Thanks for the reviews. As someone has said quite a bit of what has happened so far does not seem relevant to the storyline. I have made the story like this so that it is not simply a one track story. Meaning that I am trying to put bits in to add a bit of a different tone in that everything is not revolving around one point.

I'm sorry about the wrong name that I used for the defibrillator. I honestly was going to use 'Haldol', but I wasn't sure if it was called 'Haldol' or 'Halidol'.

Abby is still in somewhat of a transition between nurse and doctor, in that she is still working both kinds of shifts and doing both kinds of tasks.

One other small point is that I do know that you are supposed to take a new line for each new speaker when typing dialogue and I did do then when typing, but it has appeared as one large paragraph.

I will try to improve the story as I go along and from listening to your advice in the reviews. I am still not quite used to this, but I hope that you'll find it more enjoyable as I go.

Finally, there are a few different directions that I can go in with this story, so if it starts to sound wrong, please tell me.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or anything to do with the ER.

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Chapter 3

The air seemed even colder in and outside of the hospital. Abby was left standing in the Lounge wondering, and Susan was outside in the Bay, the cold air hitting her warm face, which was red from a mixture of shouting and anger.

She headed off towards the El, trudging through the thin layer of fresh ice and snow which lay on the ground. Many thoughts whirled around in side her head as she was waiting for the train: "Was she right to get angry at Abby even though she knew that she was just being caring?", "Should she have just given in and had a heart-to-heart with her?", "Was she acting a bit out-of-sorts recently?" She did not even have to think about the last one. She knew that she had. She then started to worry if she had really offended Abby.

The train grinded and screeched to a halt, it was the El after all. Susan climbed on and squeezed into a seat beside a man. Her next thought was whether she should call the ER later to speak to Abby as she knew that she was doing a nursing shift at 10.

She then worried about what to say to her. She decided that she would do this and try and be polite and apologise. The train jolted causing her to nearly fly out of her seat and then it slowly grinded to a halt. She got off and headed for her apartment. She thought that it had gotten colder and that it would get worse.

After a pretty treacherous and icy walk to her apartment, one which should only have taken a few minutes but took longer because of the weather, she opened the door and threw her bag on the floor. She then reached for the heating switch and turned it on. After making a quick cup of coffee she looked at the clock. It was 7.30. She had an hour and a half before Abby's shift started. She decided to watch TV. She collapsed on her sofa and before she knew it she had fallen asleep. When she woke up she looked at her watch – it was 11.00.

She got up and headed for the phone. She had a message – "Susan, this is Abby, please pick up, I know that you're there." Susan picked up the phone and dialled the number for the ER a voice at the other end of the phone answered, it was unfamiliar, maybe it was a night clerk, - "Hello, County General, how can I help?"

"Hi this is Doctor Lewis, is Nurse Lockhart working tonight?" she inquired.

"Just a moment," the voice answered, "Yes she is working in the ER tonight."

"Well, could I speak t her then?" Susan asked.

"I'm afraid I'm not sure where she is," the voice replied.

"Could you go find her please, it's important," Susan said.

"I'll try, but it might take a minute," the clerk said.

"Fine," replied Susan. The next voice that she heard was a familiar one, it was Abby's.

"Hello, Abby here, who is it?"

"It's Susan," She replied. "I want to talk to you, I got your message."

"So, it took you a while, but I thought that you'd call." Abby said kind of jokily.

"Look, I just wanted to say that…" but just then there was one almighty crash at the other end of the phone, "Abby, are you OK?"

"Can you finish what you are saying or will we talk tomorrow, it's all kicking off in here tonight.

"See you tomorrow then. Bye" Susan still felt worried as she had not actually had a chance to speak to Abby properly. She should know what's going on, Susan thought. She was on tomorrow and so was Abby. She would try and sort it then. Susan headed off to bed.

She was awoken the next morning by the rain hitting off of her window. She slightly raised her head off of the pillow to look at the alarm clock. It was 6.00. She was on at 8.00. She tried to go back to sleep for a half an hour, but couldn't. She got up and thought, "I don't suppose that it could hurt to be early for once, could it?" She got up and dressed. She stopped and looked out of her bedroom window, what a wet morning, she thought.

She decided to head out early. She grabbed her back and her jacket, and headed for the El. When the El got to the stop next to County, she was 45 minutes earlier than she usually was. Susan got off the El and headed down the stairs, "At least the snow has melted," she thought. She grabbed a coffee from the café opposite the hospital and walked across the Bay towards the ER entrance. When she entered she noticed that the place was quite empty, this was never a good sign in her opinion as it always meant that it would fill up very quickly.

Jerry shouted "Good morning Doctor Lewis" and she replied quite cheerfully. She went and hid in the lounge for 5 minutes. She hung her jacket up in her locker and sat and drank her coffee. The first person she saw whilst she was drinking her coffee was Kerry.
"Susan," she sounded like she wanted something, "As you're early this morning, could you go through the charts and mail etc. at the desk?"

"OK Kerry." Doctor Weaver looked quite shocked that it didn't take much to persuade Susan to do this.

 Susan went out to the Admit desk and asked where the 'mail etc.' that Kerry was talking about was. He gestured to a giant pile on the shelf under the desk. "What!" Susan said sounding shocked. She started working through the mountain of paper, sorting it out, until it was time for her shift to start. She then shoved it all back under the desk, waiting for the next person who fell foul of Kerry's request. She went back into the Lounge for her Lab. Coat and stethoscope and found Abby in there. She was brushing her hair.
"What time did you finish this morning?" Susan asked.

"I finished at 5.30, and managed to get two hours sleep in the on-call room." Abby replied

"That's were I hide when I'm avoiding Kerry!" Susan joked, but got no response from Abby. As Abby was going towards the door, Susan shouted on her.

"Abby, look I'm sorry for last night, I was just a bit…"Susan tried to explain.

"It's OK, look I guess I pushed you a bit too far, but I've never seen you snap like that before. A simple 'no, but I don't want to talk about it would have done'. So, what time are you on 'til today?" Abby asked.

"I'm on until 5, then I'm back on 10, I'm doing a double shift." Susan said.

"I'm on tonight as well," said Abby.

"I apologise for what happened, we'll talk tonight, OK?" Susan offered.

Abby nodded and walked out of the door.

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This chapter wasn't fantastic, but it probably will get better from now on.

As I said, please Read and Review.