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A/N: Here's the next chapter for ya' RedWitch! This chapter is for you!! Here's where things change a little bit for all our star crossed loved ones of Cook County. Don't forget to review! Enjoy!
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Abby was released the next day at 2:00pm and Carrie gave her a week off. She'd be working with her casted hand for 2 weeks after that, so it would be light duty. Her brother was shipped to his base hospital's mental health ward till further evaluation. The last thing he said was sorry to Abby before she watched him leave with two armed officers. She spent the rest of the week of her time off thinking a little about Eric..but mostly Luka. She couldn't stop.
On the day she came back was when she was supposed to get her stitches out too.
"Hey Abby, how you feeling?" Cheng Mai asked as Abby came in on her shift.
"Better, thanks. Is Dr. Kovac around? I need my stitches removed." She said, trying to make it sound business like. Cheng Mai just smiled and nodded towards the end of the hall.
"Exam 4." She said. Abby nodded her thanks and gathered up a suture removal kit before heading in. Carter stopped her just before she entered. She hadn't heard from him since the day of the accident.
"Abby! You okay?" Carter asked, feeling embarrassed for what he did to her brother, but hasn't been able to get passed it yet. She eyeballed him.
"Certainly I'm okay Dr. Carter. It's ONLY been a week since some sleaze ball mugged me at a bar where my baby brother went nuts and attacked him in which I receive a concussion AND 10 stitches on top of a severely sprained wrist. Not to mention finding out that my baby brother, my ONLY sibling, has the SAME disease as my bipolar mother who RUINED my life! But I'm peachy, thanks SO much for your concern." Abby said in a steely voice, not caring that she might have over done it a little. Carter nodded, not surprised that she was mad at him. But he still believed in why he had been upset that day.
"I'm not gonna apologize for what I said, maybe just for Eric. You brought the other issue on yourself with your drinking. I feel bad for your brother, but you did the rest yourself." He said, not raising his voice, just being truthful to what he believed. She just looked at him, not understanding his way of thinking.
"You're a piece of work, you know that Carter?" she said in a hurt voice.
"Abby..lets not fight. We'll just agree to disagree, okay?" Carter said, exhaling big time in frustration. Abby gazed at him a moment and nodded.
"Whatever. I gotta get these out. We'll talk later, okay?" Abby said, softening her voice.
"Okay. Later." He responded giving her a small smile. She smiled slightly back and went into Exam 4. She smiled bigger when she spotted Luka fast asleep on his stomach, his face all buried in the pillow.
'Boy I miss seeing that' Abby thought as she quietly set the stuff down and turned on a small overhead light.
"Luka?..It's me Abby. Wake up, sleeping beauty." Abby said gently rubbing his shoulder. He mumbled and stretched and blinked his eyes open at her.
"Hi." She said in a little girl voice, smiling. She held up the suture removal kit.
"I need my doctor." She kidded as he sat up and hung his feet over, letting them dangle. She sat down next to him, giving him a minute to wake up.
"I'm up. Okay, lay back a minute while I wash up." he instructed, patting where he was just lying. She lay down and instantly regretted it. It smelled like Luka's cologne and she to all but sit on her hands from wanting to bury her face in his pillow and breathe him in. He washed up and came over getting the suture removal kit ready. Ever so gently he removed her stitches. Boy, her heart was in her throat at his close proximity.
'You're with Carter! Pull it together Lockhart!' she thought to herself. He finished up, putting just tight butterfly strips over her scar. At the last moment, while his fingers were still on her chin, they shared a long gaze. Luka broke it after a moment and announced she was done. Abby exhaled big time as she jumped off the bed, thanking him and running out the door so he couldn't hear here pounding heart.
Later that night, Abby was standing outside waiting for a rig, just gazing ahead.
"Earth to Lockhart." Malluci said, taping her shoulder.
"Oh..sorry Dave. Just..thinking." Abby said, tightening her arms around her. Dave put an arm unceremoniously around her shoulders.
"Sorry 'bout your brother. Know it must have been rough. He's all you got, huh?" he said like a big brother. Abby gave him a side ways glance, but nodded.
"Yeah..All I've got is my big sister. She practically raised me too. I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to her, but if she were half like you when it comes to me getting into a sticky situation, I'd be grateful. You're a good sister, don't let that block head of a boyfriend hurt that. He didn't seem to get it last week, I noticed." Dave said, in a rare serious moment. Abby nodded, remembering sadly. She realized that the one who was SUPPOSED to be there for her was the complete opposite and the one who was supposed to be long gone was right by her side..GETTING it all. UNDERSTANDING it all. She blinked and smirked a little.
"Thanks Dave." Abby said smiling at him.
"No problem..so..does this mean you'll be free soon? I LOVE to play a game of pool." Dave said, not giving up a chance to get a date with a pretty lady.
"Nah Dave. But I'll play you a game of pool whenever you want." Abby said smiling. Dave just shrugged and pulled his arm off of her as the rig pulled up.
"Better than nothing." He said smiling as he helped bring out the stretcher. On it was a blond woman who was going through withdrawals and all battered up. She wouldn't answer anyone's questions, just kept looking all about at the ER staff. Once inside, the women spotted who she'd been looking for.
"JOHN!" she yelled in a hoarse voice, tears coming to her eyes.
"She hasn't spoken since we found her at the bus stop!" an EMT said. Carter heard his name called, but he couldn't believe whom it had sounded like. They wheeled her into Trauma 1 and tried talking to her again.
"Miss, do you know Dr. Carter?" Abby asked, really interested in how Carter knew someone in this condition. She just trembled more nodding. Abby stepped into the hall.
"Carter! This women here claims to know you. They found her at the bus terminal, she looks like she's going through withdrawals and there's evidence of abuse, signs of rape. Your name is the first word she's uttered since they found her." Abby explained.
"I kind of heard it. She sounds familiar. Who's working her now?" Carter asked, not being able to leave his patient yet.
"Dave and Susan." Abby replied, still curious. Just then Haley came out quickly, coming up to Carter.
"Dr. Carter?!..It's Dr. Del Amico!" she said in a rush.
"Anna!?!" Carter replied in shock, leaving his patient.
"Anna? Who's Anna?" Abby asked, confused.
"One of our old ER docs. Her and Carter had a thing. She just left one day. She helped Carter through a lot when his cousin had his overdose. We always thought they'd last." Haley said, looking in Carter's direction. Dave came out a moment later.
"Told to finish Dr. Carter's case. Where's the chart?" Dave said and grabbed it from Abby's hand. She went back to the trauma room to assist as best as she could.
"Anna? Anna, what happened?" Carter said, helping put oxygen in her nose and listen to her heart.
"H-he..hurt..m-me." She mumbled out.
"Max." Carter said through gritted teeth. She only nodded slowly, her lip trembling.
"Abby! Get the police on the phone! Tell them to send a detective." Carter yelled over his shoulder.
"Sure." Abby replied, noticing the condition Anna was in and not caring about what Carter had to do with it all. She decided to just push all that aside to help the poor women out. She went to Randi and got her to make the call.
"So that's Dr. Del Amico. Poor thing. That @$$hole must of got her good. Knew when she left it'd all go sour. Didn't like the way that guy looked." Randi commented.
"Anna? Anna was brought in?" Carrie asked, hearing her name.
"Yeah. Really messed up too. That peds ortho creep got to her." Randi answered as Carrie hurried over to Trauma 1.
"Anna? It's me, Carrie. Can you tell us what happened to you?" Carrie said in a soft tone. Anna gave her a sad look, then looked up to Carter, lips trembling and tears forming.
"It's okay..we're all here for you. I'm right here. I won't let him hurt you again." Carter reassured, gently pushing her long hair behind her ear.
"Um..he..he got me hooked on-on c-cocaine. Not willingly! H-he forced me to..to prostitute for money. He had a couple of other girls too. It got really bad when I got pregnant.sob He claimed I was no u-use for him anymore. He left me to fend for myself..th-this is the only place I could think of. I started getting with-withdrawals..please, Dr. Weaver..I-I don't know if- if the baby's okay..he..he beat me,.a-and..raped me!..I think I might have still been using in the beginning...few weeks. P-please..tell me if my baby's okay!" Anna sobbed out as they worked on her. Haley had gotten a cop form down the hall to listen in and take notes the moment they knew Anna would say what happened to her.
"John..please..don't hate me!" she whispered, tears just falling now. Carter's heart broke.
"I don't Anna. I never did." He mumbled back, holding on to her gently. Abby felt for this poor women, but couldn't help but feel a little like she just lost her place in Carter's eyes. She shoved that all aside when Luka came up.
"Need any help?" he asked when he noticed Carter comforting more then helping.
"Yes. Dr. Carter, Luka's gonna take over for you. You're too attached." Carrie assigned.
"I'll fill you in on the way to supplies, c'mon." Abby said, leading him out.
"That's Dr. Anna Del Amico, she used to be an ER doc here back with Dr. Ross. They had a thing for each other. Anna and Carter. She apparently left with her old flame, some peds ortho guy they say, named Max. Guess he's not a very nice guy. He got her addicted to cocaine, prostituted her for money along with other girls, and when she became pregnant, beat her, raped her, and left her on the streets to fend for herself. They found her at the bus terminal heading here." Abby explained quickly as she got a rape kit and Kovac got an ultrasound machine when Abby pointed at it. With a limited hand, she couldn't steer the machine.
"Oh...wow..that's tough. Poor girl." He said softly.
"He's VERY upset. I've NEVER seen him like this." Abby pointed out.
"He still cares for her." Kovac said instantly. Then he smiled regretfully.
"Sorry. It's none of my business." He replied.
"No..it's exactly true. He doesn't look at ME that way! I've only seen it once before." Abby said, almost to herself.
"Oh?..When?" Luka asked, getting a curious smile on his face. Abby blushed.
"When YOU look at me." She whispered in a sad/small/girly smile, then she went inside to help start a rape kit. Luka grinned to himself and nodded, pushing the ultrasound machine into the room.
Anna could barely sit still from going through the withdrawal symptoms. So they couldn't get a great sonogram of the baby.
"How far along do you THINK you are sweetie?" Abby asked as she tried to focus on the monitor.
"sniffle M-maybe 5 or 6 weeks. I didn't figure it out till about a week ago." Anna whispered, clutching Carter's hand tightly. Abby cringed accidentally.
"Nurse Abby? What's wrong?! P-please tell me?!" Anna said pleadingly.
"He..or she...is small. But there's a heartbeat that's going better than suspected. This little one's a fighter." Abby commented, smiling sadly.
"C-can you get a picture for me?" Anna asked softly.
"Sure." Abby said with a look to Carter that said 'she's in for a tough road'. She got a picture and Anna clutched it as she was transferred upstairs after Luka sewed up the gash on her face, across the top and down the side of her nose, ending just above her cheekbone, on her right side. Her wrist was also broken and she had a number of other minor cuts and tons of bruises; not to mention the infected area where she shot up.
"Dr. Carter, you're off..Luka will cover, go on." Carrie said, motioning towards a retreating Anna. He looked up Luka and nodded thanks, then took off. Abby watched after him, really worrying about Anna. She knew Anna meant a lot to Carter and she didn't want to see him hurt.
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A/N: Well, there's the third chapter. Told you Carter wasn't gonna be a meanie much longer! Hope you like where I'm going with the story! Press the little purple button at the bottom and tell me what you think! I'd REALLY love y'all for it! Next chappy up soon! Don't forget to review! Thanx!
A/N: Here's the next chapter for ya' RedWitch! This chapter is for you!! Here's where things change a little bit for all our star crossed loved ones of Cook County. Don't forget to review! Enjoy!
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Abby was released the next day at 2:00pm and Carrie gave her a week off. She'd be working with her casted hand for 2 weeks after that, so it would be light duty. Her brother was shipped to his base hospital's mental health ward till further evaluation. The last thing he said was sorry to Abby before she watched him leave with two armed officers. She spent the rest of the week of her time off thinking a little about Eric..but mostly Luka. She couldn't stop.
On the day she came back was when she was supposed to get her stitches out too.
"Hey Abby, how you feeling?" Cheng Mai asked as Abby came in on her shift.
"Better, thanks. Is Dr. Kovac around? I need my stitches removed." She said, trying to make it sound business like. Cheng Mai just smiled and nodded towards the end of the hall.
"Exam 4." She said. Abby nodded her thanks and gathered up a suture removal kit before heading in. Carter stopped her just before she entered. She hadn't heard from him since the day of the accident.
"Abby! You okay?" Carter asked, feeling embarrassed for what he did to her brother, but hasn't been able to get passed it yet. She eyeballed him.
"Certainly I'm okay Dr. Carter. It's ONLY been a week since some sleaze ball mugged me at a bar where my baby brother went nuts and attacked him in which I receive a concussion AND 10 stitches on top of a severely sprained wrist. Not to mention finding out that my baby brother, my ONLY sibling, has the SAME disease as my bipolar mother who RUINED my life! But I'm peachy, thanks SO much for your concern." Abby said in a steely voice, not caring that she might have over done it a little. Carter nodded, not surprised that she was mad at him. But he still believed in why he had been upset that day.
"I'm not gonna apologize for what I said, maybe just for Eric. You brought the other issue on yourself with your drinking. I feel bad for your brother, but you did the rest yourself." He said, not raising his voice, just being truthful to what he believed. She just looked at him, not understanding his way of thinking.
"You're a piece of work, you know that Carter?" she said in a hurt voice.
"Abby..lets not fight. We'll just agree to disagree, okay?" Carter said, exhaling big time in frustration. Abby gazed at him a moment and nodded.
"Whatever. I gotta get these out. We'll talk later, okay?" Abby said, softening her voice.
"Okay. Later." He responded giving her a small smile. She smiled slightly back and went into Exam 4. She smiled bigger when she spotted Luka fast asleep on his stomach, his face all buried in the pillow.
'Boy I miss seeing that' Abby thought as she quietly set the stuff down and turned on a small overhead light.
"Luka?..It's me Abby. Wake up, sleeping beauty." Abby said gently rubbing his shoulder. He mumbled and stretched and blinked his eyes open at her.
"Hi." She said in a little girl voice, smiling. She held up the suture removal kit.
"I need my doctor." She kidded as he sat up and hung his feet over, letting them dangle. She sat down next to him, giving him a minute to wake up.
"I'm up. Okay, lay back a minute while I wash up." he instructed, patting where he was just lying. She lay down and instantly regretted it. It smelled like Luka's cologne and she to all but sit on her hands from wanting to bury her face in his pillow and breathe him in. He washed up and came over getting the suture removal kit ready. Ever so gently he removed her stitches. Boy, her heart was in her throat at his close proximity.
'You're with Carter! Pull it together Lockhart!' she thought to herself. He finished up, putting just tight butterfly strips over her scar. At the last moment, while his fingers were still on her chin, they shared a long gaze. Luka broke it after a moment and announced she was done. Abby exhaled big time as she jumped off the bed, thanking him and running out the door so he couldn't hear here pounding heart.
Later that night, Abby was standing outside waiting for a rig, just gazing ahead.
"Earth to Lockhart." Malluci said, taping her shoulder.
"Oh..sorry Dave. Just..thinking." Abby said, tightening her arms around her. Dave put an arm unceremoniously around her shoulders.
"Sorry 'bout your brother. Know it must have been rough. He's all you got, huh?" he said like a big brother. Abby gave him a side ways glance, but nodded.
"Yeah..All I've got is my big sister. She practically raised me too. I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to her, but if she were half like you when it comes to me getting into a sticky situation, I'd be grateful. You're a good sister, don't let that block head of a boyfriend hurt that. He didn't seem to get it last week, I noticed." Dave said, in a rare serious moment. Abby nodded, remembering sadly. She realized that the one who was SUPPOSED to be there for her was the complete opposite and the one who was supposed to be long gone was right by her side..GETTING it all. UNDERSTANDING it all. She blinked and smirked a little.
"Thanks Dave." Abby said smiling at him.
"No problem..so..does this mean you'll be free soon? I LOVE to play a game of pool." Dave said, not giving up a chance to get a date with a pretty lady.
"Nah Dave. But I'll play you a game of pool whenever you want." Abby said smiling. Dave just shrugged and pulled his arm off of her as the rig pulled up.
"Better than nothing." He said smiling as he helped bring out the stretcher. On it was a blond woman who was going through withdrawals and all battered up. She wouldn't answer anyone's questions, just kept looking all about at the ER staff. Once inside, the women spotted who she'd been looking for.
"JOHN!" she yelled in a hoarse voice, tears coming to her eyes.
"She hasn't spoken since we found her at the bus stop!" an EMT said. Carter heard his name called, but he couldn't believe whom it had sounded like. They wheeled her into Trauma 1 and tried talking to her again.
"Miss, do you know Dr. Carter?" Abby asked, really interested in how Carter knew someone in this condition. She just trembled more nodding. Abby stepped into the hall.
"Carter! This women here claims to know you. They found her at the bus terminal, she looks like she's going through withdrawals and there's evidence of abuse, signs of rape. Your name is the first word she's uttered since they found her." Abby explained.
"I kind of heard it. She sounds familiar. Who's working her now?" Carter asked, not being able to leave his patient yet.
"Dave and Susan." Abby replied, still curious. Just then Haley came out quickly, coming up to Carter.
"Dr. Carter?!..It's Dr. Del Amico!" she said in a rush.
"Anna!?!" Carter replied in shock, leaving his patient.
"Anna? Who's Anna?" Abby asked, confused.
"One of our old ER docs. Her and Carter had a thing. She just left one day. She helped Carter through a lot when his cousin had his overdose. We always thought they'd last." Haley said, looking in Carter's direction. Dave came out a moment later.
"Told to finish Dr. Carter's case. Where's the chart?" Dave said and grabbed it from Abby's hand. She went back to the trauma room to assist as best as she could.
"Anna? Anna, what happened?" Carter said, helping put oxygen in her nose and listen to her heart.
"H-he..hurt..m-me." She mumbled out.
"Max." Carter said through gritted teeth. She only nodded slowly, her lip trembling.
"Abby! Get the police on the phone! Tell them to send a detective." Carter yelled over his shoulder.
"Sure." Abby replied, noticing the condition Anna was in and not caring about what Carter had to do with it all. She decided to just push all that aside to help the poor women out. She went to Randi and got her to make the call.
"So that's Dr. Del Amico. Poor thing. That @$$hole must of got her good. Knew when she left it'd all go sour. Didn't like the way that guy looked." Randi commented.
"Anna? Anna was brought in?" Carrie asked, hearing her name.
"Yeah. Really messed up too. That peds ortho creep got to her." Randi answered as Carrie hurried over to Trauma 1.
"Anna? It's me, Carrie. Can you tell us what happened to you?" Carrie said in a soft tone. Anna gave her a sad look, then looked up to Carter, lips trembling and tears forming.
"It's okay..we're all here for you. I'm right here. I won't let him hurt you again." Carter reassured, gently pushing her long hair behind her ear.
"Um..he..he got me hooked on-on c-cocaine. Not willingly! H-he forced me to..to prostitute for money. He had a couple of other girls too. It got really bad when I got pregnant.sob He claimed I was no u-use for him anymore. He left me to fend for myself..th-this is the only place I could think of. I started getting with-withdrawals..please, Dr. Weaver..I-I don't know if- if the baby's okay..he..he beat me,.a-and..raped me!..I think I might have still been using in the beginning...few weeks. P-please..tell me if my baby's okay!" Anna sobbed out as they worked on her. Haley had gotten a cop form down the hall to listen in and take notes the moment they knew Anna would say what happened to her.
"John..please..don't hate me!" she whispered, tears just falling now. Carter's heart broke.
"I don't Anna. I never did." He mumbled back, holding on to her gently. Abby felt for this poor women, but couldn't help but feel a little like she just lost her place in Carter's eyes. She shoved that all aside when Luka came up.
"Need any help?" he asked when he noticed Carter comforting more then helping.
"Yes. Dr. Carter, Luka's gonna take over for you. You're too attached." Carrie assigned.
"I'll fill you in on the way to supplies, c'mon." Abby said, leading him out.
"That's Dr. Anna Del Amico, she used to be an ER doc here back with Dr. Ross. They had a thing for each other. Anna and Carter. She apparently left with her old flame, some peds ortho guy they say, named Max. Guess he's not a very nice guy. He got her addicted to cocaine, prostituted her for money along with other girls, and when she became pregnant, beat her, raped her, and left her on the streets to fend for herself. They found her at the bus terminal heading here." Abby explained quickly as she got a rape kit and Kovac got an ultrasound machine when Abby pointed at it. With a limited hand, she couldn't steer the machine.
"Oh...wow..that's tough. Poor girl." He said softly.
"He's VERY upset. I've NEVER seen him like this." Abby pointed out.
"He still cares for her." Kovac said instantly. Then he smiled regretfully.
"Sorry. It's none of my business." He replied.
"No..it's exactly true. He doesn't look at ME that way! I've only seen it once before." Abby said, almost to herself.
"Oh?..When?" Luka asked, getting a curious smile on his face. Abby blushed.
"When YOU look at me." She whispered in a sad/small/girly smile, then she went inside to help start a rape kit. Luka grinned to himself and nodded, pushing the ultrasound machine into the room.
Anna could barely sit still from going through the withdrawal symptoms. So they couldn't get a great sonogram of the baby.
"How far along do you THINK you are sweetie?" Abby asked as she tried to focus on the monitor.
"sniffle M-maybe 5 or 6 weeks. I didn't figure it out till about a week ago." Anna whispered, clutching Carter's hand tightly. Abby cringed accidentally.
"Nurse Abby? What's wrong?! P-please tell me?!" Anna said pleadingly.
"He..or she...is small. But there's a heartbeat that's going better than suspected. This little one's a fighter." Abby commented, smiling sadly.
"C-can you get a picture for me?" Anna asked softly.
"Sure." Abby said with a look to Carter that said 'she's in for a tough road'. She got a picture and Anna clutched it as she was transferred upstairs after Luka sewed up the gash on her face, across the top and down the side of her nose, ending just above her cheekbone, on her right side. Her wrist was also broken and she had a number of other minor cuts and tons of bruises; not to mention the infected area where she shot up.
"Dr. Carter, you're off..Luka will cover, go on." Carrie said, motioning towards a retreating Anna. He looked up Luka and nodded thanks, then took off. Abby watched after him, really worrying about Anna. She knew Anna meant a lot to Carter and she didn't want to see him hurt.
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A/N: Well, there's the third chapter. Told you Carter wasn't gonna be a meanie much longer! Hope you like where I'm going with the story! Press the little purple button at the bottom and tell me what you think! I'd REALLY love y'all for it! Next chappy up soon! Don't forget to review! Thanx!