A twist on the abuse storyline with Nikki and Jess from last nights episode of Casualty, which I've enjoyed, but with Cal and Ricky (I'm quite fond of writing them too together)
Nothing to do with "Car Crash "
In, this chapter, Brax and Ricky are friends and they don't have their son.
sweet as honey: I'm really glad you enjoyed the last chapter, it was probably one of my favourites to write. I wanted to reunite Matilda with Cal and Ethan. I'm also glad that you liked Jess, I was worried that she would be too badly written. Thank you for the review.
Please don't read if you think this chapter will cause any triggers for anyone.
Getting this up now, as I know I'll forget later.
The Secret Life Of Casualty
Chapter 110.
Cal was woken by his phone ringing. He sighed, sitting up and picked up his phone and saw the name Charlie Fairhead.
"Cal, we have the results in" Charlie told him, Cal guessed he was at the ED.
This would change his life.
"I'm afraid " Cal could hear Charlie nervously swallowing. "You've got Huntington's disease "
When Cal received the news that his recent test showed that he was the brother that had inherited hunting's disease from his biological mother, Emile Groomet, he was devastated, he knew that he had to tell Ethan, but he didn't have a clue where to start. He knew that Ethan would have questions, questions that he only had half the answers too.
He muttered a quick: "Thanks Charlie " And then ran a hand over his head.
"Cal, what's wrong?" Ricky asked, coming in to the bedroom, she'd just been for a bath.
In a moment of madness, Cal striked her across the face. Ricky stared at him, tears welling up in her eyes, rolling down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry baby" Cal shushed her, wiping the tears from her cheeks.
Ricky ran, she ran down the stairs and out the front door. She sat on the wall, aware she was just sitting in a towel. She got off the wall and headed back in to the house, shutting the door quietly behind him. She kept herself for most of the day, reading her book and not bothering him.
"I'll go and get us a takeaway" He told her, later that evening, picking up his wallet and leaving the house.
Ricky nodded, she put a hand to her stinging cheek. She hoped it wouldn't happen again. Uncurling, her legs, she walked in to the kitchen and got two plates out and poured them both a glass of water, and getting out the knives and forks.
"I asked for a beer " Cal snapped. Rick turned, she hadn't realised he'd returned.
Cal launched a plate at the wall, Ricky cowered nervously.
"Calm down " She whispered, she'd always been able to calm Brax down when he got angry, hoping that her calming influence would calm Cal too.
"No " He growled, in her face, Ricky had never seen him look so angry, in fact, it was scaring her.
"OK " She nodded, as she walked out of the kitchen.
Ricky couldn't take it, she had to go out. So, when Cal got ready for work, she decided to go for a walk. As, she walked, her tummy rumbled from the lack of food.
"Ricky, where are you?" Cal bellowed, when he returned to the house, the next morning, after his day of work.
Ricky was in the bedroom, on the phone to Brax, she managed to say a few words and hear his reply:
"Cal's abusing me" She cried.
"Oh, Ricky " He muttered. He wanted to do to Cal what he had been doing to her, give him a taste of his own medicine.
Before, she passed out from exhaustion.
When, Ricky didn't answer him, he headed upstairs and flung open the door.
"Your worthless you know that " Cal kicked her in the stomach, convinced she was simply ignoring him.
"Get up!" He snapped, kicking her again.
Ricky lay limp.
Cal grabbed her hair and pulled it hard, before spitting in her face.
Darryl Braxton, knew he would protect Ricky, but even as friends, he had failed in his quest. He looked out at the houses, wondering which one was Cal's house. He could hear shouts as he hurried out of his car. He didn't know which house was Cal's. He hurried along the pavement.
"Cal, please" Ricky pleaded, she didn't want him to hurt her anymore.
"Cal please" Cal mocked her. He shoved her backwards and she fell in to the coffee table, causing a cut to open, around her back.
Ricky shut her eyes as she heard hammering on the front door.
"Ricky!" Brax shouted, she could hear him pounding his fists on the door.
Cal walked in to the hallway and opened the door.
"Where is she?" Brax asked, pushing past Cal.
"She's not here " Cal lied.
Ricky ran to him.
"Hey, hey" Brax whispered, wrapping his arms around her.
She climbed in to Brax's car and sat back, as he pulled out of the road. Ricky shut her eyes.
She whimpered, the pain in her tummy hurting. Brax rubbed her knee, wishing that he could do something for her. As, he started driving, he could hear Ricky moaning in pain. He needed to get her to a hospital. He spotted the ED and pulled up in there. Knowing, her battered body was too weak, Brax carried her in to the ED.
"I need a doc " Brax said.
"This way " Zoe said, as she lead them both to a cubicle. Brax lay her down on the bed.
As, doctor Hanna, moved her stethoscope, around her bruised body, she did her best to stay quiet.
"What happened?" Zoe asked, putting her stethoscope back around her neck.
"I fell " she lied, Brax raised an eyebrow at her, even now, she was protecting him.
"I'm going to get a coffee," Brax said, dropping a kiss to her hair. Ricky looked at him.
Brax rang the police and left an anonymous tip.
Zoe filled out a form for pain killers.
"Cheers" Ricky said, as she took the pot of white pills and threw them in her bag. She sat down on the bed as Brax come back, holding out two plastic coffee cups. Ricky shook her head. As, Zoe discharged her.
She was quiet on the way home, they were staying in a hotel.
Riicky lifted her top up and winced as she looked in the mirror; her stomach was covered in bruises; there was a bandage around the wound. She looked a mess to be honest, her eyes which were usually so bright, were dull. Brax sat on the bed, saying nothing, just letting her rest.
"Caleb Knight, I'm arresting you on suspicion of abuse, you do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence, if you do not answer when questioned, something which you may later rely on in court. Do you understand?" The officer asked, stepping forward with the handcuffs.
"I run and I hide " Cal thought as he looked for a way out for escape. He ran as fast as he could to out run them, he ran as fast as he could, hiding behind walls and knocking over wheelie bins, but they soon caught up with him. He struggled against them as they forced him in to the car.
"Ethan looked up at the prison, from inside his car, as a strange feeling crept over him, it was a feeling of discomfort, that people would think that Ethan knew what Cal had been doing to Ricky. He got out of the car and took a deep breath, before locking the car and heading in to the prison.
"Ethan Hardy " He told the guard.
The guard ticked his name off on the sheet and searched him.
Cal come through the door and sat down at the table. Ethan was the first to speak to him.
"Why?" He asked his brother, Cal couldn't look him in the eye.
"I didn't mean to hurt her " Cal said, looking down at the table.
Ethan nodded. He knew his brother wasn't a thug, he just struggled to comprehend things in his mind sometimes and that made him angry and as a result, of that anger, he lashed out at the people that he cared about.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, her quietly, he didn't deserve her kindness.
"I had to see you" Ricky stated quietly.
"Why?" He asked.
"Your going to be a dad, Cal " She told him.
Cal cracked a smile, knowing he had a baby, waiting for him when he got out, was the motivation he needed too keep his head down and get on with his sentence.
"No touching " The guard, sniped at them.
Cal pulled his hand from hers.
Despite everything, that he had done to her, she still cared about him.
"Rick, are you OK?" Brax asked, she was lying on his bed, her hands on her belly. Her body was prearing itself for the birth, she had cleaned the flat.
"I think so " Ricky gasped, as a contraction hit her.
"Lets get you to the hospital " Brax said, looking around for her hospital bag.
Ricky's birth plan.
Pain relief: Gas and air.
Partner in the delivery suite: Caleb Knight.
"OK " Brax said as he rolled the document back up and put it in the pocket of the bag and put the bag on his shoulder as he looked at Ricky; her face was screwed up in pain, she was sweaty and she didn't think that she could do this.
"This is Erica Sharpe, 22, 36 weeks pregnant, BP 60/ 90 " Dixie revealed as she pushed the wheelchair in to the ED.
This wasn't right, she had loved Brax, but she was with Cal now, Cal should be with her.
"How far are the contractions?" Zoe asked as she walked over to the chair.
"15 minutes " She gasped.
"Ow " Brax said, grimacing as he felt her hold tighten.
Ricky glared at him, as Dixie opened the cubicle curtain and took the chair in to it. Ricky stood as Dixie and Brax helped her move over on to the bed with Brax stroking her hand.
"OK, Ricky " Zoe snapped on a pair of latex gloves and examined her.
"Your 8cms Ricky " Zoe informed her.
Ricky nodded and pulled her knees to her chest, taking a deep breath as she pushed her child in to the world.
Brax and Ricky both heard a cry and Ricky sank back on the pillows in an exhausted sleep. When, she woke, Brax was sitting in a chair beside the bed, cradling the baby. "Hey"
"Hey babe" Ricky returned quietly.
A few days later, Ricky was back at the prison, both her and her baby had been searched for any drugs that they may have had on them, but Ricky didn't do drugs.
"Meet your son, Cal " Ricky smiled, as she sat down on the uncomfortable chair.
"Does he have a name?" Cal asked.
"No" Ricky shook her head.
Cal looked at the baby carefully, he had bright brown eyes and a snub nose. "Ethan?"
"Yeah " She said.
"It's my brothers name" Cal told her.
Ricky nodded, it was a nice family tradition to have.
"Times up " A guard told them. Ricky stood as Cal handed her baby Ethan, he snuggled in to his mothers arms.
"I remember when I was arrested for Jonny Barretts murder " Brax reminisced as he drove out of the prison.
"I know " Ricky replied, they had been an item when Brax got sent down and Ricky had been devastated by his sentencing and she had spent her days, locked in the flat she had shared with him, refusing to see Denny, Phoebe or Heath, who had all tried to coax her out of the flat, saying it was no good for her to be in doors all the time.
Cal headed back to his cell and pinned the photo of baby Ethan to the noticeboard. He rested his hands behind his head as he stared up at the celling.
Ricky stepped in to the flat, her and Brax had shared, it was like going back in time, for her.
"Make yourself at home" Brax told her, sensing that she was feeling anxious about being in their former home.
"Chamomile tea?" Brax asked. Ricky nodded, hoping that the drink would help relax her nerves, it usually did.
Ricky simply nodded at Brax.
Brax walked in to the kitchen to make the drink as Ricky glanced at the screen on her phone, Ethan was ringing.
"Hello? Ethan?" Ricky asked, wondering why her boyfriends brother was ringing so late.
Brax watched as her hand kept going to her mouth and she kept gasping in shock.
"Rick?" Brax asked when she had finally come off the phone, he wouldn't like to imagine the length of her phone bill.
"Cal's hung himself " She sobbed, burying her head in to his chest, Brax simply stroked her hair.
Ricky looked around, she had gone back to England for the funeral. An old man was supporting Ethan, by keeping an arm around his waist to steady the young man.
"Cal was an idiot, but he was my brother and I loved him " As Ethan didn't like talking in public, his speach was short and sweet.
"Did he say why?" Ricky felt terrible for asking this, but she had to know for baby Ethan's sake.
"No!" Ethan snapped, it was unusual for him to snap, it was then Ricky realised that her wording had come out wrong.
"Sorry" She whispered, her head down as she made her way over to Brax, who was standing in the corner, sipping a pint.
She watched as Ethan headed outside, taking his drink with him.
"Sorry about before" She whispered, taking a seat beside him.
"It's OK " Ethan told her.
"Cal loved you" He told her.
Ricky turned and bit her lip. "Yeah, I loved him too " She returned as she gave him a weak smile, walking away. She knew that she was walking away from him, and she felt bad but baby Ethan would always have his uncle Ethan and his mum to tell him about the type of man Cal was, he wasn't a good man, but for the brief time he had known his son, he was a good father. She stood outside the cemetery and whispered:
"Goodbye Cal " Ricky whispered, turning and walking away.
Don't hate me, haha. I wasn't planning on killing Cal in the second half of the chapter, it just kind of took it's own mind.
Yeah, so another pregnancy, I really think that I have a thing for getting Ricky pregnant, God knows why, I think it's because I loved her pregnancy storyline.
I love Cal so I found it hard to display the mean side of him.
