Zollie - A forbidden love

Chapter 17 - This ends now

Zosia, Ollie and Colette left pulses and went their separate ways; Zosia and Ollie back to Darwin, and Colette to AAU to go over things before she started the next day. Up on Darwin, Zosia was sat at the nurses station, talking to a patients relative, too bored to go home, and Ollie was working on a case,  when they heard a commotion from the lift. They excused themselves, and rushed out to see what it was about. 

"What do you mean, I can't be here? I work here, I have every right to be on this ward." An angry Guy was being held back by Jac, who was trying to explain that he needed to leave.

"Guy, stop it. You're embarrassing yourself, and this isn't doing Zosia and good either."

"Let go of me Jac! You can hardly lecture me about parenting; you couldn't even conceive a healthy baby!" Zosia gasped, shocked that her dad could stoop that low, when there was a harsh sound. A slap. She looked, and saw Jac has slapped her dad in the face. 

"Good," she thought "he deserved that." Then Jac walked away without another word. 

"Jac," Zosia called, jogging over to her, "Jac, I'm sorry for what he said. I would say he didn't mean it, but I'm done defending him." 

"It's fine. It's not me you should be worried about, if I were you I'd go help Ollie before he gets attacked again."

"What? Oh you've got to be joking!" She looked at Ollie, only to see him trying to prise her dad off him. He had him pinned up against the wall, a hand under his neck, and whispering something. As Zosia got closer, she could hear what her dad was saying: "is it true? Hmm, is it?" 

"Is what true Mr Self?" Ollie was trying to speak calmly, but he was getting nowhere.

"You know fine well what I'm talking about Valentine! Are the rumours true?"

"If by the rumours you mean are me and Ollie engaged, then yes dad, we are." Zosia interjected.

"How dare you!? How dare you go behind my back and propose to my daughter without telling me!" Guy was getting angrier my the minute, and Zosia knew any second now it would kick off. Quickly, she grabbed her dad, and pulled him off Ollie. She pushed him towards the lift, and spoke quickly and quietly.  

"If you don't get off this ward right now, and leave me and my fiancé alone, then I will personally go to Hanssen, and make sure you loose your precious job. Then what will you be, hmm? What would the great Guy Self be without his career? Nothing. And that's exactly what you deserve right now. This vendetta you've got against Ollie, this ends now. I want you out for good."

"Zosia!" Guy was shocked that Zosia would speak to him like that, she was his daughter, and family should come first.

"Get in that lift, and don't come back." Zosia said as she pushed her dad into the open lift.

"This isn't the end Valentine!" He shouted, trying to intimidate him. 

"Oh I think you'll find it it," Ollie muttered under his breath. He went over to Zosia, who was stood, shaking, and wrapped his arms around her.

"Okay everybody, shows over, back to work." The voice of Colette Sheward boomed through the ward. 

"Colette? How much of that did you see?" Zosia asked, shocked.

"Enough." She answered simply. "Come on, let's go get you a cup of tea, help steady your nerves. You don't want to get too stressed, it's not good for the baby."

"Yeah, come on Zosh. You can show me all the things you bought for this little one." Ollie said gently placing a hand on her bump.

"Okay." She sighed. "I just hope this is enough to get him out of the picture for good." 

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