Okay so I wrote the first half of this with a hangover so if there are a few mistakes blame WKD not me lol…..Anyway I know a lot of people are wondering how I'll write the 3 months where Zoe is in New York and I have 2 maybe 3 chapters of her there but there is a lot of movement and a huge moment in between ;)

Hope you enjoy (:

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'Let's try this one?' Lavon asked as he held a small carton of strawberry yogurt in front of Logan.

'No…' Logan said shaking his head as he rested leisurely in his highchair.

'This one?' Lavon asked again as he gave Logan another option of apricot flavoured yogurt.

Logan laughed an evil little laugh and shook his head again 'No!'

'Well then I give up! What do you want to eat?' Lavon asked as he flopped down on the stool in front of Logan's highchair.

'That.' Logan said pointing to the jar of cookies on the counter. Lavon looked over; he thought he had hidden all confectionaries but obviously not.

'Maybe later.' He said in hope that the youngster wouldn't burst out crying for the third time today. Logan dropped his bottom lip and quivered.

'Aw come now no cryin' today, this is Logan and Lavon's day together! What do you wanna do today?'

Logan looked at him stubbornly. He was definitely Wade and Zoe's son.

'You wanna watch some TV?'

'No.'

'How about we play with the cars?' Lavon pointed to the dozen plastic toy-cars scattered across his living room.

'No.'

'You want to paint? I finally got the last paint stain out of the couch!'

Logan completely overlooked Lavon's witty comment and stuck to his guns 'No.'

Lavon dropped his head 'We could go find Burt Reynolds? I know you love that and seen as your mom isn't here she can't give out to us!'

Logan shook his head and began to cry, straight away Lavon picked him out from the highchair in an attempt to comfort him even though he knew there were only two people in the world who could do that and neither were here at the moment. Lavon bounced him around for a few moments and decided they needed to leave the house and get some fresh air. Before he left Lavon gave Logan a spoon of Tylenol as he had a slight fever but nothing more.

Lavon didn't really want to disturb Wade and Jesse, they were busy varnishing the floors and installing the bar unit which proved to be a stressful task and the last thing Wade needed was to see his son upset. He had been a Trojan the past month and a half that Zoe had been gone and Logan wasn't making it easy, he missed Zoe and was not gone on the whole seeing his mom for 2 days then having her gone for 5 more. She talked to him on the phone but it just wasn't the same.
Everyone was helping as much as they could and there was a rota going round as to who would mind Logan during the day while Wade and Jesse worked. Wade had tried to leave him in the town's day-care one day but it only took Logan an hour to scream bloody murder and Wade run back to collect him, taking after his father clearly.

Normally Logan would jump at the chance to run across the town square without being chased by his selection of guardians but in the past couple of days he resigned himself to being carried everywhere and today was no different. With his pacifier in his mouth and his head resting against Lavon's chest region the pair made their way across town square when Logan noticed Jesse standing outside the bar on the phone.

Immediately Logan perked up and was clever enough to know where they were and that if Jesse was in sight his dad couldn't be far away.

'Dada!' Logan said pointing to a very stressed Jesse.

He was a smart boy, Lavon had to give him that and he was in no mood to listen to his heart-breaking cries for much longer so he gave in and made his way towards the building site.

'Jesse.'

Jesse swung around to see Logan smiling at him as he tried to wriggle free from Lavon's arms.

'Lavon, what are you guys doin' here?'

'Logan wanted to see Wade and I was runnin' out of distractions. Not even Burt Reynolds could cheer him up.'

'Well thank god you're here because like his son, Wade is havin' a bad day. He's inside, just go right in but be careful not to trip over anything'

Lavon let Jesse resume his stressful phone call and made his way through the plastic sheet that was acting as a proxy door.
The place looked great. It only had the outline of the finished product though with the bar unit almost in place, the kitchen outback nearly fully functioning and the bathrooms one step off having running water.
Lavon walked in to discover Wade conversing with one of the contractors over a cracked panel of wood. He looked stressed and agitated and in that moment Lavon regretted bringing Logan to see him.

'Dada!' Logan screeched causing Wade to turn around, straight away the puss on Wade's face disappeared and was replaced with a huge smile as he sent the contractors away and took Logan into his arms.

He planted a kiss on the top of Logan's head 'Buddy you have no idea just how much I needed to see you…'

'Long day?'

'The longest…but it just got a whole load better.' He bounced Logan in front of him who was busy inspecting the goggles around his neck.

'I know you must be crazy busy but nothing could keep him happy.' Lavon put his hand on Logan's shoulder 'But we're gonna go see aunt Lemon at the Rammer Jammer now aren't we?'

Logan pulled a face but Wade was quick to make it a positive 'What!? The Rammer Jammer? Logan how about you and Lavon head over and I'll be over in a few minutes, we can get some ice-cream? Yeah, how does that sound?'

Logan gave a laugh of approval and Lavon rolled his eyes at the fact he had spent the whole morning telling Logan he couldn't have any junk food.

'And then…we're gonna go home and tomorrow mommy's comin' home!'

'Momma!' Logan squealed.

Lavon smiled as Wade passed Logan back over 'This must be the longest she's been gone huh?'

'Yeah, 8 days.'

'How long she home for?'

'4. her longest time yet and it cannot come soon enough!'

'Well hey, for now just keep workin' at this and we'll see you in a bit alright.'

'Alright thanks man, bye buddy.' He waved at Logan who had taken the work goggles with him.

'Bye-bye' he said flexing his tiny hands as Wade smiled.

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Zoe tapped her phone against the counter of the nurses' station. She was in New York but her heart and he mind was in Bluebell. She had tried to ring Wade before rounds this morning but it went straight to voicemail and she figured he was too busy with Logan or with work to call back. Either way she missed him and Friday could not come soon enough because come 3pm she was on a plane home to her boys and that was the best feeling in the world.

' … ?' The nurse said from a distance as Zoe stared into a world of her own 'Zoe!'

Zoe jumped at the sound of her name being called in a thick New York accent; she had grown so used to hearing that southern twang that it was going to take some time to readjust.

'Yeah?'

' in 1230 is prepped and so is the OR, so whenever you're ready.'

'Yeah, sure.' Zoe said half dazed as she began to walk down the corridor as the nurse walked alongside her.
It was a quiet day up in the pre-op wards with Zoe scheduled for only 3 procedures then she was scheduled for a Skype call with Wade and Logan.
Zoe ran through the pre-op charts as her and the nurse, Shelly made their way up to the operating room. So far Zoe had fitted in extremely well with the staff at Columbia; the nurses were lovely as were her fellow attendings. For once in her life she was actually getting along with people and her bedside manner was golden, maybe Alabama really had changed her for the better.

'Do you know, one of my friends back home is called Shelly? How weird is that?'

'I know. You tell me every single day, you also tell me how Logan's doing, so how's he doing?' Shelly asked sweetly.

Zoe frowned; she didn't know which was why she needed to call Wade.

'Shelly what time is it?'

'3pm'

'Crap. Okay listen I am meant to be calling Wade in one hour so I need you to bring my phone in to the OR and call him for me okay?'

'But I'm not an OR nurse?'

Zoe stopped scrubbing her hands and waited for the scrub nurse to finish tying her gown, she paused and looked at Shelly 'Well today Shelly, today you get to be an OR nurse.'

Zoe nodded her head confidently and smiled 'Let's go by some pass!'

Shelly laughed 'What?'

'I don't know. Let's go!'

2 hours into the surgery and Zoe gave Shelly the go ahead to call Wade. There were 8 or 9 people in the OR all of which were standing in silence as they all waited patiently for Wade to answer the call.

'Hello?' Wade said from the other line.

There was a sigh of relief as they resumed to their duties.

'Wade it's me.'

'Oh hey, I didn't see your name on the screen my brains fried and its only lunchtime!'

Zoe smiled, he was so cute when he was tired, wandering around like a lost puppy.

'Actually Zo, I have a picture I want to send you.'

Zoe's eyes widened and she nearly dropped her instrument into the wide open chest in front of her. She had to stop him before things became very awkward and seen as this was a 4 hour surgery she needed the atmosphere to be good.

'Wade! Before you do anything I need you to know you're on speakerphone to an OR full of people!'

'Wait what?! Why?'

'Well we were meant to Skype soon but this surgery is going to eat into that time and I needed to talk to you or else I would break down and no one wants that do we Shelly?'

'No we don't.'

'Oh...' Wade wasn't sure what else to say he suddenly felt on-the-spot 'Well the picture, it wasn't dirty. It's of Logan, we had spaghetti for lunch and he managed to get most of it in his hair and across his face!'

Zoe smiled behind her mask as did everyone else in the room 'Aww. Okay send it on. How is he?'

'He's fine…'

'Wade.'

'Okay fine, he has had a slight temperature the past few days but we got it under control.'

'Who's we?'

'Umm me, Lavon, Lemon you know, basically everyone town.'

'Describe his symptoms.' Zoe said as she dug deep into the patient's chest.

'Doc-'

'Wade, you are on the phone with a room full of Doctors and nurses, describe his symptoms.'

'Alright fine. He has a temperature, it never went over 101. He got sick two nights ago but I think that's cause Lavon and me chanced him around the house while havin' candy.'

Zoe rolled her eyes as the other surgeons smiled. They were enjoying this.

'He's tired and he's grumpy, but only cause he misses you. We both do.'

Everyone in the room smiled to themselves as did Zoe 'Well I miss you guys too. I can't wait to see you tomorrow…' she paused 'But bring him to Jonah and get him checked out just in case.'

Shelly laughed to herself.

'Okay…Doc I gotta go. We have an order expected any minute but I will call you tonight.'

'Yeah I have to go too. I love you.'

'I love you too.'

Zoe flew through the rest of the surgery and was in post-op check-up with Shelly when she couldn't contain her delight any longer.

'How great is my husband?!' She said smiling, not really expecting her to reply.

'He's fairly great alright. I mean if my husband was as supportive about this whole thing as yours is, well. Your extremely lucky.'

'Wait your married?'

'Yeah well for now anyway, we split up 6 months ago. Just waiting for divorce papers…'

'What happened?' Zoe enquired feeling very concerned 'Sorry, I don't mean to pry but-'

'No, its fine. We're both from New York, I got this job not long before he got a job in Portland and I guess neither of us were really willing to sacrifice, to compromise. We tried the whole long distance thing but one day, it just all got too much.'

Zoe looked down at her sleeping patient praying to god that wouldn't happen to her and Wade. Shelly sensed it too and smiled 'But is that makes you and Wade different from me and George.'

'Wait, your husband's name is George?!'

'Yeah why?'

'Nothing, these parallels just keep getting weirder and weirder!'

Shelly smiled 'My husband would have never done half the things Wade does for you. You caught a winner , hold onto him.'

'I plan to do just that. Thank you.'

The two girls made their way down the corridor on their way to get some coffee and chocolate cake with plans to discuss everything from her failed marriage to every milestone Logan has had when a nurse ran out from behind the nurses' station ' '

Zoe dropped her head. Please don't let it be important she said to herself…'Yeah?' She said trying to sound as enthusiastically as possible.

'A pair of lungs has become available, well kinda.'

'How do you mean 'kinda' Marcus? Either there are lungs or there aren't. Which is it?'

'The hospital in Boston called to say they have a patient with 12 hours max left, the patient wants to donate their organs and your patient Mrs White is top of the list. So-'

'Marcus just come out and say it.'

'You're not going home this weekend. Sorry.'

Zoe's heart sunk as Shelly put her hand on her arm 'I'm sorry Zoe, come on lets go get some ice-cream…..'

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'What does the cow say?' Wade asked Logan as they sat on the couch with a bowl of fruit in Wade's lap.

Logan had to think about it for a minute before answering 'Moo.' He said confidently and put his hand out to receive a piece of apple from Wade as a reward.

'Good man. What does the cat say?'

Easy Logan thought to himself and meowed like a cat and laughed as Wade dropped a grape into his mouth. Both boys were too engrossed in their game to notice George and Jonah walk through the front door.

'Jonah!' Logan screamed as he pointed at the two men. It baffled most but for some reason Logan had an extremely soft spot for Jonah.

'What's up buddy?'

George pulled a couple of beers out of fridge and took a seat on one of the arm chairs as Jonah slyly took up residence beside Logan and took note of everything he did per request of Zoe via Wade. He didn't appear too worse for wear, he had a slight fever and he looked a little drained but other than that nothing.

Jonah lifted Logan onto his knees and felt his abdomen, it was a little tight and when Jonah asked Wade if he had had any trouble going to the toilet but Wade had nothing to report so Jonah could only put it down to a bug or virus of some sort.

'Well you can tell your wife that I can see nothing wrong with him and if she does not stop leaving me messages every 5 minutes I'll sell the practice behind her back.'

Wade laughed 'Even when she's in a different time zone she's findin' ways to annoy you huh?'

'Yeah-'Jonah was interrupted by Wade's phone as it began to ring in his back pocket; Wade pulled the phone out to see Zoe's name shining up at him. He moved into the kitchen leaving Logan showing George and Jonah his collection of toy cars.

'Hey baby I was just about to call you, to let you say good night to Logan. Lavon taught him how to make an elephant noise it's hilarious. Hopefully he'll still remember it when we collect you tomorrow.'

Zoe could hear laughing in the background and presumed Logan was showing off his new trick, she wanted to smile and laugh but she couldn't. Curled up on her mother's couch wearing one of Wade's hoodies she built up the courage to tell him the bad news.

'Wade.'

'What's wrong? You're awful quiet Doc.'

'Remember that patient I was telling you about last time I was home? The woman with 6 kids waiting for a lung transplant?'

Wade thought for a moment, she told him about a lot of patients 'Yeah, oh no did she die?'

'No, she's getting her lung.'

'Really? That's great.'

'Great for her, there's a patient in Boston who only has a few hours left and once they die will get her lung, I'm expecting a call any minute now telling me to get on a plane to harvest them.'

Wade's head dropped, she didn't need to say anything, her dull tone said it all 'you're not coming home this weekend are ya Doc?'

'No…'

'Well what about after you go to Boston? Can't you just come home then?'

'She's my patient. I have to do the procedure then I have post op then I have-'

'Yeah no, I get it.' He said coldly as Jonah and George looked over.

'I don't think you do. You know how badly I wanted to come home this weekend.'

'You don't need to explain anythin' to me Doc.'

Zoe didn't know how to respond. He was hurting so much.

'Look I gotta go Jonah and George are here but um Jonah gave Logan and check up and saw nothin' a miss so you don't need to freak out anymore. I'll talk to you in the morning'

'Wade please don't be mad.'

'I'm not mad Zo,' he was hurt and putting up walls. 'I'll talk to you tomorrow. I love you.'

'I love you too' she whispered as he hung up the phone abruptly.

The next morning Wade awoke to see a text from Zoe saying she got a call to fly to Boston at 6am so she would be out of contact all day. That suited him fine; he needed time to calm down and to get over it before talking to her again.
He spent half the day with Jesse at the bar then the rest with Logan and Lavon who tried his hardest to get Wade to leave Zoe a message because he knew that she was going to be just as withdrawn and grumpy as Wade was but he was having none of it. He needed Zoe to come home this weekend not only for Logan but for him, he was stressed over the bar and he needed her to tell him he was doing the right thing, that he was going to be okay, it was all going to be okay.

Lavon was right. Zoe was the exact same as Wade, on the flight to Boston, harvesting the lung and the flight back she was quiet and withdrawn thinking about Wade and how hurt he sounded on the phone.
She performed the transplant successfully and the delight on the families face nearly brought her to tears. She had given 6 kids their mother back but she couldn't enjoy it because all it reminded her of was getting to hold her little boy, which she couldn't do. After a painfully long day Zoe returned home to find a note from her mom saying her and Rupert were gone upstate for the weekend. There was nothing in the fridge so she decided a Chinese would be perfect so after placing her order and taking a shower Zoe opened a bottle of wine and stuck in the first season of her Sex in the City box-set all while contemplating to call Wade or not.

She was just about to press play on the remote when there was a knock on the door. Delivery guys always had perfect timing didn't they? She thought to herself as she walked over to the door with money in her hand.

She pulled open the door wearing sweats and one of Wade's shirts with no make-up and her hair tied back.

But it wasn't the deliver guy on the other side of the door.

'Wade…what are you doing here?'

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