"Shhh." Nick rocked the sobbing Zoe. "Look, lets get you cleaned up."
"Sorry, I bled on your blazer." She said, wiping her eyes.
"It doesn't matter." Nick said, guiding her to the nearest cubicle. He let her sit on the edge, and began to examine.

"Oooh, it is a bit deep." He frowned.
"How deep?"
"It is about half a centimeter away from a major vein." Nick said. "You've been very lucky."
"Why me though?" She said, tears still falling down her cheek.
"I don't know, Zoe." He shook his head.
"I didn't do anything to him. I have never seen him before." She explained.
"He knew Lucy though. You can ask her. We are going to move you to the same room as Lenny so I can do your stitches." Nick explained.
"Okay." Zoe said. "You working late again?"
"Well, I didn't want to, but I heard the call Linda sent in about you and Lucy, and I wanted to stay and help." He explained.
"Really?" Zoe said, surprised. "You didn't have to."
"But I wanted to Zoe. As soon as I heard you had been hurt, I..." He stopped. "I was scared."
"Scared, why?"
"I still like you Zoe." He said, blushing. "I didn't want to say anything, incase you didn't..."
"But I do, Nick." She said, looking into his eyes. "I like you too."
"Why did we ever split?"
"I don't know." She said, and kissed him. He kissed her back.

"Right, stitch time." He said, pulling away.
"Okay." Zoe said, putting her hand to her neck again. The bleeding was slowing down.

She was wheeled into the next room, to see Lenny in the bed and Lucy stood with two security guards next to her. As soon as she saw Zoe, she gasped.
"Oh my god! Zoe! What happened to you?"
"Maybe you could tell me." Zoe said. "Some huge man came to my house, looking for you."
"Is that why these are here?" She pointed to the two guards.
"Yes." Nick said.
"What did he do to you Zoe?" She asked.
"He pinned me against the wall after searching my house, lokking for you, and he held a knife to my throat." Zoe explained. "He kept pressing harder until I told him, so I had to tell him. Id be dead If I didnt."
"Oh, Zoe. What have I done to you?" Lucy asked, tearing up.
"Its not your fault..." Zoe said, putting her hand on her sisters arms.
"Yes it is." Lucy said. "I know what happened down in Majorca. You don't."
"What happened?" Zoe asked, as Nick made her lay down so he could get a better look at the cut.
"Well, we dated." Lucy said, looking to Lenny.
"You did?" Lenny asked.
"Yeah, but then he got diagnosed with ADHD..."
"Yeah...?" Zoe said, pressing her on.
"We were living together, and we were happy, but when he got ADHD it all changed."
"What happened?" Zoe said, then wincing as Nick gave her some Local anaesthtic to allow him to clean and stitch her wound.
"He hit me." Lucy said, looking down, twiddling her thumbs.
"He what?" Lenny said, getting angry with him.
"He hit me. Right there." She pointed to her temple. "Knocked me out for about two hours, and left me in the middle of my appartment. My friend found me there."
"Oh my god." Zoe said. "Im guessing you came here, and left him there."
"Yeah, I didn't want to let his ADHD get in the way, but when that happened, I couldn't let it go. Now he is after me." Lucy said.
"Oh." Zoe said, as Nick began the first stitch. She shut her eyes to try and ignore him.
"You alright?" Nick asked her.
"Yep." Zoe said, reassuring him.

They were all silent after that, taking in the nights events. When Nick had finished Zoe's stitches, he broke the silence.
"Im giving you some light pain relief so you can get a good nights sleep."
"Okay." Zoe said, thoughts still going round her head.

Zoe slept for the whole night, as did Lenny. Lucy stayed in a private room guarded by two more security guards.

Zoe was awoken by Sam tending to her, checking her.
"Sorry." Sam said.
"Its fine. What time is it?"
"Just gone 9. Linda came to see you this morning." Sam told her.
"Oh." Zoe said. "Have they found the man that did this yet?" She pointed to her neck.
"No." Sam said sadly. "They don't think they will either."
"Oh."
"They called the search off." Sam told her. "Lucy is back over there." She looked towards Lennys bed.
"Okay. Thanks Sam." She said, sitting up, until a crash came through the door.

"Um, Sir, you can't be in here." Tess said, from the other side of the room.
"Shut up." The man said, and Zoe gasped.
"Its him. Its him!" Zoe panicked.
"Sir, please leave." Sam said, trying to usher him out. He pushed her out of the way.
"Oh my god." Lucy said, standing up, and backing away.
"SECURITY!" Sam shouted out of the door.
"No. No security." He said, pulling the same bloody knife out, and showing it around. Sam still didn't give up.
"Sir, please, put the knife down, and we can sort this out." She said, inching slowly closer.
"No." He said again. "Don't come closer!"
"Sam, stop it." Lucy said to her, worried. She didn't listen.
"Sir, please, put the knife down."
"No!" He shouted, shoving the knife into Sam's small frame. She screamed.
"I told you not to!" He said, pulling the knife out, and pushing Sam so she fell to the floor.

"Sam!" Zoe called out, jumping off the bed.
"Don't come closer!" He said.
"I need to see to her!" Zoe argued.
"Stop." He said again, walking towards Lucy. Sam was whimpering on the floor, gasping, putting her hand on the knife wound. It was bleeding badly.

Security burst through the door, and the man dropped the knife on the floor and put his hands up.
"It wasn't me!" He said, pointing at Sam.
"Yes it was!" Zoe shouted, running to her friend. "Sam? Sam?" She got a scream in return. "Its going to be okay Sam, don't worry." Zoe said, getting a closer look at the wound. Tess went over to the door.
"Can we get some help in here? Now?" Tess shouted, before running back to Sam. Zoe lifted Sam's hands.
"Oh god, Tess, its bad." She whispered to her collegue so Sam wouldn't worry.

Nick, Dylan and Linda burst in, all of them looking horrified.
"Sam?" Dylan asked.
"What happened!" Linda asked, panicking.
"Stabbed." Zoe told them.
"Lift her onto this bed." Nick instructed. They did, and there was a lot of blood on the floor.
"She is bleeding, a lot." Linda said, looking at the puddle on the floor.

They ran her into resus, and connected her to all the necessary machines.
"Her pulse is thready." Zoe said. "This is bad..." Lucy walked in crying.
"Will she be okay?" She cried. "This is all my fault." No one answered her.
"Sats are dropping." Tess said, trying to stem the bleeding.
"Get her on a blood transfusion." Nick said, looking at her records and getting the correct blood type. He inserted a needly into her left arm, near her elbow, letting the blood get in. But then they heard a noise that they were all dreading.

"Shes gone into cardiac arrest."