Disclaimer: if I owned ER, would I be sitting here right now.
Authors Note: This is set in season 6, BUT Abby and Carter are going out, Carter, Luka and Abby are friends, Luka and Abby never went out. AND Carter never got stabbed and had the whole drug addiction thing…SO continue reading )
Chapter 8: "Visitors"
After lying in bed staring at the ceiling for half an hour, thinking about how shit his life had got and how disappointed they would be in him, he fell into a restless sleep.
Down in the ER
Abby was standing by the nurses' station when John Carter walked up to her and put his arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hi" Abby said, while turning around to face Carter.
"I was wondering, after our shifts we should go and visit Luka, you know how boring it can get in hospitals sometimes…their fun to work in, but staying in them for 3 weeks, that's a whole new ball park" Carter said, while in true Carter fashion laughed at his geeky joke.
"Sure, what time do you finish at?" Abby said while walking down the hallway with Carter.
"At 6, I'll meet you in the lounge" Carter said while going into exam 1 to tell a 13 year old girl that she was pregnant.
Luka's Room
Luka was lying in bed with his eyes closed, his bed raised up only slightly so as not to tear the stitches, his eyes only half open as he was exhausted as he did not sleep well last night, too many nightmares, when the door opened.
"Is he asleep?" Abby asked Carter while edging closer to the bed when he opened his eyes halfway and tried his hardest to stifle a yawn, "How are you?" Abby asked while kissing his cheek.
"Okay, just sore" Luka said while rubbing his eyes, not yet fully awake.
"And tired" Carter said with a laugh while pulling a chair over to the bed to sit beside Abby who had took the one that was already sitting there.
"Yeah, and tired…" Luka said with a far-away look in his eyes, before he suddenly turned around and asked, "So, how are you? The ER?"
"I'm fine," Abby said while picking up his hand and giving it a light squeeze, "I don't know how many times that woman, what was her name?...Maria, has been asking for 'the tall, dark doctor'"
"And I swear, since you've been stuck up here the amount of trauma's have doubled" Carter said which got him a glare from Abby. Luka tried to smile at Carter's joke, but was too tired, "Sorry, I didn't mean it like that, just…" Carter said, but Luka just interrupted and said, "Its okay, no offence taken"
Half and hour Later
Luka, Abby and Carter had been talking for the past half hour when a nurse came into the room,
"Time for your morphine" the nurse, 'Linda', said while taking the needle out and walking over to the IV drip.
"Well, we better get going, I'll see you later" Carter said as he and Abby got out of their seats.
"Sure, not much good staying if I'll just be falling asleep on ya" Luka said, his eyes already dropping as the morphine took affect.
The nurse left the room and about one hour later Luka awoke with a start, the nightmares even worse than the night before.
He breathed heavily before resting his head back on the pillow, not even bothering to try and go back to sleep, he knew he would only wake again in an hour or so anyway, so he just lay there, thinking about his life before everything got so fucked up, before they were taken.
Please R&R
but no bad mouthing, I don't do it, so I would like it if people didn't do it to me.
