***********************
"Tonight was nice." Abby smiles at John laying in his arms
"Tonight was very nice." John agrees holding her closer
"Did I get your mind off your problems?" Abby asks coyly
"Definitely did." John replies kissing her head.
"You hungry?" Abby asks getting up and pulling on a long t-shirt.
"Actually yea." John smiles, he leans over and grabs the remote and turns on the t.v as the phone rings. "Hello? Dr. Green hey……the news? No I just turned the t.v. on……all right I'll check it out why?"
Abby walks in and leans against the door frame.
"How do you know?" John asks sitting up "Oh, right, right. No thanks for calling. It's not your fault you didn't know earlier and it was her choice anyway. Thanks though." John hangs up the phone as Abby crawls back into bed.
"Why did he call you?"
"My sister's apartment building." John motions to the t.v.
"That's the one we passed on the way to dinner." Abby says wide-eyed "Is she all right?"
"Yea Mark treated her, she's fine." John replies "She left already but she's fine."
"You're getting closer John" Abby comforts him "Think of it that way."
"I know."
"Why don't you call your parents and tell them what's going on." Abby suggests
"My parents? No that's not a good idea." John laughs
"All right what about your grandmother?"
John considers it. "Not yet, but if I call anyone I'll call her first." He rationalizes
"Good enough for me." Abby says "I'm going to get the food, don't go anywhere." She warns getting up
*****************
Jamie walks through the emergency entrance of the hospital and goes over to the desk.
"Hey" She greets Malik no one else is around
"Can I help you?" Malik looks up "Weren't you here before?"
Jamie laughs "Which time? Listen I left my cell here, I don't remember which room. Could you look for me I don't want to go prying around I'm sure other people are occupying the rooms by now."
"Sure, I'll be right back." Malik disappears around the corner and Jamie goes behind the counter and starts typing on the computer. She grabs a pen and a piece of paper off the desk and scribbles something down and runs out.
"Sorry no cells, but you can ask-" Malik stops looking around "Where'd she go?" He wonders aloud.
***************
The phone rings and John grabs it up on the first ring "Hello?" He hangs up
"Who was that?" Abby asks sleepily
"Don't know, they hung up." John replies getting back under the covers
"Probably a kid with too much time on their hands" Abby mutters falling back asleep.
******************
Jamie sighs and hangs up the pay phone and walks away and goes into a diner across the street.
"Can I help you?" The guy at the counter asks
"I'll have a coffee and soup"
"Coming right up" The guy disappears and returns with the food a few minutes later. "So why are you here?"
"What's that mean?" Jamie asks
"Look around sweetie, you don't fit into this crowd."
Jamie looks around at the burly truckers catching a quick late dinner before heading back onto the road. "I guess I don't" She smiles weakly
"So why are you here?"
"Got no place to stay tonight." Jamie says simply
"You're not homeless, no too clean cut and well rounded for that. So what is it?"
"I can't seem to stay grounded in a house long enough" Jamie replies
"You mean like you've had houses but no homes?" The man asks "By the way I'm Chuck"
"Jamie, and that's exactly what it's like"
"I know the feeling, been there done that. Just don't drop out of school all right?"
"I'm a med-student" Jamie replies
"Good for you, one less derelict in this world is just what we truly need." Chuck replies "It's on me tonight."
"Thanks." Jamie says getting up
"Jamie" Chuck says and she turns "Call someone, don't stay out on the streets tonight."
Jamie nods as she goes out of the diner. She glances once more at John's apartment building before shoving her hands in her pockets and moving on.
"You're back!" Amanda exclaims "It's three in the morning where the hell have you been? Are you hurt?"
"Did Shane come around?" Jamie asks walking in
"Yes, drunk as hell too. What happened tonight? You're apartment went up in flames, you've got to get away from Shane."
"You know I owe Shane everything, I wouldn't be in college if it weren't for him."
"You might also be home still, in your first year of college like me." Amanda retorts
"It wasn't what I wanted."
"Yea but getting smacked around is?" Amanda narrows her eyes "If you don't do something soon Jamie, I will."
"No you wont" Jamie says sitting on Amanda's bed "You already would of by now then"
"You're hurt" Amanda says standing over her.
"It's no big deal." Jamie shrugs
"You know sometimes I wish I was pre-med so I could know if you were lying or not." Amanda replies frustrated.
"But you're not."
"So does that mean you're lying?"
"I doesn't matter." Jamie shrugs, then she looks serious for a moment "I know where John is."
"That's great you can call him and he'll help you. You know he would."
"Right, two years ago he wanted me back, not anymore, not after all the trouble I caused with the family. Besides my family will hate you then after all those lies you told saying you didn't know where I was."
Amanda cringes in remembrance "That was a long time ago."
"Too long." Jamie looks in the full length mirror at herself "Want to know the truth? I broke a rib maybe more than one, but if I'm careful it should heal."
"And if you're not?"
"Internal bleeding, or one could collapse a lung."
"What else?" Amanda asks
"What do you mean what else?"
"Jamie."
"I got contusions on my collar bone and back. A sprained ankle maybe a hairline fracture. I don't want to get into all the gory details."
Amanda shakes her head "I don't know what's happening, it was never like this."
Jamie turns around and walks over to Amanda "It's always been I just hid it from you."
"Don't go back."
"I can't promise you that. Besides I don't want Shane to get really mad and hurt you."
"What about you?"
"Don't worry about me." Jamie assures her. "I got to go, I just wanted to check up on you. Don't worry it'll be daylight soon. I'll be fine."
Too tired to protest Amanda watches helplessly as Jamie strides out of the room.
*****************
"Where have you been" Shane grabs Amanda's arm and pulls her into an ally.
"Around Shane" Jamie smiles "Whoa you're really hammered." She laughs
"Don't mock me." He grabs her arm and pushes her against the wall.
"You know I'm getting really sick of this Shane, really sick of this shit. I know I've said it before, but this time when I leave and I walk away and you watch my back, I'm not coming back."
"I'd like to see that."
"So now, let me go." Jamie wrenches his grip off of her and starts to walks away
After he recovered from the shock of Jamie's boldness Shane goes after her and throws her against the wall. Jamie gasps as the wind gets knocked out of her.
"See you around Jamie." Shane walks away tripping over himself due to the fact of how drunk he is.
Jamie cringes and stands up slowly and starts walking in the opposite direction. She knew she should go back to Amanda's dorm but she couldn't do it. A few minutes later she looked up and saw the same diner she had been in not to long ago. She crossed the street slowly and walked back over to the pay phone.
"Hello?" Abby asks picking it up "Hello?" Then hangs it up
"Who is it?" John asks coming out of the bathroom
"Kids must really like pranking your house." Abby jokes
************
Jamie hangs up and dials again slowly this time so she doesn't mess up the number again.
************
The phone rings again this time John answers it. "Hello?…..Hello?"
"John?" A small and tired voice asked hopefully
"Who is this?"
"Don't even recognize your own sister's voice?" Jamie half jokes before she starts to cough.
"Are you all right?" John asks worriedly
"Define all right" Jamie says then sighs "Not really."
'Where are you, I'll come get you." John says getting up and pulling his pants on
"You wouldn't have to come that far." Jamie replies
"Where are you?"
"Outside your apartment building." Jamie replies carefully
"Ill be right down." John quickly fills Abby in and runs outside.
"Jamie" John rushes over to her
Jamie steps back "Don't hug me" She tells him
"What's wrong?"
"It's not that, I just, it hurts" Jamie says trying to get it out without alarming him
"Why don't we all go inside?" Abby suggests
"Yea come on." John leads her upstairs to his apartment. "How'd you find out where I live? I'm not listed."
"I looked in the computer in the hospital." Jamie replies
"She's smart." Abby comments
"You talked to Mark right? I mean you know about the apartment and him treating me and Abby and my running away and-"
"Getting emancipated? Yea I know all about that…I also know about you getting into college. Mark said something about a full scholarship."
"Yea." Jamie nods
"So where do you live."
"I did live with Shane."
"Who's Shane?" John asks
"My ex, but I don't live with him anymore, and not because of the fire."
Abby looks at Jamie carefully trying to figure out what's going on. "You look pale."
Jamie glances at Abby "It's been a long-"
"Night?" John asks
"-year and eight months" Jamie finishes
"I can't lose my scholarship John, and I can't take on more hours and I can't go back to my apartment. You don't even know the half of it. I found the exact world mom and dad we're trying to shelter me from." Jamie says shaking her head.
"What are you talking about?" John asks
"You'd think I'd be smart enough, accomplishing what I have. Mom and dad would of never let me do what I did if I stayed home, you understand that right?"
"Yea but it's been almost two years." John replies
"Are you hurt?" Abby interrupts suddenly
Jamie nods
"I thought so. Was it Shane?"
Jamie nods again fighting back tears. "I couldn't leave if I did I'd lose my scholarship and I wasn't eighteen at the time and if I didn't have a permanent residence I'd have to go home or to a group home for run away teens. I didn't have a choice."
"You always have a choice Jamie!" John says aggravated
"Not all of us do." Jamie disagrees
"Deal with that later John" Abby hisses "What's-"
Jamie kneels down holding her side in pain crying to herself.
John kneels down next to her and checks her side. "There might be internal bleeding, we've got to get to the hospital now." He grabs his keys and he brings Jamie to the hospital.
****************
"How is she?" John asks Elizabeth as she walks out of the operating room.
"The bleedings stopped, but she's got a numerous amount of other injuries, she's lucky she finally came to her senses." Elizabeth says solemnly
"Yea lucky. Is she in a room yet?"
"Yes down the hall."
"Thanks Elizabeth." John says going to her room.
***********
"John?" Jamie asks waking up a few hours later.
"I'm right here."
"Can you believe all this happened in one night? It's surreal. It's everything I said I wouldn't let happen."
"Talking to me again?"
"Ending it with Shane for good, letting him hurt me this bad. Reaching the end of my rope. I had every intention of calling you up one day. I didn't plan on it being like this though."
"I didn't have it depicted this way either." John agrees "How are you feeling?"
"Numb"
"Then the medicine is working."
"Most definitely…… so do we go and talk to mom and dad now?"
"I was thinking more on the lines of starting out with our grandmother. Mom and dad are split up."
"We knew that one was coming." Jamie laughs "So when do we go see her?"
"When you're out of here and better." John replies
"All right" Jamie agrees falling back asleep.
John leans over and kisses her on the head and turns off the light. He would be getting on duty in a few hours.
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"Tonight was nice." Abby smiles at John laying in his arms
"Tonight was very nice." John agrees holding her closer
"Did I get your mind off your problems?" Abby asks coyly
"Definitely did." John replies kissing her head.
"You hungry?" Abby asks getting up and pulling on a long t-shirt.
"Actually yea." John smiles, he leans over and grabs the remote and turns on the t.v as the phone rings. "Hello? Dr. Green hey……the news? No I just turned the t.v. on……all right I'll check it out why?"
Abby walks in and leans against the door frame.
"How do you know?" John asks sitting up "Oh, right, right. No thanks for calling. It's not your fault you didn't know earlier and it was her choice anyway. Thanks though." John hangs up the phone as Abby crawls back into bed.
"Why did he call you?"
"My sister's apartment building." John motions to the t.v.
"That's the one we passed on the way to dinner." Abby says wide-eyed "Is she all right?"
"Yea Mark treated her, she's fine." John replies "She left already but she's fine."
"You're getting closer John" Abby comforts him "Think of it that way."
"I know."
"Why don't you call your parents and tell them what's going on." Abby suggests
"My parents? No that's not a good idea." John laughs
"All right what about your grandmother?"
John considers it. "Not yet, but if I call anyone I'll call her first." He rationalizes
"Good enough for me." Abby says "I'm going to get the food, don't go anywhere." She warns getting up
*****************
Jamie walks through the emergency entrance of the hospital and goes over to the desk.
"Hey" She greets Malik no one else is around
"Can I help you?" Malik looks up "Weren't you here before?"
Jamie laughs "Which time? Listen I left my cell here, I don't remember which room. Could you look for me I don't want to go prying around I'm sure other people are occupying the rooms by now."
"Sure, I'll be right back." Malik disappears around the corner and Jamie goes behind the counter and starts typing on the computer. She grabs a pen and a piece of paper off the desk and scribbles something down and runs out.
"Sorry no cells, but you can ask-" Malik stops looking around "Where'd she go?" He wonders aloud.
***************
The phone rings and John grabs it up on the first ring "Hello?" He hangs up
"Who was that?" Abby asks sleepily
"Don't know, they hung up." John replies getting back under the covers
"Probably a kid with too much time on their hands" Abby mutters falling back asleep.
******************
Jamie sighs and hangs up the pay phone and walks away and goes into a diner across the street.
"Can I help you?" The guy at the counter asks
"I'll have a coffee and soup"
"Coming right up" The guy disappears and returns with the food a few minutes later. "So why are you here?"
"What's that mean?" Jamie asks
"Look around sweetie, you don't fit into this crowd."
Jamie looks around at the burly truckers catching a quick late dinner before heading back onto the road. "I guess I don't" She smiles weakly
"So why are you here?"
"Got no place to stay tonight." Jamie says simply
"You're not homeless, no too clean cut and well rounded for that. So what is it?"
"I can't seem to stay grounded in a house long enough" Jamie replies
"You mean like you've had houses but no homes?" The man asks "By the way I'm Chuck"
"Jamie, and that's exactly what it's like"
"I know the feeling, been there done that. Just don't drop out of school all right?"
"I'm a med-student" Jamie replies
"Good for you, one less derelict in this world is just what we truly need." Chuck replies "It's on me tonight."
"Thanks." Jamie says getting up
"Jamie" Chuck says and she turns "Call someone, don't stay out on the streets tonight."
Jamie nods as she goes out of the diner. She glances once more at John's apartment building before shoving her hands in her pockets and moving on.
"You're back!" Amanda exclaims "It's three in the morning where the hell have you been? Are you hurt?"
"Did Shane come around?" Jamie asks walking in
"Yes, drunk as hell too. What happened tonight? You're apartment went up in flames, you've got to get away from Shane."
"You know I owe Shane everything, I wouldn't be in college if it weren't for him."
"You might also be home still, in your first year of college like me." Amanda retorts
"It wasn't what I wanted."
"Yea but getting smacked around is?" Amanda narrows her eyes "If you don't do something soon Jamie, I will."
"No you wont" Jamie says sitting on Amanda's bed "You already would of by now then"
"You're hurt" Amanda says standing over her.
"It's no big deal." Jamie shrugs
"You know sometimes I wish I was pre-med so I could know if you were lying or not." Amanda replies frustrated.
"But you're not."
"So does that mean you're lying?"
"I doesn't matter." Jamie shrugs, then she looks serious for a moment "I know where John is."
"That's great you can call him and he'll help you. You know he would."
"Right, two years ago he wanted me back, not anymore, not after all the trouble I caused with the family. Besides my family will hate you then after all those lies you told saying you didn't know where I was."
Amanda cringes in remembrance "That was a long time ago."
"Too long." Jamie looks in the full length mirror at herself "Want to know the truth? I broke a rib maybe more than one, but if I'm careful it should heal."
"And if you're not?"
"Internal bleeding, or one could collapse a lung."
"What else?" Amanda asks
"What do you mean what else?"
"Jamie."
"I got contusions on my collar bone and back. A sprained ankle maybe a hairline fracture. I don't want to get into all the gory details."
Amanda shakes her head "I don't know what's happening, it was never like this."
Jamie turns around and walks over to Amanda "It's always been I just hid it from you."
"Don't go back."
"I can't promise you that. Besides I don't want Shane to get really mad and hurt you."
"What about you?"
"Don't worry about me." Jamie assures her. "I got to go, I just wanted to check up on you. Don't worry it'll be daylight soon. I'll be fine."
Too tired to protest Amanda watches helplessly as Jamie strides out of the room.
*****************
"Where have you been" Shane grabs Amanda's arm and pulls her into an ally.
"Around Shane" Jamie smiles "Whoa you're really hammered." She laughs
"Don't mock me." He grabs her arm and pushes her against the wall.
"You know I'm getting really sick of this Shane, really sick of this shit. I know I've said it before, but this time when I leave and I walk away and you watch my back, I'm not coming back."
"I'd like to see that."
"So now, let me go." Jamie wrenches his grip off of her and starts to walks away
After he recovered from the shock of Jamie's boldness Shane goes after her and throws her against the wall. Jamie gasps as the wind gets knocked out of her.
"See you around Jamie." Shane walks away tripping over himself due to the fact of how drunk he is.
Jamie cringes and stands up slowly and starts walking in the opposite direction. She knew she should go back to Amanda's dorm but she couldn't do it. A few minutes later she looked up and saw the same diner she had been in not to long ago. She crossed the street slowly and walked back over to the pay phone.
"Hello?" Abby asks picking it up "Hello?" Then hangs it up
"Who is it?" John asks coming out of the bathroom
"Kids must really like pranking your house." Abby jokes
************
Jamie hangs up and dials again slowly this time so she doesn't mess up the number again.
************
The phone rings again this time John answers it. "Hello?…..Hello?"
"John?" A small and tired voice asked hopefully
"Who is this?"
"Don't even recognize your own sister's voice?" Jamie half jokes before she starts to cough.
"Are you all right?" John asks worriedly
"Define all right" Jamie says then sighs "Not really."
'Where are you, I'll come get you." John says getting up and pulling his pants on
"You wouldn't have to come that far." Jamie replies
"Where are you?"
"Outside your apartment building." Jamie replies carefully
"Ill be right down." John quickly fills Abby in and runs outside.
"Jamie" John rushes over to her
Jamie steps back "Don't hug me" She tells him
"What's wrong?"
"It's not that, I just, it hurts" Jamie says trying to get it out without alarming him
"Why don't we all go inside?" Abby suggests
"Yea come on." John leads her upstairs to his apartment. "How'd you find out where I live? I'm not listed."
"I looked in the computer in the hospital." Jamie replies
"She's smart." Abby comments
"You talked to Mark right? I mean you know about the apartment and him treating me and Abby and my running away and-"
"Getting emancipated? Yea I know all about that…I also know about you getting into college. Mark said something about a full scholarship."
"Yea." Jamie nods
"So where do you live."
"I did live with Shane."
"Who's Shane?" John asks
"My ex, but I don't live with him anymore, and not because of the fire."
Abby looks at Jamie carefully trying to figure out what's going on. "You look pale."
Jamie glances at Abby "It's been a long-"
"Night?" John asks
"-year and eight months" Jamie finishes
"I can't lose my scholarship John, and I can't take on more hours and I can't go back to my apartment. You don't even know the half of it. I found the exact world mom and dad we're trying to shelter me from." Jamie says shaking her head.
"What are you talking about?" John asks
"You'd think I'd be smart enough, accomplishing what I have. Mom and dad would of never let me do what I did if I stayed home, you understand that right?"
"Yea but it's been almost two years." John replies
"Are you hurt?" Abby interrupts suddenly
Jamie nods
"I thought so. Was it Shane?"
Jamie nods again fighting back tears. "I couldn't leave if I did I'd lose my scholarship and I wasn't eighteen at the time and if I didn't have a permanent residence I'd have to go home or to a group home for run away teens. I didn't have a choice."
"You always have a choice Jamie!" John says aggravated
"Not all of us do." Jamie disagrees
"Deal with that later John" Abby hisses "What's-"
Jamie kneels down holding her side in pain crying to herself.
John kneels down next to her and checks her side. "There might be internal bleeding, we've got to get to the hospital now." He grabs his keys and he brings Jamie to the hospital.
****************
"How is she?" John asks Elizabeth as she walks out of the operating room.
"The bleedings stopped, but she's got a numerous amount of other injuries, she's lucky she finally came to her senses." Elizabeth says solemnly
"Yea lucky. Is she in a room yet?"
"Yes down the hall."
"Thanks Elizabeth." John says going to her room.
***********
"John?" Jamie asks waking up a few hours later.
"I'm right here."
"Can you believe all this happened in one night? It's surreal. It's everything I said I wouldn't let happen."
"Talking to me again?"
"Ending it with Shane for good, letting him hurt me this bad. Reaching the end of my rope. I had every intention of calling you up one day. I didn't plan on it being like this though."
"I didn't have it depicted this way either." John agrees "How are you feeling?"
"Numb"
"Then the medicine is working."
"Most definitely…… so do we go and talk to mom and dad now?"
"I was thinking more on the lines of starting out with our grandmother. Mom and dad are split up."
"We knew that one was coming." Jamie laughs "So when do we go see her?"
"When you're out of here and better." John replies
"All right" Jamie agrees falling back asleep.
John leans over and kisses her on the head and turns off the light. He would be getting on duty in a few hours.
OK so anymore? Or is it good or did it completely suck? LOL this was my first ER fic and it was a little experimental so I hope it didn't suck….please R&R
