An this might be my last update for a week...

Tom squeezes my hand as we open the doors.

A huge smile appears on Nat's face as she sees us.

"Sam ,Tom!"

"hey Nat, how are you feeling?" I take a seat on the edge of the bed.

"alright, Sam have you been crying? I am so so sorry I -"

Sam's POV

"shh," I take her hand in mine, "I'm alright , just worried about you," I try to reassure her.

I look up at Tom who is standing with a smile like a big kid. I raise my eyebrows at him but he shakes his head.

"I heard that you are a good fighter, Nat,"

So now he is changing the subject. I shake my head too but I am too interested to hear Nat's answer to try to get one out of him.

"well, I did karate before I went into care. I was a black belt."

"so you are!" Tom looks at me in surprise,"your parents told me all about it at the time. They said that we should meet up as I do MMA ."

Nat smiles shyly.

I look around and notice Clare standing outside. Now is our chance.

"two seconds," I say standing up and running out of resus.

"Clare!"

Clare turns round and stares at me with the same stern face as the day we first met her.

"miss Nichols. When will Natalia be able to leave."

"well, "Zoe starts coming out from behind Clare. "Natalia will be able to leave in about three days baring in mind that her condition continues to improve in the way that it is. She will be moved upstairs for that time. However when she leaves she will need continuing care. We can provide the correct treatment if someone is trained to provide it however-"

"that is a lot of hassle. We are a huge home so this much attention on one child" Clare interrupts Zoe.

It takes all of my control not to slap her. She is seriously worring about the inconvenience when Nat is in such a serious condition .

"it will take a lot of care," Zoe looks at me and gestures subtly that now is my chance.

"Zoe is right. I assume that there will be no one trained to provide the treatment that Nat is going to need. Therefor perhaps your best ,and in your words option with the least hassle, will be to let Nat move to somewhere that will provide the treatment,"

Clare looks at me confused then her stern face turns into a sort of twisted grin, "and by all of that you mean that you and your lover boy should adopt Nat now?"

Zoe steps forward, "that is starting to look like your best option."

Clare nodds , "fine I will make some phone calls, get some forms, you have already had the house visit so once everything has been sighned you may take her. I'll bring her belongings with in the hour along with the paperwork." Clare turns and leaves.

Zoe looks at me with a smile, "congratulations Sam!"

"thanks again Zoe!"

Suddenly the doors to the ED are flung open and Zoe has a new patient to treat.

She tells me to come to her office later with Tom to sort out our leave before she rushes of to CDU.

I feel as though I could burst with happiness as I run into Resus.

Nat and Tom are sitting in fits of laughter .

Their heads fly up when they see me. With one look at my face Tom knows what has happened.

He jumps up and pulls me towards him and we both laugh .

We only brake apart when Nat coughs.

We turn around to look at her. "Sam you may have the honour."Tom tells me.

Nat looks so confused as we both sit down on the edge of the bed again.

"Nat we have some really big news for you." I start . Nat's face changes from confusion to excitement. "now we understand if you don't want to but we, Tom ,myself and Tom's parents are going to adopt you!"

Nat squeals and pulls us into a hug.

Tom's parents arrived twenty minutes later with Nat's things that they had collected from Clare . Mountains of paperwork had been signed and Nat was officially going to be adopted