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 5: Everything Will Be Okay

Abby closed her eyes wishing that when she opened them she would realize it was just a dream. Jack Conner slammed down the phone and turned to face her.

"You look a little scared sweetheart," he said, meeting her eyes which were blinking back tears. "You should be. I told that damn Dr. Carter I'd kill you if the cops got called."

Abby bit her lip and looked at the ground at mention of Carter. So he knew that she was in trouble. Apparently the whole ER knew. Conner began to roughly untie the ropes holding her on the chair. Abby barely had to time to rub her sore wrists when he grabbed her arm and dragged her to the other side of the room.

"Sit down," he growled pointing to the chair next to the desk.

Abby didn't want to listen to him. She didn't know what good it would do her to keep standing and she knew it would probably just piss him off more but she did not sit down.

"What, you think you're brave or something?" Mr. Conner snarled.

Conner hit her hard across the face so hard she had to sit down because she nearly blacked out. Abby held her hand up to her nose which was bleeding and looked Conner who was glaring at her.

"I don't understand why you are making this more difficult than it has to be. I'm not that bad of a guy." Mr. Conner said sarcastically.

Abby had a million things to say to that statement but was smart enough to keep her mouth shut.

"In fact," he continued picking up the phone, "I'm going to let you call your boyfriend."

Carter sat in the lounge by himself looking out the window thinking about Abby . It drove him nuts not knowing where she was. He felt completely helpless, but the police had told him to stay here at the hospital along with everyone else. Everybody else was trying to run the ER as normally as possible but Carter couldn't imagine treating patients right now.

He looked up as the door opened and Chen walked into the room. She collapsed onto the couch next to him looking almost as awful as he felt.

"They are going to find her Jing-Mei," Carter said trying to convince himself as much as her.

"They are going to find her and everything is going to be okay." Carter whispered.

Carter's voice cracked as he remembered the last time he had promised Abby they were going to be okay during the whole small pox situation. Everything turned out okay that time and it would this time too.

"Everything is gonna be okay." Carter repeated barely above a whisper.

Chen looked up about to say something as Gallant burst into the room.

"Dr. Carter, Abby's on the phone!" Gallant yelled.

A.N.: Yup, you guessed it, again it's Mallory's original work. I'll put up my originals soon! Review and I'll... yadda yadda you know the drill... Julia