Second update today! I was thinking about where I was going with this fic and came up with this idea, hope it's not too bad but it needed a bit of a twist else it would have just been about whether Zoe should take Nick back or not. This chapter also contains an O/C of mine.
She left Nick to stabilise the patient and told him to meet her in the office when he was finished. Had Nick really just gone behind her back 5 minutes after telling her he loved her? She felt so confused and there were things she had to tell them, things had changed. She heard the key code being entered on the office door and Nick entered.
"How could you just go and ask for your old job back without even telling me about it?! You've only been back 5 minutes!"
"Zoe...it's not what it looks like, Tess came and spoke to me earlier.."
"Tess told you what I said?!"
"Don't be angry at her, she was worried about you and I'm glad she told me. I don't want you to be worried about losing me again, that's why I asked Hanssen for my job back, I want to prove to you that I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going to leave you."
Zoe didn't know what to say, she felt like going into a dark room to cry for eternity.
"Things aren't as simple as they were anymore Nick, things have changed."
"What do you mean?"
There was a knock at the door and Zoe answered it.
"Hi, I thought I should introduce myself to our returning clinical lead"
"Umm, yeah... Nick, this is Dr. Matt Reed, he's one of our new consultants"
"I'm not just a new consultant though am I?" he winked at Zoe which didn't go unmissed by Nick.
"I'm also your handsome fiancé!" he kissed her and left the office.
Suddenly everything made sense to Nick, why Zoe had been so shocked to see him back, why she had been so reluctant to let him back into her life and why she kept saying that things had changed.
"I don't understand... Tess told me you still loved me..." This time it was Zoe that saw the pain in Nick's eyes.
"I've always loved you Nick, that's what's so bad about it all." She knew she wasn't over Nick as soon as she set eyes on him again, but could she really decline another marriage proposal for Nick Jordan? She had known Dr. Reed for a year now and when he proposed to her she felt like it was time to settle down, she needed some sort of stability in her life after all these years and she wanted somebody to just love her. He wasn't Nick Jordan but then Zoe never expected to have Nick Jordan ever again, until now.
Really hope it was okay! I feel like this will give me more to build the fic on now :) Please review!