Tom didn't know where he was driving, just that he needed to drive as far as possible. As he drove he looked at his reflection in the mirror and saw that his cheek was red, he also noticed Sam's slap had left finger prints on his cheek, he knew he couldn't go to work in case anyone saw his cheek, he pulled up in the middle of no where and sat and began to think.

Meanwhile across town Sam slumped down by the front door in tears what had she done, she'd slapped Tom why would she do that. She didn't blame him if he didn't come home tonight infact she didn't blame him if he didn't return at all.

After a lot of thinking Tom chose to spend the night in the on call room at work at least that would give him time to think, and time to take in the events that had happened so he turned on the engine and drove back into Holby, hoping that even know it was night shift the ED wasn't too busy so he could slip in and spend the night in the on call room.

When he made it back into town and near the ed, he cut the ignition of the car and he got out pulling up his hood over his head he hoped nobody would notice him, surprisingly the ed was rather quiet so he was able to sneak into the on call room and he closed the door behind him, locking the door as he did so before he took off his jacket and put it on the chair and just lauded down on the bed.

'Hi this is Tom Kent sorry I can't get to the phone right now, leave a message and ill get back to you as soon as I can' Toms voice echoed into Sam's ears

'Tom it's me I know I'm probably the last person you want to hear from but at lest let me know f your coming home tonight or if your okay, I'm really sorry I know you probably won't believe me, but really I am and i honestly don't know what came over me I'm sorry just call me'

Sam finished before she hung up wiping away the tears that had fallen it was going to be a long night. She knew she wasn't going to get much sleep as she'd be up half the night hoping and wanting Tom to walk back through the door she wanted nothing more than to have him here but she'd driven him away and she had nobody to blame but herself for the mess that had been caused.

Meanwhile in the on call room Tom had just finished listening to Sam's voice mail. He could hear that she regretted slapping him but he wasn't going to go back, well certainly not tonight so he typed out a new message

To Sam

You wanted space guess what you've got it. I won't be coming home tonight actually I'm not sure when and if I'm coming home. I don't know if we can get passed this,

Before Tom hit send and he placed his phone down on the table beside the bed, he stripped down from his clothes and got under the covers waiting for sleep to over come him.

Meanwhile Sam heard a buzz and saw that it was a message from Tom, she read it once. Maybe twice, before she placed her phone down. Broke down in tears.

After a while she picked up her phone and rang Zoe it took a few rings before Zoe answered

'Sam?' Zoe asked

'Zoe, I've done something terrible, I've lost him' Sam said

'Hang on, you on about Tom?' Zoe asked

'Yes' Sam replied

'Okay I'm coming over, and you can tell me all about it' Zoe replied

'Thank you' Sam hung up and began waiting.