Me: Hey everybody. I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to get this
chapter written and posted. I had major writer's block for the past two to
three weeks and I had no idea what this chapter was going to end up being
like, until like three days ago. I got a lightbulb that night and I haven't
stopped writing since! It's pretty long which is why I might have to divide
it into two parts. Hope you like it.
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Andy's eyes jolted open. It took her a few seconds to focus them to the semi-light coming in from the windows. Jessie and Lizzy were still asleep on both her sides and as she looked at her watch, she realized it was earlier then when she would usually wake up. Then she remembered why she had jolted awake. She had been dreaming, but she couldn't remember what about. It had been a long time since a dream had woken her. The feeling in the dream still sat in her mind. It was a mixed feeling: half felt like she was alone and the other half felt glad. She couldn't figure out whether the glad feeling was because she had woken up or if it was something in her dream. Instead of pondering the question, she pushed it to the back of her mind and carefully got out of the bed, not waking Jessie or Lizzy. Andy made her way to her own bedroom and grabbed her work out clothes. Exercising always cleared her head and helped her think things through. When her marriage failed after twenty-five years, she went jogging, and when Jessie ran away to her father in California, she found herself doing pull ups on the bar hung on her closest door. And whenever a patient died, which was sometimes often, or when she had to make tough choices, she exercised. It had always been a procedure of the military and now it was a procedure of hers. Since now that Jessie was nearly eighteen, Andy figured she could let the girls stay at the house by themselves while she went to the park for a jog. After that, she came home and jumped in the shower. The water hit her skin at a fast pace when she didn't have much time because she jogged an extra mile. For some reason, she didn't feel like she would be able to help people much today. Probably because she felt has if she needed to help herself first, and she didn't mean medically. Corrina got there earlier also and started making breakfast while Andy woke the girls. It was a usual morning schedule except nobody was all that happy.
"Ok, I'm going to work now." Andy said while walking out of the kitchen. "Girls, do well in school today. Behave. Thank you Corrina for cooking."
"No problem Dr. Campbell." She answered from the kitchen.
"Mom?!" Jessie ran into the hallway, the sound of hurry in her voice. "If Dr. Delgado says anything about Marc, will you tell me?"
"Jessie, you just sent the letter yesterday. I doubt he's gotten it already."
"Please? Just in case?"
"Fine." She said quickly and headed for the front door.
"Wait, mom." Andy turned back around and Jessie hugged her. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." She ran her fingers through Jessie's hair and kissed the top of her head. "See you tonight." She walked out the door and to her car. Fifteen minutes later she parked in her spot at work and headed into Rittenhouse. "Good morning Hawkins."
"Is it doctor?" Lana asked but Andy didn't respond. Instead she started towards her office. When she opened the door, she could hear that something was behind it. It was too light to be a person, but there was definitely something there. Lana's head jerked in Andy's direction when she heard her gasp loudly. The entire office was filled with red, heart-shaped balloons.
"Wow! Dr. Campbell." Lana said walking to her now. Andy stood there and stared with her jaw dropped and eyes wide. "Who's the guy? The rich guy."
"You tell me?"
"You mean, you don't know who-"Lana pointed to the clutter of redness.
"Hawkins, has anybody been in my office since I left last night?"
"Not that I've seen." She responded.
"Well, somebody must have been here?!"
"Dr. Campbell, I'm sorry, but shouldn't this be a good surprise?"
"Not if it's from the wrong person!" Andy answered while slowly walking into her office, avoiding the balloons. "Help me look for a note or something."
"Here's a note." Lana said picking up the note after she had made her way around the office looking for it. Andy slowly took it from her, hesitating about whom it was from, while Lana waited impatiently to find out the same answer. Andy's eyes scammed the short note many times before she said anything. "Well?" Lana asked. Andy looked around at the cluster of expensive balloons and then back at Lana.
"They're from.......the wrong person."
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"On my count-"Andy said grabbing the stretcher on one side of the emergency room.
"One, two, and-"Lu yelled over all the commotion, opposite the side of the emergency room that Andy was on. Both doctors were called down there at the same times for two different patients. Andy's patient was a twelve-year-old girl that had just had a physical done the day before and now she was back because of a tragic car accident. Both Lu and Andy worked along side emergency medicine nurses and other doctors in the fight to save their patients lives and both the heart monitors stopped beeping at the same times. Andy grabbed the EKG pedals and had them juiced, while Lu did the same.
"Charge to 150." Andy ordered.
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu yelled and zapped her patient, a thirty-year-old women suffering from a car accident also.
(A/N: If you haven't caught this by now, Andy and Lu are finishing each other's sentences. Flashing back and forth from Andy to Lu. Kind of like they do in the show sometimes.)
The monitor still rang solid. "Charge to 200." Lu said.
"Charged."
"Clear." Andy shouted. There was still no heartbeat in either of the females. "Charge to 250."
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu said at one last attempt to save another life. Both doctors sighed deeply and looked at the clock in the middle of the room.
"Time of death: 11:45 AM." They said at the same time. Andy walked away, giving one last glance at the dead little girl. Her mother sat a while away getting her arm and head bandaged from driving one of the car that had been in the wreck. There was a police officer standing near her, obviously waiting to talk to her about it. When he gave up because the doctor wouldn't let him he walked to Andy. Lu was also walking in her direction.
"Dr. Campbell?" They asked at the same time. Andy looked at Lu first but then Lu realized that the police officer wanted to speak with her so she let him.
"Dr. Campbell?"
"Yes." Andy answered, expecting nothing but bad news.
"I've been informed that you were in charge of helping a young girl that needed severe medical attention."
"Yes, she was in need of severe medical attention but it wasn't enough. She didn't make it." Andy looked back at the mother and then to Lu who gave a look of sympathy back.
"The girl's name was-"
"Allison Baker. She was my patient. Her and her mother."
"Her mother also? What can you tell me about Ms. Baker?"
"She's a very nice women who's been through a rough divorce. I can relate to her greatly, not only with the divorce but with the child also."
"So you wouldn't consider her a murderer?"
"WHAT?! NO! Of course not!" Andy stated like he was crazy. "What happened?"
"A car accident."
"I know that. Wait, was she the person at fault?" Andy asked and the police officer nodded. "Oh god." Andy looked at the mother again with great sympathy and felt like she was going to cry. Her patient just lost her daughter and now she was going to be blamed for it.
"I have great sympathy for her, but I do have to do my job. Do you know where I can find a Dr. Delgado?"
"Um...here." Lu said standing beside Andy. Apparently her nametag was flipped upside down in all the chaos of the ER. She realized this and flipped it back over and showed it to him.
"I've been informed that you were in charge of giving severe medical attention also to another women named-"
"Erin Lock." Lu finished his sentence now realizing that both their patients were in the same car accident. Andy did to and sighed. She didn't need this now.
"Yes, let's see.-"
"She was the sister of my patient, and she didn't make it either." Lu said in a sad tone. Andy looked at her and couldn't believe it.
"Dr. Campbell?! We need you over here!" Nick yelled in her direction. He was holding down a patient who was frantically trying to get away from them. Andy ran to them and realized it wasn't a patient of hers.
"What is it? This isn't a patient of mine."
"Remember that time when you replaced a broken heart and lung machine with a kidney dialysis machine in order to save a little girls life? Well, similar situation. Look around, Dr. Campbell, there are no damn EKG machines and this girl is going nuts on me. Please, help." As Nick said this, the women dropped still on the bed, and stopped breathing. He let go of the women's torso and grabbed the oxygen mask. Andy quickly pumped her hands on the women's chest and then checked to see if she was breathing.
"Find an EKG machine STAT!" She ordered to a nurse. After three attempts of CPR, Andy looked around and there was still no EKG machine in sight. "Damnit." She did the CPR once more but it was no use. She shook her head to Nick and he sighed. "Call it Biancavilla."
"Time of death: 12 PM." Andy walked away from Nick and the dead women that she didn't even know. She saw the police officer she had been talking to earlier and he was breaking the news to Ms. Baker. Immediately tears were streaming down the mother's face as the police officer patted her back and Andy watched from a distance.
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After a ten-hour shift and with the help of Lu and Lana, Andy managed to shove as many balloons in her car as possible. Most of them, not being able to fit, were popped and thrown away. When Andy got home, she brought them in the house one by one and threw them in the living room. After the last one was in the house she shut the front door and took off her coat just as Jessie bolted down the stairs and Corrina and Lizzy came out from the kitchen.
"Whoa! Mom! What's with the balloons?"
"That would be your father's doing."
"These are from Dad?" Lizzy asked shocked. Andy nodded and sighed at all the balloons.
"I wish I could have seen your face when you got them." Corrina said.
"Believe me, no you don't."
"This not a good thing?" The foreign housekeeper/friend asked.
"Not at the moment, no. Les is sweet to go to all this trouble but this is just too much right now." The other's nodded, and then they were all quiet, just looking at the massive amount of red-heart shaped balloons. "Listen, Corrina, you can go if you want, I got off early compared to any other night."
"But I have to finish laundry and dinner."
"I'll do it, don't worry about it. Besides, it'll get my mind off of things."
"But isn't that what you don't want to do? You said yourself you needed to think about this." Jessie commented. Andy kicked one of the balloons and sighed.
Later that evening, after dinner and the girls were in their room doing homework and getting ready for bed, Andy was finishing up the laundry. She had a basket full of unfolded, clean, dry clothes while walking up the stairs to lay out the clothing and fold it on her bed. Piece my piece, they got folded. T-shirts of hers, skirts of Jessie's, jeans of Lizzy's, and then she unexpectedly pulled out a sweatshirt that she knew wasn't any of theirs. It took her a few flips and stares to finally realize it was Milo's. Andy sank to her bed and clenched the sweatshirt to her chest. Even though it had been washed, she could still imagine his scent on it and this really made her think, which is what she had been procrastinating about all day.
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The next day, Andy was late for work again. That seemed to be happening more frequently now then in the past. Dr. Jackson walked up to where they all usually stood during the day when not busy, which was at Lana's desk.
"Dr. Campbell? May I speak with you?" He asked.
"Of course." Andy replied and they walked into her office. "What is it?"
"I was monitoring the ER yesterday." Andy sighed and felt she need to sit down for this. "Three patients of yours died in there yesterday. I can tell when my employee's lives are effecting their working environment and yours is being effected. Now I don't really know what is going on in your personal affairs but I'm thinking it has to do with men. I'm not asking you to talk to me about it but if you do need to talk, I'm here."
"Thank you Bob."
"But-"Andy looked at him anxiously. "I'm going to have to ask Dr. Delgado to cover all your calls in the ER."
"What?"
"It's for the best, Dr. Campbell. You're not your usual self when working and we can't afford to have patients dropping like flies the way they have been around you lately." Andy sat in shock. So much drama in her life at the moment was really getting to her. After a few seconds of silence the phone rang and Andy picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Dr. Campbell, your daughter is on line one."
"Thank you." Andy pushed the button on the telephone to switch to line one. "Hello? Yeah.....yeah......yeah......" Dr. Jackson figured this was going to take a minute so he pulled up a chair and waited. "Ok...........Are there going to be parents there?.......Jessie, you know how I feel about that.........I know you're seventeen but-...........who?.....who is Sarah and Allyi....twins?.......since when?..........listen, can we talk about this later please?......now?!..........Jes-.....you know what fine, go......just be careful......no drinking, no drugs, you know the deal......yes......what time?........uh, no try again.......that's better....ok...I'll see you when I see you sweetie......bye." Andy hung up the phone and looked back at Dr. Jackson.
"What was that about?"
"Jessie wants to go to a party tonight with two of her friends."
"Ahh.....my daughter's going through that period too...meeting boys, kissing boys, and I'm waiting with my gun when she comes home from dates with boys." Andy laughed and shook her head as he stood up to leave. "So, I'm sorry Andy but no Emergency Room for you right now." She nodded in respect even though she wanted to scream at him. "Thank you for being understanding about this." Dr. Jackson opened the door and left. A deep sigh emerged from her body and she kicked the side of the desk.
"Damnit!"
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Jessie searched through her closet, throwing random items of clothing out of it and on the floor. The doorbell rang downstairs and Corrina answered it. Within seconds, Sarah and Allyi, the twins, were standing in Jessie's room. Allyi was wearing a short, low-cut, red dress with black, fancy sandals. Her dark brown hair was wavy and up in a slack ponytail, with two strands hanging down on the sides of her well made up face. Her twin sister, Sarah, was wearing an identical dress, except hers was blue. Her dark brown hair was down and semi-curly, and she had on the same sandals.
"Why aren't you ready?"
"I don't know what to wear! Help!"
"Ok." The twins said at the same time and then started going through Jessie's closet.
"How about this?" Allyi held up a blue, jean, ruffle skirt.
"And this?" Sarah held up a black tank top.
"With these?" Allyi held up a pair of black sandals that were similar to theirs.
"And this. Have to have this." Sarah handed Jessie a western looking belt that had strings hanging down in a slant. The twins assembled the outfit on the bed. "It's sweet."
"And simple." Allyi added.
"Perfect!" They said together.
"Now, go change." Sarah said and handed the entire outfit to her. Jessie took the clothing and walked into the bathroom. Ten minutes later they were all downstairs getting their coats.
"Ok, so, who's designated driver?"
"Designated driver?"
"Yeah, duh, Jess, we can't all drink tonight. That wouldn't be safe."
"Oh, right. I guess I'll be it. You guys look like you really want to party." Jessie said, covering herself up for not wanting to drink.
"Sweet, let's go." Allyi said and opened the front door. The three female teenagers climbed into Jessie's new car that her dad gave her when he moved back. When they arrived at the place the party was at, it wasn't what Jessie expected. The lights were dim disco lights and the music was loud enough to make her eardrums burst open. The twins automatically started dancing and Jessie followed them. Through three back to back songs, the girls danced. Sometimes with each other, sometimes in a group, and then Sarah and Allyi found two guys to dance with and Jessie was left by herself. Instead of looking like an idiot, she went to the kitchen to get something to drink.
"Hey, want a beer?" A very cute guy asked her at the drink table, which was also considered the kitchen counter.
"Oh, no thanks. I'm the designated driver tonight."
"Well, do you want some water or something? I saw you hitting it pretty hard there on the dance floor." He said with a smile, which she found cuter then he was.
"Yeah. I do. Thanks." The guy handed her a bottle of water. He was slightly taller than she was and pretty well built. His hair was a dark blonde and he had green eyes, like her.
"What's your name, designated driver?"
"Jessie. You?"
"Chase."
"Nice to meet you Chase." He smiled again and she could feel nervous knots in her stomach.
"Do you feel like dancing again Jessie?"
"Sure, I'd love to." He led her back to the dance floor right as a slow song started came on. She sighed and he pulled her closer to him. Sarah and Allyi were now standing in the kitchen, beers in their hands, and smiling at her. When the song was over, a loud rap song came on next and they danced to it to. Once that was over he pulled her aside from everybody else.
"It's loud in here!"
"What?" Jessie strained to hear him.
"I said it's loud in here!" He said into her ear this time, and she nodded in agreement.
"Let's go outside, I'm hot."
"I know you are." He remarked and made her laugh as they headed for the front door. She didn't have her coat on so she was now standing in the middle of November in a short skirt and tank top. "Ok, that's better." They paused and she looked around. "So, pretty girl like you got a boyfriend?"
"No. I just dumped my boyfriend a couple of day ago." She laughed nervously.
"Oh, sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up."
"No, it's ok. You didn't know. So, how old are you?" She asked, quickly changing the subject.
"Why do you ask?"
"Just curious."
"I'm nineteen." He told her. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen"
"So you're still in high school?" He asked and she nodded in response.
"I'm in my senior year. God, I can't wait to graduate. Do you go to college?"
"No, I never even finished high school."
"Oh, you didn't?" She asked curiously and he shook his head.
"That doesn't turn you off does it?"
"Who said I was ever turned on?" She asked in a flirty way. He smiled that cute smile she couldn't resist and their eyes locked with each other's. Chase moved in closer to her until his lips were inches away from hers. Finally, after a few hesitation moments, they met for a nice simple kiss that got deeper and deeper. Both could see their breath in the cold after they broke away. "Is it hotter out here or is it just me?" He smiled at her, then grabbed her hand and led her around the back of the house. "Where are we going?"
"You'll see." They snuck through the side garage door, in the house ,and up the back stairs to a small room over the garage. In the room were two big couches with a table in between and there were four people sitting on them. "Everybody, this is Jessie." There was two other guys and two other girls and Jessie assumed they were couples. "Jessie, this is Eric." Chase pointed to one guy. "And his girlfriend, Jenny." The girl sitting next to Eric smiled and waved. "And this is Jason." Chase pointed tot he other guy. "And Ana." He pointed to the girl next to Chase. She didn't smile or wave. Jessie had a feeling there was something wrong with her but didn't know what. "Jessie, these are my buds. We hang all the time and I promise they'll be nice."
"Hi." Jessie smiled and sat down on one couch next to Chase. Jenny moved away from her boyfriend and joined them.
"What's up?"
"Nothing."
"So are you and Chase like an item now or something?" The girl asked quietly so Chase wouldn't hear them.
"Oh, not that I know of. I mean he kissed me outside and we danced together but that's about it."
"Oh, figures." Jenny said and shrugged, moving back to her boyfriend's side. Chase got up, along with Eric and Jason.
"We're going to go get some drinks." Jason turned to Ana.
"Don't go anywhere sweet heart." He winked and rubbed her cheek but she pulled away. Jessie saw this but ignored it.
"You want another water?" Chase asked her.
"Oh, no thanks I'm fine."
"Ok, I'll be right back." He leaned over and kissed her cheek gently.
"I have to use the restroom." Jenny said and left the room along with the guys, leaving Jessie and Ana alone.
"Are you ok?" Jessie asked.
"No."
"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked. Jessie got her sympathy and kindness from her mother, but hadn't noticed it until a couple months ago.
"No." They got quiet and Jessie looked away. "Yes." Ana said quietly and this made Jessie move closer to her. "It's Jason."
"What about him? I just met him but he seemed like a nice guy."
"Believe me, he's not. He forces me to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"He raped me, Jessie. He raped me." The girl was crying by now and Jessie's jaw dropped. If Jason was Chase's friend, then was Chase like that too? The door to the stairs flung open and Jessie moved back to her spot on the couch. "Get out while you can." Ana whispered before going silent. Chase sat down and put his arm around Jessie, which made her uncomfortable. A few seconds later, Jenny came back.
"Ok, let's get this party started!" She pulled out a bag of Marijuana and Jessie gasped. Jason pulled out his lighter and Eric took the first drag. Then Jenny did. "Whoa, this is some powerful shit." Jason took it next and it looked like he had done it before. Once Jason was done, he handed the Marijuana to Ana and gripped his masculine hand on her thigh and forced her to smoke it. Men to seem to have very powerful effects on women. Especially weak women. Chase took it next, which made Jessie even more uncomfortable and then he offered it to her.
"I can't, I'm designated driver, remember?" She said hoping that would be enough of an excuse.
"Oh come on, one drag." He handed her the Marijuana again.
"No, I can't." She handed back to him and he handed it off to Jenny.
"Fine, we'll do this instead." He flung himself on top of her and started kissing her roughly. Everybody but Ana was cheering Chase on. Jessie tried to fight him off but like she had noticed earlier, he was very well built. Ana had more tears rolling down her face cause she couldn't stand watching.
"Help me!" Jessie mumbled beneath him. His hand slid up her skirt and she kicked him in the shin with her sandal.
"Be still baby, you're just making it harder." Nobody could hear them considering the music downstairs was so loud and nobody in the room cared about what he was doing except for Ana. Eventually Jessie shifted enough under him to be able to jam her knee in his crouch area. Chase slid off of her and on the floor in pain. She scrambled to her feet and ran to the stairs, but then looked back at Ana and realized she couldn't leave her there with them.
"Ana! Come on!" She motioned for her to come and for some reason Ana obeyed but Jason stopped her.
"Where do you think you're going?" Jessie saw him grab her hand so she walked over to him and made him let go.
"I can do the same thing I did to your little friend over there to you, so unless you want the shit kicked out of you I suggest you let her go." Jason stood up and he was taller then Jessie thought he would be. Then he grabbed Ana again and Jessie to. Once again, she raised her knee into the crouch area. Jason bent over in agony and Jessie and Ana ran for the stairs while Jenny and Eric smoked more Marijuana. "We have to find my friends." Jessie said to Ana but realized she had stopped in the middle of the kitchen.
"I feel funny."
"It's the drugs, come on!" Within minutes, Jessie found Sarah and Allyi and led them to the car. They were drunk and Ana was semi-high, while she was sober and racing to get away from the place. She decided that she couldn't take three friends back to her house because that would be too obvious so she drove to Sarah and Allyi's house. Her parents were home so she left Ana in the car and silently took them in one by one, making sure they were in their rooms, passed out without their parents noticing. Once that really hard task was completed she went back her car and buckled up. "Ok, Ana...I don't know you but you're staying at my house tonight until those drugs and god knows what else you've had can clear your system. If there's one thing I've learned from my mother, it's that time heals everything." She said and looked at Ana. The girl laid with her head hanging by her side and Jessie realized she wasn't breathing normally. "Oh Shit." The panicked teenage girl stepped on the gas pedal and steered in the direction of the Rittenhouse Emergency Room.
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"Dr. Delgado to the ER. Dr. Delgado to the ER." The intercom rang out. It was pretty late in the evening but Andy was still there working on some files. When she heard this she sighed thinking about how she had lost her Emergency Room shift because of the past few stressful weeks. Lu rushed into the ER.
"Who paged me?"
"Over here Lu." Nick called. Jessie was standing beside him and Ana was on the hospital bed.
"Jessie."
"Dr. Delgado, help her." She motioned toward Ana and Lu immediately took care of it.
"Jessie, I need you to tell me what happened."
"Well, we were at a party and this guy took me up to this room over the garage and she was there and then when we were alone she told me something about the guy she was in there with. She told me...."
"What is it?" Lu asked in a hurry to find out what was going on.
"He raped her." Jessie said quietly. "And then he forced her to smoke Marijuana. I saw her take it but I don't know if she had had anything else before I met her." Lu nodded and gave a look of sympathy to the unconscious girl. Nick had Ana hooked up to a heart monitor and a oxygen tank for her irregular breathing when they all heard a solid ring. It was coming from Ana. Nick grabbed the EKG and handed them to Lu.
"Charge to 150."
"Charged." Nick said.
"Clear." Lu zapped Ana but it didn't work. "Charge to 200."
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu zapped her again and got back her heart beat. "Ok, she's pretty steady. Nick find out exactly what is in this girl so I can treat her." Nick followed orders knowing that all rape cases hit close to home with Lu. Jessie stared at Ana. "Jess, are you ok?" She didn't respond. "Sweetie, we're going to have to get Andy down here and you're going to have to tell us exactly what happened tonight." Jessie kept staring at Ana and the doctors around her doing tests. She heard what Lu said and tried to prepare herself for what was going to happen next.
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Me: Wow!! That is one long chapter! 17 pages! And at first it wasn't even the whole thing. That's only part one!! I hope you liked, and you will find out a lot more in part two and I'll try my best not to make it too long before I post it!! Love you guys! Reviews are always wanted and welcomed.
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Andy's eyes jolted open. It took her a few seconds to focus them to the semi-light coming in from the windows. Jessie and Lizzy were still asleep on both her sides and as she looked at her watch, she realized it was earlier then when she would usually wake up. Then she remembered why she had jolted awake. She had been dreaming, but she couldn't remember what about. It had been a long time since a dream had woken her. The feeling in the dream still sat in her mind. It was a mixed feeling: half felt like she was alone and the other half felt glad. She couldn't figure out whether the glad feeling was because she had woken up or if it was something in her dream. Instead of pondering the question, she pushed it to the back of her mind and carefully got out of the bed, not waking Jessie or Lizzy. Andy made her way to her own bedroom and grabbed her work out clothes. Exercising always cleared her head and helped her think things through. When her marriage failed after twenty-five years, she went jogging, and when Jessie ran away to her father in California, she found herself doing pull ups on the bar hung on her closest door. And whenever a patient died, which was sometimes often, or when she had to make tough choices, she exercised. It had always been a procedure of the military and now it was a procedure of hers. Since now that Jessie was nearly eighteen, Andy figured she could let the girls stay at the house by themselves while she went to the park for a jog. After that, she came home and jumped in the shower. The water hit her skin at a fast pace when she didn't have much time because she jogged an extra mile. For some reason, she didn't feel like she would be able to help people much today. Probably because she felt has if she needed to help herself first, and she didn't mean medically. Corrina got there earlier also and started making breakfast while Andy woke the girls. It was a usual morning schedule except nobody was all that happy.
"Ok, I'm going to work now." Andy said while walking out of the kitchen. "Girls, do well in school today. Behave. Thank you Corrina for cooking."
"No problem Dr. Campbell." She answered from the kitchen.
"Mom?!" Jessie ran into the hallway, the sound of hurry in her voice. "If Dr. Delgado says anything about Marc, will you tell me?"
"Jessie, you just sent the letter yesterday. I doubt he's gotten it already."
"Please? Just in case?"
"Fine." She said quickly and headed for the front door.
"Wait, mom." Andy turned back around and Jessie hugged her. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." She ran her fingers through Jessie's hair and kissed the top of her head. "See you tonight." She walked out the door and to her car. Fifteen minutes later she parked in her spot at work and headed into Rittenhouse. "Good morning Hawkins."
"Is it doctor?" Lana asked but Andy didn't respond. Instead she started towards her office. When she opened the door, she could hear that something was behind it. It was too light to be a person, but there was definitely something there. Lana's head jerked in Andy's direction when she heard her gasp loudly. The entire office was filled with red, heart-shaped balloons.
"Wow! Dr. Campbell." Lana said walking to her now. Andy stood there and stared with her jaw dropped and eyes wide. "Who's the guy? The rich guy."
"You tell me?"
"You mean, you don't know who-"Lana pointed to the clutter of redness.
"Hawkins, has anybody been in my office since I left last night?"
"Not that I've seen." She responded.
"Well, somebody must have been here?!"
"Dr. Campbell, I'm sorry, but shouldn't this be a good surprise?"
"Not if it's from the wrong person!" Andy answered while slowly walking into her office, avoiding the balloons. "Help me look for a note or something."
"Here's a note." Lana said picking up the note after she had made her way around the office looking for it. Andy slowly took it from her, hesitating about whom it was from, while Lana waited impatiently to find out the same answer. Andy's eyes scammed the short note many times before she said anything. "Well?" Lana asked. Andy looked around at the cluster of expensive balloons and then back at Lana.
"They're from.......the wrong person."
***
"On my count-"Andy said grabbing the stretcher on one side of the emergency room.
"One, two, and-"Lu yelled over all the commotion, opposite the side of the emergency room that Andy was on. Both doctors were called down there at the same times for two different patients. Andy's patient was a twelve-year-old girl that had just had a physical done the day before and now she was back because of a tragic car accident. Both Lu and Andy worked along side emergency medicine nurses and other doctors in the fight to save their patients lives and both the heart monitors stopped beeping at the same times. Andy grabbed the EKG pedals and had them juiced, while Lu did the same.
"Charge to 150." Andy ordered.
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu yelled and zapped her patient, a thirty-year-old women suffering from a car accident also.
(A/N: If you haven't caught this by now, Andy and Lu are finishing each other's sentences. Flashing back and forth from Andy to Lu. Kind of like they do in the show sometimes.)
The monitor still rang solid. "Charge to 200." Lu said.
"Charged."
"Clear." Andy shouted. There was still no heartbeat in either of the females. "Charge to 250."
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu said at one last attempt to save another life. Both doctors sighed deeply and looked at the clock in the middle of the room.
"Time of death: 11:45 AM." They said at the same time. Andy walked away, giving one last glance at the dead little girl. Her mother sat a while away getting her arm and head bandaged from driving one of the car that had been in the wreck. There was a police officer standing near her, obviously waiting to talk to her about it. When he gave up because the doctor wouldn't let him he walked to Andy. Lu was also walking in her direction.
"Dr. Campbell?" They asked at the same time. Andy looked at Lu first but then Lu realized that the police officer wanted to speak with her so she let him.
"Dr. Campbell?"
"Yes." Andy answered, expecting nothing but bad news.
"I've been informed that you were in charge of helping a young girl that needed severe medical attention."
"Yes, she was in need of severe medical attention but it wasn't enough. She didn't make it." Andy looked back at the mother and then to Lu who gave a look of sympathy back.
"The girl's name was-"
"Allison Baker. She was my patient. Her and her mother."
"Her mother also? What can you tell me about Ms. Baker?"
"She's a very nice women who's been through a rough divorce. I can relate to her greatly, not only with the divorce but with the child also."
"So you wouldn't consider her a murderer?"
"WHAT?! NO! Of course not!" Andy stated like he was crazy. "What happened?"
"A car accident."
"I know that. Wait, was she the person at fault?" Andy asked and the police officer nodded. "Oh god." Andy looked at the mother again with great sympathy and felt like she was going to cry. Her patient just lost her daughter and now she was going to be blamed for it.
"I have great sympathy for her, but I do have to do my job. Do you know where I can find a Dr. Delgado?"
"Um...here." Lu said standing beside Andy. Apparently her nametag was flipped upside down in all the chaos of the ER. She realized this and flipped it back over and showed it to him.
"I've been informed that you were in charge of giving severe medical attention also to another women named-"
"Erin Lock." Lu finished his sentence now realizing that both their patients were in the same car accident. Andy did to and sighed. She didn't need this now.
"Yes, let's see.-"
"She was the sister of my patient, and she didn't make it either." Lu said in a sad tone. Andy looked at her and couldn't believe it.
"Dr. Campbell?! We need you over here!" Nick yelled in her direction. He was holding down a patient who was frantically trying to get away from them. Andy ran to them and realized it wasn't a patient of hers.
"What is it? This isn't a patient of mine."
"Remember that time when you replaced a broken heart and lung machine with a kidney dialysis machine in order to save a little girls life? Well, similar situation. Look around, Dr. Campbell, there are no damn EKG machines and this girl is going nuts on me. Please, help." As Nick said this, the women dropped still on the bed, and stopped breathing. He let go of the women's torso and grabbed the oxygen mask. Andy quickly pumped her hands on the women's chest and then checked to see if she was breathing.
"Find an EKG machine STAT!" She ordered to a nurse. After three attempts of CPR, Andy looked around and there was still no EKG machine in sight. "Damnit." She did the CPR once more but it was no use. She shook her head to Nick and he sighed. "Call it Biancavilla."
"Time of death: 12 PM." Andy walked away from Nick and the dead women that she didn't even know. She saw the police officer she had been talking to earlier and he was breaking the news to Ms. Baker. Immediately tears were streaming down the mother's face as the police officer patted her back and Andy watched from a distance.
***
After a ten-hour shift and with the help of Lu and Lana, Andy managed to shove as many balloons in her car as possible. Most of them, not being able to fit, were popped and thrown away. When Andy got home, she brought them in the house one by one and threw them in the living room. After the last one was in the house she shut the front door and took off her coat just as Jessie bolted down the stairs and Corrina and Lizzy came out from the kitchen.
"Whoa! Mom! What's with the balloons?"
"That would be your father's doing."
"These are from Dad?" Lizzy asked shocked. Andy nodded and sighed at all the balloons.
"I wish I could have seen your face when you got them." Corrina said.
"Believe me, no you don't."
"This not a good thing?" The foreign housekeeper/friend asked.
"Not at the moment, no. Les is sweet to go to all this trouble but this is just too much right now." The other's nodded, and then they were all quiet, just looking at the massive amount of red-heart shaped balloons. "Listen, Corrina, you can go if you want, I got off early compared to any other night."
"But I have to finish laundry and dinner."
"I'll do it, don't worry about it. Besides, it'll get my mind off of things."
"But isn't that what you don't want to do? You said yourself you needed to think about this." Jessie commented. Andy kicked one of the balloons and sighed.
Later that evening, after dinner and the girls were in their room doing homework and getting ready for bed, Andy was finishing up the laundry. She had a basket full of unfolded, clean, dry clothes while walking up the stairs to lay out the clothing and fold it on her bed. Piece my piece, they got folded. T-shirts of hers, skirts of Jessie's, jeans of Lizzy's, and then she unexpectedly pulled out a sweatshirt that she knew wasn't any of theirs. It took her a few flips and stares to finally realize it was Milo's. Andy sank to her bed and clenched the sweatshirt to her chest. Even though it had been washed, she could still imagine his scent on it and this really made her think, which is what she had been procrastinating about all day.
***
The next day, Andy was late for work again. That seemed to be happening more frequently now then in the past. Dr. Jackson walked up to where they all usually stood during the day when not busy, which was at Lana's desk.
"Dr. Campbell? May I speak with you?" He asked.
"Of course." Andy replied and they walked into her office. "What is it?"
"I was monitoring the ER yesterday." Andy sighed and felt she need to sit down for this. "Three patients of yours died in there yesterday. I can tell when my employee's lives are effecting their working environment and yours is being effected. Now I don't really know what is going on in your personal affairs but I'm thinking it has to do with men. I'm not asking you to talk to me about it but if you do need to talk, I'm here."
"Thank you Bob."
"But-"Andy looked at him anxiously. "I'm going to have to ask Dr. Delgado to cover all your calls in the ER."
"What?"
"It's for the best, Dr. Campbell. You're not your usual self when working and we can't afford to have patients dropping like flies the way they have been around you lately." Andy sat in shock. So much drama in her life at the moment was really getting to her. After a few seconds of silence the phone rang and Andy picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Dr. Campbell, your daughter is on line one."
"Thank you." Andy pushed the button on the telephone to switch to line one. "Hello? Yeah.....yeah......yeah......" Dr. Jackson figured this was going to take a minute so he pulled up a chair and waited. "Ok...........Are there going to be parents there?.......Jessie, you know how I feel about that.........I know you're seventeen but-...........who?.....who is Sarah and Allyi....twins?.......since when?..........listen, can we talk about this later please?......now?!..........Jes-.....you know what fine, go......just be careful......no drinking, no drugs, you know the deal......yes......what time?........uh, no try again.......that's better....ok...I'll see you when I see you sweetie......bye." Andy hung up the phone and looked back at Dr. Jackson.
"What was that about?"
"Jessie wants to go to a party tonight with two of her friends."
"Ahh.....my daughter's going through that period too...meeting boys, kissing boys, and I'm waiting with my gun when she comes home from dates with boys." Andy laughed and shook her head as he stood up to leave. "So, I'm sorry Andy but no Emergency Room for you right now." She nodded in respect even though she wanted to scream at him. "Thank you for being understanding about this." Dr. Jackson opened the door and left. A deep sigh emerged from her body and she kicked the side of the desk.
"Damnit!"
***
Jessie searched through her closet, throwing random items of clothing out of it and on the floor. The doorbell rang downstairs and Corrina answered it. Within seconds, Sarah and Allyi, the twins, were standing in Jessie's room. Allyi was wearing a short, low-cut, red dress with black, fancy sandals. Her dark brown hair was wavy and up in a slack ponytail, with two strands hanging down on the sides of her well made up face. Her twin sister, Sarah, was wearing an identical dress, except hers was blue. Her dark brown hair was down and semi-curly, and she had on the same sandals.
"Why aren't you ready?"
"I don't know what to wear! Help!"
"Ok." The twins said at the same time and then started going through Jessie's closet.
"How about this?" Allyi held up a blue, jean, ruffle skirt.
"And this?" Sarah held up a black tank top.
"With these?" Allyi held up a pair of black sandals that were similar to theirs.
"And this. Have to have this." Sarah handed Jessie a western looking belt that had strings hanging down in a slant. The twins assembled the outfit on the bed. "It's sweet."
"And simple." Allyi added.
"Perfect!" They said together.
"Now, go change." Sarah said and handed the entire outfit to her. Jessie took the clothing and walked into the bathroom. Ten minutes later they were all downstairs getting their coats.
"Ok, so, who's designated driver?"
"Designated driver?"
"Yeah, duh, Jess, we can't all drink tonight. That wouldn't be safe."
"Oh, right. I guess I'll be it. You guys look like you really want to party." Jessie said, covering herself up for not wanting to drink.
"Sweet, let's go." Allyi said and opened the front door. The three female teenagers climbed into Jessie's new car that her dad gave her when he moved back. When they arrived at the place the party was at, it wasn't what Jessie expected. The lights were dim disco lights and the music was loud enough to make her eardrums burst open. The twins automatically started dancing and Jessie followed them. Through three back to back songs, the girls danced. Sometimes with each other, sometimes in a group, and then Sarah and Allyi found two guys to dance with and Jessie was left by herself. Instead of looking like an idiot, she went to the kitchen to get something to drink.
"Hey, want a beer?" A very cute guy asked her at the drink table, which was also considered the kitchen counter.
"Oh, no thanks. I'm the designated driver tonight."
"Well, do you want some water or something? I saw you hitting it pretty hard there on the dance floor." He said with a smile, which she found cuter then he was.
"Yeah. I do. Thanks." The guy handed her a bottle of water. He was slightly taller than she was and pretty well built. His hair was a dark blonde and he had green eyes, like her.
"What's your name, designated driver?"
"Jessie. You?"
"Chase."
"Nice to meet you Chase." He smiled again and she could feel nervous knots in her stomach.
"Do you feel like dancing again Jessie?"
"Sure, I'd love to." He led her back to the dance floor right as a slow song started came on. She sighed and he pulled her closer to him. Sarah and Allyi were now standing in the kitchen, beers in their hands, and smiling at her. When the song was over, a loud rap song came on next and they danced to it to. Once that was over he pulled her aside from everybody else.
"It's loud in here!"
"What?" Jessie strained to hear him.
"I said it's loud in here!" He said into her ear this time, and she nodded in agreement.
"Let's go outside, I'm hot."
"I know you are." He remarked and made her laugh as they headed for the front door. She didn't have her coat on so she was now standing in the middle of November in a short skirt and tank top. "Ok, that's better." They paused and she looked around. "So, pretty girl like you got a boyfriend?"
"No. I just dumped my boyfriend a couple of day ago." She laughed nervously.
"Oh, sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up."
"No, it's ok. You didn't know. So, how old are you?" She asked, quickly changing the subject.
"Why do you ask?"
"Just curious."
"I'm nineteen." He told her. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen"
"So you're still in high school?" He asked and she nodded in response.
"I'm in my senior year. God, I can't wait to graduate. Do you go to college?"
"No, I never even finished high school."
"Oh, you didn't?" She asked curiously and he shook his head.
"That doesn't turn you off does it?"
"Who said I was ever turned on?" She asked in a flirty way. He smiled that cute smile she couldn't resist and their eyes locked with each other's. Chase moved in closer to her until his lips were inches away from hers. Finally, after a few hesitation moments, they met for a nice simple kiss that got deeper and deeper. Both could see their breath in the cold after they broke away. "Is it hotter out here or is it just me?" He smiled at her, then grabbed her hand and led her around the back of the house. "Where are we going?"
"You'll see." They snuck through the side garage door, in the house ,and up the back stairs to a small room over the garage. In the room were two big couches with a table in between and there were four people sitting on them. "Everybody, this is Jessie." There was two other guys and two other girls and Jessie assumed they were couples. "Jessie, this is Eric." Chase pointed to one guy. "And his girlfriend, Jenny." The girl sitting next to Eric smiled and waved. "And this is Jason." Chase pointed tot he other guy. "And Ana." He pointed to the girl next to Chase. She didn't smile or wave. Jessie had a feeling there was something wrong with her but didn't know what. "Jessie, these are my buds. We hang all the time and I promise they'll be nice."
"Hi." Jessie smiled and sat down on one couch next to Chase. Jenny moved away from her boyfriend and joined them.
"What's up?"
"Nothing."
"So are you and Chase like an item now or something?" The girl asked quietly so Chase wouldn't hear them.
"Oh, not that I know of. I mean he kissed me outside and we danced together but that's about it."
"Oh, figures." Jenny said and shrugged, moving back to her boyfriend's side. Chase got up, along with Eric and Jason.
"We're going to go get some drinks." Jason turned to Ana.
"Don't go anywhere sweet heart." He winked and rubbed her cheek but she pulled away. Jessie saw this but ignored it.
"You want another water?" Chase asked her.
"Oh, no thanks I'm fine."
"Ok, I'll be right back." He leaned over and kissed her cheek gently.
"I have to use the restroom." Jenny said and left the room along with the guys, leaving Jessie and Ana alone.
"Are you ok?" Jessie asked.
"No."
"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked. Jessie got her sympathy and kindness from her mother, but hadn't noticed it until a couple months ago.
"No." They got quiet and Jessie looked away. "Yes." Ana said quietly and this made Jessie move closer to her. "It's Jason."
"What about him? I just met him but he seemed like a nice guy."
"Believe me, he's not. He forces me to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"He raped me, Jessie. He raped me." The girl was crying by now and Jessie's jaw dropped. If Jason was Chase's friend, then was Chase like that too? The door to the stairs flung open and Jessie moved back to her spot on the couch. "Get out while you can." Ana whispered before going silent. Chase sat down and put his arm around Jessie, which made her uncomfortable. A few seconds later, Jenny came back.
"Ok, let's get this party started!" She pulled out a bag of Marijuana and Jessie gasped. Jason pulled out his lighter and Eric took the first drag. Then Jenny did. "Whoa, this is some powerful shit." Jason took it next and it looked like he had done it before. Once Jason was done, he handed the Marijuana to Ana and gripped his masculine hand on her thigh and forced her to smoke it. Men to seem to have very powerful effects on women. Especially weak women. Chase took it next, which made Jessie even more uncomfortable and then he offered it to her.
"I can't, I'm designated driver, remember?" She said hoping that would be enough of an excuse.
"Oh come on, one drag." He handed her the Marijuana again.
"No, I can't." She handed back to him and he handed it off to Jenny.
"Fine, we'll do this instead." He flung himself on top of her and started kissing her roughly. Everybody but Ana was cheering Chase on. Jessie tried to fight him off but like she had noticed earlier, he was very well built. Ana had more tears rolling down her face cause she couldn't stand watching.
"Help me!" Jessie mumbled beneath him. His hand slid up her skirt and she kicked him in the shin with her sandal.
"Be still baby, you're just making it harder." Nobody could hear them considering the music downstairs was so loud and nobody in the room cared about what he was doing except for Ana. Eventually Jessie shifted enough under him to be able to jam her knee in his crouch area. Chase slid off of her and on the floor in pain. She scrambled to her feet and ran to the stairs, but then looked back at Ana and realized she couldn't leave her there with them.
"Ana! Come on!" She motioned for her to come and for some reason Ana obeyed but Jason stopped her.
"Where do you think you're going?" Jessie saw him grab her hand so she walked over to him and made him let go.
"I can do the same thing I did to your little friend over there to you, so unless you want the shit kicked out of you I suggest you let her go." Jason stood up and he was taller then Jessie thought he would be. Then he grabbed Ana again and Jessie to. Once again, she raised her knee into the crouch area. Jason bent over in agony and Jessie and Ana ran for the stairs while Jenny and Eric smoked more Marijuana. "We have to find my friends." Jessie said to Ana but realized she had stopped in the middle of the kitchen.
"I feel funny."
"It's the drugs, come on!" Within minutes, Jessie found Sarah and Allyi and led them to the car. They were drunk and Ana was semi-high, while she was sober and racing to get away from the place. She decided that she couldn't take three friends back to her house because that would be too obvious so she drove to Sarah and Allyi's house. Her parents were home so she left Ana in the car and silently took them in one by one, making sure they were in their rooms, passed out without their parents noticing. Once that really hard task was completed she went back her car and buckled up. "Ok, Ana...I don't know you but you're staying at my house tonight until those drugs and god knows what else you've had can clear your system. If there's one thing I've learned from my mother, it's that time heals everything." She said and looked at Ana. The girl laid with her head hanging by her side and Jessie realized she wasn't breathing normally. "Oh Shit." The panicked teenage girl stepped on the gas pedal and steered in the direction of the Rittenhouse Emergency Room.
***
"Dr. Delgado to the ER. Dr. Delgado to the ER." The intercom rang out. It was pretty late in the evening but Andy was still there working on some files. When she heard this she sighed thinking about how she had lost her Emergency Room shift because of the past few stressful weeks. Lu rushed into the ER.
"Who paged me?"
"Over here Lu." Nick called. Jessie was standing beside him and Ana was on the hospital bed.
"Jessie."
"Dr. Delgado, help her." She motioned toward Ana and Lu immediately took care of it.
"Jessie, I need you to tell me what happened."
"Well, we were at a party and this guy took me up to this room over the garage and she was there and then when we were alone she told me something about the guy she was in there with. She told me...."
"What is it?" Lu asked in a hurry to find out what was going on.
"He raped her." Jessie said quietly. "And then he forced her to smoke Marijuana. I saw her take it but I don't know if she had had anything else before I met her." Lu nodded and gave a look of sympathy to the unconscious girl. Nick had Ana hooked up to a heart monitor and a oxygen tank for her irregular breathing when they all heard a solid ring. It was coming from Ana. Nick grabbed the EKG and handed them to Lu.
"Charge to 150."
"Charged." Nick said.
"Clear." Lu zapped Ana but it didn't work. "Charge to 200."
"Charged."
"Clear." Lu zapped her again and got back her heart beat. "Ok, she's pretty steady. Nick find out exactly what is in this girl so I can treat her." Nick followed orders knowing that all rape cases hit close to home with Lu. Jessie stared at Ana. "Jess, are you ok?" She didn't respond. "Sweetie, we're going to have to get Andy down here and you're going to have to tell us exactly what happened tonight." Jessie kept staring at Ana and the doctors around her doing tests. She heard what Lu said and tried to prepare herself for what was going to happen next.
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Me: Wow!! That is one long chapter! 17 pages! And at first it wasn't even the whole thing. That's only part one!! I hope you liked, and you will find out a lot more in part two and I'll try my best not to make it too long before I post it!! Love you guys! Reviews are always wanted and welcomed.