Evening had dawned upon the couple pretty quickly. Adam had been for his x-ray and Zoe had just collected the results from reception.
Adam lay sound-asleep in the bed in resus; his oxygen-mask back on so he could breathe-easy as he slept. There was peace at-last for the Handsome-Doctor. Kirsty sat in a chair next to him, her hand in his hand as she watched him sleep. There were tear stains beneath her eyes, but the majority of tears had faded-away now. Zoe walked in, cautious not to wake-up Adam-up. She caught Kirty's eye and nodded for her to come over to the opposite-side of resus. Kirsty gently kissed the back of Adam's hand, not really wanting to let go of it, but also wanting to know how he was doing, and whether he had broken anything.
"His x-rays are back." Zoe began quietly. "He fractured 3 ribs which is probably why he was struggling to breath, but other than that, you'll be glad to know that it's just cuts and bruises. He'll be a bit stiff, and sore for a while, but do your best to keep him in bed and he should be fine in a couple of weeks time." Zoe told her nicely, she knew that Kirsty would probably already know how to look-after Adam, being a more than capable Nurse herself, but it was always good to be re-assured by the doctors; the ones who knew best, that everything was going to be okay in the end.
"Thanks Zoe." Kirsty replied. "You've been great through all of this." She told her, making a good-friend out of the somewhat difficult-doctor out of the lot of them.
"Hey, it's not a problem, Adam's a good-friend of mine, it's the least I could do for him. Besides I don't think I've EVER seen Doctor Trueman be quiet for more than 5 Minutes, so this is like heaven to me." Zoe joked, trying to encourage a laugh out of the saddened Kirsty. And Kirsty did indeed laugh before looking back at Adam.
"Anyway, I best get back to him, but thanks again Zo." Kirsty said, smiling at her friend, before heading back to Adam and taking his hand into hers again.
Lucy, her mother, Dianne, and Sean had now been moved through to Pediatrics where Lucy was just having a final check-over before being discharged. Nick wandered towards the family, he, along with the rest of the Holby-ED Staff, suspected Sean as the person responsible for Adam's attack. But the investigations hadn't started-yet, so until then, Nick had to try and treat Sean like any other family-member in this hospital.
Nick pulled-out his stethoscope and listened to Lucy's heart. "Okay, Lucy's heart doesn't seem to be struggling to much, and her breathing doesn't sound too forced anymore, so that's a good-sign, obviously, with Lucy being a baby we like to double-check and triple-check everything because babies of Lucy's age are so very-small, and we'd hate to miss anything." He told the family, trying to avoid eye-contact with Sean as he just-about managed to stay Professional.
"Thank-You Mr Jordan." Dianne spoke-up as she clinged onto Sean's arm. "We're very thankful for all that you've done."
"We're just doing our jobs, there's no need to thank-us." Nick then smiled gently at the family before heading out of resus to go and visit Adam before the end of shift.
Dianne turned to face Sean. "You're very quiet, and why did he refuse to look at you?" She snapped-out, suspicious of Sean ever since he had punched Adam and threatened Zoe in reception.
"Oh, was I? Oh I am sorry, but I don't know why he wouldn't look at me, maybe because the last-time he saw me was when I lost my job working here..." Sean mentioned, not really wanting to go into details about the bad fartherly set-up between himself and Adam with Jessica, Harry, and Lucas and Amelia being stuck in the middle. It had almost torn Sena and Dianne apart when they had first-gotten together.
"Well that was no-one's fault but your own." Dianne argued before checking back-on Lucy to make sure that hers and Sean's first baby was okay.
Back in Resus, Nick had just walked through the doors ready to cheer-up Adam after the beating. Seeing that he was asleep, Nick approached Kirsty and put an arm around her. "Hello, how's he doing?" He asked through a whisper. He was concerned for his very-good friend.
"Three fractured-ribs and some cuts and bruises. Hopefully he'll be fine with a few-weeks rest."
"Now, I do hope your not expecting Adam to stay in bed for 2 weeks straight, because it won't happen, you'll probably are just going to have to keep a close-eye on him."
Kirsty laughed, he sounded like Zoe, joking about Adam like that. Kirsty's laugh was slightly louder than she had anticipated and it had awoken Adam from his sleep. Kirsty noticed this and leaned over the bed, lifting herself from her seat slightly, moving her hand to rest on his upper-arm. "Oh sorry sweetheart, did I wake-you up? Look, Mr Jordan is here to visit-you." She told him softly with a sweet-smile.
Adam's brain focussed at the sound of Nick's name being spoken. He slowly tried to sit-up, with help from Kirsty and Nick as his fractured-ribs started to bother-him again. Kirsty then removed his oxygen-mask now he was awake and allowed Nick to talk to him.
"Hello my friend. How are those ribs feeling?" He asked sympathetically.
"Urm, painful." Adam replied quietly.
"I bet they are, listen...Adam...can you remember what happened to you? Anything at all?" Nick asked, hoping to spark a memory for when the police-arrived later-on. There was no point in ringing them until Adam remembered some of what happened to him.
"Nick. The last thing I remember is being kicked in the stomach, then the next thing I knew I was led in here having some stitched put-in by Zoe."
"Alright, are you sure there's nothing-else you can re-call happening. Do you remember seeing anyone?" He asked, desperate to help his friend-out with finding his attacker.
Adam began to panic a little as he failed to remember anything about the attack and his breathing-quickened again.
"Sorry Nick, I can't remember a thing." Adam blurted-out before he was sick over the side of the bed.
Kirsty grabbed a card-board bowl from the side and rubbed Adam's back as he was sick. "Okay darlin', just try and calm-down, it's the stress and the panicking that's making you sick." She told him as the violent-
coughing stopped.
"That's better." Kirsty told him before kissing the side of his head.
Nick waited patiently for Adam to calm-down slightly before he spoke-again. "Sorry mate, I didn't mean to panic-you..." Nick trailed-off, as if to continue, but he was interupted by Kirsty.
She placed a hand on Nick's arm to stop him. "Listen Mr Jordan, can we do this later please? Adam just needs to rest for now."
Nick sighed. "Of-course we can." He told her sweetly before turning to Adam. "I hope you feel better soon mate, we're all thinking of you." He told his friend before he left Resus, ready to head to the pub with the rest of the 'end-of-shift' crowd.
Zoe popped into resus before she left. "Kirsty, I understand if not, but do you want to join-us for a drink at the pub."
"Oh Zoe, I couldn't, not after today, I'm sorry." She told her, wanting to look-after Adam for tonight.
"No Kirst, you go. Go and enjoy yourself." Adam told her encouragingly, and Zoe shot him a smile.
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" She asked him, not really wanting to leave him alone.
"I'll be fine, look, Jay's just starting his shift, I'll tell-him to ring you straight-away if there's a problem. I promise you, now go-on, you worry about me too much, go and have some-fun." Adam told her. He thought it was improtant for her to not be stuck at his bed-side all-day and night. She had done enough of that with Warren and Adam didn't want her to go through the same chores with him everyday until he was fit-and-
healthy again.
Kirsty looked Adam in the eyes, about to make an excuse to say, before Zoe walked-over and took her arm, ready to pull her away from her wounded-soldier. "Come-On." Zoe said before feeling Kirsty shrug her off for a moment.
"Okay, I'm coming." She told Zoe before leaning-in and giving Adam a goodbye kiss. "I Love-You Ad." She whispered to him.
"I Love You Too Kirst." He whispered back before catching Zoe's eye. "Now girls, get to the pub before I have to take you there myself." He flirted. It didn't mean anything, it was just how Zoe and Adam worked as friends.
"Oh I don't think that's a good-idea do you Ad?" Zoe played back as she dragged Kirsty out of resus. "Bye Adam see you in the morning." She said, before laughing as the door swung-shut behind her.
Awww Adam and Kirsty are so cute together. :) Please Review. :)