Jac!...Jac! Can you hear me?" Opening her eyes slowly she saw the source of the disturbance was the curly haired Scottish nurse accompanied by his best friend the nosy registrar "Jac? Jesus Jac, you'll be the death of me I swear!" She didn't understand what all the fuss was about, what the hell was going on? She felt someone place two cold fingers on her wrist - Mo, she shook her off tutting angrily.

"What?..." It suddenly dawned on her, she was lay on the floor in the ITU. Shit, Hanssen! She sat upright suddenly, to find herself being restrained by Jonny's hands.

"Woah Jac, calm down, you're not going anywhere right now." Actually she was quite glad he had said that, considering how dizzy she felt and how much her stomach was whirling, moving right now could only end in more embarressment. She shuffled backwards marginally, crossing her legs and staying on the cold floor with her head in her hands. Jonny was gently rubbing her back and making concerned facial expressions at her. If he'd had his way she'd have been put into bed, attatched to every machine under sun and made to rest for a week but he knew Jac, he knew fussing would only agitate her more. Anyway, she wasn't stupid, he knew if there was something wrong she would do the right thing, she would always put that child before her pride.

Hanssen returned to the room with a blue tinted plastic cup from the water machine filled with cool clear water. He passed it to Jonny, not wanting to bend down and crumple his neatly ironed suite. Typical. Jac looked up and took the water, sipping it gently.

"How are you feeling Ms Naylor?" Mr Hanssen asked, completely lacking any tone of sympathy or concern in his voice. Jac nodded slowly

"Fine, I just...skipped breakfast" she lied unconvincingly.

"In that case I suggest you take an early break and venture down to the cafe." He advised bluntly "Nurse Maconie would you be kind enough to accompany her, we don't want anymore little mishaps do we?" although a asking a rhetorical question they all knew he expected an answer and he was looking at Jac. She got up carefully, straightening herself out, although looking downwards to try and hide her embarressment.

"...no" she mumbled quietly. Sensing he wasn't satisfied she added "I'll go and get something now" smiling sarcastically as she left, with Jonny in tow.

She stormed of hastily towards the elevator while Jonny had to jog slightly to catch up with her.

"Jac!" he hissed sharply "what the hell happened in there?" Jac turned around and looked at him wearily

"Don't Jonny" she all but whispered "just leave it." Jonny sighed exasperatedly and followed her into the lift. She pressed the illuminated button for the ground floor and they stood in silence. Suddenly Jac let out a pain stricken gasp and doubled over slightly, pressing her hand firmly on her stomach. Jonny watched helplessly, she looked so small and vulnerable

"have you got your painkillers with you?" he asked, his tone had changed quickly to be calm and caring. She shook her head and looked at him with tears in her eyes. Jonny was wracked with guilt at not being able do anything so he pulled her closer to him carefully and placed one hand over hers, which was trying to force the pain away, and the other wrapped around her shoulders, moving his thumb up and down gently to comfort her slightly. As they reached the bottom she forced herself to stand up straight and regianed her composure so as not to arrouse suspicion from any nosy passers by. Jonny moved away slightly but kept his hand hovering on her back for moral support. As they walked towards the counter he felt her tense up again and slyly move her hand back towards her little bump. Noticing she was still in pain and not wanting her to pass out again he suggested she go sit outside and get some air while he got her something sweet to raise her blood sugar levels. She agreed, although rather reluctantly, and made her way out towards the car park, she was actually glad of Jonny's generosity as there was a strong smell of coffee in there which was making her feel quite peculiar. She found herself sat in the same spot she had resided to the night she told Jonny about Sean, she happily let her mind trail off on its own with thoughts of 'what ifs' and 'if onlys'. It was only when Jonny arrived carrying two bottles of orange juice and a dark red paper bag obviously containing some sort of confectionary that she came back to reality. She was still sat closely guarding her stomach with her hand, but the pain had become more of a dull ache now, something she could put to the back of her mind with ditractions.

"Shall we go for a walk?" Jonny asked cheerily, realising she still wasn't feeling 100% and hoping it might take her mind off it. She rolled her eyes jokily and replied

"fine" as Jonny handed her the bottle of juice.

They strolled slowly around the outskirts of the hospital, making polite conversation about various pateints and general goings on. After a while they'd come to a bit of an wakward silence when Jonny took a deep breath and after much contemplation said

"Jac?...You know you can talk to me right?" He wasn't looking at Jac, he was nervously staring down at his feet as they walked slowly along. Jac, who was doing the same, glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and the defences went up

"Yes Jonny, strangely enough pregnancy hasn't rendered me completely incapable of human interaction." He sighed and laughed a little

"No but seriously, if there's anything you want to get off that busy little mind of yours, i'm here for you. We may not be together but you're the mother of my child and in my mind that leaves me with some sort of resposibility to look out for you." Jac looked at him properly this time and rolled her eyes

"I don't need the 'I'm here for you' talk Jonny, i've coped on my own for this long, I don't think nine months are going to change much."

"I know Jac, but it's not just for these nine months...it's forever. Whenever you need me I want to try and do what I can for you and this wee munchkin" he gestured towards the barely noticeable bump. "Even if you just don't feel very well and need someone to cuddle you and hold your hair back" he laughed light-heartedly. He didn't noticed Jac had stopped untill she called quietly

"Actually Jonny...I might take you up on that..." Jonny rushed towards the pregnant consultant as she swayed slightly. "I...duu..." her voice faded into nothing as she fell into the nurses open arms and passed out.

Back up on the ward Elliot was rushing about trying to sort patient files while Mo dealt with Jac's earlier patient who had gone into cardiac arrest. Three different nurses had tried paging Jac and Jonny but they'd obviously left their pagers behind as they were nowhere to be seen.

At that moment Henrik Hanssen decided to stroll back through the ward. Didn't he have better things to do than loom around Darwin?

"Proffessor Hope?" he queried in confusion as the senior consultant ran past him buried in about seven different patient folders.

"Ah, Mr Hanssen...actually, this isn't a very good time really" he called back at the giant swede after spotting him.

"Evidently not, although it's actually Ms Naylor i've come to see, where is she?" Elliot sighed as the CEO glared at him

"She's still on the break you advised her to take, Nurse Maconie too, we've been trying to call them for over an hour but neither are answering their pagers" he waffled on, trying not to drop Jac in it.

"Ah, right well when she does return can you send her up to my office please?" Hanssen asked, feeling like he'd had a wasted journey.

As Jac came round she felt a warm hand on her arm, as she opened her eyes she wasn't surprised to find it was Jonny

"What h-"

"You fainted again" he said very surely, moving a piece of hair out of her face and sitting her up on the grass "you ok?" Jac nodded quietly, Jonny noticed that she still had one armed wrapped tightly around her stomach and she was shivering profusely. "Here, you're freezing" he said, removing his Holby City NHS jacket, after removing his orange juice and the red bag from the pockets, and gesturing for her to put it on. In all the comtion she didn't have time to grab a coat or anything, so she was only wearing her blue scrubs and even though it was July, it was still chilly.

"What about you though?" she asked, wondering whether pregnancy was making her become so selfless. Jonny shook his head as he slipped her pale arms into the sleeves of the over sized jacket and said

"Don't worry about me, it's you who needs looking after." He then pulled her gently up of the floor, holding her tightly as she regained her balance. They wandered over to a little wooden picnic bench round the side of the hospital. He let her sit down first and then sat next to her, gently rubbing the top of her back. She slowly took a sip of the orange juice, hoping the sugar would stop her feeling dizzy although the sweetness would probably just aggrevate the nausea later on. Jonny then remembered the bag in his left hand. He opened it slowly, whilst being observed by Jac, and pulled out a rather large chocolate chip cookie.

"Don't look at me like that" he laughed as Jac stared at him. He set about splitting the cookie in two, making a mess as he did so, and offered half to Jac, who shook her head gently. "I know you don't feel like eating, but please just eat half...just for me? It'll help with your blood sugar, you don't want to faint Again do you?" Jac looked at him, too exhausted to argue and said

"Fine. You know i'm a doctor though, I do know all that." Jonny laughed at her and handed her the cookie. She nibbled at it slowly, watching Jonny out of the corner of her eye as she did so. He watched her, longing to just wrap his arms around her and tell everyone she was his.

They wandered back on to the ward about an hour later to be greeted by Elliot, still rushing around with oversized piles of patient folders.

"Jac!" he shouted over to her, he sounded half angry and half glad that she was back "where on earth have you been?" Jonny put his arm protectively around her shoulders on hearing the senior consultant's tone

"Elliot" he hissed "she fainted again." Elliot looked at them both apologetically

"Oh Jac, sorry, are you ok?" Jac nodded silently, smiling back at him. "Uh...Mr Hanssen wanted to see you in his office when you got back" he added. All three looked at each other warily, wondering what effect this would have on the CEO's big 'decision.'