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Facing her demons had so far turned out to be harder than Zoe could have ever imagined and she sometimes wondered if she would ever forget what had happened to her.
Her first walk out of HDU and into the ED hadn't gone quite as smoothly as she had hoped it would, to say the least…
5 hours earlier…
Zoe sat up eagerly, waiting for Connie so that she could finally get out of HDU for a while and back to the place that she knew and loved before all this happened. Checking the time on her watch, she glanced around the room and sighed quietly to herself. Before she had time to dwell on any thoughts that dared to enter her mind, there was a knock at the already open door and Connie came into the room, a small smile crossing her features for a moment.
"Ready?" she asked her, grabbing her crutches that were leaning against the wall on the other side of the bed.
Zoe nodded "Let's go! I must be getting due a change of scenery" she joked, laughing.
"Right, there you go" Connie said, handing the crutches to her colleague and making sure she was steady before they began to exit the room and make their way towards the lift.
As the lift beeped to say that they were at the ED and the doors opened, a crowd of people suddenly flocked around the now open, all talking at once and saying how good it was to see her back. Zoe was overwhelmed by all the attention and the amount of people after having spent so long away from the ED. As the jumbled conversations suddenly stopped, she spotted the face of someone familiar. She couldn't pinpoint who it was but her brain was telling her to steer well clear of the man "Thank you, all of you, but you please let me get out of the lift now please?" Zoe laughed, quickly masking the concern that had showed on her features a few moments before.
Connie led her through to their shared office, and then went and sat down, knowing that her colleague would need some space for a few minutes.
Zoe's mind was racing, thoughts flying around her head at top speed and crashing into each other. Who was that man? She had recognised him, and vice versa, but how?
"No…no, it can't be him, it can't be" Zoe muttered to herself, causing Connie to look up from the file she was reading and over to the consultant.
Before she had chance to ask if she was alright, Zoe was reaching for her crutches and trying to stand up.
A/N cliffhanger! Don't often use them, but thought would give it a try. Who is the man? And how does she know him? Not fully thought out the next chapter so if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them!