The three of them had all managed to fall asleep in Adam's living-room that night. It had been a long-day for Adam and Kirsty, and Nita was only in her early-teens, there was only so long she could stay-up before she dropped. Kirsty was awoken by the sound of her alarm for work. She found herself cuddled-up to Adam, and gently placed a kiss on his cheek as he slept. She really needed to go home soon, she had been wearing the same clothes for a few days and nights now and was beginning to stink a little. Kirsty stood herself-up, and Adam's eyes slowly opened to the feel of her moving away from him.
"Help yourself to a shower and breakfast." He told Kirsty tiredly as he tried to stretch without causing himself pain.
"Thanks Sweets, listen I'm gonna pop home after work, change clothes and things. Oh, and that reminds me, what you said about us moving-in yesterday, I think I'll talk to Nita about it, see what she thinks." Kirsty told him with a loving-smile.
"Great." Adam said happily as he slowly got himself up, holding his ribs as he did so. "Ooh I'm sore this morning." Adam said, in pain slightly.
Kirsty took a step towards him. "Oh my poor-baby." She said, a smile growing on her face as her arms wrapped around the back of his neck, and Adam's hands slipped around her waist. The pair kissed passionately as Nita awoke.
She smiled and rolled her eyes as she saw them kissing. "Oh. Get. A. Room." She joked with them as she stood-up.
Kirsty and Adam burst into giggles as they heard Nita's comment.
"Oh I'm sorry for kissing my girlfriend Nita." Adam joked back and Nita stepped-over and playfully hit him on the arm.
Kirsty laughed then looked at Adam. "Listen, I'm gonna be late for work, and Nita's gonna be late for school, if we don't hurry-up and get-ready." Kirsty said, hinting to Nita to get a move-on.
"Right, well I can give you a lift." Adam suggested.
"Uh. You'll do no such thing...especially not with those injuries, did you forget about the 10-Stitches in your head and the 3-Fractured Ribs Doctor-Trueman?" Kirsty flirted.
"Ooohhh, I guess you're right." He replied. "But I do wanna come-in with you." Adam said as he walked towards the kitchen, and Kirsty followed-him.
"Oh no...why?" Kirsty asked, worried, and hoping for dear-life that he didn't want to go back to work already.
Adam turned to face Kirsty. "Because I'll only get bored at home, you know me Kirst, I can't just lounge about all day, I need to be doing something!" Adam said, he already wanted otu of the house and it was still early in the morning.
Kirsty frowned dissapprovingly. "But Adam we've just had this conversation about the cars. You're injured and you need to take it easy for a few-weeks. However much you hate-it, you're only gonna make the pain worse by being on-the-move all day." Kirsty said, she was only worried about him, she could never be properly angry at Adam, he was just too adorable for that.
Adam warmed-into Kirsty again and took both of her hands into his. "I know all that Kirst." He began softly. "Look, I'll go in, but I won't work, I just wanna see my friends, and besides I need to thank Zoe. She's been amazing these past-couple of days, I think I'll buy her something." Adam said sweetly as he thought about what Zoe liked, a new lipstick would probably do her just fine but he wanted to get her something more meaningful than that.
An hour had passed and Adam and Kirsty had just arrived at the ED. They wandered in-together hand-in-hand. Charlie and Zoe approached them, or more-so Adam, almost immediatley as they appeared through the doors.
"Hi Kirsty...it's lovely to see you and all that, but more to the point, Adam what are you doing here?" Charlie asked him.
"Yeah, you should be tucked-up in bed Mister." Zoe said, tapping his lower-arm once before shooting a smile in Kirsty's direction as a greeting.
"He insisted on coming." Kirsty said with a cheeky-smile as she rolled-her-eyes at his plees to let him come-in back at his house.
"Hey, I'm not here to work alright, I just didn't fancy staying at home alone all-day long, I'd get bored."
"Charlie, Zoe and Kirsty all glanced looks at each-other as if they were all thinking 'Typical-Adam' which they all were funnily enough. Kirsty then headed into the staff-room along with Zoe and Charlie to get ready for their shifts to start and Adam walked-over to reception where he recognised the face of Liam Burnsley, the Detective who was looking-into his attack.
"Uh Detective." Adam called and Liam turned around.
"Ah Adam, I didn't expect to see you back here again so soon."
"Oh it's just a flying-visit, have you got anything-else since I saw you yesterday?" Adam asked him.
"Sorry Adam I haven't had the chance to talk to Sean yet, however seeing as his daughter is being treated here I have arranged to meet him here this-morning."
"That's Great, Thanks...Liam..." Adam trailed-off before he turned around to head to the staff-room only to find that Sean was approaching. The two-men glanced looks of hatred towards each-other as the passed. "Are you just going to stare at me or are you going to actually say-something?" Adam asked angrily in a snappy sort of voice.
"Get out-of my face Doctor Trueman, how dare you accuse me of beating-you up? It's not my fault you can't defend yourself now is it?" Sean teased menacingly.
"Shut-up Sean before I do something that I'll regret."
The detective approached them as he observed the growing-tempers in both of them. "Now now fella's, lets not re-live the past few days eh?" He said, trying to break-the tense-atmosphere.
Kirsty walked-out of the staff-room with Zoe, both suddenly realizing what was going-on here.
Adam and Sean looked each other closely in the face, like a fight could break-out any-second.
Zoe could spot the tears building-up in Kirsty's eyes and rubbed the back of her arm to comfort her. "Don't worry Kirst, I'll sort-this." Zoe re-assured her-friend. And with that she approached the 3 Men, two of them looking as though they could kill-each-other and the other one keeping a very close-eye on them both.
"Look guys this isn't the time OR the place for this." Zoe began lecturing the two of them. "Adam, you're already badly-injured as it is, don't let him get to you, I know you, you'll do something stupid and then you'll end-up worsening those injuries. And Sean, you may feel as if everyone is accusing you of Adam's attack, well, I'm not surprised with they way you've been acting, but whether you did or didn't hurt him, I suggest you back-off before I report you for harrassment."
Sean took a step past Adam. "Idiot." He muttered behind his teeth as he walked-past him. "Shall we detective?" He said as he led him out of the ED.
Adam would've punched him for that had he not of been already-injured himself and also in the presence of a Police-Detective. Kirsty then walked-up behind Adam and took his hand. "He's not worth the fight Adam." She said quietly into his ear as she led him into the staff-room and ordered him to stay there until she could have her break.
Outside of the ED, Sean was talking to the Detective.
"So tell me a bit about yours and Adam's past, I'm told you've 'had your differences.' " The detective began.
"The affair." Sean said angrily. "My wife, Jessica, cheated on me with him, and was pregnant with his baby, then left me for him when I took the kids to Saudi. Unfortunately she got them back, and they liked Adam,
and when I tried to convince Jessica that I still loved her, Adam didn't like it, he punched me for trying to kiss his fiance, then I was ordered to leave whilst I still had the choice, it's just a shame I've ended-up back here at this dreadful hosptial this week isn't it..." Sean trailed-off.
"So would you agree that you have good-reason to want to 'get-your-own-back' on Adam, after what he did to you?" The Young-Detective Asked.
"Of Course I do, but that's not saying I beat-him-up, however much I hate that man personally, he's a good-doctor and the hospital need-him, I'd never harm-him, but whoever it was beat-him to a pulp, and boy does he deserve-it."
"I never accused you of harming him...Sir. I think I know enough for today, I'll be wanting to speak to you again, and there's no-choice in the matter." The Detective told him sternly before wandering back into the ED,
where Adam was looking-out for him through the staff-room windows. He opened the door as he spotted-him and called-him over. "Oy! Liam!" He called and Liam walked towards him.
"Yes Adam?" He replied.
"What did Sean say?" He asked, determined to know if his suspicions were correct or not.
"That's confidential I'm afraid, but, let's just say he gave-me reason to believe that he doesn't particularly care about your injuries."
"Well to be honest mate, I wouldn't particularly care if he got hurt either..." Adam trailed-off.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Liam said sarcastically with a smile. He very much wanted Adam to win this case, and he strongly-suspected that Sean was behind the attack somehow, even if he wasn't the attacker-himself.
Kirsty approached Adam as the Detectve left-him alone. "Any Progress Darlin'?" She asked, hoping to hear good-news.
"Well he's spoken to Sean, but he wouldn't tell me what she said, but by the sounds of things, Liam's not that keen on Sean either." He told Kirsty.
"Well that's a good-thing." Kirsty said as she leaned-against the door-frame of the staff-room.
"Yeah I guess so..." Adam trailed-off, he just wanted to get these investigations over-and-done with as soon a possible so he could put this nasty-experience behind-him.
"Heyyy, Don't say it like that..." Kirsty tapped the bottom of his chin with her index-finger and Adam lifted his head-up slightly. "Stay-strong sweet-heart, we're getting there gradually." She comforted.
Adam gave Kirsty a weak-smile before kissing her on the forehead. "Thank-You." He whispered to her before she headed-back to work.
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