Charlie: 60.

Sam: 29.

Tom: 31.

Guy Self (not really relevant but I'll write it anyway) 58.

This chapter was prompted by CasualtyFanForever81 and the prompt was: Several ED staff members are victims in a road accident, who will live, who will die?

Please bare in mind that this is the first time I've written Guy, don't really like him, think he's too slimy. But I respect that other people reading this story may like him.

Alana is my own.

Spelling mistakes are also mine, proof read.


The Secret Life Of Casualty

Chapter 60

For a change Sam and Tom had decided to walk in together, after dropping their 1 year olds twins, Ben and Lily off at the crèche.

"You OK?" Tom smiled as he had his arm around her as they walked in to the entrance.


"Mr Self " The clinical lead greeted the hospital's CEO at the entrance of the hospital as she unlocked the van that the hospital had hired for the day and the staff that Zoe was taking with her climbed in and herself and Guy engaged in conversation.

"Do you know where your going?" Asked Guy, he hated anything not going according to plan, always had to be on time.

"Yes" Zoe replied as she pulled the directions out of her bag and turned on her heels to get to the van as she opened the door and climbed in, shutting the door.

"Ready?" She asked, turning the key in the engine.

The members nodded back at her and she reversed out of the hospitals car park and soon they were on the motorway. Zoe looked at who was in the seat beside her. It happened to be Charlie, who was reading the map to get them to where they needed to be.

Zoe took her eyes off the road as she averted her eyes other phone, she knew better than to answer it, but when she saw that it was Sharice, the child she was going to adopt, but eventually decided not too, she reached for it and pressed it to her ear unaware that a car was coming towards them.

She carried on talking as she smiled, Charlie told her which way to go.

Phone - call

"Hi Zoe" The girl, who was in Spain, with her grandparents said.

"Sharice" The ex clinical - lead replied, she had not seen the girl, since Abby's parents, had left the country with her. She looked in the mirror, running a hand through her hair.

Then everything went black as the car carried on moving, rolling in to a ditch, screams could be heard as Zoe tried frantically to stop the car.


Sam was the first to wake up from the wreckage; the car had tipped on its side.

She could see Charlie in front of her. He was unconscious with blood pouring from a wound in the back of his head.

Sam crawled to the front of the car, ignoring the pain that was shooting through her body, if she could treat severely injured women and (men) in a field with little medical supplies then she could certainly handle a car crash.

"Charlie, it's Sam, can you hear me?" She asked, the doctor inside of her, coming out.

"Sam, how is everyone?" Zoe asked, she was conscious but with a sprained wrist and her forehead had swollen twice the size it was normally.

"Zoe" Sam gasped, pointing to her own forehead.

Sam looked around her, it was like being back in Afghanistan. She could hear the screams of pain, confusion and disorientation.

"Charlie's unconscious, Tess is fine, and Lily has dislocated her shoulder " Sam looked around. Seeing Ethan. He was groaning in pain and his glasses were - broken.

"Lily" he gasped and Sam was suddenly reminded of her daughter, also called Lily.

Zoe had to make a decision on who to get out first. She decided to get Charlie out followed by Lily, then Ethan and lastly Sam.

Zoe was one of the least injured and as her wrist was seen to at the scene she volunteered to help out back at the hospital.

Charlie was the first to be pulled out and was put on a spinal board as Iain put an oxygen mask on him and loaded him in to the ambulance.

"This is Charlie Fairhead, 60, involved in an RTC, keOd at the scene. GSC is 13. " announced the paramedics as a stretcher was wheeled in behind them.


"This is Lilly Hardy, 28, dislocated right shoulder, BP 60/ 90." Said the paramedics Alana and Dixie, Dixie had decided to work so that she could keep herself occupied by not worrying or trying to that Jeff could be dead. Jeff was one of them that had gone to the crash and Dixie was worried that he was dead, although Tess had insisted that he was going that to be fine.

She'd gone to the rec room after that, wanting to be alone.

A pair of arms sneaked around her waist.

Dixie jumped, spilling her tea. "Jeffrey!" She'd shouted at him, hitting him in the chest.

Jeff laughed.


"Lily" Ethan shouted.

"Calm down" Cal said, pressing down on his brothers shoulders as paramedics Alana and Dixie wheeled him to resus.


"Sam" Tom pulled his wife into a hug. Relieved they she was ok. She seemed to be the least harmed in the crash and Tom was glad, he couldn't afford to bring twins up alone.

"Are you OK?" He asked, kissing her forehead.

Sam nodded as Tom hugged her again and they made a detour to pick up their kids. Tom held the door open for her as she sat gown and he got in starting the engine.


Tess was waiting for news on Charlie. He was her oldest friend and she didn't know what she would do if he died. Zoe stood in front of Tess.

"He's stable " Zoe informed Tess as she took down the CT scan.

Tess nodded and stood up, as she headed to RESUS.

She wanted to see Charlie.

He was lying on a bed with a ventilator breathing for him, a pulse oximeter on his finger as Tess sat by his bed, in a chair that had been left there. She took Charlie's hand and gave it a squeeze as he smiled, tiredly. Tess offered to contact his son Louis, who he doubted would come to see his father.

"Hey" The wise old man said. "You haven't got rid of me yet"

Tess laughed.


Lily was in a cubicle, breathing in a tube of gas and air to help with the pain. Adam was being his usual cocky self. He was looking at the x - rays he had taken of the shoulder and they had showed a break.

"Better?" He asked as he tied the sling around her shoulder and waited her answer.

"Fine"

Lily glared at him, her husband Ethan was in resus being treated for shock. Physically he would need help getting around the house as his leg was in plaster and wouldn't be able to get around much. Maybe they could hire someone.

"Ok" Adam held his hands up in mock surrender as he exited the cubicle and Lily went to find husband, Ethan, who was in RESUS, chatting to his brother, Caleb.


Ex - clinical lead Zoe had decided to take lover Max back to her apartment. She had made plans for Tom to take over again as she decided (this time with Max) to take another break. She climbed the stairs and put a suitcase on the bed as she opened her wardrobe doors and started to consider what she may need.

Max was leaning against the door frame as he watched her. "Hey beautiful "

"Max" Zoe laughed in reply as he pulled her to him and kissed her passionately, pushing her on to the bed.

"What?" He asked innocently, as she shook her head laughing.

"Zoe?" He pouted, looking ridiculously cute and Zoe reached for her phone as she held it up.

Max tried to grab her phone but she held it just out of his reach as he held her around her waist."Max" She warned him as she looked up, her packing abandoned.

"I'm leaving again. " She told him.

Max abruptly let go of her.

"And, I want you to come with me "She told him as their lips come together as they stood outside the ED, they'd agreed to meet back there as they each gave Tess their leaving letters and got in to Zoe's car and drove away.


Sorry, I did another Zoe departure, it just seemed right.

To me, that seemed Tam centric, it wasn't supposed to be but I can't help the way my mind thinks when I write these chapters.

I don't think these ages will be useful to this chapter and as I've said before if I have said a characters ages I won't mention it again.

I'm going on a break after this is uploaded (not sure how long for ) but I figured that chapter 60 was a decent place to stop. (temporarily ) Prompts will resume when I come back, but I do already have a decent amount to write-up. So I guess I leave you readers with a long chapter as I bow out (for a while)

Thank you for the support, reviews, prompts I really appreciate it theres to many of you to name personally, but I will get round to it one day.

Next prompt: One ED staff nurse and one former ED nurse, meet up and bond over their material problems. Prompted by: Still An AJ Lover.