Ugh good god I HATE the new episode so little Zade and so much Zeorge vomit! Hopefully you guys will enjoy this chapter, it is kinda a link up of the previous chapter and the next chapter but nevertheless it is better than watching Zoe and George lol. I'm going to write Jonah in because believe it or not I kinda like him.
Anyway please let me know what you think and thanks everyone for the reviews :D

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Wade blinked and then blinked again. He stared at the letters or what he thought were letters it looked more like a symbol than a letter.

'What's on the back of the box? What do the symbols stand for?'

Zoe reached out for the box and ran her finger across the writing 'One line means positive two lines means negative. How many lines is it showing?'

'Two… you're not pregnant.'

Wade blew out a forced puff of air as Zoe nodded a nod of self-reassurance. They sat in silence looking at the test.

'So I guess you just have some sort of flu or somethin…'

'I guess so…'

Zoe rested her head back against his shoulder she could feel the tears forming and her throat tightening up. It hurt knowing that they were tears of sadness not her hormones because she wasn't pregnant and there was no baby.
Wade looked down at her and stroked her hair with his free hand; she looked upset even if she had tried to hide it.

'You okay..?'

'Yeah you know this is a good thing because like I said we can't have a one and a half year old and a new born at the same time, we'd kill each other. So this is a good thing so we can just forget about it.'

Wade went to speak but she had stood up and walked out of the bathroom by the time he had opened his mouth. He watched as she walked out of the bedroom and out into the hall. He knocked his head back for a moment before realising he was holding a stick covered in pee. Dropping it like a hot potato Wade disposed of the stick and any evidence of the night's events before washing his hands. As he let the cold water run across his hands he felt a slight sting and realised he had a paper cut on the bottom of his hand. He cleaned the cut then pulled open the cabinet over the sink for Band-Aids when his eyes fell onto the box of condoms. He let out a long sigh before grabbing the box and slamming the cabinet door shut forgetting all about the paper cut as he made a beeline down the stairs for Zoe.

She was standing at the fridge pretending to look for food, for something to distract her from her pain. She didn't want to feel this way, she tried to tell herself that this was a good thing, and there was no way they could manage a second baby right now but a part of her couldn't help but feel like she had just lost a huge part of her even though there was never really anything there. She reached in effortlessly and pulled out a bottle of water as she heard Wade come up behind her. She figured she couldn't keep her head in the fridge for their entire marriage so reluctantly she pulled away to face him. Her eyes immediately dropped to the box of condoms in his hand as she scoffed, she knew he was relieved but she hardly felt that was the way to celebrate.

'Sex, really?'

Wade dropped his eyes as he became uncomfortable 'No. I uh...I didn't mean to just throw these in front of you. I wanted to talk to you actually.'

'I don't really feel like talking I kinda just want to go to bed.' She tried to walk past him but he reached out and grabbed her wrist pulling her back into his range. He brushed the back of her arms slowly to calm her down as she tried to look away to hide her tears.

'I have a proposition for you.'

Zoe raised her eyebrow at his sudden use of the English language and was intrigued to know more about this amazing plan he had concocted in the space of ten minutes.

'I'm listening.'

Wade placed the box of condoms on the island that they rested against 'I know that you're gonna say your glad the test was negative because we wouldn't be able to deal or whatever but I know you Zoe and I know you hoped that test came out positive because that's how we do things…we get ourselves into situations, we freak out, we consult Lavon and then we talk and guess what happens next? We get through it. It's how we work Doc I mean I would prefer we didn't get ourselves into these situations the way we do but so far well so far it's turned out alright. So…' he picked up the box of condoms and held them in front of them 'How about for once in our lives we decide what happens, we decide what we want.'

He threw the box into the bin in the corner of the room and smiled 'I reckon that we should keep doin' what we're doin' and if we get pregnant then we can be happy about it and we can be the ones to tell Lavon not the other way round. If that's what you want.'

'That's what I want.' She shovelled her face into his chest and hooked her arms around his neck and clung to him, she didn't need to say because he knew this was her way of saying thank you.

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'Lavon Hayes would like to apologize for any trouble he may have caused between you and your husband yesterday.'

'Lavon Hayes caused no trouble between me and my husband yesterday.'

'Well good. Lavon Hayes is pleased.'

'Zoe Hart would like to know if Zoe Hart and Lavon Hayes can stop talking in the third person. It's getting annoying'. Lavon chuckled and continued to read the paper all while keeping an eye on Zoe who had pinned Logan to the highchair as he tried to break-free. He sat there in only his diaper and a pair of mittens, he was in distress. Overnight the chicken pox had multiplied causing him to wake in hysterics and the need to scratch. At 12am Zoe bathed him in cool water at 1am Wade covered him in calamine lotion at 2am the agonising pain and endless screams caused him to vomit and at 3am Wade resorted to walking the wrap-around porch as it was the only thing that seemed to keep the young boy calm. By 5am he was asleep and his temperature returned to normal but it was too late for Wade and Zoe and by 6am they found themselves eating chocolate cake and watching the shopping channel.

'I must say even covered in chicken pox he is handsome.' Lavon said proudly as he watched Logan rub vigorously against his bare skin.

'I guess that's one positive to take from this whole thing.' Zoe said as she yawned.

Lavon looked around the kitchen, he had been here a good half hour and not once had he seen or heard Wade and it wasn't like him to skip out on breakfast.

'Hey where's Wade?'

'Oh he's with Jesse all day he left about an hour ago.'

'He voluntarily left you and Logan?'

'No I had to convince him to go.'

'And how did you do that? Or do I wanna know?'

'You don't want to know…but the main thing is he is finally doing something for him, achieving his dream and we could not be prouder. Isn't that right Logan?' She questioned her young son who stared at her aimlessly, more interested in scratching that giving her a response.

'So, last night. I was wrong about the uh symptoms? '

'Yeah... but it's okay because we dealt with it in the mature and proper way married people are meant to deal with these sort of things…'

'Oh really and how did that turn out?'

'It turned out good… we decided to keep doing our thing and if it happens it happens.'

Lavon arched his brow and smiled 'you guys are tryin' for a second baby?!'

'No… we're going to let whatever happens happen.'

'N'aww… you guys are tryin' for a second baby.'

'Shut up.'

'Oh Lavon you're here! I have been runnin' round town lookin' for you… Guess who's back in town!?' Lavon and Zoe swung around to see Wade panting at the front door in a desperate need for oxygen.

'Who ?'

'Jonah!'

Lavon shot out of his seat as his eyes nearly popped out of his head with excitement 'No!'

'Yeah!'

'No!'

'Yeah!'

'Wait.' Zoe interjected 'Who's Jonah?' she could have said she was asking to get them to stop screaming in front of Logan but she was a nosey person and she wanted to know who this Jonah guy was and why he had her husband acting like a child on Christmas morning.

'Jonah Breeland. He's Bricks nephew and he was Wade's partner in crime before he left for college in New York.' Lavon said as Wade took a long slug from a bottle of water.

'He went to college in New York and he's only back now? What age is he? 23?' Zoe asked feeling a tad jealous at her husband's sudden change of mood now that "Jonah" was back.

'No wise ass. He was at college, came home, then went to med school, then went to work at some fancy ass hospital in Boston and now he's back while he looks for a permanent job.'

'He's a doctor?'

'Surgeon.'

Zoe nearly dropped Logan's bowl of porridge as the words she dread left Wades lips 'He's a surgeon? And he's Bricks nephew and he's looking for a job?'

'Yeah, Doc would you keep up?' Wade shook off her quizzing and resumed to playing with Logan who appeared chirpier since the arrival of his dad.

Zoe tried to act normal after that but she just couldn't. It may have completely bypassed Wade and Lavon but not her. She was well aware of what was going on. Brick was coming to the age where he was considering taking a step back at the practice and it was perfect for Zoe as the townspeople were finally starting to accept her and trust her. Her patient count was growing more and more but now with Jonah in town people were ten times more likely to go to him, a young fresher Brick Breeland, than her, a fast talking New Yorker with a baby who dictated her schedule. She accepted that her commitment to the practice and to Harley had slipped a bit since Logan was born but that was understandable and she was not about to let Brick and Jonah steal her practice from under her.

'So, Wade. Tell more about Jonah, what's he like?'

'He is crazy god the memories-' Wade paused, he did not want his wife to know of the antics he got up to with Jonah, certainly not this early maybe in 50 years from now when she was too old and shrivelled to completely beat him to death 'He's a really nice guy.'

Zoe threw her hands on her hips and plastered an unimpressed look on her face.

'He's a nice guy Zo, and I'm sure you guys would get on really well together you know bein' surgeons and all.' He hoped that had fixed his mistake but he wasn't sure.

'Oh I will meet him; in fact I think it is high time I return to work?'

'What? But Logan's sick who's gonna mind him? No Zoe okay this is crazy we can't both leave him and he can't leave the house.'

'Lavon can mind him?'

'What?!' Lavon piped up from behind his mug of coffee 'Nah this is y'all and your marriage problems Lavon Hayes is here only to pass the times until his 11 o'clock meetin'…don't involve me please.'

'Come on Lavon…please! You've already had the chicken pox and so has Lemon so you don't need to worry about that and he is due for a nap soon, please.' She dropped her bottom lip and showed of those massive puppy dog eyes of hers as Lavon began to crumble despite the intense stares from Wade.

'Alright fine.'

'Yes!' Zoe clapped her hands in delight as Wade shook his head.

'But only til lunch cause then I have to go to Fillmore.'

'Yeah fine whatever I'll be done by then. Thank you!' she bounced around the room before giving Logan a kiss goodbye 'Bye baby mommy will see you later.' She turned to Wade and placed her hands on his chest despite his crossed arms and stubborn facial expressions 'I will see you later. Bye, I love you.' She kissed him goodbye and rushed out the door leaving a very confused Lavon and an angry Wade.

'She cornered me...'

'You're weak you know that right?'

'I know…'

' ? I thought Lavon said y'all were in quarantine with Logan? You really shouldn't be out, not everyone in Bluebell has gotten the chicken pox you could be starting an epidemic'

'Sorry Addie, and I know I shouldn't be out but I had no choice Wade told me about Jonah and I just had to come down and see-'

'If he had stolen all your patients and your half of the practice? No he hasn't, well not yet anyway but given everything that happened at Christmas you should really find a way to make it up to your patients, especially with flu season coming up...'

Zoe sighed, she was exhausted but she had to persist 'So where is this infamous Jonah my husband won't shut up about? '

'He's right here...' Zoe turned around to see a tall well-built gentleman standing in front of her with a cocky smile on his face 'you must be the New York Doctor they can't stop talking about. Jonah Breeland, pleasure to meet ya.'

'Pleasure…' she sneered at him at him before turning back to Addie 'I know Bart was due to come in for a follow up, can you ring him and let him know I'm in today.'

Before Addie had a chance to speak Jonah stepped in 'Actually, Bart stopped by this morning and I checked him out, he was looking good so I gave him the all clear.'

'You what?' Zoe clenched her teeth.

'Well I figured I was around and I didn't want to keep him waitin' because you couldn't bother on coming into work on time.'

'I have a one year old at home sick with the chicken pox and he needed to be covered in calamine lotion for the 3rd time this morning, excuse me if I put him before Bart's swollen ankles!'

'So not only are you late but you're bringing a highly contagious disease into your place of work that also happens to be a Doctors surgery?'

Zoe stood there dumbfounded. Who was this little prick? And why was he so keen on hanging around the surgery when clearly Brick was nowhere to be seen. Addie tried to disappear behind her desk to avoid the tension but Zoe had other ideas.

'Addie, if you open the 3rd drawer on your left you will find a roll of duct tape. Can I have it please.' Addie scrambled around the drawer finding the tape and throwing it in Zoe's direction. Once Zoe had the tape in her hand she marched across the waiting from and placed the end of the tape on one end of the room and pulled it all the way up to the reception desk, drawing a line between her and Jonah.

'I don't know what you're doing here and I don't know what little tricks you and uncle Brick have up your sleeve but from now on this is my side of the surgery and this is Brick's.' she pointed to the side Jonah was standing on as he smiled much to her disgust. 'So you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine. Got it?'
She swung around and marched into her office slamming the door behind her all while listening to Jonah laughing a satisfied laugh.

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'How long exactly do you think Jonah is going to be here for?'

'Really? You still haven't dropped this stupid Jonah thing?'

'Well sorry for not seeing all the amazing things you see in him.'

Wade dropped his face into the pillow and let out a long silent scream. It had been four days since Zoe and Jonah crossed paths and she still couldn't drop it. Wade couldn't understand when she spoke of him as being an obnoxious, self-righteous prick that cared more about his hair than anything or anyone else. If anything Wade thought Jonah reminded him of her from when she first came to Bluebell, obviously he would never tell her that even if he did have her best intentions at heart but he was really sick of hearing Jonah did this or Jonah did that. He knew Jonah had been hanging around the practice a lot and he knew for a fact that it was getting on her nerves but he liked Jonah, they were buddies and for now he had no reason to confront him about his actions toward his wife.

'Can we just not talk about Jonah for once in our lives?'

'Wade stop being a drama queen, I've only talked about him like… twice.'

Wade scoffed; he wasn't even going to dignify that with a response as he dragged his hand across his face and yawned. He and Jesse had been putting in 12 hour shifts at the bar for the past three days, seven to seven and it was going slow. They were still waiting on orders so for now they were working on the electrical stuff which resulted in a lot of mini shocks and a lot of bad language. Once Wade had finished a long day of drilling holes and threading wires he returned home to find Logan asleep mostly, Zoe had told him the chicken pox last 9 days 3 days coming 3 days staying and 3 days leaving and by his count they were on day 6 or maybe 7 but Logan was still sick, all he did was sleep or lie down on the couch but Zoe reassured him it was normal no matter how much he hated seeing it. One thing he loved however was coming home to Zoe, she had the ability to make him forget whatever crap he had gone through that day even if all she did was lie beside him.

Zoe didn't mean to get so hyped up over Jonah and his annoyance he just got under her skin and not in the way Wade did. There was nothing sexy about Jonah sure he was attractive but not sexy and what others described as southern charm she described as arrogance. He annoyed her and worst of all, the town loved him he was like Golden Boy 2.0 returning home and she hated it. She also knew Wade was sick of listening to her moan but Lavon had banned her form speaking about it and she knew Wade was way too nice to ever tell her to stop.
She looked down at him; she was propped up in bed reading a magazine and he was lying flat on his back semi-comatose when she noticed something on his upper arm.

'Wade what is that?' she pointed to the mark on his arm, it looked like a bruise or cut but she wasn't sure.

'I dunno…' he grumbled 'you're the Doctor not me. I got it today must've banged it or somethin' I guess.'

'Well it looks bad come here let me see, come on sit up.'

'Zoe….' He groaned as she pulled him up.

'You have like, a...' she peered closer at the wound 'It looks like metal.'

'It's not metal.'

'How do you know I thought you said you weren't the Doctor in this relationship?' She reached into the drawer of the night stand and rooted for a tweezers. Once she found it she wiped his wound and began pulling out the pieces. Wade tried to act like the hard man but he couldn't, it hurt really badly. At first Zoe thought it was a wire of some sort but turned out it was 5 shards of glass and once Zoe showed the pieces to Wade he remembered how Jesse playfully pushed him into a loose panel of glass and it smashed. Zoe could only roll her eyes at their childishness and continued to fix the wound.

'Do you miss it?'

'Miss what?' she asked too focus on her work to really process what he was asking her.

'Like surgery, you know stitchin' people up and all that? Like they do on Grey's Anatomy? '

'How many times do I have to tell you, real hospitals are not like that at all but to answer your question… yeah sometimes I do but luckily I have you and your clumsiness to keep me on my toes.'

'Glad I can be of some use to you.' He leaned over and kissed her catching her completely off-guard not that she was complaining as she let the cotton swab and disinfectant fall from her hand as he completely disregarded the cut on his arm and slowly moved his body onto hers as he felt the bottle of disinfectant against his thighs.

'We should probably stop…' Zoe said as she tried to catch her breath. Wade shook his head and continued to run his hands up her back, Zoe couldn't resist him anymore and let out a little laugh 'Or you know we could just-' she was unable to finish as she finally gave into him and let him kiss her neck.

The next day Zoe sat at her office desk counting down the minutes before she could go home to Wade and Logan, just five more minutes and she was finished with Jonah Breeland and his annoying face and perfect smile. She was free to go home and spend time with the person she actually cared about and that's what she loved most. Knowing she had a family to come home to was the best feeling in the world and she wanted nothing to change that, ever.
For the most part she did nothing all day except browse the internet for clothes for Logan and bargains on things she knows she will never use or need. She had a few patients but nothing major, when was there ever anything major in Bluebell anyway. Mostly all she could think about was what Wade had asked her the night before, about missing surgery. She had given him an honest answer, she did miss surgery and working in a real hospital with real patients, patients who had ailments other than ingrown toenails and poison ivy.
She could hear noise coming from outside and presumed it was Jonah telling one of his 'amazing' stories from his travels, even though she wasn't convinced he went far. She could have gone out there and made friendly conversation but she was happy where she was when her phone began to ring and it was an unknown number.

'Hello, speaking.'

'Oh good I finally caught you. This is Dr. Capshaw head of surgery at Columbia. I'm calling you about a job opening in our Cardio Department.'

Zoe nearly dropped the phone from her hand as he continued to speak. ' Now I won't keep you long I'm sure your very busy so…One of our cardio fellows has to take a leave of absence , for around 3 months and well I have heard great things about you and knowing who your father is I'm sure some of those talents have been pass on. So I would like to offer you a job.'

'Wow…this is completely out of the blue. Thank you, wow. I am speechless…you do know I'm living in Alabama right?'

She heard a small chuckle from the other end of the line 'Yes I am well aware of your whereabouts I have had my eye on you since you left med school and I can't say I disagree with the Chiefs decision to let you go to develop your bedside manner but I also know what you're capable of and who knows maybe this will lead to a permanent position. Hopefully you'll consider it.'

'Most definitely I will consider it. When do you need an answer?'

'By the end of the week. Let me give you my secretaries number and whenever you make a decision just ring her and I'll get back to you.'

She scribbled down the contact number he had given and smiled.

'Great I'll get back to you and thank you again really, you have no idea just how honoured I am.'

She hung up the phone and slouched into the back of the chair smiling, she wasn't sure what to think but she was happy about it that's for sure. She hadn't much time to dwell on the good news as she could feel a presence in the room and that presence was Jonah. He stood there with a smirk on his face and his arms crossed.

'What do you want? I thought I told you to stay on your side of the line at all times.'

'Interesting phone call you got there Doctor Hart.'

'What are you talking about? And were you eavesdropping because that's extremely rude.'

'Come on, I've been there. Getting that phone call from the Chief…that warm fuzzy feeling you get. I could smell it from a mile off. So come on who was it? Stanford? Hopkins? Columbia?'

Zoe dropped her head trying to ignore him but Jonah was smart, that she could credit him.

'Ahh it was Columbia wasn't it? Yep sounds about right. Excellent programme up there…in New York….'

'Would you just shut up and stop listening in on my phone calls! It's rude!'

Jonah laughed as he heard noises behind him he turned to see Wade approaching them with Logan in his arms. Zoe knew it was him given Jonah's reaction and rushed to hide the paper with the Chiefs contact details.

'Wade, my boy. What brings you round here at this hour?' Jonah asked all excited as Wade pushed his way past him and into Zoe's office.

'Well Logan seems to be on the mend and we have no food in the house so we figured we'd come by and surprise the Doc and take her to dinner.'

He looked over at Zoe who was smiling but in a weird way. She walked over to him and lifted Logan from his arms while giving him a kiss. Jonah watched on, he was intrigued to know what Zoe would do next.

'What were you doin' on Zoe's side of the surgery Jonah? She lure you in to kill you?' Wade joked as Zoe kept all her focus on Logan to ignore the stares from Jonah.

'Nah she was just giving out to me for listening in on her big important phone call. You know how it is.'

'What important phone call?'

'She got a phone call from-'

'Mobile! Yeah the hospital in Mobile rang about one of my patients who was admitted, they just rang to say everything was A-Okay.' She laughed nervously as Wade shrugged his shoulders, he was sick of listening to her go on about patients so it meant nothing to him; he just wanted to go eat.

'Okay well we're gonna go, See ya later man.' He reached out for Zoe's free hand and interlocked their fingers together as he guided them out of the practice.

Zoe looked back at Jonah with a scared tint in her eyes as she gave him a look, a look that said 'Please don't tell Wade about the call.'

Jonah could only wink at her as he moved further and further away from her until he had disappeared behind the desk….

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Jesus Christ I hate the writers. Why did they make us watch that Zeorge crap? Like seriously? Ugh I'm so so angry. Anyway please please let me know what you thought. Thanks