This idea came to me last night and I had to write it. This chapter is set as if Jessica stayed in Holby when she found her son's spoon, but Linda never got the the Clinical Nurse Manager job, Zoe, however is, Clinical Lead.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Zoe, Linda and Jessica were out shopping, each woman each had hold of two shopping bags. Jessica's contained clothes for her children, Zoe's contained a new pair of high heels and Linda's contained clothes for her niece and nephew.
"Zoe, are you OK?" Jess asked, noticing that Zoe had stopped.
Zoe couldn't describe it. She had a feeling in her chest that something was wrong. She uncharacteristcally dropped her bags, leaving Linda to pick them up.
"What's going on?" Linda asked.
"I don't know," Jessica replied, shaking her head. The two women headed in silence, back to Jessica's car. Jessica started the engine and soon, she was pulling in to the ED car park.
Adam Trueman headed towards his partner and kissed her quickly on the cheek.
"Hey, Jess. " He greeted her. Then he pulled her aside, leaving Linda standing on her own. "Jess, it's Nick. He's had a bleed on his brain, it's not looking good."
Jess felt sorry for Zoe. She headed in to RESUS to find Zoe sat by Nick's bed, clutching his hand.
"Don't you dare, leave me Nick. " She cried.
The unconcious figure of Nick Jordan gave no sign that he could hear her.
"Zoe, he'll be fine" Jess whispered.
Sarah Evans walked in to RESUS then, to take Nick to surgery to try to control the bleed, which would involve opening up his brain.
After several hours, Sarah came back down. Zoe as a doctor, knew.
"The bleed was too big to control. He died on the table"
At the age of 50, Nick Jordan was dead.
Zoe headed back to RESUS were Adam and Charlie were preparing Nick's body.
"We'll leave you to it. " Said Adam.
"Thanks" Zoe said, watching as he and Charlie left."I love you, Nick" Zoe cried.
A few days later, it was Jordan's funeral. Adam and Charlie were in charge of the coffin. Linda and Jess were trying to comfort Zoe.
After the funeral, Zoe had returned to work. What she hadn't had the chance to tell Nick was that despite years of not being able to conceive and mutiple negetive pregnancy tests, she was finally pregnant. Only Tess and Jess knew being mothers themselves, and as she was only 3 months, she was planning on telling the team soon.
