3:00 a.m.
It was like Luka was in a world of his own. He knew he had been horrible to Sam, and the guilt twisted his stomach. He didn't know why he had treated Jing-Mei so nicely, maybe because what had been going on with her and her father. He looked over at his alarm clock, and saw that he had about three hours more to sleep. He closed his eyes. Jing-Mei was with Pratt anyway……
7:00 a.m.
Luka strolled through the front doors of the ER. He saw Sam walk by. He grabbed her arm, but when he saw her he felt even worse than he did before. She had a cut on her lower left lip, and she looked like she had been crying. "Sam?"
She pulled away from him, as a few tears fell from her eyes. Luka saw Trauma 2 was empty, so he grabbed her arm once more, and led her there. She sat down on an empty gurney, as Luka examined the cut on her lip. "What happened?" he finally asked.
"Alex and I got in a fight. He was going to 'run away' so I tried to go after him but tripped over his play station. We stopped when he saw I was bleeding."
"Is that it?" Luka asked.'
She fixed him with a glare. "What do you think Luka?"
"Look, I'm sorry about last night, Sam. I don't know what came over me. I figure its just because Chen's father and all the things she is going through. I really am sorry."
She kissed him. "Okay. But remember, Luka, she's got Pratt."
"That's what I thought, too."
Sam smiled. "After the shift is over, do you want to get something to eat?"
Luka nodded. "Yeah. Well, seeing as we're not off for a while, why don't we get some coffee in the lounge?"
They both entered the lounge, but caught Carter and Abby in a very interesting position on the table.
"Uhhh" said Sam, but she burst out laughing.
Abby wriggled out from under Carter, buttoning up her coat, her face as red as a tomatoe. Luka started laughing too. True, he had dated Abby in the past, but Sam was his world now.
8:30 a.m.
Kerry peeked her head through the doors in the doctors lounge. "Luka?" Luka looked up.
"I'm trying to figure out whether to call a psych consult for this girl or not. Well, when she wakes up."
Luka was a bit surprised, because usually Kerry only tended to the patients that were at least awake or dying. "Her name is Sally." She said, and led him to Sally's hospital room.
Kerry quickly walked over to the girl, and pulled the blanket down.
Luka nearly dropped his coffee cup when he saw the girls cuts. She wasn't just the typical cutter. These cuts were all the way from her shoulders to her wrist, with not much space between them. He looked at Kerry. "If she wakes up, definitely call for a psych consult."
Kerry nodded.
"Luka?" she asked.
He turned.
"How are things with you and Sam?"
He gave her a weird look. "Fine…just fine. One more question. What was she brought in for? Excessive bleeding?"
Kerry shook her head. "Gunshot wound."
9:45 a.m.
Abby strolled out of the bathroom fixing herself up, after her and Carter's 'meeting.' She saw Kerry out of the corner of her eye, and immediately turned her head. Kerry watched her from the front desk. She leaned over to Sam and whispered, "Do you think everything's okay with her?"
Luka, who had his back turned to the two women, was trying hard not to laugh.
"I think everythings MORE than okay with her, if you know what I mean."
"No…" Kerry said, her mind was on Sally and most importantly Susan.
Luka turned around. "We caught John and Abby in a very interesting situation in the doctors lounge this morning."
Pratt, who had just walked in, dropped his coffee cup. "IN THE LOUNGE! Yo, we eat in there….or I do anyway…"
Kerry raised one eyebrow, as Sam broke into hysterical fits of laughter.
John came up to the desk. "Whats so funny guys?"
"Nothing" Pratt said, "have you seen Jing-Mei around anywhere?"
Kerry shook her head. "We should call."
"Hey, I know where she went" John said, "Elizabeth's down with the flu so she went to her house this morning. She told me to tell you she'd be late."
All of a sudden, Neela came running up to the front desk, a big smile on her face. "Susan just woke up!" she cried.
