Cbloom2: Thank you for the review. You'll see how Leigh - Ann reacts to the news in this chapter.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 252.

Ethan stared at the words, as if they were offending him, in a way they were.

"Ethan?"

She wanted an answer, he knew that. With a trembling hand, (for once, he knew the trembling wasn't a part of his symptoms) he lifted his phone and typed three small words that were making him feel sick to his stomach.

"Scott killed Cal. "

A beep on her phone alerted her to the fact she had a new message.

"Scott killed Cal. "

Leigh - Ann threw up, she needed answers. Grabbing Keigan out of his cot, she put her son in to his car seat and grabbed the changing bag, wrapping him in a blanket. She hailed a taxi to Ethan's flat and tried to think of what she was going to say to Ethan, but what could she say? She soon found hereself outside Ethan's flat. Ethan answered it.

"Well?" She demanded, not even bothering with "hello"

"Leigh - Ann, come in. " Ethan said, holding the door open for her.

"Tell me the truth, Ethan. " She said, standing in the hallway.

Ethan took a deep breath, preparing to relive the night that his life changed forever...

"Scott's dad was brought in. " He started. "He'd been attacked. " Ethan swallowed. "I left him when a colleague of mine was brought in, after being run over. During that time, he suffered complications. And passed away. " Ethan reached for the mug of tea he'd made before she'd arrived, but now wished that he had something stronger. "Scott was angry, understandably. We. "

"We?" She interrupted him.

"Cal and I, " Ethan corrected. "Tried to calm him down, we'd done the best we could for Roy, but Scott was still angry, said he'd make us pay for what we did. " Ethan sniffed. "And he did. Cal's dead because of him. Cal fought with him, before Scott pulled a knife on him, and stabbed him, before running off. Leaving my brother in pain. "

"Cal's been attacked. He was found stabbed. "

"That 7 lettered word changed my life forever. "

Ethan's POV

Connie and Charlie are telling me I can't go in to RESUS yet, as Cal hasn't been cleaned up. I don't care, I need to see my brother. I remember yelling at them. I walk through the double doors where Cal is lay out on the bed, I've seen dead bodies before, but never my own brother. I feel bile raise in my throat as I remember walking towards the bed, hoping this was one of Cal's jokes. He'd open his eyes and say "Hey, Nibbles, what's all the crying for?"

But he didn't open his eyes, no matter how many times I wanted him too.

"He had an incision in his chest, a ventilator down his throat, his eyes were tightly closed. He wasn't waking up. "

End of Ethan's POV

Ethan grabbed a few tissues and wiped his eyes.

"A few weeks later, there was a fight with Mickey in the ED, Scott went over the banister. "

"Was he alive?" Leigh - Ann asked.

"Yes, " Ethan nodded. "I was treating him, he was tormenting me about Cal, saying he'd asked for it. Ethan looked at Leigh - Ann. "He started choking. Normally, I'd turn the patient on their side, use the suction tube to clear their airways, but I didn't do any of these things with Scott, I walked out, leaving him to choke. "

"Keigan hasn't got a dad because of you" She shouted, when Ethan come to the end of his story, startling her son.

"I know, I'm sorry, " Ethan bowed his head in disappointment as Keigan began to cry. Leigh - Ann opened the changing bag and got a bottle out before putting the bottle in to his mouth.

Leigh Ann shifted her son to her other arm and with her other hand, slapped Ethan.

"You should be in jailed, " Leigh - Ann snarled.

"He killed my brother. " Ethan said.

"You killed my partner. " Leigh - Ann returned.

While Ethan was out of the room, most probably looking for paracteomol for his banging head, Leigh - Ann made a call. Ethan stared at the front door, he wasn't expecting anyone. He unlocked it, he always put the lock on when he was on his own. He unlocked it to reveal two officers in uniform.

"Ethan Hardy, I'm arresting you on the suspicious of murder of Scott Ellison. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not answer when questioned something which you later rely on in court, anything you do say may be given in evidence."

And the officer stepped forward, clapping the handcuffs around him as he was led out of the flat, if Cal could see him now in a weird way, he'd be proud. He was led to the car, a hand on his head so he didn't bang his head.

In the prison, he was processed, given prison clothes and led to a cell.

As the cell door closed behind him, Ethan sat on the bench and realised that he could be spending the rest of his life inside of a prison cell, he knew there would be a trial and if he was found guilty, he'd be going down for a number of years.


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