Tigsey: Thank you for the review. Even though, I attempted your request where Lily is jealous of the flirting going on between Ethan and Alicia, but I felt a little out of my comfort zone, so I am going to YouTube clips of Lily and Alicia, but it may take some time, sorry about that, I hope you don't mind waiting.

Guest: Thank you for the review, here's the update.

Guest: Thank you for the review. Here's the update.

Guest: Thank you for the review. I am continuing the storyline where Cal has the gene instead of Ethan.

Guest: Thank you for the review, glad you saw the request where Cal breaks down, I'm glad you think it looks good. Thank you for the review.

bronny9: Thank you for the review, I'm glad your impressed that I have written so many chapters. Can do a chapter where Cal drives off the cliff, can't remember what episode it was, but will try to find it. Can also do a chapter where he is suffering from depression, although I might combine the two if that's ok?

brownen100: Thank you for the review and kind words, also thanks for chatting with me through PM, appreciate it.

Guest: Thank you for the review, I do remember the episode where Cal dislocated his shoulder, I can do a chapter where Cal dislocates his shoulder, do you want it to be the same as the episode or something different?

Sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review. I love it when Cal is there for him.

Sweet - as - honey: Thank you for the review. I love Ethan's kind side as well. Although, with the gene, I don't think we'll see much of it when the symptoms start to show. :(

Guest: Thank you for the review, glad you loved the chapter, glad you think I do an amazing job at portraying Cal. Can do a chapter where Cal breaks down and Cal comforts him.

Thank you so much for 11 reviews in the space of two chapters.

Sorry if I have missed anyone out.

This chapter is set when the boys thought Matilda was their mum, therefore Ethan doesn't have the gene, I just don't see how I could link Cal's secret being revealed with the Huntington's storyline, sorry, if that is what the prompter expected.

If you log in as a guest, can you please leave a name? Thank you.

Sorry for those of you who have been waiting for this chapter, I'll try not to keep you guys waiting for the next chapter.

The boys father is an OC, called Calvin, he was someone I created as we didn't know the name of their father, if it is ever revealed, I'll change it.

Sorry if the medical side is incorrect, I'm no doctor or nurse, kind of looked on Google for low BP'S.

Sorry if any of this is unsettling.


The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 260.

"This is Calvin Hardy, BP 90/ 60, GSC is 8, found unconscious on the Farmead Estate, looks to have been the victim of a mugging" Revealed Iain Dean.

"Cubicles, " Said Zoe. "Cal, can you take this?"

Cal nodded his head at his boss as the stretcher was wheeled in to cubicles.

"Can you move over on to the bed, please sweetheart?" Dixie requested as she helped him over.

"Hello son, " Calvin grinned as the paramedics left the cubicle.

"I'm not your son, " Cal spat as he cleaned the cuts on his father's hands and attended to his head wound, the CT, later revealed he had no internal bleeding. "You lost that right to call me that when you abused me, "

Calvin's face was angry, and he pushed his son, Cal stumbled, before hitting the floor.

"What's going on in there?" Zoe thought as she heard the commotion. She saw Cal lying on the floor and kneeled down next to him. "Cal, can you hear me?" She asked, getting her penlight out of her shirt pocket.

"Zoe, I'm fine, " Cal replied.

"Take a break. "

"I'm fine, Zoe"

Zoe tutted, making it clear, she wasn't happy, but she placed a gauze pad on the back of his head, after cleaning it. She left him to go and deal with a patient that needed her attention in RESUS, but as soon as she did, Calvin started on Cal:

"Your making up the abuse, son, I never did touch you, "

The curtain to the cubicle, rustled and Cal turned to see who was standing there, but there was no one.

A tear ran down Ethan's cheek as he headed in to the staff room. He couldn't believe that Cal had suffered and he wondered why he didn't tell him, he could have helped him, instead he had kept him in the dark.

"Nibbles, are you OK?" Cal asked, catching up with his brother.

When Ethan turned his head to face his brother, there were tears running down his face. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?" Cal asked, a sinking feeling in his stomach.

"That dad abused you, " Ethan said in a quiet voice.

Cal felt bad.

"Is that why you left mum and me?" Ethan asked. He had been hurt when Cal had left, he had been 16, Cal had been 18, and after a football match, Cal hadn't returned home, after 24 hours, Matilda had rung the police, only to be told, "Mrs Hardy, Caleb is an adult, there is nothing we can do. "

Cal nodded, slowly. "Yep, "

"I was hurt Cal, "

"Why mate, "

"Because you abandoned me, "

"Nibbles, I could never abandon you."

"So, why did you?"

"Because. I.. run and I hide, " Cal admitted, his voice trembling in places as memories plunged his mind.

Flashback:

"Mummy, look, " Cal raced excitedly, in to the living room where Matilda was sitting on the couch and waved a piece of paper in front of her face.

Matilda took the paper from her son and looked at it, it was of when him and Ethan were at the park, him and Ethan were stick figures and the colouring was not in the lines.

"That's good, Cal, " Matilda got up and walked in to the kitchen, placing it on the fridge.

Calvin, who was unemployed, walked in to the kitchen to get a beer, from the fridge, but he spotted Cal's picture and he snatched it off the fridge, scrunching it up.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"It's a stupid drawing, Matilda, "

Matilda hated her husband in that moment.

"Where's my picture, mum?" Cal asked, the next morning.

Matilda kept quiet, she didn't want to hurt Cal's feelings.

End of flashback.


Flashback 2

Cal was playing in the garden with Ethan, one Sunday morning, with a football, he was kicking it about with Ethan, when he kicked it too hard and it smashed the front window of the house. Ethan turned to his brother.

"It's alright, mate, " Cal smiled, wanting to reassure his brother, when their dad come out.

"Which one of you idiots caused this?" He thundered.

"I did. " Ethan trembled as he answered his dad.

"He's lying to protect me," Cal jumped in. "I caused it, dad. "

Calvin grabbed Cal by the top and pulled him in to the house.

"Calvin, get off him" Matilda said, trying to pull her husband off her eldest.

Cal ran up the stairs when Calvin eventually let go off him. He ran in to his room and hid under the duvet.

Calvin whipped it off him. "You stupid boy. You know how much a window costs to replace?"

"No. " Cal whispered, his eyes filling with fear.

"More than you get for pocket money, which I'm taking off you". He snarled as he started to take his belt out of his jeans.

Cal braced himself as Calvin took the belt off and brought it down on the young boys body. He'd be battered tomorrow morning. He shut his eyes as the belt come down again.

He hissed through his teeth in pain, as he cried out.

Matilda, heard her sons cries, but Calvin had warned her she would to suffer the same fate if she tried to comfort him.

When his dad was finally finished and had left the room, heading downstairs, Cal cried himself to sleep, until some time later, Ethan was in his room.

"Cal?" 6 - Year - old, Ethan asked.

"Yeah?" 8 -year - old, Cal replied.

"Why was dad beating you?" His eyes were innocent as he asked.

It broke Cal's heart to hear Ethan speak that sentence. He gently pulled Ethan on to his bed, being careful of his bruises and started talking.

"We were just... playing. " Cal felt sick, as he spoke.

Satisfied, Ethan nodded and cuddled up to his brother.

Cal heard his brothers breathing and watched the rise and fall of his chest as he slept, but he stayed awake for hours, torturing himself.

End of flashback.

"Cal, your needed in cubicles, "Zoe told him.

"Thanks Dr. Hanna, " Ethan said, as Cal wiped his eyes and nose, with a tissue that he had handed him.

"Cal, I'm here for you, " Smiled Ethan weakly, his own eyes filled with tears as Cal finished his tale.

Cal pulled the cubicle curtain across and stepped in.

"You are?" One of the policeman asked.

"Doctor Knight. " Cal said professionally. "I'm treating this... man. " He forced the words out when really he thought that "animal" suited his fathers description.

The policemen nodded.

"Dad?" Ethan asked, finally spotting him.

Calvin smiled. "Hello, Ethan, "

"Stay away from him, " Cal hissed through gritted teeth, he couldn't stand the thought of that animal hurting Ethan, the same way he had hurt him.

Cal later found out that two teen lads had mugged their father, as during his stint inside, he dig drugs and owned his dealer. but when he couldn't pay, his dealer arranged for two guys that he knew to beat him up.

"Typical, " Thought Cal as the officers dragged him out.

Ethan put an arm around Cal and held him close.

"Why don't you two go home?" Zoe suggested.

Both boys nodded, as it had been a draining day and headed in to the staff room to change out of their scrubs.

When Ethan was ready first, he waited at the Nurses Station.

"Goodnight, Ethan, " A voice said and he turned to see Lily was smiling at him a bit.

"Goodnight, Lily, " He replied as Cal come out.

The two walked up the building stairs and when they reached their door, Cal pulled his keys out and pushed them in to the lock. When the door swung open the two lads walked in and sat on the couch. Cal got a beer, out of the frige, that was one thing he had in common, with animal, he liked a drink after a hard day at work.

Cal, accidentally, caught his head on the wall, and blood soaked through the plaster, running down his neck.

"Cal, your bleeding, " Ethan said, siting down.

"What?" Cal asked.

"Your bleeding, " Ethan repeated as Cal touched the back of his head, pulling his fingers away to see blood on them.

"Don't" Ethan said, getting up.

Ethan walked in to the kitchen and pulled out the first aid kit from one of the draws. He got a new dressing, some tape, and some other bits he needed. He walked back in and carefully peeled the dressing off the back of his brothers head.

"Sorry Cal, " Ethan apologised as he heard his brother wincing. He dabbed at the blood with a damp sponge, and cleaned the blood off his neck with a wet wipe and threw the stuff in the plastic bin they kept by the fire place.

Ethan cooked them both some dinner and they enjoyed a night of talking about their past, their mum's death, but avoided Cal's painful beatings.


Thank you for reading, I hope this is what the prompter expected.

Next chapter: Cal dislocates his shoulder. Prompted by guest.