"I don't care who you are or what you want, go away. I'm busy." Zoe sighed as there was a knock on her office door, she'd thought that giving up clinical lead would mean less paperwork, apparently she was wrong. She'd decided that today would be an admin day to get up to date again, so she'd got the biggest mug she could find and filled it with coffee to keep her going and now whoever it was on the other side of the door was disturbing her. The person was persistent with their knocking, causing Zoe to get up from her desk and open the door, only to find no one there. She looked around, only to discover that the corridor was empty, something caught her eye as she went to return to her desk, sighing angrily at someone's idea of a joke. On the floor she found a package, it was wrapped in bandages but under that she could see blue wrapping paper. Ash was away on leave, meaning the parcel had to be for her. There were no clues on it as to who or where it had come from, she undid the bandages leaving just the shiny blue wrapping paper covering whatever it was that was inside. The shape of the present wasn't an easy to guess one, her curiosity would have to wait though as she was called through to resus to assist with the patients coming in from an RTC.
"Coming for a fag Zo?" Max asked as he saw Zoe heading back for her office.
"Oi, less of the Zo at work Max! People might hear you." Zoe whispered.
"Fag?" Max repeated.
"No, sorry I have a pile of paperwork as tall as my highest heels to work my way through." Zoe sighed heading back to her office with a whispered promise that she'd be over to his later that night. Lofty and Robyn were the only two people who knew about their relationship and that was only because of the amount of time that Zoe spent there, therefore things were kept quiet at work.
Zoe returned to the office and closed herself in, the door was closed but she still had a feeling that she was being watched. Even so, she sat down, taking the blue paper in her hands and tore at it. Inside she found a white fluffy rabbit with a brown scarf around its neck. She looked at the rabbit for a moment, the confusion growing the more she looked at it, that was until she looked up and saw Robyn stood in front of her desk.
"Do you like it?" Robyn asked, unsure by the look on her boss's and brother's partner's face.
"Erm, what is it?" Zoe asked, studying Robyn's face for any hint that this was some sort of prank.
So basically I was away visiting family and was without internet, I asked my best friend to send me a fic challenge and so she said to me include Zoe getting a mysterious parcel of blue wrapping paper with bandages wrapped around it. This was the result, hope you enjoy.
Beth x
"It's a cuddly toy." Robyn replied, pointing out the blatantly obvious.
"I can see that, what I mean is why?"
"I was in the bathroom last night and opened the bin and on the top I discovered a pregnancy test. It was positive. Since it wasn't mine, I can only assume that it belongs to you, so I thought I'd get the baby its first toy. Sorry about the blue, it was the only wrapping paper we had in the house."
"Oh." Zoe replied looking away from her partners older sister.
"Is there something wrong?" Robyn asked, suddenly feeling tension and anxiety radiating from Zoe.
"No. Alright look, I was always told I was infertile so I don't know if it's accurate and if it is then anything could be wrong at my age. I wanted to get everything checked before I told Max and he got excited about being a dad. Please don't tell him yet." Robyn considered Zoe's words for a minute before she spoke again.
"Okay, can I come to your scan to check if it's all okay though? I don't want you to go through this on your own and if you can't tell Max right now then I'll be the next best thing!" Robyn explained.
"Robyn I don't want you getting too attached to the idea of being an Aunty when it's quite likely that it won't happen."
"I won't Zoe, please just let me be there for you. Who knows, we could be sisters in law one day."
"Fine, it's at four up on the maternity ward."
"I'll see you there."
