Chapter 45:

Zoe had been busy all day with a backlog of patients that Connie had left for her to clear whilst she was at various meetings throughout the day. She had bumped into Max a few times but he was the first to break the eye contact between them.

Zoe was filling out paperwork before she was called by Tess to help her with a young patient.

"Zoe, this is Aimee and she is nine years old. She broke her arm when falling from the top of a climbing frame." Tess said as she smiled kindly at Aimee.

"Hi Aimee, I'm Dr. Hanna. Can I have a look at that arm?" Zoe asked as Aimee complied and handed Zoe her arm. Zoe could tell that there was an evident break in the arm but needed an X-ray to be able to confirm the next course of treatment.

"Okay, Tess can we give her another 5mg of Morphine and Aimee can you lean forward for me?" Zoe asked to which Aimee did as she was told allowing Zoe to access the damage to her back.

"Okay, there is mild bruising to the back which may cause difficulty breathing but seeing as she hasn't experienced that yet I don't think that will be a problem. So Aimee, we are going to send you up for an X-ray now. It's nothing to worry about it is just a machine that will take a picture of your bone to tell me how to treat it so we can make it all better." Zoe said to which Aimee grabbed her hand and shook her head in refusal.

"I'm scared; please will you come with me?" Aimee asked Zoe who looked at Tess waiting for her approval. Tess nodded and Zoe agreed to go with the young girl.

"Can we get a porter in here please?" Tess asked as Max came over and opened the curtain which revealed Zoe holding the little girls hand.

"Where to?" Max asked in a monotonous manner.

"X-ray please." Zoe asked as Max pushed the bed towards the lift. He pressed the button and Max, Zoe and Aimee stood waiting for the lift in silence. When it finally arrived they all entered the lift and Zoe pressed the correct floor.

"You're coming?" Max asked.

"Yeah, Aimee asked if I could." Zoe replied to which Max just nodded his head.

They reached the X-ray and Zoe and Max together managed to calm Aimee down and she finally got her arm X-rayed after much refusal.

"See it wasn't that bad was it?" Max asked.

"Thank you both. You make a good team." Aimee said as she giggled slightly.

"Do we now?" Zoe asked as Aimee nodded.

"I wish that was true." Max said under his breath loud enough for only Zoe to hear.

"Shall we go back to the ED then?" Zoe put on a fake smile acting as if nothing had happened when in reality it was killing her not being with Max.

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