Luka is busy telling everyone at Carter's party (Dubenko, Malik, Pratt, Haleh, and random extras) to eat and drink up because Weaver's footing the bill. Yeah, where the hell's Weaver? Even if she wasn't working, she couldn't show up for Carter's party? Lame. Pratt picks up a breadstick and says that, for eleven years of duty, Carter deserved caviar. Luka adds that there's something his father used to say when a friend went on a journey, and that he said it when Luka came to the States. Luka gets a little choked up and says he thought of it today when he realized that he wouldn't be working with Carter anymore, or at least not for a long time. Carter looks touched. Luka says his father would clasp the person's hand and say, "We only part to meet again." Did he say it in English? Because I wanted Luka to speak Croatian. Everyone claps and clinks glasses as Luka's pager goes off. It's in his coat pocket, and his coat is sitting on a nearby table, so no one hears it.
Well, it's been four minutes, and the critical patients have arrived. Neela is working on Preggo, along with Chuny and Darlene and a bunch of other people we've never seen before. Preggo's blood pressure drops, and Neela orders everyone to roll Preggo onto her side, while yelling something about the uterus and pressure and something else. It works. Preggo yells that her back hurts, and Neela and Chuny exchange "Oh, shit!" looks. Neela rushes over and holds out her finger, and Chuny squirts a metric shitload of lube on it. Wow, I think I just wrote a fanfic. Neela explains that the back pains were contractions. She checks and announces that the baby is crowning. They turn the bed around so that random passers-by can't see Preggo's bottom system as Neela tells Chuny to grab some supplies and page OB.









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