Ok, here we go again, if there's anyone who's still interested then I'm back in the game with a carry on from where I left off… if you've not read this as of yet then I suggest you go from around chapter 7 you can probably pick it up from there. Have fun, I hope you enjoy it… x x x K
Sadly I'm over a month down the line and still own absolutely nothing!! (That's my disclaimer!!)
"So is it true?" Malik asked Jerry as they stood at the desk.
"Is what true?" Jerry replied.
"Dr Mackenzie and Abby being sisters." Malik said.
"Ohh yeah." Frank answered from the other side of admit.
"There was a big blow out two weeks ago, it all came out." Jerry smiled conspiratorially.
"I've got all kinds of sister fantasies coming from that one." Malik grinned.
"Tell me about it." Jerry agreed as the hi-fives came out.
"None of which are going to happen, you're all pathetic." Abby's voice came from behind them, shooting looks between Jerry, Malik and Frank; they hadn't noticed her standing by the board in doctor garb. They all looked down at their feet like naughty schoolboys, sniggering as she walked off.
'Jesus,' Abby muttered as she walked away. Her life was all over the ER, it was worse than when she'd got together with Carter, but as ever the gossip train had started and there was nothing she could do about it.
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"How's it going?" Susan asked Abby as they met in the ambulance bay well aware of the gossip rife in the ER, as they waited for the next patient.
"Ok." Abby nodded her reply, smiling slightly. "I get my exam results next week." She added.
"Oh yeah, how do you think they went?" Susan asked kindly.
"I have no idea." Abby laughed, shrugging.
"A lot's happened since you took them hunh?" She added looking over at her friend, trying to steer the conversation round to what she wanted to ask.
"Yeah." Abby nodded again.
"Have you spoken to her since?" Susan questioned.
"Amelia, yeah." Abby nodded still not looking at her, but knowing what she was referring to.
"And?" She pushed.
"I, well, she came over last week, spoke to Maggie, did you know she had a kid?" Abby stated looking over at Susan.
"You didn't?" Susan asked frowning slightly.
"No, you did?" Abby said shaking her head, looking surprised that Susan had known about Lauren.
"Yeah, she told me." Susan said looking sheepish, when Abby didn't reply she carried on. "I was complaining about pregnancy and…" Susan trailed off feeling bad for Abby.
Chuni came out into the Ambulance bay just then. "They've diverted to mercy." She informed Abby and Susan, heading straight back in.
"D'you have ten minutes for coffee?" Susan asked. Abby looked back accepting the offer, thanks in her eyes.
"I do now." She added.
Abby and Susan were sitting in the Lounge, unable to find enough time to make it out of the hospital, Elizabeth was in there as well, Abby figured that since she was about to spill the most recent events in her life to Susan she might as well spill to Elizabeth too, no doubt she'd find out all the details anyway eventually, if she didn't know already.
"So you knew who she was from the start?" Susan asked, as she Abby and Elizabeth sat around the table, Abby had told them about some of the happenings over the past week, about the meeting with Maggie, about bumping into her and Jasper, about meeting her niece, and Susan was still full of questions.
"Yeah." Abby nodded her response to Susan's question.
"And you're Mom's gone home?" Susan carried on.
"She left yesterday." Abby sighed. "I don't know." She shook her head playing with the cup in her hands. "I don't know if all this a good thing or not." Abby smiled half-heartedly.
"Ella and her daughter are at the same school, Ella's the year below her." Elizabeth said frowning. "I've seen her there before, we are talking about Dr Mackenzie?" She questioned wanting to get the facts straight, Abby nodded at her.
"How did I not know about her, she asked me if I was married, if I had kids, all that, I didn't even think to ask her." Abby shook her head.
"You would have thought she'd have told you." Susan frowned slightly.
"I'm sure it's not that she didn't want to." Elizabeth tried reassuringly.
"The two of you seem to get on ok." Susan offered as best she could.
"Yeah, I mean that's all fine, but still…" Abby trailed off.
"Still what?" Susan asked trying to get her to carry on, it wasn't often that she could get Abby to open up about things like this and she wanted her to carry on.
Abby shifted uncomfortably in her chair, running her hand through her hair looking over at Susan.
"She let Maggie spend the afternoon with her daughter a couple of days ago." Abby started, "I'm just not sure that them getting to attached is a good idea." Abby sighed.
"Who, your Mom and Amelia." Susan said frowning.
"No." Abby almost laughed at the idea, "Maggie and her daughter, she doesn't even want to talk to Maggie, but has the power to take it all away, and I think that she might, I mean if I was in her position I can't say that I would have let them even see each other in the first place." Abby explained.
"Have you talked to her about this?" Elizabeth asked concern etched on her face as Abby shook her head.
"You think you should?" She added.
"Probably, but it's up to her." Abby shrugged.
"You should talk to her though, if your worried I mean." Susan advised.
"I will, I will." She nodded, attempting to convince herself.
They sat in a companionable silence for a couple of minutes, lost in thought.
"I'm sorry Abby." Susan said, genuinely feeling for her.
"No, you know, it's not the end of the world, I mean, I guess there's nothing really to be mad about." Abby said reasonably. "I'm just pissed at her for not telling me about her kid, and then… I don't know." She sighed.
Susan and Elizabeth both smiled at her comfortingly.
"So how long has he been feeling sick?" Amelia asked looking up at the mother of the overweight boy in front of her.
"Since this morning, I'm really worried about him, he didn't want his breakfast, and then when he wouldn't eat lunch, I thought I should bring him to the hospital." She explained concerned.
"Ok. Marty" Amelia nodded, turning back to the boy "Does your tummy hurt at all?" She asked, the boy paused and she saw the look cross his face but wasn't quick enough as he vomited all over her top. "Ok." Amelia sighed resignedly. "D'you feel any better?" She asked standing up.
"Much." He nodded his head; "I think I could have some lunch now." He told her wiping his mouth on his sleeve.
"Oh good." Amelia replied, giving her orders to a nurse as she headed away to get herself cleaned up.
"Got barf bombed hunh?" Malik smiled wickedly as she walked past him.
"Looks that way yeah, you'd have thought my reactions would've gotten better." She replied grabbing a set of scrubs. She headed to the bathroom emerging in a scrub top with her now washed and soaking shirt in hand; she made her way towards the lounge.
"Hey." She said seeing Abby, Elizabeth and Susan sitting at the table.
"What was it?" Susan grimaced noticing the shirt in Amelia's hand.
"Twelve year olds vomit." Amelia smiled back. "I think that most of my clothes have been lost to medical waste by now." She said hanging her top up to dry in her locker.
"I've got to get back to work." Susan informed them, her implications not very subtle as she heaved herself out of the chair and headed towards the door, shooting a look in Abby's direction.
"Me too." Elizabeth said following her lead.
"Watch out for Weaver, she's on the warpath about something." Amelia warned them casually.
"Oh god." Susan sighed as she pulled the door open preparing herself for the inevitable.
As the door swung shut Abby and Amelia were left alone, Amelia turned back to her locker looking for a hair band as Abby flicked through the magazine in front of her without interest before looking over at Amelia.
"D'you have plans for tonight?" Abby asked as casually as she could.
Amelia turned round to look at her, trying to guess what she wanted, "Um, no." She shook her head taking a seat opposite Abby at the table, pulling her hair back. "Why?"
Abby shrugged her response as if she'd just been making polite conversation.
"You want to do something?" Amelia offered, guessing that, that was what Abby had been getting at.
"Sure." Abby replied smiling.
"Ok." She nodded, pausing. "Oh; Jasper's going out of town tonight." She added remembering.
"Ok." Abby shrugged again hiding her disappointment.
"No, we can still do something, it's just, it's going to have to be at my house." Amelia explained.
"You sure?" Abby frowned, unsure about the offer.
"Absolutely, my house is a mess but as long as you don't mind that then you're more than welcome." Amelia noticed the amused look that crossed Abby's face as she said it and shook her head smiling. "Maggie told you about it hunh?"
"She said it was…" She paused looking for the right word, deciding on "chaotic." She smiled back.
"Oh god, that means it must be worse than I thought it was." She rolled her eyes. "Most of it's Lauren's." Amelia attempted to make it sound better.
"Right." Abby said sarcastically.
"It is." Amelia defended herself.
"Ok." Abby replied the irony still evident in her voice.
"I've got to get back out there, say seven thirty tonight?" Amelia suggested, trying to get away more than anything else, scribbling her address on a piece of paper.
"Ok, what time are you off?" Abby asked also standing up to get back to work.
"Twenty minutes." She replied looking at her watch.
"Ok, I'll see you later then." Abby said following Amelia out of the lounge.
"Ok." Amelia nodded heading off to check on her final few patients of the day.
"Lauren." Amelia yelled up the stairs, " Come and say goodbye to Daddy." She instructed bundling an array of toys and bits and pieces under her arm, dropping them in the huge toy box in the corner of the room as Lauren bolted down the stairs, Jasper was asking her a multitude of questions about the whereabouts of various items of his clothing at the same time as she responded automatically to his questions. She was making an attempt to get her house into some kind of order before Abby turned up, she wasn't thrilled about Maggie describing it as 'chaotic' but in all fairness she was right on the money, it wasn't dirty, it just had a lot of surface mess which was easy to accumulate with a four year old and two people who worked full time. She'd been vaguely tidying up since she'd arrived home to find Jasper and Lauren making finger-paintings, she'd been annoyed at the time knowing that Abby was coming over but had quickly become involved herself, probably making more mess than the other two combined. Lauren though, as ever had ended up the messiest, with paint all over her face and clothes, in her hair, everywhere, most of which had been administered by either Amelia or Jasper whilst Lauren had been in fits of giggles and unable to defend herself. Now though, everything was as neat and tidy as it had ever been, she thought to herself that she couldn't believe she was making this much effort, or even cared what Maggie thought, but she did. Jasper's bag was standing by the door, and he was finally ready to go.
"When are you coming back?" Lauren demanded as she reached him in the kitchen.
"Tuesday." Jasper replied kneeling down to her.
"Do you have to go?" Lauren asked frowning.
"Yes, but guess what." Jasper said playing with her.
"What?" Lauren asked her frown disappearing, being replaced by conspiratorial excitement.
"I'm going to call you every day and I'm going to bring you back a present. He replied scooping her up with him as he stood.
"So it'll be like you're still here." Lauren smiled.
"Yup." Jasper smiled back at the little girl giving her a kiss.
"Ok." Lauren conceded, adding, "As long as it's a big present." She grinned wickedly.
"Hey I thought you'd had a bath?" Amelia said to Lauren as she appeared beside them still tidying up.
"I did." Lauren replied.
"Why have you still got paint on your ear then?" Amelia asked her pretending to be serious as Lauren rubbed at the wrong ear.
"Daddy must have missed it." Lauren explained.
"Hey the face was your job." Jasper mock frowned at her. Lauren's inability to take anything seriously shone through as she grinned at Jasper and Amelia. It was one of Jasper's traits that she had picked up.
"That'll be my ride." Jasper said putting Lauren down as the doorbell rang; he walked through the living room to the front door grabbing his coat on the way, Lauren hot on his heels.
Pulling the door open he smiled. "Hi."
"Hey." Abby said sheepishly, smiling back at him. "Sorry I'm a little early."
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