sweet- as - honey: I usually struggle with writing Lily, so I'm glad you think she was sympathetic. I had to have Ethan being kind, I love him. Thank you for the review.
sweet- as - honey: I had to have the boys making it special for the little girl, I also had to have them remembering their mum. Thank you for the review.
sweet - as - honey: I've read a few stories where Cal wants to be close to Ethan, so I thought I would reverse it. Thank you for the review.
Tato Potatoe: Thank you for the review, I enjoyed writing it.
CBloom2: I would have loved her to be Cal's daughter as well. I hate it when Casualty writers don't give us the happy endings us, as viewers, want. Thank you for the review.
For this prompt: What if Matilda was Cal's baby? But Taylor wasn't her mum? What if her mum had been a nurse that Cal had, had a one - night stand, in which Matilda was conceived but the mum to be didn't tell Cal as she had memories of the last time she was in Holby?
Zoe and Jessica friendship in this too, as I loved their friendship.
As I'm guessing the brothers address hasn't been revealed, I've made it up.
I apologise for the length of this chapter, I didn't realise it was going to get this long.
Mentions of Taylor.
The Secret Life Of Casualty
Chapter 96.
She walked down stairs, and stood in the hallway, glancing at her rounded bump in the mirror. She hadn't expected to find herself pregnant again. She thought two kids and a dead baby would have been her last.
As she traced her fingers over the bump, she reflected upon why she returned to Holby. She had kept in touch with Zoe when she left, who had promised to keep her job open, if and when she wanted to return, she didn't think she would. She put her hair up in to a pony to keep it out of her face. She grabbed her bag and coat and left the house. She got a taxi to the hospital.
Zoe stopped and stared when the petite figure got out of the taxi. she was sure she knew who that was. "Jess?" Zoe called, wanting to make sure it was who she thought it was.
Upon, hearing her name, the petite woman turned around. Zoe smiled, but her eyes were drawn to the large baby bump.
"Is it Adam's?" Zoe asked, referring to the man Jessica had "married" during her time at holby.
Jessica shook her head at her old friend. "He knows it's not "
Zoe nodded as she crushed her ciggie under her heel. She turned and linked her arm through Jessica's as they headed back in to the ED.
The soon- to - be - mum doubled over in pain, falling in to the arms of a doctor.
"Are you ok?" Cal asked, taking her pulse, he found it was weak. So, he lifted her in to his arms and went in search of a bed to lay her on.
"I'm f- fine" She slurred, falling in to unconciousness.
Cal grabbed an oxygen mask and placed it over her face.
She began to stare.
Cal smiled as he saw her open her eyes.
Robyn walked over to Cal. "How's Jess?" She asked, she may not have known the nurse that long but that's the type of nurse Robyn was, she made friends with anyone and everyone.
Cal rubbed at the back of his neck. He didn't know how she was. He made his excuses to Robyn and then went to cubicles to see Jessica.
"Er, excuse me?" Cal stuttered, he cursed himself, Ethan was the stuttering one, not him.
Jessica looked sat him. "Are you ok?"
He nodded. How did he explain that he thought she was the woman he'd had a one night stand with?
As her waters broke.
Cal didn't want want you leave her, not when she was in pain, but he knew that She would need a doctor that was.
"Zoe?"
"Yes?" Zoe responded, wondering what one of her doctors wanted with her.
"Jessica's gone in to labour" Cal told her.
Zoe ran to cubicles where her friend was. She had her knees pulled up to her chest and her head was resting in them.
Zoe examined her and found that she was in labour. Cal looked at her and saw that she could do with a friend, nothing more, nothing less. He slid his hand in to hers and she squeezed it tight.
As she had 3 kids before, she found that her labour was easier this time and with a few pushes, her baby was out.
"Congratlons " Zoe smiled as she lowered the baby in to Jessica's arms as she left her and a Cal to it. Jessica crumpled.
Cal rubbed her back. "Hey, it's ok "
She closed her eyes as she imagined Adam's arms around her. She burst in to tears and Cal tightened his hold on her.
Both Cal and Jessica after Cal's shift went to get a DNA test done, it was quick and painless with the woman simply swabbing the inside of their cheeks to collect cells. They then headed back to Cal's flat, Cal made up the spare room for her.
She was greatful for everything he had done for her.
Jessica was flicking through her mail when she come across important results.
She jumped when she heard Cal walk in. She gave them to him.
She sat on the couch beside him.
Cal ripped the envelope open as Jessica sat on the couch beside him. He unfolded the paper and she waited patiently.
To: Caleb Knight.
Flat A, Farmead.
"The DNA results show that Caleb is the father of Jessica's baby"
"I'm a dad" Cal confirmed to himself.
Jessica nodded at him. "I know"
Cal picked the baby up in his arms and cradled her in his arms. "She needs a name"
"I know " Jessica smiled again, she knew that her daughter Amelia would be delighted to have a baby girl in the family.
Cal tilted his head looking at her. "Matilda"
"OK" Jessica responded, she thought that Matilda was a nice name, what he didn't know was that, it was the name of Cal's mother.
"Let's take you to see uncle Ethan " He beamed at the baby who gurgled.
When, Cal put Matilda in the pram, Jessica decided to go and see Zoe, who was on a day off from work.
Jessica rang the doorbell to Zoe's apartment as she heard footsteps .
"How are you feeling?" Zoe asked, sipping a glass of red wine, he knew it was early, but hey, she was on a day off.
"I'm fine " Jessica told her, picking up her glass of water.
Zoe nodded as she picked her glass up. They reminisced about their affairs, failed marriages and what they wanted to do next in their careers. Zoe wanted to quit clinical lead and Jessica wanted her old job back.
Ethan stared when he seen Cal push a pram in to the department. He walked over. "Who is that?" He asked, his voice low, not wanting their colleagues to overhear.
"Meet Matilda" Cal introduced her.
Ethan stared, he was uncomfortable.
"What?" Cal asked.
"That's.. that's mums name " Ethan said.
"I know " Cal replied.
Cal and Ethan were now in the staff room, drinking mugs of coffee while Matilda slept in the corner in her pram.
"Whose her mum?" Ethan asked, interestedly.
Cal shrugged. "A nurse that used to work here "
"Who Cal?" His brother asked again.
"Her names Jessica " Cal told his brother.
"OK" Ethan sighed, he knew that he should be supportive of Cal now that he had a niece but how did he know if Jessica was telling the truth. This could be a scam, but for some reason Cal suspected that Jessica wasn't scamming him. I mean, they had, a DNA test so Ethan should believe him.
"Do you want to hold her?" Cal asked, breaking Ethan from his thoughts.
"Oh, ok " he said.
Cal placed the baby in to his arns and watched as Ethan rocked her softly.
Cal smiled. His brother may seem awkward at most things, but holding a baby he seemed at ease with the baby.
"We should go" Smiled Cal.
"Oh, ok " Ethan said as he handed Matilda over.
"Cheers" Cal said.
Jessica returned to Cal's flat, she later realised that it was her old flat, she used her key which Cal had got cut for her and stepped inside, allowing the door to swing shut beside her. She realised that they would need a bigger house.
So, she pulled out her iPad out of her bag and started to type.
Cal fell in love with the house when he saw it. It was a detached house with a white door. He stepped inside to see it had a living room, back room and upstairs (Stairs were already carpeted ) there were 4 main bedrooms and a bathroom.
Cal headed back down the stairs.
The estate agent was waiting.
"Do you like it?" David Robertson asked.
Cal nodded. "Yep"
David opened his briefcase and riffled through to find the papers, which Cal signed.
and David handed the keys over.
Cal put the key in the lock and pushed the pram in to the hallway, gently putting the keys down.
Cal stared as he entered the living room of his new house as there was a boy and girl aged 10 and 12 standing.
"Cal, meet my kids Lucas and Amelia" Jessica introduced them.
Cal smiled tightly, as he raised his hands. "Hey kids"
Amelia looked at her mum and then looked at the baby.
"Is it true that we've got a little baby sister?" She asked.
Jessica nodded as Cal picked her up. He took her up the stairs and lowered her in to the cot, pulling her blankets over her.
Cal heard footsteps as Jessica showed Lucas and Amelia to the spare rooms. Each had a double bed, and a set of chest of draws. Amelia's bed had a white duvet on with pink squares on. She pulled back the cover for her daughter and watched as she climbed in, Jessica stroking her hair.
Cal and Jessica sat on the couch, her head resting on his chest. Cal ran his fingers through her hair.
For those of you who may not know who Jessica was, here's a bit of an explation: Jessica was an agency nurse, who later become a staff nurse, who was married with two children, but she had a one - night stand with another doctor, Adam, before her first shift, unaware her husband, is sleeping with Zoe.
She finds about the affair and starts her own affair with Adam as revenge.
She later finds out, she is carrying her 3rd child but she doesn't know who the dad is, she assumes it's her husbands baby, so keeps quiet until an accident at home, sees her admitted in to the ED where Adam is the doctor treating her. Anxious about the baby, she tells Adam she can't feel it move, he thinks she's 12 - weeks- pregnant, so it's too early for her to feel anything, her husband reveals she's 5 - months gone. And Adam realises it could be his, but Jessica tells him it isn't, leaving her husband, Sean suspicious.
Sean, later confronts her about the affair, she tells him the baby is his, but he doesn't believe her and asks her wheather Adam was revenge for Zoe, as he plans to take their two kids to Saudi Arabia with him, leaving her homeless and penniless in the process.
She's moves in to a flat on Farmead Estate, after Sean's mother, Maureen, produced a contract which Sean asked Jessica to sign, before he left. (It was the deeds to the house)
Maureen reappears when she's discharged from the hospital with her new baby, a boy, who she names Harry, after the man who delivered him. She claims that Sean has called and Jess will be able to talk to Lucas and Amelia, her children. she finds a strand of Harry's hair in Maureen's bag and realises her mother- in- law was lying about Sean ringing. She tells Maureen to leave the flat.
When Harry falls ill, worried for him, Jessica rushes him to the department where she tells Adam, he could be Harry's father, and the two of them reunite, naming the baby: Harry Adam Trueman.
Jessica is desperate to see her other children and lies to both Sean and Maureen that Harry is Sean's son, knowing he'll send her, her passport and a ticket to Saudi. Adam doesn't want her to go, but she goes, returning 3 weeks later, with the 3 children.
Adam is furious with her, but when he calms down, he asks her to divorce Sean and marry him instead. Jessica refuses as she realises that Lucas and Amelia need time to adjust to being back with their mum. A DNA test confirms that Adam is Harry's father.
Jessica is upset to learn that Adam has called Sean to discuss Lucas and Amelia, she agrees to supervised access, as she doesn't trust him alone with them.
After a colleagues death, Jess proposes to Adam and they start planning their wedding day, for New Year's Eve.
The night before their wedding Jessica's ex - husband, makes a move on her, Adam punches him and Sean asks why Adam had to take his family.
Their New Year's Eve wedding is cut short when Adam arrives late to the country house where they are getting married and he is needed back at the hospital to help Zoe as patients from a bus crash come in. Jess is fuming Adam leaves her, but later helps out at the hospital.
A vicar blesses them in the hospital chapel, and they head back to the venue to sign the legal papers, but are involved in a crash on their way, landing on an icy lake as Adam swerves to avoid a car. Adam and Jess get Lucas and Amelia out, but are plunged in to the water with Harry as the ice cracks, under the weight of the car.
Adam finds Jessica but can't see Harry, so he goes down again, coming up with him and the 3 of them are rushed to hospital. Jessica is dying so Adam begs Nick to operate on her, he refuses as he's no longer employed by the trust, he eventually relents when he sees how desperate Adam is and the operation is a success.
Harry is improving, but his monitor goes off, Tess, Charlie and Henry try to save him, but he's unable to be saved.
After 3 - weeks in a coma, Jessica wakes up, but turns her back on Adam, believing he's to blame for Harry's death. She rejects his support at the funeral.
After the death of their baby, Jessica leaves Adam and takes the kids away to America, with an old friend of hers, unable to deal with seeing her baby in Adam, every time she looks at him.
She returns on what would have been Harry's 1st birthday, after a colleague calls her, worried about Adam's state of mind. Adam is hostile with her, but when they sealed in the ED after an anthrax scare, during which Adam accuses Jessica of blaming him for Harry's death, he invites her back to his house and it looks like she's going to stay, until she finds Harry's spoon, fed up Adam tells Jessica to make a decision. She can stay, or she leaves there and then. She leaves him, heading back to America.
(Sorry, I can talk for hours about her and I realised just how long that got, sorry. )
I know Jess was OC a bit, but it was the only way I could get the chapter to work.
Its probably not the longest Jessica prompt I've written, but it does feel like it.
