Chapter 11:
A few people see them together, but they don't expect anything just yet, that is except for Susan. They walk into the lounge, and Susan follows them because the ER is having a slow a day, but mostly because she wants to make sure if her suspicions are correct.
"Hey." Susan says. Carter and Abby both say hi to Susan. "So are you guys…?" she asks in her best I-want-to-know-what's-going-on-with-you-two voice.
"Yes." Carter says. He knows he can trust Susan.
"But don't go around telling everyone." Abby says; just to make sure Susan doesn't have the entire ER staff gossiping about them.
"Okay," Susan says smiling. "Oh and congratulations. I hope it works out this time." She tells the two of them.
Abby and Carter thank her as she leaves the lounge to go check up on a patient. They know they can always count on Susan to keep things quiet or just be there as a friend. They are both glad they have a friend like her.
Carter and Abby both open their lockers and get ready for a long shift. They start to walk towards the lounge door when they hear they loud sound of gurney wheels rolling down the hallway. They run out of the lounge to help with the trauma patients. And here I thought it was gonna be a slow day, Abby thinks. "Two stab wounds to the chest. Didn't have time to get one of the stabbing tools out." Abby looks down and sees a knife coming out of a man who is about in his thirties. The EMTs continue to shout out the stab wound victim's vitals as they wheel him into trauma one.
A quick thirty minutes later the patient is stable and being sent up to the OR. The only people left in the trauma room are Abby and Susan. "That was different, usually we don't get to experience the fun time of pulling he knife out of a stab wound victim," Abby says sarcastically. Susan rolls her eyes. They got some crazy patients here at County. "So how are things with you and Carter?"
"Good. Why?" Abby asks.
"Just curious. Cause I was talking to him a few days ago about you two…"
"Yeah I heard," Abby says, chuckling as she remembers her and Carter's conversation after he realized she had been listening in on him and Susan.
"You did? You're kidding." Susan says. She didn't mean for Abby to hear that conversation. She just wanted to get through to Carter first.
"No I'm not. It's kind of how this whole thing with Carter started, with me listening in on you two."
Susan smiles. "So if this works out with you two, do I get all the credit?" Susan asks happily.
"Sure why not." Abby responds as she walks to the trauma room door to leave.