sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review, and the congratulations, on reaching 200 chapters, I honestly never imagined that I would get to 200 chapters, it's thank you to the support of you guys that has got me this far. You'll see what Ethan really feels when we return to the story.
sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review. I think Cal would have remembered Matilda. I'd like the show to do a storyline where Matilda is reintroduced. I felt Cal needed to be honest.
sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review, glad you enjoyed the request, I'm sure your chapter on Cal's fall, would have been good. I'm glad you enjoyed the extra details. I loved writing the flashback. I loved everything about it, basically.
LindaAndrewsfan: Thank you for the review, glad you liked it, here is the second part.
Writing in Itliacs is a flashback of Adam's about the ice, bit similar to Jessica's flashbacks on - screen.
This chapter picks up from the last one.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Chapter 202.
Adam's POV.
I am watching over my wife, who is lying still in the hospital bed, when the door opens. Assuming it to be, one of the doctors, who is looking after Jess, I don't bother looking up.
"Who are you?" I asked, realising it wasn't the doctors.
"I'm Linda, we worked together in paediatrics' " She's introduces herself.
I nod, wondering why Jessica had never told me about her. We go outside for a little bit, I kiss her forehead.
"How do you know her?" I ask, sipping my coffee.
"we trained to be nurses together" She tells me.
"Right" I look at my watch and wonder if Jessica has regained consciousness, but I know that Tess and Zoe would tell me, if she had.
Linda is quiet for a moment, before she starts to cry. I don't know what to do, I would know what to do if it was Jess who was crying. I would hold her close, kiss her head and tell her a bad joke as she laughs. I hand her a tissue, so she could blow her nose and wipe her eyes.
Linda and I head back inside and get back in to the lifts.
I open the door to her room to and offer Linda the seat I was sitting in and I sit on the edge of Jess's bed.
"Will you walk me to the lift?" She asks.
" Uh, yeah. " I replied, a bit hesitantly. I wanted to be here in case she woke, but Jess wasn't going to wake up in the next two seconds.
I open the door and allow her to move out the door before me, we walk down the corridor to the lift.
"I'll call you when she wakes, " I tell her, just as she steps in to the lift.
Linda smiles at me, before changing her mind about something and getting out. She unzips her bag, roots around in it and hands me something.
"What's this?" I asked.
"I got the pebble on Brighton Beach, Jess needs it more. " She says.
"Thanks Linda" I reply as she gets back in to the lift.
I return to my wife's room. Lucas and Amelia had been to visit, Amelia had asked why her mum was in the coma, I had replied, that it was helping her get better after being trapped under the water. They had made her cards. Half of me wondered would she recognise them if she woke, would she ask about Harry? I close my eyes as I think back.
We were on our way to sign the legal papers, Lucas and Amelia were teasing me. Harry was strapped in to his car seat, a blanket over him.
A car is driving on the opposite direction to us, dangerously close and I swerve to avoid it as we land on an iced over lake.
Harry starts to cry.
"Harry, it's ok, baby, mummy's here" Jessica leans backwards to get Harry from his car seat, but as she did, the ice breaks, the car slowly submerges below. I kick and kick at the doors, needing to get Jessica and Harry out. But as I kick, the water surrounding the doors, pushes them back, like a verminous snake, not letting go of it's pray.
Jessica and I told each other we loved each other, just in case one of us didn't make it out alive.
"I know, " She nods.
I continue to kick frantically at the doors, they open and as an unconcious Jessica's foot gets entangled in the seatbelt, I free her and try to pull her free, but as
I watch as our son slips out of my wife's arms, falling forevermore in to the water below us. His tiny body would have lain unrecovered for hours as I searched the murky water for my wife's lifeless body.
There's no point calling her, she can't reply, I just have to keep going.
I find her eventually and drag her to the surface where colleagues are waiting. Jeff and Charlie carry her over to a spot and Jeff takes her pulse. "She's cold. " He says "Her pulse is weak "
She is put in to an ambulance and Harry is put in to another one,
End of flashback.
I place the stone in her hand, hoping it'll give her the strength she needs to come back to me.
"Jess, wake up, I need you, " I tell her.
The monitor she is connected too, tells me, her SAT'S and BP are stable, it is really a waiting game to see if she'll wake.
My phone beeps, I pull it out, it is Linda, we exchanged numbers as she wanted news on her.
"Any news?"
"No, not yet. " I reply, going out of my messages, before looking at my screen saver, it is of Jess and Harry, when he was first born and he is in a blue sleeping suit, wrapped in a blue blanket.
I take her hand, wondering if she can feel me touching her hand.
She doesn't open her eyes and I know that if she doesn't wake up soon, the doctor will talk to me about turning off her life support and that is something I don't think I could handle, not after Harry.
I tuck a strand of hair behind her ear and adjust the needle in her arm.
"Your really pretty, you know that? Even like this " I tell her with a smile.
Really enjoyed writing this.
We will be coming back to the Matilda story soon, I have other updates.
Next chapter: There is a fire at "Holby High" which traps two frightened teenagers. Prompted by LindaAndrewsfan.
