I can only apologise for the long updates to this story. I've had massive writers block, and I'm not a big fan of Tess/ Fletch, so I suppose that has led me not to write for this story in at least two months.
This chapter was prompted by Guest, but there wasn't really much detail, so I decided that while we know Tess had the termination, in the show, she decides to keep the baby. This is set when Natalie, didn't know it was Tess that Fletch was sleeping with.
I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Tess: 56
Fletch: 40
The Secret Life Of Casualty
Chapter 66
Tess stared at the pregnancy test, in shock, she had not been expecting this result, how would she cope? She thought back to the day they Adrian 'Fletch ' Fletcher joined the ED.
Flashback.
"Sorry, Tess, I know, it's your day off, but we are short staffed, can you come in?" Clinical lead Zoe was speaking to her on the phone, Tess sighed, she loved her job as clinical nurse manger, but sometimes it felt a little too much, she sighed again. "Tess?" Zoe asked.
She agreed and put the phone down and dissapeared up the stairs to put something on for the jounery in to work.
Tess walked in to the ED and headed straight for the staff room. She looked around. There was a man, wearing a pair of light blue scrubs, he had the brightest brown eyes she had ever seen.
"Adrian Fletcher but everyone calls him Fletch " Zoe introduced the two and then took a step back.
Fletch extended his hand to the nurse, who shook it. "nice to meet you " Fletch told her.
Tess returned the smile as they broke hands and she headed to her locker, so that she could change in to her srubs and then get on with her day and then she left the staff - room to call a meeting about staff - members being late and the members were: Cal, Fletch and surprisingly Ethan, which shocked Zoe as he was never late.
Tess shook her head, she was alone, she didn't want to tell Fletch about the baby as he had his own children, with his wife Natalie, and they were happy, Tess couldn't destroy that. But her child needed a dad.
Did she ruin his marriage?
Pushing the stick in to her scrubs pocket, she unlocked the cubicle door and walked out, towards the sink so that she could wash her hands. She turned on the taps and put her hands under them.
"Are you OK?" Jessica asked, the two nurses were good friends.
Tess decided to tell the truth. "I'm pregnant "
"OK" Jessica said, she'd had babies herself, she knew what it was like to carry children, the weight gain, the back ache, the pain in her legs, Tess had it all to come if she decided to continue the pregnancy, this baby wasn't her first, she had two grown - up kids, called Sam and Saskia.
"Nurse Fletcher, can I have a word?" Tess called him way from cubicles on the pretence that she needed him for work related - matters.
Fletch winked at his female patient as he draw the curtain around the rails. He walked over to Tess, who was sorting out the patient files and discharge forms out, why did staff always leave things, lying around, it drove her mad. She found what she wanted and then took Fletch in to a cubicle.
She didn't waste time telling him about the baby, she couldn't afford to.
She told him and then told him to go home to try to get his head around it. Fletch headed to the staff room, slowly opening his locker to collect his bag and was about to leave when he noticed Robyn enter the staff room.
"alright Fletch?" She asked, cheerily.
He nodded and said "Yeah, darling. "
Robyn walked over to make a cup of tea as Fletch put his bag over his shoulder and he left the ED.
Unlocking the door to his and Natalie's house, he stepped inside, dropping the bag in the hallway and went straight in to the kitchen to get a drink. A beer suited him right now.
"Fletch" Natalie called as she came back from picking the kids: Ella, Mickey and Evie from school.
It was just him in the house and he didn't know what to do. Should he leave Natalie, but he would not leave his children.
The front foot unlocked and Natalie entered her home. "Adrian. Adrian "
Fletch didn't hear his wife call his name. But he knew he had to tell her that Tess was carrying his baby. He just knew she wouldn't react well, but who did when they found out their husband/ wife was cheating on them?
But Natalie had some news of her own, she was expecting again and wanted Tess to deliver the baby when the time came. Fletch really was in a pickle.
"Nat" Fletch said, finally looking his wife in the eye. "I want a divorce"
Natile looked set him. She wasn't expecting this. "Is there anyone else?"
Fletch had to be honest, no matter how much she was hurt after he had told her.
"It's sister Bateman " Fletch told Natalie.
"Tess" Natalie said, stunned. The nurse had pretended to be her friend, and behind her back, the nurse was sleeping with her husband.
Tess had to tell someone, other than Fletch and Jess, that she was expecting and she knew who she wanted to tell. She set off to find Charlie.
Charlie Fairhead was in the staff room, had just gotten off the phone to his son, Louis. He didn't have much contact with him. But that was Louis being a teenager, not answering the phone to his father.
"Tess?" The old man asked kindly.
Tess walked towards the kettle to try to steady her nerves, work the courage to tell the old man.
"Tess?" Charlie asked again.
"I'm pregnant " Tess blurted out, unable to hold the secret any longer.
"alright" Charlie pulled her in to a comforting hug, running his arm up and down her back. Tess them left for the day as her shift ended.
At, 9 months pregnant, Tess and Fletch (who had moved in with her)Because, the nurse was a former midwife, she knew that she wanted a home birth. But when her labour started she had gone in as Zoe was in back to back meetings with CEO Guy Self and she needed cover, she was doing a patients obs when she felt a twinge in her stomach, she knew that her labour could be starting. She wrote in the patients chart. Then, she walked out of the cubicle to update the patients notes when she felt water trickle down her legs. She sighed, biting her lip.
"Tess? Are you ok?" The clinical lead looked concerned as she shut down the laptop she had in front of her.
Tess panted as Zoe realized.
"right " She said calmly, looking around for Rita. She found the nurse and they both guided Tess to cubicles.
Getting comfortable on the bed, Zoe put on a pair of gloves and examined the nurse who was lying on the bed in front of her.
Zoe reckoned that Tess was around 8 cm and
"Fletch " Tess said, she hadn't been informed that the nurse had gone home.
"Rita, call Fletch " Zoe said, she was the one Tess had came to, when she realized she was pregnant as a result of the affair.
Rita nodded and left the two women to it. And, headed to reception.
"Noel?" She asked politely.
"Yes Rita?"
"I need to use the phone" she said and Noel handed her it. She called Fletch's mobile who was sat on the couch. He listened, in shock, and made his way back to the ED.
A few hours later Tess gave birth to a baby boy called Liam Fletcher, Tess wanted the baby to have Fletch's last name and Fletch and Saskia were by her side. Fletch held the baby, wrapped in blue blankets as Ethan and Zoe walked on to the ward. The clinical lead sat down on the chairs which were left from the previous visit from Charlie and returnee Maggie Coldwell, who was back for a few days.
Ethan held the baby in his arms, watching as the baby yawned and then settled down in the young doctors arms. "he's " he looked up at Tess, and then Fletch. "Congratlons " he offered.
Tess yawned sleepily as Zoe decided it was best to leave, she couldn't have children of her own but she was alright with that as she was too busy trying to run the hospital.
Again, I apologise for the wait, I just had a lot going on and had no desire to write for this, at all, but I'm back now and the next update shouldn't be too long.
Next chapter: Ethan faces something no one wants to go through and struggles to tell big brother, Cal. Prompted by Rebloxic.
I have plans for other story updates to: ED Explosion, Strictly Come Casualty but I'm afraid you may have to wait for the updates to these stories as I'm without a laptop and I don't want to risk going over the bill for my iPad.
