Two Minds, One Choice

Chapter 42

Back at Holby...

Mo had been at the hospital for a little over an hour now, sitting in the on call room, completing all notes that needed updating from yesterdays clinics and ward rounds. After soaring through a good chunk of the paper work that she intended on doing, she found herself at a stop, as the events and memories of the night before became more clearer, the mixed feelings that she was experiencing came rushing to the surface, the feeling of humility, regret and even love waved through her body, she then suddenly snapped out of her day dream and looked at the clock, realising that she had 10 minutes to pack away the notes and make her way to the MDT meeting that her and Mr T were both attending together.

She quickly scrambled into action and carried the large pile of patient files out of the room and over to the nurses station, placing them neatly in the 'To Do' pile. She then quickly straightened herself up and made her way up the long corridor that lead to the consultants office, where the meeting was taking place.

As she walked around the corner, she caught a glimpse of Mr T standing outside the office, chatting with Elliot about something that they both seemed to have mutual interest in. Mo decided to sneak up to the pair quietly, hoping that she wouldn't be noticed as she approached them and stood there quietly. As she came to a standstill, Elliot and Mr T turned around, greeting the slightly delicate feeling surgeon, as she stood there with her head in her hand.

"Morning Ms Effanga!" Elliot said, nodding towards Mo happily,

"Morning Mo!" Mr T said nervously rubbing his hands together as he spoke,

"Morning guys!" Mo said, slightly embarrassed, trying not to make eye contact with Mr T as she spoke,

"Shall we go inside and wait for the other's?" Elliot suggested, turning around to walk into his office,

"Give us a minute and we will be in, I need to tell him about... Jac, I need to tell him about Jac!" Mo said, trying to come up with an excuse, avoiding making her situation worse by letting her boss know the real reason why she wanted to talk to Mr T,

"Ok, Don't be too long!" Elliot said, shutting his door behind him. As soon as the door was firmly shut, Mr T walked over to Mo, who at this point was looking a little bit worse for wear,

"Is everything ok with Jac?" Mr T said, slightly worried as he knew that she was only operated on last week,

"Yeah she's fine, About last night... I cant remember what we did, but I can imagine that it was something that we shouldn't have done!" Mo started, explaining her recollection of the blurry events of the night before, Mr T stood there, nodding in agreement as she spoke,

"Yeah, erm, my memory isn't the best from last night! A few too many vodka's or whatever else we were mixing!" Mr T said, chuckling slightly as he nervously spoke.

"Yeah I know what you mean, my heads pounding, How about we forget it ever happened, start a new and all that yeah?" Mo suggested as she pushed herself away from the wall, so she could make her way into the office, placing her hand onto Mr T's shoulder as she walked past, his face fell to the ground, knowing that he wanted to use this as his opportunity to tell Mo his feelings towards her, but he didn't have the courage or the confidence to speak up, so he turned around and walked into the room behind her, closing the door gently behind him as the hangover was clearly making itself known.

The MDT meeting was in full swing and the large group of consultants and nurses had managed to plough their way through a majority of the patients that they needed to talk about,

"Right, that leaves us with, Mrs Katy Davidson, She's 35 weeks pregnant and needs a heart bypass operation as soon as possible, Mr Thompson, what are the chances of the babies survival at 35 weeks?" Elliot said, turning to a clear page in his notes book, ready to write down any relevant information that he might need.

"Well, the baby's survival chances are good, the lungs would have matured enough to allow them to breath unaided, unless there was a severe birth defect detected at the 20 weeks scan or afterwards, but in Mrs Davidson's case everything looks normal, I would have to put her on a foetal heart monitor and perform an ultrasound before we take further action!" Mr T explained, as the rest of the room watched on as he spoke,

"So it would be possible to perform a caesarean at this stage in the pregnancy?" Elliot asked, wanting to get all the facts before they rushed into everything.

"Yes, perfectly possible to do, Ill monitor the baby over night, and do the ultrasound in the morning and then I don't see why we cant deliver tomorrow, if all is ok with the mother!" Mr T replied confidently.

"Mo do you agree with all this? I want you to assist me on the bypass operation?" Elliot said, noticing how quiet and withdrawn she was looking.

"Yeah, all sounds legit, I'll organise theatre and join you in there tomorrow morning!" She replied, snapping out of her day dream and returning to the real world.

"Ok then, that's that sorted, Ill schedule theatre for tomorrow morning, Mr T could you organise for a bed on NICU to be saved for tomorrow and you join us in theatre for the c section, Lets go and tell the patient, thanks everyone!" Elliot said, as he picked up his notes and walked out of the office, with everyone walking behind him, drifting off into different directions.

4 hours later...

After a busy afternoon in clinics Mr T arrived back to Darwin, to have a chat with Elliot about the operation, scheduled for tomorrow morning,

"Ok, i've arranged for a bed on NICU and asked them to prep theatre 1 for a c- section first thing tomorrow!" Mr T announced as he sat himself down next to the worn out professor on the free chair.

"Thank you Mr Thompson!" Elliot said before filling Mr T in on what will be happening tomorrow during the procedure,

10 minutes later, the pair were each looking on the computer, researching the different techniques and methods done by different surgeons that have performed this procedure.

Mr T then leant back, placing his hands at the back of his head as he let out a big stretch. As soon as he returned back to the sitting position, he started to think about how he was going to come clean to Mo and tell her how he feels about her, he just didn't know how to express his feelings without starting to fumble with his words,

"Hey Elliot, I don't suppose you could help me out?" Mr T said, out of the blue, causing Elliot to turn around and look directly at the gynaecologist,

"Depends on what it is, but i'm sure i can give it a good go?" Elliot replied, folding his arms and resting them in front of him,

"Well, there's this friend of mine that Is having difficulty in asking this women out, they've known each other for a while now and really get on, but he just cant put in to words how much she means to him!" Mr T explained, going slightly red in the face,

Elliot looked taken aback, shocked that anyone would come to him for relationship advice, causing him to think back to when Mo, Jonny and Jac helped him out when he was seeing Sharon and the many times that him and Jac have sat in the office talking about relationships and the best ways to approach them,

"Erm, I suppose if anything that I've learnt over the years, is to be honest and upfront, tell her how he feels about her, Honesty is the best policy!" Elliot replied, feeling pretty chuffed with himself that he was asked for his advice about someone else's relationships.

"Thanks Elliot, i'm sure this will help him loads!" Mr T said, knowing what he needed to do.

5 minutes later, after they both returned to researching on the computer, Mr T caught a glimpse of Mo out of the corner of his eye, he quickly jumped up, saying his excuses to Elliot before running over to the tired looking surgeon,

"Excuse me Elliot, I'll be back in a moment!" He said as he ran around the nurse's station desk and headed up towards Mo,

As soon as he reached her, he grabbed her arm gently and pulled her into the on call room, locking the door after them,

"Mr T what's going on here, why have you pulled me in here?" Mo said, looking slightly unsure about why she had just been pulled into the on call room with Mr T,

"I need to have a word with you, well a few more than a word but you get what I mean, Anyway, Last night, I don't regret a thing, in fact I loved every minute of it, and what I want to say is... is that I love you, I love you !" Mr T said, feeling as though a huge weight was taken from off of his shoulders as the words escaped his mouth.

Mo stood there, in shock at what she had just heard, this made her think about her feelings towards him aswell, she knew that she felt the same, she had always had a soft spot towards him, but always brushed it away thinking that it was just a crush, but secretly knew that she loved him to.

"I- I – I love you too, I really love you!" Mo replied, before wrapping her arms around him and kissing him passionately, Mr T returned the kiss. As they both came up for air, Mo's phone began to ring, she pulled it out of her pocket to see that It was Jonny calling her, she quickly pushed the accept button and placed the phone to her ear,

"Hello Jonny Mac, How's the journey going? Is Jac fed up already?"Mo asked, throwing many different questions in Jonny's direction,

"Hello Mo, it's going fine, i've just stopped in the hard shoulder to rest for 10 minutes, I'd say we are about 20- 30 minutes away from the hotel, and Jac's asleep, so I'm entertaining myself!" Jonny replied, laughing as he knew that Mo had placed a bet on how long it would take for Jac to start moaning or complaining at him,

"Ahhh good, so I hear there's meant to be heavy snow up there for the next few days!" Mo announced, as she waited for the moment when he asked about her little party with Mr T last night,

"Yeah, speaking of that, I had an idea a few hours ago, how about you, Sacha, Micheal, Mr T and Elliot come up to Scotland say end of next week and we could throw Jac a baby shower and erm another surprise party?" Jonny announced, hoping that she would agree and force the others to agree aswell,

"Erm.. sure i'm up for it, as long as I get to organise the baby shower and... hold on a minute, what other surprise? Jonny Mac are you going to propose to her?"Mo asked excitedly down the phone, winking over to Mr T as he stood there bewildered and wondering what she was agreeing to do, knowing that she loved a good wedding, and really any excuse to have a good drink,

"Maybe, anyway will you ask the others and make sure they agree to come! Say it's for Jac I know they will do anything for her, just don't let on to Bonnie that all this is happening, she's caused enough drama already!" Jonny said, making it clear that everyone except Bonnie must be there.

"Sure thing Jonny Mac! I'll see you in Scotland buddy! Say Hi to Jac for me!"Mo said as she excitedly put the phone down and got on with planning the baby shower...

Hi,

So this is the last chapter to this Fan fic, the sequel to this story is going to be called 'Edinburgh Events'

It's still going to be the same story, but im getting confused with all the different chapters and thought that it would be best to switch it to a different fan fic,

Thanks to all that have read and reviewed this fic im glad that youve enjoyed it and hope that you will enjoy the Scotland trip in the sequel,

There will be alot of events happening in the sequel

Please read and review this fic for the last time, i really appreciate everything

From Steph xx (Twitter, Steph_holby24 )