"We've got a pulse." Tess called to Zoe who immediately stopped CPR.

"Okay, Rita can you get an active charcoal injection ready please? I hope it's not too late and the damage isn't already done." Zoe said as she quickly kissed his forehead while no one was watching and then left to see Connie.

"The police are on their way in, they're going to want to speak to us, so we'll give them use of our office. They're also taking our CCTV tapes from today and then they want to speak to Robyn and see if she'll let them into the house to see if they can find the water bottle. I take it you managed to stablise him?"

"Yeah I did, I've asked Rita to give him a charcoal shot to see if it'll bind with the drugs. He's stable just now but still out, we'll give that an hour or so to work and then I want scans to check damage to any major organs."

"Are we expecting him to come round anytime soon?" Connie asked, knowing that she should tell Robyn all of this news soon.

"I really don't know, I'm hoping he'll come round as the charcoal works." Zoe told her. "I'm just going to check the shot was done and then I'll be in our office until the police arrive." Zoe continued, she didn't really want to check that everything had been done, she just wanted to see Max again while she still had a chance because the moment that the police arrived, would be the moment that things got crazy.

"Okay, I'm going to speak to Robyn and have a coffee while I'm there."

Zoe walked the few steps into resus and found it empty, bar Max. She walked over the his side and took his hand, which was still feeling cold. "Max, I'm not really sure if you can hear me. People always say that people who are unconcious can hear and just not respond, I don't know how much truth there is in that but I'll continue anyway." Zoe began as her eyes began to fill just watching his chest slowly rise and fall again. "You can't leave me, I need you in my life to make it better and probably worse all at the same time. Now if you can hear me, don't go all serious on me Max, and don't expect anymore praise or grand declarations from me. We're fine as we are, I'll let you call me your girlfriend though. God, that makes me sound like a teenager again, and I'm far from that. The point that I'm trying to make is that I need you to get better and wake up." Zoe told him as she squeezed his hand and still saw no response. "Right, I'm going to go and help catch whoever it is that did this to you. After all, no one hurts my boyfriend, unless it's me." Zoe joked and found herself laughing softly.

Zoe was sat with her head in her hands at her desk when there was a knock on the door.

"Zoe, the police want to see you." Louise said as she opened the door.

"Okay." Zoe replied as she looked up and two men in police uniforms came in. "Have a seat."

"So you're Dr Hanna, clinical lead here?" The older looking one out of the pair, asked.

"Yeah." Zoe replied.

"And Mr Walker is...?" The other man asked.

"Max is a porter." Zoe told them.

"Do you know him well?"

"Relatively, look you can't let anyone else know this but we're in a relationship. Before you ask, I don't know of any enemies that he has." Zoe sighed before replying.

"Okay Dr Hanna, can you tell me what happened today?"

"We were really busy so I called him in this afternoon to help cover a shift. There was a fire in a local care home and St James was closed and diverting here so I needed all the staff I could get."

"And how did he appear?"

"Tired, but he'd been on a night shift last night so I didn't expect anything less. As the shift went on he looked worse and worse, we went out for a smoke and then he left and I went back inside. Next thing I knew his sister, Robyn, was wondering through the ED sobbing. I can give you CCTV tapes if you need them, his sister and one of my other lead consultants, Mrs Beauchamp, are in the staffroom if you want to see them, then I'll show you through."