Helping me, to help you, It's the best I can do!

Maddy's Testimony (Chapter 1)

Dr. Cullen and Jayne were waiting for Dr Young to appear. She was going to be giving her testimony to get this Tim case out the way. Looking at her watch Jayne started tutting

"She's 10 minutes late. This is very unprofessional" Jayne said
"I know, she's late, it's unlike her" Dr. Cullen was starting to get nervous. He wanted this over with

"She needs to get herself here to clear you name" Janye Kept saying

"Can you hold them at bay while I find her?" Cullen asked Jayne sweetly

"10 Minutes maybe, go, now" She sent him off down the corridor.

Cullen dialled her number. The phone rang, someone picked up just as he spoke, the phone beeped off. Strange he made his way slowly round the hospital searching for her. Just as he came to the corridor linking Darwin and the fire escape, he thought he heard her voice, something panicked in it. He heard a supply cupboard shut further down the corridor, hurrying down he found the supply cupboard. He heard hushed voice, then one voice getting slightly louder.

"No!" A woman's voice

"You Lie, you so want me" A man rough voice

"You can't stop me" The women replied

"Is that a bet?!" He asked menaingly

There was silence. Cullen opened the door, which fortunately wasn't locked. He saw Jamie pressed up close, kissing a young doctor, wait it was Maddy. He let go of her when he saw Linden.

"Oh your boyfriends discovered our relationship, sorry a little privacy here, right Maddy"
Maddy looked like she was about to shake her head and say something, but her eyes went wide and she nodded

"I'm sorry" She said quietly. Her voice laced with Shame Linden thought.

"Well I need to be going anyway. Got a trial to get to. See ya hot stuff" He lightly smacked her bum before disappearing with a big grin on his face.

Dr Cullen looked at Maddy. She was white, her brown curls in contrast to her pale face.

"Look I'm sorry, can I just straighten out, I'll be out in a second" She looked flustered and just a little bit nervous.

"Hurry. I need to be back in 5 minutes. We'll talk of this later" he said shutting the door

Maddy looked down at her clothes and saw to a horror a red mark on her left side. Looking it over, it didn't look to deep, it could wait. She grabbed some gauze and tape, plastered herself up and pulled down her top. Noticing the red mark on her white shirt, she pulled down her black waist coat, Shook her head to clear it and walked out.

"What was that about?, I thought you didn't like him" Cullen asked the moment she walked out of the store room.

"Can we just go. I want this over before I lose my nerve" Maddy asked quietly

"Pardon?" Linden wasn't sure if he heard her correctly

"Lets just say...nothing" She said covering up. She took a deep breath.

He noticed her touch her side several times, and wince as they hurried up the stairs, he put it down to being pressed against the hard shell. Part f him knew he should have told her how inappropriate it was for her to be like that, but she was helping him, he would overlook this incident.. Unconsciously straightening out her clothes She went through the double doors

"Your Late Dr. Young" Mr. Flame, One of the senior board members

"I'm sorry I got held up on the ward" Maddy replied calmly

"Your evidence Dr. Young" Jayne Grayson asked

"There was a high level of potasium in the blood, as you know potassium is very powerful, normally administered by an anestative, the dosage is too high at 50 above recommended level, I don't think I need to tell you that, this thinned his blood, making it flow quicker so the blood loss became bigger. This is what I believe Dr. Cullen couldn't work out were he went wrong"

"How did you obtain this evidence?" Mr Flame asked
"I was in surgery helping out another casualty removing an ovarian cyst with the anaesthetist that was present during Dr. Cullen's surgery. I don't believe she was under enough, as her eye lids flickered twice in 2 sessions. I believe with this observation and these results that appeared, Miss Grayson on her desk" Maddy answered calmly

"This is not an unusual occurrence?" Mr. Flame suggested
"Normally it may happen once, and I wouldn't give it a second thought however the fact it happened twice and it got me considereing that Dr. Cullen had taken the responsibility but couldn't work out what had happened. I Just did a little research. I then asked another doctor to watch him during surgery, thinking it might have been a one time glitch. He noticed that the patient wasn't given enough muscle relaxant and was busy flirting with one of the students"

The questioning went on for about another 20 minutes. Maddy answered all the questions smoothly and quickly. She was starting to feel a little light headed but she put that down to stress and nerves.

"One more question before we move on, what is the reason you are coming forward to tell us this, even if we discover these have been gotten unofficially?" Mr Flame asked
"Because Dr. Cullen is a good, competent surgeon, this hospital would lose a valuable surgeon and doctor over something he was not responsible for. He took responsibility because he was in chage but it wasn't him who made the critial mistake" Maddy answered smoothly

"Thank you Dr. Young. Are you alright?" Jayne asked. She had noticed that she had rested her hand on table for support and her face had become a little more pale.

"Fine Thank You" She said quietly, trying to calm her dizzying head and focus her eyes. Why did she feel so fatigued, she absent mindedly wondered.

"You are dismissed" Jayne said smiling at Maddy showing her she had done well. It was looking good.

As she left, she shut the door and Dr. Cullen stood up

"Well?" He asked quickly
Maddy walked unsteadily towards him

"Dr. Young, are you OK" Concern etetched on his features, his voice lace with concern. She really didn't look well. She was just in arms reach, when her whole world went black and she felt herself falling, the last words she remembered hearing were a panicked voice and strong arms catching her

"MADDY?!"