Paper Doll

A week and a half after Serena's tragic accident, and although she was now well, recovered, but ordered to take things easy, yet, Serena, never one to take advice, did what she did best, and headed off to work.

Ric, completely unaware of this move, they spoke of the accident, and the trauma of what had happened to Serena, what had happened to their babies, but only briefly. Serena would not let herself truly open up, her sadness faded into her defences, she put up her guarded walls, and could not even dare let the man she had fallen in love with in, and she could not share her pain with him.

However, Ric had accepted that Serena needed her space, he held her tightly at night, as she cried herself to sleep, and completely unaware that Ric knew. Although, Ric hurt, and grieved, his pain did not run as deep as he knew Serena's did, and had suffered, countless pain and never resolved her issues.

It was mid afternoon, Serena arrived into work, and although no one was expecting to show up for work, for a long time. She headed up to her office, ignoring everyone who offered her words of support, returning the condolences with a death glare.

She did not like how, the colleagues who had help save her life, saw her as a person, she was as she put it 'technically' their boss, a woman who prided herself in her work. She was not some ninny, who needed people to tread carefully around her.

As she entered her office, she found herself surprised to see Guy Self, sat at her desk, she could not understand why, there was a perfectly good, unused desk the other side of the office.

"What are you doing?" She asks catching him off guard; he was oblivious to her entering the office.

"Dr. March has asked me to look..." Guy trailed off, as he real...

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...t all, yet, Ric held onto his belief.

Serena placed a kiss upon Ric's cheek, "I'll cook tonight... That's if you want, you probably want to go home for once..."

"Dinner, it will be lovely, if you can manage it"

"Let me do something 'normal', please"

"Okay" Ric nodded, as he peered out through the windows to his office "I should probably, reign in the mischief, can't have the deputy thinking I'm slacking, I love her, but she'll have me punished, sent to the ED to work on the front line... All because I stopped working.."

Serena raised a small smile, the first time she had done so in a while, she knew Ric was having a bit of a joke with her, to lighten her spirits, and it worked. Rubbing his hand softly, Serena left the ward, she was not sure how things were to pan out for her, but she knew, with Ric sticking by, maybe she could face the world and so much more.