He didn't really recognize any of the nurses in the emergency room that night. Which was unusual, he had spent his fair share of time in that part of the building, either as the person who needed help for something, or as a bystander while one of his brothers got some medical attention.

Thankfully the nurse by the nurse's station took one look at Emily and ushered them towards a room with a bed.

"What happened?" the nurse asked as Metal placed Emily on the bed. Emily was reduced to exhausted whimpering and grimaces.

The pain seemed to have intensified over the ride to the hospital.

"We,,," he wondered if it was right of him to go for full disclosure straight away, but eventually landed on that it might play a part in how the nurse would handle the situation, "We had sex. She got this sharp, stabbing or cramping pain low down in the right side of her stomach. I thought appendix, but she says she had it removed as a kid. She probably has endometriosis, but hasn't got a diagnosis. And it looks like she's in more pain now than when we left home. -And she threw up on the way over here."

"Okay…" the nurse nodded a little, "I might need you to repeat most of that soon, let me just take some vital signs and find a doctor."

"She's tough, I've never seen her in this much pain." Metal looked down at the nurse, "I'm worried, there's got to be something really wrong."

"We'll try to figure out of it." The nurse said as she pulled Emily's sleeve up in order to place the blood pressure cuff, "Is there any chance she might be pregnant?"

"She's on birth control, so not that likely." Metal shrugged as he stepped around to Emily's other side and placed a hand on her shoulder, "She just started a stretch on double dosages, because she's supposed to travel overseas for work."

"What does she do for a living?" the nurse asked as she placed a small device on a finger on Emily's opposite hand.

"She's a nurse." Metal answered, "Works at the hospital on the other side of the city."

The nurse nodded a little, "-And somewhere overseas?"

Metal nodded, "The hospital has a sister hospital in Afghanistan. She kinda does tours there, a few months at the time, because her GP will prescribe her double birth control while she's there, and she gets relief from period pain and stuff we think is related to endometriosis."

The nurse nodded as she wrote down the bloodpressure, respirations, sats and pulse, Then she pulled an ear-thermometer off the BP-trolley and measured Emily's temperature.

"We'll have to take her temp later in another way later, but for now this is a good indication…" the nurse shrugged a little as the thermometer beeped. "Temp looks good."

Metal nodded a little, "Can you get that doctor of yours to get her something for the pain, I can't stand seeing her like this."

The nurse took another look at Emily, "I'll be sure to let him know she needs something."

Metal nodded, "Thank you."

SEALTEAM

The nurse came back a few minutes later with some forms and a doctor in tow.

"Hello, I'm doct-" the doctor cut himself off, "Full Metal, been a long time."

"Hey doctor Andrews." Metal nodded quickly before he pointed to Emily, "Please help Emily."

Dr. Andrews nodded, "Hannah told me this was a case of lower abdominal pain, right?"

Metal nodded.

"She's had her appendix removed and is probably not pregnant?"

Metal nodded again, "As a kid, and she's on birth control."

"We're gonna do a quick ultrasound, and run a few quick tests to rule out pregnancy anyway." Andrews nodded, "That being said, I think the reward for administering morphine is going to be greater than the potential risk, if Emily turns out to be pregnant."

Metal nodded a little.

Then Andrews turned to the nurse who had guided them to the room, "Start with 5mg of morphine, IV. We'll see how she responds to that."

"5mg IV morphine…" the nurse nodded and headed out, "On it."

"And excuse me Emily, I forgot to introduce myself." Dr. Andrews apologized as he stepped closer, "I'm James Andrews. I'm one of the doctors here."

"Fuck off."

Metal couldn't help himself, a short laugh escaped him, "I'm gonna go ahead and claim that's the pain talking. She's usually the sweetest woman you'd ever meet."

"No worries." Andrews nodded, "I get it."

Metal nodded a little, he knew he personally had said way worse things to Andrews. Especially the one time Andrews ended up being the one to pick out half a shattered window from his left shoulder.

"Emily, would you like Metal, Scott, to stay or go?"

"Stay." She gritted out, "Should be my emergency contact. Haven't updated yet."

"Would you like us to update that?"

Emily nodded.

"Okay, then we'll do that." Andrews nodded, "I'll see to it personally once you guys are done with those forms."

Metal nodded and looked at the form, and started filling in the stuff he already knew.

SEALTEAM

The five milligrams of morphine showed little to no effect, after another five, she was still in a lot of pain, but able to not curl up in a ball the entire time.

And the staff got the tests they needed.

Dr. Andrews started the ultrasound, and not too long after he sighed a little. "Alright, Emily… I think I see the reason you're in so much pain right now. We're going to have to perform a surgery, your right ovary looks a bit swollen, that can suggest ovary torsion."

Emily nodded a little. "Makes sense…"

"So it's good we came here?" Metal looked from the doctor, to Emily, and back.

Andrews nodded, "Definitely the right call to come here."

Metal nodded a little and gave Emily's shoulder a squeeze.

"Now, one of you mentioned something about endometriosis."

Emily nodded, "I probably have it. Undiagnosed. Can't seem to convince my GP I need a laparoscopy to get it diagnosed, or ruled out."

"Okay." Andrews nodded, "I have a bit of experience with it, not as a doctor, but as a husband. If the surgeon find something which could be endo… What do you want us to do? Should they take a biopsy and ablate what they find, or just take a biopsy and leave it as it is then refer you to an endometriosis specialist who does excision?"

"Biopsy and wait." Emily nodded, "I'd rather wait a bit more and get excision. -Preferrably by a Nook specialist."

Dr. Andrews nodded. "I've heard a lot of good about those. I'll let the surgeon know."