take what she asks or says to me too much to heart then?" he laughs.
Cara smiles and cuddles into him "thank you" she says as she kisses his chin.
"Parents can be embarrassing at times, I understand" he smiles at her.
Cara blushes "especially mine" Cara says as she places her hands on his chest.
"How come?" he asks as she happened to go very red as she said that.
She blushes even brighter as she sneezes at the same time, "My Mum always gets the baby photos out like they do in the movies, they are embarrassing because she always shows the one of me naked as a baby in the bath" she says.
Raf laughs, "I'll look forward to seeing that one then!" he says just to tease her.
"No Raf please don't" she says. "It was only when you were a baby, I'm sure a lots changed from then" he says sarcastically.
"According to my mum I haven't changed a bit apart from the height and weight... Oh and eye color" Cara smiles as she gets up and walks over to the window and opens it as she has gone hot.
He smiles at her, "It cannot be that bad Martinez!" he giggles.
"I'm boiling hot" she sighs as she sits back on the bed.
"I know your hot" Raf flirts as he wraps his arms around we waist and feels how clammy Cara actually is. "You actually are really hot, pity I don't have a fan!" he laughs.
Cara gives a Raf a sarcastic smile and says "oh yeah is that so?"