Chapter 6: A Funeral, Plus More Tragedy

Two days after Abby's successful suicide attempt was her funeral. All of the ER staff went- those who were still alive that is. With five people dead - Frank, Malik, Neela, Pratt, and then Abby, there wasn't many left. Susan was finding it hard to find good replacements, and was left with the memories of the people she had to replace. Soon it would get too much. It would get too much for anyone, having to replace some of their best friends.

Back in Chicago, Steve now had a mission. Yes Steve, Samantha Taggart's loser user ex. Of course he was high; it was just now he had a mission. Somehow he had escaped or gotten out of jail, and now he was roaming the streets, looking for the girl he once loved. Yes, that's correct, once loved. Steve had lots of time to think about things in jail, and decided he didn't need little Samantha, and that if he didn't need her, neither did anyone else. Yes, I know there's Alex, but this is Steve we are talking about here, and Alex would be the prize for completing his mission.

Steve waited outside Sam's apartment. He could hear someone inside, but he knew it wasn't her. Just at that moment, he saw her coming towards the apartment. He lifted up his gun, aimed and shot. Lucky for Sam, little Alex here heard something. He opened the door, only to find his mother shot and his father the shooter. With that he closed the door, locked it before Steve could get in, and went to go call 911.

Steve flees the crime scene, and the ambulance comes to pick up Sam. Alex gets a ride to the hospital with one of the police officers that came, and the drive to County General begins.

"I'm afraid we lost this one, Dr. Lewis. She was a fighter though. Damn bastard really knew what he was doing," one of the paramedics says as they open up the ambulance door and wheel out Sam, now lifeless and covered in blood. Susan sees that it's Sam.

"NO! Not again!" she screams. Then she runs: something she never does. Yes, Susan Lewis runs. She runs through the ER, to the elevator, and up to the roof. She hangs her head over the edge, and tries to breathe. "So… many… deaths…" she starts to say, until she is interrupted by someone.

"Hey Susan what happened?" Luka asks.

Susan turns around. "Oh shit," she says. Luka gives her a questioning look. "You didn't just see that last trauma being pulled in, did you?"

"No, why?"

Susan tries to decide how to break the news to Luka. "Well, it was Sam. And she was DOA," she says. Luka looks at her, not believing what she has just said. "No, no, no!" is all he could make out before he starts to run downstairs to see if it is really true.