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A/N: Here's the next chapter as soon as I could, I just got back from my retreat, it was so much fun and such a beautiful ranch too. Hope there is SOME one who is still reading this, but as long as there's one out there, I'll still write! Love to hear from you guys so PLEASE review and tell me what you think?!?! Pretty please? Now, enjoy!
AA/N: Oh, and thanks to those of you (had a couple) who reviewed to tell me the correct spelling of people's names. If the world depended on my spelling to save it, we'd all be screwed big time!! So thanks to those who gave me the correct spellings.
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[left off with Abby falling asleep sitting with Luka, holding his arm]
That's how Kerry found her later that morning when she came in to check on her ER doctor.
"Abby? Why don't you go get yourself something to eat? Stretch your legs." Kerry said, frowning at the way Abby grimaced at her kinked neck. Abby stole a glance at Luka worriedly.
"Sure. Felt like some coffee anyways. You on?" Abby asked as they walked out.
"Just off. Just came to see how Dr. Kovac was doing. Get something to eat. We might need you down there later." Kerry said as they split apart. Abby got some muffins and coffee and decided to take a detour to the maternity ward. She stepped in Anna's room just as Carter was leaving to work his shift. They wouldn't look each other in the eyes.
"Your still here?" Carter asked, confused at how early it was. The visiting hours weren't open yet.
"He's in a coma Carter. If you'd been adult enough to ask, you would have known. He's a colleague too Carter, at least give him that much respect." Abby said harshly, very tired and fed up. Carter looked a little guilty and nodded his head.
"Okay. I'm sorry, but yes..he's a good doctor. We're lucky to have him. It's too bad, I hope he comes out of it..he's a good asset to the ER." Carter said softly, smiling sadly.
"Thank you." Abby said softly back, smiling slightly at him then going in to see Anna.
"Hey girl. How ya' feeling?" Abby asked, sitting in a chair.
"Much better. They're letting me out tomorrow." Anna said, eyeing Abby. Finally Abby caught Anna staring.
"What?!" Abby said innocently.
"You two split, huh?..'cause of me?" Anna asked, feeling guilty. Abby smiled and nodded.
"But it was for the better. We're BOTH interested in someone else." Abby stated, munching on her muffin. Anna looked at her a little confused, but deep down knew whom Carter's someone else was.
"C'mon Anna..you have to notice the way he looks at you. He didn't look at me like that. Not HIM anyways." Abby announced.
"Really?!...Yeah..well, who does for you? You said 'not him'." Anna asked, intrigued. Abby got teary eyed suddenly.
"Luka. Luka Kovac. He helped you down in the ER..but now.." Abby stumbled, her lip trembling.
"HE'S the one in the coma! Oh, Ab, I'm so sorry. What happened? I heard something about a fight?" Anna asked.
"A patient. Attacked him. Hit him over the head with a candlestick. A HUGE one." Abby said. Anna couldn't help but smirk a little.
"Like Clue? That's bizarre, but sounds appropriate for the ER." Anna commented. Abby giggled tensely.
"The bands name the patient came from after the stampede was called 'Jack Be Nimble'." Abby said, shaking her head.
"He'll pull through. You've been here all night?" Anna asked, scooting her journal, accidentally knocking it to the floor.
"Yeah..here you go..is that writings?" Abby asked when she caught a glance of a page. Something else she found in common with Anna.
"Yeah..just stuff I wrote down..songs. For a little while now. It's a way to release stuff." Anna shrugged. Abby TOTALLY understood.
"Can I?" Abby asked. Anna shrugged shyly.
"Sure." She said handing it to her. Abby munched on her muffins while she read the journal, dated back for a year or so.
"These are amazing Anna. You should do something with them. Seriously." Abby commented as she got up, handing her the journal. Anna just smiled and shrugged.
"I have a journal of my own.. I'll let you peek at it sometime. I'm gonna find a change of clothes to steal. I'm in room 214, in the ICU. Call if you need anything. Thanks for the shoulder." Abby smirked as she left. She took a quick shower in the employee showers and found some pink nurse scrubs to wear and went back to Luka's side, once again holding his hand, sitting vigil. All through out the day people from the ER would pop in to see Luka. Susan stayed on her lunch break with Abby. In the early afternoon another guest showed up. Someone Abby was NOT expecting.
"Carter? What are you doing here?" Abby asked, taken aback.
"We need to talk. Is that okay? Can you?" he said in a kind voice.
"Sure. Sit down." Abby said gesturing to a chair. He looked up at Luka a moment, seeing the tube breathing for him, and smiled sadly.
"First off, I'm not a monster. He's a damn good doctor, I hope he pulls out of this." Carter said truthfully, looking at Abby for understanding. She nodded, smiling.
"I know. I was married to one, so I think I can tell the difference now." She answered softly, smiling. He grinned at that.
"Next..this...what we have...or should I say had?" Carter asked, not sure how to word it.
"Yeah..I think that's appropriate in one sense." She said, then pausing to let him finish.
"I mean..I wish it hadn't ended so BADLY." He said looking up to her. Abby snorted.
"Oh..it wasn't that bad. Now..me and RICHARD!? That was bad!" Abby joked. Carter just smiled and looked over to Luka. She followed his gaze and nodded to herself, taking a deep breath.
"You love her. I see it in your eyes. The way you are around her." Abby said softly. He looked down at his hands.
"I've seen that look before. In someone else." Abby continued, eyeing Luka. Carter witnessed and nodded too.
"Yeah, I've seen it too. I think that's got me jealous. It was always there." Carter said, catching her eyes. She snickered dryly.
"Now..why couldn't you TELL me sooner? Before we did all of THIS?!" Abby half joked. Carter grinned at that as she gazed at Luka, watching the machine pump air in and out.
"You love him don't you?" Carter asked suddenly. Abby kept gazing at Luka a long moment before nodding slowly and grinning, turning with tears in her eyes. Carter nodded once more at her.
"Good. He's a good person. He always took care of you." Carter added truthfully. There was a long pause as Abby watched Luka.
"Carter." Abby suddenly said in a tiny voice. He glanced up to see her face crumpling and her chin trembling.
"Will he ever get to know that?" Abby cried softly, in a whisper. Carter got up and gave her a hug.
"Yes...the girlfriend stealing S.O.B. will." He said, believing it. Abby choked out a laugh and smacked him on the arm. He stepped away, heading to the door.
"He'll be fine." Carter added.
"So will she..eventually. It'll be tough right now; you've gotta be there for her. But she'll be okay." She said as he left. He smiled and headed to the maternity ward. Abby ate some dinner and curled up once again next to Luka's side, holding his arm and hand tightly in her grasp.
Around midnight, actually a few minutes after, to make it officially August the 17th, Abby sensed something that made her wake up. She slowly turned her head over and stretched, yawning. She rubbed her eyes then instinctively looked up to Luka. Only this time he was staring back. She startled a moment, then grinned.
"Hi." She simply said. He nodded slightly like 'yeah, back at ya'
"How long were you awake? Awhile?" she asked. He did a so-so hand movement. His eyes were very droopy and unfocused. He was able to motion for something to write though. She grabbed a pencil and paper from the drawer and held the paper for him to write. On it he wrote:
Happy Birthday
Her eyes brimmed with tears and she instinctively looked at her watch, but was surprised to find it turned the other way, not like her usual way on the inside of her wrist.
"That's how you knew!! You looked at my watch! You saw the date AND remembered!" Abby realized shocked. Luka just shrugged lazily.
"Bet you would like that tube out of your throat, huh?" she asked as he kept drooping his eyes. He was really tired.
"You were in a coma Luka. For almost 2 days. You scared the s#$t out of me!" Abby said, gently stroking his hairline on his forehead. He gave an 'I'm sorry' look before closing his eyes again from her touch.
"Let's pass on removing that tube just yet. You seem a little tired still." She realized. He wasn't completely ready yet. She went to the nurses' station to tell them he woke up and responded to her. They took note of it and took down his vitals. They'd have the doctor come see him first thing in the morning. Abby curled up once again next to him, facing him, and Luka was aware enough to place his hand along side her cheek/neck and softly stroke her face with his thumb like a little kid who twiddled his hair to fall asleep. They both dozed off soon after.
By 10:00am the next morning Luka was off the vent, just nose oxygen and sitting up. He couldn't stop looking into Abby's eyes.
"You heard EVERYTHING I said, didn't you?" Abby said shyly. Luka just smiled back. He couldn't talk much from having the vent tube down his throat. He also never let Abby's hand go. Just then Luka got a special visitor.
"Hey Dr. Kovac, nice to see you again. Only not in such a good way, this time I guess." Anna said from her wheel chair Carter was pushing her in. Carter smiled to Abby.
"Told you so." Carter said in a singsong voice causing Abby to role her eyes and smile.
"Hello" Luka croaked out, waving. He finally gave up speaking and pointed to Anna and did an 'OK?' sign, then pointed down to her tummy motioning a 'Baby' sign with another 'OK?' sign. Anna giggled then nodded.
"I'm hanging in there..the baby...we're just praying." Anna said softly. Luka nodded understanding.
"I get to get out of here today. You follow suit soon, ya' hear? Give my girl here some relief." Anna ordered kiddingly.
"See ya Kovac. Great to see you awake." Carter commented as he wheeled Anna out, nodding goodbye to Abby.
"Baby?" Luka croaked out hoarsely. Abby looked sadly at him.
"It's gonna be real tough. It's less than 50-50 she'll carry to full term, let alone the baby living." Abby said, shaking her head. Luka patted her hand, feeling bad too. They moved Luka to the D.O.U. by the afternoon, in a private room. Everybody downstairs came to say hi. One person in particular came to visit..with a HUGE bouquet of red roses and babies breathe with an angel baby doll holding a birthday cake.
"These are for you. I didn't know it was your birthday Lockhart." Carl said. He winked at Luka when Abby was busy with the card. He left quickly with a nod towards Luka and a thumbs up sign. Abby finished reading the card, stood up, leaned over, and kissed Luka practically back into his coma.
"You..are the BEST!...gosh, Luka..I LOVE YOU!" Abby blurted out. Luka looked wide-eyed, smiling like a fool.
"I..love..you..too." he whispered out whole heartily. She leaned over and kissed him again, then placed kisses all over his face to his delight. He giggled throatily and they gazed at each other for a long moment.
"Luka...I'm sorry. For everything. I was just confused. The last time I got even close to something like this, I jumped headfirst, got married, and then was miserable. I got scared before because what we had was SO much more...I thought it'd hurt twice as much. But now.." She confessed, getting teary eyed.
"Now what?" he nudged a little.
"You SCARED me. REALLY bad. When I saw you fall to the ground like...like you were GONE...I ...I felt like I'd die on the spot. I've NEVER felt like that before." Abby explained, trying to put her feelings into words.
"Sorry...I'm okay now." He said hoarsely, tucking some hair behind her ear.
"You...with you...I feel complete again. Like before." He choked out. She grinned at that leaning over and kissing him long and sweet. This time she climbed up with him on the bed, curling up against his chest, falling asleep. That was the scene Susan found when she stopped late to visit and give Abby a birthday gift.
"Well, if this ain't a Hallmark moment. Gonna have to get a picture of this for the lobby board." Susan whispered, finding a camera machine on the maternity floor and going back to snap a couple pictures. It didn't even disturb them. She left shortly after, smiling away.
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A/N: There's the next chappy for you! Review and tell me what you think of it!! I'll try to update soon, I'm on Spring Break right now, but it's Easter week, so I have a lot of church things to attend since I'll be getting my First Communion Saturday night at Easter Vigil, how excited I am!!!!!! Don't forget to review, even if it's just to say hello, Hi, or whatever!! Thanx!
A/N: Here's the next chapter as soon as I could, I just got back from my retreat, it was so much fun and such a beautiful ranch too. Hope there is SOME one who is still reading this, but as long as there's one out there, I'll still write! Love to hear from you guys so PLEASE review and tell me what you think?!?! Pretty please? Now, enjoy!
AA/N: Oh, and thanks to those of you (had a couple) who reviewed to tell me the correct spelling of people's names. If the world depended on my spelling to save it, we'd all be screwed big time!! So thanks to those who gave me the correct spellings.
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[left off with Abby falling asleep sitting with Luka, holding his arm]
That's how Kerry found her later that morning when she came in to check on her ER doctor.
"Abby? Why don't you go get yourself something to eat? Stretch your legs." Kerry said, frowning at the way Abby grimaced at her kinked neck. Abby stole a glance at Luka worriedly.
"Sure. Felt like some coffee anyways. You on?" Abby asked as they walked out.
"Just off. Just came to see how Dr. Kovac was doing. Get something to eat. We might need you down there later." Kerry said as they split apart. Abby got some muffins and coffee and decided to take a detour to the maternity ward. She stepped in Anna's room just as Carter was leaving to work his shift. They wouldn't look each other in the eyes.
"Your still here?" Carter asked, confused at how early it was. The visiting hours weren't open yet.
"He's in a coma Carter. If you'd been adult enough to ask, you would have known. He's a colleague too Carter, at least give him that much respect." Abby said harshly, very tired and fed up. Carter looked a little guilty and nodded his head.
"Okay. I'm sorry, but yes..he's a good doctor. We're lucky to have him. It's too bad, I hope he comes out of it..he's a good asset to the ER." Carter said softly, smiling sadly.
"Thank you." Abby said softly back, smiling slightly at him then going in to see Anna.
"Hey girl. How ya' feeling?" Abby asked, sitting in a chair.
"Much better. They're letting me out tomorrow." Anna said, eyeing Abby. Finally Abby caught Anna staring.
"What?!" Abby said innocently.
"You two split, huh?..'cause of me?" Anna asked, feeling guilty. Abby smiled and nodded.
"But it was for the better. We're BOTH interested in someone else." Abby stated, munching on her muffin. Anna looked at her a little confused, but deep down knew whom Carter's someone else was.
"C'mon Anna..you have to notice the way he looks at you. He didn't look at me like that. Not HIM anyways." Abby announced.
"Really?!...Yeah..well, who does for you? You said 'not him'." Anna asked, intrigued. Abby got teary eyed suddenly.
"Luka. Luka Kovac. He helped you down in the ER..but now.." Abby stumbled, her lip trembling.
"HE'S the one in the coma! Oh, Ab, I'm so sorry. What happened? I heard something about a fight?" Anna asked.
"A patient. Attacked him. Hit him over the head with a candlestick. A HUGE one." Abby said. Anna couldn't help but smirk a little.
"Like Clue? That's bizarre, but sounds appropriate for the ER." Anna commented. Abby giggled tensely.
"The bands name the patient came from after the stampede was called 'Jack Be Nimble'." Abby said, shaking her head.
"He'll pull through. You've been here all night?" Anna asked, scooting her journal, accidentally knocking it to the floor.
"Yeah..here you go..is that writings?" Abby asked when she caught a glance of a page. Something else she found in common with Anna.
"Yeah..just stuff I wrote down..songs. For a little while now. It's a way to release stuff." Anna shrugged. Abby TOTALLY understood.
"Can I?" Abby asked. Anna shrugged shyly.
"Sure." She said handing it to her. Abby munched on her muffins while she read the journal, dated back for a year or so.
"These are amazing Anna. You should do something with them. Seriously." Abby commented as she got up, handing her the journal. Anna just smiled and shrugged.
"I have a journal of my own.. I'll let you peek at it sometime. I'm gonna find a change of clothes to steal. I'm in room 214, in the ICU. Call if you need anything. Thanks for the shoulder." Abby smirked as she left. She took a quick shower in the employee showers and found some pink nurse scrubs to wear and went back to Luka's side, once again holding his hand, sitting vigil. All through out the day people from the ER would pop in to see Luka. Susan stayed on her lunch break with Abby. In the early afternoon another guest showed up. Someone Abby was NOT expecting.
"Carter? What are you doing here?" Abby asked, taken aback.
"We need to talk. Is that okay? Can you?" he said in a kind voice.
"Sure. Sit down." Abby said gesturing to a chair. He looked up at Luka a moment, seeing the tube breathing for him, and smiled sadly.
"First off, I'm not a monster. He's a damn good doctor, I hope he pulls out of this." Carter said truthfully, looking at Abby for understanding. She nodded, smiling.
"I know. I was married to one, so I think I can tell the difference now." She answered softly, smiling. He grinned at that.
"Next..this...what we have...or should I say had?" Carter asked, not sure how to word it.
"Yeah..I think that's appropriate in one sense." She said, then pausing to let him finish.
"I mean..I wish it hadn't ended so BADLY." He said looking up to her. Abby snorted.
"Oh..it wasn't that bad. Now..me and RICHARD!? That was bad!" Abby joked. Carter just smiled and looked over to Luka. She followed his gaze and nodded to herself, taking a deep breath.
"You love her. I see it in your eyes. The way you are around her." Abby said softly. He looked down at his hands.
"I've seen that look before. In someone else." Abby continued, eyeing Luka. Carter witnessed and nodded too.
"Yeah, I've seen it too. I think that's got me jealous. It was always there." Carter said, catching her eyes. She snickered dryly.
"Now..why couldn't you TELL me sooner? Before we did all of THIS?!" Abby half joked. Carter grinned at that as she gazed at Luka, watching the machine pump air in and out.
"You love him don't you?" Carter asked suddenly. Abby kept gazing at Luka a long moment before nodding slowly and grinning, turning with tears in her eyes. Carter nodded once more at her.
"Good. He's a good person. He always took care of you." Carter added truthfully. There was a long pause as Abby watched Luka.
"Carter." Abby suddenly said in a tiny voice. He glanced up to see her face crumpling and her chin trembling.
"Will he ever get to know that?" Abby cried softly, in a whisper. Carter got up and gave her a hug.
"Yes...the girlfriend stealing S.O.B. will." He said, believing it. Abby choked out a laugh and smacked him on the arm. He stepped away, heading to the door.
"He'll be fine." Carter added.
"So will she..eventually. It'll be tough right now; you've gotta be there for her. But she'll be okay." She said as he left. He smiled and headed to the maternity ward. Abby ate some dinner and curled up once again next to Luka's side, holding his arm and hand tightly in her grasp.
Around midnight, actually a few minutes after, to make it officially August the 17th, Abby sensed something that made her wake up. She slowly turned her head over and stretched, yawning. She rubbed her eyes then instinctively looked up to Luka. Only this time he was staring back. She startled a moment, then grinned.
"Hi." She simply said. He nodded slightly like 'yeah, back at ya'
"How long were you awake? Awhile?" she asked. He did a so-so hand movement. His eyes were very droopy and unfocused. He was able to motion for something to write though. She grabbed a pencil and paper from the drawer and held the paper for him to write. On it he wrote:
Happy Birthday
Her eyes brimmed with tears and she instinctively looked at her watch, but was surprised to find it turned the other way, not like her usual way on the inside of her wrist.
"That's how you knew!! You looked at my watch! You saw the date AND remembered!" Abby realized shocked. Luka just shrugged lazily.
"Bet you would like that tube out of your throat, huh?" she asked as he kept drooping his eyes. He was really tired.
"You were in a coma Luka. For almost 2 days. You scared the s#$t out of me!" Abby said, gently stroking his hairline on his forehead. He gave an 'I'm sorry' look before closing his eyes again from her touch.
"Let's pass on removing that tube just yet. You seem a little tired still." She realized. He wasn't completely ready yet. She went to the nurses' station to tell them he woke up and responded to her. They took note of it and took down his vitals. They'd have the doctor come see him first thing in the morning. Abby curled up once again next to him, facing him, and Luka was aware enough to place his hand along side her cheek/neck and softly stroke her face with his thumb like a little kid who twiddled his hair to fall asleep. They both dozed off soon after.
By 10:00am the next morning Luka was off the vent, just nose oxygen and sitting up. He couldn't stop looking into Abby's eyes.
"You heard EVERYTHING I said, didn't you?" Abby said shyly. Luka just smiled back. He couldn't talk much from having the vent tube down his throat. He also never let Abby's hand go. Just then Luka got a special visitor.
"Hey Dr. Kovac, nice to see you again. Only not in such a good way, this time I guess." Anna said from her wheel chair Carter was pushing her in. Carter smiled to Abby.
"Told you so." Carter said in a singsong voice causing Abby to role her eyes and smile.
"Hello" Luka croaked out, waving. He finally gave up speaking and pointed to Anna and did an 'OK?' sign, then pointed down to her tummy motioning a 'Baby' sign with another 'OK?' sign. Anna giggled then nodded.
"I'm hanging in there..the baby...we're just praying." Anna said softly. Luka nodded understanding.
"I get to get out of here today. You follow suit soon, ya' hear? Give my girl here some relief." Anna ordered kiddingly.
"See ya Kovac. Great to see you awake." Carter commented as he wheeled Anna out, nodding goodbye to Abby.
"Baby?" Luka croaked out hoarsely. Abby looked sadly at him.
"It's gonna be real tough. It's less than 50-50 she'll carry to full term, let alone the baby living." Abby said, shaking her head. Luka patted her hand, feeling bad too. They moved Luka to the D.O.U. by the afternoon, in a private room. Everybody downstairs came to say hi. One person in particular came to visit..with a HUGE bouquet of red roses and babies breathe with an angel baby doll holding a birthday cake.
"These are for you. I didn't know it was your birthday Lockhart." Carl said. He winked at Luka when Abby was busy with the card. He left quickly with a nod towards Luka and a thumbs up sign. Abby finished reading the card, stood up, leaned over, and kissed Luka practically back into his coma.
"You..are the BEST!...gosh, Luka..I LOVE YOU!" Abby blurted out. Luka looked wide-eyed, smiling like a fool.
"I..love..you..too." he whispered out whole heartily. She leaned over and kissed him again, then placed kisses all over his face to his delight. He giggled throatily and they gazed at each other for a long moment.
"Luka...I'm sorry. For everything. I was just confused. The last time I got even close to something like this, I jumped headfirst, got married, and then was miserable. I got scared before because what we had was SO much more...I thought it'd hurt twice as much. But now.." She confessed, getting teary eyed.
"Now what?" he nudged a little.
"You SCARED me. REALLY bad. When I saw you fall to the ground like...like you were GONE...I ...I felt like I'd die on the spot. I've NEVER felt like that before." Abby explained, trying to put her feelings into words.
"Sorry...I'm okay now." He said hoarsely, tucking some hair behind her ear.
"You...with you...I feel complete again. Like before." He choked out. She grinned at that leaning over and kissing him long and sweet. This time she climbed up with him on the bed, curling up against his chest, falling asleep. That was the scene Susan found when she stopped late to visit and give Abby a birthday gift.
"Well, if this ain't a Hallmark moment. Gonna have to get a picture of this for the lobby board." Susan whispered, finding a camera machine on the maternity floor and going back to snap a couple pictures. It didn't even disturb them. She left shortly after, smiling away.
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A/N: There's the next chappy for you! Review and tell me what you think of it!! I'll try to update soon, I'm on Spring Break right now, but it's Easter week, so I have a lot of church things to attend since I'll be getting my First Communion Saturday night at Easter Vigil, how excited I am!!!!!! Don't forget to review, even if it's just to say hello, Hi, or whatever!! Thanx!