6 am. Polly scowled as her alarm went off. Alex had already left to go to work an hour ago.

"Right, come on you two. Time to get up!" she said brightly, not surprised that Isabel was already awake and sat up waiting for her "Come on then Issy, lets go get some breakfast, yeah?"

Neither girl was quite at the stage of speaking yet, but Issy grinned and nodded, so she presumed that meant yes. Sitting her in her highchair, she gave her a piece of toast and some milk and went to get Nieve up.

"Nieve? Come on munchkin, time to wake up" Polly said to her daughter, picking her up and sitting down on the floor with her. Nieve simply buried her head in her mother's chest, crying "Hey, what's up with you missy? Come on, let's go and get you fed"

She went downstairs and into the kitchen, but Nieve refused to go in her highchair, clinging to Polly and screaming when she tried to put her in it "Alright, alright baby" she soothed, moving her into the cradle position, hoping that the close contact would calm her daughter. After a couple of minutes she had calmed herself a little and Polly had managed to get some breakfast into her.

2 hours later…

Polly walked into the ambulance station having dropped her girls off at nursery.

"Morning Polly" Jeff greeted her, hugging her.

"Morning" spotting Derek just arriving, she walked over to the locker room to get changed.

"Polly?" Dixie called her over, noticing she was paler than usual "You alright? You don't look too good…"

"I'm fine, Nieve got me up at 2 again, that's all"

"Okay, if you're sure. Anyway, you're with me, ready to go?"

"Ready" Polly smiled at her in the hope that she would stop asking her questions. She knew that Dixie meant well, but she couldn't drag her and Jeff into all of this again, she just couldn't do that to them.

After an awkward shift, Dixie went into the staff room to make them a drink, bumping into Derek "Sorry, Derek! I didn't see you there!"

"Don't worry, it was an accident" he smiled, rooting around in his pocket he found the packet of powder that he had been looking for. Waiting until her back was turned; he slipped the powder into Polly's drink and put the packet back into his pocket.

Acting the true gentleman, he held the door open for Dixie, smirking to himself. That'll teach her he thought teach her to answer me back and deliberately disobey me like that.

"There you go sweet" Dixie handed the steaming mug to her friend, cursing as she managed to spill her own down the front of her uniform "Bugger, I'd better go and get changed again" she laughed, squeezing Polly's hand "I'll see you in a bit, yeah?"

Polly nodded mutely, the drug was already starting to take effect and she tried to keep her balance as she stood up.

"Hey, take it easy" Derek smirked at her "you'll scald yourself" Polly didn't reply; she was rapidly becoming very frightened and disoriented. Her vision was blurred and although she could hear him, she couldn't tell who it was; she had no option but to trust him. "Right, you stay in there…someone will find you…eventually…" he lead her into the rarely used facility room and roughly pushed her so that she fell and hit her head hard against the wall, leaving her unconscious while he locked the door.