D: I do not own it. I am a broke college student who still lives at home,
living off my parents like a leech. Don't even bother.
A/N: Hey, sorry it's been so long to update. My fractured finger has kept me away, sadly. And now it takes twice as long to do any homework 'cause it's on my writing hand. Oh, well, at least it's much better now. More bearable. Going on my retreat this coming weekend, so I won't be able to update on the weekend when I have days off. Sorry! I'll try to make this one extra long for yah! Enjoy and don't forget to review to let me know what you think!! And not a lot more of 'mean Carter', I promise!
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The next day, Abby was off. So was Dave, thank goodness, so she stayed home cleaning her apartment top to bottom for a change. Carter didn't answer her message earlier in the morning, and by now, Abby was a little worried. She finally called over to the maternity ICU and asked about Anna. She was happy to hear her 'cousin' was doing so much better. But she also got her answer about where Carter had been. He'd been with Anna the whole time, never leaving her side. She couldn't be upset that Anna had someone there for her when she was going through so much. Finally, by 6:00ish, Carter stopped over to Abby's as she read up on some of her old med books she ran across.
"Hey, you DO know how to return a call..a little late..but,..how's Anna?" Abby said, a little sarcasm in her voice. Her page WAS ignored most of the day; she had a right to it. Carter smiled a little guiltily.
"Better. How's Dave?..Did you two,..and Luka have a nice time last night?" he asked, putting his own hint of sarcasm in his voice. Abby's eyes widened.
"You SAW us? Were you checking up on me or something?" Abby asked, somewhat offended. Carter just smiled, shaking his head.
"Did you?" he asked back, wanting to know why she asked about Anna.
"Carter!? I'm worried about Anna too! She's a good friend. I called to check up on her and they mentioned you'd been with her all day and night!" Abby explained, not completely letting him know she felt a little jealous. But it wasn't the same for Carter.
"Right, concerned about a 'friend'. What about Luka?" Carter said back bitterly.
"What about him?" Abby defended.
"I felt a little down yesterday. I went out with some friends..'cause YOU won't! There's no crime with that! He's a nice guy and so is Dave!" Abby replied back. Carter just shook his head at her.
"Look..Carter...I think..there's something between you and Anna. I saw it the moment she came here. The way you look at her, you don't look at me that way. And..obviously she has something for you. She needs you right now and I'm not gonna jeopardize that for..THIS. This..isn't THIS anymore anyways. Not for a little while now. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?" Abby said in a lower, calmer voice. Carter stood in front of her, staring at her as she spoke.
"Maybe..we should just move on." Abby said softly. Carter stood there fuming a little, but deep down he knew it was true. But he hated to give up so easily, no matter what he knew the outcome was going to be.
"What? So now when I get a 'friend' you dump me, even though you have 'friends' like Luka and Dave around? At least I never slept with mine." Carter bit out then regretting it. Abby's eyes teared.
"Get out..I thought you'd understand..obviously not. Just leave! And don't DARE insult me again! I never ONCE held Anna against you when any girlfriend in their right mind would have. She doesn't deserve that! Oh, and I will still be keeping in touch with her." Abby said through her tears and clenched teeth as she led him to the door and closed it on him. Carter balled up his fists, shaking his head at himself then stormed off. Abby curled up on the floor and sobbed. No matter what, it still hurt.
Around 7:00pm or so, after crying for awhile, Abby finally picked up her keys and left. Before she could stop herself, she ended up at Luka's.
'Please be home' she pleaded to herself as she knocked. Behind the door she heard some stumbling and a muffled 'coming'. Then Luka opened the door, looking completely exhausted.
"Abby? What's wrong, you okay?" he asked, full of concern. She shook her head no.
"Can I come in?" she hoarsely whispered.
"Yeah, sure, c'mon." he said, ushering her in. She walked in and stood awkwardly in the middle of the room.
"I just got home. It's a good thing you caught me before I crashed. Pulled a 16 hour." He said tiredly.
"After what..4 hours of sleep?..Gosh, I'll go..let you sleep, I don't even know why I came over here." She said quickly, heading to the door.
"No!..stay..I want you to." Luka said softly. He had her hand in his. She looked down at that and just broke down.
"Gosh! How can I be so dumb!.I..I broke up with him. He...he didn't exactly see things my way...he said some harsh things I know he probably regrets.." Abby trailed off, a sob coming out as she remembered the fight. Luka's jaw tensed at what Carter had put her through. He became, I guess you could say, very prejudice against ANYONE who hurt Abby in any way. No matter who they were.
"Don't cry. Please..he's not worth it." Luka pleaded softly, reaching for a tissue and handing it to her. Abby giggled sarcastically, shaking her head.
'I'm not crying for HIM!' she thought.
'Why AM I crying?!' she just shook her head some more, completely mixed up and confused.
"Listen, why don't you crash here. I don't mind and I don't think you should be alone right now. Besides, it's not anything new." Luka said, smiling lopsidedly. Abby grinned through her drying tears and nodded her head as he led her to 'her' couch.
"I'll try once again to let you have the bed." Luka tried, knowing it was fruitless.
"No, no..go get some rest Luka. I'm fine here...and thanks." Abby said, taking the offered pillow and blanket. He came back out a minute later with a pair of sweats and one of his t-shirts. He handed it to her and she looked up at him a moment.
"Thought you'd be more comfortable in these. Night Abigail." He said softly in his thick accent. She whispered a thank you and went to the restroom to change and wash up. When she came back out there was a glass of milk and some cookies on the table in front of the couch. She grinned and ate them up then fell asleep instantly.
Then next morning around 9:00ish, she woke up alone. She found a note saying he was paged in to the ER. There was a huge slam and they needed him.
"Why didn't he wake ME up!?" she mumbled, but noticed a little arrow on the bottom of the note, so she flipped it over. She got teary eyed when she read it:
'My grandmother always taught me you never wake a sleeping angel for it would cut off their path from heaven, and where would this world be if there weren't any angels? -I know I'D be forever lost without a certain angel. Hope you slept well. Luka
She folded it up and smiled, placing it in her purse. She went to the bathroom, taking a quick shower before putting on her pants and found one of Luka's smallest scrub tops and put it on, rushing to work. When she arrived she was greeted with chaos's evil brother. The entire ER was full of people, she couldn't even think straight.
"There you are Lockhart, I've been paging you for the past hour!" Carl yelled.
"I didn't get a page.." Abby said reaching for her pager. It was turned off.
"I didn't turn my pager off. Who-" Abby said confused, shaking her pager to check to see if the batteries were acting up.
"I did. You were sleeping." Luka said as he came by with a chart. She looked up at him and smiled, holding his gaze a moment.
"Your grandmother is a very smart women." Abby commented, causing him to smile shyly and shrug.
"Nice top Abby." Susan commented teasingly at the oversized scrub top. Luka grinned as he walked by, not missed by Susan's eyes.
"oh!..You have HIS on!?! Abby, spill!" Susan said, as she glanced at the board at the same time. Abby rolled her eyes, but blushed.
"Me and Carter..I guess broke up..I was upset. Nothing happened! I just fell asleep on his couch." Abby tried to explain innocently.
"WITH him!?!" Susan said in a hushed voice.
"No! He slept in his room like a perfect gentleman." Abby said, feeling like she needed to defend Luka's name.
"OOOh..what a KEEPER! What on God's green earth let him slip through you fingers?!" Susan commented before rushing off.
"That's what I'M starting to ask myself." Abby mumbled as Kerry handed her a chart and rushed off.
"And for goodness sake's Abby, get a top that fits!" Kerry yelled over her shoulder as she rushed off.
An hour later, Abby was knee deep in patients.
"WHY did there have to be a stampede at a ROCK concert?! Why couldn't it be a..Celine Dion concert or something?" Abby complained, pissed that yet another patient cursed her out. She was at admitting to turn in a chart when just then a huge commotion broke out at curtain area 1 and Abby watched in horror as a big burly 'fan' pick Luka up by the throat and bash him over the head with a huge, heavy metal candlestick. Luka slumped in the man's arms and wasn't even conscious as he was thrown through the glass window of the Trauma Room then falling to the floor on the outside.
"LUKA!!" Abby yelled rushing to him as 3 different men jumped on the patient.
"Get a gurney over here! And bring a C-collar fast!" Abby yelled as she kneeled down and began to support Luka's neck.
"Carter we need your help over here! Luka's been attacked!" Chuney yelled. Abby glanced up just a second to see Carter hesitate, just standing there staring like he was frozen. Abby's blood boiled.
"Carter!! NOW!" Chuney yelled again. He suddenly snapped out of it and got to work, going into complete doctor mode. They placed a C-collar on him with complete stabilization to a backboard. ((Been there, done that, for real, VERY scary!!)) They then wheeled him into the Trauma Room after they lifted him to a gurney.
"Luka...open you eyes. Wake up Luka." Abby said as she assisted Carter and now Kerry.
"He's got multiple lacerations on his back, a deep gash with a head wound,..and pronounced swelling around his throat.." They went on.
Half an hour later they had Luka on a ventilator due to the swelling of his windpipe and throat. His skull gash wasn't bleeding anymore and was sewed up and the 5 cuts on his back ranging from superficial to one deep one on his left shoulder blade were being sutured up by Susan. Abby had never left his side.
"Okay, It's onto the Cat-scan to see if any possible fractures or damage to his skull." Susan told Malik as he began to move him upstairs. Abby followed, holding the air bag, pumping it.
"You going up with him Abby?" Susan asked, Carter just off her shoulder listening as he set the chart on the bed.
"Yes." She simply said as the doors closed in the elevator.
After the CAT scan revealed a small fracture, but not serious, they moved him to ICU until he woke up. Once they did a final assessment, they pronounced him in a light coma. Abby was teary-eyed when she made it back down to the ER to try to finish her shift.
"What're you doing here? Go back upstairs with Dr. Kovac. We all can cover for you, no problem." Chuney said when she saw Abby pick up a chart. Susan and Kerry walked up after finishing a patient.
"How's Luka doing Abby?" Kerry asked softly. Abby got teary eyed some more.
"He..he's in a coma." She said in almost a whisper. Everyone looked down, shaking their heads. Just then Dave walked in for his late shift.
"Hey...gosh..who died now?" he asked seeing all of their faces.
"Dave!!...Luka was attacked by a patient..he's in a coma." Susan said, swatting at him. Dave's face fell. He immediately looked over at Abby.
"Hey, sorry Abby. Why don't you go be with him? We'll cover down here. That's cool, right chief?" Dave asked Kerry. Kerry saw the look on Abby's face and nodded.
"Go on. It's quiet now. If we really need you, we know where to find you." Kerry said. Abby nodded, handing her chart to Dave.
"5 year old, got his hand stuck in his little sister's dolls head. Losing feeling in his fingers." Abby relayed as she headed to the stairs. Carter was just coming down the stairs then.
"Where you going?" he asked, wondering where she was to when she was supposed to be on her shift.
"To Luka. How's Anna doing?" she asked, concerned.
"She's okay." He answered, and then they stood there for a moment, Abby looking at him to say something. When he walked away, Abby sighed, rolling her eyes. He didn't ask how Luka was even doing.
Abby stayed by Luka's side night long, keeping vigil. As she sat there, surrounded in the glowing lights of his machines gazing at him, she realized the truth. It was like something clicked in her heart. In her soul. She leaned over Luka in the wee hours of the next morning and kissed his forehead.
"Luka..I know you can hear me...I love you." She whispered, a single tear falling down her cheek. Just then his heart monitor beeped radically, and then stayed at even steadier pace. Abby just smiled and curled up against the bed, her hands grasping his arm, and she laid her head on them, dozing off.
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A/N: There you go!!! Hope you like it!!! And please note that I am NOT a doctor person or anything so if the medical stuff is off, sorry!! All I know is what I kind of remember from my own accident/ambulance ride to the ER!! PLEASE PLEASE review and tell me what you think!! I haven't gotten a lot and it's kind of bumming me out!!! Next chappy will be up ASAP!!!!! Thanx!
A/N: Hey, sorry it's been so long to update. My fractured finger has kept me away, sadly. And now it takes twice as long to do any homework 'cause it's on my writing hand. Oh, well, at least it's much better now. More bearable. Going on my retreat this coming weekend, so I won't be able to update on the weekend when I have days off. Sorry! I'll try to make this one extra long for yah! Enjoy and don't forget to review to let me know what you think!! And not a lot more of 'mean Carter', I promise!
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The next day, Abby was off. So was Dave, thank goodness, so she stayed home cleaning her apartment top to bottom for a change. Carter didn't answer her message earlier in the morning, and by now, Abby was a little worried. She finally called over to the maternity ICU and asked about Anna. She was happy to hear her 'cousin' was doing so much better. But she also got her answer about where Carter had been. He'd been with Anna the whole time, never leaving her side. She couldn't be upset that Anna had someone there for her when she was going through so much. Finally, by 6:00ish, Carter stopped over to Abby's as she read up on some of her old med books she ran across.
"Hey, you DO know how to return a call..a little late..but,..how's Anna?" Abby said, a little sarcasm in her voice. Her page WAS ignored most of the day; she had a right to it. Carter smiled a little guiltily.
"Better. How's Dave?..Did you two,..and Luka have a nice time last night?" he asked, putting his own hint of sarcasm in his voice. Abby's eyes widened.
"You SAW us? Were you checking up on me or something?" Abby asked, somewhat offended. Carter just smiled, shaking his head.
"Did you?" he asked back, wanting to know why she asked about Anna.
"Carter!? I'm worried about Anna too! She's a good friend. I called to check up on her and they mentioned you'd been with her all day and night!" Abby explained, not completely letting him know she felt a little jealous. But it wasn't the same for Carter.
"Right, concerned about a 'friend'. What about Luka?" Carter said back bitterly.
"What about him?" Abby defended.
"I felt a little down yesterday. I went out with some friends..'cause YOU won't! There's no crime with that! He's a nice guy and so is Dave!" Abby replied back. Carter just shook his head at her.
"Look..Carter...I think..there's something between you and Anna. I saw it the moment she came here. The way you look at her, you don't look at me that way. And..obviously she has something for you. She needs you right now and I'm not gonna jeopardize that for..THIS. This..isn't THIS anymore anyways. Not for a little while now. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?" Abby said in a lower, calmer voice. Carter stood in front of her, staring at her as she spoke.
"Maybe..we should just move on." Abby said softly. Carter stood there fuming a little, but deep down he knew it was true. But he hated to give up so easily, no matter what he knew the outcome was going to be.
"What? So now when I get a 'friend' you dump me, even though you have 'friends' like Luka and Dave around? At least I never slept with mine." Carter bit out then regretting it. Abby's eyes teared.
"Get out..I thought you'd understand..obviously not. Just leave! And don't DARE insult me again! I never ONCE held Anna against you when any girlfriend in their right mind would have. She doesn't deserve that! Oh, and I will still be keeping in touch with her." Abby said through her tears and clenched teeth as she led him to the door and closed it on him. Carter balled up his fists, shaking his head at himself then stormed off. Abby curled up on the floor and sobbed. No matter what, it still hurt.
Around 7:00pm or so, after crying for awhile, Abby finally picked up her keys and left. Before she could stop herself, she ended up at Luka's.
'Please be home' she pleaded to herself as she knocked. Behind the door she heard some stumbling and a muffled 'coming'. Then Luka opened the door, looking completely exhausted.
"Abby? What's wrong, you okay?" he asked, full of concern. She shook her head no.
"Can I come in?" she hoarsely whispered.
"Yeah, sure, c'mon." he said, ushering her in. She walked in and stood awkwardly in the middle of the room.
"I just got home. It's a good thing you caught me before I crashed. Pulled a 16 hour." He said tiredly.
"After what..4 hours of sleep?..Gosh, I'll go..let you sleep, I don't even know why I came over here." She said quickly, heading to the door.
"No!..stay..I want you to." Luka said softly. He had her hand in his. She looked down at that and just broke down.
"Gosh! How can I be so dumb!.I..I broke up with him. He...he didn't exactly see things my way...he said some harsh things I know he probably regrets.." Abby trailed off, a sob coming out as she remembered the fight. Luka's jaw tensed at what Carter had put her through. He became, I guess you could say, very prejudice against ANYONE who hurt Abby in any way. No matter who they were.
"Don't cry. Please..he's not worth it." Luka pleaded softly, reaching for a tissue and handing it to her. Abby giggled sarcastically, shaking her head.
'I'm not crying for HIM!' she thought.
'Why AM I crying?!' she just shook her head some more, completely mixed up and confused.
"Listen, why don't you crash here. I don't mind and I don't think you should be alone right now. Besides, it's not anything new." Luka said, smiling lopsidedly. Abby grinned through her drying tears and nodded her head as he led her to 'her' couch.
"I'll try once again to let you have the bed." Luka tried, knowing it was fruitless.
"No, no..go get some rest Luka. I'm fine here...and thanks." Abby said, taking the offered pillow and blanket. He came back out a minute later with a pair of sweats and one of his t-shirts. He handed it to her and she looked up at him a moment.
"Thought you'd be more comfortable in these. Night Abigail." He said softly in his thick accent. She whispered a thank you and went to the restroom to change and wash up. When she came back out there was a glass of milk and some cookies on the table in front of the couch. She grinned and ate them up then fell asleep instantly.
Then next morning around 9:00ish, she woke up alone. She found a note saying he was paged in to the ER. There was a huge slam and they needed him.
"Why didn't he wake ME up!?" she mumbled, but noticed a little arrow on the bottom of the note, so she flipped it over. She got teary eyed when she read it:
'My grandmother always taught me you never wake a sleeping angel for it would cut off their path from heaven, and where would this world be if there weren't any angels? -I know I'D be forever lost without a certain angel. Hope you slept well. Luka
She folded it up and smiled, placing it in her purse. She went to the bathroom, taking a quick shower before putting on her pants and found one of Luka's smallest scrub tops and put it on, rushing to work. When she arrived she was greeted with chaos's evil brother. The entire ER was full of people, she couldn't even think straight.
"There you are Lockhart, I've been paging you for the past hour!" Carl yelled.
"I didn't get a page.." Abby said reaching for her pager. It was turned off.
"I didn't turn my pager off. Who-" Abby said confused, shaking her pager to check to see if the batteries were acting up.
"I did. You were sleeping." Luka said as he came by with a chart. She looked up at him and smiled, holding his gaze a moment.
"Your grandmother is a very smart women." Abby commented, causing him to smile shyly and shrug.
"Nice top Abby." Susan commented teasingly at the oversized scrub top. Luka grinned as he walked by, not missed by Susan's eyes.
"oh!..You have HIS on!?! Abby, spill!" Susan said, as she glanced at the board at the same time. Abby rolled her eyes, but blushed.
"Me and Carter..I guess broke up..I was upset. Nothing happened! I just fell asleep on his couch." Abby tried to explain innocently.
"WITH him!?!" Susan said in a hushed voice.
"No! He slept in his room like a perfect gentleman." Abby said, feeling like she needed to defend Luka's name.
"OOOh..what a KEEPER! What on God's green earth let him slip through you fingers?!" Susan commented before rushing off.
"That's what I'M starting to ask myself." Abby mumbled as Kerry handed her a chart and rushed off.
"And for goodness sake's Abby, get a top that fits!" Kerry yelled over her shoulder as she rushed off.
An hour later, Abby was knee deep in patients.
"WHY did there have to be a stampede at a ROCK concert?! Why couldn't it be a..Celine Dion concert or something?" Abby complained, pissed that yet another patient cursed her out. She was at admitting to turn in a chart when just then a huge commotion broke out at curtain area 1 and Abby watched in horror as a big burly 'fan' pick Luka up by the throat and bash him over the head with a huge, heavy metal candlestick. Luka slumped in the man's arms and wasn't even conscious as he was thrown through the glass window of the Trauma Room then falling to the floor on the outside.
"LUKA!!" Abby yelled rushing to him as 3 different men jumped on the patient.
"Get a gurney over here! And bring a C-collar fast!" Abby yelled as she kneeled down and began to support Luka's neck.
"Carter we need your help over here! Luka's been attacked!" Chuney yelled. Abby glanced up just a second to see Carter hesitate, just standing there staring like he was frozen. Abby's blood boiled.
"Carter!! NOW!" Chuney yelled again. He suddenly snapped out of it and got to work, going into complete doctor mode. They placed a C-collar on him with complete stabilization to a backboard. ((Been there, done that, for real, VERY scary!!)) They then wheeled him into the Trauma Room after they lifted him to a gurney.
"Luka...open you eyes. Wake up Luka." Abby said as she assisted Carter and now Kerry.
"He's got multiple lacerations on his back, a deep gash with a head wound,..and pronounced swelling around his throat.." They went on.
Half an hour later they had Luka on a ventilator due to the swelling of his windpipe and throat. His skull gash wasn't bleeding anymore and was sewed up and the 5 cuts on his back ranging from superficial to one deep one on his left shoulder blade were being sutured up by Susan. Abby had never left his side.
"Okay, It's onto the Cat-scan to see if any possible fractures or damage to his skull." Susan told Malik as he began to move him upstairs. Abby followed, holding the air bag, pumping it.
"You going up with him Abby?" Susan asked, Carter just off her shoulder listening as he set the chart on the bed.
"Yes." She simply said as the doors closed in the elevator.
After the CAT scan revealed a small fracture, but not serious, they moved him to ICU until he woke up. Once they did a final assessment, they pronounced him in a light coma. Abby was teary-eyed when she made it back down to the ER to try to finish her shift.
"What're you doing here? Go back upstairs with Dr. Kovac. We all can cover for you, no problem." Chuney said when she saw Abby pick up a chart. Susan and Kerry walked up after finishing a patient.
"How's Luka doing Abby?" Kerry asked softly. Abby got teary eyed some more.
"He..he's in a coma." She said in almost a whisper. Everyone looked down, shaking their heads. Just then Dave walked in for his late shift.
"Hey...gosh..who died now?" he asked seeing all of their faces.
"Dave!!...Luka was attacked by a patient..he's in a coma." Susan said, swatting at him. Dave's face fell. He immediately looked over at Abby.
"Hey, sorry Abby. Why don't you go be with him? We'll cover down here. That's cool, right chief?" Dave asked Kerry. Kerry saw the look on Abby's face and nodded.
"Go on. It's quiet now. If we really need you, we know where to find you." Kerry said. Abby nodded, handing her chart to Dave.
"5 year old, got his hand stuck in his little sister's dolls head. Losing feeling in his fingers." Abby relayed as she headed to the stairs. Carter was just coming down the stairs then.
"Where you going?" he asked, wondering where she was to when she was supposed to be on her shift.
"To Luka. How's Anna doing?" she asked, concerned.
"She's okay." He answered, and then they stood there for a moment, Abby looking at him to say something. When he walked away, Abby sighed, rolling her eyes. He didn't ask how Luka was even doing.
Abby stayed by Luka's side night long, keeping vigil. As she sat there, surrounded in the glowing lights of his machines gazing at him, she realized the truth. It was like something clicked in her heart. In her soul. She leaned over Luka in the wee hours of the next morning and kissed his forehead.
"Luka..I know you can hear me...I love you." She whispered, a single tear falling down her cheek. Just then his heart monitor beeped radically, and then stayed at even steadier pace. Abby just smiled and curled up against the bed, her hands grasping his arm, and she laid her head on them, dozing off.
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A/N: There you go!!! Hope you like it!!! And please note that I am NOT a doctor person or anything so if the medical stuff is off, sorry!! All I know is what I kind of remember from my own accident/ambulance ride to the ER!! PLEASE PLEASE review and tell me what you think!! I haven't gotten a lot and it's kind of bumming me out!!! Next chappy will be up ASAP!!!!! Thanx!