CHAPTER 15

"Dad I'm bored! When can we go home?"

"Dad, Jakob's being mean to me all the time!"

"No I'm not! Dad Rowan keeps picking on me!"

"Oh can both of you please shut up for a second!" Oliver said to his sons. "I know you're both bored but I have to work, i'll be done in a couple of hours and then we can go home but for now please be quiet!"

"He's still winding me up..."

"What did I just say? Ok Rowan stop stop getting on Jakob's nerves and Jakob stop getting on Rowan's nerves ok?" they both remained silent. The door to the staff room opened and Jonny walked in.

"Alright mate?" he said to Ollie. "God you two have grown, I ain't seen you both for years!" Jonny laughed.

"Yeah they've grown an attitude since then!" Oliver said. His sons were 10 now, Jakob had short, spiky hair and like Jac his hair was a red sort of colour and he also had green eyes like his mother whilst Rowan had short dark brown, almost black coloured hair with bright blue eyes, just like his father. Jac had left Holby a short while after the kids were born and had not made any contact with Oliver or their children since. Jonny kneeled down by Oliver and whispered

"Anything of Jac recently?"

"Nope. Absolutely nothing" Ollie whispered back.

"News is Jac's returning to Holby this afternoon, good luck with that" he said as we walked out of the room.

"Dad? Who's Jac?" Jakob asked.

"Your mother..."

Right after Oliver said that, Jac walked through the door...

"Hi, not seen you in a while"

"I've been busy"

"Too busy to get in touch?"

"Yes ok, I'm not here to chat I'm here to work." Jac hadn't noticed her kids sitting in the corner of the room.

"Are you our mum?" Rowan jumped up and asked, Jakob walked over to his dad.

"No, I'm not" she replied quickly

"Are you Jac?" Jakob asked.

"Yes why?" she answered slowly

"Then you are our mum!" Rowan shouted

"Rowan shut up" Oliver whispered.

"Ok yes I am your mother, biologically"

"What does that mean?" Jakob was confused.

"By blood, but you probably call someone else your mother now"

"No, My dad ain't with anyone, he's a loner" Rowan laughed as he wound his dad up.

"Thanks Rowan, Jac please just give them a chance"

"She don't want to give us a chance, stop trying dad!"

"Ye she don't wanna know us!"

"Jac?"

"Ok fine! Look i'm sorry I left you all, I just wasn't ready but if you can forgive me maybe we can all start again as a family?" Jac apologised.

"If you're sure?"

"Yes I am" Jac smiled as Oliver walked up to her and kissed her. It was obvious they both still loved each other as much as they did all those years ago.

Jakob quickly grew to like his mother but it was a completely different story when it came to Rowan.

"Jac? Can you pick up the kids tonight please, Hanssen's got me down for overtime, I won't be home till late."

"Yeah sure" Jac replied.

"I'm not having her pick me up! She's a cow! I hate her!" Rowan shouted

"Rowan, she's your mother and she's staying and she's also picking you up from school tonight! Deal with it!" Oliver told his son.

Jac turned up at the boy's school to collect them as arranged, only to find out Rowan hadn't been seen since morning break at 11am, he had ran away from school.

"Jakob, where's your brother?" Jac asked.

"I dunno, we ain't seen him since break!"

Jac asked around the area of the school to see if Rowan had been seen but had no luck. Her and Jakob drove around for a while hoping they would find him but he was nowhere to be found. She hesitated before fetching out her phone to tell Oliver what had happened.

"Ollie we've got a problem, Rowan has ran away from school, no one knows where he is!" she said down the phone.

"What the hell?!" Ollie shouted. "Ok, you search around that area" Jac quickly jumped in and said

"Already done, I've asked local people and we've driven around for ages looking, we can't find him!"

"Ok, you go home and wait there, I'll search everywhere else" Oliver said. Jac could tell Oliver was absolutely terrified of what could've happened to his son.

"Jonny! Look mate can you cover me for a couple of hours please? Rowan's gone missing!" Ollie asked his best mate.

"Oh god yeah of course! Go find him!" Jonny said quickly.

Oliver raced outside to his car, running faster than ever, only to arrive at his car to find Rowan hiding inside..

Ollie opened his car door and got inside, Rowan was fast asleep. Oliver texted Jac to tell her that their son was ok and then drove home to get Rowan to bed.

The next morning Jonny had the day off and volunteered to look after the kids as it was the weekend and Jac and Oliver had work. The two of them arrived on the ward to find a bunch of junior doctors aimlessly wandering around in circles, bored. Jac saw Elliot Mo and asked her

"What's happening with the newbies? Who's meant to be looking after them?"

"You apparently, that's what I heard anyway!"

"Off who?"

"Hanssen" Mo replied "Good luck" she laughed as she walked away. Jac stood there and mouthed the word "Shit!" before walking up to the newbies.

"Right listen up, My name is Jac Naylor, I am a Cardiothoracic consultant, you are F1's, you do as I say when and where I say, got it?"

The new bunch of doctors stood in absolute silence as Jac assigned them to their first patients. Oliver walked up to her and said

"I remember my first day as an F1 under your wing... I don't blame them if they're terrified" Oliver smiled.

"Oii" Jac laughed and slapped Oliver's arm. They both laughed until Oliver suddenly froze.

"Ollie? What's up?" Jac asked, genuinely concerned.

"Have you got the list of newbies?" he asked quietly.

"Yeah it's on the table in the staff room, why?" Jac wondered.

Oliver ran to the staff room and picked up the list, he read all the names and found a very particular name...

"Ollie what is it?"

"Shit... Ryan Valentine... He's my brother... Jess's twin.."