Back to Your Heart
Part 14
When Susan opened the door she saw the shock of her life she saw Carter standing there with a bunch of baby things he was trying to put together before she got home
"Um surprise" he said as he saw her come in
"John I cant believe you did this, but how do you know I was pregnant?" she asked as she looked at the stuff that he had bought
"You should keep a better hold on your things" he said as he handed her the sonogram picture
"Oh John I was planning on telling you but I wasn't sure if you were going to be happy with me being pregnant" she said as she looked at the picture he had just given back to her
"Why wouldn't I be happy?" he asked
"I don't know you're kind of a complicated person," she said sitting down
"Susan I'm happy that I am going to be a dad and there is nothing that would change the way I love you," he said as he gave her a kiss
"Well now the thing is to tell the people at the hospital" she said
"I don't think we will have to worry about telling them," he said
"Yeah I'm sure everyone already knows by now," Susan said laughing. They got up from the couch and decided to put all the baby things in the extra room
"We can make this into a baby room" Carter said, as he was taking some of the stuff into the room
"What's this?" she asked finding an old box
"Let me see" he said walking over to see what she had in her hand "Oh now how did this stuff get in here
"John, are these baby pictures of you?" Susan asked
"Yes, I thought they would have taken these with them" he said looking through the box
"Well you were a cute baby" she said "I see you still kept the nice little tushie" she said as she found a naked baby picture of him
"Ha, ha, ha" he said taking the picture from him. They spent the whole night looking at old pictures of him, and they fell asleep in the room. Susan woke up the next day and felt really the nausea come
"Oh god" she said as she ran into the bathroom to throw up, Carter had heard her run into the bathroom and followed her in there
"You okay Susan?" he asked as he sat down with her next to the toilet
"Not really John" she said flushing the toilet and rinsing out her mouth "Ugh I thought I was sick when Chloe told me she was pregnant this is a lot worse" she said looking at herself in the mirror
"Nah, you will feel better take a nice shower and get ready for work," he said as he left her to her privacy
"Wish that would be the end all of it John" she said to herself as she got undressed and hopped in the shower. She got out and got ready for work "Okay you John you ready to go" she said as she was going to the door putting her earrings on
"Not yet hold on," he said as he walked out of their room putting his coat on "So are you going to call her today?" Carter asked as they drove towards work
"I don't know you think she would want to come all the way back here to do it?" Susan asked
"Hon you were one of her best friends I'm sure she would be thrilled to do it" he said as he drove into the parking garage
"Yeah I'll call her when we get home tonight" she said
"You better" he joked, "Otherwise we will have an odd ceremony without a maid of honor" he said getting out of the car
"How about you have you asked him to be your best man?" she asked as they got into the elevator
"I'm working on it I'll ask him today" he said. They got inside the ER and noticed that everyone was a little distracted and huddled around the TV
"What's going on," Susan asked
"Bad car accident Luka and Peter went out to the site it doesn't look to good" Abby said
"What are they coming here?" Carter asked
"Yeah I would say by the looks of it half an hour until they get here" Haleah said
"Well then why are we all standing around let's get stuff ready" Carter said calling the troops to order, they got all ready and were standing in wait for the first patient to come in
"Crushed injury to the right leg BP is 110/70 pulse is weak and thready diminished breath sounds on the right," the paramedic said as they wheeled the young man into Trauma 1
"All right everyone on my count 1,2,3" Carter said as they lifted the patient over
"Okay lets get a CBC chem. Panel U.A and woo I would say by the smell of his breath a tox screen," Susan said looking over the patient
"Dr. Carter can you come take a look at this lady" Lydia asked bursting through the doors
"Sure, Susan you got this?" he asked
"Yeah I got it go" she said trying to put a chest tube in
"What's going on?" Carter said as he entered the room
"30 year old female crashed right through the windshield multiple lacerations, good breath sounds but seems to be a little out of it" the second paramedic said
"Okay lets take a look," he said as he walked over to access the patient "Oh my god, Elizabeth" he said as he looked at the bloody face
"What?" Nurse Lydia said
"Its Elizabeth I can recognize that face anywhere" he said looking at her once again
"I thought she was back in England" Lilly said
"Whatever we need to save," he said as he worked on her, he was just finishing up when Susan came through the door "Did she make it?" Carter asked as he looked over into the other room
"Yeah waiting on surgery to take him up," she said "Oh my god Elizabeth?" she said looking at the body still laying on the gurney
"Yeah she is pretty lucky to be alive with a jerk like that behind the wheel," Carter said pointing at the man who was on his way up to surgery
"Stuff happens John we are just lucky that she is still alive," she said comforting him "You want to go in the lounge and get some coffee?" she asked
"Yeah that sounds good," he said taking her hand and walking into the lounge. They sat down on the couch and curled up next to each other "I love you" he said
"I love you too," she said giving him a kiss
"Please you two do you have to do that in here?" Dave asked as he walked in
"Oh well I have to go back to work anyway" Susan said as she got up
"You going to call her?" Carter asked before she walked out the door
"You are really getting bent out of shape about this John," she said as she walked back over to him "I promise I will call her I'll go do it now" she said as she kissed him "don't worry okay"
"Okay I just want things to go right the wedding is only in a couple of weeks and you still don't have a bridesmaid" he said
"It's okay I will take care of it everything will go fine I promise," she said as she headed for the door. Susan walked out of the lounged and headed for the admit area and picked up the phone "Randi how do you dial out of here?" she asked the desk clerk who was sitting there reading a magazine
"Hit nine and then dial the number," she said not looking up from her magazine
"Thanks" Susan said as she dialed the number. She waited for a while until she heard a familiar voice answer "Hi Doug how are you doing?" she asked
"I'm good Susan we haven't talked since the funeral, how are you doing?" he asked
"Good, is Carol there?" Susan asked
"Yeah sure let me get her" Doug said, Susan heard him shout for Carol, and soon she heard her on the phone
"Hey Susan" Carol said as she answered the phone
"Hey Carol, how are you?" she asked
"I'm good Susan how about you?" Carol asked
"I'm doing great that's the reason I called, Carol I'm getting married" Susan said ecstatically
"You're what!?" Carol said so loud that it made Doug jump
"I'm getting married" Susan repeated
"To Carter?" Carol asked
"Yep, anyway I was hoping that you would come and be my brides maid?" Susan asked as she felt the knot in her stomach grow bigger
"Sure Susan I would love to be" Carol said
"Thanks Carol the wedding is three weeks from tomorrow and I thought you Doug and the girls could come before and you guys could come stay with us" Susan said
"Sure I got some sick leave I can use, and I'm sure Doug would love to come out there" Carol said
"Great, thanks Carol you are a real good friend" Susan said
"Your welcome, I have to go now we got to pick the girls up from preschool so I'll talk to you later okay?" Carol said
"Sure, I'll call you tonight" Susan said
"Okay talk to you later" Carol said as she hung up the phone. She looked around and had a big smile on her face, grabbed a chart and walked off. Carter on the other hand was standing outside a door of a good friend, he was reluctant to knock but his hand suddenly banged on the door
"Come in" the voice boomed from the other side
"Hi Dr. Benton" Carter said as he entered the door
Carter come in, sit down" he said looking up from his work
"Thanks" he said as he sat down
"What do you want I'm kind of busy here got a lap-coly in fifteen minutes," Peter said
"Well Dr. Benton I am going to get married in a couple of weeks" Carter said feeling nervous
"Your what?" Peter said
"I'm getting married to Susan," he repeated
"Well congratulations man I'm happy for you" Peter said getting up to shake his hand
"Thanks Dr. Benton, what I came up here was to ask if you would be my best man" Carter said clearing his throat
"Sure Carter I would be honored to," he said
"Thank you Dr. Benton, I really appreciate you doing this" Carter said
"Your welcome Carter, I'm happy that you are finally getting settled" Peter said
"Yeah okay we are going out this weekend to pick the tuxes up and then maybe we can go get drinks or something afterwards" Carter said
"We?" Peter asked
"Yeah Luka is going to be in the wedding too so he needs a tux you know?" Carter said
"Oh okay I'll see if I can get some time off that day" Peter said
"Thank you Dr. Benton" Carter said as he walked out. The rest of the day was pretty normal and Carter headed for home
"Hi John" Susan said as he walked in
"Hey hon" he said as he gave her a long passionate kiss
"Mm, what's that for?" Susan asked
"I don't know you are too beautiful I had to come and kiss you" Carter said
"Okay I guess I will have to return the favor," she said as she gave him a long nice kiss
"So did you talk to Carol?" Carter asked as he sat down on the couch
"Yeah, they are coming up this weekend" Susan said as she joined him
"Cool, it will be good to see them again" Carter said as he wrapped his arm around her
"Yeah, did you ask Peter?" Susan asked
"Yep he will be happy to do it" Carter said
"Good" Susan said as they laid there and watched TV
Part 14
When Susan opened the door she saw the shock of her life she saw Carter standing there with a bunch of baby things he was trying to put together before she got home
"Um surprise" he said as he saw her come in
"John I cant believe you did this, but how do you know I was pregnant?" she asked as she looked at the stuff that he had bought
"You should keep a better hold on your things" he said as he handed her the sonogram picture
"Oh John I was planning on telling you but I wasn't sure if you were going to be happy with me being pregnant" she said as she looked at the picture he had just given back to her
"Why wouldn't I be happy?" he asked
"I don't know you're kind of a complicated person," she said sitting down
"Susan I'm happy that I am going to be a dad and there is nothing that would change the way I love you," he said as he gave her a kiss
"Well now the thing is to tell the people at the hospital" she said
"I don't think we will have to worry about telling them," he said
"Yeah I'm sure everyone already knows by now," Susan said laughing. They got up from the couch and decided to put all the baby things in the extra room
"We can make this into a baby room" Carter said, as he was taking some of the stuff into the room
"What's this?" she asked finding an old box
"Let me see" he said walking over to see what she had in her hand "Oh now how did this stuff get in here
"John, are these baby pictures of you?" Susan asked
"Yes, I thought they would have taken these with them" he said looking through the box
"Well you were a cute baby" she said "I see you still kept the nice little tushie" she said as she found a naked baby picture of him
"Ha, ha, ha" he said taking the picture from him. They spent the whole night looking at old pictures of him, and they fell asleep in the room. Susan woke up the next day and felt really the nausea come
"Oh god" she said as she ran into the bathroom to throw up, Carter had heard her run into the bathroom and followed her in there
"You okay Susan?" he asked as he sat down with her next to the toilet
"Not really John" she said flushing the toilet and rinsing out her mouth "Ugh I thought I was sick when Chloe told me she was pregnant this is a lot worse" she said looking at herself in the mirror
"Nah, you will feel better take a nice shower and get ready for work," he said as he left her to her privacy
"Wish that would be the end all of it John" she said to herself as she got undressed and hopped in the shower. She got out and got ready for work "Okay you John you ready to go" she said as she was going to the door putting her earrings on
"Not yet hold on," he said as he walked out of their room putting his coat on "So are you going to call her today?" Carter asked as they drove towards work
"I don't know you think she would want to come all the way back here to do it?" Susan asked
"Hon you were one of her best friends I'm sure she would be thrilled to do it" he said as he drove into the parking garage
"Yeah I'll call her when we get home tonight" she said
"You better" he joked, "Otherwise we will have an odd ceremony without a maid of honor" he said getting out of the car
"How about you have you asked him to be your best man?" she asked as they got into the elevator
"I'm working on it I'll ask him today" he said. They got inside the ER and noticed that everyone was a little distracted and huddled around the TV
"What's going on," Susan asked
"Bad car accident Luka and Peter went out to the site it doesn't look to good" Abby said
"What are they coming here?" Carter asked
"Yeah I would say by the looks of it half an hour until they get here" Haleah said
"Well then why are we all standing around let's get stuff ready" Carter said calling the troops to order, they got all ready and were standing in wait for the first patient to come in
"Crushed injury to the right leg BP is 110/70 pulse is weak and thready diminished breath sounds on the right," the paramedic said as they wheeled the young man into Trauma 1
"All right everyone on my count 1,2,3" Carter said as they lifted the patient over
"Okay lets get a CBC chem. Panel U.A and woo I would say by the smell of his breath a tox screen," Susan said looking over the patient
"Dr. Carter can you come take a look at this lady" Lydia asked bursting through the doors
"Sure, Susan you got this?" he asked
"Yeah I got it go" she said trying to put a chest tube in
"What's going on?" Carter said as he entered the room
"30 year old female crashed right through the windshield multiple lacerations, good breath sounds but seems to be a little out of it" the second paramedic said
"Okay lets take a look," he said as he walked over to access the patient "Oh my god, Elizabeth" he said as he looked at the bloody face
"What?" Nurse Lydia said
"Its Elizabeth I can recognize that face anywhere" he said looking at her once again
"I thought she was back in England" Lilly said
"Whatever we need to save," he said as he worked on her, he was just finishing up when Susan came through the door "Did she make it?" Carter asked as he looked over into the other room
"Yeah waiting on surgery to take him up," she said "Oh my god Elizabeth?" she said looking at the body still laying on the gurney
"Yeah she is pretty lucky to be alive with a jerk like that behind the wheel," Carter said pointing at the man who was on his way up to surgery
"Stuff happens John we are just lucky that she is still alive," she said comforting him "You want to go in the lounge and get some coffee?" she asked
"Yeah that sounds good," he said taking her hand and walking into the lounge. They sat down on the couch and curled up next to each other "I love you" he said
"I love you too," she said giving him a kiss
"Please you two do you have to do that in here?" Dave asked as he walked in
"Oh well I have to go back to work anyway" Susan said as she got up
"You going to call her?" Carter asked before she walked out the door
"You are really getting bent out of shape about this John," she said as she walked back over to him "I promise I will call her I'll go do it now" she said as she kissed him "don't worry okay"
"Okay I just want things to go right the wedding is only in a couple of weeks and you still don't have a bridesmaid" he said
"It's okay I will take care of it everything will go fine I promise," she said as she headed for the door. Susan walked out of the lounged and headed for the admit area and picked up the phone "Randi how do you dial out of here?" she asked the desk clerk who was sitting there reading a magazine
"Hit nine and then dial the number," she said not looking up from her magazine
"Thanks" Susan said as she dialed the number. She waited for a while until she heard a familiar voice answer "Hi Doug how are you doing?" she asked
"I'm good Susan we haven't talked since the funeral, how are you doing?" he asked
"Good, is Carol there?" Susan asked
"Yeah sure let me get her" Doug said, Susan heard him shout for Carol, and soon she heard her on the phone
"Hey Susan" Carol said as she answered the phone
"Hey Carol, how are you?" she asked
"I'm good Susan how about you?" Carol asked
"I'm doing great that's the reason I called, Carol I'm getting married" Susan said ecstatically
"You're what!?" Carol said so loud that it made Doug jump
"I'm getting married" Susan repeated
"To Carter?" Carol asked
"Yep, anyway I was hoping that you would come and be my brides maid?" Susan asked as she felt the knot in her stomach grow bigger
"Sure Susan I would love to be" Carol said
"Thanks Carol the wedding is three weeks from tomorrow and I thought you Doug and the girls could come before and you guys could come stay with us" Susan said
"Sure I got some sick leave I can use, and I'm sure Doug would love to come out there" Carol said
"Great, thanks Carol you are a real good friend" Susan said
"Your welcome, I have to go now we got to pick the girls up from preschool so I'll talk to you later okay?" Carol said
"Sure, I'll call you tonight" Susan said
"Okay talk to you later" Carol said as she hung up the phone. She looked around and had a big smile on her face, grabbed a chart and walked off. Carter on the other hand was standing outside a door of a good friend, he was reluctant to knock but his hand suddenly banged on the door
"Come in" the voice boomed from the other side
"Hi Dr. Benton" Carter said as he entered the door
Carter come in, sit down" he said looking up from his work
"Thanks" he said as he sat down
"What do you want I'm kind of busy here got a lap-coly in fifteen minutes," Peter said
"Well Dr. Benton I am going to get married in a couple of weeks" Carter said feeling nervous
"Your what?" Peter said
"I'm getting married to Susan," he repeated
"Well congratulations man I'm happy for you" Peter said getting up to shake his hand
"Thanks Dr. Benton, what I came up here was to ask if you would be my best man" Carter said clearing his throat
"Sure Carter I would be honored to," he said
"Thank you Dr. Benton, I really appreciate you doing this" Carter said
"Your welcome Carter, I'm happy that you are finally getting settled" Peter said
"Yeah okay we are going out this weekend to pick the tuxes up and then maybe we can go get drinks or something afterwards" Carter said
"We?" Peter asked
"Yeah Luka is going to be in the wedding too so he needs a tux you know?" Carter said
"Oh okay I'll see if I can get some time off that day" Peter said
"Thank you Dr. Benton" Carter said as he walked out. The rest of the day was pretty normal and Carter headed for home
"Hi John" Susan said as he walked in
"Hey hon" he said as he gave her a long passionate kiss
"Mm, what's that for?" Susan asked
"I don't know you are too beautiful I had to come and kiss you" Carter said
"Okay I guess I will have to return the favor," she said as she gave him a long nice kiss
"So did you talk to Carol?" Carter asked as he sat down on the couch
"Yeah, they are coming up this weekend" Susan said as she joined him
"Cool, it will be good to see them again" Carter said as he wrapped his arm around her
"Yeah, did you ask Peter?" Susan asked
"Yep he will be happy to do it" Carter said
"Good" Susan said as they laid there and watched TV