Blurb: Casey's due date is getting close now. But will she reach her due date drama free? Or will certain people finally be exposed?
Word Count: 2802
A few days had passed since Ethan shared the news with his wife that she's carrying triplets. It was now halfway through Casey's last week at work and that news was only now settling in for the both of them, "Wow. Triplets..." Casey said for about the billionth time, as she sipped on her water with her legs stretched out in front of her, staring into the abyss of nothingness. Ethan sat across from her and nodded in silent agreement. "Doctor Ramsey?" A fellow senior doctor said poking their head into the office. "Yes?" Ethan and Casey spoke in unison as their heads turned towards the door. The doctor smiled apologetically "Ah. Sorry... Ethan. You're needed in the ER for triage." The doctor said before turning and leaving. "Wish me luck" Ethan grimaced as he clipped the lid back onto his lunch box and placed it in the draw before kissing Casey's forehead tenderly and rushing out of the door to the ER, leaving Casey to zone out and finish lunch alone. After she had finished up her lunch, Casey grabbed some sticky notes and a pen that were sitting on Ethan's desk and drew him a couple of pictures, sticking them on his computer for him to see when he got back to the office. Later on Casey trudged to the hospital lab to stretch her legs and drop off some blood samples for testing, as she walked, she twizzled her badge round her finger and dropped it. "Drat." She muttered under her breath and held onto the wall bending down, "I don't think so Dr. Ramsey" a nurse passing by said as he raced forward and picked her lanyard up and handed it back to her, "Thank you" she smiled kindly and continued on her way to the lab. As she reached the end of her shift she realized that a skeleton crew had been left to run the hospital, She walked back towards her office to finish up some paperwork and close out a file or two when she spotted Elijah waiting at the elevators near her office. She was about to call out his name, but the elevator pinged, and he wheeled himself in and the doors closed behind him. She sighed and entered her office and completed her work. Later when she was done, she sat in her office and waited for Ethan to come and meet her so they could walk to the car together. She waited and waited but he never knocked or came and put his head in the door, so with a frown, she grabbed her bag and trudged to the elevator and pressed the button, heading down to the atrium to head out and call a cab home, convinced that Ethan had forgotten that she was at work. The elevator reached the ground level and she stepped out, heading towards the main doors and outside. Sitting on a bench she pulled out her phone and started dialing for a cab. "... Yes, that's right... okay thank you." She said and hung up. Soon the cab arrived, and she was on her way home, but when she got there, she saw that the car her and Ethan went to work in wasn't in the driveway and she instantly felt even worse. She thought that she was going to get home and be able to cuddle up with her husband and talk but instead she was going to be alone until he got home from wherever he was.
Meanwhile back at Edenbrook Jackie and Bryce sprinted out of the elevator and over to Ethan. "She's not in there!" Jackie exclaimed as they stopped in front of him. Ethan turned around to face them with a raised brow, "What do you mean she's not there?" he questioned. "Exactly that bro! Her office is empty." Bryce repeated Jackie panicked. "What's going on?" Sienna asked as she approached the group, failing to hide their panic. "She's not in her office. My wife is almost 7 months pregnant with triplets, and she's disappeared. She said she'd wait for me after she finished. I don't understand. Someone- I- who would?-" Ethan said as he started panicking and hyperventilating the more he spoke. "Ethan. Ethan look at me." Bryce spoke in an even, measured tone as he placed his hands on the panicking doctors shoulders. "Look at me." He repeated as Ethan continued to stare at the ground. His hyperventilating getting worse and worse. "Oh god. Sienna grab some portable oxygen. Bryce get him to that bench over there. Elijah! ELIJAH! .... Get Casey on the phone STAT!" Jackie said as she gave everyone orders. As Elijah held his phone to his ear Sienna came running back with the oxygen, Dr. Harper Emery in tow. "What happened?!" Dr. Emery snapped as her high heels clacked on the floor. "With all due respect, now really is not the time Dr. Emery" Bryce spoke sympathetically as Sienna placed the oxygen mask on Ethan's face and turned it on. "With me now, okay?" Jackie spoke softly as she knelt down looking into Ethan's eyes "In...... and out. And again, in........ and out" She continued. About 15 minutes later A panicked voice filled the atrium from the entrance. "ETHAN? HONEY?!" Casey shouted out, Sienna approached her and led her over to Ethan, who was a sweaty, dazed looking mess. "Oh god. Honey. I'm so sorry" Casey whispered tenderly as she sat next to him, pulling him to her chest and pressing a kiss to the crown of his head. The two sat there for a while in an unbreakable embrace, at one-point Elijah comes over and gives them a blanket to keep warm seeing as it's getting later in the night and the temperature is dropping. About another 30 minutes pass and Sienna comes back wheeling a cart of steaming hot food with her, "Who's hungry?" she asks happily. Everyone snaps up a plate and sits down, tucking into the deliciously hot food. "Don't worry Casey, I got you 2 chicken burgers and enough fries to feed 6. Plus I didn't forget your punnet of green grapes and a caramel decaf cappuccino and bottle of water to wash it all down. Or alternatively I got you Chinese too. Whichever you don't have, feel free to take it home for later." She beamed. They all sat together and ate, talking excitedly about the latest things going on with the things they are interested in. After they finished Ethan collected the plates and cutlery and disposed of them in the nearest trash can. As Casey stood to her feet and gave all her friends a hug, Harper came storming back towards the group, "nice to see we've turned Edenbrook into a community center now" she snapped not registering Casey had now joined them. "Look, Dr. Emery, I don't mean any harm by my following statement but... WHAT is up your ass?" Sienna asked, with her face screwed up in anger. The rest of the gang stared on in complete shock. Sienna had never spoken to a superior like this, much less Harper Emery. Shocked herself, Dr. Emery quickly regains her composure "Nothing." She choked out. "Bullshit. I've seen you. You're fine around Ethan until Casey's name comes up or she enters the room." Sienna pushed as she got into Harper's face. "Doc... Are you...? jealous?" Bryce asked, bewilderment spreading onto his face as Ethan gripped his wife's hand tightly. "Oh... this is, fucked up." Jackie spoke as the smile fell from her face. Elijah came forward, "You're the one who sabotaged the wedding aren't you?" He said conspiritally looking at Harper. "You were jealous Casey caught Ethan's attention in a way you couldn't. You tried to break them up with a series of schemes throughout the hospital leading up to their engagement. Which killed your heart. You loved Ethan and still have feelings for him today, but despite all your meddling, Casey and Ethan only got stronger in their relationship. The opposite result of what you wanted. You wanted everything to fall apart so that Ethan would come to you and you could get Casey kicked out of Edenbrook, and you could sink your claws into him and trap him in a relationship he wouldn't have wanted. But now you have to spend every day working in the same hospital as them and watch another woman do what you wanted to do the most. Carry and eventually birth his offspring. You thought Casey was a weak and easy target, but she is stronger than most people I know. And you picked the wrong people to mess with." Elijah spoke seriously as he turned his chair to face everyone. "She's even the one behind that time Casey got severely drugged." He added. Everyone looked at Harper with faces full of disappointment. Even other doctors passing by had stopped to listen, drawn in by the commotion. "Harper.. why?" Ethan asked as he stared at the floor not daring to look her. "He said it didn't he? Ethan I lo-" She cried but was cut off as Ethan held up his hand. "I'm married and happy in that marriage. I've always been happy in this relationship. Nobody will change that." He spoke sternly as Casey yawn beside him. He looked at her and made his decision. "I'm going home. My WIFE needs to get to bed. We'll finish this conversation tomorrow. With two other seniors in the room. I don't trust you anymore" He continued as he started walking with Casey towards the main doors to go home. "WAIT!" Harper shouted, "What does she have that I don't?!!" she demanded. Ethan and Casey turned around and looked at her with a steely and level gaze. "Compassion and consideration" He spoke emotionless. They left as Harper sat on a chair and cried. Nobody stopped to console her. They just all either went to clock out or carried on with work.
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Ethan x Casey Fiction - Short Stories & One Shots
FanficA book full of imagines based of the fictional character, Ethan Ramsey from Pixelberry's book series Open Heart. I do not own the character rights to Ethan Ramsey, or any other characters that I am using in the imagines of this book, but I think the...