This chapter is set when the boys thought Matilda was their mum, therefore Ethan doesn't have the gene.

Sergeant Emerson, an officer from Summer Bay.

Phoebe, Ricky's friend.

Little Casey, Ricky's son.

Rated T for sensitive subjects if that upsets anyone please don't read this chapter.

Mangrove River, an estate mentioned in Summer Bay where Ricky, Brax, and Brax's brothers grew up.

Is - There- Somewhere-x: Thank you for the review, I'm glad you thought it was cute.

Sorry, it's been a while since I last updated.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 251.

"Caleb Knight, " Cal confirmed the booking he had made for his partners birthday party for later that evening when Ethan walked in.

"All set?" He asked.

Cal nodded, once he'd come off the phone. "Yep," He replied, opening his texts to tell Ricky to wear something nice. She'd text back why and Cal replied telling her that she had to wait and see.

At home Ricky flicked through the dresses that she owned. There was her black one, her silver wrap one or her green dark one.

"What shall mummy wear, mate?" She asked, holding the green one against her then her silver one.

Casey gurgled and Ricky took that as a sign that her son agreed with her choice.

"Good choice, " Ricky grinned, picking up her deodorant and spraying it. She then put her dressing gown on as she wasn't getting ready just yet. She pulled the dress over her head and then pulled her hair in to a French plait and then looked for her Jimmy Choos that Cal had brought her as an annivasary gift when they first got together. Reaching for her make up, she put on some concealer, a powder and mascara. She walked in to the bedroom, and looked for her clutch bag, finding the one that matched her dress, she found it and then put in her phone, wallet, lipstick and car keys.

She took Casey out of his cot and headed down the stairs, waiting for Robyn who had agreed to babysit for the night, saying it would be good experience for when her own baby arrived.

The doorbell rang and Ricky walked out in to the hallway to answer it.

"Hi. " Robyn said.

"Hi. Come in," She replied, moving aside.

As Ricky walked down the stairs, Cal stared at her.

"You look amazing, " He told her. He, himself was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a black shirt.

A taxi was waiting for them outside. Cal opened the door for her.

"Thanks, " Ricky said as she climbed in to the taxi. She rested her head against his chest.

When they arrived at the pub, Cal once again held the door open for her and they walked in to the pub.

"A larger and a white wine " Cal asked, getting money out of his wallet.

"It's Ethan, " He told her, heading outside to take the call. Ricky picked up her glass and followed him outside.

Ricky was leaning against the wall, while Cal took his call, when two men were walking up the street, they both wore jeans. They glanced at each other, before grabbing her.

"Give me your bag" One of them said, a mask covering his face.

"No" Ricky replied, holding on to it, it wasn't that it contained anything valuable but it had a picture of a scan of Casey as a baby, her car keys, wallet and some gum.

The two men looked at each other, before taking a step towards her and pushing her to the ground.

Ricky stared at them, as she tried to get back up, but one of them held her down, while the other started to undo the straps on her dress.

"Get off me!" She yelled, trying to fight back, but she froze as she felt one of her attackers hand creep up her leg and remove her underwear. They then ran off with her handbag.

Cal went to where he'd left Ricky, only to find her on the floor shaking, with her eyes brimming with tears.

"What happened?" He asked.

Silence met his answer as Ricky stared at him. He lay an arm on her shoulder.

"Don't touch me!" She snapped.

"Oh my God," Cal said as he realised what had happened, he hadn't been in the ED long enough, but for the two years, he had been there, he had seen one case, with Zoe and it had been an experience, he had vowed never to take his work home, but he had talked to Ethan about it. He knew not to touch her, but he needed to get her in to a taxi. He cornered her in to a taxi and gave the address as Holby Hospital.

"Ethan?" Cal called, his eyes searching for the one doctor that he knew he could trust.

Ethan, hearing his name, shut the patient file he was reading and walked over to the couple.

"She's been attacked, " He confided, quietly, not wanting their colleagues to overhear.

"Right, " Ethan nodded, leading the couple in to a cubicle.

Ricky sat on the bed as she heard whispers of the conversation that were going on.

"She's been attacked. "

Zoe picked up the phone and rang a number of one of the team that specialised in cases like this.

"Dr. Hanna, hi. " One of the women, called Amy, walked up to the Nurses Station were Zoe was.

"Hi Amy," Zoe replied, she started explaining the situation as Amy walked in to the cubicle.

"Hi, Erica, I'm Amy, " She introduced herself.

Ricky nodded.

"Is it alright if I examine you?" Amy asked.

Numbly Ricky nodded, as Zoe held a screen up, so she could get out of her dress and put a gown on, the dress went in a bag marked "Evidence. "

Amy found bruises on her arms where she had tried to fight back.

Amy took a lock of Ricky's hair, swabs from her mouth and bloods.

"Where's Case?" Ricky asked, in a voice that she didn't recongise as her own.

"Robyn's looking after him, " Cal replied, stroking her hair.

Zoe was looking at her results. She scanned them, carefully.

"Your pregnant," Zoe told her.

Ricky burst in to tears as Cal pulled his hand from hers and stormed off.

Ethan found his brother in the staff room, his locker door was open.

"What are you doing, Cal?" Ethan asked.

"I run and I hide Ethan, " Cal said sadly, hanging his head.

Ethan froze, he had thought that Cal had grown out of saying them words.

"Ricky needs you," Ethan whispered.

Cal turned to his brother, his eyes full of sadness. "Tell her I'm sorry"

Ethan sighed, dropping his head in his hands and hitting the wall in his frustration.

He pulled back the cubicle curtain, bracing himself to tell Ricky.

"Where's Cal?" She asked.

"He's gone," Ethan said.

"Where?" She asked.

"I don't know"

Ricky closed her eyes, but when she did, she saw the attack again.

"Erica, can I have a word?" Asked Sergeant Emerson.

"Sure" She replied, in a quiet voice.

"You can use my office" Zoe said as she showed them to her office and put up a "Do not disturb" sign.

Emerson set up the recorder.

"For the benefit of the tape, can you tell me your name and address?" He asked, knowing what she was going to say.

"Erica Sharpe. 1 Holby Street. "

Emerson nodded, writing things down on the paper in front of him.

"I was out with my partner, celebrating my birthday when he got a call and went outside to take it, I followed him out when I noticed two men walking. They asked me for my bag they said no, then they pushed me to the ground, I tried to fight back, but they pulled down my underwear. "

"Thank you, Miss Sharpe, " Sergeant Emerson said as he checked that he had everything that he needed from her.

Ricky left the office and made her way out down the stairs, looking for Ethan as she wanted to go home.

Heading over to where Ethan was standing with Max, Iain, Jez, and Lofty, she asked if they could go.


As the day of the sentencing arrived, Ricky felt like she was going to be sick.

"All rise" Said an officer as the judge entered, when the judge sat, so did the colleagues that came to support Ricky, but Ethan couldn't help but wish Cal had shown his face.

"I now call Miss Erica Sharpe to the stand. "Said the judge.

As she stood, Ricky heard a "Good luck" from Zoe, got a reassuring smile from Ethan, and a "thumbs up" from Phoebe.

"I swear that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" Said Ricky as she made her affirmation.

"Can you tell us in your words, what happened, that night?" asked an officer.

Ricky took a deep breath, preparing to tell the story she had told Emerson.

"I was out with my partner, celebrating my birthday when he got a call and went outside to take it, I followed him out when I noticed two men walking. They asked me for my bag they said no, then they pushed me to the ground, I tried to fight back, but they pulled down my underwear. "

"Please stand down, Miss Sharpe, " As she walked out of the witness box, she caught sight of her attacker, it was an ex - boyfriend.

Ricky's flashback.

Ricky was proud of the small apartment she had brought, it seemed like a good investment with her first wage packet from being a mechanic. She worked with a lad called Joey, brown haired, brown - eyed, lad with a cheeky smile, they laughed the days away, before Joey picked up the courage to invite her for a drink. Ricky agreed and met him in the pub, one night.

When Joey entered the pub, as Ricky was so used to seeing him in overalls, she gave a stare as she noticed he was wearing a greyish shirt with blue jeans.

They'd returned back to his house, after a few drinks, Ricky stumbling through the door.

"Let me show you to the spare room, " Joey said, helping her up and showing her to the spare room.

"Thanks, " She replied, opening the door and noticing there was a bed, TV, and a chest of draws. She got changed and got under the cover.

But when she woke the next morning, dressed for a photography job, she was surprised to find the door locked. "Let me go. "

"I'm doing this for your safety " He said.

"Let me go. " She whispered.

"Never, " Joey told her.

She realised she was in an abusive relationship and it wasn't exciting her anymore.

"We over, " Ricky told him.

She was seen with another man, called Darryl Braxton, and Joey, hired someone to take photos of the two of them.

After coming home ffrom work one day, from taking photos, she was texting a friend. She had a smile on her face, it was something she never had when she talked with him.

"It's Brax isn't it?" Joey asked, stepping closer to her.

"No. "Ricky dodged him, but he grabbed her hair, she pulled her head back, as she felt a shooting pain go through it.

Brax was walking down the street, when he heard a familiar scream.

"Rick" He banged on the door, hoping that she would open up to him.

Joey flung her on to the couch, but she hit him in the nuts and ran in to the hallway. She pulled the door open.

"What's wrong?" Brax asked, noticing her pale face.

"He hit me, " She muttered.

Brax launched himself at Joey, and started hitting him.

Brax don't, " Ricky said as she tried to pull her mate off her ex - boyfriend. But Brax was too strong for her and she couldn't mange it.

She winced as she watched him slowly pull out it out, he aimed to shoot Brax, but she jumped in front of him, and fell backwards in to his arms, her eye started rolling in the back of her head.

"Rick" Brax said, as he applied pressure to her wound, not caring that his hands were getting covered in her blood. "Your going to be fine, Rick, "

But as her eyes, looked up at him, wide eyed, but with no emotion in them, he knew she was gone.

He called an ambulance and Dixie and Jeff arrived, taking the young woman to the chapel of rest.

Brax sat with her, in the chapel, taking small comfort in Zoe's words: "Take as much time as you need, "

He told her, that he loved her, that he'd tell Casey all about his mum, and after kissing her cold lips, for the last time, he left the chapel.

"I'll show you to the relative's room, " Zoe told him, sympathy creeping in to her tone.

But Brax pulled out of Zoe's kind "arm on his shoulder " gesture and stormed off, to a place that him and Ricky liked to go, so he could grieve his lost love.

End of flashback.

Her stomach was churning, she had a thin layer of sweat on her face and she was breathing heavily, which meant she was hyperventilating.

Ethan walked over to her. He looked up at Zoe. "She's having a panic attack."

"Take some deep breaths, " Zoe advised her.

Ricky nodded, looking at Ethan for reassurance.

"It's OK, " he reassured her, rubbing her arm.

"We will now hear Mr Wilson's version of events. " Said the judge.

Joey headed in to the witness box.

"I was out with my mate for a drink after work, when I saw her, she was with a guy, who was on the phone, he abandoned her when she dropped her bag, I picked it up and handed it back to her. "

Ethan glanced at Ricky.

"We wil now take a break while I weigh up the evidence " Said the judge.

After a small break where Ethan went to get everyone coffee's, chatting about what they thought the verdict would be, it was time to walk back in.

"Would the foreman of the jury please stand?" The main person did. "Have the jury reached a verdict upon you have all agreed?"

The main person did. "We have your honour. "

"Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty of the rape of Erica Sharpe, " The judge asked.

"Guilty " The main person said.

"You have been found guilty of the rape of Erica Sharpe, I therefore sentence you to 5 years imprisonment. " Said the judge.

Zoe cheered, while Ethan looked at Ricky, checking she was OK.

The colleagues had all decided to head to the pub to celebrate.

Ethan, Ricky both had orange juices, while Phoebe had a vodka and coke and Zoe had a glass of red.

A man, Ethan vaguely recognised, even with him being shaved, and hair cut, walked in to the pub.

"What are you doing here?" Ethan asked.

"I want a drink, " Cal lied, heading to the bar.

Ethan shook his head at his brother.

A woman barged in to Ricky, who had gone outside for some fresh air, she clutched at her stomach, worried for the baby.

A gush of water ran down her leg, she froze as Phoebe went in to the pub, alerting people.

An ambulance was called and Dixie and Jeff, helped the mum to be, in to the wheelchair and placed a blanket over her, as Jeff started the ambulance and drove to the hospital.

Lying on the bed, in maternity as she changed in to a gown, was bittersweet as her mind remembered Casey's birth: Squeezing down on her son's uncles hand as she struggled to bring her baby in to the world. Anger that Brax had abandoned her, and now Cal had seemed to do the same.

"I can't do it," Ricky whispered as the contractions tore her body apart. "It hurts. "

Ethan nodded, grimacing as he felt her squeeze tightly on his hand, he felt a throbbing pain in it. "You can do it,"

"I can't " She whispered, taking short breaths.

Zoe smiled, encouraging her. "Just one more push. "

Bringing her knees up to her chest, she rested her chin on them and gave one last push as Zoe announced she could see the head.

"It's a girl. " Zoe smiled as she wrapped her up in a blanket and lowered her gently in to the exhausted mum's arms.

As Ricky looked down at the little girl in her arms, she felt numb, detached, unlike she did when Casey was born, she felt a sense of love when Nate placed him in her arms, for this little baby she had waited for.

Phoebe walked in to the side room, with a balloon and a present which had "Congrats. It's a girl. "

"Congrats. " Phoebe said as she placed the balloon down and the gift, which Ricky found out was a baby girl bear, wearing a jumper saying. "Congratulations on your baby girl, "

Ricky nodded, but didn't say anything.

Phoebe sighed. "She needs a name, Rick "

"No Phoebe"

Her friend took her hand and held it. "It's not her fault. "

"All I see when I look at her is that night" Ricky explained, fearfully.

"Oh, babe" Phoebe drew her friend in to her arms.

"when can I go home?" Ricky asked Jessica, who had come to do her obs.

"I don't know. " The nurse replied, taking her temperature.

"Well find out!" She exploded, she didn't mean to shout, she was just stressed.

"What's going on?" Zoe asked, looking at her friend in concern.

"It's fine," Jessica replied.

Zoe put an arm around her as they went on a break and Jessica made herself a cup of tea, and Zoe a coffee.

Going to the house her and Cal had brought with his mums money, felt strange to be walking in without him. She put her daughter in her mosses basket and then went to see Casey, who was also upstairs. Soon both children were settled and she was just replying to a message from Ethan, asking if she needed anything when she heard a scrapping, it sounded like a key.

"Whose there?" Ricky replied, standing up and walking in to the hallway.

"It's Cal" he replied, taking off his jacket and hanging it up on the banister.

Ricky swallowed. "Your a coward, Cal."

Cal nodded as he felt his partner slap him.

He rubbed his cheek, he deserved that.

"Commitment scares you?" Ricky asked, looking at him.

Cal nodded his head. "Two years ago, my mum died, I left Ethan to comfort her through her dying days"

"Oh, Cal " Ricky whispered, squeezing his hand in comfort.

The baby girl started to whine.

"She needs a name"

"What about?" Cal looked at the baby. "Hannah?"

Ricky blinked at him.

"What?" Cal asked, alarmed.

"Nothing," Ricky whispered, shaking her head. "It's just I had a mate called Hannah, she died after an accident "

"It'll be a good way to remember her" Cal smiled.

"Yeah" Ricky whispered.

Baby Hannah started crying.

"It's alright, " Said Cal, as he got up, he felt like he had to do his bit. He headed in to the hallway and walked up the stairs, coming down with the baby in his arms. He sat on the couch and held the baby in his arms.

Just then Ricky's phone beeped, it was Phoebe.

"Have you thought of a name?" X

"Yeah. x"

what? x"

Hannah. X" Ricky replied, wondering what reaction she'd get.

"Hannah would like it, xx"

The next morning Ethan come round to babysit Hannah and Casey, something that Cal was grateful for. He took Ricky out to a pub and then for a walk.

"There's someone I want you to met," Cal said.

"Who?" Ricky asked.

Cal walked over to the grave, and Ricky took the chance to read the words.

Matilda Hardy,

Mum to Cal and Ethan.

Gone, but not forgotten. "

"She's your mum" Ricky asked.

"Yep," Cal nodded, his voice thick with emotion.

Resting against the stone were flowers that Ethan had put there, they were white lilies.

"She'll be looking down on you, " Ricky whispered, cupping his cheek.

Cal nodded as he kissed his fingers and pressed them to the stone. "Goodbye mum, " He whispered, as he left the cemetery, arm in arm with the woman that he loved, as they headed back home to their children.

Cal opened the door and Ricky noticed Casey crawling towards her, she picked him up and walked in to the living room, while Cal made up two bottles and handed one to Ricky so she could fed one of the children.

"Thank you, " She whispered, when both children where in bed.

"What for?" Cal asked, lying on the sofa with her on top of him.

"Everything. "

Cal kissed her as he replied: "Any time"

And as Ricky sank in to his tight hold, she realised that while he may have been a player, before they got together, but they were going to help each other through whatever life decided to throw at them next.


Thank you for reading.