The doors of the ambulance bay opened, Iain was coming with Dixie and a patient.
"Robyn!" Luke called out.
Robyn jogged over to Luke ready to receive the hand over with him.
"This is Amy Harman, 24. Campervan has run over her right leg, query lower leg fracture. GCS 15, pulse 85, BP 125 systolic, SATS 96% and she has had Entonox and five milligrams of morphine." Iain said to Luke they wheeled Amy through to cubicles.
They slid Amy across onto a bed. Luke removed the vacuum splint and started to assess her leg.
"Ok Amy do you have any allergies that I need to be aware of?" Luke asked.
"Nope. So, doc what are the chances of me wearing my dancing shoes tonight?" Amy replied.
"We're going to need to need x-rays of both of your lower legs but I'm sure you'll have your dancing shoes on again in no time. I'll be back soon." Luke smiled.
Luke walked through the ED, there was still some construction repairs going around them after last week, when someone attempted to infect everyone in the ED with a highly infectious disease but failed. The attack had left Luke shaken but he couldn't let anyone know especially Alice.
Luke went into his office and sat behind the desk, he stared at the screen for a while. He had to complete an incident report about the attack last week. He had been putting it for days, but Zoe needed it by the end of the day. Just as Luke was about to start working there was a gentle knock at the door.
"Come." Luke called out.
The door opened; it was Alice.
"Are you ok?" She asked.
"Fine." He replied.
"I managed to another appointment today with Emma." Alice said.
"Emma?" Luke no idea who Alice was talking about.
"Emma Todd, the new obs and gyne consultant. As we couldn't go to the scan last week because of obvious reasons, she managed to squeeze it in for us today at midday. I've already cleared it with Tess…it would be great if you could be there Luke." Alice smiled.
"Yeah, of course I will. I wouldn't miss it for the world." Luke smiled back.
"Good," Alice went to leave the office, but she turned back around before she left. "Are you sure your ok? You seem a bit distracted."
"It's just I need to complete this report about last week. It's just something I'd rather not remember in a hurry." Luke sighed.
Alice shut the door and sat in front of Luke.
"That really shook you up last week, didn't it?" Alice said taking hold of her husband's hands.
"I thought I was never going to see you again, I thought it would never see our babies grow up. I grew up without parents really and wouldn't want that for them because it is not nice." Luke said.
"But you are here and you will get to see them both grow up and shower them with love." Alice smiled.
"You always know the right things to say." Luke said leaning across the desk to kiss his wife.
There was a sudden knock at the door, Luke and Alice pulled apart quickly. Robyn opened the door.
"Sorry, I hope I wasn't interrupting." Robyn apologised.
"No not all," Alice said standing up and walking out. "Remember midday."
Alice left the office. Robyn came over to Luke and handed him the tablet she was carrying.
"It's Amy's x-ray results, I just thought you might want to see them." Robyn said.
"Oh right, thank you." Luke said studying the screen. "Come on then, let's go and give her the verdict.
Luke stood up and left the office with Robyn following.
"What's at midday? If you don't mind me asking, I just wouldn't want you forgetting that's all." Robyn asked.
Robyn was kind like that, she looked out for people and that's what Luke liked about her most and she was a good nurse. He enjoyed working with her.
"Oh, it's just Alice has a scan today. We were meant to go last week but obviously couldn't, so she managed to get it rearranged for today." Luke smiled.
"You must be so excited." Robyn said.
"You wouldn't believe it." Luke grinned.
They reached Amy's cubicle and Luke drew back the curtain.
"Ok Amy, I have received the results of your x-ray and you have what is known as a non-displaced fracture of your fibula, your lower leg. Its not serious and you won't be needing surgery, but we will have to put it in plaster. So, I don't think you'll be doing any dancing any time soon unfortunately." Luke explained.
"How long before I will be able to dance?" Amy asked.
"About 6 weeks, which considering your leg got run over isn't as bad as it could have been. But after this the leg should have recovered nicely so you'll be able to dance as much as you like after that." Luke reassured her.
"Thanks." Amy half-heartedly smiled, clearly disappointed she won't be able to dance for a while.
"I'll leave you with Robyn to sort out getting your leg put in plaster and trust me there is no one else I'd rather have put my leg in plaster, she's one of the best nurses we've got." Luke said.
Luke looked to Robyn , she was smiling but was half shocked she clearly hadn't expected him to say that.
Luke was sat in his office, once again staring at his screen and not doing the work that he was supposed to be doing when the phone rang.
"Hello Dr Stone." Luke said as he answered the phone.
"Hi Luke its Robyn, sorry to bother you again, but Amy's boyfriend has been involved in a fight and she's asked if you can come and have a look for her." Robyn explained.
"Yeah of course I can, I'm only upstairs in my office, tell her I'm on my way. Get him triaged and give me five minutes just to get down from my office." Luke said.
"Thanks Luke. See you in a minute." Robyn said.
Luke put the phone and grabbed his stethoscope off the desk and went back down to the ED.
When he got down to the ED, he found Amy's boyfriend, Riley, in minors.
"Hi Riley, we met earlier with Amy. Robyn here tells me you've been in a fight?" Luke said.
"Yeah." Riley replied through the pain.
"Ok, I'm just going to have a feel of your neck and shoulders to make sure you haven't done any damage." Luke said as he rubbed his hands together to warm the up. "I just want you to tell me where it hurts."
"My knee, my head, my neck." Riley grunted as Luke felt the back of his neck.
"Ok. I just want you to stay nice and still for me, don't try and move your head or neck for me I'll hold it nice and still," Luke held Riley's head so he couldn't make any sudden movements. "Robyn could you go and grab me a rigid collar."
"Sure." Robyn grabbed the collar and placed it in front of Luke and then held on Riley's head.
Luke placed the collar around Riley's neck.
"Alright Riley, I'm just going to hold your head whilst Robyn helps you lie down." Luke explained.
Luke and Robyn gently lay Riley back.
"It's not broken is it?" Someone said behind Luke.
It was Alex, Amy's brother.
"I don't know yet and won't know until I've got the x-ray results, but it's a precaution if anyone complains about neck pains." Luke said reassuringly. "I'm just going to book your x-ray; I won't be long."
The queue for x-ray was surprisingly short, so Alex was booked in and Luke had the results back within half an hour.
"No brakes and no other damage, so I'm happy to remove your collar and sit you back up."
Luke help Alex back up and removed the collar from around his neck. He then did a couple of quick tests to ensure that everything was ok.
"Well I'm happy to discharge you." Luke told Alex. "I'll sort out getting your papers ready."
Luke went over to the nurse's station and put Alex's notes on the side. He then turned to face Robyn.
"Can you sort getting his discharge papers ready for me please? I'm just going to check on Amy and make sure she is comfortable."
"Umm, have you seen the time?" Robyn said.
Luke looked at the clock it was quarter to twelve. He was supposed to be meeting Alice in fifteen minutes.
"Ok, no I'm not. I am now going to run. Faster than I have ever run." Luke said gathering his things.
"Good luck." Robyn smiled.
"Thank you, I'll be back as quick as I can." Luke told her.
"Don't rush back though." Robyn said.
Luke ran out of ED and through the hospital as he raced to maternity. He wasn't going to be late. He would let Alice down like that and he wouldn't let his babies down like that. Luke didn't stop running. He made it to maternity, just in time.
When he got there, he sat down next to Alice, who gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"I didn't think you were going to make it for a second." Alice smiled, taking hold of his hand.
"For a second, neither did I." Luke said whilst trying to catch his breath back.
"Are you sure you were a soldier?" Alice laughed.
"I haven't run like that, since I was a solider now leave me alone." Luke said still taking really deep breaths.
Just then a lady stepped out of one of the treatment rooms and called out Alice's name. Luke and Alice both looked at each other and smiled, they stood up and followed the lady into the room. Alice sat on the bed whilst Luke sat on the chair next to it. Luke tightly squeezed Alice's hand.
"Hi, I'm Dr Todd but you can call me Emma." The lady said introducing herself. "Well then you've already waited long enough to see this let's not hang around any longer. Alice if you would just roll your top up for me."
Alice did just as she was asked. Underneath was a perfect bump, considering she was pregnant with twins the bump was quite petit but it wasn't uncommon for women to sometimes have smaller bumps so he wasn't too worried much.
"This will be a little bit cold on your stomach but you probably know that." Emma laughed.
Luke and Alice smiled back. Emma squeezed some gel on Alice's stomach and then began to moved the probe across her stomach. Then they both saw and heard the best thing in the world.
"There we go two healthy heartbeats." Emma said with a smile.
Luke stared at the picture, there were his children. He had not never felt so happy in all his life. He felt his eyes go wet and a tear trickle down his face. He looked at Alice who wiped the tear off his cheek. She smiled at him.
"You were always the softer one." She whispered.
"This time last week, I didn't think I'd get to see this." He whispered back.
They both went back to looking at the screen.
"Right I'll get you some pictures." Emma said. "You sort yourselves out and I'll find you in reception."
Alice rolled her top back down, the couple went to wait in reception for Emma to bring them their pictures. Once they got them they headed back down to the ED.
"I guess we should think about godparents?" Alice said.
"Yeah. Well I was thinking about this..." Luke began.
"Yeah?" Alice smiled.
"I have. Well, I want your opinion but I guess the fairest way that we do it is if we choose two each."
"Well I don't see any problems with that." Alice smiled. "You've already about yours haven't you?"
"Must definitely." Luke grinned.
They reached the doors for the ED.
"I really need to go back to my office and do this report. Can you make sure I'm not disturbed?"
Alice kissed Luke. "Yeah of course I can."
She carried on back towards minors, she back around and waved her picture at Luke smiling. Luke did the same before heading back up to his office after Alice disappeared around the corner.
When he got to the door, he found a note stuck on the door.
Come to Darwin, I want to ask you something
Luke didn't recognise the handwriting but he decided a little adventure wouldn't hurt besides he hadn't see Jac since last week and he hadn't seen Elliot for a while.
Luke ventured up to the sixth floor and he walked through to the nurses station , greeting staff as he walked past. He stood at the nurses station, chatting to one of the of other doctors when someone spoke to him.
"What have we done to deserve you up here?" The voice said.
"Afternoon Jac, it is lovely to see you as well." Luke replied.
"Yeah, yeah but what are you doing here?" Jac asked again.
"I'm hear to see someone, they left a note on my door."
"Well it wasn't me." Jac said.
"Well it was too polite to be you anyway, so I'd already ruled you out."
"Haha." She laughed sarcastically.
"Look, Jac I have a question. Quite a serious one actually." Luke said.
"You aren't dying are you?" Jac asked.
"No, I wouldn't choose to tell you that here. No it's got something to do with the twins."
"Are they both ok? She asked.
"They're both fine, they're perfect," Luke showed Jac the picture of the ultrasound. "Me and Alice have decided that we each get to choose two Godparents each. Jac you are my best friend in the whole world, we have been through so much together. Jac will you be one of those sprogs godmother."
Jac stared at Luke then hugged him. "Of course I will. Only if you do the same for me."
"You know I will."
Jac held on to Luke for a few more seconds, which was unusual for her to be so public with her affection. She then let go and wiped her cheek.
"Are you crying?" Luke asked.
"No." She said defensively. "I've got patients to see, I'll see you soon."
Luke watched Jac walk away . He was still none the wiser about who had asked him up here.
"Ah, you got my note then." A voice said.
Luke turned around it. It was Elliot.
"Good to see you Prof. What's with all the cloak and dagger?" Luke asked.
"I apologise for that but urgent matters meant that I couldn't hang about at your office and Zoe said you might have been a while, mentioned it was Alice's scan and didn't want to disturb that. How are they both?" Elliot said.
"Fighting fit and perfect." Luke smiled and handed Elliot the picture.
"They are very lucky to have you both as parent," Elliot smiled as he hand back the picture and put his glasses on his head. "Let's go into my office, I have a proposition for you." Elliot said.
Luke followed Elliot in. Luke sat in front of Elliot.
"Right so, I'm sure you know Jac goes on maternity leave in a few weeks which means I'll be a consultant down." Elliot began.
"Right..." Luke listened.
"Look at the moment , I'm struggling to find a locum. I know you might feel a little out of practice, but I have lots of confidence in you. Anyway, Zoe has given me permission to use you for a little while just until I can get someone a little bit more permanent. You won't be here all the time, just to cover some of Jac's shifts. So what do you think?" Elliot smiled.
"Elliot of course I say yes. You know I've always respected you and Jac is my best friend. So of course I'll help you." Luke said.
Elliot stood up and offered Luke his hand which Luke took.
"Welcome to Darwin , Dr Stone."
