Swings and Roundabouts

Chapter 1

So I came up with the idea of last night when i went to bed, Jonny decides to help Jac relive her childhood, seeing as she technically didn't have one, after he learns about her past and what her mother did to her, she's 30 weeks pregnant and the baby does not have CDH...

It was 12 o clock midday and the ward was worryingly quiet as the group of medical staff, consisting of Mo, Jonny, Eliot and Mr T, were all sitting around the nurses station, coming up with ideas about how to pass their time as none of them were due into theatre or to do the ward rounds for a while now. Mo had been looking on the internet for outfits for the ward x-mas party and had not been having much luck in finding one, her and Jonny had been glued to the computer screen until she came across something they both liked,

"How about this one, not to tarty, not to bright, I like it!" Mo said, convincing herself that this was the dress that she needed in her life, Jonny sat there nodding in agreement, "It's lovely, can we look on the maternity section, i might get Jac one as a surprise!" Jonny said as Mo added the dress to her basket and pressed on the maternity section.

Just as the page loaded up, Jac came wondering out of her office and walked empty looking straight past the nurses station and in direction of the ladies, Jonny watched on as she disappeared around the corner,

"Does anyone know what's wrong with Jac?" Eliot asked, also watching Jac until she disappeared around the corner, Jonny quickly snapped out of his daze and turned to face the professor, who was leaning against the desk.

"I really couldn't tell you, she was like it all last night, she had a facebook message off of someone and slammed her phone down and walked off to bed!" Jonny answered, crossing his arms, debating whether to go after her and have a talk to her. Elliot looked at Jonny concerned, wondering what could have put her in this mood, knowing from when she had bad messages in the past she would just brush them off and carry on with what she was doing.

5 minutes later, after chatting about the many reasons why Jac could be in this withdrawn kind of mood, she emerged through the double doors and slowly made her way back onto the ward, she then quickly brushed past the nurses station and headed towards her office,
"I'm going to go and have a word with her! Wish me luck!" Jonny said to the three remaining medical staff before jogging up next to Jac.

As he caught up with her, she quickly glanced to her side, before returning to face the direction in which she was walking in,

"What!" Jac snapped, in no mood to talk to anyone, Jonny looked at her, now knowing that something was wrong with her, as she had been snapping at him since last night,

"Have I done something to upset you Jac?" Jonny asked, determined to find out what was causing her to be this moody, Jac stopped, just as they arrived at her office door and turned to face him,

"No, it's not you, i'm just not in the mood today!" Jac said, before opening her door and walking in to the spacious office, Jonny put his hand on the door quickly before she went to close it on him, causing her to let out a big sigh,

"Jac, is it the baby?" Jonny asked, still not willing to give up on the conversation, despite him seeing how annoyed she was becoming,

"No, it's not the baby, it's not you, just ...!" Jac said, not wanting to continue with what she had to say. Jonny walked in to the room, closing the door behind him and guiding Jac to sit on the sofa with him,

"Just what Jac? Tell me, maybe I could help, give you a wee bit of support!" Jonny said, sitting down next to Jac and wrapping his arms around her shoulders. Jac looked down at her lap, twiddling her thumbs as the room fell silent, Jonny sat looking at her sympathetically as he waited for an answer.

A few moments later, Jac finally spoke up,

"Why do you want to know Jonny? Why do you want to know about my screwed up life!" Jac said, quietly, still looking down at her lap.

"Because Jac, I care about you, I want to know about your life, screwed up or not screwed up!, now what's troubling you?" Jonny said, removing his arms from around Jac's shoulder's and taking hold of her hands and giving them a gentle squeeze. Jac looked up Into Jonny's eyes, seeing how serious that he was, knowing that he genuinely wanted to know and cared about her.

She took a deep breath and thought about how she was going word the past events of her life and childhood.

"Well... that message I had last night was from a girl called Paula and her daughter Jasmine!" Jac started, as she sat backwards on the sofa and got herself comfortable before continuing,

"Yeah? And what has she done to put you in this mood?" Jonny asked, looking puzzled and confused about why she made Jac feel this way,

"She's been looking on mine and your facebook wall and has found out that I was pregnant and wants to become involved in my life again... and I don't want her to!" Jac continued, stopping as she tried to hold back all the emotions that were trying to escape her body during the conversation.

"Why? What has she done, Jac?" Jonny asked, eager to know the full story,

"She... she abandoned me at the age of 12, I woke up one morning to a loud bang at the door, I went down to see what all the commotion was to find it was social services coming to collect me, I walked into the living room, to find a note on the table, saying that she had gone to india to follow her dreams and that she was sorry!" Jac said as a single tear rolled down her cheek. Jonny looked at her shocked as he heard a small chunk of what Jac had gone through,

"... then I was juggled and thrown from foster carer to foster carer until I was old enough to live on my own. She then came back a few years ago and she was admitted to the hospital with Kidney failure, this was when I was working as a general surgeon on Keller, I recognised her straight away, her voice echoed through my ears as she was brought through those doors, she noticed me as well, I was lumbered with her case and attended a MDT meeting about a possible kidney transplant... " Jac explained, looking at her hands as Jonny held onto them tightly, reassuring her that he was there for her and was going to support her through what ever she needed him to do. Jonny looked at her, his eyes filling up with tears as he knew what she was going to say next.

"And you donated your kidney didn't you? That's why you have that scar on your right side?" Jonny said, biting his lips after he spoke as Jac looked up at him with puffy red eyes, that were beginning to become blood shot from the tears that were about to escape her tear ducts.

"Yep, I gave her my right kidney, something inside me said it was the right thing to do, something inside me said that she wouldn't disappear off of the face of the earth again, that she would stay and try and be a proper mum and make up for all the years that we had lost together!" Jac said, becoming agry as she relived possibly the worst period of her life again.

"So what happened?" Jonny asked, still biting his lip as he continued to listen to the information that Jac was disclosing to him...

Hi,

I Hope you enjoy reading this chapter, I'm gonna do the next chapter about Jac finishing off telling Jonny about her mum and then do the rest about him trying to cheer Jac up, convincing her to relive her childhood with him, before the baby arrives,

Please read and review,

Will update again probably Wednesday along with the rest of my other two fan fics,

xxx