Reservations & Meetings

A/N

Little Zax fic based on the below prompt, enjoy! It's just fluff for the sake of it! Two shot.

Imagine your OTP meeting as their hotel screws up both of their reservations and they have to share a room until the hotel fixes the problem.

Bonus if there's only one bed.

Reviews welcome,

Laura xxx

Zoe Hanna checked into the Doorbank Hotel.

"Your room is ready, here is the key." The receptionist handed her a card.

"Thank you." The consultant smiled.

As she moved away, a young man with the most gorgeous blue eyes that she'd ever seen asked the receptionist for a key to room number 213.

"That's my room number!" Zoe interrupted.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Said the receptionist. "We must have got it mixed up. Your room isn't ready yet, Miss Hanna."

"So I have to share a room with her?" The young man enquired.

"And are you complaining?" Zoe said. Something was telling her not to argue.

"Not exactly."

Zoe smiled at him as they made their way to the lift. "So, what's your name?"

"Max Walker. Yours?"

"Zoe Hanna." She smiled, shaking his hand, rather formally.

"Pleased to meet you." He beamed.

"Ditto."

"So, what do you do?" He asked as the lift came to a halt and the doors opened.

"I'm a consultant at Holby City Hospital. You?" She asked, glancing at the door numbers, trying to find hers. Or rather, for now, theirs.

Max chuckled. "Actually, I'm due to start as a porter there, soon. I just haven't given my sister, she's a nurse there, the go ahead to ask anyone about it."

"Well, we always need more porters."

"You're not going to make fun of me?"

"No, we wouldn't be half as organised... If you can call the ED organised, without them." Zoe shrugged.

"Oh... Okay." He nodded.

She smiled. "I've never liked hierarchy, I believe that everyone is important. That's why I've stepped down as Clinical Lead."

"Oh..."

"I've come here to get away for a while, clear my head." She explained as they found their room.

Zoe opened the door and they stepped inside.

"Oh shit." She swore. There was only one bed.

"That's all right with me!" Said Max happily.

"Of course it would be." She said, amused.

"So..." He said, wandering into the ensuite bathroom. "I could sleep in the bath?"

"No, don't be silly! You can sleep in the bed."

"Hopefully it'll only be for the night."

"Hopefully, or hopefully not..."

"What d'you mean?"

"Nothing..." She responded, wandering out onto the balcony.

He followed her. "Wow." He breathed, taking in the view.

"Yep." She said. The hotel looked onto the beach.

Zoe gazed out to the sea. "It's beautiful."

"It is." He agreed, standing next to her.

She sighed. The consultant couldn't explain it, but she felt a connection with Max.

"So, Mr Walker." She began. "I would like to get to know you."

"Okay..."

"I um, hope that's okay? I'm not being rude or anything, I'd just like to talk..." She stuttered.

"Zoe..." He spoke her name for the first time, laying a hand on her arm. "It's okay, I'd like to get to know you too. If that's okay."

Zoe's heart skipped a beat. "It is."

The two sat on the bed, talking about everything and nothing.

"So... Have you got a significant other?" Zoe enquired a while later, it was the one question that they hadn't asked one another.

"No... Well..." He trailed off.

"It's okay, you don't have to tell me. I could be a mass murderer."

"You're not, though, right? And it's okay."

She gazed at him. "No, I'm not."

"Well... I've met someone fairly recently, actually. I looked into her eyes, and I knew, somehow, that we were soulmates. She's the most stunning woman that I have ever met."

"Wow... She sounds amazing." Chuckled Zoe, her heart beating faster. "I've met someone too."

"What's he like?"

"Funny... Silly, impulsive, doesn't mind sharing a bed with me, even though he barely knows me. He's got the most gorgeous eyes that I've ever seen. I looked saw him, and I knew that it was no accident that we had met. I don't usually believe in all that, but I believe that it's fate."

He moved closer to her. "Really?"

"Yes." She nodded.

Max took her hand. "What's this person's name?"

"It's you, Max. Look, I don't know why I feel like this, I just do... I know it's a cliché, but I have honestly never felt like this before. Not instantly."

"Zoe, I... Feel the same. I don't know why, either."

" I don't want to be messed around. I don't want to be another one night stand. I want this to be either make or break."

"Well..." He said, moving closer still. "Let's make it, shall we?"

Before Zoe could nod, his lips were against hers.

A while later...

"Zoe... Zoe..." Max tried to wake her.

"Mmmpph"

"I'm ordering us something to eat."

"Burger and chips." She mumbled, before falling back to sleep.

"So the receptionist told me that there was a room available for me when I ordered the food... I declined." Max told Zoe when she woke up.

"Aha... I don't mind." She grinned. "Will the food be long?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Hmm... Long enough for us to have a shower?" She asked, smiling cheekily.

"Probably, yes." He grinned, pecking her on the lips and taking her hand.