A few-minutes later and Zoe was helping a shaken Adam-up and was just about to help him back inside when Sean came storming-out, his nose and lip bleeding from the earlier-punch.
He grabbed Adam by the throat and pushed him against the wall. "WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?" Sean yelled into Adam's face. Zoe watched for a second before she tried to intervene.
"Sean leave-him alone, can you not see that he's upset?" Zoe told-him firmly as she took Sean's arm and tried to pull-him-off, away from Adam. But he was too strong for Zoe. Adam choked as he tried to speak.
"You...you upset my fiance. You're trying to...r-ruin my life Sean!" Adam said as he struggled to breathe.
"Sean you're hurting him. Look at him, he can barely breathe, let-go of him NOW!" Zoe shouted before she yanked Sean's arm backwards, forcing him to let go of Adam and accidentally elbowed Zoe in the nose as he fell-over onto his back.
Adam released the breath that he had been needing to breathe-out for a while now, before he ran a couple-of-steps over to Zoe, who was holding her hand over her nose, trying to stop-it from bleeding.
"ZO, are you alright?" Adam asked breathlessly as he placed a hand on her back. "Come-On lets get you inside ey?" He said, not-caring about Sean.
As Adam helped Zoe inside, Tess and Jess were waiting for Adam at reception.
"Ah we were wondering where you'd got to." Tess said before realising that Zoe was hurt and that Adam was struggling to catch his breath-back.
"Zoe, are you alright?" Tess asked as herself and Jess approached the pair of them.
Adam leant his hands against the wall as he tried to calm his breathing. "What about you Adam? You look like you've just ran a marathon." Jess asked as she gently placed a hand on Adam's back.
Tess led Zoe away to cubicles so she could clean-her-up before she went back to work. "Let me...explain..." Adam said, his breathing still heavy.
"Alright, why don't you sit-down?" Jess suggested as she led him over to a nearby 'waiting' chair then sat-down next to him.
It only took a couple of minutes for Adam's breathing to return to normal, and then he began to try and explain to Jess waht just happened.
"After I left you with Tess, I went back to talk to Sean...and I lost-it a bit. I-I-I punched-him..." "YOU WHAT?" Jess interupted, about-to go off on a rant when Adam stood-up and sighed, ready to walk-off.
Jess grabbed Adam's hand, then stood-up after-him. "Then what happened?" She asked in a calmer-manner as Adam turned-around to face her once-again.
"Zoe intervened, took me outside and calmed-me-down...stopped me from helping Sean to his death-bed...But then Sean came-outside and grabbed-me by the throat, Zoe tried to get him off me, and I guess as she pulled-him-off, he elbowed-her in the face as he fell...the last thing I knew, he was led on the ground, I dunno if he hit his head or anything..." Adam trailed-off, nervous of Jess' response.
Jess looked Adam in the eyes and then sighed. "Okay..." She began, not happy that Adam had reacted to Sean's stupid, and immature behaviour in that way, but glad that he hadn't been hurt, and that he seemed to be regretting-it now. "Well if Sean's got any sense he'll clear-off, but if he's badly-hurt, then I'm sure it won't be long until the Paramedics bring-him-in. But let's not worry about that for-now ey?" She said as she put one arm around his neck, and the other on his chest, next to where her head was now resting, her soft-hair, gentyl nestling into the side of Adam's neck. "I Love You." She said tearfully as he held-her closely.
Adam kissed the top of Jessica's head. "I Love You Too." He replied.
A couple of minutes later, and Adam and Jessica had gone to see Zoe, who was being seen-to by Tess in cubicles. Adam swished the curtain-open with his spare-arm, his other-arm was wrapped around Jess' back, and was resting on her waist.
"A Broken-Nose. All for you." Zoe joked as Tess put the bandage over her nose.
"Aww I'm sorry Zo." Adam apologised as he leant against the bed, and Jess leant against him as he wrapped his arms around her and rested his hands on her stomach. Jess placed her hands on-top of Adam.
"Ah don't-worry about-it, but there's no-way I'm going to the pub-tonight looking-like this. And decent looking-guy will just laugh at me." She said with a laugh, before flinching a litte as Tess pressed the bandage against her nose.
"Why don't you come to back to ours?" Jess suggested. "I mean...Lucas might stare at you the whole-time, and Amelia might hug you...but it's a school-night, they'll be in bed by 8:30...9 at the latest."
"Yeah come-on Zo, it'll be a laugh." Adam encouraged-her.
Zoe smiled at them both as Tess finished the bandaging on her nose then left them to-it. "Yeah...yeah okay, why-not ey?" She told them happily before she hopped-off the bed. "Don't suppose any of you have a balaclava that I can wear to hide this do you?" She joked and Adam and Jess laughed before Jess' phone went-off.
"Just as-well it's my break ey?" Jess said as she pulled her phone-out. "It's the school?" She told them both, slightly confused at to why the school would call her in the middle of the working-day.
Jess went into the staff-room to take the phone-call before she ran back to cubicles tearfully.
"Has one of them got that bug going-around? I wouldn't be surprised, there's been a lot of stomach-bugs spreading everywhere recently..." Zoe asked genuinely, but Adam noticed that she was upset.
"J-Jess what's-up?" He asked as he opened his arms out for a hug, still leant against the bed that Zoe was sat-on. Jess hugged Adam lightly as she tried not to cry.
"It's Lucas. He's been in a fight playing football at school, and they think he's broken his neck, but they can't be sure, the paramedics are already there. The other-boy was unconscious for 2 or 3 Minutes and he's cut his head open. I don't know what to do Adam!" She panicked as she sobbed into his chest.
Adam wrapped his arms tightly around Jess as she cried. "Okay Jess, I'll drive you to the school if you want? But the schools on our patch so it'll be our Paramedics that are attending, would you rather wait here?"
"No the paramedics are already there, I'll stay here, I wanna be here when he arrives." Jess said tearfully as Adam held her closely.
"Heyyy, he'll be alright." Adam comforted as he gently rubbed her back.
"What if he's not? What if he's paralysed?" Jess questioned, thinking of the worst.
"Oh Jess I'm sure it won't come to that." Zoe told-her, trying to calm-Jessica-down a little before they arrived-back with Lucas. She would be no-good to him like this.
"Jess, you're not going to like what I'm about to say but shouldn't we tell Sean, after-all he is Lucas' father?" Adam asked. Even though both men wanted to kill each-other right-now, Adam was only thinking of Lucas.
"What? So you can start Round 2 with him in RESUS! No I don't think so Adam, besides, he doesn't deserve to know!" Jess shouted, stressed-out by the whole siutation.
"No Jess, because he's his father and he needs to know, forget whether I like him, or whether he deserves to know or not, it'll only make things worse if you keep this from him Jess." Adam said fimrly. He wasn't angry with Jess, he could never-be angry with her, but sometimes it just took a little-pushing to make Jess realise that she needed to do something, and she needed to do it quickly.
"Okay, I'll get someone-else to tell-him then. Look I'm sorry for shouting at you like-that, I just want to see my son. I just need to know that's he's going to be alright." Jess said in a cry as she rested her head against Adam's chest.
"I know you do Jess. Don't worry about-it okay, he'll be here soon, and I'lk make-sure he gets the best-treatment possible okay." Adam said sadly.
"Alright Mr Show-off." Zoe added-in, trying to lighten the mood a little. And it made Adam & Jess smile a little, but it was going to take a lot to get them laughing this-afternoon.
"Heyyy I wasn't on about, ME, I was on about Nick Jordan...he's the best-doctor around Jess, you won't get them any better than Nick." Adam told-her gently.
"I Know." Jess whispered up in-reply-to him. "Thank-You." She added-in as she placed her hand on the side of Adam's cheek.