This prompt was wrote for CasualtyFanForever81 and the prompt was: At the ED, Lily starts to feel unwell and falls down the ED stairs, will hers and Ethan's unborn baby be okay?
The Secret Life Of Casualty
Chapter 43.
Lily lay in the bath, her hands cupping her bump, trying to work out the courage to tell Ethan he was going to become a father. She was 4 months gone, that meant she had 4 months to tell her husband but as they were both busy at work she hadn't really known how to tell him.
"Lily?" Ethan called as he stood outside their bedroom waiting for his wife. Lily let out a breath, hearing his voice. She raised herself out of the bath, reached for a towel from the towel rack and stood, wrapping it around her body.
"Yes?" Lily replied, wondering what he wanted. She had the start of a headache coming on and she knew that was the thought of telling Ethan.
Lily and Ethan arrived at work, 15 minutes late as Lily had to rush to the toilet. Ethan was standing waiting for her. He had a surprise for her, he'd been looking at houses as he felt his flat was too small and they were to due to view one after work.
"Good luck " Lily looked up, startled to see Tom talking to her.
She nodded, shutting her locker and walking out of the staff room.
Walking down the stairs that led down to the busy ED she wasn't sure how her assessment with Ash had gone, and suddenly she felt light - headed and sick. She felt as if she was having an out of body experience as she fell forward, trying desperately to steady herself before she fell further but that wasn't going to happen as she went over the banister leaving Zoe stunned as she dropped her files and ran to Lily's side. She'd ordered Cal to bring a trolley over, and he did but when he saw it was Lily he panicked and ordered Max to find Ethan, his brother, Lilly's husband.
Lily drifted in to unconsciousness as the trolley was rushed to RESUS where she was hooked up to an ECG machine and had a pulse oximeter on her finger.
Lily woke to Robyn and Connie looking at her. Her hands immediately went to her stomach and Connie dispatched Robyn to get a scanner from ultrasound to check the heartbeat of Lily's baby.
She looked at Robyn as she returned and Connie performed the scan.
She couldn't find a heartbeat of the baby. Connie told her she was sorry but Lily suspected she didn't mean it. Connie was a cold hearted cow with no close friends in the ED.
Ethan walked in and was shocked to find Lily lying there, in a cubicle, he had thought he was needed for a patient. In a way he was.
He took her hand, holding her tightly. He'd smoothed back her hair, told her they'd get through it together.
She told Lily the baby was a girl, so that, at least, was a small comfort to her.
"We'll try " Ethan told her and Lily didn't respond to her husband's answer. All she had was to hold on to was the memories of the baby she now knew was a little girl, who she was going to call Ellie - May Hardy.
And, even, know, she only lived for four months and two-days, little Ellie - May Hardy was never going to be forgotten by her parents.
I really, really enjoyed writing this.
I'm home tomorrow from a week in Wales, so I'll sort out some early chapters of this fiction that I know have spelling mistakes in. There's worse than submitting chapters, looking back at them and realising that they have errors in.
Next prompt: Sam wakes up crying from a nightmare about her rape, but will husband Tom help her? Wrote for Tam Jaspie. Only two spelling mistakes in this chapter quite proud of that.
