Chapter 6
"Zoe its Sam, squeeze my hand if you can hear me" Sam felt some light pressure on
her hand and Zoe's eyes began to flutter open.
"Zoe do you know where you are?" Tom asked.
"How could I not know Tom, I'm here every day, I do work here."
"Nothing much has changed in her sarcastic comments then" Nick said as he ran into resus and walked towards Zoe's bedside.
"Without being sarcastic, do you know what happened?" Sam asked.
"Yeah I-..." and suddenly the machines around her started to beep rapidly.
"She's gone into cardiac arrest we need to shock her. Sam start with massage
and Tom get the defib and Jamie go and find Charlie and Tess and get them in here asap please." Right once she's stabilised I want an urgent CT scan, I think that she might have a brain injury as well as the spinal injury. Ash said, his voice echoing through resus as he walked into the room.
"Don't die on me know Zoe, I've only just got you back and I'm now losing you again, don't you do this to me Zoe, your my rock, Zoe your my rock." Nick said as the tears began to flow down his cheeks and he didn't care who saw him so weak and vulnerable.
"I love you Zoe, please don't die on me, Zoe, please don't die." Nick continued.
"Right all clear, shocking. And... She's back in sinus." Sam called.
"Good, right I want her stabilised and sent to CT ASAP please". Ash called
10 minutes later
"Ash her scans are back" Fletch said as he walked into resus, holding an envelope with Zoe's scans in.
"That's good, lets have a look then" Ash said as he held out his hand for Fletch to pass over the scans.
"So what are my scans showing?" Zoe asked Ash rather impatiently.
"It shows that you haven't broken your neck or your spine, but you have dislocated you collar bone and you have punched a lung" Ash explained
On hearing this Zoe began to panic once again.
"And you call yourself a doctor" Nick bellowed at Ash, whilst trying to comfort Zoe but nothing Nick did helped and she went into cardiac arrest again.
"Sam start CPR, Tom get the defib and Charlie can you ring up to theatre and tell them I'm bringing Dr Hanna up once she is stable please." Nick ordered his staff around.
"It's good to have you back Mr Jordan, it's like you never left." Sam said sarcastically.
"Dr Nicholls, I would prefer it if you were to drop the sarcastic comments and consternate on keeping this patient alive please" Nick said to Sam rather annoyed with the way she spoke to him.
"She's back in sinus." Sam called over to Nick.
"Good, now get her ready to be moved please" Nick replied.
"She's ready to by moved Mr Jordan" Tom informed Nick.
"Okay, thanks Tom, I'll go with her up to theatre, I think she'll want a friendly face there when she wakes up"
"Okay, no problem, please let us know how it goes please." Tom said, "And also send her our best wishes from the whole team" Tess added from the doorway to resus.
As Nick exited resus, Ash made his way over to Tom, "How is she?" He asked Tom. "She's gone to theatre with Nick and he's going to lets us know when she comes out of theatre and about her progress" Tom explained to him.
"Did I do something wrong by telling Zoe what I saw on her CT scan?" Ash asked Tom.
"No, you did the right thing, Nick can be very protective when it comes to Zoe, I think that they fire was never completely extinguished all those years ago and the embers are still burning." Tom explained to him.
Outside theatre.
"Nick" Anton Meyers voice come from a side door.
"How's she doing?" Nick asked him.
"So far, so good, but don't get your hopes up, you might want to prepare yourself for the worst" Anton warned him.
"What do you meant?" Nick questioned.
"Nick you know how quickly things can change with such major surgery" Anton Explained.
Nick's POV
It's all going wrong. I thought it would be so simple, just coming down and
then seeing Zoe and then getting my old job back and everything would be
perfect. Obviously not. Zoe's life is hanging in the balance and it's all my
fault. I should have taken her home myself or at least put her in a taxi and
not let her walk home. What if she doesn't make it? She's the reason why I
came down here if she dies then I don't know what to do. I couldn't just turn
up at my previous hospital because how would I explain that I left in the dead
of the night and turn up several hundred miles away looking for the love of my
life. The rest of my colleagues would blame me forever. They looked up to Zoe,
she was the one who pit this department back on track after I left and she
doesn't act like the boss, she is one of them but she is there if there is any
trouble. What am I going to do without her? Come on Zoe pull through this...
A/N: This chapter is dedicated to XCasualtyTeamTamX as she has helped me to write this chapter. As always please review.