AUTHOR: higherbeingfriendsfan - Debz
EMAIL: debz11888@hotmail.com
CATEGORY: JC/AL
RATING: PG-13 just in case
SPOILERS: This chapter doesn't have any I don't think
DISCLAIMER: Carter and Abby don't belong to me. They belong to NBC, and Warner Brothers, and all of the other people who own the rights to ER.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is set in at the time of series 10, but none of series 9 happened! Also Benton and Greene are in, because I really like them! Also this is my first fan fiction so take that into account when you read this! Also I have no knowledge of medical procedures etc. so anything to do with that will more than likely be wrong
Later that day the phone in the ER rang, everybody rushed to get it as there were still no patients, Mark was the fastest though and answered in. "County General ER".
"Mark, its Elizabeth, one of the nurses just checked on Carter and he's awake and said anybody can go see him now."
"OK thanks I'll let everybody know" he said into the phone before he put it down, and to the ER he gave everybody the message he had just received.
"Who's going to go first?" he asked. Abby stood silent she still needed to ask Carter what was wrong but knew that some of the other ER staff would want to see him, before the department got busy again with traumas and patients. Mark and Peter decided to go up first since Peter had a surgery booked for half an hour.
The two men left and Susan looked at Abby. From looking at her she knew that Abby was worried about something and was confused as to what, because Carter was out of trouble and was probably moving out of ICU shortly. When the rest of the staff went back to doing what they had been before the phone call Susan took Abby's arm and moved her away from the desk and into the lounge, where Jing-Mei was flicking through a magazine and sipping some coffee. She looked up and smiled at her friends, but from the look on Susan's face something was up. "You OK?" she asked. Susan turned to look at Abby and answered "I was going to ask her the same thing."
Jing-Mei looked puzzled and she too looked at Abby, who had the same look on her face that she had had when Susan had pulled her into the lounge.
"What do you mean, I'm fine" Abby asked, but this time Susan wasn't going to let her use that answer to stop people from knowing what was really wrong.
"Abby, spill, there's something the matter and I want to know what", Susan gave her friend a look which was full of concern, but also had a bit of annoyance.
"Susan I'm OK, honestly" Abby also looked annoyed but this was not at her friend this was at herself for being so obvious.
"Common Abby, I mean you're husband is out of a critical condition and you look like the world's about to end," off Abby's look Susan continued, "OK so not that bad but you don't look happy."
By this time Deb had realised what Susan was talking about, and even though she wasn't as close to Abby as Susan was, she knew her well enough to know that something was wrong.
Defeated Abby said, "I just think there's something the matter with John."
"Of course there is he's just been run over" Susan said sarcastically.
Abby rolled her eyes, "not like that, I mean something's troubling him."
"Like what?" Jing-Mei asked.
"That's it I don't know, but when I see him next I'm going to ask him. He needs to be able to recover properly without any burdens," Abby said and Susan and Jing-Mei knew that Abby was actually saying what was wrong, and that other than that she was OK. Abby went over to her locker and lent against it. As she was something occurred to Susan, when she saw 'Lockhart' on the locker, "hey, Abby, are you going to change your surname?"
Abby looked taken-aback because she had expected Susan to try and get more out of her about what was the matter after a second she answered, "I never really thought about it, to be honest."
Susan gave her a disbelieving look. "Yeah right, you've been in love with Carter for 3 years and you're expecting me to believe you never dreamt about marrying him." Susan teased causing Deb to give a slight chuckle, and Abby to look a bit embarrassed.
"OK, you're right," Abby told her causing Susan to give her a huge grin and an 'I told you so' look, "but I've never spoken to John about it."
"So, are you?" Jing-Mei pushed with a smile.
Abby rolled her eyes, "yeah probably, I mean Lockhart's my ex-husband's name, and Abby Carter sounds quite good." She laughed as her friends nodded and Susan repeated 'Abby Carter' a few times to see if it suited Abby.
"I still can't believe you're married though," Jing-Mei said.
"Let me see your rings" Susan said as she realised that throughout everything she still hadn't had a chance to look at them, Abby obliged without any complain.
Susan looked at the wedding ring first, which was a simple silver band, then she looked closely at the engagement ring had a diamond in the middle and two sapphires on either side on the silver band.
"They're beautiful," Susan said softly still looking at them, then looking up she asked, "How long were you engaged?" she asked Abby.
"3 months" Abby said afraid what they would say.
"3 months! Have you been wearing this ring all that time?" Susan said a little surprised, even though she knew they had been together for over a year , hearing how long they had been planning their wedding came as bit of a shock. Abby nodded. "I can't believe you managed to hide it from everyone for that long, especially with some of the gossipers in this hospital!."
"I know, we always thought that once I started wearing the engagement ring people would notice and we could tell everyone then instead of having to sort of announce it, of course that plan went down the drain!" The three laughed just as Kerry popped her head through the door.
"Sorry to interrupt but Carter asked Peter if anyone had phoned his grandmother, since he didn't know he wondered if you had."
Abby looked shocked, "It never crossed my mind, but I'll do it now, then she can contact his dad." She walked over the phone and started pressing in the digits, Susan asked, "Do you want us to go?"
"If you want to," she answered then into the phone, as someone picked up, "hello this is Abby, I need to speak to Millicent." She listened as the butler went to go and give her the phone.
"Hello, Abby", Gamma asked into the phne.
"Um...hi its about John, he was involved in a car accident this morning, and I thought you would like to know," scolding herself for how lame that sounded.
"Oh my goodness is he alright?" the old women asked the nurse.
"Well he's got a few broken bones, but he's OK, he woke up a few hours ago" she replied, feeling guilty that she hadn't thought about contacted the woman sooner.
"I'll come as soon as I can, although I don't think I'll be able to stay for too long, despite my best efforts my health isn't what it used to be."
Abby chuckled before saying, "It's getting late, Millicent..."
"Gamma" the old woman corrected her almost immediately, Abby apologised then continued
"It's getting late so I wouldn't worry about coming until tomorrow morning, but I was wondering if you would be able to contact his father and let him know what happened."
"That, my dear, is easier said than done, as you know, but I'll do my best."
"Thank you."
"No problem, dear, I'll go now and phone him. I'll come into the hospital at about 12 o' clock tomorrow, after a meeting I'm having, will that you be alright?" Millicent asked Abby.
"Definitely I'll see you there." After saying goodbyes Abby hung up the phone. She realised that Susan, Jing-Mei and Kerry had left the lounge, so she also left the lounge after making and pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Is she going to come?" Kerry asked Abby as she came out of the lounge.
"She will tomorrow, it's too late for her to make up way here today." The chief of staff nodded and then told Abby, "why don't you go home Abby, you look worn out."
Abby nodded realising just how tired she actually was, "yeah I think I will, I'll go tell John, then I'll go." She went into the lounge grabbed her stuff and made her way upstairs and into John's room. Surprisingly he was alone, but when she saw his eyes closed she realised that he must be asleep. Walking to his head she kissed his forehead and was about to leave when she heard his voice call her name. Surprised she jumped a little and turned around and saw his eyes looking at her. She smiled and walked over to her husband.
"Hi sweetie, I was just going to tell you I'm going home," she told him.
He nodded and asked her, "Did you phone my grandmother?"
Abby nodded and said, "she's going to come tomorrow around lunch, I'm sorry I didn't phone her earlier but I never really thought I was too worried."
"You don't need to apologise, Abby, its OK." He smiled at her and then she remembered what she was talking to Susan and Jing-Mei about.
"John what's bothering you?" 'Nice Abby, just get straight to the point, don't even give him a chance to tell you himself', she mentally kicked herself.
"Nothing", he muttered weakly, breaking her thoughts, but he knew that she knew there was something.
"John," she said sternly, but seeing the look on his face she softened her voice and said, "please tell me."
"OK" he replied and started to tell her what was wrong with him.
So...is this chapter any good? Please review and let me know. Debzxxx
EMAIL: debz11888@hotmail.com
CATEGORY: JC/AL
RATING: PG-13 just in case
SPOILERS: This chapter doesn't have any I don't think
DISCLAIMER: Carter and Abby don't belong to me. They belong to NBC, and Warner Brothers, and all of the other people who own the rights to ER.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is set in at the time of series 10, but none of series 9 happened! Also Benton and Greene are in, because I really like them! Also this is my first fan fiction so take that into account when you read this! Also I have no knowledge of medical procedures etc. so anything to do with that will more than likely be wrong
Later that day the phone in the ER rang, everybody rushed to get it as there were still no patients, Mark was the fastest though and answered in. "County General ER".
"Mark, its Elizabeth, one of the nurses just checked on Carter and he's awake and said anybody can go see him now."
"OK thanks I'll let everybody know" he said into the phone before he put it down, and to the ER he gave everybody the message he had just received.
"Who's going to go first?" he asked. Abby stood silent she still needed to ask Carter what was wrong but knew that some of the other ER staff would want to see him, before the department got busy again with traumas and patients. Mark and Peter decided to go up first since Peter had a surgery booked for half an hour.
The two men left and Susan looked at Abby. From looking at her she knew that Abby was worried about something and was confused as to what, because Carter was out of trouble and was probably moving out of ICU shortly. When the rest of the staff went back to doing what they had been before the phone call Susan took Abby's arm and moved her away from the desk and into the lounge, where Jing-Mei was flicking through a magazine and sipping some coffee. She looked up and smiled at her friends, but from the look on Susan's face something was up. "You OK?" she asked. Susan turned to look at Abby and answered "I was going to ask her the same thing."
Jing-Mei looked puzzled and she too looked at Abby, who had the same look on her face that she had had when Susan had pulled her into the lounge.
"What do you mean, I'm fine" Abby asked, but this time Susan wasn't going to let her use that answer to stop people from knowing what was really wrong.
"Abby, spill, there's something the matter and I want to know what", Susan gave her friend a look which was full of concern, but also had a bit of annoyance.
"Susan I'm OK, honestly" Abby also looked annoyed but this was not at her friend this was at herself for being so obvious.
"Common Abby, I mean you're husband is out of a critical condition and you look like the world's about to end," off Abby's look Susan continued, "OK so not that bad but you don't look happy."
By this time Deb had realised what Susan was talking about, and even though she wasn't as close to Abby as Susan was, she knew her well enough to know that something was wrong.
Defeated Abby said, "I just think there's something the matter with John."
"Of course there is he's just been run over" Susan said sarcastically.
Abby rolled her eyes, "not like that, I mean something's troubling him."
"Like what?" Jing-Mei asked.
"That's it I don't know, but when I see him next I'm going to ask him. He needs to be able to recover properly without any burdens," Abby said and Susan and Jing-Mei knew that Abby was actually saying what was wrong, and that other than that she was OK. Abby went over to her locker and lent against it. As she was something occurred to Susan, when she saw 'Lockhart' on the locker, "hey, Abby, are you going to change your surname?"
Abby looked taken-aback because she had expected Susan to try and get more out of her about what was the matter after a second she answered, "I never really thought about it, to be honest."
Susan gave her a disbelieving look. "Yeah right, you've been in love with Carter for 3 years and you're expecting me to believe you never dreamt about marrying him." Susan teased causing Deb to give a slight chuckle, and Abby to look a bit embarrassed.
"OK, you're right," Abby told her causing Susan to give her a huge grin and an 'I told you so' look, "but I've never spoken to John about it."
"So, are you?" Jing-Mei pushed with a smile.
Abby rolled her eyes, "yeah probably, I mean Lockhart's my ex-husband's name, and Abby Carter sounds quite good." She laughed as her friends nodded and Susan repeated 'Abby Carter' a few times to see if it suited Abby.
"I still can't believe you're married though," Jing-Mei said.
"Let me see your rings" Susan said as she realised that throughout everything she still hadn't had a chance to look at them, Abby obliged without any complain.
Susan looked at the wedding ring first, which was a simple silver band, then she looked closely at the engagement ring had a diamond in the middle and two sapphires on either side on the silver band.
"They're beautiful," Susan said softly still looking at them, then looking up she asked, "How long were you engaged?" she asked Abby.
"3 months" Abby said afraid what they would say.
"3 months! Have you been wearing this ring all that time?" Susan said a little surprised, even though she knew they had been together for over a year , hearing how long they had been planning their wedding came as bit of a shock. Abby nodded. "I can't believe you managed to hide it from everyone for that long, especially with some of the gossipers in this hospital!."
"I know, we always thought that once I started wearing the engagement ring people would notice and we could tell everyone then instead of having to sort of announce it, of course that plan went down the drain!" The three laughed just as Kerry popped her head through the door.
"Sorry to interrupt but Carter asked Peter if anyone had phoned his grandmother, since he didn't know he wondered if you had."
Abby looked shocked, "It never crossed my mind, but I'll do it now, then she can contact his dad." She walked over the phone and started pressing in the digits, Susan asked, "Do you want us to go?"
"If you want to," she answered then into the phone, as someone picked up, "hello this is Abby, I need to speak to Millicent." She listened as the butler went to go and give her the phone.
"Hello, Abby", Gamma asked into the phne.
"Um...hi its about John, he was involved in a car accident this morning, and I thought you would like to know," scolding herself for how lame that sounded.
"Oh my goodness is he alright?" the old women asked the nurse.
"Well he's got a few broken bones, but he's OK, he woke up a few hours ago" she replied, feeling guilty that she hadn't thought about contacted the woman sooner.
"I'll come as soon as I can, although I don't think I'll be able to stay for too long, despite my best efforts my health isn't what it used to be."
Abby chuckled before saying, "It's getting late, Millicent..."
"Gamma" the old woman corrected her almost immediately, Abby apologised then continued
"It's getting late so I wouldn't worry about coming until tomorrow morning, but I was wondering if you would be able to contact his father and let him know what happened."
"That, my dear, is easier said than done, as you know, but I'll do my best."
"Thank you."
"No problem, dear, I'll go now and phone him. I'll come into the hospital at about 12 o' clock tomorrow, after a meeting I'm having, will that you be alright?" Millicent asked Abby.
"Definitely I'll see you there." After saying goodbyes Abby hung up the phone. She realised that Susan, Jing-Mei and Kerry had left the lounge, so she also left the lounge after making and pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Is she going to come?" Kerry asked Abby as she came out of the lounge.
"She will tomorrow, it's too late for her to make up way here today." The chief of staff nodded and then told Abby, "why don't you go home Abby, you look worn out."
Abby nodded realising just how tired she actually was, "yeah I think I will, I'll go tell John, then I'll go." She went into the lounge grabbed her stuff and made her way upstairs and into John's room. Surprisingly he was alone, but when she saw his eyes closed she realised that he must be asleep. Walking to his head she kissed his forehead and was about to leave when she heard his voice call her name. Surprised she jumped a little and turned around and saw his eyes looking at her. She smiled and walked over to her husband.
"Hi sweetie, I was just going to tell you I'm going home," she told him.
He nodded and asked her, "Did you phone my grandmother?"
Abby nodded and said, "she's going to come tomorrow around lunch, I'm sorry I didn't phone her earlier but I never really thought I was too worried."
"You don't need to apologise, Abby, its OK." He smiled at her and then she remembered what she was talking to Susan and Jing-Mei about.
"John what's bothering you?" 'Nice Abby, just get straight to the point, don't even give him a chance to tell you himself', she mentally kicked herself.
"Nothing", he muttered weakly, breaking her thoughts, but he knew that she knew there was something.
"John," she said sternly, but seeing the look on his face she softened her voice and said, "please tell me."
"OK" he replied and started to tell her what was wrong with him.
So...is this chapter any good? Please review and let me know. Debzxxx