A/N: I realised after writing this that Jonny would have had a say in Bonnie changing wards - he's clinical nurse manager. So, for the sake of me having to change this chapter, just pretend he never got that promotion :)
As Jonny walked away from the nurses' station, he contemplated handing over responsibility of giving Bonnie her temporary reassignment to someone else. He wasn't able to make that decision however, as none other than his blushing bride to be stepped in front of him.
"Jonny! There you are, I've been looking for you. I'm just about to go on my break, care to join me?" She smiled brightly at him. When she had first come back into his life, her smiles used to turn his stomach into knots and make his heart do cartwheels, now... they barely did anything for him. He wandered if he truly did love her enough to marry her. Sure he loved her, but he just wasn't sure anymore if that was as his friend, or his lover.
"Ah no can Bonnie and I'm afraid neither can you. You're n-"
"Oh, whisking me away for a quick lunch are you? Great, I'll just go and get my bag." She turned with the intention of heading to the locker room.
"What? No, Bonnie, wait." He catches her arm and turns her back round. "I'm sorry Bonnie, but that's not what I was going to say. You're needed on AAU for a few hours, they're short staffed and they need any nurses that can be spared, and you've been chosen."
"Make one of the other nurses go. I don't want to work down there. I want to stay up here, with you. Surely I can't be spared?"
"Bonnie, you know if it were up to me, somebody else would be going, not you. But it's not, and it's already been authorised so Sacha's waiting for you at the nurses' station."
Fuming, Bonnie stood rooted to the spot. "And who exactly authorised this?" She spits at him. Thinking it has been Elliot acting on his earlier promise, she makes a mental note to make him pay in some way. What had she done now? She hadn't seen any senior consultants since he'd threatened her. Maybe Jac had convinced him... Oh now she will pay. Jonny's reply momentarily halts her mental master plan.
"Jac. Jac's the one who has said you have to go." He says regretfully. Now there's going to be trouble. "But Bonnie, don't go making this out to be a big deal, okay? Just go down there and when you come back up here for you double, just think of it as you've gotten five free hours away from her, yeah?"
"Oh, come off it Maconie, of course I'm going to make a big deal out of this. She's doing it on purpose! She's just going to try and use my time away to dig her claws back into you. To drive a wedge between us like she's been trying to do since we got together. I wouldn't be surprised if she uses Emma as leverage, you know she will."
"Jac may be a lot of things but she not one of those mothers who uses her child to win an argument. Bonnie, I will not let Jac come between us but at the same time, I will not let you disobey a direct order from a senior member of staff on this ward. You'll create more trouble for yourself that way. Please just let us go to Sacha and get you down to AAU. Besides, we have to keep Jac sweet if we want her to allow Emma to be a bridesmaid." He looks willingly to his finance. He didn't like arguing with her but sometimes she could be just as difficult as Jac. How could he have possibly ended up between two of the most stubborn women he had ever met?
"Fine, Jonny, I'll be nice, only because I love you. But when are you going to realise that she is actually uses Emma against you?" As she walked away, she decides to turn back and face him once more. "You know, sometimes I really believe Emma would be better off living with us... At least then it wouldn't be a fight for her to be at our wedding."
What the hell was he supposed to say now? He knew that no matter how much he and Jac argued he would never take Emma away from her, not unless she was in danger. Bonnie knew this to, how dare she even suggest it. But the more he stood there the more thought about how difficult Jac had been making it for him. Whenever she gave him a time to see Emma it always coincided with when he was with Bonnie - then again, when wasn't he with her? Of course he saw Emma as much as he could without ruining things with Bonnie; Jac didn't exactly make it possible for Bonnie to be included most of the time. He was so confused. Maybe he should just put all this aside and discuss it with Mo later. Yeah, that's what he'll do. With that decided, he practically runs to catch up to Bonnie.
Sacha is still waiting for them at the nurses' station. Only now he was sitting on a chair, slowly spinning himself around to kill time. Jac, much to the dismay of Jonny, was nowhere around. "Here she is, now take good care of her for us, I want her back up here at half five." He smiled at both of them and Sacha smiled back, but Bonnie just glares at him.
"Right, Nurse Wallis, ready to tackle the hoard of patients?" She nodded and waits for him to leave with her. Sensing he wouldn't be getting a minute to talk to Jonny alone, he stands to shake the nurses' hand, secretly slipping a piece of paper in his palm. Jonny looks as him slightly confused, as does Bonnie, though she's unaware of the note. Sacha doesn't usually shake hands with his friends. Placing a hand on Bonnies shoulder, Sacha guides her towards the lift, leaving Jonny to read the note in his hand.
Jonny, Jac has gone down to the peace garden but she doesn't you to know, so don't let her know told you. There's something not right with her. She let slip that Bonnie had said or done something to upset her this morning and then she pretend nothing happened. You know Jac; she doesn't get upset over just anything, Talk to her, but be prepared for her to still be a closed book. Sacha.
He wasn't quite sure what to make of this. Bonnie had upset Jac? She hadn't said anything to him. Jac looked the same as she always did, but then again it was in her nature to have no visible emotions. He didn't know what to do, but he did know he needed to talk to her about Emma. He's due a break in two minutes. No one will notice if he slips away early. He grabs his jacket from the locker room and heads downstairs.