The Pain Game
She'd played along that day, acted just like she normally did with him. She didn't feel normal though, fair enough the ED being in chaos may have had something to do with it, most of it stemmed from how rough Max looked.
Zoe and Max were, well whatever they were, she thought she well and truly had him under he spell though and she liked that. Or more rather, she liked him, a lot. Max had come into work that day because she was understaffed, it was meant to be his day off, and he looked like he did before Zoe. When he'd spent the night in a club on the pull and ended up back home with whatever tart had fallen into his arms this time. The feeling gripping at her stomach was jealousy, a feeling generally unbeknown to Dr Zoe Hanna.
Max carried on like normal that day, he continued to flirt with Zoe, was lovely to patients and just generally the same as ever, as the day went on he began to look more and more rough. At the end of his shift he spoke to Zoe and then left, she seemed stressed, which was understandable given the 'Connie situation' so he wasn't willing to make her load heavier. In all honesty he was feeling like death warmed up. He shouldn't really have gone to work, but he hadn't wanted to let Zoe down.
The reason for the way he was feeling wasn't as simple as Zoe had thought. He hadn't been out and about the previous eye, not now that his roving eye was fixed firmly on her, he'd stayed in and even had an early night to try and fight the headache that he had. Once he'd gotten back home, he grabbed a glass of water and sat on the sofa, having now not even got enough energy to climb the stairs and make his way to bed.
The first thing he noticed when he went to take a drink, was how shaky his hands were. By this point he didn't even have enough every to bend down to lay his glass on the floor. He lay back to try and stop his head from swimming, however now his eyes were beginning to close. He tried to fight it but it wasn't long before he was out cold.
A/N This fic is based on last weeks ep 'The Dying Game' the title of this fic is like the ep title but I named it this because Zoe thinks that Max is playing games with her, however he isn't. I hope this is okay.