Disclaimer: see chapter one

For some reason, MS Word hates me as much as WordPad does. It seems to have deleted my revised version of chapter one. I will get it up as soon as possible. so sorry for the inconvience.

Just for the record, this takes place about halfway thru season 10. At this point, Carter and Andrea are casually dating, Romano has both of his arms (yay!), and yes, I am bring Doug (and possibly Carol back).
Show Me The Meaning

3 Months later...........

"All right, sir, just sit tight and someone from Social Services will be here in a minute to talk to you and your son." Andrea smiled and finished signing the patient's chart.

"Social services?" the man asked. "Look, doc, I told ya, I didn't touch him."

Andy nods. "Sir, it's routine that we call them for these types of injuries..."

"Look here, Doogie Howser," the man growled. "*No one* is going to take my son away from me..."

"I never said they were..."

He interupted her again, grabbing a hold of her lab coat and pressing her up against the window facing the nurse's station. "NO ONE!"

Andrea's eyes went wide. She was scared, but knew she must stay calm. "Mr. Dermot, you've been drinking. Please, just... let's not do anything you'd regret later on."

Mr. Dermot's face softened for a moment, and he pulled Andy a few inches away from the window. Andy breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay..." she said softly.

"NO ONE!!" Mr. Dermot screamed, throwing Andrea against the window as hard as he could. The force of impact caused the glass to break, and Andy to go crashing through the window and slamming into the floor near the nurse's station.

Dr. Romano had been signing off on charts and budget proposals when he heard the crash. He ran to see what had happened, and stopped in his tracks when he saw Andrea lying motionless on the floor. "Oh, God..." he exclaimed quietly, before yelling for a gurney.

Andrea stared up at the ceiling in shock. Everything was fuzzy... faces, voices....