"God, he's a wanker..."

Kerry blinked sleep out of her eyes, "What?"

"Tosser, flim flam artist, idiot, jerk..."

Kerry managed to focus her eyes on the TV, "Ah, Kevin... something. The man with all the answers, debt, weight, and all diseases... so far..." Kerry shook her head, "What time is it anyway?"

"Five in the mornin'."

Kerry stood and stretched her arms above her head. "May I ask you something?"

"How I met Nikki?"

Kerry shook her head, "No, what happened to her?"

Helen had Nikki's hand in both of hers. "We came from San Francisco to Chicago. Nikki's dream. Her... Santa Fe you could say. It didn't work out the way we thought, so, we came to Chicago. A week ago she was mindin' her self, working on a client's yard. She... we have a gardening service. She was shot. They... they killed her client, Juney, and her young baby. Nikki hasn't woken up yet."

Kerry trailed off, "Did they get him?" Helen shook her head, "Did they remove the bullet, did she get through surgery alright?" Helen nodded. "That's good."

Helen took a deep breath, "I know, and we've been through worse. She'll wake up. She bloody well better wake up." Helen paused, "And your Kim?"

"A Hummer ran her down."

"It was Ken..."

Kerry looked up and Helen looked over, "Randi..." Kerry looked over. "Helen Stewart, Randi Fronczak." She paused, "What do you mean?"

Randi swallowed and couldn't look at Kerry. "I think I saw you two when you came in."

"Miranda..." Kerry tried to get Randi's focus back on her, not the two others in the room. "Please, just... pretend I'm Henry or something..."

Randi finally met Kerry's eyes again and smiled a bit, "Generally I first bribe your son..." Kerry raised an eyebrow, "I... I had this sinking feeling when I heard what happened. I went down and saw Doctor Upton... it... Ken, Court, your ex, he was the driver."

Kerry just stood at the end of Kim's bed with a stunned look on her face. She didn't speak even as Randi came over and hugged the shorter woman. After a half a second the red head put her hands on Randi's back and hugged the clerk back.

After a moment Randi took a step back and stared down at Kim. "Damn, she looks so..." Randi shook her head, "Not like Doctor Legaspi." She shook herself out of it, "I need to go. But you'll call us if anything changes? Or if you need anything at all."

Kerry nodded, "Of course."

Randi left and Kerry rubbed at her eyes. Helen studied the red head. "What do ya do here then?"

"I'm Chief of the Emergency Department, she's Chief of Psych." Kerry paused, "How did you two meet?"

Helen's eyes twinkled a little, "Do you plan on to reciprocate with your sordid tale?"

Kerry shrugged, "Sure, why not. It'll take my mind off... sure."

"I was her Wing Governor."

Kerry stared at Helen. "That's... university wing... prison wing? You were a... warden of..."

"G wing, HMP Larkhall . Since you recognized her name ya must know why she was banged up."

"Killing the police officer who tried to rape her girlfriend. Yes, I read about it, and the appeal." Kerry tilted her head to one side, "I found the story interesting. I guess it was my subconscious yelling at me, trying to tell me that I was a lesbian."

"You haven't known all your life?"

Kerry shrugged, "Maybe, but technically I stuck with men until I met... until I met Kim."

"That's... everything with Nikki, that was a while ago." She looked down at Nikki and brushed a bit of hair off her forehead. "Alternating-ly the best and worst thing I've ever done in my life."

Kerry tilted her head to one side, "I think you're going to have to explain that one to me."

Sam watched the new guard, Wally something, drag the teen male out the door of the ER. She shook her head. "He seems competent."

Frank rolled his eyes, "He's a Brit, they don't even know how to use guns."

Neela walked up and filed a chart, "That's not quite true anymore."

Abby appeared next to Neela, "Are we going to work, or chat for the rest of the day."

Neela looked over at her friend, "Feeling the Chief Resident role with Doctor Weaver gone."

"Sam... Frank..."

Frank rolled his eyes and Sam went towards Exam One.

"Have you heard anything?"

Abby shook her head, "I haven't, sorry, but..."

"You have to work. You'll call..."

Abby nodded, "Second I hear anything."

Helen had gone down to get a bit of breakfast. Kerry was simply staring down at Kim and it happened. "Blue eyes..."

Kim looked up at Kerry with a frown, and croaked out, "Wh-where?"

"You're in the hospital." Kerry took Kim's hand in her own. The blonde looked down.

"Wh-where?"

The pit of Kerry's stomach wasn't feeling well, there was something different in Kim's eyes. "Chicago, Illinois."

Kim met Kerry's eyes again, "Who are... you?"

Kerry closed her eyes and felt Kim take her hand away. "Damn."

Fin ~ April 4th, 2008