**2 weeks later**
It was Friday.
Ellie started her shift a couple hours ago.
Walking into the Reception she paused seeing Tom, Sam, Noel,Zoe and Charlie standing looking at the waiting area.
"whats wrong?" she said then looked where they were all looking "have i got the days mixed up?"
"no...it's definatley friday" Noel replied.
"isn't it awfully quiet?"
everyone stated groaning at her.
"great" Noel said
"Thanks Ell." Sam said
"you just jixed it" Zoe said
they all began to scatter in different directions.
"what'd i say?" she looked confused looking at them then back at the wating area.
Tom just handed her notes and abandoned ship too.
"thanks..." Ellie said looking down at them sighing.
Eliot was in for a long night. Two hours later from that moment they started rolling in. Drunks, Car Collision patients, elderly people with broken bones. Eliot trooped on dealing with a young drunk couple. First the overbearing boyfreind being push towards Eliot followed by the young girl vomiting down Eliot's Scrub top. "lovely" Eliot said and went and got changed leaving them with a nurse temporarily. When she came back they were impatient and the boyfreind got up in Eliot's face, Tom was passing and stepped in front of Eliot to protect her from the drunk as he wa snow cursing and showing abusive behaviour towards Eliot.
"thanks" Eliot said after they'd left cubicals.
Tom and Eliot continued to bond over the following weeks. Sam and Eliot got closer, They doted over old baby photos', Went to lunch together, had movie nights with Brighton.
**2 months in***
It was 7.30am on a wednesday.
"El...are you alright?" sam said in the staff room. Both sisters were inside their lockers but Eliot seemed down and hadn't contacted Sam or Tom in two days which was unusual.
"Im fine" she said looking at a picture in her locker door. She then shut it, locked it and left without another word. Eliot hadn't noticed a photo had fallen out her locker as she'd hurried away so quickly.
Sam closed her own locker then went and lifted the photo. It was a photo of a newborn child in the hospital. Confused Sam looked up then pushed the old slightly crimpled photo in her pocket.
**Later that day***
"Sam have you seen your sister?" Charlie asked Sam in the nurses station.
"Sorry no? how come? " Sam looked up from the computer at Charlie.
"She took her lunch early at 11.30 and hasn't come back yet" Charlie said looking at his watch. It was now 1pm. She'd never done this before.
Sam looked around and went outside to see if her car was stll there. She spotted Eliot on the rooftop stairing away into space so she went up the stairs.
"Ellie" Sam said opening the door and taking barley a few steps towards her.
Ellie turned around sipping her now cold coffee.
"what you doing up here sam?" Eliot Asked.
"Could ask you the same" Sam replied then walked over.
"You've been acting a little 'off for days El...Does it have something to do with this?" Sam pulled the photo from her pocket gripping it tightly so it didn't blow away.
Eliot took the photo saying nothing for about 5 minuites, just stairing at it before she finally spoke.
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..."It's her 5th birthday today." Ellie said then looked up and out at the sky again.
"Who is she Eliot?" Sam asked.
"I gave birth to a little girl, 6IB 11Oz on October 10th 2007. They wouldn't let me keep her."
"Who? the social? how come."
"I was 19 years old Sam, I didn't have a proper home or job ...i slept around, i used to drink all the time, i was in a bad place, They said if i chose adoption i'd get to meet the parents at the birth and know where she was going to or she'd be removed at birth and i'd have no knowledge of what kind of parents she'd have or what her name would be or anything."
"Im sorry Ellie." Sam replied unsure what to say or do for her.
"I didn't want to...i didn't have a choice" tears fell down Ellie's cheeks as she turned to look at sam feeling the need to defend herself.
"El...Eliot its alright...i don't judge you" She hugged Eliot tightly.
they let go of each other again.
Eliot told Sam what she knew about her daughter, before the pair of them went back to work, later that evening Sam, Eliot and Brighton lite candles on a miniture cake for Eliot's lost daughter, They watched a movie and ate ice cream.