CBloom2: Thank you for your review.
For this prompt: Louise is still a recepionist.
I was going to try to update "Thrown In At The Deep End" but I don't really know where I'm going with it and I don't want to rush in to it.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Chapter 90.
Cal was sure he heard a noise as he walked along the pavement as he headed towards work. Kind of like a muffling noise. He decided to investigate. Retreating in to the bushes, he found a child crying. He scooped her up, she was cold and he didn't know how long she'd been out there. He pulled off his NHS hoodie and wrapped the child in it. She didn't look very well at all. He started to run knowing exactly where he was
"Ethan?" Cal almost shouted as he ran through the ED doors.
Ethan turned around to face his brother. "What is it, Cal?" He said as he heard the worry in his voice.
Cal showed him the nameless baby and started talking. "I was on my here, when I heard crying and I found her in some bushes"
Zoe, Ethan and Cal all headed for RESUS. Cal lay the unresponsive child on the bed.
Zoe checked her over for signs of meningitis. She found nothing that indicated that she had the diease.
A teenaged girl walked in to the ED. She headed for the reception desk where Noël and Louise where.
"Excuse me?" Hannah asked, walking up to the desk.
Noel looked at her, "How can I help you?"
"Some nurse rang me and told me that my daughter was brought in. I wondered if I could see her?"
Noel and Louise looked at each other.
"Can someone tell me where she is?" Her mother pleaded.
Back in RESUS, Zoe, Ethan and Cal were desperately trying to save the little girl.
It was clear by now that she was hypothermic. Her abdomen was rigid, distended. Zoe did compressions.
"Cal, adrenaline 1 in 10 thousand" She said. Cal nodded and administered the medication. He kept glancing at the screen.
"Everyone agreed?" Zoe asked. Ethan nodded slowly.
"No" Cal looked up. He wanted to keep going, he thought maybe they could bring her back.
"Cal" Zoe looked at him. Cal looked up, he looked toutured. "She's gone"
She was right, she was gone and Cal felt like a failure.
"Ethan, the mum of the child Cal brought in earlier, is here " Ethan didn't hear the words that Noël was speaking, he looked down at the floor.
"OK " Ethan nodded as he looked around for somewhere private where he could take the teenaged mother. He hoped that the staff room would be private enough for him to tame her and talk to her.
She sat down on the couch.
"We weren't able to save her, I'm sorry " Ethan told the teenager, he felt he'd failed at his job, he felt horrible when the team lost adult patients, but when it was young children, Ethan just felt terrible.
As he become aware of the teenager crying, Ethan reached out and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "It's ok" he whispered.
"My daughters dead, and your telling me it's going to be ok?" She said. "It's not going to be ok again" She put her head in her hands and started to cry again.
Ethan felt helpless.
The younger brother walked in to the chapel of rest where there lay a single coffin. It looked tiny for a baby. It reminded him of when he went to see his mum at the funeral home with her career Jenny, and he blinked back a few tears.
He watched as she walked over and held her lifeless child's hand. She didn't know how she would cope.
She turned to Ethan, her eyes wet. "Have you ever lost someone?"
"My mum" He whispered quietly, he wasn't in the habit of admitting he'd lost his mum, but what was the harm when she was grieving herself?
"I'm sorry" The teen told him.
"Don't be" He told her. He searched in his scrubs pants for a tissue. He held it out to her. "It's clean "
"Thank you" She whispered as she took it and blew her nose and wiped her eyes. She looked at him. "I'm sorry about before"
He shook his head again. She turned back to the coffin and kissed her daughters cold forehead.
Ethan gave a small smile.
"Are you ok Cal?" Ethan asked as he looked at his brother, who had a can of larger, by his side.
Cal picked up the can and took a swig.
Ethan sighed, he knew that Cal knew that drinking wasn't the answer.
"I'm fine " Cal slurred at his words. Ethan shook his head at his brother.
"Come on " Ethan told him, putting an arm around him as he tried to haul his brother off the couch. Cal stumbled up as Ethan sighed. He helped Cal in to his room and helped him in to bed. He then headed down stairs, headed in to the kitchen, got a glass, filled it with water before returning to his room with the glass and pack of paracetamol. Then, he put the blanket over him. They looked out for each other. They were brothers and that's what brothers did, they looked out for each other.
Thank you for reading, I know this may seem similar to tonight's episode, but it's just something I come out with, while I try to figure out where I want to go with the rest of my stories, I know where I want to go with some of them, it's just getting there that I'm finding is the problem, as well as the stresses of my work- placement and applying for jobs and it seems like I'm getting nowhere and it's just dissopointing to be honest.
I wanted to get this up last night, but my iPad kept running out.
I'm looking forward to Casualty tonight. If any one - shots inspire me after the episode, I may post them into here.
Probably the shortest thing I've written.
