Sweet - as- honey: Thank you for the review. I'm glad you found the chapter really sweet. I'm also glad you could feel how tired Ethan was. I'm glad you loved how it was Lily who saw that Ethan was ill. Nibbles needed his brother to look after him.

Panic - at - casualty: Thank you for the review. I'm glad you thought that Ricky was strong, I enjoy portraying her character as strong. I'm glad you thought it was well written. Sorry, I almost made you cry.

This chapter was prompted by Tigsey with the prompt: Alicia falls pregnant, it's Ethan's kid, but Cal thinks it is his and is unaware that Ethan slept with his girlfriend.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 257.

Ethan watched with jealousy as Cal and Alicia walked in to the department, Cal's arm was around her shoulder, holding her close, while Alicia was looking at Cal with love in her eyes. That did not look like a girl who had promised that she would break up with Cal so that she could be with him, instead.

He watched as Alicia headed in to the staff room, as Cal chatted with Max and Iain.

"Have you told him?" He asked.

Alicia, who looked pale, shook her head. Ethan guessed it was because of the alcohol that Cal had brought her at the pub last night. A wave of sickness went over the doctor, she put a hand over her mouth and rushed out. She made it to the toilets before throwing up again. In the back of her mind, she suspected this wasn't her being hungover. She pulled some tissue off the holder and wiped her mouth, before throwing it in to the toilet and flushing the chain. She unlocked the door and walked out, going to the sinks. She turned on the tap and stuck her hands under, putting some soap on them.

On her lunch break, she headed to the shop and brought what she needed and headed back.

Alicia walked in to the ladies toilets, relieved that they were empty, she walked in to a cubicle and locked the door, before sitting down on the toilet seat. She unzipped her bag and took out the box. She followed the instructions, because even though, she was a doctor, she had never done a pregnancy test. She had to pee on the stick, wait for 3 minutes and then then see if it was a "positive " or "negative" result. She placed it on the side and kept glancing at the watch on her top. When the 3 minutes were finally up, she turned over the stick and took in the result.

Positive.

7 weeks.

"It's Ethan's," She thought, biting down on her lip. She didn't know what to do. She knew there was a chance this baby could have the dreaded gene. She thrust the stick in her bag and sat up, leaving the cubicle and heading downstairs, needing to find Ethan.

"Max, have you seen Ethan?" She asked.

Max shook his head.

"Dr. Monroe, your needed in RESUS, " Connie told her.

Alicia nodded and headed in to RESUS.

The patient's relative was shouting at his wife, who was in the bed. They had been involved in RTC, and Mr Waterpool's wife, Elizabeth, had come off worse.

"I'm sorry, " His wife sobbed.

"If you hadn't of made me angry, we wouldn't have crashed "

"I said I was sorry, Jake, can't you just forgot it?"

"No, I can't, you cheated on me, "

"Calm down, " Alicia said as she got in between the relative and the patient, trying to calm the relative down.

"Don't tell me what to do," Jake said, as he shoved her. She lost her balance and landed on the floor, a look on pain on her face.

Ethan rushed to Alicia's side and crouched down near her. "Everything's going to be ok, "

"It's yours, Ethan, " Alicia whispered.

Ethan stared at her, his mouth felt like it was full of cotton wool as he tried to process this news.

The pregnant nurse nodded and left RESUS, trying to find the doctor.

She found him and told him, what had happened. Cal rushed in and crouched down beside her, almost shoving Ethan out of the way. "Baby, are you ok?"

Alicia had been sent to cubicles, to rest by a concerned, Ethan and Cal sat by her bed, stroking her hair, holding her hand as they waited for Zoe to scan her.

"This'll be cold, "Zoe warned her, as a doctor Zoe knew that Alicia would find it cold, but she knew that she had to warn her. Alicia lifted her top up as Zoe squirted the gel on her tummy.

Cal walked Alicia home and stayed with her, making sure that she had everything she needed: Cup of tea, blanket, remote for the TV and her mobile, in case she needed to reach him or Ethan.

"I'll see you later, " He said as he kissed her forehead, he then left the flat.

As she heard the door close, Alicia felt like a fraud for deceiving him.


Robyn smiled. "Alicia's given birth. " She said to Louise as Ethan walked in.

"Oh. " Replied Ethan as he overheard the two nurses. He headed in to the staff room and pulled on his scrub top and pants.

Through the window of the private room, that Zoe had found her, Ethan saw Cal hold his child. He took a deep breath, and put on a fake smile, pushing the door open.

Ethan walked over to the bed, it pained him to see Cal looking so happy.

"Congrulations, " Ethan forced a smile as he took in the loving scene.

"Thanks, Nibbles, " Said Cal as he looked at the baby.

Ethan felt a pressure building up inside of him, and it was the pressure of keeping the secret.

"Cal " Ethan said.

Yeah, Nibbles?"

"He's not yours. " Ethan knew this would break his heart, but it had to be done, it was cruel to keep Cal under the illusion that he was cradling his baby.

Cal looked like he could laugh, convinced that Ethan was playing a cruel trick on him. "Of course, he is. "

Ethan looked in to Cal's eyes. "No, he isn't. "

"Whose?" Cal whispered, his eyes, filling with tears. He'd already lost Matilda, he couldn't lose this little one as well.

"Mine" Ethan replied. "When you were in London, Alicia and I slept together, "

"Is this true?" Cal spat, his upset expression, now changed to one of anger.

Alicia nodded at him. "Yes. "

"How could you, Ethan. " Cal whispered, and in a moment, he swung at his brother, punching him.

"Ethan, "Said Alicia as she bent down near her lover.

Blood poured from Ethan's nose. Alicia handed him tissues and pushed his head down between his knees.

"It just happened, " Alicia told him.

"What?" Cal replied, mockingly. "You fell in to bed with my brother?"

"I love him," Alicia said quietly.

Cal placed the baby back in to the cot and walked off.

"Cal" Ethan called, but his brother kept on walking. Ethan sighed, he had the feeling that Cal would never forgive him.

"Everything alright, Cal?" Charlie asked, the distraught doctor was making his way down the stairs and almost pushed past the older nurse.

"Everything's fine, Charlie" The younger man said.

"Let's go and have a chat, " Said Charlie, steering Cal towards his office.

Charlie opened the door and Cal sat down in the spare chair.

"Everything, I do is wrong, Charlie, "

"I'm sure, it's not, " Charlie tried to comfort him. but all Cal could do was nod.

Cal shocked Charlie as he said. "Alicia has just given birth to Ethan's child, "

Charlie was shocked, he didn't know what to do or say to comfort him.

Cal excused himself from the man's office and left.

Ethan knocked quietly on the door.

"Have you seen Cal?"

"He just left, "

Ethan nodded and ran to catch up with him. "Don't you want to know what we've named him?"

"No. " Said Cal, as he walked out of the hospital. He ignored Ethan's desperate plea's of "Cal, please, " and "Cal wait, "

He walked in to the darkness and heard Ethan sink down against the wall.

He felt bad that he'd lost his brother, but he couldn't believe that Nibbles had gone behind his back.

Ethan returned to the flat he shared with Cal, only to find the lock's had been changed.

"He has no right, " Ethan thought, angrily. "It's my flat!"

He banged on the door. "Cal, let me in, "

Cal slowly unlocked the door as he come face to face with Ethan. Ethan took a nervous step back, worried that Cal would try and punch him again.

"Ethan?" Cal called him back.

"Yes?" Ethan said, quietly, turning back around.

"I forgive you, " Cal spoke equally as quietly.

Ethan looked at him, before hugging him.

Relief flooded through him as the two broke apart.

"I'm going to see Alicia, do you want to come?" Ethan asked, a bit, awkwardly. But to his surprise, Cal nodded.

"Meet Michael" Alicia whispered, and Cal stared at the baby and then at his ex - girlfriend.

"Have you had him tested?" Cal asked. He knew that Ethan may not like the question, but for the sake of Michael, he had to ask.

"He's going to need testing, Ethan"

"I know, "Ethan replied.

Cal saw fear in his brothers eyes and put an arm around him. "I'll be there, "

"Thanks Cal, " Ethan said as he rocked baby Michael in his arms, the child fidgeted in his arms.

Cal held his own arms out and Ethan cautiously lowered him in to his uncle's arms.

He settled down once in Cal's arm's.

"Your a natural, " Alicia spoke up as both brothers looked at her, they had almost forgotten she was there and they were in her flat. The brothers left the flat, Ethan promising to returm with baby stuff for Michael.


Thank you for reading and thank you to Tigsey again for the prompt, I hope this is what Tigsey again, wanted, not to confident on Alicia yet. I can't helping thinking that the writers of the show, are going to give Alicia a pregnancy storyline and she won't know who the dad is. I didn't do the birth scene with Alicia as I'm rubbish at birth scenes.

Next chapter: Ethan's symptoms have worsened, but he refuses help from Cal, until he realises he no longer can. Prompted by HolbyCityFanfics.

I already have it written, so I'm hoping, it'll be up Tuesday night.