LindaAndrewsfan: Thank you for the review. I hope you enjoy the last part of this.

Jessica is now awake and out of her coma, she's back at work.

I was originally going to split this in to two chapters, but then I realised it would work better if it was one big chapter.

Daisy, belongs to LindaAndrewsfan.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 212

Zoe had insisted that Jessica stick to light duties, following her discharge from the hospital as a patient, even though she still had the plaster where the ventilator had been on her neck, covering the incision that surgeons had to make. Jessica agreed and was filling out her patient notes when she saw her. Linda. Her old friend. She wondered what she was doing here. She stood up, walking over to her.

"Are you OK?" She asked.

"I'm here for a scan "Linda was here for an ultrasound, which shocked Jessica as she knew that Linda couldn't have children, it turned out the pregnancy was a result of a one- night, stand while she was in New York.

"I'll see you later Jess," said Linda, as she followed the signs for "Maternity".

"Fine" Jessica replied as she got back to work. She turned on the computer and started updating patient notes, before being called to take bloods in cubicle 2.


Linda's midwife, was a woman called Daisy. She called Linda out of the waiting room and she stood up.

"Linda Andrews?" She asked.

Linda nodded and stood, putting a hand across her swollen stomach.

"If you'd like to get up on to the table" Said Daisy.

As Linda lay on the table, Daisy put the gel on her stomach and Linda was excited to see her unborn baby.

Moving the probe across Linda's swollen belly, Daisy waited for the heartbeat, but she couldn't hear one. She hated this part of the job. "I'm so sorry Linda, but it looks like you've lost your baby. "

Linda felt numb and scared as she was on her own.

"Is there anyone I can call for you?" Daisy asked.

"My sister Denise" Linda told her.

Daisy nodded and went to look up Denise's number in her medical file. She looked through it, until she had found what she looking for and picked up the phone, talking to her.

Denise was called and the situation was explained to her.

She was given drugs to bring on her labour, and waited for them to work.


"Nurse Harrison, can I have a word, please?" Jessica looked up to see Charlie talking to her.

She nodded and stood. "Sure. "

Charlie took Jessica to his office. She sat down. "Linda's lost her baby. "

"OK. " Jessica felt bad for Linda, she knew how she felt when she had lost her own son.


Charlie and Daisy were by her side when she delivered a baby girl, she had decided to name her Jessica, after her best friend.

Baby Jessica was wrapped in a blanket and lay on her mother's chest.

"I don't want to. " Said Linda, she was scared she would break the baby.

Jessica rubbed her arm. "It's OK. "

"How do you expect me to look at Jessica when she's dead, my baby is dead" Linda said, she was almost shouting.

"I don't know " Jessica said, she was trying to keep calm, but seeing Linda with her baby was bringing back memories of Harry's death.

Linda was in shock, she kept looking at the baby, she was perfect, all fingers, all 10 toes.

As Jessica had to get back to work, she promised she would come back when she got a break again.


Jessica went to see Linda, in her room, but she was gone, she was a bit concerned. She alerted Charlie, who in turn alerted security, to the fact she was missing and set out to find her. She grabbed her jacket from her locker and put it on, zipping it up. She headed outside, but couldn't find her. She headed over to where the members of the team went when they wanted a smoke, because she knew Linda sometimes liked a cheeky cigarette, but she wasn't there either.

Pulling her phone out of her pocket, she rang Linda's number, but got voicemail. She wasn't sure where else to look. She was about to turn back when she heard a voice.

"Jess?"

Jessica walked in the direction of the voice and sat down beside her. She looked at Linda, mascara was streaming down her cheeks, making it look like she had, had panda eyes.

"You'll be OK. " Said Jessica as she stood up. Linda did the same, Jessica put an arm around her as they headed back inside.


Charlie took both Linda and Jessica to the chapel of rest where baby Jessica was resting, she was dressed in a pink sleeping suit, with a blanket wrapped around her.

Seeing the small baby lying in the basket, reminded the nurse of her son, Harry. She treasured the short time that he had been on this earth for, knowing that both her and Adam had loved him, cared for him.

"She's beautiful. " Jessica said, her eyes damp.

"I want to hold her. " Linda said.

Charlie nodded and gently lifted baby Jessica in to his arms, passing her to Linda. Charlie gave Jessica a "Lets leave her alone for a while look. " and they both made their way quietly out of the room. She started to cry. Jessica heard this from outside, and wanted to go in, but Charlie advised her to leave it. Jessica nodded.

The door opened and Linda come out, tears in her eyes.

Jessica looked at her sympathetically.

As, it had been a tough day, the two girls decided to go and get a coffee and to chat.

Linda knew that she would never forget her daughter, she would celebrate her very short life with pride at being her mother,


Thank you for reading, I enjoyed writing it.