So, I know I said this story was over, but then I got this idea, and instead of writing, yet, another new story, I thought I would add it in to this. The main reason, I didn't want to start a new story, was because, I'm struggling to deal with the ones I have.

All, I own is, spelling mistakes and not the characters.

I know Connie is clinical lead, but in all of my Casualty stories, Zoe is still CL.

Sorry, if this seems a bit rushed, it has been ages since I wrote for this.

Some Ethan and Lily as I really ship them. I'm happy Honey's back, but I like Ethan and Lily more. With a hint of Max/ Zoe but without their engagement.

I wanted to try to get this up before Saturday's episode. If, I don't, it'll probably be up, just after. So, it turns out, I didn't get this up this yesterday.

This doesn't follow on from the prompt where Ethan and Lily are married, and Lilly miscarried their baby. In, this, they are colleagues.


The Secret Life Of Casualty

Chapter 76

Lily Chao was not having a good shift: First her moped had broken down on her and then because she'd had to continue her journey on foot, she had been late in to work and clinical lead Zoe was not happy with her.

"Lily, my office now!" She requested, her hand on her hip.

"Yes, doctor Hanna " Lily nodded.

Zoe stopped reading the notes of a patient and stepped out from behind the nurses station where she was reading them and walked to the lifts.

She seen Max. "Hey, beautiful "

"Not, now Max" Zoe rolled her eyes as the lift door opened and the two medics stepped inside the lift, as the doors closed, leaving Max to wonder what was going on.

Zoe got out on the floor that her office was on, leaving Lily to trail after her, like a naughty school child.

Zoe unlocked the door and walked inside. Lily followed her.

"What's go on?" Zoe asked.

Lily thought of an excuse as she spoke. "Nothing. "

Zoe raised her eyebrows at her. "Really?"

"Really" Lily said.

Zoe nodded but bit her lip.

And, Lily turned on her heel as she left the office and made her way down the stairs. She picked up a file and read who her patient was.

"Maria Wilson " She called and looked at the rows of patients, who were waiting to be either seen, or triaged.

A woman in her early 40's with brown hair cut in to a bob, got up and followed Lily to cubicle 1.

Lily drew the cubicle curtain, around, allowing Maria to sit on the bed.

"What seems to be the problem?" Lily asked, bluntly.

"I have stomach pains"

"Then, you should have gone to your GP" She stated, bluntly again.

From, outside the cubicle, Ethan could hear Lily being brutal to the patient. He wondered weather he should step in.


Neusa had suddenly come over the junior doctor, causing her to rush out of cubicles, where she was treating Maria with Zoe.

"Sorry" She said as she rushed off.

"Doctor Chao!" Zoe called after Lily.

Ethan watched on, concerned.

Cal hit his brother on the back. "What's up, Nibbles?"

Ethan pushed his glasses up his nose as he said "Lily "

Cal let out a chuckle as he placed his hand on Ethan's shoulder.

Ethan turned around to face his brother and said "What?"


Lily rushed through the door of the staff toilets and almost ran in to a cubicle where she lifted the lid and emptied the contents of her stomach in to the bolw and sat back on her heels.

She had a very good of what was wrong with her. Grabbing a piece of tissue roll, she wiped her mouth as she flushed the chain and stood up.

Opening, the box, she read the instructions and then took out the thin white stick. She did what the instructions, asked her. She peed on the stick, stood up, and unlocked the door, bringing the stick out with her. She put it on the side while she turned on the taps and washed her hands. By, the time, she was done, her result was in.

"Pregnant."

Lily closed her eyes.

She looked at the result again. No, it hadn't changed in the last couple of minutes.

A baby didn't really feature in her plans, but she didn't want to have an abortion as she knew the rule in China. You were only allowed one child.


Ethan was in the staff room, on a break when Lily walked in.

She looked pale. Ethan thought to himself. He braced himself to ask.

"Lily, are you OK?"

"I'm fine!" The doctor snapped at him and opened her locker, putting the test inside. She shut the locker and leant against it.

Ethan looked at her as she folded her arms across her chest and stalked out of the staff room.

"OK" Ethan muttered to himself as he stood up and left the staff room, to resume his duties. He didn't see Lilly for the rest of the shift.


As, the end of her shift come, she couldn't have been happier, she just wanted to go home and think about what she was going to do.

Lily walked home on foot. She knew that she had to tell Ethan she was pregnant, and it was his baby, she hadn't been with anyone else.

She unlocked the door to her flat and she walked inside. It was only a small one, more like a studio flat, but it suited her. She walked in to the living room and opened her handbag and took out the stick. She then took out her phone and text Ethan.


Cal walked in to his and Ethan's house. He came home later than Ethan.

He found Ethan on the sofa, his phone in his hand, he was staring at the words on his phone.

"Ethan, I need to see you"

Ethan was confused. Did she want to talk about work?

He stood up from the couch and headed in to his bedroom.

"Ethan, where are you going?" Cal asked, sitting down on the couch and switching on the TV.

"Out" replied the younger one as he entered his room and opened his wardrobe, getting out a pair of jeans, a light blue shirt and black shoes. He walked out of the room and headed back in to the living room to pick up his wallet. He left the house, getting in to his car and driving to Lily's place.

Parking outside, he turned off the engine and opened the door and

Ethan rang the bell to Lily's flat and the door opened to reveal Lily, dressed in jeans, a jumper, a pair of flats and her hair hung down her back.

"Hi" She said shyly.

"Hi" He replied, just as shyly.

Lily moved aside so that he could walk in to the flat. Lily shut and locked the door as she walked in to the living room.

Ethan was sat nervously on the couch. Lily sat beside him.

She wasn't sure how to start the conversation. She knew that he had a right to know.

"So" Ethan clasped his hands on to his knee.

"Ethan" Lily started.

"Yes?" He said nervously.

"I'm pregnant " She told him.

"What?" He was in shock. It had been one night. "Are you sure?"

Lily got the stick out of her bag and showed him, the sign that read "Positive "

Ethan visibly paled.


Ethan returned home, a few hours later. His head was in a spin. He inserted his key in to the lock and walked in to the house.

He heard Cal call, "What's up nibbles?"

"Lily's pregnant " he admitted, to himself.

Cal jumped up.

"Lily's what?" He asked in a loud whisper.

"Pregnant" He whispered.

Cal didn't think Ethan would have had a child on the way.

Ethan went to bed. Hopefully things would seem ok again in the morning. He locked the door to his room, once he was inside he took off his shoes and put them down by the bed.


Ethan and Lily walked in to the department the next morning. Zoe was going to give them a scan. She meet them in one of the cubicles.

"Take a seat on the bed, Lily" Zoe smiled, picking up the hand - held Doppler.

Lily lay down on the bed and pulled up her scrub top.

"This'll just feel cold " Zoe said, as a doctor, Zoe knew Lily knew this, but it was safer to tell her.

She winced as the gel came in to contact with her tummy and Zoe moved the probe around as she found the image that she was looking for.

"Do you want to know the sex?" She asked, pausing the image on the - screen.

Lily looked at Ethan.

"No, it's ok" He told the clinical lead.

Zoe nodded as she pressed print on the screen and told them she would be back in a minute, leaving the two parents alone.

Zoe walked over to the printer and picked up the two prints and waved them in the air to allow them to dry off. She then turned on her heel and headed back inside the room, where Lily was still lying on the bed, she leaned up and wiped the gel off her stomach.

Zoe handed Ethan the scans and Lily got off the bed.

The two of them left the room, hand in hand and Zoe got back to work.


Zoe went in to her office and shut the door. She headed to her desk and sat down as she studied the files in front of her.


Lily was at home. Her and Ethan had brought a house together. Only a handful of colleagues knew she was pregnant and she was due in a matter of weeks. Ethan had gone to work, as they still needed an income and Lily planned to take her maternity to bond with their new arrival. They didn't know the gender so

She was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes when she felt a twinge in her belly.

Lily rubbed her stomach, hoping that would make the pain go away. She rang Ethan.

"Hello?" Said Ethan, as he walked in to the staff room.

"it's me" Lily gasped in pain.

"Are you OK?" Ethan asked, concerned.

Lily gritted her teeth as she replied

"OK" Ethan said, trying to stay calm.

"ETHAN!" Lily screamed in pain.

"I'll get Dixie and Jeff" He said, as he cut the call and left the staff room quickly, trying to find the paramedics.

He spotted Jeff first and hurried over to the male paramedic.

"Lily's in labour" Ethan informed Jeff.

Jeff nodded and went to inform Dixie as the two went to the rec Room to get their medical kits. Jeff then

"Hello, ambulance service " Jeff called as he stepped in to the flat with Dixie in tow.

"Lily sweetheart?" Dixie called, as she walked in to the flat to see Lily in the front room, crouching down, trying to cope with the pain.

"In here" She whispered. Dixie folllowed the sounds of the scream.

Jeff went to get a spinal board and the two paramedics were soon wheeling Lily, on a stretcher, in to the ambulance.

Ethan was waiting anxiously for Lily to arrive.

Dixie and Jeff burst through the ED doors with Lily screaming in pain. Ethan walked over to her. He stroked her sweaty hair.

"It hurts!" She screamed, the sounds of her screams echoing around the ED as Robyn, Lofty and Cal all turned around to look at her.

Ethan looked embarrassed as Cal walked over to them both.

"Lilly " He said. "you are in safe hands"


She was wheeled in to a side room and Ethan helped her on to the bed while Zoe offered her gas and air, which she gulped down as the contraction got intense even more than it was already was.

"I can't do this!" Lily cried, letting her guard down.

"You can" Ethan reassured her as he took her hand and squeezed it tightly.

"OK, Lily, I can see the head " Zoe told her.

Her labour was fast but Ethan didn't think he'd stand to see Lily in pain.

Ethan's grip on her hand tightened as the doctor on the bed, used all her mite to push the child out in to the world.

A cry come from the new child and Zoe reached for a towel and wrapped it in it.

Zoe lay the baby on Lily's chest and then left the new parents to it.

"I love you " Ethan told her.

Lily nodded tiredly. She looked at the baby in the cot and gave a small smile as she placed her glasses on the side. She shook her long hair back.

Ethan stared at her.

"What?" Lily asked.

"Your beautiful " Ethan whispered quietly.

Lily blushed. Ethan sat on the edge of the bed and held her hand in his.

They both looked at the baby in the cot. It was dressed in a white babygrow that Ethan had quickly brought from mother care. It needed a name.

Lily smiled as she replied. "Anna Hardy. "

Ethan smiled. "Sounds perfect "


I hope you guys enjoyed this one. I enjoyed writing it. I might re- open this, not really sure though. Thank you for reading.

I'm kind of getting bored of writing pregnancy storylines. That goes for wedding services too.