This chapter has lain on my tablet for days so I thought I'd get it up before I start the next prompt. Also, whose sad that Jeff is leaving? I for one, will miss him and Dixie together.
The reason I've been saying I want to end this is (I've decided I definitely don't) is I'm losing my motivation for this, but with a couple of good prompts coming, updates should be quicker.
This prompt was wrote for Reader1235 and the prompt was: Zoe and one of her colleagues are called out to an accident but later they become trapped themselves, will they be OK? And how will Max take it? characterization for Zoe comes from 'Faling'
I've never written for Max before or Zoe really, Zoe is still clinical lead in this fiction.
The Secret Life Of Casualty
Chapter 32
Zoe picked up the red phone and frowned as she listened to the caller on the other end of the line, they had been a crash and they were a doctor down at the scene. Zoe looked around her team. Tom and Sam were off, Rita was in cubicles with Robyn and, Jessica was making beds. Suddenly she had an idea.
"Jessica? Can I have word in my office?" She asked, coming out from behind the reception desk and walking over to her.
"Sure " The nurse replied as they walked towards the lift and waited for it to arrive. The doors opened and Zoe caught Max looking at her. She smiled and followed Jessica in to the elevator, as the door closed, the two friends traveled up to Zoe's office in a comfortable silence until the doors opened. Zoe opened the door to her office and sat down at her desk.
"Take a seat " Zoe told her as she shut the door.
Jessica sat down wondering what Zoe wanted to tell her."There's been a crash " She started and it suddenly dawned on Jessica that Zoe wanted the staff nurse to go out to the accident with her.
"OK " Jessica said and soon they were on their way to meet Big Mac and Jeff in the Ambulance Bay where Big Mac had just finished cleaning.
The helicopter was on its side and screams were coming from the family inside: A young baby, the 28-year-old mother, and the mother's husband.
Zoe and Jessica were getting knitted out with helmets and fluorescent jackets and then they got ready to go inside the helicopter. Zoe placed the child in to Jessica's arms and she passed him down to Jeff. Then they helped to free the mother who had a fractured wrist.
The family freed the two colleagues were just about to get out when the helicopter was hit by rocks falling off the cliff, trapping the two best friends inside.
"OK, Jessica, I'm just going to look you over before we get you out OK?" Zoe told her friend, trying to stay professional.
"Sure " She replied, her head was banging and she was in pain.
"Zoe, you need to get out of there mate" The paramedic said, concerned
"Just hang on, Jeff, hang on " Zoe informed him, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
Jeff lowered Jessica on to the stretcher and asked Zoe if she was alright, she just nodded and sighed as the Ambulance reached the ED.
She didn't bother telling everyone who she was as everyone knew Jessica, she just needed a strong team to try to save her.
"Zoe, are you OK?" Asked Max, secretly relieved she was. He wanted to take her in to his arms but Zoe shook her head not in front of everyone it would give Robyn and Louise something to gossip about and gossip was something she didn't need now.
Zoe nodded as she followed the stretcher which had Jessica lying on, in to RESUS. Once the paramedics had lifted her over to the bed Zoe began to treat her while her boyfriend Adam was anxiously waiting for news in the relatives room, finding it difficult to stay in the room, he liked to be in the thick of the action.
Tess, Fletch and Adam were in CT, all watching over Jessica as she went through the scan, Tess was talking to her making sure that she could hear them when suddenly there was no response coming from the nurse in the scanner.
"Jessica, can you hear me?" Tess asked, getting ready to walk in to the room. Her, Adam lay her flat on the bed and wheeled her through the corridor.
"I don't understand this she was stable. What happened?" Zoe asked in shock.
"She dropped her GSC in the scanner " Tess informed pushing the bed through the doors.
"Don't you dare die on me Jessica!" She exclaimed, as she restarted CPR after checking for a pulse.
Having done everything she possibly could to try to save Jessica, Zoe stepped back as she looked at the clock and sighed. "Time of death, 16: 34" Losing a patient was hard enough, but when that patient was your friend, your colleague it just seemed like you'd had failed.
She followed Lofty to a cubicle where he stitched up the cut on her forehead, the only sign that she'd been in an accident.
Zoe walked in to the store-room, she was sad to have a lost a colleague but she knew that Max Walker would make it better. He placed a hand on her shoulder and kissed her softly.
"Um?" She mumbled against his mouth, her hands ripping open his shirt as he caressed her. And she moaned with pleasure as they kissed his hand moving closer to her thigh as she smirked, softly.
And, at the sight of Max's fit, young body Zoe Hanna no longer felt tired and drawn from the days events...
And, on impulse Max decided to book the two of them a dirty weekend away, which came as a shock to Zoe as she realized that this was no longer a no strings attached relationship - she was in love with cheeky, charming, rough Max Walker.
I know there wasn't there wasn't much Zax I don't feel confident in writing them yet.
I didn't rip off the character 'Jess' from Sunday's episode of Casualty, I liked Zoe's and Jessica's friendship which played out in series 22 - to 23 and haven't really written about how much I miss the two characters together. Next prompt: Tom and Sam try to get their relationship back on track but will they succeed or decide to go their separate ways? Prompted by TamJaspie. I already have the chapter typed so TamJaspie, shouldn't have to wait to long for it, I know how much she loves Tam. :D
