After having a patient throw up all over him, Oliver Valentine dashed into the locker room to grab his spare scrubs and get changed as quickly as possible. As the Norovirus had broken out in Darwin and also in Keller, the wards were busy with vomiting patients even if they were nil by mouth. Ollie always made the most of his short breaks as he was working 8 hour shifts in order to make ends meet; it had been a busy month.
It was also Zosia's break but she hadn't been thrown up on. Instead, she was sitting in the staff room, sobbing quietly to herself. Ollie walked in for a cup of coffee and was shocked when he saw Zosia so upset. He sat down next to her.
"Hey, Zosh, what's the matter?" he asked, concernedly.
He had always been secretly in love with Zosia but he tried not to show it. In reality, the second she walked through the door, her bright brown eyes shining and her brunette hair glistening in it's neat ponytail, his heart turned cartwheels and he fell in love all over again.
"It's Seb." she wept, "He did this to me and now we've broken up."
"He did what?" said Ollie as he sat down.
Oliver didn't know how to feel. Half of him was thrilled that Zosia had broken up with Seb. He had always hated that 'smarmy little man' and felt as if he was taking advantage of her. However, another half of him was really upset for her as he had never seen anyone he cared about so much as sad as Zosia was right now.
She pulled up her scrub top to reveal a big bruise in the stomach and red weals along her back.
"Did he actually do that to you?" Ollie said as a tear then rolled down his own cheek. He couldn't believe how physically and mentally hurt the woman he loved was.
"He was convinced I was seeing someone else," murmured Zosia as she hiccuped, "So I told him that, yes, I was to shut him up, he was on top of me, I was convinced he would kill me so I ran away to Dom and Arthur's and slept on their couch because I still had the key but then but then he found me and did this and they wanted to call the police but he..."
"Woah, slow down a minute, Zosh," Ollie said, softly, "Did he hit them too?"
She nodded her head and looked into his deep blue eyes. He stroked her hair as Zosia cried into his chest.
"It's alright, you've got me now and I will never hurt you, I will never let you go, Zosia."