Chapter 12
"Can a Ms Hanna come through please" the young nurse called from the doorway leading to a private side room.
"Come on Zo, that's us"
"I'm scared Nick" Zoe told Nick and he could see that she was physically shaking.
"I know you are darling, your shaking is it nerves or are you cold?" Nick asked her, she could hear the concern in his voice.
"Bit of both I think"
"Right this is going to be cold" the young nurse warned as she put the saline gel onto Zoe's stomach.
"No kidding, that's cold" Zoe said as the nurse started to move the probe around until she found what she was looking for.
"Ms Hanna, you're expecting twins, do you want to know how far gone you are?" the nurse asked
"Yes please that would be great" Nick answered for Zoe as he could see that she was not up for talking.
"Looking at this scan I'd say your about 10 weeks"
"Thanks that's great news isn't Zoe"
"Hmm… what? yeah that's great news"
"You don't sound too sure, you sure that your okay?"
"Your I'm fine, it's just the shock cos one minute I'm getting told I can't have kids, the next I'm 10 weeks pregnant with twins." Zoe explained.
3 hours later back in the ED
"Will you just give me the morphine you stupid fat cow"
"I'm sorry sir but I don't see the need for you to be having the morphine as they is nothing obliviously wrong with you." Zoe tried to reason with the drunken druggy.
"Is everything alright in here?" Nick authorities voice asked as he open the curtain to see what all the commotion was about.
"No everything is not alright, this stupid fat cow who claims to be one of the lead consultants here will not give me any morphine." The druggy explained to Nick, the way he called Zoe fat really infuriated Nick.
"This women who you are calling a stupid fat cow, is not just any consultant but the clinical lead here at the ED and I believe that you don't need any morphine, now if you'll please leave this ED that would be great."
"Nick!" Zoe's panicked voice broke the brief silence that had fallen.
"I'm not going anyway without the morphine and if you don't give me any she gets it" the druggy said as he put Zoe into a head lock and held a scalpel to her throat.
"Fine, fine you can have the morphine", "Charlie", Nick handed over a prescription that was not any prescription it was a prescription that was actually a note that said "CALL THE POLICE" on it.
"What's that?"
"That is a prescription for your morphine, it should be here soon"
Nick could see that Zoe was slowly losing her colour and to his release at the moment the police came charging through the door and grabbed the druggy, but at the same time zoe passed out and hit the floor with a rather loud thud.
"Zoe" Nick called as he ran to her side and grabbed an oxygen mask and tank and carried it and Zoe up to his office on the upper floor.
30 Minutes later
"Knock, Knock" Charlie said as he knocked on the partly open door.
"Yeah, come in" Nick called back
"Hey, it's only me, how's she doing?" Charlie asked as he pointed to Zoe who still had the oxygen mask on whilst lying on Nick's chest.
"She has woken up a couple of times in a panic because she has something over her face, but as soon as I said that she was fine and to go back to sleep she did." Nick explained to Charlie.
"Do you want the blanket put over you both so that if it gets much colder in here, you'll both be warm?" Charlie asked.
"Yeah that would be great thanks."
"No problem mate."
"Hey there, sleeping beauty how you feeling?" Nick asked Zoe as she slowly woke up.
"I've felt better got a horrid croak in my neck"
"Yeah, that's where you've been sleeping like that on me for the past 35 minutes" Nick explained to her
"What happened"
"That drunken druggy attack you because you would give him any morphine and then when the police got here you collapsed" Nick explained.
"Oh, can we either go to the on call room or home where it would be a bit more comfortable for me to go back to sleep"
"Yeah, I'll take you home,let me just leave a note for Charlie"
"Okay"
30 minutes later
Charlie's POV
I walked into Nick's office to see how there were doing and I noticed that they had gone, but there was a note on his desk with my name on it so I read it, "Charlie, I've taken Zoe home so that so can get some proper sleep, we'll both be taking the next couple of days off, Zoe so that she can recover properly and me so that I can keep an eye on her. I'll bring the oxygen back when we are both in next. For now, Nick."
It's good to know that Nick has taken Zoe home because that was quiet a fall that she had.
End of POV
Back at home at the same time Charlie is reading the note.
"Do you think that I'm fat?" Zoe asked Nick
"No, of course you're not fat Zoe, your pregnant with our twins remember!, why do you ask anyway?"
"It's what that druggy said cos if he can see that I'm fat it must be really oblivious to the rest of the ED"
"Zoe, I've said it once and I'll say it again you're not fat your pregnant, now come and lay down before pull you down."
"Why did you say that I was the lead consultant, when I'm not you are."
"I said that because we share that job and I felt like saying that today it was you."
"So not because you knew that, that druggy was going to attack me?"
"If I'd known that he was going to attack you I'd had said that I was the lead consultant"
A/N: If you're reading this it must mean that you've read my latest chapter. Please review and if you have any ideas or suggestions that I would me to try and included just drop me a PM or a review.
Amyx