Disclaimer: the usual applies, I don't own ER

Chapter 3: Tox-screen

Author's Note: This take place in early season 7, with changes to make it the way I wanted it, well that's my fanfiction for ya!

Some things to know – Abby is a nurse and Greene never had a brain tumour, Benton has Reece and Corday never came into the ER.

"He's seizing, hold him still!" shouted Kerry as she placed her hands on Luka's torso.

Mark held Luka's torso with Kerry, Benton held down his legs with Malik, and Carter held his head.

"I don't understand he was fine!" said Greene trying to understand why Luka had suddenly started seizing.

"10 cc's diazpen now!" shouted Mark, and Lydia quickly followed the instructions.

The seizing stopped and everyone took a deep breath.

Kerry now remembered a case that Luka and she had worked on a few weeks ago.

The patient started seizing uncontrollably, they administered the diazpen and Luka turned to Kerry and said, "It's the morphine, run a tox-screen, he could be taking something else that caused this reaction. When the results came back it showed that the patient had been on various narcotics and they used the charcoal before sending the patient up to surgery.

"Order a tox-screen now!"shouted Kerry, hoping that she was wrong.

"Why? What for?" asked Carter asked, confused at why she wanted to do this.

"Just do it Carter!" Carter was about to when he was interrupted by Greene,

"No wait, why do you want to run a tox-screen Kerry?"

"Because…sigh…a few weeks ago me and Dr Kovac were working on a patient, he started seizing…it happened because he had been taking narcotic's, that and the morphine together caused a seizure" Benton was about to say something when she quickly added, "I am not saying that is why this is happening, but we can not rule it out just because he is a fellow doctor"

"Okay, run the tox-screen, STAT" ordered Benton.

As they waited for results there was a tension in the air, from the fact that they were working on one of their own, and that he may have been taking narcotics.

Carter looked up and could see Abby outside the door, most of the other staff that had gathered there had gone back to work as there were still other patients to be seen; tears running down her cheeks, and shaking her head 'no'. He only hoped that she was right.

10 minutes later the results of the tox-screen were brought to them by one of the lab-technicians; he had a frown on his face and was slightly shaking his head,

"Sorry" with that he left the trauma room.

Kerry quickly scanned over the page, and handed it over to Benton and Greene.

"Okay, we need that charcoal now!" shouted Benton.

Kerry felt tears stinging her eyes as they put the tube down Luka's throat and started putting in the charcoal. The whole time she held his hand.

10 minutes later they were removing the tube, when the monitors once again started to bleep loudly.

"V-tach" shouted Carter

"Starting compressions" announced Greene, as once again the paddles were charged by Lydia.

"Clear!" said Benton as he placed the paddles on Luka's bloodied chest and once again watched as his body lurched off the gurney.

"Sinus-rhythm" announced Malik.

"Okay, tube him and someone tell the O.R we're bringing Dr. Kovac up now!" shouted Benton.

Carter went to the head of the gurney and started to put in the tube when Abby came inside the trauma room,

"Are you going to do the surgery Dr. Benton?"

"Yeah" he said as he placed his hand on her arm as a sign of comfort.

"Okay, he's tubed" said Carter and then Halah informed them that they had a O.R booked and they needed to get him up there.

"Okay, who's coming up" asked Benton as they put the machines on the gurney and pulled the rails on the sides up.

"I will, unless you want to go Abby" asked Halah as she walked over to the gurney and lifted one of Luka's hands in her own.

"No, it's okay, you go…page me when he get's out or if anything…you know…happens?"

"Sure honey, but I'm sure that Benton will take good care of him"

With everything said Benton, Halah, Greene and Kerry pushed the gurney into the elevator and brought him up to surgery.

R&R if you want to know what happens up in the O.R !