Here's the next part. I hope you all had lovely Christmases. This part I wrote a little hungover and I'm not too happy with it but it's the best it will get so enjoy...

Nick got back to his flat and opened the door. Stepping in he went through his usual routine of chucking his keys down and kicking his shoes off in the door way. Yvonne had always hated him leaving his shoes at the door but since she had gone there was no-one to nag at him so he soon got back into the habit.

It was getting late and Nick could see Alex was tired. He put him to bed and went and collapsed on the sofa in front of the TV. He didn't put it on; he just sat starring at the blank screen. Nothing on TV interested him anymore, not even the news. The hour wait for Zoe to arrive dragged on but there was soon the expected knock at the door.

Nick jumped up and rushed to the door opening it quickly.

"Ooh, you're keen." Zoe said as she jumped not expecting the door to be opened quite as quickly as it was.

"Yeah." Nick laughed slightly. "Come in, I'll get some plates and there's wine on the coffee table."

Nick went off to the kitchen whilst Zoe put the food on the coffee table and sat herself on the sofa. She picked up the bottle of wine that Nick had put on the table earlier and poured herself a glass. Nick came back into the room with the plates and put them down.

"So what did you get?" Nick said excitedly.

"Only a Chinese." Zoe replied.

"My favourite… along with hotdogs." Nick gave Zoe a quick wink and started putting the food on his plate.

"So how have you been since earlier?" Zoe asked not sure whether she should bring it up.

Nick sighed before answering. "Yeah. I'm okay… It's just little things really seem to be getting to me. Maybe I was trying to move on too soon." He sighed again. "My life has just changed so much in such a short space of time. One minute I have a girlfriend and a son and I'm the happiest man alive, then it was just snatched away from me. I know I've been a bit of a dick in the past but I'm not sure I deserved this." Nick poured himself some wine and took a mouthful. "I see this kind of thing happen every day in the ED and I just never thought something like that could happen to me…" He trailed off.

"It was never going to be easy." Zoe said. "I keep trying to tell you. But you can do it Nick. You're the strongest man I know."

Nick smiled and the pair of them sat in silence eating for a couple of minutes.

"I'll try again tomorrow." Nick said confidently. "I'll find another babysitter and just try again. It's all I can do." He shrugged.

Zoe smiled at Nick. The pair of them found themselves looking directly into each others eye and before they knew it they were slowly moving in for a kiss… until the sounds of Alex's cries from the bedroom brought them back into the real world.

"I'll go see to him." Nick said quickly and hurrying off to Alex's room. Zoe poured herself another glass of wine and downed it, slightly confused as to what had happened between her and Nick.

"He just needed changing." Nick said walking back in the room. "Now where were we?"

"Oh, I think we were just talking about things." Zoe replied not sure what to say. "Work, I think."

"Oh right yeah, so tomorrow will be another day…"

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