Jonny turned over and glanced at his partner, who was unusually wide awake before he was.
"Morning beauty, are you OK? You just look a bit pale." Jac made no reply just carried on staring into space.
"Jac?" She still lay silently looking straight at the ceiling.
"Jac!" He nearly shouted at his pregnant fiancé.
"Huh? Oh sorry, yes I'm fine I was just thinking." She muttered.
"About what babes, You know that you can talk to me about anything right? I mean we are supposed to be getting married soon. So what is it? Is it the baby? Is it me? Do you not want to get married? I mean I understand. You're a consultant and I'm just a nur-"
"Jonny, stop! I love you more than words can say and I have never been so sure about anything in my life than I am about marrying you, Mr Maconie! So stop worrying! And no it's not about the baby before you ask!" She reassured him. "I was just thinking about an old friend, well I say friend, but we were more like sisters. Until she accused me of stealing insulted me and then left without saying goodbye. Her name is Sam. And she works in Holby. In the ED."
"Oh Jac, but what has made you think about her now?" Secretly Jonny already knew because Sam had asked him earlier that week. For her measurements, Jonny had just given her the ones that Jac had had for her wedding dress. He had promised her that he would try his best to convince Jac to be her maid of honour, but he had a fight on his hands.
"She's getting married and she wants me to be her maid of honour. You know? I still have my locket, my best friends one, with the picture of me and her. It's so special to me because we grew up in the same care home. Brookside, it was called. And we got those lockets the first time we were allowed out on our own. We spent all of our savings on them."
"I think that you should do it Jac, otherwise you might live to regret it." Jonny decided to go for the head on approach at first and see what happened.
"That's just it Jonny, I want to but I don't think I'm at the forgiveness stage yet. She accused me of stealing and said loads of things like: I can see why your mum abandoned you; Your a lying, ginger haired freak. But the one that hurt the most is when she told me that she had never liked me, that she was just pretending. Then when she found that it wasn't me, she didn't say sorry, she just went to live with her knew foster family. Of course she did say sorry later, but by then I was broken." Tears cascaded down her cheek and fell on to her bump as she told her story. Jonny embraced her, holding her tightly.
"Hey, you've still got a couple of weeks to decide babe, you can think about it hey? And I will support any decision you make." Jac smiled and hugged Jonny tighter. In reality, Jonny really wanted Jac to be at the wedding and he was gonna try his best to get her there.
The next day Jac was sat at the nurses station thinking about the friend she had lost when the phone rang. Jac sighed and leant forward to pick up the ringing device.
"Darwin." She barked down the phone.
"Hello, it's Louise hear, I'm a receptionist on the emergency department. We've had a huge amount of casualties of an RTC which happened on the nearby motorway, it a 40 car pile up. So could we please have a cardio thoracic consultant down here to assist. We have already got help from other wards." The woman on the other end of the line said cheerfully, this made Jac cringe and roll her eyes.
"Yes fine, I'll come down." She sighed.
"Thank you! Could you please get Arthur Digby, Chantelle Lane, Marie-Claire Carter, Sasha Leevy, Jonathon Maconie" Jac smiled at the fact that her fiancé was coming too. "And Micheal Spence to come down with you. I haven't phone those wards yet and it would save me a huge amount of time. Um what's your name?"
"Yes fine. And the names Jac Naylor." And with that she put the phone down. Jac knew that the who hospital knew who the ice queen was. This made her smile.
After rounding up and sending down the lot from AAU Jac went to Keller to get Arthur and Sacha with Jonny at her side she strode on to the ward and straight up to the nurses station where she had spotted the two men deep in conversation about a patient.
"Oi!" She shouted. "Cheese and crackers, were needed in the ED." And with that she strode off with all three men in tow.
"Uh, Miss Naylor why are we needed on the emerge-" Arthur almost whispered, he, like quite a few other staff was scared stiff of her.
"40 car pile up, lots do injuries do you need me to spell it out for you?!"
"Jac!" Joseph called from behind but Jac quickly jogged away not wanting to speak to the man who abandoned her.
The three men arrived in the ED swiftly followed by the heavily pregnant consultant and strode up to reception.
After all the others had been shown to their patients Jac was finally being led into resus, as she walked in she walked in she was bombarded by staff who began introducing themselves.
"Hi I'm Zoe, I'm one of the consultants."
"Hello I'm Martin I'm also a consultant."
"Hello I'm Dr Lily Chao, I'm an F2 and soon to be consultant if all goes well." Lily boasted.
"Hello, I'm Dr Lily Chao and I need someone to wipe my own arse." She muttered mockingly and all the staff other than Lily herself giggled.
"Excuse me?" Lily accused sternly.
"Nothing." Jac said as she put on a fake smile. And turned to the last member of staff stood around her as Zoe said "And this is Sam." Jac and Sam both gasped and Jac turned and walked away.
"Jac wait!" Sam shouted as she ran after her.
"Don't call me Jac!" She shouted back. Most of the Emergency Department turned to look at the two arguing women.
"Please Jac, I've said sorry, what else can I do!?"
"Not have done it in the first place! We were supposed to be best friends, but no you decided to do what most people do and hurt me then leave!"
"Yes, well if you hadn't-"
"No! You are not going to turn it round onto me! None of this is my fault! It's not my fault that you accused me of stealing. It's not my fault that you called me a ginger haired freak. And it's not my fault that you're a complete and utter cow!"
"Me a cow? You're the ice queen! The one with no friends! Your the one who's own mother abandoned you and I can see why!" And with that Jac slapped Sam clean around the face. All the staff gasped and Jonny ran up to Jac and grabbed her.
"Paula Burrows is not my mother and your not my best friend, Sacha is!"
"Jackie?" Came a voice from behind. Jac's eyes widened, she knew that voice. Slowly Jac span round and surveyed the woman who had abandoned her not once, but twice. She began to breath erratically and ran off.
"Jac, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it!" Sam called as tears rolled down her cheeks. Jonny sprinted after his 'Baby momma' calling calling her name.
All the staff were all left standing silently not believing what had just happened. Tom crept up to Sam and put his arms around his fiancé.
"It doesn't matter, everybody knows what she's like-"
"NO! No Tom this is my fault, I said those things!"