HENRIK HANSSEN's LEAVING HOLBY *sobs*, It can't be true, he can't leave. Also Chantelle, Chrissie and Gemma are going, why are all the good characters leaving? This is horrible! Anyway, not long to go now in this series but what's going to happen to Henrik? Hope you're still enjoying and keep leaving your comments, I love to hear your thoughts be them positive or negative =D
"Just sit up here." He tapped the counter.
"Ok." Tabby hoisted herself up and sat patiently as the radiologist manoeuvred the x-ray machine around and retreated back to the control area.
After a few pictures were done, Tabby was sent back to her desk for a couple of hours.
Soon she had a phone call, "Tabitha Rees… Hello Sweetie."
"Please don't call me Sweetie, we're at work."
"So I can do it at home?"
*Pause* "How did your consultation go?"
"I had an x-ray done, I'm still waiting for the results, he said he was going to rush them through for me." *Bleep bleep* "Actually that might be him calling now."
"Ok, give me a ring when you've heard more, bye."
She pressed a button, "Tabitha Rees… I will head over now… ok, see you in a min."
"All seems pretty much healed, I think the drugs really did help, so I've got a friend who is up for giving you some physio, we'll get you on the course and you should have full use of your ankle by the time you head off to London, that's in, what, three weeks?"
"That's the one."
After an hour they had her cast cut off, her leg and foot bathed and washed and already had her putting most of her weight on her foot.
"That's excellent; right my friend Gary can fit you in any time next week…"
*Knock knock*
"Come in."
Tabitha slinked in to find Henrik watering his Bonsai tree on the window sill. He looked back to see who had entered, "How did it go?"
"I brought you coffee." She placed the cups on the desk, trying to show off her lack of large white wrapping around her foot.
Obviously, being Hanssen, he caught the subtle gesture, "Oh wow, that's excellent, so I take it it's not completely healed then?" He also caught sight of the crutch back in her hand.
"Oh this is only for a week, to make sure I have something to hit you with if you piss me off." She grinned cheekily.
"Very wise." He commented.
"Or vice versa of course, if you can catch me." She winked.
Henrik chuckled as he picked up his coffee, "Of course."
She stood next to him by the window as they both sipped their drinks, after a minute she sighed and rested her head on his arm, "I'm going to miss you when I'm in London."
"You won't be gone long." He reassured.
"I know but, 6 months is going to feel like ages."
"I'll only be a phone call away, you'll enjoy it." He checked his watch as Tabby lifted herself off him, "You ready?"
"For what?" She was confused.
"Your hearing."
"What hearing?"
"Sir Fraser."
"What? Why? When is it?" She panicked.
"In an hour in the conference room, they brought it forward didn't you know?"
"No!" She placed her cup down before pacing around the room, "What do I do? What do I say? Is all the evidence gathered? What's going on?" A pair of hands grabbed her arms and held her still.
"STOP, don't panic." He calmed, "I'm in before you, ok, so when I come out I'll tell you who's in there and where the story's going."
"Ok." She managed to calm herself, though she was startled by the phone ringing.
"Henrik Hanssen."
His look of disappointment worried Tabby.
"Fine, we'll be there now." He placed down the phone, "They're ready for us now."
As they sat in silence on the chairs outside the conference room Tabby began to gnaw away at her nails.
Henrik moved her hand away from her mouth, shaking his head, "Don't be nervous, it'll be alright." He reassured and Tabby took a deep breath.
"Henrik Hanssen?" The young woman with her brunette hair in a tight bun called from the door.
Henrik gave Tabby a comforting squeeze of the shoulder before heading in.
…"So, please may you explain, in detail, what you witnessed Mr Fraser doing to Dr Rees?"
"Well, the first I caught of his behaviour was on the ward… Dr Rees cried for help from right outside my door and as I emerged he, *cough*, well how do I put it? He had his fingers somewhere where they shouldn't have been; he had also exposed himself to Miss Rees and had forced her to touch him… It was his final warning and yet he insisted that he would touch Miss Rees inappropriately, during his dance with her his hands wondered, Miss Rees also revealed to me the distasteful comments he had made to her as well… It's not my call but I believe that what he has done is disgusting and completely inappropriate and I think more should be done than just for him to lose his status and his job. But it's up to Miss Rees where she wants to go with this, I'm just here to provide evidence."
"You are in a relationship with Dr Rees, no?" The woman asked reading off her notes.
"I am, yes." Henrik confirmed.
"So don't you think that makes you, overly involved?"
Henrik gave the woman a look of shock and disapproval, "No, I don't think so at all, at the moment I am just Director of Surgery protecting a member of my workforce, the fact that I am currently in a relationship with one of the people in question should not be of concern, and if it does make me overly involved then so be it; I saw what I saw and my relationship status should not be of importance." He argued.
"So then, is your relationship-"
"For God's sake." Henrik muttered.
"Mr Hanssen." The woman warned, "Is your relationship with Dr Rees in any way sexual?"
There was a pause as Henrik gave the woman a stern stare, "I won't dignify that question with an answer."
"How did it go?" Tabby stood as Henrik shut the door behind him.
"They seem to be very interested in our relationship."
"Why what did they ask?"
Henrik motioned for them to sit, "The first was to confirm that we were together, I just agreed, the second was to ask if we had a sexual relationship, I refused to answer and they let me go. Now there's only three of them in there, if you don't feel comfortable with the male who's in there then you are perfectly in your right to ask him to leave. The woman who came out to fetch me, that's Laura Dimer, she's represents Holby for many of its cases. She's a bit of a control freak, you will notice how tidy her things are on her desk, but it also means she will be the only one asking questions, to be honest you won't even notice the others because all of your attention will be on her, you'll just notice some scribbling in the background. So how are you feeling?"
"Alright, thank you for telling me that, I feel a bit more comfortable now."
"Tabitha Rees?" This time it was a bald headed man in a suit who had come to retrieve her.
Henrik noticed Tabby's reluctance, "You can ask him to leave, no one will judge you for it, he's there to listen to your story, he's professional, and to put your mind at ease, he's actually gay."
Tabby stood, "Ok, you can go back to your office now if you want, catch up on your paperwork."
"Ok."
Tabby headed inside with the man and took a seat on the pulled out chair.
"So then, Miss Rees, how's your day been so far?" Laura rested her forearms on the desk, interlacing her fingers.
"Fine, thank you?" Tabby answered confused.
"Good, good."
Despite her friendly tone, Tabby had the feeling she had something up her well ironed, suit jacket sleeve.
"I just want you to know, this is a non-biased, neutral room, no-one here has any opinion, we're not going to put you in harm's way or force you to do something you're uncomfortable with ok? If you need time to think about anything just say. And if you're uncomfortable with Mr Mullins being in the room we can ask him to leave, but he's no threat because he bats for the other team." She grinned, "So are we ready?"
"Yep." Tabby took a deep, calming breath ready for the questions.
"Good so let's begin…"
"…He had me against the wall and, *cough*, he, er, he said, um, he threatened to, um, rob of my…" She broke into tears.
"Hey, Tabitha, it's ok, you're safe in here." Laura tried to comfort.
"I know." Tabby sobbed.
Gingerly, Mr Mullins got to his feet and approached the young doctor, "Hey, honey, it's alright, we're here to help, do you want a cup of tea, we brewed just before you came in so, what do you say?"
She nodded as she gratefully took the soft handkerchief he handed to her.
"You were injured recently weren't you?" Laura tried to change the subject.
"I got hit by a car. Fractured my ankle, sprained my wrist, I've been on a crutch for a few weeks now but this morning they were able to take off my cast so I'm on the mend." She smiled realising Laura's tactic.
"You have quite an impressive CV as well, PhD in vehicle mechanics, Masters of Science in IT and an MD, and you're only 22?"
"23. My birthday was this week." Tabby corrected, "Ah, thank you." She cupped the mug and took a sip.
"So how long have you and Hanssen been together?"
"Since the last night of the Malmö conference."
"Nice, who asked who out?"
"In what way does that have anything to do with this case?"
She tittered, "You're right, it doesn't, I'm sorry for prying." She decided that she wasn't going to get an answer about the bedroom antics of them from Tabby either so she decided to leave it there.
After a calming cup of tea Tabby managed to finish the interview without any waterworks and so she left to go.
"Henrik, you stayed?" She was touched by his loyalty.
"I'm here to support you, in any way I can." He got to his feet and walked over to her, "Are you alright you look a bit…"
"No I'm fine." She smiled up at him, "I have quite a bit of paperwork to catch up on so I think I'll lock myself away in the office for a while."
Henrik let her lead the way as they headed back to their offices.
Meanwhile on AAU…
"I want to see Dr Rees!" Came the drunken slur.
"Why her? What's wrong with any other doctor on the ward?" Harry tried to keep control of the situation.
"She said she loves me." He grinned.
"I'm sure that's not true, now I'm afraid-"
"You weren't there, do you even now her? I heard what she said, then she leaned into me and locked her lips with mine, after having a little fondle down there we shagged each other down in the basement. She was hot."
"Look, Mr Wiggan, I'm afraid that Miss Rees is off duty today so you will be seen by another member of staff." He turned back to Gemma, "We can't bring Tabby down here cause we don't know what he's planning to do, we need to phone Mr Hanssen and get him down here now."
"But shouldn't Tabby be here, I mean the longer we keep her away the more he's going to get riled up."
"Didn't you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"It's the hearing today over the case of Sir Fraser, that's going to bring back bad memories for her and then for her to get sexually harassed again will upset her, we can't risk it."
"I WANT DR REES!" Mr Wiggan stood and through a drip hanger across the ward.
"Mr Wiggan calm down!" Harry backed away whilst Gemma phoned for the Director of Surgery.
"Mr Hanssen, we need you down on AAU right now, we've called security but things are out of hand..."
"Ok, I'll be there as soon as I can."
"Thank you." She put down the phone, "Mr Hanssen's on his way down now." She called over.
It wasn't long until Hanssen arrived on the ward.
"Right! What is going here?" He immediately calmed the place.
"This is Mr Wiggan, he is asking to see Dr Rees." Tressler explained.
"She loves me she does." The man grinned.
"Well I'm afraid Dr Rees isn't in today, so what can I do for you?"
"DON'T LIE TO ME!" He pointed, "Who are you anyway?"
"My name is Henrik Hanssen, I'm Director of Surgery."
"Right, you and me, outside. And none of you twats follow." He warned the rest.
Hanssen followed the scruffy man towards the door and as the security guards went to follow Henrik told them to back down.