"Zoe! Compressions please!" Nick said.
"Oh my god." Zoe said, scared. Her feet were stuck to the ground. She couldn't believe what was happening right now.
"Zoe!" Nick repeated. She moved this time, still shocked, but in doctor mode.
"...28, 29, 30." She stopped, and there was still nothing.
"Carry on." Nick told her, so Zoe started again. Still, after thirty counts, nothing.
"Give her some adrenaline, and we will try again." Zoe instructed, coming to her senses.
"Okay." Tess replied, injecting Sam. Zoe began doing the compressions again, but still they got nothing.
"Shocking." Nick said. "Everybody clear." Everyone stood out the way, and watched on in disbelief.
"No cardiac output." Tess said.
"Okay, charging again." Nick said, as everyone else looked on with worry. "Shocking."

He shocked her, but this time the machines all began to beep. Zoe gasped, and began to sob.
"She isnt stable, and she won't be unless we get her into theatre NOW." Nick said, beginning to wheel her up to the OR. Zoe left the room and went to go and find Lenny, to tell him. She was still still crying when she got there.
"Zoe?" Lenny said, looking at her, fearing the worst.
"She is going into theatre now." Was all she could say as the blood still lay on the floor. It madde Zoe feel sick and dizzy.
"Maybe you had better sit down..." Lenny suggested, looking at her. "You look ill." Zoe did as she was told.

"What happened in there Zoe?" He asked.
"You really want to know?" Zoe said.
"Yeah." Lenny replied.
"She arrested." Zoe said, looking down at her hands, feeling sick again.
"No way." Lenny gasped. "She will be alright though?"
"I don't know. She needs urgent surgery." She began to cry again.
"Don't cry Zoe, im sure she will be fine." Lenny said,awkwardly. "Come here." He opened his arms for a hug, and Zoe took it, but at the wrong time. Lucy walked in.
"Whats going on?" She demanded.
"Nothing." Zoe said, standing up and wiping her eyes.
"Well It didn't look like nothing!"
"She was really upset so I tried to calm her down!" Lenny said. "Nothing happened! I swear."
"Is that true?" Lucy looked at Zoe.
"Yes!" Zoe said, annoyed with her sister for even thinking Lenny and Zoe liked each other.
"Good." Lucy said. "Anyway, what happened to Sam?"
"She nearly died!" Zoe said. "Well, she did, for about five minutes."
"Oh my god." Lucy said. "I nearly killed her."
"You didnt. He did." Zoe told her. "Police have him now."
"But its my fault he is here." Lucy said. "It is my fault."
"Now, Lucy, calm down. This wasn't your fault." Lenny said.
"How did he even find me!" She began to sob. "I covered all my tracks."
"He could have been a stalker?" Lenny smiled. "Sorry." He said, wiping the smile off his face.
"Well he could have been. How else would he know?" Zoe agreed with Lenny.
"I guess." Lucy said.

They sat there, thinking about their collegue. Zoe went off to the cafe with Lucy.
"Do you think Sam will be alright?" Lucy asked Sam as they sat down with their drinks.
"I really hope so." Zoe said. "But I just don't know. She will be in a lot of pain so I hope they keep her out for a few days."
"Me too." Lucy said. "Ive been thinking. Maybe its best if I leave Holby."
"What? No! Don't leave!" Zoe said. "I love having you here! I havent seen you for like six years!"
"I know! But I have bought too much trouble with me." She said. "I mean, look at this!" She pointed to Zoes neck.
"This wasn't your fault! It was that guys fault."
"But I led him here." She said. "If I never came here, it would be me in Sam's position. She would never have been hurt."
"I don't want youto leave." Zoe said, tears in her eyes. "Lenny. Think of Lenny."
"I will be protecting him if I leave."
"But the police have the man now!" Zoe argued. "No one else can get hurt now!"
"I guess, but I have already caused enough damage. Im sorry." Lucy said.
"No. Don't leave." Zoe said. "You can't. You already left us once for six years. Please don't do that to us again." Zoe said, getting angry, crying.
"I have to. Im sorry."
"No. You don't have to. You say you cause all this trouble, and then want to leave? You need to stay!"
"Zoe, everyone hates me now for bringing that monster here."
"No. No one hates you!" Zoe said, banging her cup down on the table and standing up. "I love you, Lenny loves you, all of your new friends still love you. Even Sam!"
"How on earth would you know that!" Lucy said.
"Because no one blames you!" Zoe said. "Its only you blaming yourself." She said, and with that, she left her sister at the table to think about everything.

Zoe went and sat in her office, hoping for some privacy. She sat down at her desk, and put her head on her arms and just sobbed. She fell asleep soon after.

Nick walked in about an hour later.
"Zoe?" He shook her awake.
"What?" She said, and he could see she had been crying.
"I thought id better tell you that Sam's surgery went fine." He said, looking at her. "Whats wrong?"
"Lucy." Zoe said, crying again after recalling the events. "She said she is leaving again."
"What? Why?" Nick asked, kneeling down infront of her.
"She said she has caused too much trouble, and doesnt want to cause anymore." Zoe wiped her cheeks. "I told her that none of this was her fault, bu she wouldn't listen. She said everyone hated her, and I told her no. No one hates her, right? You don't, do you?"
"No, I don't." He replied.
"See? I told her that no one blames her for all this, and she still wouldn't listen. I got angry, and said to her that it was only her blaming herself." Zoe cried.
"Now come on." Nick said, opening his arms to a hug which she took willingly.
"I don't want her to leave." she whispered against his chest. "Not again."
"I know." He gently rocked her.

He looked at her after her sobs subsided and it turned out she had fallen asleep.
"Oh Zoe..." He said, and gently lifted her onto the sofa there.

He left the room and decided to talk to Lucy. He found her sitting in the cafe where Zoe left her.
"Whats this I hear about you leaving?" He said to her, sitting down opposite.
"I have caused too much trouble." She shook her head. "Im sorry."
"You haven't done anything wrong." He told her.
"Yes I have! Lenny got shot, my sister got cut, Sam got stabbed and nearly died! That doesn't sound like nothing to me."
"Yeah, but that wasn't you! Was it!" Nick told her.
"I bought that man in here."
"No, he followed you here. You had no way of knowing."
"But I am the reason he came, Nick!" Lucy said. "If I never came, no one would have been hurt in the first place!"
"But he has been caught now!" Nick explained. "No one else will get hurt by him."
"I guess so, but I still think its best if I leave."
"Why?" Nick asked. "Your sister doesn't want you to. We all don't want you to."
"But I do, Nick!"
"You want to cause your sister more pain by doing so?" He asked.
"No, of course not. But it will be better for everyone else..."
"But not your sister." He said, thinking of Zoe. "She has just been crying her eyes out in her office."
"She has?" Lucy said, feeling guilty.
"She really doesn't want you to leave, Lucy."
"I know." Lucy whispered.
"Im sure Lenny doesn't want you to either."
"I know." Lucy said. Nick stood up and left her without another word, to let her think about her actions.

Nick walked back into Zoes office to find her awake.
"I just spoke to Lucy." He said.
"You did?"
"Yeah. I gave her a lot to think about, so maybe she wont leave." Nick told her.
"I hope she doesn't leave." Zoe said. "She already left for six years with no contact. And she has only been her a few days!"
"I know, Zoe." Nick said. "If she does go, you will always have me." Zoe smiled, stood up, and kissed him.
"I love you." She said.
"I love you too." He replied.