It was 11pm, the start of Jac's night shift which didn't end until 8am. She sat at the nurses station quietly. She hoped that this was going to be a peaceful shift because, although she was scheduled by an incompetent idiot who had no idea how much pregnancy takes it toll on you, Jonny wasn't on the shift. Nor were Mo or Elliot. Or so she thought until someone came barging out of the locker room.
He realised how much noise he'd made opening the door so he tried to compensate by quietly shutting it. He kind of wished he hadn't swapped now because he assumed that Jac was still going to be in full defence mode which meant that she was going to be 5 times as moody as the normal Jac Naylor. He too hoped that this was going to be a peaceful shift, he had swapped with another nurse to be on the same shift as Jac to keep an eye on her.
However, the sight of the Scottish nurse made her blood boil. Jac decided if she was going to survive this shift without crying, she'd have to get along with him. That and the fact that she was so exhausted, she really didn't have the energy to argue.
"I'm making a cup of tea, you want one?" Jonny asked civilly. Jac shook her head as she yawned. Great. Jonny thought, she'd only just started her 9 hour shift and she was already tired.
Jac was sitting at the nurses station, using her hands to support her head on the desk and her eyelids were drooping. Jonny quietly walked up behind her and sat on the chair next to her.
"It's pretty quiet, if you want to go and rest in the oncall room." Jonny said caringly. He was trying to be kind to her, to get her to open up.
"Im fine." She replied sleepily. Jac got up and walked into the toilets which luckily for Jonny were in his view.
After a few minutes, Jonny heard the hand dryer go so her turned his head to look down at the desk, and he looked towards the toilets in the corner of his eye. He could see her stumble out, she didn't look very balanced so he turned his head to see a confused look in her eyes. She swayed back against the doorframe and then collapsed to her side.
Jonny quickly placed his tea on the side and ran over to Jac. She had a pulse so she must've just fainted. He scooped her up in his arms, hoping that she wouldn't wake up to find her being carried by him.
He gently placed her down on the bed in the oncall room and shut the door behind him. He sat in the chair beside the bed and watched her, peacefully unconscious.
After five minutes of waiting, Jac stirred. Still with her eyes closed, Jonny watched her as she turned to rest on her side and she brought her hands up to cushion her face. Jonny smirked as he realised that she was so tired, she must have gone from fainting to sleeping. He knew that the ward was fairly empty, and that there were other doctors and nurses on shift so they could manage without them for now. Jonny took the spare blanket from the wardrobe and laid it over her because she was asleep on top of the duvet.
He brought his knees up to his chest in an attempt to get comfortable in the armchair and watched her chest slowly rise and fall. Now that she was asleep, he could look at her bump. He couldn't see it very well because of the blanket, but he could stare at it without fear of being shouted at, for the time being. He wondered how much damage had been done to his baby's abdomen and how easy it was to fix.
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So what do you think, will Jac be snappy once she's woken up, or will she go all soppy?
And what do you think will happen in tonight's episode, I bet she doesn't go through with it.