Author's Note:  I don't own any of the ER characters no matter I much I wish I did.  Amanda and Chris are my original characters.  This is a different view of Carter's proposal to Abby than just the normal Carby fluff.  I hope you like it.

Her Answer

"I want to marry you," shouted Carter over the helicopter.

"Are you proposing?" Abby asked.

"Yeah," he said

"You're crazy!" she told him.

"Then I'll fit right in," he replied.  Abby didn't move.  She just sat there staring in disbelief.  Here was someone who wanted to marry her.  This was someone who wanted to be apart of her crazy life.  Luka had not wanted to be a part of it.  He had tried to avoid it.  Carter wanted to marry her and that scared the hell out of Abby.

~*~

Carter watched as she turned and walked away from him.  Of course she would walk away, he thought.  His proposal had gone nothing like what he had planned.  He didn't have the ring with him, he didn't get down on one knee, and he had to yell just to be heard.  I don't blame any girl for walking away from that, he thought.  He ran after her before she was out of his life forever.

~*~

Abby felt the tears run down her face before she even knew she was crying.  She walked into the empty lounge and sat on the couch, covering her face so that nobody would know that she was upset.  Shit, I can't do this, she thought.  I can't marry John.  I'm not ready nor will I ever be.  If I do this I will just ruin his life.  She got up, wiped the tears off her face and walked out of the lounge.  The paramedics burst through the door bringing in a new patient.

"26 year old female hit by a car.  She and her boyfriend are in pretty bad shape.  He is in the next ambulance.  She had a LOC of roughly 5 minutes.  Her pulse is stable.  She looks like she experienced some head trauma," the paramedic told Abby and Susan as they pushed to gurney into trauma one.  "See you ladies next time."  Abby leaned over and asked:

"Ma'am, can you tell me your name?"

"Amanda, uh, Amanda Gist," the young woman weakly replied.

"Okay, Amanda, we're going to take good care of you.  You are in good hands," Abby reassured her.  Abby glanced up and saw another paramedic rush a young man in a gurney into trauma two.  Amanda reached and grasped Abby's hand.

"What about Chris?  Is he going to be okay?  The car hit him too," Amanda asked Abby.  Susan nodded at Abby to tell her that she could go check on the young woman's boyfriend.  Abby excused herself and walked through the swinging doors into trauma two.  Carter was working on the young man.  She could tell by the high pitched tone that Chris's heart wasn't beating.  Carter just shook his head and quietly said:

"Time of death, 22:04."

Without saying a word Abby turned and went back to trauma one.  A police officer was talking to Amanda trying to find out what had happened.

"Chris and I were just walking and he proposed to me.  We have been dating for a while and we just seem so right for each other.  I guess we were just so happy that we never saw the car.  I think it was blue and it looked like a Camry but it was too dark to say for sure," Amanda told the police officer.  She noticed Abby was back and asked her about Chris.  Abby looked at the floor and quietly whispered:

"He died."

"NO!" Amanda screamed as she started thrashing around.  Both Susan and Abby ran over to help control and calm her.  "He can't die.  We are going to get married.  HE CAN'T DIE!  I love him too much."  She stopped fighting and curled up into fetal position and sobbed.  The scene made Susan's eyes water but for the second time that evening Abby had tears running down her face.  She left the room to find Carter.  They needed to talk.

~*~

Carter watched as Abby told the young woman in trauma one that her boyfriend had died.  When she started to scream Carter couldn't take it and he walked into the lounge.  Abby had not said one word to him.  He was beginning to suspect the reason was not the type of proposal he gave.  It must have been the proposal itself.  He walked out of the lounge and saw Abby walk out of trauma one.  Their eyes met the second before she fainted.

Note:  I am not sure if I should continue it.  Whether you like it or not, please review and tell me.  This is my first ER fic so all of the medical terms may not be right.  If I continue, you'll find out why Abby fainted and what she wants to tell Carter.  Any ideas?