Notes: so @lilmissriottbliss and I have both been watching a lot of Chicago Med and decided that the Chicago shows now officially take place in Emoverse! This is just a lil’ one shot of Kate being injured, Rhea and Toni taking her to Chicago Med, and everyone finding out Ethan was once SHIELD. If anyone has questions, toss them in my inbox!
“Hold on, just hold on,” Rhea Ripley muttered, half under her breath, as she ran down the street. Kate Kane was laying, half limp, in Rhea’s arms. It was supposed to be a normal trip, a vacation almost, to Chicago before WWE started touring again but it ended in disaster. Even on vacation, Kate brought her Batwoman suit and it ended with her stabbed.
“M fine,” Kate murmured weakly, even as blood steadily bled out of the wound.
“You aren’t fine, you got stabbed!” Toni snapped, her tone shaky. Kate tried to roll her eyes but winced instead as they burst into the Emergency Department at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center.
“Help! We need some help over here!” Rhea shouted. A nurse rushed up to them.
“What’s your name?” She asked.
“I’m Rhea, that’s Toni, and this is Kate. Please. You need to help her!” Rhea pleaded.
“Dr. Halstead, over here!” The nurse yelled. A tall, well built man with red hair rushed up.
“What happened?” He demanded.
“We Uh….we um….” Toni stumbled over the question so Rhea quickly butt in.
“We were at the park and Kate was climbing in a tree and fell,” Rhea quickly lied. Dr. Halstead looked unconvinced but still helped Kate onto a gurney. “Someone page Dr. Choi!” “Already on it!” A nurse yelled.
“You look really familiar,” Another nurse commented. “Kate!” Toni cried
“Listen, will you help my girlfriend or not!” Rhea snapped. A Korean man ran up and checked on Kate, making orders quickly.
“Get me a CBC, CMP, tox screen, and type and screen. STAT,” he commanded.
“Make sure the tubes are green and lavender,” Dr. Halstead said before adding a, “Or Raya will have my ass” under his breath. One of the nurses snorted.
“Looks like whatever stabbed her missed her lung by about a centimeter” Dr. Choi said.
“What the hell stabbed her?” Dr. Halstead asked. Toni paled. “She fell off a tree, I didn’t even look when we picked her up” Dr. Choi looked at the two women, frowning. Kate’s heartbeat went slow. “She’s stable” A nurse said, another snapping her finger. “I know you two! You’re wrestlers!”
“Bloody hell, can’t we go anywhere and not be recognized,” Toni grumbled.
“April, leave them alone,” Dr. Choi said with a smile.
“I’ll take the tubes down to the lab,” a new doctor said, walking up.
The doctor walked off with the tubes in hand.
“Where can we wait?” Toni asked
“I’ll show you….I actually have a few questions for you two,” Dr. Choi said. Rhea nodded. Dr. Choi led them to a small room and shut the door behind them, crossing his arms and looking at the two. Rhea did the same, Toni sitting down.
“I’ve been a doctor for a very long time, and I know what kinds of injuries are caused by what. And I know that she didn’t fall out of a tree. So what happened?” Dr. Choi said. Rhea looked him in the eye. “I can’t tell you that”
“Why not? Was this a domestic dispute? Those injuries are more from a knife than falling from a tree”
"It wasn't a fight with us, and that's all I can say"
“Kate helps SHIELD,” Toni added.
“The agency that works with the Avengers?”
“Yes, her father runs Crows Security in Gotham,” Rhea said.
“That explains where I’ve seen her. Used to do medical for Shield”
“So trust us when we say, this wasn’t a dispute with us.”
He sighed. “Fine. But don’t be surprised if Chicago P.D gets involved” Toni nodded
“And we’ll let SHIELD know….why did you leave them?” Rhea asked. Dr. Choi’s jaw tightened. “That’s none of your business”
“Fine,” Rhea snapped, “But some agents will be coming here.”
“Then you can ask them” he left. “What a dick”
“We should call Bobbi and let her know.”
Rhea nodded. Toni pulled out her phone, dialing up the number.
“Hi Bobbi, do you know a Dr. Choi?”
“Yeah, he used to work for SHIELD. Why?”
“Because Kate had a incident with a knife and I’m pretty sure him and Rhea are gonna hurt each other”
About fifteen minutes later, Bobbi Morse strode into the room with Jade on her heels.
“Ethan!” She greeted the doctor
“Bobbi. Jade,” Ethan nodded. Bobbi pulled him into a hug, Ethan awkwardly returning it.
“How have you been? It's been ages.”
“Have you been going to therapy or are you still overworking yourself?”
“The second one” Will interrupted.
“Damn, he looks like he could be Romanroger’s kid,” Jade joked. Bobbi snorted, turning to Ethan. “I thought when you retired you said you’d take care of yourself.”
Ethan shrugged, looking away awkwardly. Bobbi sighed, noticing Rhea glaring.
“So why did he leave?” Toni asked Bobbi and Jade. Ethan glared.
“What, you said to ask them,” Toni said.
“Ethan used to be a field agent” Bobbi said
“Ooh,” Rhea and Toni nodded in understanding.
“Went down to medical after a mission, been a doctor ever since” Ethan added
“So what happened to Kate? Is she okay?” Jade asked.
“We’re just waiting on the blood test results,” Will added before his phone buzzed with a text.
“Why is Saraya texting you in all caps?”
“Something about Nat saying we were being rude”
Ethan laughed. Will smacked him. “She might be tiny but she’s gonna kick my ass!”
Ethan laughed again. Will stared at Ethan. “Stop laughing!”
“To be fair, tiny people can be scary. One of our wrestlers…..” Toni shuddered, “Took out a guy.”
There was a knock at the door. Will made a noise.
“Come in,” Ethan said. A small woman holding lab papers walked in, glaring at Will. “Hey Raya” She marched up to him and began poking him in the chest. “You. Do. Not. Get. To. Be. Rude. To. Wrestlers!”
“Still rude to be rude to them!”
Ethan silently walked out. “Actually it makes sense he's former SHIELD” Rhea noted.
“He never did say where he was before coming here,” Will mused.
“Was he in the Budapest mission?” Jade asked Bobbi, who nodded.
“Thought I recognized him. What happened?”
Bobbi let out a long breath.
“He got shot in the knee, guy came close to killing him, retired from field work not long after”
“Damn,” Jade shook her head.
“A bit. Not much, Jemma did a lot more as did Lincoln”
“Lincoln was smart enough to work in med shit?”
“Had a medical degree and everything”
“We sure he didn’t cheat?” “Jade!”
“What?” Jade grinned cheekily. Bobbi shook her head. “I was on Budapest, hell of a two day mission”
Will frowned as there was another knock on the door. A man who looked similar too but a little bit older than Will, and with darker hair, walked in with Natalie behind him.
“This is Detective Halstead”
“Jay Halstead,” Jay extended his hand, “I understand this involved SHIELD?”
“Yes, we can’t exactly say that out loud” Jay nodded
“What happened to the perp?”
“I might have punched him out and left for CPD to deal with” Rhea flexed. “These aren’t just for TV”
Toni laughed slightly, nuzzling her face against Rhea’s shoulder.
“So will Kate make it?” Toni asked.
“Well she’s in surgery right but we have the best surgeons in the state”
“Not to mention her blood type is O pos, which we have a good amount of, and the rest of her results look normal,” Saraya added. Rhea breathed out a sigh of relief.
“Anyway, I need to get back to the lab,” Saraya said, handing the lab papers to Will.
“Love you” She mock glared. Natalie laughed, pulling her into a hug.
Saraya sighed. Natalie bumped her shoulder gently. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing much, just thinking about my application to join Shield”
“You applied for SHIELD?”
“Yup. Didn’t get in because of an underlying heart condition”
“Underlying heart condition?” Will frowned.
“Arrhythmia” Saraya said. Will let out a breath.
“Now that I think about it, it was a blessing in disguise. I was able to finish my MLS program”
Will wrapped her into a hard hug. Saraya hugged him back, laughing. “April’s missing too so I assume I know where Ethan is”
“God I was such a bitch to him” Rhea whined.
“Eh, you were worried about Kate. If it had been me injured, Jade would’ve killed him,” Bobbi shrugged. Jade stuck her tongue out.
“Jade’s a bit overprotective,” Bobbi explained, noticing the confused looks on Will, Natalie, and Saraya’s faces. Toni coughed. “Bit?”
“Not my fault I don’t want my wife killed,” Jade shrugged.
“Ethan’s having a panic attack!” April ran down the hall.
“I’ll page Dr. Charles,” Will said but Bobbi grabbed his arm.
“Let me go” She ran after April. In the break room, Ethan was sitting with his arms wrapped around his knees.
“Ethan” Bobbi knelt down and grabbed his hands.
“Leave me alone,” Ethan muttered.
“Not happening” Bobbi sat in front of Ethan, “I know you’re scared, but do you remember what you told me? Back when I was having these?”
“That you were safe at SHIELD,” he said.
“Exactly. So you’re safe here”
“How do you know?” Ethan whispered.
“Because you have friends here. You’re alive”
Ethan licked his lips. April leaned down and hugged his head to her chest.
“I’m here for you,” she whispered. Ethan held onto her and took deep breaths. “I’m such a idiot for talking about Budapest”
“Sometimes it feels good to talk about traumas, sometimes I feel better when I talk about….you-know-who,” Bobbi said. Ethan nodded, April kissing his head. “I’m guessing you’re his girlfriend”
April held out her hand. “Fiancée, actually.”
“Alright let’s get up” April eased him off the ground. Ethan smiled at her, hugging her tightly.