Harry Potter and Sam
P-13 (light swearing later in story)
Sam/Mallory
Mallory, Harry Potter and an accident change Sam's life.
Author: Cora
I do not own any of the characters and give all credit to Aaron Sorkin the brilliant writer of the show. Anything else I forgot sorry. And, no this is not beta-ed so sorry for any mistakes they are all mine!
Harry Potter and Sam
2nd installment of Harry Potter and Sam
On a different note all medical jargon is mine, I have never taken a medical class so most medical stuff is made-up. So excuse me if anything is off the deep end.
CHAPTER 2
Sam woke to screaming pain in his back, head, chest and wrist.
'What did I do?' Sam thought as he tried to piece together what happened. Then it hit him. He struggled to calm down and to move back. The steering wheel was pressing hard into his abdomen, but the harder he pushed back the more pain it caused so he stopped and waited.
Mallory walked quickly down the street. She had gotten out late of a parent/teacher conference and if she didn't hurry she was going to be late meeting Sam.
'Probably won't even be there and I will be the one waiting, just like with Dad last night.' Mallory had sat in her father's office forty-five minutes until her Dad finally escorted her to the theater.
Still Mallory picked up her pace and rounded the street corner. She quickly stopped when she saw flashing lights and a crowd of people across the street. She ran across the street to see if she could help but stopped when the vehicle came into view. Looking at the back she could see it was the same model and color of the car Sam had. She tried to get to see the front but there were too many people crowding her way. Glancing at the policemen milling around she spotted one of her father's friends talking into a radio.
"Joe!" Mallory called out.
Joe looked up to see who called his name, narrowing his eyes at her, he finally came over.
"Mallory! What are you doing here?"
"Joe, that looks like my friends car. I am supposed to meet him in five minutes to see a movie…can I see if its him?
Joe paused. "Mallory, I'm sorry but I can't let you any closer then you are. Can you tell me his name and a description."
Mallory did and Joe wrote it down then walked to the car.
Sam watched out of blurry eyes as the paramedics worked to free him, they didn't know he was conscious they just worked around him as fast as they could go. When they finally were able to move the steering wheel and release the pressure on him abdomen Sam felt excruciating pain flare up his spine and into his head. It was then that he dropped into the black hole that had been threatening to over take him since he woke.
Joe walked up to the car and saw the man inside; blood covered his face, probably from his nose, which looked broken. He saw that the paramedic were ready to move him to a waiting ambulance. The man did look like the description Mallory gave him but he was hoping he was wrong. Glancing around he spotted a book that the paramedics had thrown out of the way; it had blood splatters on it but otherwise was okay. Joe picked it up and carried it over to Mallory.
Mallory stood rooted to the spot where Joe had given her Sam's Harry Potter book. The blood on the book had smeared and had gotten on her hands and dress but she took no notice. She was still staring at Sam's totaled car. They had taken Sam into an ambulance thirty minutes ago but she still could see him as they rushed him to the ambulance. He was very pale and the blood on his face stood out clearly. He had a neck brace on and was strapped down so he couldn't move. She had wanted to run after him but she was frozen. Most of the crowd had moved on but she hadn't, she watched a tow truck come and try to extract Sam's car from the lamppost. She didn't move until she heard Joe ask.
"Do you need a ride? They took him to GW." Joe was already signaling to a policewoman before Mallory answered. Joe gave the women instructions and she gently guided Mallory into a police car.
Halfway to the hospital Mallory heard the women talking to her. She answered what the women had asked then pulled out her cell phone. She knew Sam would want to her to call her father, and the rest of the senior staff, but she needed to talk to her dad too.
Dialing his private line, Mallory leaned back in her seat and waited.
~White House~
The President sat at his desk trying to read a report CJ had given him but he was not getting far, all he wanted to do was to go to the residence and curl up with Abbey in their bed. He knew that would not be happening soon.
A quiet ringing interrupted his thoughts. It was coming from Leo's office, Leo had left the door open between their offices when he had left for a meeting. Jed listened to the ringing and realized it must be Leo's cell phone.
"CHARLIE!"
No answer, the President really didn't want to get up but the phone didn't stop ringing and Charlie was obviously not at his desk. Finally the president made his way to Leo's office and searched for the cell phone. Upon finding it, it took another minute to turn it on. Then Jed realized he didn't know the proper way to answer a phone, he couldn't remember the last time he had too, and it had always been answered for him then transferred. Jed stared at it a moment then decided what to do.
"Leo McGarry's…cell."
"Uncle Jed?" Came the reply. Jed stopped for a moment it sounded like a child, but only one person called him 'Uncle Jed' even though she stopped calling him that a long time ago.
"Mallory?" He asked cautiously.
"Yes." She sounded nervous and a little rattled.
"Is everything okay, honey?" The president asked he was now worried. Mallory had been over the other night, he knew Leo and Mal only talked about once a week, twice if Mallory was lucky to get a hold of Leo.
"I…I…" She didn't know what to say, how do doctors tell people news like this everyday? "Is Dad there?" She said sounding like a child again.
"No, I'm sorry Mallory, he's in a meeting. Do you want me to get him?" Then he heard the scanner in the background. "Mallory, where are you?"
Mallory took a deep breath and let it all out. "I'm in a police car. I'm on my way to GW. Sam's been in a car accident. About forty-five minutes ago."
"WHAT?" The president exploded, Leo walked in as the outburst came. He looked questionably at the president who was in his office and using his phone.
"What happened? Is he okay?" The president asked more calmly and Leo motioned whom. Jed waved him off for a minute and returned to the call.
Leo went around his desk as the president listened. The president interrupted to ask if the person on the phone was all right and when they would be arriving. Finally he said that Leo and some others would be there shortly and then he hung up and turned to Leo.
"Where are you sending me and 'others'?" Leo asked with a grin. He had no clue what the call had been about and was wondering where he would be going.
"That was Mallory." The president responded sadly. Leo sat up with a jerk.
"Mallory? Is she okay? What's going on, sir?"
Jed held up his hand to silence the questioning. He then stuck his head out Leo's door and bellowed Charlie's name toward his office, effectively scaring Margaret who had no clue that the president had been in Leo's office.
"Yes?" Charlie asked as he stuck his head in Leo's office all to used to the president bellowing his name.
"Charlie get my wife and then get GW on the phone and transfer it to my office, once you do so."
Charlie nodded and left without any questions. The president turned and slowly walked to his office, with Leo on his heels.
"What is going on, sir?" He repeated as Jed sat heavily behind his desk.
The president looked up, looking older then a few minutes ago.
"That was Mallory on the phone, Sam was in an accident. He was taken to GW and Mallory is behind him in a police car. She said his car is totaled and he didn't look so good." The president said in a monotone.
Leo sunk into one of the president's chairs. "No, not again" he muttered to himself, but the president heard and sighed.
"What do you need, Jed?" The First lady asked as she entered the office looking frazzled. She stopped when she saw Jed and Leo's faces. "What happened? What's wrong?" She asked worriedly.
Jed gestured to a chair and she sat. Charlie knocked and stuck his head in. "Sir, line one."
"Thank you, Charlie." The president pushed line one and speakerphone.
A voice came over the line with lots of background noise, Abbey recognized it at once.
"GW, how can I help you?" The voice asked.
"This is Jed Barlet, I need some information on a Sam Seaborn who was brought in about an hour ago, car accident."
Abbey gasped and covered her mouth. Leo moved next to her and wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulders.
"Hold, please." Background music started before Jed replied. The trio sat in silence until the music stopped.
"Mr. President?" An uncertain voice asked over the line.
Jed glanced at the phone answered. "Yes."
The man on the other end of the phone paused. "Mr. President, I am Scott Weston, Head of the ER, how may I help you?"
"A member of my staff was brought in, car accident, Sam Seaborn. About an hour ago?" The president said in quipped tones.
"Yes I oversaw that case personally. Mr. Seaborn presented with multiple injuries. He is in the OR as of now and in serious condition…" Dr. Weston trailed off not sure how to continue.
Abby noticed the silence, she stood and made her way to the phone.
"Dr. Weston, this is Dr. Abigail Bartlett, could you please be more specific." She asked not as a question but as a command.
Dr. Weston was relieved to talk to another doctor, he wasn't sure he could explain everything in laymen's terms to the president.
Abby and Dr. Weston talked for a quarter of an hour and finally Abbey thanked Dr. Weston and was about to hang up when Jed interrupted.
"Dr. Weston, could you do me one more favor?"
"Anything, sir."
"There is a women probably in your waiting room, Mallory O'Brien" Leo's face softened. "She is waiting for Mr. Seaborn also. Could you get her a room or make sure she is attended too?" The president asked quietly.
"Yes sir, anything else?"
"No thank you Dr. Weston. I assure you more of my staff will be there shortly. Thank you for everything you have done tonight. Goodbye."
Dr. Weston hung up the phone in awe. He had just talked to the president of the United States! Calling two nurses over he ordered one to find Mallory and the other to set up a room for the presidential staff.
"CHARLIE!"
Charlie appeared in the doorway a few seconds after the president had yelled his name.
"Sir?"
"Get the senior staff together, five minutes." The president instructed, as Charlie turned to leave Leo chirped in.
"And Charlie…have Donna come too."
Jed sighed, his shoulders dropping. Abbey came up and started rubbing his back, the three of them reveling in their silence together drawing strength.
Josh looked up as Donna stepped into his office.
"Donna, I'm busy-"
"The president's called a meeting." Donna interrupted Josh.
Josh jumped up and grabbed his jacket. "When?'
"Now."
"Okay," he surveyed the pile of paper on his desk "do you think you could organize some of this for me?" He asked gesturing to the pile.
"No." Donna replied as she left Josh's office.
"No?"
"No. I was invited to the meeting too. Come Joshua we don't want to be late." She flounced ahead of him grabbing her notepad and pen.
Josh and Donna met CJ and Toby outside the Oval Office.
"Do you know what this meeting is about?" Josh asked.
Toby and CJ both shook their heads no.
"Where's Sam?" Donna asked looking around their small group.
"He left early to meet someone for dinner." Toby intoned.
"Lucky." CJ muttered as the Oval Office door opened and they entered.
"Ma'am we have a room set up for you."
Mallory looked up and saw a 'doctor' towering over her with his hand stretched out. She shifted her coffee that a nurse had given her earlier and took his hand. She wobbled as she stood and doctor shifted his arm so it was around her waist supporting her.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yes, a little tired and stiff, it's been a long day." Mallory explained.
The doctor nodded sympathetically and started to lead her to an elevator.
"I'm Dr. Weston. Should I call anyone for you?"
"No, thank you. I already called."
"Then someone is coming to pick you up? You need sleep."
"No, I'm not leaving." Mallory stated, sounding a bit harsher then she intended. "My father is coming along with some friends."
"The senior staff?"
She looked up sharply at him.
"The president called and told me his staff would be coming shortly."
Mallory softened. "Do you know anything about Sam Seaborn?"
They arrived at a room, Dr. Weston pushed open the door. "Maybe you should sit down." He said as the door shut behind them.
