The sunlight beaming through the bedroom windows woke Louise from her lovely dreams, she adjusted her eyes to the daylight and noticed Nick stood at the window in just his pj bottoms, she leant forward and said "morning" he turned round smiled and said "hey" took a mouthful of his coffee, placed it on the bedside table and sat beside her on the bed, moved her hair behind her ear and gave her a good morning kiss as he pulled away he let out a bit of a moan and rubbed his head with his hand. "You alright" she asked, he replied "yeah just a little head ache, I'll be alright when the tablets kick in" "okay" she replied and off he went to get ready for work and Louise wasn't far behind. They left for work at 7:30am and Nick dropped her off round the corner from the hospital so no one would see. This had been going on for over a month now, they loved the excitement. Nick walked into the ED then 5 minutes later in walked Louise and no one knew a thing.
Later that day Louise, Charlie, Nick, Noel and Big Mac were in the reception area and everyone was going about their work. Charlie was stood near Nick and noticed he was rubbing his head in pain, "you okay Nick?" he paused "you have a headache don't you" Nick replied "yes but I'll be fine it's just a stress headache" "Nick if" Nick interrupted him "seriously Charlie I'm fine now please leave it!" he said snapping and off he walked. Noel had overheard the conversation and started talking to Big Mac about it, all Louise heard was Noel saying "maybe it's the tumour" Louise looked up and said "hang on a sec, rewind you said tumour" looking rather confused. Noel and Mac looked at each other puzzled. "Well" she said, Noel replied "erm yes didn't you know, Mr Jordan has a brain tumour" she replied "No, since when? Is it serious?" Noel replied "well yeah he nearly died, if it wasn't for Dr Hanna persuading him to have the operation he wouldn't be here today". Louise sat there in shock and said "oh they must be really good friends then" "yeah well they did go out for about a year" Mac said, "oh really, you learn a new thing every day don't you" she replied trying not to let any feelings show. Louise then got called into resus as a patient had crashed.
When she'd dealt with that patient she went up to see Nick she felt she had too, she knew they'd only been having a bit of fun but she had feelings for him, she was falling for him so she knew she had to ask him why he hadn't told her. She got to his office, knocked and walked in, she just stood there looking at him, he was sat at his desk sorting papers and said "hey, what's up" she didn't reply, Nick looked up from his desk and repeated "what's the matter" "why didn't you tell me" she replied "tell you what" he asked, she replied "oh the little fact you have a brain tumour" he sighed, rubbed his forehead and sat back in his chair. They looked at one another before Louise said "well" he replied "I didn't know how to, it's not something you can just drop into a conversation is it" Louise walked around to his side of the desk and perched herself on it. He took hold of her hand and placed it to his lips and kissed it gently, looked into her eyes and said "I'm sorry" she replied "it's okay we'll talk about it later oh and about you and Zoe" and he just looked at her and smiled, still holding her hand he entwined his fingers with hers rubbing each other's thumbs together so gently. Louise carefully placed her hand on his cheek and leaned in for a kiss, Nick reciprocated and kissed her gently back, he stood up placing his hands on her head and kissing her forehead gently before cuddling her. Nick broke the silence "do you want to give it a go" Louise pulled out of the cuddle "give what a go?" he replied while stroking her face and looking into her eyes "being a proper couple" "really?" Louise replied. "Yeah" he said softly before entwining his fingers with hers again and kissing her, just at that minute Noel walked past his office and Nicks blinds weren't closed so Noel saw them together and it didn't take a genius to figure it out which is a good job because Noel is no genius, Louise saw him in the corner of her eye so knew they were in for it later on. She asked Nick if he'd seen Noel and he nodded, they both just laughed "never mind they were going to find out sooner or later" he said. Just as Louise was about to reply her pager went off so she went running down into the ED she got a few funny looks as she knew this would happen Noel would have come straight down and told everyone.
End of shift had arrived and Louise couldn't wait to spend the night with Nick, Nick suggested they leave together and get it over and done with so they did, Louise waited at reception for him, he came down and called over to her "you ready" a few people looked over. Louise replied "yeah" walked over to him smiling, he winked and placed his arm around her and they walked out together. On their way out they heard a few wolf whistles and "ooh's" they just laughed, got into Nicks car giggling like children, she leant over and kissed him passionately. As she sat back she placed her hand on the top of his leg rubbing it while giving him 'the look', he took hold of her hand gave her 'the look' back, smiled and said "Ooh Dr Marshall let's get you home".
So Nick does want a relationship after all, but what's next in store for the happy couple? Please review x