"Not that I know of" said Tess
"Right any men in her life" said Connie
"No not that I know of" said Tess "but she wouldn't tell anyone if there was anyway"
"Right I need all the staff in the staffroom in 5 minutes" said Connie
"Ok" said Charlie
Max, Charlie and Tess headed over to the pub and walked in
"Right everyone you need to come back to the hospital and go into the staffroom" said max
"Why" said Dixie
"Zoe has been brought in and Connie needs to talk to you all" said max
"And if anyone knows of Zoe's friends or family outside the hospital, you need to tell Connie" said Tess
Everyone headed over to the ED and to the staffroom were Connie was waiting, when everyone was there Connie began
"Right Zoe has caught stomach virus" said Connie "it is very serious and anyone who has had physical contact with her has to come with me"
Everyone looked at each other not knowing what to say
"This cannot be transferred by touch, but can be transferred by anything from mouth to mouth contact to sexual contact" said Connie "now does anyone know of boyfriends or family"
Nobody said anything
"Or have any of the staff had contact with her in this way" said Connie
Everyone one looked at each other except from Charlie and Tess whose eyes were fixed on max who didn't seem to show any emotion, Connie noticed this
"Max" said Connie in almost a whisper
Even though it was a whisper everyone immediately turned around and looked at max, max stood up
"Ok" said max standing up with his hands up in the air
"So you have had physical contact with her" said Connie
"Yes" said max
Everyone suddenly started to laugh
"What, where and when" said Connie "or we can do this somewhere private"
"No its ok" said max "we kissed just before she clasped"
"The kiss of death" said Robyn
Everyone started laughing again
"Ok max you need tested" said Connie "any other contact"
"No" said max
Connie followed max outside the staffroom and everyone started looking at each other
"I knew it" said Tess to Charlie
Max got tested and he was fine, max took a deep breath and entered the staffroom
"Lover boys back" said Dixie
Everybody laughed
"Ha ha ha" said max sarcastically
"So you're the one that left her flowers earlier" said Charlie
"Right I've had enough of this" said max slamming the staffroom door
Tess followed max out
"Don't let them get to you" said Tess
"I'm not" said max "I'm going to see Zoe"
Tess smiled and left him to it, meanwhile in rhesus max walked in and saw Zoe she was asleep and had lodes of wires and tubes around her, max just stood there in disbelief, max walked over and sat on the chair beside her and started stroking her hair, all the staff were coming out of the staffroom thinking of Zoe and max when they stopped and looked threw the rhesus door and saw max sitting stroking zoe's hair, Dixie saw all the wires and tubes attached to Zoe and turned around to look at Jeff
"The 2 love birds" said Jeff
"Aww just leave it" said Dixie walking off in a huff
"What" said Jeff following her?
Charlie and Tess walked over with Connie and looked threw the rhesus doors at max
"Any change" said Tess to Connie
"No" said Connie "we are waiting for her to wake up"
"What do you mean wake up" said Charlie
"Well it's pretty bad" said Connie