Chapter Twenty One

-Bones-

This Chapter is named after the amazing song by Charlie Brown, I highly recommend you listen to it. Because it's such a good song, oh and the next few chapters will focus on Sam/Zoe. I really wish they'd explore the friendship more on the show but I guess you can't have everything you wish for. Enjoy anyway (:

Monday Morning

Sam woke to the sound of her alarm clock, she groaned sleepily not wanting to get out of the warm sheets but she knew she had to. As it was her first shift back since having the weekend off, as she rubbed her eyes she turned to her side and she noticed Tom sleeping peacefully. 'Tom, time to get up. We'll be late for work otherwise' Sam says. 'Five more minutes' Tom mumbled still sleeping. Sam rolled her eyes before she got out of the bed and headed into the bathroom locking the door behind her as she did so. She walked over to the cabinet that was over the sink and she opened it, pulling out the small first aid kit inside.

Once she got that, she closed the cabinet before placing the first aid box down beside the sink. She unzipped the bag, pulling out the gloves and aseptic wipes, along with a fresh dressing, so she could change the dressing on her arm, she began to unravel the old dressing, and it took a while because it had clearly stuck to her skin, before finally it came free. She looked at her newly learnt scar and it was then she realised just how deep the cut actually was. She hadn't meant to go that deep. Before she quickly changed the dressing on her injured arm. She was going to have to make sure she took good care of it, not wanting it to get infected,

'Sam, are you in here?' Tom asked as he knocked on the bathroom door. 'Yeah. I'll be out in a second then you can have the bathroom' Sam tells him. Things haven't really got back on track with Tom after the incident at ThorpePark. Never mind the fact that Adam was still refusing to talk to her, or Tom for that matter.

That he had actually gone to they're gran parents without another word. Sam quickly placed the old dressing into her pocket knowing she couldn't discard it in the bathroom's bin for Tom to find it.

Anyway she had convinced herself that it was just a one off. It wasn't going to happen again, she wasn't going to give in again. She could do this. She'd managed for years without it, so why should she give in now? She unlocked the bathroom door shortly later and she went to leave but Tom stopped her in her tracks

'Sam, are we okay?' he asked her.

'Why wouldn't we be?' Sam asked.

'You've barely said more than a few words to me since we got back.' Tom says

'We're fine,' Sam replied.

'You sure?' he said.

'Positive, now let me get dressed' Sam told him, Tom nodded and he closed the bathroom door after her.

Sam changed into a pair of jeans, and a red and black chequered shirt with long sleeves because she couldn't risk Tom seeing the bandage that still covered her arm. He wasn't going to know, and that's the way she wanted it kept.

'Tom, hurry up we're going to be late' Sam told him.

'I'm coming, now' Tom replied, and he soon appeared fully dressed.

They soon left and they headed to the ED in silence. It was only when they got to the entrance that ether one of them spoke. 'You go on ahead and change I'll be in, in a moment' Sam tells Tom who nods, and goes and gets changed, still in her normal clothes she heads to the notice board and looks on the recently admitted, and she could see Amanda's name still written on the board in Ash's writing, she also noticed that she was still place in cubicles, waiting for a bed on AAU.

Sam took a deep breath in and headed to where her mother was but something stopped her in her tracks, she wasn't ready for this. Maybe later. Perhaps? Ether way Sam went to change into her scrubs when the door opened and it revealed Zoe, noticing that she was in the room Sam quickly placed her scrub shirt on.

'Sam, care to explain the bandage?' Zoe asked

'I had an accident at ThorpePark.' Sam said quickly.

'Want me to have a look?' Zoe asked

'No, its fine I've taken care of it' Sam says quickly, she doesn't want anyone to know. Never mind her boss.

'Sam I have a duty of care, you are one of my staff'Zoe tells her

'I really don't have time for this, my shift is about to start' Sam says trying to get out of this situation.

'You're not going anywhere until I've seen that arm of yours. Do you want me to fetch Tom?' Zoe asked

'No!' Sam replied.

'Okay then, let me have a look' Zoe told her. Sam rolled her eyes before nodding knowing there wasn't a chance she was going to get out of this, she lifted her arm out of her scrub top, so that Zoe could start pulling away the bandage that was wrapped around it. In silence before finally Zoe got to the end of the bandage

She gasped at the sight of the cut that came into focus. 'Sam, how did this happen?' Zoe asked.

'I told you, I had an accident at Thorpe park' Sam says quickly more out of frustration.

'Sam, I know this was no accident, this was self inflicted' Zoe says looking at the cut on her arm

'And how would you know?' Sam asked.

'Because I've done it myself.' Zoe replied. Sam gasped in shock.

'Now firstly number one I want you to tell me what you used to do this, number two I want to know why you did it, and number three anything you say will not leave this room, ' Zoe says.

Sam rolled her eyes. 'it doesn't matter what I used' she said.

'Sam of course it matters, as a doctor I can't give you the right treatment until you tell me what you used. You can tell me' Zoe told her, giving her hand a reassuring squeeze.

'I used a shard of glass, from a broken bottle' Sam replied

'Sam have you any idea how dangerous that is?'