The following day and Zoe had somehow managed to twist Nick's arm and convince him to allow her to return back to work, although she was still slightly unwell, she couldn't stand another boring day at home alone doing nothing.

"If you need a lay down just go for one" Nick told Zoe as their shift was just about to begin.

Zoe rolled her eyes. Much to her advantage Jeff and Dixie at this point came crashing through the doors with their next patient. Zoe couldn't resist the opportunity and raced straight over to get back to work.

Nick went to open his mouth to call her back over, but decided to just leave her to it, she wouldn't listen if he told her to just do light duties anyway.

"Is Nick Jordan around?" Nick heard a familiar voice asking Noel at the reception desk. He spun around on his heels and walked over to join them, "Hello again" Nick smiled, as he noticed his friend Chris from Ollie's football club.

"I was just down here getting patient notes" Chris explained holding up the pile of records that he held in his hand, "thought I'd come by and say hello"

"come through to my office if you like?" Nick gestured to his office door to avoid Noel who was stood ear wigging into their conversation.

Chris nodded and followed Nick through to his office.

The door swung open and like usual it was Zoe just barging her way in here. Technically it was her office just as much as it was Nick's now. Her eyes opened wide as she saw who was standing beside Nick, she completely froze for a second. It must have been over 12 years since she had last saw him. He had definitely aged she thought to herself.

Nick smiled as she entered the room, "This is my wife Zoe... Dr Hanna" Nick proudly introduced her to Chris, smiling like a Cheshire cat, "Zoe this is Chris, he works in vascular, Ollie's friends with his son Jack" Nick introduced them both.

"Your wife" Chris echoed, raising his eyebrows at Zoe, "Nice to meet you" He smiled, winking at Zoe in the process so that Nick couldn't see.

Zoe was still a little taken back by him being here in her husbands office, "Hello" She weakly smiled as Chris stood grinning at her. He was definitely still as creepy as she remembered.

"Did you want something Zo?" Nick asked, as Zoe stood frozen staring at the two men before her.

Zoe slowly shook her head, slowly backing out of the door, "Erm.. no" She replied "nothing important"

Nick frowned as she closed the door behind her, "She's not usually like that, she's pregnant and I think it's getting to her" He explained.

"Pregnant?" Chris echoed "Well Congratulations" He said to Nick before they both took a seat and carried on their conversation where they left off.

Zoe rushed across the ED floor to head outside for some fresh air. What she would kill to have a cigarette right now. He was definitely a face she wasn't expecting to see on her face day back in the ED. She was just hoping that nothing would get back to Nick about it. She sighed, running her hands through her hair, she leaned back and rested her head on the wall.

"Alright Zoe?" A familiar Liverpudlian voice called as they made their way around the corner to where Zoe was stood.

"Linda, yeah absolutely" Zoe tried to convincingly smile as her friend joined her.

"You look stressed" Linda bluntly pointed out.

Zoe sighed "Just a bit of a bad day" She said not wanting to give too much away.

Linda laughed slightly "It's only 10 o'clock" She said as she looked at the watch on her uniform, "What's happened then?" She asked, knowing Zoe all to well and could see that she had something playing on her mind.

"My ex is inside playing best mates with Nick and he has no idea about the past we share" Zoe straightly told her.

Linda tried her best not to laugh, she was constantly finding out about a different ex of Zoe's all the time, "Christ Zoe, you have some skeletons in your closest" She stated.

"If he says anything about our history, Nick won't be happy" Zoe said in seriousness, her face painted with worry.