There was a bump in the road for Xavier (Marcus Griffiths) and Donna (Jaye Jacobs) in last week’s Holby City, when Zav was angry with Donna for not letting him know his mother was in the hospital and had possibly stabbed his father. You can see his point, but you could also see Donna’s point as she was trying to spare him extra worry on a difficult day.

It seems that since his parents were discharged from hospital Zav has been with them looking after them, which is very nice but he didn’t communicate with Donna once during that time – no replies to texts, no phone calls, nothing. Donna was understandably worried – and angry. When Zav swanned back into the hospital expecting everything to carry on as normal, Donna put him right. She’d cried about him, she said, after swearing she’d never cry about another man again.

Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie) gave Zav a bit of advice. If he had his time again, he said, he’d make sure certain people were still in his life. I like to think he was talking about Lola, but it made Zav realise how important Donna was to him. He promptly went off and sourced some red helium balloons and proposed to Donna in the middle of AAU. Donna was not bowled over by this romantic gesture. ‘Why are you looking at me like I just ran over your dog?’ Zav asked her. It wasn’t just that she was worried about the environmental impact of helium balloons. It was that she felt he only uses her as a distraction so he doesn’t have to face his family problems.

Luckily he was able to face his family problems straight away, as Nanette (Suzette Llewellyn) had come to the hospital to apologise to Donna and thank the nurses who looked after her recently. Nanette’s medication has been sorted out and she’s now well and happy. So when Zav told her that she must hate him for the part he feels he played in his little brother’s death, she was ready to hug him and tell him she could never hate him. So that’s all fine and Donna will marry him and they’ll live happily ever after? Well, no. She’s going to make him work a little bit harder first because Donna is nobody’s fool.

Cameron (Nic Jackman) isn’t a fool, but unfortunately he’s become known as the posh boy with the hot-shot army medic mum. Since Evan (Jack Ryder) moved in with him, Nicky (Belinda Owusu) and Chloe (Amy Lennox) he’s also become a bit left out. Evan is playing a very subtle game of seeming to be nice, but sticking a metaphorical knife into Cameron every chance he gets. When Cameron overheard Evan talking on the phone to someone who most definitely wasn’t Chloe, he thought he had proof that Evan’s up to no good. It’s not going to be so easy to deal with him, though. Evan’s response to this was to tell Cameron that he knows about ‘the lunge,’ when Cameron tried to kiss Chloe. He also spoke of one of Chloe’s previous relationships that was violent and controlling. ‘She needs me,’ he said, sounding more than a tad controlling himself.

Most sinister of all was that when Cameron got home to his beautifully-lit bedroom, a photo of his mum Bernie that had been in his drawer was now on his bed – and someone had written two kisses on the back.

Meanwhile, it was the day of Fletch (Alex Walkinshaw) and Ange (Dawn Steele)’s first date. Before that could happen Fletch had to talk to Ange in his official capacity, because her work habits were causing problems for the rest of the staff (she works too much and they feel they have to as well. Or something). This didn’t go well and Fletch thought he’d blown his chances of romance with Ange, but she turned up later in Albie’s in a foxy red trouser suit and soon they were enjoying their first kiss together, because nobody can resist the romantic atmosphere of Albie’s.

Sue Haasler is the author of the official Holby City book, which you can read about here. Her latest novel, Half A World Away, is out now

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