A Knight of Scares
"so remind me again why we were fighting yesterday?" lucy asked as she put her towel on coming out of the shower. Carter had come home a little while ago. He could do nothing but stare at her. she was gorgeous even with her wet hair hanging messilly everywhere on her shoulders.
"I dont know. but can we make up for yesterday?" he said coming closer to her. He totaly forgot that he was wearing his coat and hat still.
"hey your soo cold. You didnt walk home again did you?" she looked concerned. his ears were a bright red and he suddenly felt the pain again on his cheeks.
"The el was backed up" he deffended.
"Are you crazy? its 5 below out there!" she laughed seeing his cheeks look like he had been blushing when he smiled. 'is she always this mothery or is it just me?' he thought to himself.
"Yup!" he said as he picked her up " just crazy 'bout you!" she leaned down and kissed him.
"Good" she gigled as they made their way to the bed.
they were enjoying eachothers 'company' as the baby started to cry.
"Carter, wanna do me a favor?" she looked into his eyes knowing that when she did that she had him wrapped around her finger.
"what?" he pulled her over him as he continued to stare into her eyes.
"Get me sleeping pills for that kid!" she jokingly groaned.
"Ill get him" he sat up and put on a robe to tend to his son.
~~~~~baby suite~~~~~~~~
' Hey little guy" he called to his son in the wooden crib whos face was a flushed red. "wow you must really be hungry to have cried so hard" he laughed as he picked up the screaming infant. his smile faded when he felt the boys forehead on his palm. "Hey whatve you got there?" he brought the boy into his and lucys room.
~~~~~~parents room~~~~~~~
"Hey Luce, feel his head" he handed the boy off to Lucy. The baby stopped crying.
"Hes probably just warm from his blanket. besides hes wearing heavy pajamas." she was so calm about it. Carter on the other hand was ready to call the secret med. service for his son.
"I dunno, im getting the thermometer". he was very worried, lucy could tell.
"I told you," he said. He pointed to the dial on the electric thermometer.
"Yep our son has his first fever of...whoa 100.2" she began to worry a little. This made carter feel better however knowing that Lucy was going to do whatever 'motherly' thing women did to make their kids better.
"so what should we do doc?" carter asked jokingly.
"Well DR. CARTER" she empathised the dr. carter also jokingly "I'd say a dosage of childrens Advil"
"Ok. fine with me" he answered hearing that made him remember when lucy was just his med student.
she thought the same thing hearing those words.
"I'll get it." Carter said while going to the med. cabinet.
~~~~~~~Baby suite~~~~~~~~
"There" lucy whispered. the boy stopped crying from the medication which had made him drowsy.
"ok lets let him sleep" he pulled lucy out of the room as he quietly shut the door.
~~~~~CCGH~~~~~~~~
"Dr. Carter!" someone yelled it was a female but not lucy.
"In the lounge!" he called back wanting to know who had called his name.
A woman no older that 30 came in carrying a little boy who had blood pouring from his head and on his clothing.
Carter ran over instinctively from the blood. "What happened? Why isnt he in Trauma?"
"Uh. I was told to come find you, um I really have to go" she handed carter the child and ran.
"WAIT! PLEASE STOP!" he called after her. The boy coughed again and this time blood came trickling from his mouth. He went unconcious.
"I NEED A GOURNEY OVER HERE!"
~~~~~~Doc magoos~~~~~~
"Hey luce" Carter ran over to his wife sitting in a booth talking to a man he couldnt recognize from the back.
"Hey hun, come over here" she called.
"John you remember Dale right?"
"Uh yea listen luce, I have to talk to you for a sec thats why I came" he did not want to remember Dale Edson.
"Luce what the hell are you doing with him?" he scolded as they sat ina booth out of hearing distance of Dale.
"I had no choice Carter he has a gun in his jacket" she explained sort of nervously.
"WHAT?" he made a yelling whisper
"yea he saw me waiting for you and he said if I didnt cooperate hed take me out back and shoot me. If i didnt cooperate with that hed do it here" she noticed him watching her.
"Then lets go" he was not about to put her life on the line again when he knew he could do something about it this time.
"Ok" she got up and left wit him.
"Hey Lucy where 'ya goin in such a hurry?" he patted his pocket reminding her of what hed said.
"I got paged for a trauma Carter came to get me" she lied
"so why couldnt he tell you here?" he asked suspiciously.
"Because we arent allowed to disclose meidcal information to non relatives of the patient." said Carter though he said it with angst to get out of the resturant.
"fine go, but come back after, we still have to talk Lucy," he demanded.
"right" she obeyed.
"So what did he talk about?" Carter asked as they made their way to the hospital.
"He knew we were together and he wants me to bale on you" she explained.
"And you said?..."
"I would have said no exept that he said if I didnt he kill you then me." she cut herself off and started to cry.
"Does he know about the baby?" Carter asked
"Yea" she said through her sobs " he said hed kill the baby first in front of us!" she clung to carter desperate for comfort. Carter froze at those words.
"Alright were going to the cops"
"no hell shoot everyone in that place if he sees one cop" she protested.
"relax i know someone who can do it hell never know what hit him" he said.
~~~~~~~~hospital desk~~~~~~~~~
"John Carter?" a female voice called.
"Hey, " he said he obviously knew her.
"And your lucy right?" she pointed at the blond
"Yep" lucy responded.
"What can I do for ya john?" she asked. The girl couldnt have been older than 17.
Carter explained the story.
"Ok." she said "sure thing"
"How are you gonna do this and how do you two know eachother?" lucy chimed in.
"Oh my god im sorry i forgot to introduce myself" she apologized. "Michelle Winters, I was a ptient of Johns and i told him if he needed anything to call me." she explained.
"So John, your sending this girl on a death mission as a favor?" lucy questioned his judgement.
"R you crazy luce?" he laughed
"I'm in acting and I do tae bo and martial arts" she said.
"Thats how I hurt myself the first time"
"Oh i get it" lucy understood. " Heres his picture. She pointed to a newspaper article about a writer who happened to be Dale Edson. Michelle grabbed cuffs for her back pocket and her coat. Lucy and Carter would watch from a nearby window with a security guard incase things got out of hand for Michelle.
~~~~~~~~Doc Magoos~~~~~~~~~
It seemed like michelle had everything figured out. Things were going well until Dale took out his gun and pointed at a pregnant woman. first at her then her abdomen.
Michelle kicked the gun out of his hands but he had already shot. The thing was is he missed the woman but got Carter in the shoulder.
Lucy felt shocked as carter fell back and his blood covered his body as well as part of hers.........
