Authors Note: this is a note to his parents or email etc written right after the news
Carters POV
Reflecting on his life for the past few years in a letter to his parents
Dear Mom and Dad,
Can you believe it? Now you're probably asking what we can't believe. Well I hope you are sitting down for this…well are you? Okay I am gonna have a child.
I mean if you had told me 5 or 6 years ago that all this was going to happen then I would have said to you "your nuts!" Remember back to when I was just a med student and Dr. Benton was like Gargamel to my Smurf.
I can still recall the feeling of sheer fright I had when I first met him and today I am not sure what scares me more that memory or my future.
When I met Lucy Knight (you remember the med student under me who also was stabbed but died) I thought great a small, insignificant, little pest and I am stuck with her throughout her ER rotation.
But getting to know her I realized I really liked her, I think I had a bit of a crush on her. That Valentine's Day will forever be embedded in my head. The whole thing, the day, the night, the attack, the last time I saw her.
I mean now I believe that he should have received help long before he got to us but I guess no one cared enough not even me.
Then it seemed like hit after hit after hit. Dr. Benton leaving, and Susan leaving and coming back, Dr. Romano being injured and then dying. But the most awful was when Mark died.
I hated being the one reading that letter out loud. I mean he was like a second father to me (no offense to you dad). When he got the cancer again I thought he will beat this he has to he has a new wife, a new daughter, and a new life.
So much to live for and yet he died so young and still full of life to live. I will never take anything for granted ever.
Anyway I have to go and do something important.
Carter
P.S. I am open to suggestions for your grandchild's name