divulgence // luke hemmings au

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[ trigger Warning : pregnancy, mentions of SA , overdose etc]

"paging Nurse Hemmings to the ER please" a loud voice came over the hospital intercom.

Luke was in the break room eating lunch when he got paged.

"Shit" he muttered sliding his chair out all the way dropping his food on the tray getting up to exit the room. He finished chewing and rushed out finding the senior charge nurse Helen in the hallway right before the ER.

"What's up? What do I need to do?" He questioned standing in front of Helen with his arms loosely folded in front of his body.

"Your patient in room two's  test results came in." Helen explained handing him the patients chart.

"I thought only doctors delivered test results?" Luke questioned seeming confused.

"They do but on days when the doctor is very busy and we're short staffed nurses deliver results to patients."

Luke took the folder containing the patients chart and results and walked a way going to the far end of the ER, he stopped at the second to last room.

He knocked, "Grace Ackerman right?" He asked waiting for a response.

"Yeah" she faintly responded and he walked in.

He shut the door behind himself and flipped open Graces chart, "Grace your results came back and it looks like you're pregnant and in your first trimester"

A silence filled the room Grace was leaned forward blankly staring at Luke breathing heavily.
"We can set you up with prenatal care if you're interested. Our OB/GYN department is top notch" he explained pen in hand ready to write down whatever Grace decides with.

Suddenly things took a turn and Grace screamed out angrily and proceeded to get up and charge at Luke.

Luke put his arms up blocking his face all while trying to safely restrain the agitated patient. Grace was screaming and thrashing  trying to get at Luke's face.

"HEY! I need help in here!" He repeated three times until other staff came running into his rescue.

They rushed into seeing the situation, one person grabbed a syringe while another gently grabbed onto Grace.

Luke watched as the syringe went into her thigh, quickly calming down and retracting her violence.

The two other nurses supported and grabbed onto the patient as all her limbs went numb safely putting her in the bed, Luke helping while his heart was beating out of his chest.

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Grace remained subdued for a few hours, Luke sitting on a chair flipping through a magazine looking up briefly noticing her starting to fidget, groan and wake up.

"Grace!" He shot up, now standing at her bed side listening to her chest with his stethoscope.

"What, what, what?" She softly coughed out trying to adjust herself to her surroundings.

As she moved around she noticed her wrists and arms restrained to the bed growing more confused and uncomfortable.

"Are you okay? You're not gonna try and hit me again are you?" He questioned now shining a small light in each of her eyes watching her pupils react.

"No" she whispered, "I believe you" he responded loosening and removing her safety restraints.

He looked at her vitals on the monitors and looked back at her "it's okay to be scared, Grace. But we can help you. We have plenty of options for you, considering you're in your first trimester of pregnancy."