The next-morning Adam, Kirsty, and Jess all headed to hosptial pretty-visit so they could visit Lucy in the Nursery before Adam's and Kirsty's shift started.

They waited patiently int he waiting-room outside the Nursery together; Kirsty's hand entwined with Adam's and tucked into his lap, and Jess sat with them, feeling a little-awkward about the whole-situation, but she understood why Adam wanted her there so she soong ot over the awkwardness of the whole-thing.

"Are you sure about this Ad?" Kirsty asked him as she squeezed his hand gently.

"100% as-long as Jess here is..." He replied, turning to Jess for an answer.

Jess sighed. "Like I said, as long as it's the right-decision for you Adam, I don't mind what you do."

Adam nodded with a sweet-smile before turning back to Kirsty. "In that case, yes I'm sure. But like I've said before, I'm not making any decisions this morning, or probably today alright? I need some-time to think about this Kirst..." He trailed-off.

"I know you do, which is why I'm not gonna pressure you into a decision whatsoever. You take as long as you need." Kirsty told-him before kissing his cheek. "I Love You." She whispered.

"I Love..." Adam didn't get any-further with that sentence as Lucy's carer approached-them. "Are you Mr Trueman?" She asked politely.

"Urm, yes. yeah I am." He said before putting on his 'Doctor's-Smile,' he had perfected that well over the years.

"Then if you and your friends would like to follow-me, Lucy is just around the corner." The young-lady informed them.

The three of them followed the Carer over to Lucy's cot, where she lay-awake, giggling and fidgeting like babies do. They all peered over the edge of the cot together as Kirsty cuddled into Adam's arm and rested her cheek against his arm and smiled.

"She really is a gorgeous baby isn't she?" Kirsty began.

"Yeah..." Jess replied. Adam remained silent. Lucy had instantly made eye-contact with-him and Adam was returning the eye-contact with a sweet-smile. Kirsty realised that he coudln't take his eyes off of her, and guessed that it was a good-sign.

"Can we hold-her?" Kirsty asked the Carer and she nodded in reply with a smile. Adam instantly reached-down into the cot and gently-picked Lucy-up and lay her in his arms.

"Hello Lucy." He whispered before leaning-down and kissing her forehead.

Adam was tempted to agree with Kirsty about adopting-her-now. But he was constantly thinking about Harry, and was terrified of using Lucy as an excuse for their happiness. He knew it shouldn't be that way, and wanted Lucy to be a happy-reminder of Harry, but made him feel-physically-sick just to think about anything like that car-crash happening ever-again in his life. He had been in enough disasterous car-crashes for one-lifetime. And the worst thing was that neither of them had been their own fault.

Lucy shot a beaming-babyish smile at Adam which Kirsty spotted.

"She seems to have taken a liking to you Mister." She told him as she cuddled-up to-him.

"Yeah, Adam was always the natural." Jess added-in.

"So I See..." Kirsty trailed-off, but Adam took this conversation in the wrong-way...

"You can't make-my mind-up for me Kirst." He said calmly.

"Oh Ad, I wasn't tr...I was just saying..."

"I know. Sorry, it's just...well, it's a big-decision to make alright, and I don't wanna rush-into it."

"Okay Ad..." Kirsty paused. "Lets have a hold-then?" She suggested before they exchanged Lucy into Kirsty's arms.

Jess took Adam aside as Kirsty cooed over the baby.

"Ad, stop letting what happened to us hold-you-back." She began, whispering so Kirsty didn't hear. It wasn't that she didn't want her to know, it was just that she didn't want to hurt-Kirsty's feelings. "I know you, better than anyone, better than Kirsty even, and I know that deep-down inside you want that little-baby more than anything in the world. But because you're Adam Trueman, you won't admit that, you're gonna have to be forced into-it, and Kirsty won't do that in-fear of loosing-you, I understand-that, but I know that you need-pushing, so this is me pushing-you, now go and make Lucy your-own." Jess encouraged-him, he had been exactly the same before accepting the job as Clinical-Lead. Of-Course, he was no-longer Clinical-Lead, but he had more important things to concentrate on now, like Lucy, Kirsty, and Nita, and Jess knew-that better than most.

Adam looked Jessica in the eyes and could see that she was serious about this. She didn't mind what decision Adam made, as long as it was what he wanted, and Jess was the only-one who knew what he really wanted. She knew Adam better than he knew himself, and Adam knew this, so he nodded before smiling at Jess. "Okay. Thanks Jess." He whispered back before going over to Kirsty and tickling Lucy's belly with his index-finger, before allowing Lucy to play with it.

Kirsty looked-up at Adam and smiled. "Well?" She said softly, knowing that Adam and Jess had just been talking. She hadn't heard the conversation, but she guessed that it had been about adopting Lucy.

Adam took a deep-breath in as he looked Kirsty in the eyes. He held the breath for a couple-of-seconds as he made his final-decision, and released the breath with a small but sweet-smile, slowly-nodding at Kirsty.

"Yes." He whispered.

I was gonna drag-this-out for another Chapter, but I thought I'd be nice to you and let Adam make-his-mind-up now. (Just 'cause I can!)

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