"Max?" Robyn called as she closed the front door to their house. "I come baring take away." She told him as she threw her keys down on the table and then noticed Max on the sofa. Thinking he was just sleeping she continued through to the kitchen to put the food she was carrying down.

Robyn walked back to the living room to wake Max, it was only then she noticed the carpet was wet from the glass of water that Max had spilled. She was getting more and more worried with every passing second, especially when she couldn't wake him. She tried to put her nurse hat on to try and think what to do, but her worried sister hat was more prominent and was taking over.
"Lofty? I can't wake Max and I'm worried." Robyn frantically rang her housemate.
"I wouldn't worry, you know how deep a sleeper he is."
"But there's water spilt everywhere, even Max isn't that careless."
"Check his pulse Robyn." Lofty was trying to keep calm as he knew well that Robyn was not.
"His pulse is really fast."
"Ring an ambulance, I'll let them know that he's coming in over here." Lofty told her as he was still on shift in the ED.

An ambulance arrived not long later.
"What's happened princess?" Jeff asked as Robyn let him and Tamzin in.
"I don't know, I found him like this when I got in. I thought he was sleeping but his heart is racing and he's not responding." Robyn sobbed. Jeff bent down to check Max over while Tamzin tried to calm Robyn, who was seeming closer to hyperventilating with every passing second.
"Robyn, I know you're worried about your brother but I need you to take some deep breaths for me. We're going to look after Max for you." Tamzin told the younger nurse.
"Tams, we need to get him in and soon." Jeff whispered to Tamzin, in an attempt not to worry Robyn any further. Tamzin briefly left the house and got a gurney to put Max on to.
"Okay Robyn, we're ready to take your brother in now." Tamzin told Robyn as Max was not wrapped in blankets and strapped to the gurney ready to go.
"Can I come in the ambulance with him?" Robyn asked through her tears.
"Course princess."

"This is Max Walker, age 29, GCS 11 throughout, blood pressure at 160/100, pulse was at 140bpm and he hasn't responded to any stimuli." Jeff told Connie, Ethan and Rita as Max was wheeled into the ED.

"Okay, straight through to resus please Jeff." Connie told them. Max was wheeled into resus immediately. "All ready to move him on three?" Connie asked as everyone nodded. "One, two, three." Max was now onto the bed in resus. "Okay, Ethan can you do primary survey please and Rita can you get 3 units of blood cross matched just in case."

"Airway's clear." Ethan reported back to Connie.

"Good. Can we check his temperature and get an ECG sorted please?" Connie asked as she noticed Robyn crying out of the corner of her eye. She walked away from Max, confident that the others would do what she'd asked and that Max would be okay for a moment. "Robyn, go and get a coffee or something. There's nothing you can do in here right now, I promise you that I'll look after him for you."

"I don't want to leave him." Robyn whispered, as that was all she could manage as her throat had gone dry.

"I know you don't but what use to him will you be when he comes round, if you're like this?" Connie pointed out. "If anything happens, you'll be the first to know." She seemed to have gotten through to Robyn as she took one more look at Max before leaving resus.

"Robyn, what's wrong? Why are you here, your shift finished an hour ago?" Zoe asked as she bumped into a crying Robyn.

"It...it's..." Robyn tried to speak but fresh tears poured down her face.

"Here, I'll get you a cuppa." Zoe replied as she ushered Robyn through to the staffroom and closed the door. Robyn sat on the sofa, with a tissue that Zoe had passed her, while Zoe made a cup of coffee for each of them. "Here you go." Zoe said kindly as she passed one of the mugs to the young nurse.

"It's Max...he's in...resus. I thought...I thought that he was sleeping." Robyn cried, she was staring into her mug, which was probably just as well as had she not been then she'd have noticed Zoe's face drop and pale.

"What?! He can't be, he was here a few hours ago and he was fine." Zoe mumbled in shock, but then thought of how ill he looked. All she wanted was to burst into resus and see just what had happened, the anger that she had felt at Max hours earlier had all melted away now and worry had taken it's place, she couldn't leave Robyn though.