The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 137.

"Tell me a story dada " Cal smiled at his 5 - year - old, daughter, Emily, who was named in memory of his dead mother, Emile. Blonde curls, framed her heart shaped face. Blue eyes sparkled up at him and in them, Cal seen his wife, Ricky.

"Of course, I will sweetheart " Cal kissed his daughters forehead and bent down in front of her bookshelf to pull out a book. "The Hungry Caterpillar?" He suggested, sitting back on her bed.

"No" Emily frowned. "The one about nanny"

Cal smiled sadly to himself. He remembered the night that Emile had passed. He settled himself on her bed. He hadn't known his mum for very long but he had discovered in the few short weeks, he had known her, that she was a inspirational woman.

"I was brought up by a woman called Matilda, she was your adoptive nanny. My real mum couldn't cope with us, so she sent us to to live with Matilda.

Uncle Ethan and I had a happy childhood, Matilda took us to the beach, we built sandcastles and ate chips by the sea. We grew up and we both become doctors to help poorly people.

Then, one night, I met mummy.

"Mummy found out she was expecting you and we were happy, happy that I asked her to marry me.

"The day you were born was the most incredible and terrifying day of my life. " Said Cal as he recalled Ricky squeezing on his hand as she cried in agony at the thought of pushing a baby out was terrifying her.

"Just breath " Cal tried to offer her the gas and air tube but she had simply glared at him and batted him away.

"Get out Cal " She had ordered him. Zoe had ordered him to go as well as Ricky gave a big push.

"There we go " Zoe put the baby, who was wrapped in a blanket, on Ricky's chest.

"What her name?" Zoe asked her.

Ricky looked up from the baby. "Emily" She whispered as Cal's mouth dropped open in surprise.

"You mean?" He asked.

"Yeah" Ricky replied, softly as Emily gripped on to one of her fingers and Zoe left the new mum to rest while Cal text Ethan.

"Ricky and I have had a little girl mate"

Ethan was looking through a set of notes when his phone beeped, normally he wouldn't dream of looking at it while he was working, as it would usually be in his locker, but he knew from Cal that Ricky's waters were due to break any day now and he had told Cal he would be there for him whenever he needed him.

Ethan smiled to himself as he replied, "That's great news, Cal "

Sneaking a quick look at his watch, Ethan realised he hadn't had a break, so he decided to have one now. Instead of, going in to the staff room, like he normally would, he crept to cubicles where Ricky, baby Emily had been moved to for some rest, until Zoe, as a favour to Cal, could find her a private room.

"Hey" Ethan smiled as he stepped in to the cubicle. "Congratulations Ricky "

"Thanks" She smiled softly.

"Congratulations Cal " He offered the same congrats to his brother.

"Thanks Nibbles " Cal replied, as Ethan sat in the chair to have a hold of his new- born niece.

"What's her name?" He asked as she began to whimper in his arms ."Shh, little one" He soothed.

"Emily" Ricky replied.

Ethan looked at Cal.

Cal simply nodded, as he knew what Ethan was thinking. "Yep "

Ethan swallowed nervously. "Emile would have been delighted to meet you, Emily " He said as he placed a kiss on her head, before passing her to Cal.

Zoe then come in to the cubicle. "We've found a bed for her upstairs"

"Thanks Zoe" Said Cal gratefully as Max came in, took the wheels off the bed and wheeled her out in to the corridor. Cal took Ricky's hand.

Suddenly, Ricky's grip on Cal's head began to loosen and her eyelids closed.

"Ricky!" Cal shouted as Zoe pulled back the blanket. There was a pool of blood by her legs.

"Postpartum Haemorrhage" Said Zoe more to herself than the two doctors that were standing beside her, both looking terrified.

She wheeled the stretcher back in to the cubicle and put an oxygen mask over her face, before starting her on an IV drip. Cal stayed, holding her hand as Ethan took baby Emily up to the paediatric ward where a paediatrician looked her over. Satisfied, that she was healthy, Ethan was allowed to take her back to Cal.

Back in the cubicle, Zoe was messaging Ricky's belly.

Ricky's eyes opened and Cal breathed a sigh in relief.

The cubicle curtain opened, and again Zoe and Ethan appeared, the young man holding baby Emily and Zoe to wheel her up to the room, Cal went with her, carrying Emily in his arms, as Max and Zoe wheeled her in to the lift.

Zoe opened the door to the room and Max wheeled her inside, parking the bed and leaving Cal and Ricky to it.


Emily's eyes started to close.

Cal watched as his daughters eyes closed and he kissed her head, before walking out of the room, switching out the light.

He walked down the stairs and in to the living room, where Ricky was reading a book.

Cal wrapped his arms around Ricky, who looked back at him.

"Did she settle?" She asked.

"Yeah, she wanted a story " Cal told her.

Ricky laughed quietly.

"I miss her Rick " Cal told his wife, looking at the picture of Emile on the mantle piece, with Shelle's help they had cleared out Emile's house and had each took a box of her things to remember her by.

Ricky nodded as she stood up. "I know you do, Cal. I know " As a stray tear trickled down Cal's cheek Ricky reached up and wiped it away, pulling him in for a hug as tears poured down his cheeks as he cried for his mum.


I wasn't planning on writing this, but I got the idea after Casualty and I knew that I had to write it as it would annoy me if I didn't.

Next chapter: Jessica and Linda go in to town, meeting up with Jessica's old colleagues.