I promised myself that I would have the next update for this story up fairly quickly, so here it is, I hope you enjoy it. Chapter is rated T as it mentions rape throughout, please don't read if you've been affected, hopefully some brotherness between our two lads.

Spelling and grammer mistakes are mine, I wrote this on a broken laptop, which has a half - black, screen due to me standing on it and my other laptop has the - screen hanging on by a thread. Yeah, I don't have a good record when it comes to laptops.

This was a Cal and Ethan prompt, prompted by Rebloxic and the prompt was: Ethan faces something unimaginable as he walks home, will he tell Cal? Or, will he hide behind what has happened?

Almost forgot about this chapter and I wanted it up by tonight seeing as we haven't got Casualty tonight or next Saturday, but I'm looking forward to when it returns, I seen a trailer on youtube yesterday and Connie, Rita and Zoe are in it.


The Secret Life Of Casualty

Chapter 67

"Cal, are you ready?" Ethan was outside his brothers door, dressed in his light blue scrubs.

Cal appeared a few seconds later, dressed in his own scrubs. "Morning " Cal smiled.

"Morning " Ethan replied, walking down the stairs.

"I'll see you later, Nibbles " Cal said as he put on his coat ready to leave the house and get in to Ethan's car as he drove them to the ED.

Ethan parked the car and turned off the engine as both brothers got out of the car and locked it. He walked in to the ED and went to the staff room, to get changed in to his scrubs. Once, he was dressed, he went to collect his first patient file.

The patients kept piling up and Ethan was tired.

He took a look at his new rota that Zoe had drew up.

Name: Ethan Hardy. Position: Doctor.

Monday: 8:00 - 6:00

Tuesday: 8:00 - 6:00

Wednesday: 8:00 -9: 45

Thursday: 8: 00 - 8:00

Friday: 9: 00 - 10:00

Saturday: 8: 00 - 6:45

Sunday: 9: 00 - 9:00

Ethan folded the document back up and went to put it in his locker. He yawned, looking at his watch, he still had several more hours to go, his brother had different hours to him.


"Coming for a pint?" Cal asked. Ethan was in the staff room, sitting on the couch, next to Lily, comforting her after she almost lost her job because she was so tired, with the new rotas, but Connie had stepped down as clinical lead following Grace's death and had relocated to London, where she'd gone when she'd resigned from her post downstairs and Zoe had been reappointed. Something which she wasn't happy about because she was back to paperwork, which she hated.

"I can't " Ethan replied. He watched Cal leave with Max, Lofty, Big Mac and Noel and sighed, adjusting his glasses. He completed his paperwork that he needed to and the hours ticked by.

"Ethan " He was deep in paperwork when he heard Zoe's voice.

"Yes?" He answered.

"Go home " She told him, noticing how tired he looked.

"OK " He replied, standing up and putting his jacket and backpack on as he thanked Zoe and left the room, walking along the corridors, to the doors that led out of the ED.

When Ethan left the ED and started to make his way home, earphones in as he sometimes liked to listen to music on his way home, he was unaware what was going to happen to him.

Suddenly, Ethan turned around after hearing close footsteps and was confronted by a man in his late 30's early 40's. He hadn't shaved in a while.

"Can I help you?" Ethan asked, thinking that the man needed medical assistance, but he was pushed to the floor and the man stepped closer, as he reached for the belt on Ethan's jeans and unbuckled it, pulling down the younger man's pants, and underwear as he raped him.

Finished, he simply got up, walked off, leaving Ethan lying there, but his attacker dropped something which could help Ethan identify him.


Ethan lay in the darkness, two paralysed to move, tears rolling down his cheeks. Everytime he closed his eyes, he could see the attack happening again. He shivered as he fumbled around for his clothes.

Cal, have you seen Ethan?" Zoe asked. She knew the younger brother was never late and that concerned her. She'll have a word when he arrives for his shift.

The older brother shook his head and went over to Dixie and Jeff, who were wheeling in a patient, but it wasn't the patient that interested Cal, it was Ethan, who was standing by Dixie's side, shaking and breathing deeply, which meant he was having a panic attack. Cal was worried.

"Ethan?" Cal asked, but Ethan just ran away from him. "Ethan!" Cal called again, slightly louder.

"Cal" Zoe said. "Concentrate on your patient "

Reluctantly, Cal turned his attention back to his patient, listening to Dixie as she reeled off who he was, what injuries he had.

"This is Darren Whitehall, 38, involved in an RTC, possible fractured leg and arm, possible internal bleeding, BP 60/90. Sats 87% " Dixie said.

"RESUS please " Zoe said as the trolley was wheeled through to RESUS. They got him on the bed and set to work.

"Can someone get the fast scanner?" Cal requested, it seemed like he was bleeding from somewhere inside and if they didn't find the source of the bleed, he could die. Rita handed him the scanner and he performed the procedure where he found him bleeding.

Ethan ran as fast as his weak legs would carry him. He just wanted to hide, forget it had happened. He found himself outside the staff toilets. He walked inside and headed in to a cubicle. Locking the door, he slid down it and cried.

"Go away " Cal heard Ethan say through the cubicle door.

"Open the door Ethan " Cal replied, he wasn't leaving him, it sounded like his brother needed him.

Slowly, Cal heard the door unlock and Ethan walked out. He looked at his older brother and sniffed. "I want mum"

Cal was confused. Why would Ethan want their deceased mum? When they were children, Ethan was closer to his mum, while Cal was often out late, picking up girls when he should have been studying. "What happened?" Cal asked

But Ethan couldn't bare to tell anyone, not even his own brother.

"Ethan " Cal prompted. "Talk to me "Ethan shook his head.

Cal sighed, hearing Ethan say one word which shocked the life out of him. "raped " he got the word out, and then, as if he was ashamed, he hung his head, he had nothing to be ashamed of because it wasn't his fault.

"Breathe" Cal said, wanting to get his brother through the panic attack. When Ethan's breathing had slowed he'd smiled a little as Cal went to the toilet himself. Ethan

Cal walked back in to cubicles where Ethan was resting after another panic attack and Cal knew that Ethan shouldn't be alone. He was going to invite him to move in with him for a while.

"I'm fine " Ethan whispered back, he liked his independence. He looked up at Cal. "Thank you " He said, appreciating all he had done for him. If, roles were reversed and what had happened to Ethan, had happened to Cal, Ethan would be there for him.

Unlocking the door to the apartment, he brought with his inheritance money off his mum. (It made a change from spending it on booze, girls and putting bets on) he allowed Ethan to go in before him.

Showing Ethan to the spare room, Cal left him to it and went in to his own. He stripped down to his boxers and lay on his bed, arms resting behind his head, as he stared up at the ceiling.

Ethan's nightmare

"No!" Ethan screamed as he woke up, tears coming down his face, he was in a dream, but it seemed so real. "get off!"

Cal raced in to the room, after being awoken by Ethan's screams.

"Ethan, it's ok" He said slowly, sitting on the bed and putting an arm around him. His brother leant against him while Cal soothed his brother with kind words and a promise that he wouldn't leave him like he had when they were children.


The next day, Darren Whitehall was still resting in cubicles, when Zoe got a call. She walked over to the phone and picked it up, putting it to her ear. "Hello? Zoe Hanna speaking " She said in to the receiver.

Zoe was in shock when she put the phone down. She headed to her office. She paged Cal and then Ethan and waited in her office.

"No idea " Cal shook his head as he knocked on Zoe's door.

"Come in " Zoe called. The door opened and both brothers walked in. "Cal, Ethan?"

"What's this about Zoe?" Cal asked

"The police rang me earlier " She started as there was a knock at the door again. Ethan tensed up as Zoe around up and opened it.

Ethan looked at Cal. Had he betrayed his trust?

"I'm sorry Ethan " She apologized, she had never been though it but she wanted this young talented doctor to know he had the support of her and the team.

Ethan took a deep breath as he and Cal left the office and he made a decision to tel the ED about his ordeal. It wasn't going to be easy, but he had Cal and Zoe too support him. Instead of, taking the stairs to go back down in to the ED like he usually would, he took the lift down on his own and sighed, running a hand over his face as the lift doors opened and the doctor stepped out as the doors closed behind him. Taking a deep breath he walked over to where everyone was gathered at the ends of their shifts, waiting to go for a pint. Cal put a hand in support on his brothers shoulder.

Zoe looked at the two brothers and clapped her hands, commanding everyone's attention.

Everyone turned to look at Zoe. Wondering what the clinical lead wanted,

"Ethan's got something to tell you guys" She told them.

Ethan sighed, he didn't want to say anything, it wasn't their business, but these were his colleagues and most importantly, his friends. They were not here to judge him.

"Last night " Ethan took a big deep breath as he spoke, as he feared he was going to cry. 'I was raped. "

"oh, Ethan " Rita was the first to come forward and hugged the man.

"thanks Rita " Ethan said as the two colleagues broke apart. Tom told him how sorry he was, Ethan appreciated that as he got ready to leave the department for the night. He froze as he spotted two policemen bundle Darren Whitehall in to the back of a a police car and took a big breath in.

Heading back to Cal's Ethan walked in to the kitchen wanting a cup of tea before bed. He switched on the kettle and got a mug out of the cupboard and put it next to the kettle as the kettle boiled. Leaning over he picked the kettle up, but his hands were shaking and he spilled the boiling water over his hand.

He quickly turned the tap on, allowing the cold water to wash the sting out of the burn. Turning the tap off, he reached for his drink and was greatful for his older brothers support when Cal walked in to the small kitchen.

"I'm off to bed " he informed his brother. "night Ethan "

"Night, Cal " Ethan replied, bringing the mug to his lips and draining the last if it, before he pushed his chair back and walked over to the sink where he ran the tap again and washed the mug out a few times before he left it on the board to drain, turned back around and started to walk out of the kitchen, pausing to turn the light out when he was done.

Making his way upstairs, Ethan stopped as he stood outside Cal's room. He knocked quietly and waited for Cal to say that he could come in.

"Come in "

Ethan opened the door.

Cal smiled at him.

"Thanks " Ethan said. Cal knew what he was thanking him for. So, he walked out, shut the door quitely behind him and headed in to his room, where he got dressed in to a pair of pjs that Cal had left out for him and then got in to bed, finally sleeping peacefully.


I felt really sorry for Ethan while writing this. Not sure if doctors have different times when they work, but oh, we'll, it is fiction. :)

Next prompt: Linda and Jessica visit London for the day. Prompted by LindaAndrewsfan.