Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story, except for the storyline is all mine. The E.R Show and characters are owned by creator Michael Crichton and the NBC television station. In my story Michael Gallant and Gregory Pratt are friends along with Luka Kovac who is friends with John Carter and they both are friends with Abby along with her being friends with the both of them also Susan is friends with all of them, Neela is Michael Gallant's love interest. In the story sometimes I will call the main character either by his last name "Gallant" or "Mike" short for his first name Michael so that I won't be repeating the same word over again during the character dialog.
Characters: Michael Gallant, Gregory Pratt, Ray Barnett, Susan Lewis, John Carter, Luka Kovac, Abby Lockhart, Neela Rasgotra, Samantha Taggart, Kerry Weaver, Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen, Lydia, Yosh, Chuny, Haleh, Malik, Frank, Robert "Rocket" Romano and Elizabeth Corday.
Episode: "The Tragic Illness"
Show Introduction:
The story starts off in Michael Gallant's apartment at 3 A.M. he is in the bathroom throwing up his dinner from yesterday evening even though he was sick he knew that missing work wasn't an option since at 10 A.M. he had a mandatory medical conference to attend to with some of his fellow colleagues in downtown at the Chicago Conference Center for work, after a few minutes later Gallant went back to bed only to wake up at 10 A.M. for his day to begin. Earlier in the week when Gallant noticed various symptoms he's been having, he decided to look them up in his medical books. Lately he'd been having pounding headaches, sweating a lot, chills, lightheadedness, blurred vision, constant dizzy spells, body bruising, loss of balance and falling down a lot, along with vomiting likehe just had a few minutes ago. He found out what the symptoms meant and dreaded the conclusion which meant CANCER. He knew that cancer wasn't good, but he was too afraid of the outcome if he was right, and didn't want his friend's who are his colleagues to know and worry about him if his suspicions were right. He had been able to hide his symptoms so far during the week, and when anyone asked if he was feeling okay because of the way he looked or was acting he just made up excuses for his problems like blaming the headaches on stress; lightheadedness and dizzy spells on not eat enough during the day, along with the blurred vision saying it was just allergies from the cold weather. Gallant hid the signs pretty easily, no one suspected a thing.
Around 9 A.M. Gallant got ready for work while walking to the El Train he noticed that it was snowing and getting colder outside as winter was just beginning, he got off the El Train down the street from his intended destination so he walked to the building lobby along with his colleagues arriving by 10 A.M. at the Medical Conference Center for his mandatory seminar with his fellow colleagues Dr.'s Susan Lewis, Ray Barnett, and Gregory Pratt who is Michael's best friend along with Dr. John Carter, who was going to try to attend the seminar after his shift at the hospital. The two doctors entered the auditorium, which is packed full so they have to stand in the back of the room during the other doctor's presentations. Ray and Greg left Susan and Gallant, they decided to checkout another medical seminar in the other conference room down the hall. While Dr. Lewis and Gallant observe the main seminar presentations standing against the wall in the back of the room.
Gallant was watching the presentations when he got the feeling he was going to be sick, and he knew that the closest restroom was next to the auditorium and that he had to get there quick.
Gallant: "Excuse me, I'll be right back"
Susan: "Okay"
Gallant closed the restroom door, and made his way to the stall and started to get sick…
Gallant: "Blah... blahg yuck, blahg eew blahg blah"