Unconditional

Chapter 1

Ollie's POV
"My first day back at holby and I'm 10 minutes late... great" I thought to myself as I walked through the main entrance of the hospital.

Once I made it through the doors I paused and looked around at my surroundings, it was exactly how I remembered, except this time, Tara wasn't with me. I left my thoughts as quickly as I came to them as I didn't want to get emotional and hurried into to the lift and pressed the button for Darwin ready to start the day.

As the lift doors began to close I saw a young woman running through the hospital doors and rushing towards the lift so, without thinking, I held out my arm to prevent the doors from shutting on her.

Zosia's POV
Running through the hospital's front doors I saw the lift starting to close.

"Crap" I thought. "If I'm any later Jac's going to kill me."

Luckily, someone in the lift must have seen me running in and held the doors open for me. I darted into the lift and slumped against the wall in an attempt to get my breath back.

After a few seconds I managed to stutter thank you and looked up at the comedically tall person who saved me from Jac's wrath. He looked down at me and smiled.

"Darwin?" he asked, to which I just slowly nodded lost within his piercing blue eyes.

Ollie's POV
She was beautiful. She had a perfect figure enhanced by her charcoal black dress that finished just above her knee. Her brown wavy hair cascading just past her shoulders framing her fair complexioned face. Her well defined eyebrows which raised slightly causing me to blush in fear that she had seen me looking at her. And her extravagant emerald green eyes that looked sweet, emotional but fearless too and were fixated straight back to mine.

I swallowed, looking down awkwardly, tapping my feet on the ground hoping that she would break the silence. Instead, she cleared her throat and through the corner of my eye I could see that she was also staring at the floor, tucking her hair behind her ear.

Zosia's POV
After what felt like hours of waiting we finally made it to Darwin when I realised I did not know the name of the man I had just met but before I had time to ask him he was already on his way to the locker room, presumably to change into his scrubs. In order to avoid another awkward encounter I made my way over to the desk and flicked through some patient notes to see what I had planned for the day waiting for the mystery man to return.

"Oh good, two more valve replacements today" I muttered to myself.

Eventually, after reading the same patients notes 5 times, he reappeared wearing Darwins typical dark blue scrubs, his brunette hair appearing messier than a few minutes ago which, for some reason, made me giggle. I slowly stood up and wandered over to the locker room trying to avoid him noticing me.

Ollie's POV
I left the locker room in my scrubs, which I surprisingly missed wearing everyday, and spotted the women whom I had shared the lift with not long before. I wasn't sure, and couldn't tell, if she had noticed me walking past her on my way to see a patient but she was wearing the same black dress, holding her name badge in her hand.

"Ugh" I groaned under my breath, realising I had left my own name badge in my locker. Quickly, I made a U-turn heading back to the locker room and opened the door to find the mystery woman opening up her locker.

"Oh, hello uhh, sorry" I spluttered. I didn't know what to say, racking through my brain to think of something before there was another awkward silence between us.

"Umm... I'm Oliver. Oliver Valentine... or Ollie I guess, which ever you prefer." I managed to stutter to which she smiled.

"Zosia" she replied. "Zosia March."