Bad Karma

Carby. Something happens to Abby. Will Carter get to her in time? Will he be able to save her? Read on to find out!

A.N.: I'm not the original author of this story. The original author is carby luva 313. She's decided she doesn't have enough time to write, so she's giving me the honour of finishing it for her. I hope I can do as good a job!

Disclaimer: I do not own ER. It belongs to Michael Crichton and the other members of the production team.


Chapter 4: Breaking The Deal

He spoke with a raspy voice that gave her chills.

"Well hello Abby." Mr. Conner said hoarsely.

Abby sat completely still trying to remember if she had ever met this man. His face didn't look familiar but she wasn't positive. He walked over and touched her face. Trembling Abby jerked away. The man moved his hand from her cheek and smacked her. She let out a muffled cry owing to the duck tape over her mouth. Oh my god, she thought as the man turned away laughing, this guy is crazy. How the hell does he know who I am?

He turned back and as if he were reading her mind and asked

"You're probably wondering who I am." Mr. Conner said pointedly.

He reached over and ripped the tape off of her mouth.

"You scream and I swear to god you'll be sorry." Abby nodded, barely moving her head. She gathered up all of her courage and said, "Well who are you?"

The man bent down so that his face was barely an inch from Abby's, and looked her straight in the eyes. She wanted to look away, but she stared straight back. For several seconds that seemed like hours the man didn't move. Finally he took a step back and began to speak.

John Carter was still pacing up and down the halls of ER. He looked over to Mark who was on the phone.

"Mark what are they saying? Mark held up a finger telling him to hold on so Carter turned to Susan,

"Check Alicia Conner's charts again for any information." He said.

He saw a patient, a nineteen year old guy who had needed stitches on a cut, peeking out the door of exam 3.

"Luka you should discharge your patient, he's done." Susan said simply.

Susan picked up the chart that everyone had already looked over twice and scanned the information again for an address. Luka raised his eyebrows at Carter but sighed and walked into exam room 3. Carter continued to bark out orders. Somehow it made him feel more in control of the situation. Mark hung up the phone as Luka came back out. Before Carter or anyone else asked Mark said,

"The police are on their way here."

Five minutes later four cops came into the ER. It had gained back some of it's usual business so everyone was trying to concentrate on their jobs. Carter, Mark, Kerry, Susan, and Romano, who had just come down, gathered in the lounge with the police giving all the information they could.

"I'm Detective Forester and this is my partner Scott Turner." He introduced.

Everyone said a polite hello waiting for him to continue.

"All right we already located the shelter where Alicia Conner has been placed." The detective said pointedly.

"Wh-" Carter began to ask but the cop interrupted him.

"I'm sorry but we can't release that information to anybody right now. We are hoping Mrs. Conner will give us more information on where to find her husband." The detective said apologetically.

"Can't we just tell Conner the shelter and have police waiting inside when he goes there?" Romano asked.

"I'm sorry but you just have to trust that we have our reasons for the way we do things. We are doing everything we can to find Miss Lockhart and we will get back to you as soon as we have more information. Until then we suggest you try to keep the hospital running normally, since you don't want this man to find out you called the police. This is Louie Bernard and Larry Sikowski," Detective Forester explained.

the detective said pointing to the two guys behind him.

"They are going to stay here. Call me if you have any problems or get anymore information." Detective Forester said.

Before they turned to leave Detective Turner asked if they had a recent picture of Abby. Susan went over to her locker and opened it pulling out a thing of pictures.

"I just got these developed. There should be some pictures of her in here." Susan said.

Susan began to look through them Carter and everyone else looking over her shoulder. Carter knew right away they were from the Christmas party at Susan's. Susan stopped at a picture of Abby and Carter. Carter looked at the way his arm was wrapped safely around her waist. He wished it could be there now. She was smiling and he could tell it wasn't a fake smile. Her whole face seemed to light up. His eyes came close to overflowing as Susan, choking back her own tears handed the picture to the police.

Abby sat trying to think of something, anything she could do to get out of here. It seemed pretty hopeless considering she was tied to a chair and Mr. Conner was in the same room as her. He had told her what was going on. Abby had been surprised he had given her so much information. Not like it does me any good, she thought as she stared out the window near the ceiling. She had figured out she was in a basement but had no idea where. Conner had turned a lamp on and Abby could see him making calls in the other corner of the room. She strained to hear hat he was saying. She knew he was waiting for County to call and tell him where his wife was.

Conner hung up and almost immediately the phone rung again. Abby prayed it was someone who could help her.

It was the opposite.

"Hello... Oh hey buddy what's up?..What? How the hell did you find that out?!..I specifically told that one doctor I'd kill this chick if they got police involved..You think I care...Shut up you know I love Alicia all right.. I'm just doing what I gotta do to get her on man you know I never really hurt her.....I can't believe this though!! Don't know how to frickin listen..I can't believe they called the god damn cops!" Jack Conner snarled.


A.N.: Another original carby luva 313 chapter. So far, I just do the spell checks. Tell me what you think and I'll be sure to forward your reviews to Mallory. Love our readers! Julia