Zoe had convinced Kirsty to stay at hers for the night, after the pub, to give Adam some time alone and sometime to think. It was important that he went over what happened, as far as he could remember anyway, in his head so that he would have his story clear for when he talked to the police.

The two-girls headed into the ED in separate cars, but had arrived one behind the other. Kirsty had managed to get the day-off to be with Adam, and Adam was Zoe's patient anyway so the girls were glad to be spending the day around their close-friend/boyfriend for Kirsty.

Kirsty headed into resus first and gently awoke Adam from his sleep. She gently stroked her hand through his short-hair and kissed his forehead. "Morning Doctor." She whispered as his eyes began to open.

"Morning." He replied slightly croakily as he tried to wake himself up a little more.

"How are you feeling today?" She asked him softly as she lovingly toyed around with his hair.

"Ooohhh a bit battered if I'm honest Kirst, but I'll be okay once I'm back at work." He said as he carefully sat himself up, managing to cope with the pain coming from his ribs pretty-well this morning.

"Woah, easy there tiger, you need to rest before you even think about going back to work. But anyway you sound a lot more comfortable this morning." She said before Zoe walked into resus.

"So, how's the wounded-soldier?" Zoe asked with a smile on her face. Kirsty and Zoe had enjoyed a good-time together at the pub last-night, and had formed a rather close-friendship out of doing-it.

"Hey, I wouldn't say wounded, just the odd scratch." Adam said, putting on a brave-face infront of Zoe.

"Oh so 3 fractured ribs is just a scratch is it?" Zoe joked with him as she prepared herself to check him over.

"He was talking about going back to work just now Zo, can you believe that?" Kirsty added-in with a cheeky-smile as she teased her lover-boy.

"Oh were you now? Well, seeing as you're MY patient and not your own, I think I'll make the decsion as to when you can go back to work Mister." She said, playfully hitting his arm as she joined-in with the teasing.

"Right Adam, down to business, lift your top-up for me will ya? And I'll see how those ribs of yours are doing. I take it you haven't been sick since yesterday? Nick told me." Zoe requested and Adam did as he was told,
before shaking his head at her question.

Zoe put her gloves on then put her hands over Adam's ribs. "Okay that's good, now tell me where it hurts alright." She began. Adam managed to remain pretty-calm, there was just the odd-occasion where his ribs would really cause him pain, but other than that, it was just a discomfort.

"Alright Ad, I'll just prescribe you some pain-killers, and then you should be free to go." She said with a happy-smile, glad that her friend was okay.

Zoe soon arrived back with the pain-killers and handed them to Kirsty to put in her bag as they helped Adam out of bed. Kirsty helped him to walk out of resus, and Adam kept one-hand on his stomach as he walked.
Nick passed-him with a large-smile as Adam and Kirsty reached reception together.

"Ah good you're out. That's great news. Take-Care mate, I don't expect to see you back here until you're 100% fighting-fit." Nick said before heading-off to a meeting.

Sean came out of pediatrics at around the same time and approached Adam. Kirsty took Adam's arm to stop him from doing anything stupid whilst he was still quite badly-injured.

"I take it you're well Doctor-Trueman." He muttered in a menacing-tone as he tapped Adam on the stomach twice before wandering-off. It appeared to be a friendly-gesture to anyone-else but it caused Adam immense-pain in his ribs.

Adam held his ribs as he keeled-over slightly.

"He knows where to hurt me Kirst." He said under-his-breath to Kirsty as she helped him out of the ED.

"Come-on Ad, save it for the police eh?" She told him, trying to stay calm when speaking to him for his sake.

As the couple reached the car-park, Jeff and Dixie were just coming into work. "Hey Slick!" Jeff said happily. "You're Looking Better Mate." Jeff teased as he grabbed Adam's cheeks and pulled them around.

Adam shoved him off. "Geettt-Offf." He said with a gentle-laugh, unable to laugh too heavily without it hurting him.

"Just messin' with ya mate, get-back to work soon, I need my wing-man back on form!" Jeff said in his manly way. You could always rely on a mate like Jeff to cheer you up after a tough couple of days.

"Sorry about Jeffery here Adam mate, he's just trying to impress Kirsty." Dixie joked and Kirsty laughed as she winked at Jeff.

"Sorry Jeff, I'd love to, but I'm afraid Mr Not-so-Slick 'ere beat you to it." She said playfully as she ruffled Adam's hair-up.

"Alright, alright, that's enough teasing me for one day okay? I'm the patient here remember? I need looking-after." Adam joked-around as he took Kirsty's hand and began to walk towards her car.

"I'll see you soon Adam alright?" Dixie said with a friendly-smile.

"Get better soon Cripple-boy." Jeff said with a laugh as he nudged Adam forwards before walking-on.

"Hey, I'll get you for that." Adam said before Kirsty pulled him along and helped him into the passenger-seat of her car.

Thought I'd do a bit of a lighter chapter. :) Gotta have a few laughs around, can't have poor-old-Adam always being sad. :( :) Thanks for all the kind-reviews. Keep them coming. I love reading them. :)

Thanks Guys. :) x