Chapter 6


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By Neryl

Meanwhile, in the lounge, Carter and Luka were chatting and drinking.
Carter : This liqueur is a bit strong, isn't it?
Luka : Yes, it's the interest.
In fact they had been there for an hour and it wasn't their first glass.
Luka : You know what?
Carter : No...Tell me!
Luka : I was fed up with the image I gave in Croatia. For I was a go-go dancer, people... thought I was only a sex symbol. I ... I suffered too much.
Carter : That's why you left your country?
Luka : Yes. I've al...
Carter : Life is very very very very complicated...
Luka : ...always dreamt to be an actor.
Carter : ...I wanted to be a singer...
Luka : ...But now people compare me to Ross...
Carter : ...Like Michael Jackson....
Luka : I'm fed up with it...
Suddenly Carter got up, took off his lab-coat, took a salad spinner that was drawing along, put it on his head and started to sing and dance.
Carter : HEY BILLIE JEAN...
Luka : He's so handsome. I'm not up to it.
While Carter was trying to do a kind of moonwalk, Luka took a sheet. He climbed on a chair, hung one end of the sheet to the ceiling and rolled the other around his neck.
Carter : HEAL THE WOOOOORLD....
Then the chair fell...

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By Morphea
(don't tell me I'm supposed to save him AGAIN?!?)

Carter suddenly stopped singing and moonwalking.
Carter : Maybe it would have been nice to be an actor too... Yeah, like Sean Connery as James Bond! I would have fight Goldfingers, or Dr NĂ´!
Then Carter, completely drunk, turned toward Luka and saw him hung to the sheet.
Carter : Aha! A young lady in distress!
Carter took a nearby scalpel and staggered toward Luka. Then, he waved hesitantly the scalpel toward him.
Carter : Er... Which one of you two is Luka? That doesn't really matter in fact... I'll just cut both sheets...
Both Luka(s) answered : That's ok Carter. The sheet was two long anyway. I didn't manage to hang myself.
Carter : So, you ok man?
Luka : Yeah, I'm ok.
Luka removed the sheet from around his neck.
Luka : I'll just have to continue my poor life... To continue enduring the comparisons with that... that... pediatrician...
Carter : Lukaaaa, my frieeeend!!
Carter taped him friendly on the shoulder and on the cheek.
Luka : Geez, Carter, you've got cold fingers!
Carter, still remembering his I-am-James-Bond dream, began to sing : COOOOOOLD FINGEEEERS...


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By Neryl

And on the roof, the weather was more than fine. A mod of lions was resting in the shade of trees, the cheetah was running after the graceful antelope, several hippopotamus were wading in the mud and pink flamingos were quenching their thirst. There was even a python next to a liana. In fact they were so close that anyone could mistake them. Everything was quiet in the jungle (except for the graceful antelope) (who's no longer very graceful). As for Elizabeth and Romano, they had taken refuge in a big tree one day ago. After a long run through the jungle, pursued by a mad panther, they had no choice but climbing in a tree. Now they were looking at the panther they called Kerry - because it limped - wondering when it would move.
Suddenly, the flamingos flew away, the lion, the hippopotamus, the cheetah (despite its recent meal) and Kerry ran off. Romano and Elizabeth had taken advantage of this flight to come down from their tree. At that moment, they felt an earthquake.
Romano : Do you think the Cook County building is up to standard?
Elizabeth : I think it's not really our first concern...

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By Morphea

Romano : Why? We're on the roof, and if the building collapses we'll probably collapse with it.
Elisabeth : I still think that's not our first concern.
Romano : That's why I'm the chief and you're not.
Elisabeth : Is that also why you arrived here in boxers? Come on, you see that thing there?
Romano : Um... You mean... that mysterious shadow in the dark with glowing eyes, hidden behind the electricity pylon? Um... Yeah, you're probably right... Maybe THAT is our first concern...
Elisabeth : And now, Mr "I'm the boss", what should we do?
Romano : Well... What about climbing back on the tree?
Elisabeth : Good idea, for once.
Elisabeth ran for the nearest liana and began to climb. Romano did the same, and grabbed the other liana. Well, the python in fact. Surprised to be so suddenly almost strangled, the python let go the branch he was hung to, and Romano fell heavily on the floor. When he looked up again, two green eyes were looking at him closely. Two glowing green eyes.
Romano, hesitantly : Er... Lizzy? Someone? Er... Help?


Kerry - Weaver, not the panther - was walking in an ER hallway. A satisfaction smile appeared on her face when she saw Dave still running with the suitcase in his arms. Good boy.
Kerry walked into exam 1, where she had left Mark and Peter unconscious almost one hour before. She saw both of them sitting on a gurney, laughing stupidly. Benton was holding a kind of cigarette.
Weaver asked suspiciously : What's that?
Benton : 'That' what?
Kerry : That thing you're holding.
Benton : Never seen a cigarette?
Mark, to Benton : Hey, my turn!! Hihihihihiii...
Mark took the so-called cigarette and took a puff at it.
Mark : Hihihiiihiihi...
Kerry : First, you're not supposed to smoke within the hospital, and second, THAT isn't a cigarette.
Benton : I think the Mad Doctor isn't used to those...
Kerry : Stop smoking that joint! You're doctors!!
Benton : Wanna try?
Mark : Hihihihiihihi...
Kerry : Give me that immediately!
Mark : Yes ma'am. Hihihihihi...
Mark hid the joint behind his back.
Kerry : I really can't let you two alone one minute!! Come on Mark, behave!
Kerry eventually managed to take the 'cigarette' from behind Mark's back. Mark made a pout.
Mark : Killjoy.


Meanwhile, Dave was still running. In fact, he got a bit lost. He remembered turning left after the coffee machine, climbing a few stairs, running around a little bit, turning right after the plant, climbing a few other stairs, and he had finished up in an obviously hostile jungle. But no matter how hostile that jungle was, he had to go on running, otherwise the bomb in the suitcase would explode.
So Dave kept on running, and running...until his foot suddenly got caught in a recalcitrant root... He gasped in horror as he began to fall, letting go the suitcase. It opened on its own, and the missile engaged itself on its own too (it's magic)(don't mess with Dave Coperfield), and flew away, disappearing far behind the electricity pylon.
Dave picked himself up, and heard a loud 'boom'. A few seconds later, he saw Romano and Elisabeth walking toward him.
Romano : Good job Malatucci with that missile! You killed that ugly beast!
Dave : It was a missile?? I thought it was a bomb?
Elisabeth : By the way, Dave, how did you manage to get to the roof?
Dave : We're on the roof??
Elisabeth : Yeah, the door was locked!
Dave : What door?
Elisabeth : The roof's door!
Romano : Malatucci, do you remember how you got here?
Dave : Huh? I don't know, I was just running!
Elisabeth : You mean, you don't remember?
Dave : Should I?
Elisabeth : Don't tell me we're still stuck on the roof?
Dave : What, you mean we're stuck here?
Lizzy and Romano sighed simultaneously.


FIN.

Well, for the moment...
We've begun to think of other stories, so you'll probably hear of us soon, but maybe we'll write a sequel to this one.

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(Hey, wanna know what's on TV here next Sunday evening? THREE EPISODES OF ER!!! And we'll have 3 of them EVERY SUNDAY during ALL THE SUMMER!! Seasons 4 and 5!! And maybe even season 6! And season 7 (at last!!) in October!! :-)))