Hook knocked on the door to the on-call room where Otto had told him that Elmer had gone to get some sleep. The young man had been working for the last twelve hours and due to his shift and the tiredness that came with the hurt of losing someone that you care about had taken it upon himself to find somewhere to sleep before he screwed up even more than he had when Mary had come along and changed everything for them all.

"Elmer?" Hook called, putting his ear against the door so that he could listen for movement.

"Go away." Came a familiar and muffled voice from inside.

Hook smiled ignoring the young man's protestations. He walked into the room and perched himself on the edge of the bed in which Elmer was now covering his head with the pillow, trying to ignore the person who had entered.

"Wakey wakey sleeping beauty. I have something to tell you that you need to hear."

"Can it wait Hook? I'm exhausted." Elmer asked the older man, pulling the pillow down so that Hook was able to see how red his eyes were from upset and from lack of sleep.

Hook sighed, wishing he could just let the young man sleep. He looked so exhausted; so drained because of Lona and the increased attention that he was giving to his work. Not only were his eyes red and puffy but they were also bloodshot and his face was pale. He wished with all of his heart that he could just walk away rather than inflicting more hurt on the tired soul beside him.

"It can't. If I wait it's going to be too late. It concerns Lona..." Hook told the man looking at the floor. He felt so guilty for breaking Lona's trust in Chris but he knew that she needed this to be done and so did Elmer.

Elmer immediately sat up in the bed, his eyes wide.

"Lona? Is she...? Nothing's happened to her has it?" He asked panicked, fumbling for his glasses on the cabinet at the bedside.

"Not as such no."

"Is she sick? What's going on?" Elmer asked, looking more awake than he had for weeks.

"Elmer I need you to sit down..."

"Hook, I am sitting down." Elmer replied frowning.

"Yeah..." Hook responded uncomfortably. "Look there's no easy way to say this but...Lona...she's pregnant Elmer."

"Pregnant?" Elmer whispered softly. "With whose baby?"

Hook sighed. Surely this should be easier.

"Yours Elmer. Why else would I be sitting at your beside breaking it to you gently?"

Elmer sat open mouthed looking even paler than he had when Hook had first seen him.

"Is everything okay...with the baby? Is that why you're here? Has she miscarried?" Elmer asked and Hook noted that this was the first intelligent moment that their conversation had exhibited.

"No she hasn't. Don't worry about that." Hook reassured, looking at the floor again.

"Why didn't she tell me? I'm gonna be a dad?"

Hook continued to look at the floor and Elmer felt his heart jump into his throat.

"I'm not gonna be a dad am I?" Elmer commented and Hook looked up at the man with what appeared to be tears in his eyes, the young man's eyes mirroring his own.

"Lona's scared Elmer. This pregnancy was completely unexpected for her, particularly for someone a little older than some other parent's. I don't know how to say this to you and I wish I didn't have to but...she's going to have a termination this afternoon."

"A term...she's going to abort my child?" Elmer replied and there was both shock and anger on his face. He clenched his fists into balls. "She wasn't going to tell me was she?"

"She felt it was better that you didn't know. She didn't want to disappoint you by giving you fatherhood and then taking it away."

"She didn't want to disappoint me?" Elmer echoed, climbing out of bed and angrily pacing the room. "How could she want to do that? To our baby?" He added tearfully. "How?" He asked again softly, falling to his knees on the floor.

"Chris seems to think that the termination isn't what Lona really wants. I'm here because this is your child, and you deserve the chance to fight for it. Maybe that's what Lona needs to happen to be able to see that she's not alone here."

"I'm so angry with her. I've never felt so angry."

"I know. I understand that. But there's a woman feeling very scared and very confused who is going to be making her way to Gynaecology soon and what I want to know is what are you going to do about it?"

Elmer sighed and rested his head in his hands.

"She doesn't care about me Hook. Not the way that I care about her. How can I stop her terminating the child of a man that she doesn't love?"

Hook got up from where he was sitting on the bed and walked over to Elmer. He knelt down at the man's side.

"Sometimes people are scared to admit their true feelings. Not everyone's as open as you are. How do you know that deep down, under all that bravado, that Lona Massingale doesn't love you as much as you love her?"

Elmer shrugged and looked tearfully at the floor.

"Do you want to be a father Elmer?" He asked the young man quietly.

Elmer looked at Hook and nodded.

"Yes. Yes I want to be a father." Elmer said truthfully, his voice shaking with both anger and fear.

"Well then. Again what I want to know is...what are you going to do about it?"