Extreme Takeover, Holby Edition

Their parents ran the hospital during their life, and now that they're older, it's their turn.

Pairings are Jac/Joseph, Maddy/Linden, Connie/Sam, Diane/Ric and Chrissie/Olly.

Meet Chris and Jayden...

He was planted in that chair, and had a desperate desire to move, but he knew that if he arose from his chair and went to get a sneaky coffee, he would be called in for his informal interview with his old family friend, Chris Byrne. Chris would be doing him a massive favour by offering him a job, so being late was not high on his list of priorities.

Wringing his hands and checking his mobile for the time every 5 seconds, he knew for sure that he was nervous, like he always was when he came home from travelling and seeking a job in his old stomping ground.

Ever since he could remember, he'd always loved travelling. In the summer holidays, his parents took him and his older brother and sister to Ghana, indulging him in the delights of his father's heritage and allowing him to bond with the family they may have never known otherwise. Every single day spent in England building up to those 4 weeks, from July to August.

Thinking about it, he felt more at home in Ghana than he did in Holby. His love for travel had allowed him to travel the globe, his gap year fuelling his passion. He'd visited so many countries, but he could always remember every individual one, and memorising the ones he had yet to see.

He was, in so many ways, like his namesakes, his godfather Percival, AKA Abra, himself a maverick doctor who flew from place to place, rooted in Africa and his uncle Kumi, a patriotic and faithful Ghanaian. And he liked it that way, he admired both men for their spirit, Abra's longing to be free, and Kumi's love for his country. He was a evenly spread mixture of the two of them, not as conservative as his brother and sister, the free spirit within the family.

But, alas, his lifestyle came with flaws as well as perks. Although he had the freedom to travel where he wanted and help people as he saw fit, he was always facing monetary trouble. That's what bound him to Holby. Because here, he could work for a few months, and set off again.

His thoughts were broken by Erin waving her hands in front of his face.

'Jay, Jay,' she said gently as he came around.

'Hey babe,' he said with a smile, pulling her onto his lap and kissing her passionately.

'Mmmm,' she said as they broke apart. 'You have no idea how much I've been missing that.'

'Me too babe,' he said, hugging her close.

After a long, comfortable silence, Erin, trying to slip in the subject she had been wanting to broach for a while, said, 'So, you gonna stay for longer?'

Avoiding eye contact, Jayden said, 'You know I'm not going to Erin.'

Getting off his lap and sitting on the opposite side of the corridor, Erin gave him a cold stare and said, 'And why would that be, Jayden?' She made sure that she punctuated her sentence sharply and used his full name to show how serious that she was.

'Ah babe, don't give me the whole name,' he said, reaching out to her.

Ducking until he retreated back to his seat, Erin shot him an evil look. 'Well, answer me!'

'Okay okay okay,' he said, holding his hands up. 'You know me Erin, I don't like to stay in one place for too long.'

'Except Ghana,' replied Erin with a scowl.

'Ghana being the exception,' continued Jayden. 'But I don't like to be tied down, I like having the option to be free, to go wherever I want to go.'

'Well then, maybe you should carry on with your travels single,' said Erin, standing up and leaving.

'Awww come on Erin, don't be like that, why do we have to go through this every time I come back and go away?' he said, getting up to follow her.

Opening the door, Chris said, 'Come on Jay, you better come in.'

He couldn't decide which way to go, to his girlfriend for his relationship or Chris for his job. Looking back at the path that Erin went down, he walked behind Chris into his office and sat down.

'So Jay,' said Chris, sitting at his desk. 'We both know why you've come back, so pitch to me quickly like you usually do and I'll see what we can find.'

'Okay,' said Jayden, leaning back slightly before returning to his normal position. 'I've been doing this project in Ghana, helping to build schools and hospitals in the poorest areas. The charity I'm involved with want me to extend it into Lesotho and work with Sentebale to carry on the project. I want to be able to help them, to put some of my money into such a worthwhile project for such needy people, but I don't have any. And so, I pooled the last of my money to get home. I know that you doubt me, but every time I've come back to work, I've done a good job. And this time, I don't want to visit another country and get wasted, I want to help people.'

'You're in luck,' said Chris. 'Whilst Adi is on maternity leave, which starts tomorrow, there will be a position on AAU as a registrar. Erin is filling in that spot, so we can take you back as an SHO on a temporary basis. So that will be approximately 5 months work. You planning on staying that long?'

'I will do,' said Jayden. 'It's the middle of summer over there now, we won't be able to start work until it cools, which will be a considerable amount of months.'

'Good,' said Chris, standing up and shaking Jayden's hand. 'You start tomorrow.'

As he left, the penny dropped.

'Oh no,' he said to himself. 'I'll have to work with Erin.'

Cursing slightly, he made a quick prayer to whichever deity was listening to protect his genitalia from being harmed by an angry Erin.