"We've lost her. So what do we do now? I told you it was a stupid idea!" April growled.

"What, so we're just gonna give up are we? Just like that eh? I thought there was more to you than that, April! Maybe we need to pay her another visit, you know, just to be sure. Make sure she knows that we mean business here…"

Dixie woke up early that morning, 6:30am to be precise. She got up quietly, not wanting to wake up Jeff and Polly. For Polly, it was the first decent night's sleep she'd had since she was admitted.

She walked out of the ward, through the E.D until she reached the peace garden. Sitting down on the bench and taking in her surroundings, she let her thoughts wander. She kept remembering the day that they had been called out to the old storage building and they'd found her there. Poor girl was terrified, but she'd come a long way since that day.

Polly had started to open up to them now, but both Dixie and Jeff knew that they were only just scratching the surface. With every little thing she told them, there was plenty more things that she wasn't saying.

The main thing was that she was safe and she was with them, so they could look after her, she thought.

Looking at her watch, she suddenly realised how long she'd been out there. It was now 8am, and Polly would probably be awake and wondering where she was.

Polly woke up, manoeuvring herself in to a sitting position and rubbing her eyes. She looked over to Jeff, who was still sleeping. Where was Dixie?

Dixie walked into Polly's room, smiling when she saw that she was awake.

"Hiya sweetheart. You alright?" Polly nodded, returning the smile.

"Yeah, thanks, better than I was anyway" she laughed. At this, Dixie's eyes lit up; she hadn't heard her laugh for ages, and it was lovely to see her happy and getting back to her usual self again.

Jeff woke up, hearing the laughter and conversation. "Morning" he said sleepily, stretching. "Why you both looking at me like that? I wasn't asleep for that long, it's only half eight!"

"Stop waffling, Jeffrey. We're going for a walk. You coming?"

"Yeah, suppose so"

The three of them walked outside, onto the hospital grounds. After a while, Jeff could see that Polly was starting to struggle and linked his arm through hers to support her.

"Alright Pol?"

"Fine, thanks, just tired I guess"

"Yeah well it'll take a while, you know. You wanna head back inside?" Polly nodded, her arm was starting to hurt as well, the painkillers must be wearing off.

"Come on then" Dixie said cheerfully, heading towards the entrance.

"Jeff? Jeffrey! You coming or what?"

"Yeah, yeah, in a minute…don't we know them?" he muttered, unintentionally drawing Polly's attention to the two people walking towards them.

"I want to go back inside, Jeff, please" Polly begged him, tugging at his arm.

"Right, I'm getting security" Dixie said, sprinting inside.

"Excuse me, security!" she yelled, going over to the security guard "I think we might need you outside mate"

"What's going on?" he asked her, following her back outside.

Dixie pointed to April and Devin by way of explanation, then to Polly. "Those two. They abducted her last week; put her in hospital and now they're here again to cause trouble…"

Polly came running up to Dixie, taking hold of her hand and focusing on her so she didn't have to look at her mum and Devin.

Meanwhile, Devin had launched himself at Jeff, succeeding in punching him in the face and bursting his nose.

"Get off him, leave him alone!" Polly screamed, holding Dixie's hand tighter.

"Oi! Get off him, come on!" the guard yelled, trying to pull Devin away from Jeff.

"Right, come on, get out of here, you two! You're not to come back here, you hear me? Go on, go, I won't tell you again!"

Devin smirked, glaring daggers at the three of them "Alright, alright, we're going. See you"

"Jeff! You alright? I'm so sorry!" Polly said, she was shaking again.

"Yeah, I'll live. Not your fault, Pol, you weren't to know"

Walking into the E.D, Dixie ushered Tess over.

"What happened?"

"Some thug" lowering her voice, Dixie added "The same thug that abducted her last week. Just launched himself at Jeff"

Catching on quickly, Tess nodded. "No problem, let's get you cleaned up Jeff"

"Thanks, Tess. I need to get her back upstairs, try and calm her down"

Tess led Jeff off to see the extent of the damage, while Dixie walked with Polly back to the ward.

"Come on, love, he'll be alright" she comforted her, opening the door to her room. "Come and sit down, Polly" Polly nodded, moving to sit on the bed. "That's it, good girl. You're alright, they're gone, and security will make sure they don't come back again"

"I know, why did they have to go for Jeff though? It's me they want…"

Glad she was talking, Dixie replied "Who knows, eh? You don't need to worry, you're safe here Pol"

*Flashback*

"Get off me!" Polly screeched, trying and failing to push Devin off her. "You shouldn't be here, you're not allowed within a mile of me"

"Yeah? Who needs poxy rules like that? You want to shut that mouth of yours, or you're gonna end up getting hurt. Badly hurt"

Later that night, Polly lay in a hospital bed, while the doctors and nurses tried to piece together the story of what had happened to their patient...

*End flashback*

"Hi, you two. You alright?" Jeff greeted, as he walked in and sat down.

"We're fine" Dixie answered, giving Polly a reassuring smile "So, what's the damage?"

"Nothing to collateral, luckily" Jeff smiled slightly "I got off lightly, only a bit of blood. No breaks, nothing"

"Well, that's definitely good, Jeffrey" she looked again to Polly who had now fallen asleep "Bloody nutter, that bloke. We need to get the police involved, Jeff, because they are not going to give up that easily"

"Yeah, true, she's had enough trouble ain't she?" he too glanced at the sleeping young girl before turning back to Dixie "It's just getting her to agree to speak to them"