A/N thank you for all the reviews, comments, follows and favourites so far! Sorry its so short but I wanted to put a bit of Zax fluff into this, hope you all like it Enjoy and please read and review! Xx
Zoe looked up at the ceiling from her hospital bed, absentmindedly noting that the paint was starting to peel off in places and a couple of tiny cracks were starting to form. Normally she wouldn't notice details that were as minute as these were, but then again she had spent a lot of time in that hospital room, in that bed so she had looked up at the ceiling on numerous occasions and to be honest it was getting quite boring to look at so she was always glad of someone coming into visit her.
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"Connie?" Zoe asked her colleague quietly "Do you have a mirror I could borrow?" part of her regretted the words as soon as she had spoken them, another part of her was almost glad that she had said it, she needed to see herself.
"Are you sure you're ready?" Connie replied after a short pause "You haven't seen yourself since the accident…" her voice tailed off when Zoe nodded and she handed her the small mirror that she kept in her bag.
Zoe was silent for a few minutes as she took in the reflection from the mirror that she presumed was her own; she looked so different. Her attention kept getting drawn back to one particular feature, the long, jagged scar that ran from the middle of her forehead to the top of her right earlobe. She snapped the mirror shut, not wanting to look at herself for any longer than she had to.
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Not long after Connie had left, Max came in to see her, carrying a big bunch of colourful flowers "Hey babe. How're you doing?" he asked her, going and sitting next to her on the bed and kissing her.
Zoe kissed him back before pulling away from him, receiving confused looks from Max as she leant back on the pillows and folding her arms tightly across her body "Thank you, for the flowers, they're gorgeous…" she said, almost timidly as tears started to rapidly cascade down her face, spilling onto her top.
"Like you" he grinned, and then on spotting her tears, he added "You're welcome, but what's the matter? Zoe? Why are you crying?" when she didn't answer straight away he simply enveloped her in a tight hug, holding her close to him until she had stopped crying and calmed herself down enough to be able to speak coherently and explain to him what was wrong.
"I-I don't know…well, I do, of course I do, but it sounds so stupid" she muttered, just loud enough for him to hear what she had said.
"It won't sound stupid" he reassured her, reaching across the bed and taking her hand in his "Tell me, I want to help"
"I don't look beautiful, I can't stand the way I look right now…that scar looks so…so ugly! Why do you stay with me?" she sobbed, but clinging to him at the same time as if begging him to stay with her.
"I stay with you because I love you, Zoe. You don't look ugly. I think you look beautiful, no matter what you say and nothing will change how I see you. You'll always be gorgeous to me"