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Chapter Four

"This is Frankie Burgess. He was knocked down by a car going at around sixty miles per hour. Pulse is 120, BP 100 over 60 so that's 98% on oxygen. Patient seems to be intoxicated and has severe bruising to the face and stomach."

Lily listened carefully as Iain reeled off the information to her. The worse part of the job was dealing with patients who were awkward, angry, or drunk, and Lily had to admit that they made her nervous. She clutched Frankie's notes in her hand and gestured towards resus.

She immediately started to panic, knowing that she'd have no choice but to talk. She followed Iain through the doors and watched anxiously as Frankie was lifted up onto the bed. She looked past Iain, at Louise and Alicia who'd already got to work, and then down at her feet. Frankie was shouting, his arms crossed stubbornly over his chest.

"Mr Burgess, if you could please calm down!" Louise was shouting, causing Lily to flinch slightly.

"Are you okay?" Iain asked her, sensing the quietness and the jumpiness.

Lily snapped out of her trance, only just realising that Iain was talking to her.

"Are you okay?" He repeated.

Lily faintly nodded, lifting her eyes ever so slightly. Her heart was pounding fast.

"You sure?" Iain whispered, nodding his head at Lily. Lily returned the nod, clearing her throat. "Alright, I'm here if you need a chat," he said, gently giving her arm a squeeze.

It took every ounch of energy for Lily to try and hide the pain that she was feeling. She forced a smile, blinked to hold back her tears, and bit her lip before making her way over to the bed. Iain thought nothing of it, rolling his eyes because of how focused she was on her work.

"Mr Burgess, if you could please stay still for us," Alicia said, watching cautiously as Lily arrived at her side. She would have rathered someone with more of a voice, Connie or Dylan. Lily hadn't been herself lately, and Frankie wasn't exactly the easiest of patients. "Please, I'm not a fan of hospitals myself, but we just want to help you," Alicia continued.

"You're not a fan of hospitals, yet you work in one," Louise laughed. "That makes a lot of sense."

"You know what I mean," Alicia said, rolling her eyes. She giggled and looked back to the patient, before asking. "So, what were you doing in the middle of the road then?"

"I'm not drunk!" Frankie suddenly spat in denial.

"Well, we didn't say you were," Louise said, smirking to herself. She looked up and saw that Lily was staring down at the patients stomach with a scared look in her eyes. She hadn't said a single word. "Lily?" She said in a raised voice.

Lily jumped, her head snapping towards the nurse.

"S...Sorry," Lily managed to stutter, small tears filling her eyes at the sound of her own voice. "I think we ought to get a CT scan sorted out."

It was the biggest thing that she'd said so far, and maybe she should have been proud of herself. She'd spoken so fast though that all the words just merged into one, and her voice had sounded so quiet and childlike. It was worse than staying completely silent.

"I can't hear a bloody word that you're saying!" Frankie then shouted, the stench of alcohol pouring off of his breath as he spoke.

"Lily, maybe you should go," Alicia whispered.

She was only trying to be helpful, but Lily didn't seem to take it that way. She opened her mouth to argue but Alicia cut her off.

"It's okay," she said. "Ethan can help us."

Lily looked to Louise, who seemed to be nodding in agreement, and sighed heavily. She turned away from them and the patient, and exited resus before she broke down crying.

"Game of Basketball, mate?"

Jez chucked the ball at Iain's chest before he could even answer. In other words, before he could refuse the offer and tell him to get on with his work like they were supposed to be doing. Iain liked Jez, the two of them had become good friends, and they did occassionally have the odd banter in the ambulance bay. There was a time and a place for it though, and Jez was often one to take things too far.

"How's it going with you and the Ice Princess anyway?" Jez asked. "Have you slept with her yet?"

"Dude!" Iain yelled. "Besides, Lily and I are just friends."

"Just friends?" Jez scoffed. "Do you really expect me to believe that? Everyone knows that the two of you like each other, so why don't you just go for it?"

Iain shrugged his shoulders and said, "Everyone knows it, do they?"

"Hell yeah!" Jez yelled, a little too enthusiastically.

"Well, what if I did?" Iain sighed. "What if she doesn't like me back?"

"There's only one way to find out," Jez chuckled to himself, winking at his friend.

There was a light knock from behind them, and they both turned to see Lily hovering in the entrance with her hands in the pockets of her brown coat. Iain wasn't sure how much she'd heard of the conversation, if anything, but he decided not to bring it up with her.

"Shut up," he hissed subtly to Jez, before throwing the ball at him and strolling over towards Lily. "Hey Chuckles," he greeted. "What can I do for you?"

Lily said nothing. She so badly wanted to talk to Iain, hence the fact that she'd gone to find him after being told to leave resus by Alicia. He was the one person who cheered her up, the one person who made her smile so hard that it felt like her face was going to break.

"Not talking still, huh?" Iain sighed deeply. "What's going on, Lily? This isn't like you."

Lily leaned back against the wall, her head hung. Iain watched her for a few seconds, feeling quite aware of the fact that Jez was still there and probably watching them.

"Don't you have somewhere to be?" He asked his colleague, without even turning round to face him.

"Right," Jez coughed. "Uh...I guess I'll see you later."

As soon as Jez had disappeared, Iain decided to try and talk to Lily again.

"Listen," he whispered, and Lily flinched at the feel of his breath on her neck. "I don't know what's going on here, but you probably feel as if you don't have anyone to talk to. That's not true though, Lily. You have me."

Lily glanced at Iain through her eyelashes and managed a weak smile for him. Her mouth remained shut though, and she didn't move to hug him.

"I wouldn't lie to you," Iain whispered.

Lily wished that she could believe him, but so many people had lied to her before. How was she supposed to trust him?

"Hey." Iain placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, causing her to quickly suck in a breath. "Do you remember the time when you were in hospital? I told you that we were going to be something special. I meant that."

Connie sat at her desk, surrounded by paperwork. It felt good to distract herself with work, Sam had brought Grace over to her house the night before and things weren't any better between them. Grace still blamed Connie for everything that had happened, and she still wanted to live with her dad. Connie wasn't going to deny the fact that she was upset by it, she never should have taken Grace to court in the first place, but Grace seemed happy and she didn't want to ruin that.

As she finished off another set of notes, there was a knock on her office door. She didn't like the idea of being disturbed, not when she was so busy, but she called for them to come in anyway.

It was Louise.

"Louise," she sighed, looking around her desk for her missing pen. She wasn't surprised that she couldn't find it, her desk was filled up to the brim with rubbish. "What can I do for you?"

Louise just sighed and shut the door behind her. "I think we need to talk about Lily."

So I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I'm going to try and start Chapter 5 today, but I also have other Fanfictions to update so I'm not sure when I'll get it posted. I'm busy most of tomorrow and then on Saturday as well because of the production that my drama group is putting on. However, I then have the week off so that'll be good.

So a lot happened in this chapter. Lily was obviously struggling to talk around an awkward patient, resulting in Alicia sending her out. Iain practically admitted his feelings to Lily in the ambulance bay, and Louise has addressed her concerns about her.

I hope you're enjoying the story. If you are, add it to your alerts and leave a review. Thank you x

Also, a huge thank you to my friend "LillyMayFlower" for helping me out with the idea for the last scene.