Don't Leave

Chapter 7- Phone Calls and Explanations

Rating-T

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Told from Sam's Point of View

"Sam?" I threw up again instead of answering him. "Sam are you okay?" He asked me again. No! I wanted to scream at him.

"I'm…okay…" I say between sobs.

"No you're not. What's wrong?" His thick voice comes through the phone line mixing with the sound of the ocean.

"I'm okay Luka. You probably need to go." I don't want to let him go but if it meant not having to tell him what Alex said then I'm okay with that.

"No I'm at the embassy. We're picking up more supplies. Now what's wrong?" He was worried. I could tell. But telling him what Alex said will make him mad.

"It's just morning sickness." Which isn't a total lie; I am having morning sickness right now. And it does suck.

"Then why are you crying?"

"No I'm not."

"Don't lie to me Sam." Sometimes it scares me how well he knows me.

"Alex…" I bit my lip before continuing. "called me….a…when I told him and Lucy about…the…baby….he called me a…slut."

"What!"

"Luka don't freak ou..."

"Why did he call you a slut? You are not a…I don't even want to say that word again."

"I don't know, just forget about it."

"No! You are clearly upset. And I'm upset that he called you that. Put him on the phone."

"Luka it's five in the morning."

"Sam." I relented and went to Alex's bedroom hoping I wouldn't throw up before I got there. Not that I had anything left to throw up.

"Alex wake up. Luka wants to talk to you."

Alex groggily grabbed the phone from me and said, "Hello?" I felt something rising up my throat so I clamped my hand over my mouth and ran back to the bathroom.

Told from Alex's Point of View

"Hello?"

"Alex why did you call your mother a slut?" He screamed at me through the phone.

"Because."

"Because why Alex? I thought you were done with that."

"Because the more kids she has the more she's going to forget about me. She spends all of her time Josh and Lucy. And I have to do something stupid to get her attention." Did I actually say that out loud?

"Alex your mother loves you. She wouldn't even go out with me because she didn't want for you to get hurt in the process. And remember she made me ask your permission if we could have another child after Lucy because she didn't want you to think she didn't love you and that we were replacing you. I apologize that I didn't ask you about this baby so I'll ask you now. Alex is it okay for your mother and me to have another child?"

"I guess it's alright. I am just joking. You can."

"So we're cool?"

"Yeah. And Luka don't say that ever again." He laughed.

"Bye Alex. I love you. Tell Lucy I love her too. And Josh."

"Bye Luka…Dad." I slide out of bed and went back to my mother's bedroom. I found her sitting on the edge of her and Luka's bed. I handed her the phone and went back to my room to get some much needed sleep.

Told from Sam's Point of View

"I miss you Luka."

"I miss you too Sam."

"Luka…I want to come down there. You can always use more nurses. And Carter and Abby offered to watch Lucy, Alex, and Josh. They need the practice anyways. I can help out a lot. Even if I just…"

"Sam," he interrupted me. "I want you to come down here too but we haven't got good prenatal care."

"Please Luka." I crying now. I just want to see him. I don't sleep at all without him gone. And looking at Josh is like looking at a miniature Luka. "Please."

"No Sam! I want to see you again too but not with you pregnant. I have to go. The car is about to leave. I love you."

"I love you too. Bye."

"Bye." I hung up the phone and rolled over onto my side to go to sleep. But sleep wouldn't come. Partly because he said no. Partly because he's gone. And the part because Josh started crying. Only four months, two days, 14 hours, and 5 minutes.

Told from Luka's Point of View

I want her to come but we can't even take care of the pregnant women here that well. I'm not going to subject her and our child to that. What if something goes wrong? They could both end up dying. I already lost one family. I can't lose another family.