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"Lilo why are you all wet?"
"Its sandwich day. Every Thursday I take Pudge the fish a peanut butter sandwich…"
"Pudge is a fish?"
"And today we were out of peanut butter. So I asked my sister what to give him, and she said "a tuna sandwich". I can't give Pudge tuna. Do you know what tuna is?"
"Fish?"
"ITS FISH! I can't give Pudge the fish tuna, I'd be an abomination. I'm late because I had to go to the store to get peanut butter, 'cause all we have is… is… STINKIN TUNA!"
"Lilo, Lilo, why is this so important?
"Pudge controls the weather."
The little girl erupted in a fit of giggles. Carter sighed, it was funny the first time he saw it but after the 4th time it was getting a bit old.
"Hey Em. Why don't we watch…..The Wizard of Oz." Carter said leaping off of the couch and grabbing the DVD from the side. "You like this one, Mommy told me it was your favorite."
"No." Emily said shaking her head. "I want to watch this one
"Haven't you had enough of this one yet?" Carter asked.
Emily picked up the remote and re played the bit she just watched, laughing as though it was the first time she'd seen that bit. "This bits my favorite."
"I know." Carter sighed. "Okay why don't we go out for a bit? Yeah?"
"Where to?"
"Well where do you want to go?"
Emily jumped down off of the couch and ran over to the TV switching it off. "I wanna go see Mommy." She replied excitedly throwing her arms around Carter's legs looking up at him.
"Then to the ER we shall go!" He laughed. "Lets go and get our coats on."
Carter parked across the road, with Emily's hand in his they crossed the icy road across to the ER.
He checked down at his watch, it was 7:30pm. Abby was working until 12pm that night so he knew she would still be there.
He entered the ER taking off his gloves and un buttoning his jacket. Before taking off Emily's hat, as she took off her gloves.
"Hey Susan, is Abby around anywhere?" Carter asked heading towards Admit.
"Nope she finished an hour ago. Where as I on the other hand am here until 6 tomorrow morning!" Susan replied smiling down at Emily. "Hey Em, you being a good girl for your Uncle John?
Emily gave Susan a huge smile and nodded. "We watched Lilo and Stitch."
"Four times." Carter mouthed to his friend. "Whoa, wait a minute. Did you just say she finished an hour ago? I thought she was working the 12-12 shift today?"
"Nope. 12-6:30. She asked Weaver for it herself. I was stood right there. Why don't you go into the lounge and see if you can find Alex?" Susan said directing her last comment at Emily. Emily ran off in the direction of the lounge before disappearing behind the doors. "Is something wrong?"
Carter shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I've hardly seen Abby this week, she told me she was working graveyard shifts."
"Nine times outta ten she's been outta here by 6, 7 at the latest this week." Susan beckoned for Carter to follow her into one of the exam rooms. Shutting the door behind her she sat down. "I've been meaning to talk to you about her though, I'm worried about her."
"What about?" Carter had a feeling he knew what she was going to say, but he was hoping he was wrong.
"I think she's drinking again."
Giving an exasperated sigh Carter rested his head in his hands. "I thought this was the last time I was going to have to deal with this."
"Its not your problem though Carter. She knows the risks."
"But I feel responsible, I should have known she was heading in that direction again. When did you first have your suspicions?" He asked sitting up straight.
"A couple of days ago. I asked her for change for a five, when she put her hand into her pocket to pull out her wallet a bottle cap fell out too."
"What did she say?"
"Nothing, just picked it back up and made out like it never happened. I tried confronting her earlier, but she told me it was none of my business. And I didn't want to get into a fight about it."
"I can't believe how selfish she's being. Acting like a teenager." Carter sighed. "Well I'd better get Emily back, its past her bed time as it is." Carter smiled at Susan.
Susan patted his back as he got up. "Don't worry about her, Abby's strong. You know that after all she's been through."
Nodding his head they both left the exam room and headed towards the lounge, where Emily was sat with Alex. Alex was doing his homework and Emily was happily coloring.
"Come on squirt lets go." Carter said holding the door open, Emily jumped down from the table and walked under Carter's arm waving bye to Alex and out into the busy corridors of the hospital.
"I thought we were going to see Mommy?" Emily asked disappointed.
"Mommy's busier than I thought she was sweetie. And she's in another part of the hospital, but don't worry you'll see her tomorrow." Carter lied, after realizing that neither of them had seen Abby properly in almost a week.
Carter put Emily's hat back on her, and took her hand. As they walked past chairs, Emily noticed a familiar face in the crowd who's eyes followed her until she was out of eye sight.
The shrill ringing of a phone woke Carter, he turned over in bed to turn the light on and see what the time was. "Its 2 O'clock in the morning, whoever this is it had better be good." He said groggily, as he answered the phone.
"Please help me." The shaky voice replied.
"Abby? Abby is that you?" Carter immediately sat up in bed, forgetting about being tired. His voice riddled with concern. "Where are you?"
"I..I..Ummm…The corner of Westbury Avenue." Abby's managed to say through the tears.
"Stay right there I'm coming." Hanging up the phone he quickly got out of bed and got dressed. Running into Emily's room he grabbed her out of bed and rushed down to the car.
"Where are we going?" Emily asked slightly confused as Carter buckled her into the car, before jumping into the front seat and starting the car.
"I have to go and do something Em. Just sit tight." He reversed into the street before speeding off in the direction of the ER.
Emily had fallen asleep again in the back of the car. Carter got her out of the car and ran into the ER, frantically searching for someone.
"Hey Jerry! Do me a favor, I've got to do something. Look after Emily for me, I won't be five minutes I promise." Carter said putting Emily in his arms. "Thanks." Carter said rushing back out of the ER. Leaving Jerry stood there with a six year old in his arms.
Carter quickly drove round searching for Westbury Avenue. He knew where it was, but in all the confusion everything seemed jumbled. Finally finding it, he slowly crawled the streets searching for Abby. Stopping the car he got out and headed to where Abby was cowered in a corner.
He looked down at her, not knowing what to do. He just wanted to shout at her for being so selfish, and he also wanted to hug her and tell her everything was going to be okay.
Abby slowly got up and advanced towards Carter, trying to hide her face in the shadows. He lifted up her chin and saw the black eye and the gash, which blood was seeping from.
"Who did this too you?" He asked quietly.
Abby shakily wiped her nose with her hand. "I..I fell." She pointed to the step where she had been sitting.
Carter lead her to the car, the drive to the ER was in silence.
Upon arriving, Abby and Carter got out and headed towards the bright lights of the ER. Keeping their heads down they walked straight past all of the staring faces in admit and went into one of the exam rooms, and away from all the whispering voices.
They entered the dark room, Carter switched on the light and examined Abby's head. He started to clean the wound on her forehead.
"I…"Abby started but was quickly cut off by Carter.
"Don't, I don't want to hear it." He replied calmly, more calm than Abby thought he would have been.
"Please." She said holding back the tears. "I..I didn…I'm sorry."
"What for?" Carter said not even looking at her.
Abby sight shakily "I…I…I don't know."
"Then don't apologize if you don't know what for. I think this is going to need stitches. I'll be right back." Carter left Abby and headed towards the supplies.
Carter headed towards Admit after not being able to find what he was looking for. "Susan, I need a suture kit. I can't find one." Carter called from just outside the lounge, waking up Emily who was asleep in there.
"I'll get you one." She yelled back.
Carter started to make his way back to Abby, unbeknownst to him Emily was following him. He went back into the room, leaving the door open for Susan.
Emily stood in the door way, her pajamas hanging loosely off of her tiny frame. She stared at her Mother in shock at her injuries, just like what her Dad had given her last time. "Mommy, I'm cold." She said quietly shivering as her bare feet were on the cold floor.
"Shit." Abby mumbled, trying to cover her face without touching it
Carter quickly turned around trying to shield Emily from seeing her Mothers face. He left Abby's side and ran over to Emily picking her up and shutting the door behind him.
"What's wrong?" Emily asked almost in tears.
"Nothings wrong sweetie, Mommy just fell and hurt herself. But I'm going to make her better. I promise." Carter said soothingly. Smoothing Emily's unruly curls.
"She always falls and hurts herself, that nasty man used to hurt her though." Emily struggled to get down. "I want my Mommy." She sobbed, after she realized Carter wasn't going to let her get down.
"Shhh.shhh." Carter said in her ear trying to calm her down.
"Mooooom, Mommmmmy." Emily sobbed out loud. Her crying was erratic, Carter couldn't calm her down. "I want my Mommy." Her voice was croaky. Adding to the fact that she was tired and it was almost 3am.
Abby emerged from the exam room and took Emily from Carter. Emily immediately threw her arms around her mothers neck, and held on tightly not wanting to let go. Carter looked down at Abby's own tear stained face, she looked just like a child herself. And if truth be told Abby needed that hug more than Emily. Carter wanted to hug Abby though, but the last time he got close she just pushed him away and he couldn't deal with that right now.
Carter ushered Abby back into the exam room when he saw Susan coming with the suture kit, little did they know they were being watched.
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