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Wait

"Mick!" Mickey looked up to see Sean walk towards him. The younger man looked terrified. Stacie was on her feet in seconds.

"Calm down." Stacie rested a hand on his arm. "Emma is in theatre."

"What? Ash said. He said."

"She isn't well." Mickey stated calmly. "Sean, please. Sit down."

"No." Sean ran a hand through his hair as Ash and Albert followed him into the waiting room. "I want to know what's happened."

"Emma wasn't well this morning." Mickey stated. Sean nodded. "I was worried, it isn't like her to get ill."

"She's never ill. Even when we were kids."

"See? It's out of character so I went home to check she was ok. See if she needed anything." Sean sighed as he sat next to him.

"I should have thought." Sean leant forward, his head in his hands. "I."

"You were working." Mickey stated. "You and Danny. Where is he?"

"Outside, chatting up a hospital domestic." Ash shrugged his shoulders.

"Typical." Stacie huffed as she got to her feet. "I'll find him and find us some tea. You wait here." She nodded to Ash as her fiance sat next to Mickey.

"Stace." Ash smiled at her. "You ok?"

"Yeah." She sighed. "Yeah, it's not me you need to worry about."

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"Pregnant?" Sean tried to keep his voice calm as he listened to Mickey tell him what had happened.

"Yeah."

"And you're the Dad?" Danny asked as he and Stacie returned with the machine tea and coffee.

"If you want to smack him, feel free." Stacie smiled as Albert shook his head.

"Of course Mickey's the dad. Are you trying to say something about my sister?" Sean was on his feet and glaring at Danny.

"Yes." Mickey nodded. "Emma and I are together. If anyone has a problem with that, then sorry but that's the way it is." Sean smiled slightly as he listened to Mickey warn Danny and anyone else that had a problem with him being with Emma. For a moment he wondered why he had been so worried that Mickey was a player. He could see there was no way he was going to deliberately hurt his sister.

Albert ran a hand over his face as he listened to the younger grifters. He had seen the attraction between Emma and Micke the first time they had met. He had known that sooner or later the pair would become a couple, despite the initial objections from her brother.

"What now? What does this mean for Emma?" He asked. "I've heard of ectopic pregnancies before now. I know they are never good."

"She's lost the baby." Mickey stated. "That's already happened. She was bleeding internally for a while." He closed his eyes. "She's having an operation to remove the fallopian tube and try to stop the bleeding."

"And if they can't?" Sean asked. Stacie bit her lip as Mickey shook his head.

"They will. They have to. She was having a blood transfusion before she was taken to the theatre."

"Right." Albert nodded. "See? Sean the doctors and nurses know what they are doing. This is Emma. She's strong. She's going to be fine."

"Yeah." Sean nodded. "Yeah, this is Em. we're talking about."

Mickey looked up as a doctor stepped into the waiting room. He braced himself as the doctor walked towards them. The look on the doctor's face gave nothing away. It was clear that he knew who he was looking for.

"Family of Emma Kennedy?"

"Yes." Mickey nodded as both he and Sean got to their feet. The doctor nodded once.

"Perhaps you'd better sit down." He gestered to the chair. "Please, sit down." Mickey did as he was told as the doctor sat in the chair opposite. Mickey knew it was going to be a long night.

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A/N More soon x