Find My Way Back pt. 3
Title: Find My Way Back
Author: scottiegilles
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Luke and Noah.
Word count: 985
Disclaimer: Don’t own characters, am not associated in any way with ATWT, Van and Jake. No offence intended.
Beta: Paul Swanenburg
Summary: set in presant day Luke and Noah live together they have a little girl. But has an accident and has no memory of a Mr. Mayer
Casey waved the shirt in front of him, “Here you go buddy,”
“Thanks, can you take Robyn.” He gave Casey the little girl; he slipped into the turquoise memorial staff porter’s polo shirt,
“Maybe not the best thing, but it will do for now right if you just hide out in the patients lounge so you don't get mistaken for a porter.” Casey smiled, and tapped Robyn on the nose, she giggled.
“So are you supposed to be working?” Noah asked “Sorry that sounded like a blow off; it's not,”
Casey smiled “No I was on the night shift. Robyn's was my last call, I'm training to despatch paramedics but when I heard Luke was hurt I thought I'd stick around to see if he's ok, so what happened?”
“It was my fault; I was tickling him and he stepped back and fell down the stairs he hit his head at the bottom” Noah looked at his hands that were covered in Luke's blood “It's all my fault.”
“Hey come on Noah; let's get you out of the corridor, somewhere quiet.”
They found an empty patient lounge to sit down in; Casey got 2 cups of water from the water cooler, giving one to Robyn, and one to Noah. He handed Noah the antiseptic wipes to get the blood off his hands. “Come on Noah you can't blame yourself, accidents happen. If we blamed everything that went wrong on ourselves then we would end up the most depressive species ever. I'm not saying you shouldn't take responsibly for any of your actions, but in this case it's not your fault, it's not Luke's fault either. Bad things happen and yeah it sucks, but we just have to live with it. If you blame yourself I'll get Alison to slap you. She may look small but she packs one hell of a punch.”
Noah couldn't help but laugh a little “Thanks Casey.”
“It’s ok buddy, I'll see if I can find out how Luke's doing?”
Casey saw Holden and Lily with Faith, Natalie and Ethan in tow. “Hey Snyder's, I was just going to find out how Luke was doing. Noah is in the patients lounge with Robyn.”
“Ok, thanks Case, Lily I'll take the kids if you want go and find out how Luke is.”
Holden said “Come on kids, lets go say hi to Noah and Robyn,”
“Hey Noah, How are you?” Holden asked, putting Ethan down,
“A bit shaken up! You know?” Holden sat next to him and they fell into quiet conversation.
“Robyn your hair is really pretty,” Natalie said, “Get Faith to plait it for you”
“Ok, do you want a plait?” Faith asked.
“Yes please”, Robyn nodded her head.
“I got you and Robyn clothes I packed one of Nat's t-shirts but the jeans and trainers are Ethan's I think they would fit better” Holden said handing Noah the set of clothes,
“Yeah thanks” Noah smiled
Holden rummaged in the bag again, “I'm really sorry Noah I seem to of left the clothes I put out for you on Luke's bed”
“No its ok Casey gave me his spare shirt,” He smiled “Looks like Faith, Nat and Robyn are already playing hairdressers”
“Hey Robyn your hair looks pretty!” Noah said, kneeling down in-front of her chair
Robyn smiled “Faith did it for me” She put the braids over each shoulder so Noah could see them better
“What do you say to Faith?”
“Thank-you,” she beamed.
“Good girl Robbie, would you like to change into these cloths and get out of your nightie,” Noah said showing her the clothes Holden had given him.
“I'll take her to bathroom if you like, more privacy,” Faith offered
Noah smiled he loved the Snyder's always so willing to help “Thanks that would be great, make sure you stay with her”
As soon as they left Casey came in he looked a little stony faced
“What's wrong?!” Noah asked
“Luke's in surgery, it may take a few hours, I mean it is his brain,”
“Casey, tell me what's wrong!” Noah said again
Casey looked at the floor “They don't know very much right now, they'll know more as they operate and when he wakes up, but there is a risk of brain damage,”
Noah was in shock; so many possibilities ran through his head, “how bad is it?”
Casey shook his head “I don't know”
“Well, you asked the doctor you should know!” Noah raised his voice
“Noah! I don't! I'm not a doctor I'm just a porter! He told me all this doctor talk and I don't know what it means! Something about a temporal lobe!? It could be umm?”
“Tell me Casey!” Noah snapped
“ughh? It could effect his memories but the doctors still don't know that much. He's just got into surgery, I'm sure they will tell us more once he's out of surgery, it's just to early to tell”
“Ok guys you need to calm down, yelling at each other is not helping” Holden stepped in. Lily had gone to sit with Ethan and Nat.
“Dude, calm down ok, I'm going home. I'll get some sleep and when I get back I’ll see how Luke is” Casey said, “Bye Noah, Snyder's” and with that he walked out.
Noah sat down “I'm sorry; I can't stand this!”
Holden comforted him “it's ok Noah, you just need to relax, getting so worked up doesn't help”
“I'm so worried about Luke what if he does have brain damage? What am I going to tell Robyn? How am I going to explain?”
“Noah, calm down! He may not have brain damage, we don't know. We just have to be patient and see what happens,”
Robyn came running into the room “Daddy, what do you think?”
Noah looked at his beautiful little girl, with to two cow-girl plaits in her hair one over each shoulder, a blue long sleeved top with butterflies and spirals on it then a pair of boys jeans and trainers,
“Pretty good sweetie, Come here!” Noah picked her up and spun her round, laughing. He then sat her on his lap and rolled the sleeves of the top up that should fit a 9 year old on a 6 year old went way over her hands,
“How long till we see Luke?” she asked
Noah smiled “I don't know Robbie, maybe in a couple of hours,”
“I'm still hungry” She said,
Holden and Lily spent a couple of minutes setting up the picnic breakfast; they had everything, cereal, fruit, a flask of juice, bowls, plates and cutlery. They went to the canteen to get milk and coffee.
“Thanks so much of this” Noah smiled watching Robyn tuck in to some apple chucks. She nodded her head vigorously, “Robbie don't scoff your food.” Noah smiled. He didn't blame her. It was now 10.30, even he felt like snarffing down.
“I want you to plait my hair like Faithy does” Robyn said,
Noah nodded “she'll have to teach me”. He looked over to Faith, who had her head buried in a girly magazine. Ethan was playing with a train with Holden, Lily was sitting with Natalie sharing a banana. He couldn't shift the fact that Luke was missing, it felt like a massive hole in the picture.