Angel In The ER
Part 7/b: "Dr. Carter"
By: Jade14
Summary: A cancer patient shakes up the ER. Part 7/b told from Dr. Carter's point of view. Read parts in order!
Rating: PG.
Disclaimer: I own nada.
Author's Notes: Excuse the medical terms, I'm no doctor, I'm only 14! Each part is told by a different person's point of view. These stories are supposed to be short, because they are small exchanges between the characters in a big story, they are not meant to stand alone. Send feedback to mara_ditullio@hotmail.com . Visit my ER web site at:
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Thanx and enjoy!
Characters You Know (So Far): Dr. Dave, Randi, Mark Greene, Malik, Kerry, Jing-Mei, Carter, Luka, Chuny, Haleh, Elizabeth, Cleo, and Benton.
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Carter walked into the parking lot with a scowl on his face.
" I can't believe I got myself dragged into this." he thought. If this Malucci girl was anything like he was when his brother Bobby was dying from leukemia, she would not be pleasant. He sure wasn't. He remembered not talking to anyone but his brother, and generally being a pain in the ass.
If the girl -what did Malucci say her name was?- was like he was, though, she was acting that way to hide all of the pain she was going through. She might need someone to talk too. Damn, what was her name?
Carter got into the car and turned on the ignition. He leaned back against the seat for a moment, waiting for the heat to block the cold of the winter months.
" At least I don't have to be at work." he thought as he put the car into drive and moved out onto the plowed road.
Carter moved into the parking lot of Sara-Charlotte Secondary School, trying to advoid the uniformed teenagers that were filing towards their cars. He had at first pulled into the primary school's lot, but quickly realized his mistake when he saw the kintergarden through eighth grade children walking out. Carter parked where Malucci told him to, then waited.
About five minutes later, a girl who looked like an older version of Skye Malucci came up to his open window.
" Isabel Malucci?" he asked. She nodded.
" Are you Dr. Carter?"
" Yes. Get in the passanger side." The girl didn't move.
" Can I see some I.D.?" Isa popped her gum. Carter sighed and reached into his back pocket for his wallet. 'Only a Malucci...' He retrieved his driver's license and showed it to Isa.
" Satisfied?" he asked her. She nodded and walked around the front of Carter's jeep. She opened the back door on the passanger side and dumped her bookbag and an worn violin case on the backseat. Then Isa climed into the front seat, put her purse on the dashboard, and buckled herself in. She looked at him.
" Are we going?"
" Where to?" Carter asked her, starting the car.
" 2802 Elmwood Ave." She fumbled around in her purse for a minute before bringing out a compact. She opened it and began to fix her hair. Carter rolled his eyes and drove onto the road.
" So what exactly are we doing here? Your dad wasn't too specific."
" We go to my house, and get clothes and toys for Skye, I change out of this school girl gitup, and you drive us back to the hospital."
" Can't you drive?" he asked her.
" No."
" How old are you?"
" 15."
" Oh."
They drove the rest of the way in silence, only speaking when Isa had to give Carter directions. They finally arived at a modest two story house, in a residential area of Chicago. They got out of the car, and Isa ran up to the front door and grabbed the mail. She looked through it while unlocking the front door. She stepped inside the house, and then looked back at Carter, who was still standing by the jeep.
" You comming?" Carter nodded and walked up the front stoop, folowing Isa into the house. He closes the front door behind him.
Carter was surprised at how well kept the house was. None of the furinature matched, and there was crayon on the walls and a couple of stains on the carpet, but it wasn't the pigstye he expected Malucci's house to be. There was no junk thrown around, everything semmed in place. Isa's voice cut into his thoughts.
" I'm going to change, can you grab a couple of outfits for Skye? Her room is up the stairs, first to the left."
"Sure.." Carter started to respond, but Isa was already gone, dissapeared into her room. He sighed and walked up the stairs.
Carter was sure he walked into the right room when he got up there. The room was painted light blue with white clouds. Sky, like her name Skye. Carter took ten minutes picking out five outfits he was pretty sure matched, and then laid them on the bed. Just as he was going to her dresser to pick out underwear and socks, Isa came into the room. She dumped a handful of toiletries onto the bed, and grabbed a suitcase from under it. She packed everything up, and grabbed a couple of toys from the shelf.
" Come on we have to go."
" Okay." Carter followed her down the hall. Just as they reached they stairs, Isa stopped.
" Damn, I forgot hair brushes. Take this to the car please? I'll be right there." She handed Carter the suitcase and went back into the bathroom.
Carter walked downstairs, to come face to face with a tall black man (think:Will Smith) that even he had to look up to. The man looked Carter over and then shouted:
" Hey, Isa, I thought your dad only let you date guys under eighteen!" Isa came out of the bathroom and walked down the stairs, brushes in hand.
" He's not my boyfriend, dumbass."
" Then who is he?"
" Dr. Carter works with Dad. Skye's sick again, and he's giving me a ride to the hospital."
" Oh. I have graveyard tonight, tell your Dad I'll be to the hospital when my shifts done, hear?" Isa nodded. " Is Claudia home yet?"
" No."
" I'll tell her when she gets home. C'ya Carter." The man walked down the basement, and Isa and Carter walked to the car.
" Who was that?" Carter asked her.
" Dad's friend Eddie. He lives in the celler."
" Oh. Who's Claudia?"
" My aunt. She lives with us too." They got in the jeep and drove off to County General. Isa turned out to be not all that bad.
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(End of Part 7/b)
~*~Notes~*~ I don't know what Carter was like when his brother died. I'm improvising. I want to get Carter together with Dave's sister in a later part. What do you think? I write the following parts after I have read the previous story's reviews, so please review and write suggestions! Thanx.
Coming Soon: Part 8: Nurses
Part 9: Dr. Kovack
Part 10: Dr. Chen
Part 11: Abby
Part 12: Dr. Benton
Part 13: Dr. Romano