The Secret Life Of Casualty.

Chapter 397.

He tucks a curl behind her ear as they lay in bed, their son, laying on his wife's stomach. She's exhausted. it's been a few hours since she delivered the small bundle which is now wrapped in a blanket on her chest.

"Adam"

"Um, "

"Lucas, Amelia" She whispers.

"I'll go and get them, " He says, he doesn't want to leave her, but reasons the quicker, he leaves her, the quicker he'll be back. With a quick kiss to her forehead, he's out the private room he'd talked Tess in to letting them have so Jess could deliver in comfort.

But as he turns, at the doorway, she's gone.

She was never there.


It's a memory he's played for ages now. She should still be lying beside him, his arm hooked comfortably around her waist as he plays with her hair. But she's not with him. Instead, he's faced with a dark bedroom, with only the ticking of the clock for comfort. He wonders if she thinks abut him, as often he does, about her. He raises, heads to the bathroom and turns on the shower, hoping to get to work early to catch up on the paperwork he'd been neglecting.

Getting in to his office, it's a similar scene: photos on his desk, photos he couldn't bare to throw away.

"Coffee?"

"For a moment, that voice sounds like hers and he dares to hope, but of course, it isn't.

It's Zoe. "Oh, come on, Adam"

"Sorry Zoe" He apologises.

Zoe heads out of his office, leaving Adam alone again, with a takeaway coffee to nurse his broken heart.


Some Adam and Jess that I randomly wrote. Please let me know what you think.