Tess

It was heart wrenching to try and explain to Kirsty what she had done. I'd expected that I would have to because of the side effects of Warren's medication but it didn't make it any easier seeing her trying to deny that she would ever do that. She'd pushed me away; it was a lot to handle. I understood that but I hated to see her go through it after everything else she'd been through.

When I returned to the staffroom I found Jay, Emily, Noel and Zoe sat together on the sofa's each with a cup of coffee in hand. Jay saw me first.

"How is she doing?" he asked turning everyone else's attention to me.

"Not good. Like we thought she doesn't remember taking the tablets and is denying that she would ever do such a thing. She's going to be transferred to psych later today or tomorrow morning." We all knew that it was coming long before she took the overdose but still two of our colleagues being in the psych ward at the same time, it was hard to swallow.

I looked at my colleagues and wondered what they had done in between finding out about Kirsty last night and ending up in front of me now on the staff room sofa looked dishevelled. I knew that Zoe and Emily had never gone home spending their night drifting around the ED helping out when ever needed and sitting in the staffroom chatting quietly to each other. Jay and Noel both looked like they hadn't gotten anymore sleep than the girls but I didn't know if they had gone home or not.

I couldn't blame them though; I couldn't bring myself to leave either last night and I'd spent my time in my office catching up on paper work and watching the ED working at night, it's not like I'd never seen it at night, I'd just never taken the time to probably look. It was the same thing with Kirsty I'd seen her and spoken to her even given her quiet a few telling off's but I never really took the time to see her and how much pain she was in under the surface. I knew she had hidden it well because nobody here excluding Adam noticed something was wrong but still, we all felt incredibly guilty for not noticing. I couldn't help but worry about her most of the time. Her steep descent from the nurse who was a 'force to be reckoned with' to the woman who I'd just had to tell she had taken an overdose just seemed so dramatic and hard to come to terms with and poor Nita had to deal with it all. I couldn't see Kathy having a kind word to say to her so I assumed that she had no one to talk to about any of this. For her, one day her mother was fine they had a normal live and then the next she had almost died and had been reduced to a silent shell of the mother she once knew and she didn't know why and really neither did we. She was so strong and suddenly she just gave up when her problems seemed to be fixed. Where had it all gone so wrong?

Adam

I watched, holding back the tears, as Kirsty was wheeled into the lift on her way to psych. I couldn't believe that she was actually going to have to stay there. The one thought that gave me comfort was that she had two familiar faces there, the first and best being Charlie, and the second being Ruth - who she'd never really gotten on with. I knew that Charlie would look out for her and get her the best possible care that he could but it was still weird to think that my Kirsty would be living here in the hospital with crazy people. I know I shouldn't say that but some of them are down right crazy and don't know black from white. How could she be put with them? She wasn't crazy; just lost and tormented.

I watched as she stared straight ahead refusing to look at anyone, unwilling to except her fait just yet. She still didn't believe that she had tried to end it all; in fact she down right refused to believe it and ended up working her self into a right state; so much so that she had to be sedated.

The lift doors closed and she was gone. For a while everyone stood in the same position continuing to watch the closed lift doors; at least she wasn't dragged out of here like Ruth. She really would have hated that. Nobody knew what to do now. The ED was strangely quiet. At first we looked at one another before one by one we turned attempting to get on with our jobs. In time there was only Tess and I still stood in the same positions neither of us attempting to move. She was about five meters away from me holding a couple of charts to her chest. She wore a distressing expression of sorrow, probably wondering how she'd ended up here again. Our eyes met, the same expression mimicked in each of our faces. I forced a fake smile onto my face trying to reassure her. She half smiled back at me before turning slowly and heading into her office closing the door behind her; this was going to be one tough shift.

Hey, hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Dudeybob – I'm not sure how Warren's feeling I haven't given it much thought but I'm thinking he's going to be angry? When isn't he! Kirsty's been disowned because Warren couldn't believe how selfish she had been sorry if I didn't make that very clear, I'll write a bit about it to make it more clear and put it in in a couple of chapters time.

Sararah – yep, it's never going to be straightforward! But at the moment it's not Warren she should be worried about. ;D