Jonny Mac" Mo shouted as she walked up to the nurses station. "I've just seen Jac in the locker room, you might want to go and have a look." Mo explained quietly to Jonny showing concern.
"Why what's she eating now? Let me guess, this time it's a peanut butter and tomato footlong sub!" Jonny joked.
"Jonny I'm serious." The smile on his face slipped away as he froze on the spot. "Jonny, go." He blinked back to reality and ran towards the locker room.
Jac had just got changed for her morning shift. Jac shut her locker door quietly. She checked in the mirror on the wall, only to see her pale white face with a large transparent plaster with just the white rectangular cotton pad with dots of blood visible on her forehead. She was so white it almost blended in. Jac had her hair down so that when she looked at the floor, you could barley see her face.
Suddenly Jonny burst into the locker room banging the door against the wall in a hurry. The noise pained Jac's head and she uncontrollably let out a groan in agony. She quickly turned away and attempted to hide behind the row of lockers.
Sensing she didn't want to be seen, for now Jonny thought he would stay where he was so he didn't cause her any discomfort. "Hey, what's wrong?"
Jonny asked kindly.
"Nothing. Let me guess, Mo sent you?" Jac forced out the words. Each one was another pounding in her skull, but she couldn't let Jonny know that.
"Maybe. Now I've answered your question, answer mine." Jonny demanded.
"I just did."
"No, I want an honest answer." Getting slightly annoyed, Jonny slowly started to walk around to the back of the lockers. As he was just about to walk around the corner, Jac quickly walked towards the door with her head down, but Jonny knew she would try something like that so he ran back around and blocked her only exit.
Jonny saw the plaster on her head, now the bleeding had nearly filled the entire plaster. "Oh my god! What happened?"
"Nothing. Excuse me." She tried to escape, but Jonny stood in her way again.
"Who did this? Jac?"
"No one now let me go."
"JAC I mean it. Tell me what happened." Jonny demanded, not realising that the louder he shouted, the more pain he caused Jac.
"And I mean it, move." Jac shouted as she pushed Jonny out of the way. However, doing so made her feel dizzy. She swayed into the wall and Jonny put both his arms on Jac's arms. "Get off of me" Jac whispered, but Jonny held on to her arms firmly. "Please" she whimpered. Jonny released his grip cautiously.
Jac walked out of the locker room and after a couple of seconds, Jonny went to chase after her but she had disappeared. Mo walked round the corner to where Jonny was stood. "Where is she?" Mo asked.
"I-I don't know."
"Well what happened to her?" Jonny shrugged.
Nearly an hour passed as Jonny had searched the hospital grounds. But when he reached the car park, there was no sign of her or her death trap that is a motor bike. She must've left the hospital. Grumpily, Jonny walked back up to Darwin, both worried about and angry with Jac at the same time.
"She's left" Jonny stated to Mo.
"How do you know?"
"Her bike isn't in the car park."
"Well it wouldn't be. I saw her come in a taxi this morning."
"Well where is she then?" Jonny asked getting increasingly concerned.
"Who? Jac?" Elliot interrupted.
"Yeah have you seen her?"
"Yes. I thought she'd have told you. I sent her home after I stitched up her forehead. It was quite deep wasn't it?"
"I dunno I didn't see it."
"Really? She said that you put the plaster on it this morning after she fainted before you came into work."
"Did she now?" Jonny asked. Elliot realised that he had put his foot in it. "Anything else I should know? Why did she faint?" Jonny asked Elliot.
"Jonny, I really don't think that Jac would want-"
"Please Elliot, trying to get Jac to talk is like trying to get blood out of a stone." Jonny pleaded and Elliot agreed with him.
"She said that she felt sick all night. And that she was actually sick about 3am. Then she fainted when she got of of bed at 7am and hit her head on her bedside table. She said that you put the plaster on it and that you drove her to work this morning."
"Thank you Elliot." Jonny said gratefully patting him on the back.
"Are you going to hers?" Mo asked.
"Yeah, can you cover for me for today please?"
"Sure. Go on go." But she didn't need to say that, Jonny was already half way down the corridor, as he shouted "thanks!"
