In, this prompt, Iain and Rita aren't together.
This was originally supposed to be an Ash and Linda chapter, which I have in my documents, but I'm really struggling with it.
Mentions, Jessica. I know they didn't know each other, and I was originally thinking Linda, but then I decided not to as Linda's in the next two chapters.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Chapter 138.
It would be a shame, Rita thought as she sat at the cereal bar in the kitchen, in her flat, to undo the hard work she had undertook to control her alcohol issues. But she blamed Mark for that. Why did he have to turn up now? When she was finally in a good place. She had friends: Zoe, Jessica, Iain, Robyn. She had walked out half way, through her shift when, Dixie and Jeff had brought a patient in, and the patient was Mark. She had burst through the RESUS doors, causing Ash to look at her in concern and continued to walk out to the car park, trying to locate her car, she knew it was a bad idea to drive, but she was not in the mood for her sensible ideas to take over her bad ideas.
Putting her keys in the engine, she drove away, her head in a mess. There were voices in her head, and she just wanted them to stop.
"Ash, have you seen Rita?" Zoe asked, putting a set of patient files on the desk.
Ash shook his head. "No, Zoe, I haven't "
Zoe sighed. She headed to the staff room where she went in to her locker and got her phone out of her locker and scrolled through her contacts, until she got to Rita's number, she pressed "ring".
"Hi, this is Rita Freeman, sorry I can't take your call at the moment. "
"Rita, it's Zoe, give me a call when you get this" The clinical lead closed her phone as she finished her message and went back outside to finish treating patients that needed her care.
She shook her head at Ash.
Ash was worried, so he decided that when he got a break, he was going to see her.
Ash pulled up outside Rita's block of flats and got out of the car, before he looked up at the flats, and locked his car, before he went in to the building and took the stairs and he went across the balcony, knocking on the door.
Rita reached for the bottle of red and poured some of it in to her glass when she realised someone was knocking on her door. Sighing, she put the glass on the table and walked in to the hallway and she opened the door.
A knock on the door was her saving grace. It was Ash. "What do you want?" She slurred at him.
Ash sighed as she threw up. He stepped in to the flat and guided her to the living room, where he noticed there were half empty bottles scattered on the floor and on the coffee table.
"Oh, Rita " He sighed, he walked in to the kitchen and started opening draws until he found what he was looking for: a bin bag, and some paracteomol. He placed the packet of tablets on the table.
"I don't care " Rita said, her tone of voice was cutting to Ash and he knew that she wasn't like this, it was a voice in her head, it was Mark telling her that she was worthless, a worthless nurse and she reached for the bottle.
"Your strong, Rita " Ash urged her.
Rita scoffed at him.
"Don't do this " Ash implored her as he took a seat in the armchair near the window.
Rita raised an eyebrow at him. Ash reached for the bottle.
"Give that back " Rita argued, making a reach for it, Ash held it out of her reach and as Rita jumped up, she cut her hand on the glass. "Ouch " Rita sat back, cradling her hand as she realised that there was blood pouring from a cut on her hand.
"Come on, " He led her in to the kitchen and ran the cold tap, putting Rita's hand under it, she winced.
Ash found a bandage in the first aid box that Rita kept in one of the cupboards and secured it around her hand.
"Thanks Ash " Said Rita gratefully as Ash binned the rubbish, and Rita went back to the sofa, and picked up the TV remote.
"Don't" Ash warned her.
Rita picked up the bottle and walked back in to kitchen, Ash hoped that she wasn't about to open another one. Instead, she binned the bottle, and got ingredients out of the fridge to make herself a sandwich, as she knew from bitter experience, that she got headaches if she had bottles on an empty stomach.
Ash poured her a glass of water and put it down on the table where she was eating her sandwich, she looked up at him and smiled.
Rita picked up a DVD and put it in the player as Ash sat back and put his arm around her as he then kissed her head, he liked the feisty nurse as she stood up for her patients and what she believed in for her patients, she was a good nurse. A "beep, beep " pinged on her phone and she picked it up to see a message. She unlocked her phone to see a message.
"I need to see you"
Rita shook her head as she knew the message was from Mark, she couldn't allow him to get back in to her life.
"No, Mark " She replied.
Ash looked at her. "Are you ok?"
Rita nodded her head. She didn't have time for Mark anymore. She was a new woman.
I haven't written a Rita chapter in ages and with her ex - husband Mark, reappearing, I think Rita will end up back on the booze. Thanks for reading.
Next chapter: Ash and Linda head out for a drink, after work, but will anything happen between the two? I already have some of it written, so it should be up within the next few days.
