Chapter 36:
Later on that day Mary-Claire had made her way up to AAU after dropping Scarlett off at the nursery despite them telling her she couldn't, Mary-Claire had a job to do and Harry had an important meeting about what Harry wanted to do after his CT training.
So Mary-Claire got herself changed into her scrubs and went over to Fletch and Arthur who was giggling about something "What you laughing about"? Mary-Claire snuck up on them and made Fletch jump "Oh MC it's you, thought Scarlett was ill" Fletch says as he places what looks like a darts board face down on the nursing desk, "She's better this morning, well she's still a little grizzly and well..." Mary-Claire looks at Fletch who is yawning "Sorry am I boring you?" Mary-Claire says in a serious tone.
"Erm... nope" Fletch lies, "Come on Fletch it's obvious, so what is that?" Mary-Claire questions, Arthur gives Fletch a little nudge but before he could say anything Serena was on the ward with a new patient.
Mary-Claire walks over to the side of the bed as Serena begins the hand over, Mary-Claire glances down at the man his face was covered in blood "What happened?" Mary-Claire questioned, "We don't know he was found on the road side just off The Falls road in the early hours of this morning" Serena says and that was when Mary-Claire realised who it was, Mary-Claire takes a step back from the bed and just looks at him all that anger and hatred that she had for that one man, it made her physically sick that she was going to have to treat him.
Mary-Claire took another step back and felt the sick rise in her throat, she turned on her heels and made a dash for the toilets, Serena watched as she ran towards the toilets, "What happened?" Serena questions Essie who was standing next to her, "I don't know" Essie says as she runs off after Mary-Claire.
Mary-Claire was fast a little too fast for Essie to keep up with her, but Essie soon found out where she was when she heard the vomiting coming from the staff room toilets, "Mary-Claire?" Essie questions as she pushes the door to the toilet open to see Mary-Claire sitting there with her head in her hands silently sobbing to herself.
"Hey, what's up?" Essie says as she slides down the wall next to Mary-Claire, their shoulders slightly touching as she sits next to her. "Nothing" Mary-Claire sobs as she wipes away the tears, "Well there is obviously something up for you to run off AAU like that, is it Scarlett?" Essie questions, Mary-Claire shakes her head "No she's fine" Mary-Claire takes a shaky breath and looks at Essie. "Okay, but you can't go back to AAU looking like a panda?" Essie says to Mary-Claire indicating that Mary-Claire's eye make-up had smudged.
Mary-Claire stands up and steps over Essie and makes her way to the mirrors. "You know where I am if you need to talk" Essie says as she gets up and stands next to Mary-Claire. Mary-Claire gives a little nod and dabs away the smudged mascara. Essie walked out of the toilets but stuck her head back around the door "Are you sure it isn't Scarlett?" She questions, "NO! I'm fine" Mary-Claire almost shouts at Essie but keeps herself calm.
Later on Harry had came back onto the ward after his interview he had some good news to tell Mary-Claire but first he needed to find Mary-Claire. Mary-Claire had been put with the one person she didn't want to be with now but it was to later for arguing she had been stuck with Luke. She had to place the skin back down on his leg and Mary-Claire decided she would give him as much pain as possible after what she had been through with him.
Luke was now fully conscious and was starring at Mary-Claire who was trying her best to keep her nerve around Luke, Harry was only the other side of the ward if she wanted him but she couldn't bare to tell him what had happened when she was younger between herself and Luke.
"So you finally became a nurse then?" Luke says to her as she stitches up his leg, She looks up at Luke and doesn't say anything, "Pretty baby girl you've got" He says makes Mary-Claire a little more uneasy. She didn't like it how he knew about her daughter but luckily he didn't know her name, until Harry came in and quickly said "I'm off home now, I'm going to take Scarlett so there is no need for you to get her tonight" He says as he walks off.
Mary-Claire feels her heart sink into her stomach she needed Harry around she didn't feel safe around Luke. Once Mary-Claire had finished cleaning his wounds she went to walk away from the bed and found Luke gripping her wrist "Take me for a fag yeah?" he says to her, Mary-Claire is telling herself not to but her words get mixed up and she finds herself lying to the rest of the doctors and nurses on AAU and takes him out the back entrance where all the deliveries were brought in from.
Mary-Claire sat herself down on the fire exit steps next to Luke who was in the wheel chair, "So why did you leave me?" He questions, Mary-Claire edges slightly away from him as he bows out the smoke he had inhaled into his lungs, "Because I did" she mutters , "Oh really, so why did you move away from Ireland and come and live in Holby?" he says to her making Mary-Claire feel really small, "I needed a fresh start... without you" Mary-Claire stutters. "Why without me?" He says getting a little angry, "Because I needed to clear my mind" she says, He laughs at her Mary-Claire shudders as he laughs, she hates it when he laughs at her especially after everything that happened between them.
After a few minutes of letting Luke smoke she looks at her watch and says "Come on then, its ward rounds in a few minutes" she gets up but Luke puts his feet on the ground so she to push the wheel chair, Mary-Claire rolls her eyes and says "Come on then are we going or what?" Mary-Claire hadn't got the time for idiots like Luke at the moment she was more worried about Scarlett and that horrible ear infection she had.
"I'm not going" He says, "Why an earth not?" she questions, "I'm not going back with you" he says as he pulls out a scalpel from under his dressing grown and drives it into Mary-Claire's inner thigh. Mary-Claire lets out a half scream as he puts his hand over her mouth and stops her from screaming for help.
Mary-Claire drops to the floor with the scalpel still sitting inside of her leg, she has no idea what to do. The blood was pouring it must of hit an artery to be that bad. Luke gave a smile of happiness and walked off towards AAU, unaware that he had blood on his gown which wasn't his but Mary-Claire's.
Meanwhile on AAU. Essie had started to wonder where Mary-Claire had got up to, Luke was back and now everyone was questioning him if they had seen her, he just replied "Think she went upstairs" but really he was trying to lead them away from Mary-Claire who was still outside.
"Right I'm going to look for her" Essie says as she makes her way over to Fletch and Colette who had just started her shift. "Would Harry know where she is?" Colette questions Essie, "I don't know he clocked off about an hour ago and went to get Scarlett so I would text him and ask" Essie says as she pulls out her phone.
Essie texts Harry but he hadn't heard from Mary-Claire in a while, Essie told Harry not to worry and that she is probably just busy gossiping to someone. Essie sprints down the corridor as fast as he legs out carry her until she sees the back door where the deliveries come from.
She stepped through the door and saw Mary-Claire sitting on the floor with a scalpel in her leg, Essie walked towards her slowly "Mc?" she questioned, Mary-Claire looked up her hands were covered in her own blood and she was using tissues to try and stem the bleed. "Who done this to you?" Essie questions as she pulls out a pair of latex gloves and puts them on, "L-Luke" Mary-Claire says, Essie looks at her in complete shock, "Why?" She questions Mary-Claire looks down at the scalpel and mutters "He's my ex and I left him because he abused me about seven years ago" Mary-Claire bluffs and everything comes out all her secrets at once.
Essie looks at her in complete shock "Did he?" she says seeing how upset she was, "Rape me?" Mary-Claire chocks "No, well when I first met him, I was too scared to say anything" Mary-Claire adds on and Essie's face dropped, she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Okay, We need to get you back to AAU" Essie says as she stands up and helps Mary-Claire to her feet. "Please don't tell Harry, he will hate me" Mary-Claire says as she puts her one arm over Essie's shoulder so she can limp back to AAU with the Scalpel still sticking out her thigh and the blood dripping down her leg leaving a trail behind her.
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