Roll cameras part 2

A hospital consultant

Chloe arrives at Niamh's with Jordan who is asleep. Joe thanks Chloe and takes Niamh to the car and helps her in.

Niamh sits silently in the car for the whole journey to the hospital walk in centre.

"You seem cold so you want the heaters on?" He asks.

"No thanks I'm really hot actually" she mumbles.

He pulls up at the hospital and takes her hand and looks at her as he takes the keys out. "Ready?" He asks and Niamh nods and bites her lip.

Niamh gets out the car and Joe comes and links her arm and walks her to the walk in centre.

He sits Niamh down and goes and books her in, "Hi my fiancée needs to see a doctor" Joe says in a hushed tone.

"What's her name please" the receptionist asks.

"Niamh Walsh" he says.

"Age and date of birth" she smiles.

"17th April, she's 29" he replies.

Joe looks over at Niamh and smiles. "Okay, and what is the issue?" she asks.

"She may have miscarried again, she's bleeding heavy and when standing she's in chronic pain" Joe replies.

"How far along?" She asks.

"16 weeks" he replies.

The receptionist nods and sends the notes through, "please take a seat I'll get a doctor straight out to you" the receptionist replies.

Joe nods and goes and sits with Niamh, "Joe?" Niamh says as he comes back over.

"They're getting someone straight out for you" he says.

Joe sits beside her and strokes her knee, Niamh takes hold of his hand and holds it tightly.

He kisses her cheek and waits a few minutes before a doctor calls her through, Joe gets up and helps Niamh up as she's in a lot of pain.

They go to the doctors office and sit down, "so Ms Walsh I have read your notes and you seem to think you're miscarrying" the doctor says.

She nods and looks at her lap, "She's miscarried three times before" Joe says.

"Yes I have just seen that, but you've had one child nearly four years ago now, nothing wrong with that pregnancy from what I can see" the doctor says.

"He's perfectly fine and so was the pregnancy" Niamh replies.

"Okay we'll get you straight in for an emergency scan and we can see from their on" the doctor says.

Niamh nods and he hands her some notes to take with her to the scan, they follow the yellow root and find themselves in the ultrasound area.

They both take a seat and wait to be called in, around half an hour later they're called in and the ultrasound nurse tells Niamh to take a seat in the bed.

She sits on the bed and look at Joe who takes a seat next to her. "Joe I'm honestly really scared right now" Niamh mumbles.

Joe takes her hand and holds it tightly, he kisses her hand and smiles. The nurse rolls Niamh's top up and gets the gel out ready for the scan.

"Wait!" Niamh says quickly.

The nurse stops and looks at her "is everything okay?" The nurse asks.

"Can I just have a moment" Niamh says and the nurse nods.

Niamh turns and looks at Joe, "I'm sorry" she mumbles.

"Sorry for what?" Joe asks curiously.

"This, and everything" she says as the tears start to roll down her cheeks again.

"Don't be, I love you" he says.

Joe nods at the nurse who carries on and puts the gel on Niamh's stomach before pressing the probe down on her stomach.

Niamh closes her eyes tightly and tries to keep her breathing normal. Joe looks up at the nurse who is pushing down rather firmly on Niamh's stomach.

"Everything okay?" He asks.

"I'm just going to get a consultants" she says as she turns the machine off and leaves the room.

Niamh starts to cry hysterically as she knows too well what's about to happen.

The nurse returns with a consultant who is free, "Ms Walsh?... and you must be her partner?" The consultant says.

"Joe" Joe says as he shakes her consultants hand.

"Mr Gilmore" he replies and goes over to the nurse and discusses something with her.

They turn the machine on again and scan Niamh, "please" Niamh cries.

"Just try and stay calm Ms Walsh" the nurse says in a caring tone.

Niamh looks away and at Joe. "Hey smile" he replies.

"Why should I?" Niamh replies.

"Because" he replies.

Joe looks up at the consultant, "okay Ms Walsh we're done" he says as he passes her a tissue.

She takes the tissue and wipes the gel off her stomach. "So?" She asks.

"Would you like to come with me to my office and we can talk" Mr Gilmore says.

Joe looks at Niamh and nods. He then helps her off the bed and they go through to his office just down the corridor.

Niamh and Joe take a seat in front of Mr Gilmore's desk. Joe takes hold of Niamh's hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze.