Summary: Ray and Sarah get on with their daily life. Featuring the much-anticipated wedding of Abby and John. Sequel to Breath of Life. Please read it before, or it gets confusing…
Disclaimer: ER is not mine. If it were, then Carter would not be leaving. And Abby and Carter would be married already. And I would be with Ray…
Author's Note: Okay, well 'tis nice to see that people like it. Just a note to Thought's review…I will not kill Carter! Ever! He will be 142 before he dies. So there.
Beat of Life
Ray jogged up to the gurney that the paramedics were rolling in, "Hello sir, my name is Dr. Barnett, can you tell were your pain is."
The patient briefly described where his pain was, while Ray and Sam rolled the gurney into Trauma 1. Sam started immediately started an IV of nitro to counter the effects of a heart attack. Ray pulled his stethoscope to his ears, and listened to the man's heart and breath sounds. He looked at the man laying on the gurney.
"Sir, what did you have to eat today?"
"A breakfast burrito and some cold, leftover Chinese food. Why?"
"Sir, you have heartburn. You are not having a heart attack." Ray said handing the chart over to Sam. "We're going to give you an antacid, see how you're doing, then send you back home." Ray exited the room, towards the admit desk. "Sarah, what time is it?"
"Five minutes after six o'clock," Sarah answered, looking up from what seemed to be a very complicated page of trigonometry.
"Perfect!" Ray answered, taking all his charts from the rack. He turned to Abby, who was there for the next shift. "Heartburn in Trauma 1 needs discharge instructions, in oh…about 45 minutes. I have a skate boarder in curtain two, waiting on x-rays for his arm. There is a diabetic girl whose sugars are out in exam room 1, and an old man in exam room 3, with Alzheimer's, waiting on a pickup. And I," Ray turned and grabbed his coat, "Am gone."
Sarah got up too, and started to leave. She turned back to the ER and waved a goodbye before exiting the ambulance bay doors as her brother had done seconds before. She quickly jogged to catch up to him.
"So, what are we going to have for supper, Ray?" Sarah asked, as they stepped onto El platform.
"I don't know, do we have food?" Ray replied, as they sat on a bench to wait for their train. They both started chatting about their days, which were both pretty uneventful. Five minutes later, the train came and Sarah pulled out the IPOD that Carter had bought her for her birthday, and her homework. They took some seats and the train pulled away.
"Hello, hello, I'm at place called vertigo. It's everything I wish I didn't know. But you give me something I can feel. Feel!" she started singing. People stared for a moment, then turned back to their own feeble lives. A few minutes later she started to sing again, "Hello, hello, I'm at place called vertigo. It's everything I wish I didn't know. But you give me something I can feel. Feel! Hey Ray, a2+b2c2, right? And the hypotenuse is the longest line, opposite a right angle?"
"Yah Sarah, they are," Ray smiled, as he spoke. He loved his little sister, but sometimes she was just hyper. "Come on, Sarah, it's our stop."
"Oh, by the way Ray…" Sarah started.
"Yeah?"
"You kinda have a parent/teacher conference scheduled for tomorrow, with my trig teacher, Mr. Jacque Dubois."
Author's Note: Yah, you know what to do…It involves moving your mouse and clicking the button. Oh, and just to let you know, Mr. Jean Jacque Dubois really does exist. He also goes by Mr. O'Hanely.