Since the fire, Rachel has lost her memory so she has forgotten that she was in love with Eddie, She's scared to get close to anyone as all she can remember is her past as a prostitute, she thinks that Eddie is going to hurt her like Stuart did, But Eddie isn't like that and wants to help her remember the good things about herself. Rachel is now scared of fire, She doesn't go to places that has fire (like open fireplaces in restaurants, firework shows, Festivals). She has a sister Called Zoe and she works in the hospital, (its not a crossover between Holby/Casualty/WR) I wanted to use someone different. But don't Worry Rachel is going to get her memory back but it takes her some time:)
Chapter one
As Rachel was trapped in the fire as the roof had fallen and hit her causing her to go unconscious, it took the fire fighters a good few hours to get the fire under control so they could go in and get Rachel and Stuart out, it was getting late everyone had gone home apart from Eddie, he wanted to stay as he wanted to be Rachel when she was bought out from the building he didn't care how long he had to wait.
It was about Nine o'clock when the fire fighters came out of the building that was still on fire, Rachel was being carried out by three of the fire fighters, she wasn't breathing, there was two ambulances left on the premise , the nearest paramedics came over with a stretcher and helped place her onto it, they put an oxygen mask over her face to try and get some oxygen into her.
Eddie saw and ran over to the ambulance.
"Rachie?" he called hoping that she could hear him. There was no response so he tried again.
"Rachie baby?" He called again this time with tears in his eyes, he loved her.
The paramedics lifted Rach into the back of the ambulance Eddie climbed into the back and held her hand, he started to softly stroke it and let his tears fall and kissed her hand just to let her know that he was there.
Once they got to the hospital they rushed Rachel straight down to the operating room. Zoe was on her shift and noticed Eddie waiting In the reception, she walked over to him
"Eddie What are you doing here? Where's Rachel?" She asked him.
With Eddie being a daydream thinking about what he might have to say to the kids back at school if their headteacher didn't make it, he didn't notice Zoe until she spoke.
"Its Rachel, she's been rushed down to the operating room" he paused as he didn't know how to tell her what happened, he was scared that he was going to lose her, Tears started to fill his eyes again as he looked at Zoe
Zoe was shocked as she was close to rach then she was to Mel.
"Hey, tell me what happened Ed" she said softly as she sat next to him and took his hand
He nodded "Her day was going great until the assembly" he paused again and looked over at the doors as they rushed Stuart in, he looked back at Zoe
"Stuart came into the hall, I told him to go but he didn't so he told everyone about rach being a Prostitute, so rach walked out the hall after telling everyone that it was true, Then a few hours later the fire alarms was going off and rach was getting everyone out to safety, she said that she was going to have one last look and that she was right behind me" he paused again as the tears was falling.
Zoe gave a gentle nod
"What happened next?" She asked softly again
"She saw Stuart lying there so she ran over and started to drag him away from the fire, she was halfway to the door when the roof fell on her" he said through his tears.
Zoe pulled him into a tight hug, he cried into her, she knew how much he cared for her.
As the months went by Eddie and Zoe was taking it in turns by staying at Rachel's bedside, when it was eddies turn he sat in the chair beside her and put one hand on her forehead and the held her hand with his other hand, he would talk to her about things, about them. And softly stroking her head, he would do this to her when she had slept over his one time, and told him that she was scared.
The first time it was Eddie's turn to sit with Rach he found it hard as all he could say was
"Don't leave me rach, please don't leave me"
More months went by rach was still unconscious, Zoe was at her side as Eddie was making sure that school would be ready for Rach when or if she decided to come back.