Big thank you to Stacey for all the help with the medical stuff :P

Goodnight, Godbless

"But how IS she?" Smithy paced, glaring at the doctor.

"I'm sorry." The doctor sighed, "Patient confidentiality forbids me-"

"I'm her boyfriend!" Smithy squared up to the doctor, Gina taking his arm and pulling him back. "You have to tell me more tha-"

"Mr Smith," The doctor sighed. "I'm sorry, Charlotte is being assessed by the doctors, we'll know more soon, and then Charlotte will tell us-"

"Charlie!" Smithy tried to get past them. "Chaz-"

"Smithy," Gina managed to get him to sit down, sighing. "Just let them finish…"

"Why won't they tell me!"

"Charlie will let them soon – but first they need to find out what's wrong."

Smithy sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "She's been off for ages, I should have brought her down before…"

"She had the flu Dale, it's not your fault!"

"I bet it's something to do with that though, she got it-"

"Dale." Gina held his arm. "It's ok, just give them time."

"There's so many different doctors in there, they keep going in!" He sighed. "I heard that nurse talking to one, he was from Gynaecology! Why do they need him?"

"It means they can cover all bases." Gina told him gently. "Then they'll know more about how to help!"

"They've been prodding her for ages! She was crying!"

"She's awake, Dale…" Gina squeezed his arm. "They know what they're doing."

"But-" Smithy's head shot up as a choked cry sounded from behind the curtains, he moved to push his way inside, confronted by a doctor. "Mr Smith…?"

"How is she?" Smithy frowned, trying to get round him.

"You are…?" The doctor looked at Gina, dodging the question.

"Inspector Gina Gold," Gina told him. "I'm a friend and colleague of Charlotte and Sgt Smith."

The doctor nodded and disappeared back into the cubicle, emerging a few seconds later. "Charlotte tells me it's ok to let you both know…" He sighed and closed his hands together, looking at Smithy. "I'm afraid it's bad news."

Smithy's eyes widened and he stared at the doctor. "What is it?"

Gina's hand rose and she closed her fingers around Smithy's, "Doctor?"

The doctor looked back to Smithy and explained about the tests they'd done. "We had suspected it since she'd arrived, and an ultrasound confirmed to us that the reason for the pain Charlotte was suffering, and for the blood was indeed an eptopic pregnancy."

Smithy faltered, blinked and looked at the doctor, stunned. "Pregnancy?" He swallowed. "She's…pregnant?"

"Mr Smith – I'm afraid that the baby has actually grown inside one of Charlotte's fallopian tubes, which caused the pain, the rupture causing the bleeding…"

"Baby…" Smithy looked at Gina. "She's having…a baby!"

"No Dale…" Gina tried to explain gently, the doctor interrupting.

"The baby cannot survive, and is a threat to Charlotte's life…" He told him, his tone matter of fact. "We need to get Charlotte to surgery and operate immediately, if it ruptures further, she may die."

"But-"

"We've caught it early." The doctor confirmed. "We will do our best for her, and she stands the best chance! We will need to almost definitely remove the fallopian tube and ovary on the damaged side, now this doesn't rule out conception at a later date, it does reduce the chances somewhat."

"She didn't tell me she was pregnant!" Smithy blinked, trying to take it all in and process it.

"She didn't know herself, she is only 8 weeks and she had her period – it's not uncommon with eptopic pregnancies, that is until they rupture."

"And…." Smithy frowned. "There's no chance that the pregnancy…the baby-"

"I'm sorry…" The doctor sighed and shook his head. "There is no baby, Mr Smith."