Sam had continued to work out her long shifts including nights and doubles despite feeling tierd. Sam had just got home from the hospital still in her scrubs because her clothes had gotten drenched with vomit on the way into the ED that morning. "tom?" she said taking off her hoodie. She felt like she had an upset stomach, she walked along the hall a few steps but then she got rippling pains in her stomach "ahh" she said putting her hand onto the raidator to support herself as she keeled over. She knocked the vase off the unit beside the radiator smashing it before she turned, her back against the wall as she slid down to a sitting position. "SAM?" tom said rushing threw from the kitchen having herd the loud noise. Sam cradled her small bump as tears ran down her cheeks, she couldn't speak.
Tom saw blood spread down the inside of her thighs, her scrub bottoms going dark and wet. "sam...sam?" he said but she didn't reply. with that he put his hands behind her back and under her legs and lifted her to the car and took her to hospital. He carried her through the ED doors "zoe..." tom called as everyone was staring and tom's white and silver shirt was covered in blood. Sams head rested against his chest, with her eyes closed as she was loosing quite a bit of blood, she felt faint with blurred vision, she only looked to around the reception area once before she became unconcious. Zoe had rushed over "Jamie get the trolley!" she shouted as jamie then grabbed an empty hospital gurney from the left side of the reception. Tom lay sam onto the bed and they wheeled her throught into the samller peadiatrics resus because it was much smaller (only room for 1). They closed the blinds,and hooked sam finger upto a heart moniter machine. Tess came through to help, she got sam out of her scrubs and into a hospital gown so that they could check her down below.
15 minuites passed before sam became concious. She had an IV drip in her arm and a nasal cannula getting a little extra oxygen into her lungs. Sam look around getting used to her surroundings then tried to sit up. "tom?" she said, tom walked through the doors quietly having changed into his scrubs. "you're awake" he said going over and kissing her head gently. "what...what happened? the baby?" sam said and shook her head gently twice as she spoke.
"Shh the babys fine sam..." he said gently. Sam lay back against the back of the bed. Zoe and tess both came into the room and stood to the side of tom & at the bottom of the bed. "Sam we managed to stop the bleeding...we also noticed that, the placenta was tearing away slightly" zoe said gently trying not to alarm them. "what?" sam said looking confused and hurt by what she was hearing. "Sam, you have placenta Praevia...you really need to take it easy because as you should already know, 1 in every 3 of all antepartum hemorrhage occur because of this" tess said. She was an experienced mid-wife/ nurse and knew how bad this could end for both sam & the baby. Tears fell down sams cheeks gently as she nodded to let them know she understood. "you're transfusions almost done so you're able to go home, we've popped you into out-patients okay?" zoe said. Tom just stared at sams hand which he was holding tightly, he didnt give any input to their converstation, zoe had told him just before they went to tell sam and tom too knew that premature birth and loosing both of them was a high possability.
Sam took out her drip out herself once zoe and tess had left. she had swung her feet round off the bed and grabbed a clean pair of scrub trousers from the spair chair. Tom moved and crouched down to help her "let me help.." he said almost a whisper as she slid her trousers up her legs and over her waist for her. "you said everything would be fine...you said..if i kept this baby, we'd be okay!" she said in denail with tom and everyone else around her.
Tom Sighed. "I couldn't forsee this sam...If i knew i would have encouraged you to abort!...and if it comes down to it in the end...i choose you sam! I choose you over that baby!" he said now looking her in the face as he got to his feet.
"you fought so hard to make me keep her...you tried setting up a nursery and bought onsies and nappies...I was so against being a parent and now...i'd do anything to protect her" sam said clutching her bump with one hand.
"her?" tom swallowed
Sam picked up her hoodie from earlier and pulled the scan from the pocket and held it to tom. "it's a girl tom." she said and nodded once as he took it from her. Toms heart melted at the thought of him holding a little baby wrapped in pink. but it faded away quickly as he put the picture on the bed. "You're only just 24 weeks sam...you could still have the abortion this week!? its not to late?" tom said. Sam looked at him slightly horrified to hear him say the words "i..i can't tom! she's part of me now! I can't beleive you of all people are saying this!...she's not just a embryo anymore! She's a baby!" sam said a little angry with him.
"yeah...a baby that might cost you your life!" tom said bluntly as he turned away from her for a few seconds.
"I Know... it hurts you, to see me suffer like this...but im going threw with this pregnancy. With or without you!..." she said then got up off the bed, lifted her hoodie and left the room quietly. Tom turned around watching her dissapear then he lifted the scan picture again, his eyes tearfilled, he clenched his fist angry at the rest of the world for something that no-one could fix!.
He went home to found sam changed into her pjammas and in bed resting but wide awake. he put his keys on the side, took off his jacket and shoes then crawled up the bed to behind sam. He could tell she was crying from the tear tracks on her cheeks. "you're not in this alone" she whispered in her ear and kissed her cheek. She turned over to face him, the tears started falling hard...she couldn't keep it in,she clenched his shirt as her wrapped his arms around her, cradling her close as she sobbed her little heart out until she finally was able to go to sleep on his chest.