Ethan was in cubicle with the palm of his hands facing upwards, Lily walked in with a bowl of water, some cotton and bandaging. She placed the bowl on the table and dabbed some cotton in the water and brushed Ethan's hands slowly, Ethan slightly winced.

"Sorry" Lily replied to Ethan's facial expressions.

"It's fine, it has to be done."

Lily continued to clean Ethan's hands in silence. Ethan finally broke it

"He didn't mean it you know. He just angry."

"He pushed you over, Ethan. He should keep whatever problems he has at home."

"That's the thing Lily, his problem is here." Ethan said as he looked down at his hand.

"What do you mean?" Lily asked.

"Matt said he was a waste of space."

"Cancer patient Matt?"

Ethan nodded in reply.

"So Cal is just feeling a little...useless right now."

Lily bandaged Ethan's hands then looked at his bruised wrist.

"Does it hurt here?" Lily asked as she applied pressure on Ethan's wrist.

"Ah! Yes" Ethan winced in response.

"Are you going to tell Mrs Beauchamp?"

"No Lily, I'm pretty sure this is just a one time thing. It won't happen again."

Lily wasn't convinced but she had to trust Ethan. Zoe walked into the cubicle.

"Hello Ethan. Ooo that does look painful. Lily will his wrist need an x ray?" Zoe asked as she looked at Ethan's wrist.

"I'm pretty confident it's just badly bruised, he can still move it so I'm sure it's not broken." Lily replied.

"How did this happen, Ethan?" Zoe asked. Ethan hesitated.

"Erm...well...I...I...tripped over." Ethan stuttered. Zoe stared at him.

"Right, well since your shift is almost finish, you might as well finish now."

Ethan nodded and watched as Zoe walked away only for her to come back again.

"Oh Ethan, you haven't seen Cal anywhere have you?"

Lily looked at Ethan awaiting for an answer to come out of him.

"Erm...I think he was ill so he got sent home." Ethan lied, he hated lying.

Zoe smiled and nodded then left. Ethan sighed in relief.

"You can't keep lying for him." Lily stated as she walked off leaving Ethan in cubicles. Ethan left cubicles and made his way home, he definitely wasn't going to drive because of his hands and the fact Cal had the keys. So Ethan walked to Christian's school first.

It was 15.01, Ethan was standing in the playground as he saw his nephew run out of class and headed straight towards him, Christian hugged Ethan.

"Hi Uncle Ethan! I thought daddy was picking me up."

"Yeah, daddy isn't feeling very well so here I am." Ethan lied once again.

"What happened to your hands?"

"I tripped and fell over."

"Were you running? One of my friends tripped over the other day because he was running."

"Yes Christian, I was running. One of our patients tried to escape so I chased after him. Come on let's get home." Ethan was feeling terrible, lying was never his thing. It was always Cal's.

Ethan and Christian walked back to their flat to find Cal watching TV.

"Er Christian, why don't you go play in your room while I make tea?" Ethan took Christian's bag and nudged Christian gently to his room, Christian ran into his room. Ethan walked and stood in front of the TV.

"So this is what you've been doing?" Ethan asked, quite annoyed. Cal got up.

"Leave me alone Ethan."

"I had to tell YOUR son that you were too ill to pick him up because I didn't want to tell him that you stormed out of work because you had a tantrum!"

"Ethan, I'm sorry okay?! Not just because of your hands but for leaving the ED. I shouldn't of done it."

"No you shouldn't of. Cal what is wrong? Why won't you tell me?" By this point Ethan stood in front of his brother to stop him leaving the room by having his hands on Cal's arms, lightly restraining him.

"It's like Matt said, I'm a waste of space. You think that as well." At this point Cal had tears in his eyes.

"Cal, you are not a waste of space, there is a little boy in that room that would still be in an orphanage if it wasn't for you."

"But Ethan, you're the main reason why we got Christian, I hardly did anything."

"You still didn't give up on him. You protected him from Danny, you look after him so well. I've seen how you are with him and let's not forget, you saved my life too." Ethan slowly lowered his hands away from Cal.

Cal sighed heavily, grabbed his keys and left the flat.

"Cal? Cal!" Ethan called out to his brother but he was gone. Ethan ran over to the window, onto the balcony and watched his brother walk away. Ethan hesitated.

Should he go after him? Or stay there, look after Christian and hope his brother will return?