I started writing this while I was in the middle of writing my last prompt, as I got an idea for this chapter. This chapter was prompted by LindaAndrewsFan, with the prompt: Lucas and Amelia mind Linda's daughter. I know Linda miscarried the baby in the show, the actress said that Linda lost the baby because of her partying ways. For the sake of this chapter, she never had the miscarriage when she returned to tell Jessica that she was pregnant. While, I was writing this, I watched Jessica's flashbacks. I also watched the scene where Lenny says goodbye.

Thank you to the two reviewers who reviewed the last chapter, I really appreciate it, wasn't expecting any since I hadn't updated in ages.

All, I own is, Sarah - Louise and the flashback. The flashback is when Jessica and Linda are in America. Spelling and grammar mistakes are my fault.

I'm not sure what type of hydrocephalus Jessica had in the show, but I'm guessing it was accquired hydrocephalus, which can occur after a serious brain injury. I also live with hydrocephalus.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 71

"Sure you'll be okay?" Jessica questioned as she looked at her two children, it was the start of the summer holidays, which meant the kids were off school, but unfortunately Adam and Jess had to work, as well as Linda as Jessica had received a text off Zoe explaining that Rita was ill and she needed either her or Linda, but both women decided to go in and so, it was left to Jessica's kids who were babysitting Linda's daughter for the first time.

"Jess" Adam almost laughed as he squeezed her hand. "Come on. They'll be fine. "

"OK" She said as she picked up her coat and put it on, as she zipped it up and then put her bag on her shoulder.

"Ready?" Adam questioned, already dressed in his turquoise scrubs

"Sure" She smiled, kissing his cheek and following him out of the house as she turned and locked the door.

Adam opened the door for his wife and then put his arm around her as they walked towards his car, Adam opening the door.


Lucas and Amelia looked at each other, they had no idea what to with a toddler. When Harry was alive, they found it hard to adjust to having a baby in the house but their mum had told them, just because the baby was here, it didn't mean she didn't love them any less.

"Come on Sarah " Amelia said as she took the girl by her hand and led her in to the living room where she sat her on the couch, while she put on the TV to try and find a programme suitable for the two - year - old. She settled on "Tots TV "

Amelia was in the kitchen making lunch for the 3 of them.

The little girl had crawled up the stairs to get a teddy out of Amelia's room. She toddled in to the bedroom and picked up a teddy from the bed and then toddled out of the room, and made her way down the stairs, but then she tumbled down the stairs and lay lifeless, with her leg twisted at an odd angle and blood was seeping through her blonde hair.

Amelia stared at the girl, there was a possibility she could have broken her neck. She knew what she had to do. Since the accident, which saw baby Harry die, Adam had taught Lucas and Amelia what to do in a crisis. She picked up the phone and called 999.

Phone - call

"What service do you require?" Asked a woman's voice.

"Ambulance" Amelia said.

"One has been dispatched and is on it's way"

End of phone - call

Amelia closed the phone and then she walked in to the living room as she sat down beside her brother, hoping that Sarah - Louise would be ok because Amelia didn't want her to lose her friendship with Linda, and if the girl died, Jessica might lose the friendship.


Dixie and Jeff arrived at the address and realised that it was Adam's house. They knocked on the door.

Amelia opened it and Dixie greeted the girl. "Hi, Amelia darling " She stepped in to the house and went to the stairs.

"Jeff, I need a spinal board, collar, and a frac pac" Dixie requested of her ambulance partner.

Jeff nodded and went out to the ambulance before coming back with the equipment needed. He lay down the board under the girls back and got to work securing the collar while Dixie put her leg in a frac pac.

They put her in the ambulance with Dixie in the back of the ambulance as she told Dixie to step on it, and Jeff was soon pulling in to the ambulance bay, getting out of the ambulance and opening the back doors to get the stretcher down and then shutting the doors as they walked around to the front of the hospital and started talking.


"This is Sarah - Louise, 2 - years old, found unconscious at the bottom of the stairs. Possible dislocated leg. BP 60/ 90." Said Dixie as she, with her ambulance partner gave her mums friend the details of the patient that were needed in order to treat her.

Tom was sitting at the nurses station, upon hearing the paramedics he stood up and walked over to the stretcher the child was on.

"RESUS" He said as he walked over to the trolley, the girl had not regained consciousness.

An urgent CT was booked and Tom went with her to see if there was any change in her condition.

Linda, as Sarah - Louise's mother, couldn't treat the little girl, it was against the rules for family to treat their own children and Linda had to respect that.

Jessica walked in to the staff - room, where Linda was. She sat down beside her.

"That's my baby" Linda replied not looking at Jessica.

"I know" Jessica replied quietly, after all, she knew what it was like to have a baby rushed in to hospital and not knowing if they were going to survive. She thought of her own fall down the stairs, a few years ago, she had been pregnant with Harry and it had scared her.

"She'll be fine" Jessica tried to reassure Linda but she knew that only having her daughter in her arms would really help her.

Adam and Jess, were on a break, leaning against the wall, their hands entwined. Adam knew Jessica was blaming herself.

"You did nothing wrong" he told her, putting his hands on her shoulders.

"I know" she whispered, leaning against him.


Linda hadn't left her daughter's side, even know both Zoe and Tess had been up to see the nurse and told her to go home and get some rest, but the stubborn nurse had refused. She couldn't lose Sarah - Louise, she had been her miracle baby, after one abortion and miscarriage in her teens. She remembered the day she found out she was pregnant.

Flashback

Linda sat on the floor in Jessica's house, which she'd brought, shortly after moving there with her kids, following Harry's death. It was an impressive house, with a sweeping entrance that the car drove up.

There was a set of stairs that led up to the front door. Linda unlocked the door to Jessica's new house, the hallway was big and some furniture had already been put in as it had a sweeping staircase with a circular banister and Linda could see on the walls that Jessica had put up pictures of Harry, one of her and Adam on their ill - fated wedding day and one of the kids.

As she reached the landing she walked in to the bathroom. There was a toilet, a sink and a bath.

In the house, Linda had her own room, she was on the second floor with Jess, Lucas and Amelia on the first floor.

Jessica had gotten a job, as a nurse at the local hospital. She knew from Zoe, as the two were close, that Adam went to Harry's grave every week or so to lay new flowers. That brought her a small comfort as she realized that Harry wasn't alone.

Linda, arrived to work, a little later than Jessica, and she noticed. She waited until the two were on a break and headed in to the staff room, where she found her friend on the couch. "Are you OK?" She asked as the sensitive, kind nurse she was.

linda nodded and Jessica opened her locker, pulling out a spare bottle of water and handing it to her as she shut the locker and made her way back out in to the corridor. What she didn't know was, that Linda had collapsed in the staff - room.

One of her colleagues who had found her(not Jessica ) did a pregnancy test and Linda was stunned to hear that it was positive. She couldn't have children. She knew the father was former ED doctor Lenny Lyons. She knew that she'd wanted to keep this baby as it could be her last chance.

She was in, fact, 8 months pregnant. That meant the baby (she'd choose to kept the gender a secret, until it was born) only had a month until it was here.

She was in work, when she went in to labour (at least she was in a hospital ) she was putting a sling on a little girls arm, as she had fell off her bike and had put her arm out to break her fall, hearing it waters broke.

"excuse me" Linda said as she left the cubicle.

She was taken to a labour ward and asked to change in to a hospital gown (as it was easier for a midwife to examine her) when her friend saw her. She walked in to the ward after sanitizing her hands, as you had to do after every patient, so you or the patients didn't get an infection.

She was in labour for a couple of hours and the contractions were intense.

"This hurts" Linda panted as she took a deep breath, inhaling the gas and air that the doctor had just given her, telling her to breath it in, when she felt the contraction and breath out when she felt the contraction leaving her body.

"I know" Jessica replied, as she remembered Lucas, Amelia's and Harry's births.

"One more push" said the midwife, Linda nodding as she prepared to give one last, push to bring her baby in to the world.

It felt like someone was ripping her insides apart when she started to do a big push in order to get the child out.

"It's a girl" The midwife replied, wrapping the baby in a towel and handing her to her mother, so she could see her daughter. "Congratulons " the midwife continued. Jessica left Linda alone, not wanting to intrude on the new mums happiness with her baby. She was moved to a side room and Jessica had promised to visit her the the next day, while on a break, as she was in work.

Linda peeled back the towel to see a small baby, with bright blue eyes. She was a miniature version of her, someone who was going to rely on her for the rest of her life. And Linda knew that she would do what she had to, to protect her.


Jessica got up as she did every morning and made her kids breakfast, got them ready for school and made sure that they had their homework, lunches and water bottles.

She got in to the car and put on her seatbelt and pulled out of the drive as she got her kids to the school.

Dropping the kids, out of the school gates she hugged her kids and told them to have a good day while

The garden had it's own swimming pool which Amelia liked. As Jessica sat on the edge of the pool, dipping her legs in the pool, she could see images in her mind: her dropping Harry as she got her foot caught in the seatbelt. Adam bringing her up from the ice - cold water.


Linda was discharged with the baby, who she had decided to name, Sarah - Louise Andrews, she knew that Lenny had a right to know that she had, had his baby but even know she knew he was in Brighton she didn't have his number, she didn't know where he lived.

Linda knew that she had to have her own space now she had a baby, but she was grateful for Jessica for giving her a room.

End of flashback

When Jessica returned to holby, she choose to keep the house as a holiday home. As it would be nice for her, Adam and kids to return and maybe Linda. She owed it to Linda for helping her when Harry died, offering her a chance to escape her memories of her lake ordeal and what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life had turned in to a tragic accident. Fighting to save his wife and baby from an upturned car which was abandoned deep in a lake.


"Let's go home" Adam said as the doctor and nurse met in the staff room, both changing in to their normal clothes. Jessica opened her locker, reached inside and pulled out her handbag.

"OK" She said, pulling her shoes on. She stood up and sat down while she waited for Adam.

They walked out of the ED hand in hand and Adam grabbed his car keys and repeated his actions from earlier in the day and held the door open for her. He started the car and drove out of the car - park and drove towards their house.

Adam and Jessica, were now at home, sitting in the living room, it was clear to Jessica, that Amelia, as the eldest, had felt responsible for Sarah - Louise's fall, but Jessica had told her not to worry, that it would be fine.

"What you thinking about?" Adam asked softly.

Jessica shook her head. "I'm fine"

Adam reached out and tilted her chin up, so she was looking in to his warm, brown eyes. "What's up?"

She never liked admitting she was thinking about Harry, as that would seem ungrateful to the man who had saved her from a watery death. But a tear slipped down her cheek. Adam pulled her close.

Shh" He placed a gentle kiss on her head as she leaned against his chest. He knew what she was thinking about, he often thought about Harry too, how he wished he could have dragged them both up from the water, but he was only strong enough to drag up one of them, and how could he leave Jessica, down there, dying, when she needed him?


"She's doing good" Tom stated the next morning as he looked up from writing in Sarah - Louise's notes and smiled at the exhausted mother- of one.

Linda didn't look good, her usual immaculate make - up was smudged, she had mascara rings around her eyes, her long blonde hair, usually wore straight down in her back (she wore it in a pony for work ) was stuck to her face. She sighed and looked at her colleague.

"Are you ok?" Tom asked gently, he didn't have children, but he knew that her and Jessica did and Tess had two grown - up children, Sam and Saskia. Sam was traveling the world in Tailand and Saskia was at university.

Linda had to think positively, like she told Adam to when Jessica was being operated on, following her car - crash ordeal, to relieve her of the hydroephalus that risked killing her. It meant she had extra fluid on her brain, it could have been fatal, to her, if Sarah Evans hadn't operated.

She took her daughters hand which was lying on top of the blanket and squeezed it lightly. She was making no signs of waking but Linda knew that she had to stay strong. Zoe brought Linda a cup of tea and sat with her for a while.

"Go home" Zoe suggested, but Linda shook her head, what if something happened, and she wasn't here?

Zoe sighed, she knew her friend was exhausted but she wasn't doing herself any favours by just sitting at her daughters bedside. Zoe decided to let some air in to the room, as it was getting stuffy. The fresh air blew in to the room as it lifted up her hair.

The monitor started going off. Tom raced in to the room and started compressions on her. He pressed down on her chest and continued to see if there was any change, he hoped that she'd breath. Because if she got her breath back it meant she was in sinus rhythm.

Tom took a deep breath, she seemed to back in sinus rhythm. He looked at the monitor and knew that she was now in safe hands. He liked knowing that he'd done a job to the best of his abilty. When he Was due a break, he asked a member of staff to keep an eye on her and headed to the staff room where he sat down and took his lunch out of his rucksack.

Linda had walked in to her house and up to her daughters room, where she packed a small bag with the things she knew she was going to need for a short stay in hospital. She walked down the stairs and picked up her handbag as she got her car keys out of her bag and opened the front door and walked down the steps as she locked the door, not wanting to be robbed and then got in to her car and drove to the hospital.

Entering the hospital, she walked down the corridor in to her daughters side room and to her, amazement, she saw her daughter, lying on the bed, in a pink top and jeans that she'd brought her in TopShop when they were in England.

She sat on the edge of the bed and she opened the bag getting out Sarah's teddy and her pjs, as a child's hospital gown was uncomfortable, she would have liked the comfort of her own pjs.

Walking back in to her house, she locked the front door for the night and then she picked her daughter up and carried her up the stairs and walked in to the girls bedroom. The walls were a light pink, the bed was in the shape of of a princess castle and put her in the bed, before turning the light out and shutting the door, before she walked across the landing and went downstairs to have a cup of tea before she, too went to bed, as of tomorrow she was off work for the next few days to help her recover from her hospital stay.

She walked in go the kitchen and flicked on the kettle. Getting a mug out of the cupboard she then opened the fridge and got out the milk and put it down on the counter as she shut the fridge door, and hearing the kettle boil, she lifted it up and poured the hot water in to the mug and she got a spoon from the draw to stir it and when she had, she picked up the mug and picked up Heat magazine from the table and she headed in to the living room for a quick read of celebrity gossip before bed.


CFS stands for cerebrospinal fluid and it has 3 important functions:

To protect the brain from damage.

To remove waste products from the brain.

To povide the brain with the nutrients it needs to be able to function properly.

Next chapter: Ash threatens Cal to stay away from his daughter Ella and his new granddaughter Mia, but Ella finds out what her dad has done and tells Ash, to stay away from her, Cal and Mia and mother and daughter move back in with Cal. Prompted by WaterlooRoadGeek.

And, that (above) was my last prompt from the list, I have in my documents, so if there's anything you guys want me to write up, let me know and I'll see what I can do. But I won't do the same storyline twice.