DofE2

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Jac knocked firmly on the door of the highest women in the hospital.
"Come in." Serena said loudly as she looked up from her paper work. She did wonder when the complaints would start coming in and it had only been fifteen minutes since she'd sent the email.

Jac stormed in and slammed the door behind her making Serena jump a little.
"You really think I wanna go on some sweaty, hypothermic camping trip with a load of F1s with this?" Jac asked as she gestured her bump. It wasn't often that she let people look at it but she needed to make the point to her boss.
"Actually, only one of them is an F1." Serena joked cleverly.
"You know what I mean. Serena I can't go." Jac whined. She sounded like a moaning child.

"Miss Naylor, I'm sure within the last week you have said at least once, something along the lines that pregnancy does not affect your ability. Correct?"
"Yeah but-" Jac began before being interrupted. She had shouted it at Zorsia March, the new F1 on Darwin when she had asked if she would like her to put the IV line in. Admittedly, Jac was going to ask her anyway because at that moment she felt dizzy but that comment made her want to do it even more.

"Jac, there will be certain individuals on the trip, mainly from AAU and maybe the odd nurse from Darwin waiting to watch you fail. This is your chance to prove to them that you can do it." Serena explained. In reality, she didn't think Jac should go because it would be unfair... but the board had already paid for the twelve medical professionals to go and they wouldn't get the money refunded if one of them dropped out.

"But- oh for gods sake." Jac moaned as he she headed for the door but Serena stopped her.
"Jac." Serena said sternly. Jac turned around and once again stood in front of Serena's desk.
I'll be at the meeting." Jac muttered as she quickly left the room.
"Jac I-" Serena began but it was too late, Jac had left as fast as she possibly could. She knew Jac would have heard her in the corridor but she carried on anyway.

Just as Serena got back to some paperwork again, there was a gentle knock at the open door.
"You wanted to see us Miss Campbell." Tom stated as he entered the room with Sam in tow. Tom and Sam were doctors down in the ED and they were going to be the assessor for the group of ten. Tom had done bronze silver and gold as had Sam and it didn't take much training for them to become leaders. But Mr Hanssen had suggested it to them a few months ago and they agreed to take the opportunity.

"Yes please call me Serena." She said kindly as they took a seat in front of her desk. "Um, basically I've looked through all of the twelve's CVs and they've all done enough for the three sections for all three awards. All they need to do is the expeditions." Serena stated.
"Alright, well the expedition's our favourite bit of it." Tom said happily.
"Brilliant. I just want to warn you that one of them's pregnant I'm not sure how many weeks though I think she's about five or six months gone. But she's up for it." Serena stated.
"Alright well if she is up for it, we could try to get bronze, silver and gold done before she has the baby so she won't have to worry about child care or leaving her baby alone when we go." Tom suggested.
"Well, you'll have to have words with her about it. I don't suppose you've heard anything about Jac Naylor have you?" Serena asked cautiously.

"What? The ice queen?" Tom joked. "Well I've heard a bit about her, why?"
"Well she's the pregnant one." Serena stated.
"Oh... Well if she lives up to her reputation I'm sure she'll be more determined than the others." Tom saved himself.

"Yes well there's a meeting with you and the candidates at 5:10pm in the ED staff room, Zoe's okayed it so if you have any further questions?"
"Nope. Tom?" Sam asked.
"Nope."
"Right well, have fun and let me know how you get on." Serena smiled.
"Okay, goodbye." Tom Replied as he and Sam left.

Thursday, 5:10pm
All twelve candidates and the two leaders were in the ED staff room. Jac had made herself comfortable on the sofa next to Sacha and Michael sat on the arm next to her. Gemma, Harry, Mary Claire, Arthur and Edward were sitting at the breakfast bar. Elliot, Jonny, Mo and Zorsia were standing between the two groups and Sam and Tom were stood at the front.

"Right well, we don't want to keep you to long. First things first here's a kit list if you can pass that round." Tom said as he handed Jac the small pile of letters. Jac took one and chucked the rest at Sacha.
"you'll be cooking on trangias and those are are provided. So are the tents and the transport to the starting point." Sam explained.
"Transport?" Jac queried.
"Yeah, we're renting a minibus to take us there. It's only about an hour away roughly." Tom replied as he tried to protect his girlfriend from the possible verbal abuse that could come from Jac. Jac shifted awkwardly, could she make an hour in a minibus? She suffered from travel sickness and although it usually took three or four hours to make her feel the effect, pregnancy seemed to have heightened her problem.

"Anyway, it's up to you lot whether you want to split into two teams or whether you'd rather stay as one group."

"Hey we could split into a fast and a slow team!" Michael suggested. He was definitely going to be one of the loud and confident ones out of the group. He then saw the look in Jac's eyes. "That was not a challenge." He added.
"But-" Jac began.
"No, if you're going to go in groups, I'll pick the names out of a hat. Everyone okay with that?" Tom asked everyone said yeah or nodded.

"Now that's sorted. Next thing is..." Tom began as he flicked through his sheet of notes he had made so he didn't forget anything. "Trangia teams. We want you to get into 6 groups of 2 because that's the groups you'll be cooking in. You decide what food you have but you'll be cooking together. Okay." Tom explained.
"How about we be the three?" Sacha suggested as he put his arm around Jac's shoulders and nodded towards Michael. Jonny was jealous, he couldn't get that close to her.
"I'd rather stick pins in my eyes." Jac stated as she shrugged Sacha's arm off, stood up from the sofa and hid behind Jonny, Elliot, Zorsia and Mo whilst everyone else was discussing.

"I'll go with you yeah?" Jonny suggested as he turned around to face Jac. She was staring at the floor and was suddenly brought out of her trance when he spoke to her.
"Wh- oh um, yeah." Jac agreed quietly. Jonny knew there was something wrong- though she was probably just upset about having to going on the trip-, he just thought that it would be better to ask her when she was alone rather than in the room full of people. So he turned back around.
"Have we sorted the groups then?" Sam asked after they had had a few minutes.
"Myself and Mo." Elliot stated.
"Me and Jac." Jonny stated which caused several people to turn and look at Jac but she cowered behind Jonny even more and he stayed in the same place to hide her. She got as close to him as she could without her bump touching him in the back.
"Michael and I." Sacha stated.
"Be careful, you make it sound like we're married!" Michael joked and Sacha smirked.
"Me and Digby." Zorsia stated firmly. She had obviously forced Arthur into this because she had no friends to go with.
"Myself and Mary-Claire." Edward smiled.
"Me and Gemma." Harry added.

"Right, that was easier than I thought it'd be." Sam admitted. "Now, in your own time, you'll need to sort out your own food and drink to take. Nothing will be provided other than the Trangia."

After discussing the arrangements and answering questions, the meeting was coming to an end.
"Now you've all got tomorrow off to prepare and we'll be meetings at 7am in the hospital car park on Saturday." Sam stated. "Are there any more questions?"
"Sorry, just a quick one; what distance are we actually walking?" Jonny asked curiously.
"Um.. It's just over 20 miles." Tom stated as he looked down at his notes. The entire room broke into "what!" And "no ways" however, Jac was the only one that remained silent.

"You wait until silver and gold." Sam joked. "Anything else?.. Nope. Right, see you at 7am Saturday and don't forget anything, use the kit list a as a checklist." Sam said as everyone stood up and put their bags over their shoulders or they pulled their coats on.

As everyone began leaving, Jonny walked up to Sam and Tom. He waited until everyone had left before he spoke.
"Um, it's Tom and Sam isn't it? I'm Jonny." He smiled as he shook both of their hands. "I was wondering I know you said about drawing names out of a hat for the teams but I'm the father of Jac's baby and I was wondering... If you wouldn't mind, rigging it a bit so I'll definitely be able to keep an eye on her." Jonny explained hopefully.
"I'm sure we can manage that." Tom smiled as he slipped his hand around Sam's waist.
"Oh and, what berth are the tents?" Jonny asked.
"We're just going to buy the tents after this shift, it was a bit short notice because Hanssen hadn't sorted it out properly. Why?" Sam asked as she too slipped her arm around Tom's waist.
"Well I was hoping that there would be a tent for two because Jac tends to be a bit..."
"Antisocial?" Tom suggested.
"Well that's one word for it." Jonny joked.
"I'll try my best." Tom replied as he smiled.
"Alright, thanks a lot." Jonny smiled as he zipped up his coat. "Sorry, just one more thing. Seeing as your going to have the minibus, would it be possible if-"
"We could take her bag so she doesn't have to carry it." Sam finished off her him. "Yeah, I was going to suggest that anyway so that's fine." She added.
"Thank you." Jonny smiled.
"No worries, see you on Saturday." Tom replied as he left. As soon as he and Sam were alone, Sam stretched her neck up to Tom and gave him a peck on the lips. However Tom wasn't satisfied with that so he pulled her closer to him and gave her a passionate kiss.

A few minutes later, Jonny exited the ED to find Jac waiting on the corner in the cold November weather. It was cold and beginning to rain.
"You waiting for a taxi?" Jonny asked as he attempted to shelter his head with the kit list.
"Yeah." Jac mumbled.
"Come on, I'll give you a lift." Jonny said as he put his arm around her waist. Jac quickly pulled away from him but she followed him towards his car.
"Sorry." Jonny said to Jac but she didn't reply.

Ten minutes later, Jonny pulled up in the car park outside Jac's flat.
"Right, I'll be round yours at say... 11am?"
"Why?" Jac asked as she picked up her bag from the floor and undone her seatbelt.
"Because we need to go shopping for camp food. And we need to sort out our bags; you're gonna have all the heavy stuff because Sam and Tom will leave it in the minibus all day." Jonny explained, he didn't want Jac to carry too much weight because it wasn't good for the baby, and extra weight would wear her out faster.

"See you tomorrow." Jac huffed as she got out of the car and slammed the door. Jonny watched her disappear into the building. She didn't say no, which he assumed meant that she didn't want to carry all of her stuff, she just didn't want to admit it.
"Night." Jonny whispered sarcastically. He wanted to stay at hers, make sure she was okay but he knew that would be taking it too far.

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