Sorry for late update but yh. I had a dentists appointment and a bunch of homework.
I skipped a couple of weeks cuz I get bored writing day to day stuff!
Set two/three weeks in the future
Jac smiled as she watched her boyfriend Joseph Byrne walking up Darwin ward to check on a patient he had sent up earlier. Joseph had got a job working in Holbys ED. It was tough down there - he had to work six days a week from seven to seven. Jac would wait for him up on Darwin while he finished up down there. Then they would drive home together. They were now the talk of the hospital. The handsome Joseph Byrne and the Ice Queen Jac Naylor. Their baby was now also the talk of the hospital. It had started when Connie had walked in on Jac getting changed. The bump was visible then. It still brought a smile to Jacs face to think of Connie standing there her mouth open and closing like a goldfish. After that Jac had known it would be the talk of the hospital. It was inevitable. In a way she was relieved it would mean she didn't have to announce it to everybody. The thing she hated the most however was the looks in the corrder. Halfway beetween pity and mirth. But when people stopped to congratulate her it was worse than the looks. People learned very quickly that just because she was pregnant it was no excuse to touch her bump or call her Jac. An F1 had learned that the hard way when he got the full Naylor treatment.
That at evening when Jac and Joseph were lying in bed. Joseph sat up and looked at her with a serious look in his hazel eyes." I think we need to start buying nursery furniture." "Will we raise the baby here" Jac wondered out loud. "Of course" Joseph insisted " It's certainly big enough and Harry settled here.
In a way Jac was relieved. It meant that she didn't have to go through the stress of moving house at 25 weeks pregnant. She was finding it hard enough to get through her daily routine without any added stress. But now things were way easier. She had her handsome partner and the father of her child living with her now.
Lat first Joseph had been worried about having to deal with her being hormonal. Luckily he needn't have worried. Jac had only had a full blown crying fit once since he moved in and he wouldn't have known about it if he hadn't caught her crying in her office.
It had all started with a couple of snide comments. Then it had turned into something bigger. The new nurse of Darwin - Jonny had asked her out. She had refused because had only just found out she was pregnant and she couldn't bear the pain of her losing him when he found out about it.
It seemed however it wasn't just her that Jonny had eyes for. Within weeks of her rejecting him he had hooked up with new nurse Bonnie. She acted pretty but really she was no more than your average girl and as Joseph had told her on several occasions Jac was way prettier than the nurse.
Even though Jac had tried to refrain from cursing in the presence of the baby there really was no other way to describe Bonnie - she was a complete and utter bitch.
There was also a new registrar on Darwin. Her name was Mo Effanga and she was nice if a little nosy. Jac and her had developed and unusual friendship after Jac had helped deliver her baby. Now Mo was back after only a little maternity leave. Jac wished she would stop sticking her snout into Jacs business. (Little quote there from one of the episodes.) Overall though Mo was a good friend and her only flaw was that she was friends with Jonny the fast moving nurse.
Storming into her office after seeing Jonny and Bonnie locked in a passionate embrace in the middle of the ward was now a routine. Once or twice she had dropped a snide comment about how this was a hospital not a strop club but they had gone unnoticed. It had taken Elliot calling Jonny into the office for a chat for Jonny to realise how weird he was being. Even then Jonny still gave her the cold shoulder and refused to work with her. If he did have to work with her then he would constantly question her judgement and Jac would constantly say to him that just because she was pregnant did not mean it affected her judgement. Jonny had went in a huff with her after that and she was sick of him demanding special treatment just because she had asked her out once.
Darwin had never ran so efficiently. With Elliot Hope and Jac Naylor in the driving seat how could it not. Elliot was a brilliant surgeon and Jac was formidable not to mention brilliant at handling official business. The two surgeons worked well together. They were good friends and Elliot was one of the few people Jac would be vulnerable with. The only problem was Connie.
plz don't kill me for this bit it's not realistic but :)
Connie had a drinking problem. She would often come into work drunk and either Jac and Elliot would have to let her sleep it off in the oncall room. It was a reflex decision to shield her. The other two surgeons cared about her and they were doing their best not let Mr Hanssen find out about Connies problem. If he found out they knew he would sack her on th spot.
The problem had among been uncovered however when Connie decided to ride a trolley down a corrider. It had ended in black eyes, cuts and brusies and the harm wasn't done to her.
Jac was so tired when she got home it was all she could do to tuck Harry into bed and read him a story. When she was sure he was settled she would collapse on the sofa beside Jospeh and they would plan for their babies arrival. OnThursday they were going to buy nursery furniture and even though Jac didn't lik having a day off work admittedly she was excited about getting to choose furniture for her babies nursery. But there was one niggling worry. How would her and Josephs relationship survive when they were both so exhausted to put anything into it?
Sorry for the late update. My stupid little sister decided to go on my iPad and deleted the whole story so I'm writing from scratch agin. Hopefully next chapter up by Tuesday at the latest!