Harry sat in I.C.U listening to the noise of the various machines around the bed. Lara had only just survived the attack and they still weren't sure that she was clear of having lasting damage from the knock on the back of her head. She had been heavily sedated for the past three days and today was the day she was coming round. D.I Collier's crashed car had been found later that night. In his haste to leave the scene of the crime he had not been concentrating on driving his car and was in a head on collision with a lorry, death had been instantaneous. The figure in the bed stirred and tried to sit up. "Lara, it's all right, your in I.C.U. don't try to sit up" "Harry, what day is it, why am I here, what happened?" Lara sounded groggy but Harry was grateful that she was still able to talk to him. "It's Thursday, you've been unconscious for three days now" Harry still couldn't find the words to tell her why he was really here. "What happened, why am I here?" she repeated, "I don't understand, there was a knock at the door, I opened it and now I'm here, what's going on?" "You were attacked and stabbed at home on Sunday night, it was David Collier, his car ran into a lorry and he had a knife with your blood on it on the back seat, you're lucky Dillon came to visit you on Monday or you would never have made it. Look Lara there's something else I need to tell you.." "Is the baby O.K?" Lara interrupted before he could continue. "That was one of the reasons I came up here to talk to you" Harry was glad he didn't have to break that news to her. "We weren't sure that you knew" "I'm a doctor I think I would have been able to figure that one out" Lara sounded indignant. Harry smiled; she was still the Lara they knew "Why didn't you tell us Lara?" "I wasn't sure I was going to keep it, I had a lot to think about, In some ways I wanted to get rid of it, it would have been too hard, that constant reminder that he was gone and never coming back," she sighed, "I couldn't bring myself to do it and I made a decision to keep it. It's all I've got left." "I understand, do you want me to tell the rest of the staff, obviously you won't be coming back to work until after it's born?" "Thanks Harry" "You had better get some rest now the police will want to speak to you later" "Bye Harry, and thanks."

Lara was out of hospital a few weeks later, and had been visited by practically everyone who worked in A&E. Even Simon had been around but Lara thought that it was mostly to do with the fact that he was now registrar. Dillon was her most regular visitor. They were beginning to decorate her spare room and turn it into a nursery for when the baby was born. Lara was still very shaken from her attack but she was opening up more. When she had first left hospital she had been very quiet and withdrawn but with Dillon's help the old Lara was coming back daily. There were only a few more weeks until the baby was due and Dillon had moved in, to be with Lara encase she needed anything. Lara was coping better now that the memory of David Collier was fading and she was really looking forward to getting back to work after the baby was born. On November the second 2002 Lara gave birth to a lovely baby boy named William.