Several people were sat around the campfire reminiscing about some of their worst ever patients when they heard a manly shout and a big splash.
"What was that?" Guy frowned.
"That sounded like Jesse." Adele said concernedly as she rose to her feet and began walking in the direction of the noise.
"What did you do?" Zosia whispered as she noticed that Dom had been absent and he had just discreetly sat back down next to her.
"Don't say anything." Dom whispered with a grin.
"Who the hell did that?" Jesse demanded and Guy shone over an LED torch to see the anaestetist climbing out of the lake with water pouring from his soaked clothes.
"Who did what?" Guy frowned whilst he stifled a laugh.
"Someone just pushed me in." He declared.
"Who?" Colette smirked.
"I bet it was you, wasn't it?" Jesse demanded of his ex.
"Wh–" The junior doctor tried to protest but she was interrupted by her father.
"Zosia was sat around the fire, the whole time with me." Guy stated. "I'm starting to think you're bullying Zosia and quite frankly, I can't work out why."
"I'm not bullying her, she's bullying me!" Jesse protested.
"I didn't do anything!" Zosia shouted. "Maybe you just fell and don't want to look like an idiot."
"Oh why does that ring a bell?" Jesse asked, referring to the earlier incident that had occurred that day.
"I never said that you pushed me over." Zosia hissed. "Just stay away from me." She ordered before she sat down again around the fire, seemingly content with the reaction that Dom's action had provoked.
"Jesus, that is a beauty." Jonny said slowly after taking his shirt off to change for the evening, to reveal a large, rounded, hoof-shaped purple bruise on the side of his ribs. "I could give some of the ED patients a run for their money." He joked half-heartedly to his partner as he pulled on a clean shirt and then climbed through to the sleeping area but he couldn't help but grimace.
"Here, take one of these." Jac ordered quietly as she took a white box out of her bag and handed it to him.
"What for?" He frowned.
"The horse kick." She replied bluntly.
"Yeah but Jac, these're prescribed for your condition." He protested.
"It's only Diclofenac. You're clearly in pain so take one of the tablets and it should help you sleep better, and reduce the pain." She explained.
"If I take one, you are going to have enough when you need it aren't you? I don't want you running out and having to wait in agony for your next prescription."
"I'm on a patient controlled dosage; I can take however much I want, up to every day of the month if I need it so my prescription gets refilled whenever I ask for it. You don't have to worry." She said softly as she passed over a bottle of water.
"Okay." He nodded. He swallowed one of the orange tablets with a sip of water before he began to lay down amongst the blankets that they'd brought with them. "Thank you." He smiled as he put the tablets under the inflatable pillow and then he allowed her to lie down and snuggled up to his non-bruised side.
Zosia had just washed her face and cleaned her teeth, ready for bed when her father entered the small, unisex toilet block containing only two cubicles.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"I just wanted to make sure you're okay, that's all. Jesse seems different today… like he's not the man I used to know." He stated. "He didn't push you, did he? You fell." He concluded.
"Yeah." She admitted.
"But he must've intimidated you or scared you to make you step back which, in turn, caused you to fall to the floor. Correct?"
"Dad, can you just leave it? Please?" She requested.
"Zosia, if he's bullying you–"
"I said leave it." She growled before she stormed out of the building and almost knocked Colette over on her way out of the doorway.
"Col, what am I missing?" Guy asked. "What's happened between Zosia and Jesse? Have they had an argument? I mean Jesse said they had a dispute about a patient or something but... It just doesn't make sense."
"It's really not my place to say Guy." She sighed.
"But you do know what the problem is, don't you?" He concluded. "Please Colette, I just don't understand why Jesse would suddenly be so aggressive towards Zosia and she'd accept it. It's like he's got some sort of power over her… like she wants something from him."
"Guy really, you're better off asking Jesse or Zosia." She stated before she disappeared into one of the toilet cubicles.
"Can't sleep?" Jonny queried as Jac tossed in his arms once more and ended up facing him with her wavy hair all tussled – not that he could see of course because it was pitch black in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. He was lying flat on his back with one of his arms around her shoulders but she'd been fidgeting quite a lot for someone who was supposed to be asleep.
"No." She huffed.
"My bruise is throbbing, what's your excuse?" He quipped quietly as she attempted to snuggle into the side of his chest with her arms wrapped around his waist.
"I'm not used to sleeping on the cold, hard ground." She sighed.
"Oh, and I am?"
"Well you're Scottish. You all live in places in the middle of nowhere and I'm sure the lack of necessities isn't unfamiliar to you."
"Wow." Jonny chuckled. "You even manage to come up with a racist remark at 3 o'clock in the morning."
"Well, the fact that you're Scottish and the fact that you have a cheap, spine-hostile mattress and I'm used to memory foam." She quipped.
"Well, we're not all on a hundred grand a year." He stated. "Is there anything I can do? Do you want to wear one of my jumpers on top of your jumper to keep you warm?"
"Just stop talking. Everything is always made better when you stop talking." She smiled to herself as she buried her head in his neck, just under his chin and she closed her eyes.
Meanwhile, Dom was finishing the final task of his revenge pranks using nothing but the moonlight to assist him. At the beginning of the trek, he'd filled Jesse's bags with rocks and then pushed him in the stagnant lake because he'd broken Zosia's heart. But now it was Zosia and Arthur's turn for turning his brand new shoes pink. He silently slipped out of his sleeping bag, stood up in the tent that the three junior doctors were sleeping in and went over to the bag area where various clothes and things were scattered around – it looked like they'd been robbed before he even moved anything.
He took Arthur's phone and then tucked that just inside of Zosia's wash bag and then removed the laces from Zosia's hiking boots and tied them in multiple knots before placing them inside of the shoes themselves. Once he'd swapped a few more things around, he quietly climbed back into bed and swiftly fell asleep, waiting for the carnage to unfold in the morning…