"Ellie is Nick about?" he said. Ellie looked up having not noticed him there "eh no, not anymore. But you're late"
"I Know" tom said.
she leaned her head to the side peering past Tom at the clock
"2 hours late to be precise"
Tom sighed heavily "I was out last night..." he said, right enough he looked a bit rough. She finished suturing and lifted a ton of patient's notes then left the cubical closing the curtain, Tom followed.
"Great, well I've discharged 4 of your overnight patients from yesterday. Sent Mrs. McKinnon home with a 7 day course of anti-biotics and referred her to see her GP if things don't improve before Friday" She passed him a brown folder of patient notes that belonged to Mrs McKinnon and continued to rhyme off the patients she had discharged and the ones who she'd sent for scans and done bloods on. "Eh Thanks?" tom said confused but grateful his workload wasn't as heaped as it should have been.
"Yes, thank you Dr Nicholls for doing my load as well as your own also morning rounds." Ellie said talking about herself them smiled.
They'd walked all the way to the staffroom "Get changed and come help me in Resus yeah?" Ellie smiled gently putting the last set of notes on top of the ones she'd already given to tom. "Yes boss" Tom was smiling and giving her a small salute which made Ellie smile as she turned and walked off. Dylan had been watching Tom and Ellie at the staff room doors from a distance, He already noticed Tom and Ellie getting along very well and despite having never really know Eliot, Dylan still remembered her as the young girl who shared a room with her sisters and was always alone, crying or angry at someone. He was suspicious that something was going on between Sam/Tom or Sam/Ellie.
"Dylan" Ellie said walking over to him with a smile. "Dr Nicholls" he said. "It's Ellie. Surely you haven't forgotten my name." Ellie said unaware that this was Dylan's usual doore faced look and grumpy voice. "Course not." He replied looking up from his computer screen at her, he was busy looking at Dog Beds for Dervla. "Sam said if you're alright with it, I could come by and meet Brighton in a couple days since she is staying with you this week." Ellie asked making Dylan glance around. Brighton was a closed subject, not something anyone else in the ED knew about besides Mr Jordan. "I'm busy." Dylan replied. "Okay? Another time then!" she said with a brooding face of her own on thanks to Dylan's unwitting attitude towards her.
Eliot walked off and bumped into Tom again outside the Paediatric Resus. "Fancy a coffee?" Tom asked seeing her body language was dull and frightful. "Tom, you've been on shift for all of 27 minutes?" Ellie pointed out. "I need a coffee, and by the look on your face, so do you! Come on, 10 minutes isn't going to kill us!" he said. They both got they're grey Holby hoodies from the staff room then went to the shop in reception. "Two coffees please" Tom ordered then paid. After they had their coffee's they both went outside and along to the side of the car park. Eliot stood cross-armed sipping as she glanced over at the nurse smoking in the corner, Tom noticed "You smoke?" he asked from the needy look on her face. "Eh no, Not anymore" she said looking back to Tom. "I quit, first year of medical school" She fidgeted her index finger around the cup lid. "Wise choice" Tom said sipping out his cup.
"So..you and Sam? What happened there?" he continued.
"What do you mean?
"I heard you were arguing yesterday during shift? You guys aren't very close?"
"I've been gone for 9 years and 8 Months. She has a right to be mad at me."
"Gone? Gone where? That's not just a short vacation" Tom was curious about Eliot, Sam had never mentioned her before.
"Around, I spent the first 2 years and a bit around about Guildford, Brighton, mainly in Southampton."
"I'm from Southampton. My parents still live there, I just moved here about 6 months ago for work." Tom interjected.
"Yeah, it's alright there I guess. I Moved to London after that, decided to get my life together." Ellie said, realising she'd said too much already.
"Together? Something happened?" Tom asked.
She said nothing for a few minutes. "Stick around, you might find out" she said walking past him and back into the ED.
Tom and Eliot worked together very well, Easy to co-operate with each other and the patients seemed to be fond of the smart remarks and easy going friendship they'd formed whilst treating them.
**20 minuites later treating a patient**
"So, Sam What is she like?" Ellie asked as she held steady the patients neck as he didn't yet have a collar on. "Sam? She's strong, independent. Not afraid to fight for what she wants or believes in! Dylan's a touchy subject. She's quite private, keeps to herself that sort of thing"
"Yeah that sounds like Samantha alright!" Ellie chuckled under her breath not surprised that Sam's attitude hadn't changed.
"So it's just the two of you? There's no more surprise Dr Nicholls going to be appearing anytime soon? Not that it's a bad thing!" Tom spoke.
Ellie looked at him moving only her eyes with a small smirk dwelling. "No, Sam's the oldest, followed by me and then there is Renai, She's a loose cannon as well. Not a doctor, I don't think. I've not really asked Sam about Renai yet."
"Another touchy subject?" Tom said witty
Ellie just smirked at him; his overly interested ego was more fascinating to her than she was to him.
"Dr Nicholls RESUS now please!" Dylan called having caught glimpse of them from outside the cubical curtain. "Got it?" she said to tom, he nodded and then she left. Changed her gloves and re sanitised her hands. "Dr Keogh" She said approaching him as he stood waiting for her outside the resus doors. "Your hear to learn not play doctors and...n, doctors." He said grumpily. "Oohkay why the long face? He's only my teacher." Ellie pointed out as she fixed her white sleeves rolled to above her elbows under her scrubs. "Exactly, so don't sleep with or date him alright!" Dylan said as he went through the double doors. Ellie's facial expressions were just shocked. She shook her head then followed up to the patient's bedside. "I'm not going to sleep with him! Not that it's any of your business Dylan! As far as I heard we aren't even family anymore." She pointed out cheekily as she checked her patients ribs and Dylan stood with his patients notes at the persons bedside now. "Well, not officially yet very soon though, but then again we were never really related anyways." Dylan was being extra broody today and very high opinionated. "He needs an x-ray to confirm broken ribs on both sides, I don't think there is any fluid or air in his intercostal spaces so 5mg of morphine for now?" She spoke interrupting the daunting conversation they had been having. Dylan just nodded and the hovering nurse went off to get the medication and book the X-ray.
(This chapter wasn't going anywhere so sorry for the crappy chapter! Some Dylan/Ellie going to happen. Also we'll look into Tom/Ellie and how they REALLY know each other. then there is Sam/Renai - can they work together or will there past tear them apart!?)