Hello everyone, here's a new fic. Hope you like it better than the last one cos I didnt get many reviews, although the ones I did get were amazing! Thanks to everyone for their support.

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"Morning Jay, how are you?"

"I'm fine thank you chick." The man brushed his caramel hair off his face and grinned.

"Well, I'll see you later."

"You going to work? To cure the sick and degrade the rest?"

"Something like that." She said with a laugh before hopping into the little car and putting her bag in the passenger footwell. The car was full of sweet wrappers, footballs, shoes, toys and tons of crayons.

The radio blared Goo goo dolls as Abby drove to work and she found herself singing along. Pulling up to Fairview General Hospital, she parked and hurried inside, painfully aware of her tardiness.

"Wysinski?" The blonde woman marched over, frowning. "You're late again!"

"I'm sorry Dr Monrow, but the kids are playing up again."

"I don't care; it's your responsibility to arrive on time. I'll deduct from your wages next time it happens." Tanya seemed like a nag but Abby knew it was just a show.

"Okay. I'm sorry. What's on the board?"

"Girl in 2- facial lacs. Man in 4 has stomach pain. LOL in 8 with broken hip and possible concussion. Check them out." With that, Tanya walked off to find someone else to yell at.

Abby sighed and moved off to room 2.

"Hiya Mariah, how are you feeling?"

"It hurts. Where's mommy?" The little girl pouted and rubbed her eyes.

"Your mommy is just having a picture taken of her belly and then she's coming back down to you. How did this happen sweetie?" Abby pulled on a pair of gloves and sat on a stool in front of the girl.

"Car crash. It was really loud and bangy, and the lady they got out was crying really loud and had blood all over her." Mariah almost smiled before letting it drop when it hurt. Abby probed the edges of the wound gently and began cleaning and suturing it.

"All done." She said ten minutes later. "You were really good. Do you want a lollypop?" Mariah nodded vigorously. "Now my little girl loves the purple ones. Which one do you like best?"

"Orange. My best friend Betsy likes green but I think it tastes like…toilet roll." The girl screwed her face up as best she could and Abby laughed.

"Yeah, green isn't too nice."

"What's your little girl's name?" Mariah enquired, slipping the lolly in her mouth.

"I have two little girls but one is only a baby. She's called Lara, but I have a little girl who's 3 and she's called Maddie."

"I'm older than both of them. I'm 7!" Mariah held up 6 fingers then thought and raised another. "I have a baby brother and two older brothers and one older sister. I'm the middle child." Abby smiled. "Yeah, Kobie is 2, Declan is 8, Dylan is 12 and Saffron is 15."

"Nice big family. Well, you stay there and I'll go and tell someone to bring your mom to you when she's done in x-ray." Mariah nodded and lay back on the bed, sucking on the lolly.

"Abby, trauma coming in. ETA 2 minutes." Raymond, the desk clerk called across the floor to her and she nodded.

"Ray, when a Mrs Walliams comes down, her daughter is in 2-Mariah. Please reunite them."

"Sure thing."

Abby grabbed a gown and some gloves and went to wait outside. Derek was standing under the covering, smoking.

"Hey, thought you gave up." He said.

"I did. I'm waiting for a trauma. Jeez it's cold out here!" Abby shivered.

"Sure is, smoking keeps me warm." He took a last drag and smooshed it under his sneaker. "Take my coat." She shook her head.

"I'll get blood on it."

"Fine, you leave me no choice." Coming up beside her, he flung his arms around her and tucked the petite woman inside his coat.

"Derek, let go you crazy man." She giggled and resigned herself to the warmth of the garment and his broad chest on her back.

"How are the little darlings?"

"Great; Lara is teething and cries all the time, Maddie is driving me up the wall and Danny…well Danny is another thing all together!"

"I'm sure they'll be fine once they've tired themselves out with their dad."

"Yeah, let's hope so." She sighed.

"When's he picking them up?"

"Tomorrow at 5pm. That means I at least get to spend most of Maddie's birthday with her. I could do without seeing Melinda's whiny face but they're Pete's kids as well and he wants them to like her, don't want him suing my ass do we?" Abby peeked out, searching for the rig. Spotting it she broke free and pulled on the plastic gloves.

"Gimme the bullet."

"24 year old male, GSW to lower left quadrant. Multiple stab wounds to legs and arms, facial lac, possible tib/fib fracture." Abby steered him into trauma 3 and began the slog to keep his massacred body alive.

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"Mommy, need wee."

"Maddie, you've just been. Please just pick a dress and then you can have a bath."

"Need a wee!" The little girl scrunched her face up, pouting and Abby couldn't help but laugh.

"You are too much like me, Missy." She picked her up and grabbed the towel off the radiator. "Bath time."

Maddie's pout dropped and she wriggled to get down, scrambling onto the toilet seat to reach the bath bubbles from the cupboard whilst her mom turned the taps on and sloshed in some of the pink liquid.

"Danny, bath time." She yelled, and then listened for the thumping as he ran down the hall.

"It's not…pink again!" Danny scowled up at his mom who raised her eyebrows.

"I promise tomorrow we'll have blue. Now, can you get your towel? Maddie, stand by the sink and watch the water. Yell if it gets too deep. Don't go near the bath though. I'm going to get Lara from her nap." The little girl nodded and moved backward, used to the ritual that came from having a one parent family.

Abby crept into the nursery and started whispering, knowing her baby liked to wake up slowly.

"Hello baby, you still sleepy. Yup, bath time now. You like baths." She spoke in an even sing-song voice as she bent into the crib and scooped up Lara whose wide brown eyes peered back. Suddenly she smiled and revealed a new tooth peeking out of her gums.

"Oooh, who has a new tooth. You're growing up aren't you?" Abby kissed Lara's pink cheeks which made her giggle and reach out to pat her mom's face. Abby laughed and carried her back to the bathroom.

"Mommy, bath nearly done." Maddie exclaimed attempting to remove her t-shirt but managing to get it stuck to her head. Abby sat Lara on the floor, dropped Danny into the tub and helped Maddie out of her shirt and into the tub. Whilst they splashed around with the bubbles and ducks and boats, she washed their hair and faces.

"Out time." The two children scrambled out and were wrapped in the luscious towels before Lara was washed quickly and the plug removed. Abby dried, diapered and dressed Lara while the other two chased each other round their room. Then she caught them and squeezed them into some clothes before they were off again, full of beans for their father's arrival.

The doorbell rang and Abby waded through the bags and toys strewn in the hall to open the door.

"Peter, hi. They're almost ready, one second." She dashed back up the stairs and ushered Danny and Maddie down the stairs, holding Lara on her hip. Peter kissed the two older kids and then took Lara from Abby.

"It's a shame she can't come." He said.

"Pete- you wouldn't enjoy it and she wouldn't enjoy it. There's no point."

"I know, but I see them not often enough as it is."

"Whose fault's that?" Abby said, taking back the baby. "Exactly, now go before Maddie needs a w-e-e." Peter laughed and kissed Lara one more time before grabbing the bags.

"Bye sweetie, see you in a few days." Maddie kissed her mom and raced to the car. "Bye Dan-Dan. Be good." Danny clung to her, "Hey silly, I'll see you in three days. You're gonna have fun with your daddy."

"But Melinda's there!"

"She's nice too." Abby smiled and pushed her son towards his father. She hated the fact Peter's girlfriend was still so distant with the kids- Melinda was 31 and had no expertise with children at all. She barely knew how to speak to them. Peter picked up his son and carried him to the car as he began to cry. Abby felt tears pricking her eyes and she thanked the lord that they drove off quickly because she didn't want the kids to see her cry.

"Well Lara-baby it's just you and me for a few days." She said as she wandered into the empty living room, wondering if she'd ever like the lack of noise and bustle and toys everywhere. The whole house seemed dead all of a sudden.

Lara cooed and batted the mirror, showing off her new tooth again as she grinned at her mother.

"Don't grow up too fast." Abby said, kissing her cheek.


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