" Zosia, unknown male, 26, found collapsed in the car park, complaining of chest pains and breathlessness," Arthur Digby called to her. Immediately Zosia ran over to Arthur and snapped into action, she began to assess a head wound that was bleeding pretty badly.
" Right, this is going to need stitches, once he's stable I'll get a nurse to come and sort it out," Zosia said before whipping out her stethoscope and listening to his chest. There was lots of bruising to his chest as she lifted up his shirt. She put the metallic end of the stethoscope to the left side of his chest and listened. She could hear a weeze in his chest and instantly knew the problem.
" Arthur, he's got a pneumothorax to the left lung which will need a chest drain. I'm going to order a chest CT and xray and then we can fit in a chest drain," Zosia ordered before going off to arrange the xray and CT.
Once the CT had been arranged Zosia went off on her break. She walked into the staff room on Keller, made herself a cup of coffee and sat down when Colette walked in. She jumped when the door slammed shut and rattled on its hinges.
" Something wrong Colette?" she asked as Colette ran her hand through her hair.
" No, just a really stressful day. I've had the same patient throw up on me twice, an old lady hiding four kittens in her bag infested with fleas, we're three nurses down so we've had to keep three in on a double shift and I've had a complaint made against me for shouting at another member of staff at the nurses station!" She shouted before she slammed her fist down on the counter, making all the jars and mugs shake slightly.
Colette poured herself a cup of coffee and sighed as she sat down. She put her mug down on the circular coffee table and smiled.
" So, how's your morning been?" She asked.
" Not really that exciting, I've had a case of appendicitis, old man with a broken foot after tripping over his dog and a mystery man with a pneumothorax, so anyway what are you doing up here today? I though you had a meeting with the board,"
" It got cancelled because three of the members caught that stomach flu that's been going around, and they were understaffed up here so I thought I'd come and help," Colette explained to Zosia. ' Well at least she's had more excitement that me, I hope something good comes up this afternoon', Zosia thought.
" Well I'd best go and get some lunch, I'll see you later Zosh," and with that, she left the staffroom and left Zosia by herself. She stood up and walked over to the lockers and got out her lunch, tuna and sweet corn sandwiches, a small galaxy bar, an apple, orange and a bottle of lemon and lime flavoured water. She grabbed her lithium tablets too and took two with her water before tucking into her lunch.
Meanwhile on AAU, Colette had gone to see Serena when she saw Guy. Immediately, they started arguing about Zosia.
" Guy, if she doesn't want to see you or have anything to do with you you're just going to have to respect that," Colette argued.
" Yes but if I want to see my daughter then she's going to have to accept it!" Guy argued back.
" Guy, she's scared that you're going to turn back to alcohol, you know what you did to her!"
" Yes I know, I can't erase what happened but I can make it better!" Guy shouted.
" Just leave her be until she's ready to talk to you," Colette said gently.
" I just miss her so much, it's hard seeing her in the lift and everything being so tense, I miss my daughter," Guy sighed then ran his hand through his hair. Colette gently touched his arm and walked away.
She walked up to Keller to speak to Zosia. Colette walked into the staffroom where Zosia was sat with Arthur, discussing surgery.
" I just can't believe Mr Levy asked me to assist!" Zosia exclaimed.
" Assist in what?" She asked, making Zosia and Arthur jump.
" Mr Levy has asked me to assist in surgery with a case of Spinal Osteomyelitis, not just to supervise, to actually assist! This is going to be an amazing experience and it'll help improve my surgical skills, sorry that he didn't choose you Diggers!"
" When are you doing the surgery?" Colette asked. She was a little bit curious as to why Sacha would ask Zosia to assist in such a risky and highly complex procedure like this when she is only and F1.
" In about an hour," she said, looking at her watch. 'Oh my gosh, this is going to be absolutely amazing!' She thought. " I'm just so shocked that Mr Levy would ask me to assist, he wouldn't even ask some of the other junior doctors who are in a higher position than me,"
" Yes well, I'm sure it will be brilliant, but I need to talk to you Zosia, privately," Colette said. ' It must be something serious,' thought Zosia.
" Right, erm yes, I'll go now then," stuttered Arthur as he walked out of the staffroom.
" So, you wanted to speak to me Colette," Zosia questioned.
" Oh, yeah, it's about your dad, he - " she started before Zosia cut in.
" I don't want anything to do with my father if that's what you're about to say!"
" Zosia just listen to me, he is sorry about what happened but he's stopped drinking for good and isn't going back to that state, he misses you,"
" Yeah, and I bet that's all just a load of bull-"
" Watch your mouth in front me and he was practically crying earlier because he feels so bad about everything that's happened Zosia!" Colette shouted.
" That's good then because he deserves to feel my pain! He kept it a secret from me that my mum was dying and that she didn't want me to know! Now he's in the dark about how I feel, he can finally feel what I felt!" Zosia yelled before collapsing in a fit of sobbs. Colette knelt down next to her and took her in an embrace.
" I know Zoshie, but it's been months now and he's just so upset about it all. He regrets it all so much, last week he told me it would probably be best if he just killed himself so then he could stop seeing you look so hurt and upset. Seeing you like that, it's killing him," Colette said gently.
" He said that?" Zosia whispered.
" Yes Zosia, it's hurting him that much that he thought that you'd be better off if he was dead too," Zosia sobbed harder and held onto Colette.
" That's how bad he feels about all of this,"
" I can't believe I've made him feel like this, I was angry at him yeah, but I didn't know he felt this bad," she whispered to Colette.
" I think you should go and see him Zoshie, he misses you a lot,"
" Yeah, once I've washed my face I'll speak to him," Zosia stood up and walked to the sink to wash her face. She turned on the tap and splashed her face with cold water. When she was done, she grabbed some tissue and blew her nose before walking to the door.
" Colette?"
" Yeah Zosia?"
" Thank you for this," and she walked out.
Zosia took a deep breath before knocking on Guy's door.
" Come in!" He shouted through the oak. Zosia paused for a moment before she opened the door.
" Ahh, Doctor March," he said. " I gather that there is something that you need to speak about, you don't usually come to speak to me,"
" I'm sorry dad!" She blurted out. " I'm so sorry for everything, all the nasty faces, mean and horrid comments, all the tension between us, I'm so so sorry dad!" She exclaimed before bursting into tears. Guy instantly stood up and wrapped his arms around her.
" I'm so sorry too Zoshie, I've been a rubbish father this past year, I'm so sorry," he whispered as his eyes filled with tears too. He held her tight, as if she was about to slip away.
" I was angry at you, I thought that you were responsible for mama not telling me," she whispered into his chest. " I'm so sorry, I didn't even realise that you felt so bad about it until Colette spoke to me, she told me about what you said last week, I just couldn't bear it anymore," and she cried even harder.
" I promise that I'll try harder sweetheart, I was so stupid, I'm just glad that this is all behind us now," he murmured before pulling away. Zosia sniffed and wiped her eyes.
" I'm sorry dad, for making you feel as bad as you did, I was angry at you and I carried it on when it wasn't needed anymore," she said. " I just hope you can forgive me,"
" Zoshie, of course I forgive you, if I were you, I would've been angry at me too," he said. " How about you stay over at mine tonight and we'll talk more then?"
" Yeah, I'd like that," she looked at her watch." My lunch break is over now, I'll see you later dad," and she walked to the door.
"Zoshie, I love you, you know, I always have, even when we weren't getting on, I still loved you then,"
" I love you too dad, I always will," she said as she left.
First fanfic, please read and review and tell me what you think of it so far. Thanks xxxxx Tia