'Well you certainly gave us a fright!' Mo pretended to scold the unconscious Ethan. 'Sally can you go and grab Mr Di Lucca. He's just outside washing his hands. Jonny give me a hand closing him up.'

'I told you he'd be fine.'

'Alive, yes. Fine, no. His pulse is still thready and weak and his BP is ridiculously low for someone who's alive.'

'Glad you didn't call it?'

'Admit it Jonny he was dead when he got here. Connie refused to call it in the ambulance. You refused to call it when he arrived. You made me operate on a body. He wasn't alive then. He is now. It's a miracle.'

'Don't tempt fate! He is slowly improving though. Pulse is up. BP is up but I'm not happy with either of them yet so keep an eye on them.'

A breathless nurse came running into theatre.

'He's left already. Gone to the ED.'

Jonny and Mo exchanged worried glances. Raf was going to tell them that he was dead. He was going to cause lots of needless pain. Ethan wasn't dead. Yes he was in a critical condition and yes he was technically dead for quite a while but he wasn't right now.

'Jake can you please assist Mo to close up Ethan. I'll run down to the ED and see if I can get there before Raf. God I hate his efficiency.'

Jonny had already pulled off his gloves and gown before he got to the door and was now running down the corridor.

There was another knock at Connie's door.

'Hello?' The door opened. In walked Raf.

'Mrs Beauchamp, I'm Raf Di Lucca and I've been working with Mo Effanga and Jonny Maconie on Ethan. As you know he sustained extremely severe internal injuries particularly to-'

Jonny burst into Connie's office, taking the clinical lead by surprise, he was out of breath and couldn't talk, defeating the point of him rushing after Raf in the first place.

'-his chest and because of this, despite-'

'Hello... I'm Jonny... From upstairs... I need... I need to stop Raf... Ethan is alive...' He panted before immediately collapsing onto the floor. Leaving Raf and Connie to share concerned, confused and amused.

'Do you think he'll be okay Raf?'

'It's Jonny. He's been through a lot, especially recently, he doesn't break easily.'

Jonny came around in the recovery position on the floor of Connie's office with two faces staring into his. He slowly made his way up and sat on a chair, gratefully receiving the glass of water that Connie offered him. Jonny sat and slowly recovered from his run and his resulting collapse becoming increasingly aware of the uncomfortable silence that filled the room.

'I am so not fit. So very, very unfit.'

'Erm Jonny.'

'Yes. Connie was it?'

'Yeah. Yeah it is. First are you okay? Second what's going on? You burst in say some gibberish about Ethan and then collapse onto my floor.'

'I'm fine. Or at least I will be in a moment.' He continued to drink the glass of water incredibly slowly before taking several deep breaths and continuing to talk. 'Ethan is alive. Just. We set two hours at the amount of time he had before we called it because he was pretty much gone when he arrived here. I shocked him one last time just at the point of two hours. Raf left to tell you he was gone. Mo called it. Then I realised that the final shock had given him an output and, as we watched on, he continued to improve. He's been stitched up and is on his way to ITU.' Jonny gulped down the rest of his water before quickly standing up. Too fast. He wobbled and pushed himself back into the chair. 'Bad idea. That was a bad idea.'

'I'll let you tell the rest of your team Connie. He can have visitors but he is unconscious and will be for quite some time. I'll go back upstairs with Jonny.'

'Thank you Raf.' Raf turned and helped Jonny ease himself out of the chair, find his bearings and begin to leave. 'And Raf.' The doctor turned around. 'Make sure he doesn't kill himself on the way.' Raf cracked a smile as he supported Jonny through the door way and back to Darwin.