Antonio walks out to the ambulance. Sylvie is standing outside of the ambulance waiting for Antonio whilst Emily is sat in the back of the ambulance with Megan. 

'Foster will get you cleaned up on the way to Med.' Sylvie informs him. 'Megan will need a few stitches and a small transfusion. She'll definitely be admitted for a psychiatric hold.' 

'Do you know what caused her-' Antonio starts to ask but then stops when he realises he doesn't know how to word what he wants to say. 

'Megan's mental health has been low for a good few years.' Sylvie says knowing what he's trying to ask. 'She was bullied over her weight in middle school which is where it started, I guess. She's recovering from anorexia and bulimia. I haven't seen her in about a year. We've talked over Instagram and on the phone but I didn't realise it was this bad. The bullying is why she was sent to the boarding school in the first place.' 

'Brett!' Emily shouts. 'She's having a seizure!' Sylvie runs to the back of the ambulance, climbs in and helps Emily.

'Diazepam.' Emily states. She reaches into the medical bag, gets out a syringe of Diazepam, places it into Megan's cannula and pushes the medication through. After a minute, Megan stops seizing. 'She's most likely overdosed on something.' Sylvie gets the oxygen mask and places it over Megan's head and over her nose and mouth. 'We should put restraints on.'

'Yeah.' Sylvie nods in agreement. 'If she comes to before we get to the hospital, she'll be confused. She'll try to get up and most likely hurt herself again.' Emily stands up, rummages through the cubbys until she finds the restraints. She hands one to Emily and they both attach the restraints to the bed before putting Megan's hands through them. 'Let's get to Med.' Sylvie tells Emily. 'I'll call ahead to get psyche on standby.' Sylvie jumps out of the back and rejoins Antonio. 'We've stopped the seizure. We're going to head to Med now so jump in the back and Foster will look you over.'

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Arriving at Med, Megan is now conscious. Sylvie and Emily have removed the restraints. Doctors Will Halstead and Daniel Charles alongside Nurse April Sexton walk up to them.

'This is Megan Levine. She's sixteen years old. She's got self-inflicted wounds to both wrists. She's had a seizure which was relieved with diazepam. We think she overdosed.' Sylvie starts the handover.

'I didn't overdose!' Megan insists. 'How many times do I have to say it?!'

'She has a history of poor mental health.' Sylvie adds. They wheel her into the treatment as Emily recites the young girl's vitals.

'Hank Voight's unit found her.' Emily says. 'Detective Dawson has a deep laceration to his palm.' She continues. 'He's behind us.'

'I'll get him into a treatment room and get Doctor Choi to take a look.' April says before walking away. Will, Emily and Sylvie help Megan over to the bed.

'She's my cousin, so I'll be staying with her.' Sylvie informs the two doctors. 'Voight will explain everything when he gets here. We don't know where her parents are so I'll just say now that I give consent for you to run any tests and procedures you deem necessary.' Emily then leaves to take the kit back to the ambulance. Ambulance 61 has been taken out of rotation for the remainder of the shift.

'Hi, Megan.' Will smiles. 'I'm Dr Halstead. I'll be taking care of you today.' Dr Charles then steps forward. 'This is Dr Charles, he's-'

'A psychiatrist.' Megan sighs. 'You're here to do an evaluation - ask me how I'm feeling today, how I've been feeling the last few weeks, you're going to ask me what I think led to me self-harming today before putting me under a psychiatric hold.' She says. 'I've been through this plenty of times before. I know the drill.' There are a few moments of silence.

'Well,' Will walks to the side of the bed, 'I'm going to check the cuts on your wrists and send you for some scans to see if there is any damage to the nerves and tendons. Whilst we wait for those to be available, Dr Charles will have a chat with you.'

'I'll need to have a look at your previous psychiatric history.' Dr Charles states. 'What hospital have you been mainly treated at?'

'Lakeshore here in Chicago and Montreal Children's Hospital in Quebec.' Megan replies.

'Quebec?' Will asks confused as takes the bandages from around Megan's wrist off.

'I go to,' she starts, 'I went to,' she corrects herself, 'school there.' She finishes. 'I had to be taken to that hospital quite a lot.' Will examines the cuts. 

'You've opened up some cuts that were already healing.' Will tells her. 'We're going to have to close some of these up with skin glue. Is that okay?' 

'Yeah.' Megan nods.

'Great.' Will smiles. 'I'll go and order those scans. We're also going to run some blood tests However, if you have taken anything with the plan to overdose, we need to know now.' 

'I haven't taken anything.' Megan shakes her head. 

'Meg-' Sylvie starts to say. 

'I haven't overdosed!' Megan shouts. 'Sorry.' She says quieter. 'I get why you had to ask.'

'In that case, we'll have to do a CT of your head to find out why you had  a seizure.' Will says. 'I'll be back once all of your test results are back to close the cuts.' He covers the cuts back up before walking out of the room. Dr Charles looks at Sylvie. Sylvie clears her throat. 

'I'm going to go to the vending machine.' Sylvie states. She looks at Megan. 'Do you want anything?' She asks her cousin.

'No, I'm fine.' Megan shakes her head. Sylvie then leaves. After a couple of minutes, Dr Charles sits on one of the stools.

'Where are your parents?' He queries. 

'I don't know.' Megan sighs. 'I couldn't really care, to be honest.' 

'What makes you say that?' Dr Charles asks. 

'The fact that they're killing people and robbing their houses; then leaving me to deal with it all.' Megan replies. 'I probably shouldn't even talk about it.' 

'Is that how Voight and his team found you? They wanted to speak to your parents?' 

'No.' Megan shakes her head. 'They were looking for me.' 

'How do you mean?' 

'I walked out of school back in Quebec.' Megan replies. 'Technically, I've been a missing person for over 72 hours.' 

'Why'd you walk out of the school?' Dr Charles queries.

'I don't want to talk about it.' Megan shakes her head.

'That's fine.' Dr Charles nods.

'I cut today because erm-' Megan starts quietly.

'You don't have to tell me.' Dr Charles tells her.

'I'm going to have to at some point.' Megan responds. 'You'll see in my file that I'm recovering from anorexia and bulimia. Well, today, I had a more to eat than usual and I felt like making myself sick. But I didn't. Instead, I cut myself. I know it's not the solution but I can't go down the route of an eating disorder again.'

'What's your relationship like with Sylvie?'

'We talk all the time.' Megan says. 'Although, because of me being sent to the boarding school, we haven't seen each other in a year. She's one of the few people I speak to with regards to my mental health.' She continues. 'I just haven't told her how bad it's got.' She takes a deep breath. 'Everyday is just a battle.'

'Have you tried medication?'

'Nope.' Megan replies shaking her head. 'The doctors at Lakeshore and in Montreal said that it wouldn't help.'

'There I disagree.' Dr Charles raises an eyebrow. 'You never know until you try.' He adds. 'I'll tell you what, how about we try you on some anti-depressants?' Dr Charles suggests. 'We'll get you started on them down here.' He says as he stands up. 'I have to go to a meeting but I'll check on you later.'

'Thank you.' Megan smiles slightly. Dr Charles nods before walking out. As he does, Sylvie walks back in.

'Everything okay?' Sylvie asks her.

'Yeah.' She nods. 'Dr Charles is going to start me on some anti-depressants.'

'That's good.' Sylvie smiles. 'Since I've got you alone, I want to tell you something. I haven't told anyone else yet so you've got to promise to keep it a secret.' Megan nods. 'I'm pregnant.'

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In case it's not clear, it's Sylvie who's pregnant, not Megan.

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