Hey guys!

Thank you for all your thoughts on this, sorry for the wait for an update. The next update wont be for at least a week because I am going on a school trip.

Just so you know I wont be bringing Nick back, that would be a good idea but I don't really know who Nick is as I only started watching Casualty at the beginning of Series 27 so I don't really know what happened between Nick and Zoe apart from the fact that she cant have children, so sorry but I don't feel that I know enough about Nick to write about him.

Once again thanks for the reviews. I really appreciate them and I will take your ideas on board if I feel the fic could use them.

Thank you all.

Chapter 9

Zoe.

After the weekend, that we had spent together, we had work to get back to and we had decided to keep our relationship private until we were ready to share it with the others at the ED. Me and Ash were on the same shifts for the next week which meant we would be able to spend lots of time together.

On Monday morning we drove in separately and I had to call him to my office to tell him off for missing Fridays shift, even though I knew what had happened I decided that the others would be less suspicious if we still acted as if we hated each other.

The shift went by slowly and it was hard to be horrible to Ash, as I knew him so much better than I had the previous time we worked together.

At my lunch break Fletch had come up to me and started asking me if Ash had enjoyed his scrubs and if I had worn a matching pair. I hit him hard on the head with a file and told him to shut it; he just gave me a sly smile and turned around to go back to work.

I spent the rest of the day busy with my work, I got thrown up on twice so I was in scrubs by the end of my shift and had to perform an emergency operation in the middle of resus.

I left a note in Ash's locker telling him to meet me at mine later that evening he left a reply in my office saying he couldn't wait.

After work I travelled home and started preparing some kind of meal. In my freezer I found chicken and chips but I had to make up some kind of sauce thing to go with it. I decided on a black pepper sauce that I found a recipe for on my iPad. After cooking the chicken and making the sauce I found some carrots and broccoli in the fridge so I decided to cook those in the microwave. This was one of the first meals I had cooked in my kitchen and this meant that I had practically had no idea how to use half the appliances in it. I nearly burnt the chips and set the microwave on fire from covering the vegetables with foil until I remembered that I couldn't put metal in a microwave.

As I finished the dinner Ash arrived at the door and I let him in kissing him passionately before he could properly enter the house. Ash was caught off guard slightly and nearly dropped the bottle of wine he was carrying. I broke away and he stumbled through the door.

"How was your day?" I asked him as he took his coat off.

"Great. Apart from being shouted at by my boss." He replied.

"Oh, she didn't mean it. It was only a front. Though you should have taken that guy for a CT not an MRI." I said kissing him lightly.

"Oh I know she didn't," he said picking me up by my waist and taking me into the kitchen.

I laughed and said flirtingly "Well, if you're good now she might make it up to you later."

"Sounds good. That may well be a compromise I am able to come to terms with." He replied kissing me as he placed me back on the floor. "Have you been cooking?"

"Yes. Not very well to be honest but I thought I could attempt it." I replied putting my hands on my hips defensively as he surveyed at the messy kitchen he stood in.

"Can I smell burning?" he asked jokingly dodging my hand as I reached out to hit him.

"Shut up!" I said going over to take out the food and plates.

"I'm being serious. When did you last cook?"

"A few months ago, maybe. I think I cooked for Dylan one time but that was ages ago." I replied shrugging.

"Then I feel honoured. Who's Dylan?" He asked suspiciously.

"Oh just an old friend." I said quickly. Dylan was really funny and when he first came to Holby we became good friends. At one point we had nearly gone out together and become more than friends, that was until Sam turned up and the explosion at the ED happened during the explosion we shared secrets with each other. I told him the truth but he didn't, it turned out he and Sam were married. After that Dylan and I had drifted apart and then he had left after Sam had asked him for a divorce after getting together with Tom. I didn't really want to talk about him too much as I still felt hurt that he hadn't told me about him and Sam.

"An old friend?" he questioned.

"Yes, an old friend. He was nothing more. Are you jealous Martin?" I teased him. I knew he hated his real name, no idea why.

"No! Of course not. And my name is Ash, not Martin." He replied adding the later as an afterthought.

"Fine Ash." I said as I took two glasses out of the cupboard and started to pour the wine he had bought with him. It was an expensive brand but was a fantastic wine. I took the two plates to the table that was in the kitchen.

We sat opposite each other at the table. We started to make small talk and then it turned into laughter and before I knew it I was flicking a carrot off my plate at him. He was flicking one back at me and then I ended up sitting on his lap with him feeding me my dinner, me feeding him his. The dinner wasn't too bad considering it was thrown together and not planned at all.

After we had finished dinner I cleared away the plates and we went up to my room and started to kiss more passionately, desperately, as if we couldn't bare to be apart from each other for even a mere moment.

We slipped each other out of our clothes. I straddled him and pulled him back on to the bed so he was on top of me. I kissed him harder and harder. He slipped off my pants and I did the same with his boxers, discarding them to my bedroom floor. As I felt him enter I let out a small gasp and bit down on his lip. He created a trail of kisses down my naked form, sucking lightly as not to create marks. I gripped onto the sheets and panted quickly. He slowly made his way back up my body and kissed me on the lips silencing me. I groaned slightly and responded to his kiss happy to have him. Then I flipped him over using all my energy so I lay on top of him now. I was in control. I placed small kisses on his bare chest and his hands cupped my breasts. I placed his hands on his cheeks and kissed him hard moving slowly. He removed his hands from my breast and placed them on my hips. We kissed deeply enjoying the feel of our skin colliding. After a few minutes I felt him exit and I climbed off him slowly and lay next to him. We breathed heavily together for a few minutes trying to catch our breath back.

"Wow," he whispered.

"Yeah, wow!" I replied turning to face him. It was strange that time we made love was different to the previous times; it felt more intense, more meaningful. As if we were meant to be together. I kissed him lightly on the head and he turned to face me. We were both lying completely naked and neither of us seemed to mind. All the other people I had slept with were self-conscious about being naked and were quick to cover up. With Ash however, he didn't seem to mind.

"Come on. Lets get to sleep. After all we both have work tomorrow and I don't want to be yelled at by my boss again for not showing up!" He said as he pulled the duvet out from underneath him and rolled under it. I did the same and lay next to him.

"We going in together tomorrow?" I asked sleepily.

"Yeah, why not? Were serious aren't we?" he replied as if it was no big deal. We both knew that the others at work would talk and not believe it for a while but they would eventually come round.

"Of course we are." I replied.

He turned to face me looked into my eyes before saying.

"Good. Because Zoe, you know what?"

"No, what?" I replied unsure of what he was getting at.

"Because Zoe, I love you." He finished.

I was shocked by his sudden confession and taken aback. I knew of my reply before I had even said it.

"I love you too." I said cupping his face in my hands and kissing him deeply, caressing the roof of his mouth, my tongue fighting his for dominance.

As we broke away we smiled at each other before closing our eyes and falling to sleep in each other's embrace.

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