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For Faith Cadogan, the news of her pregnancy doesn’t arrive as a moment of joy or celebration. It arrives like a reckoning — quiet, heavy, and impossible to ignore. In a life already shaped by recovery, separation, and emotional scars, this is not a simple new beginning. It’s a question mark over everything she thought she understood about her future.

Faith and Iain Dean have been living in the aftermath of a relationship that never quite found its way back to solid ground. Their separation wasn’t just about one argument or one mistake. It was about trust, fear, and the long shadow of Faith’s past struggles with addiction — a shadow that never fully stopped following either of them. The pregnancy changes the stakes, but it doesn’t erase the damage.

When Faith finally tells Iain she’s expecting, the conversation is raw and complicated. She’s honest about her doubts. Honest about not being sure what she wants. And when she talks about not keeping the baby, his reaction hits like another reminder of how far apart they still are. Even when he apologises, even when he offers to go with her to the scan, there’s a sense that they’re walking side by side without really walking together.

The scan itself brings another shock: Faith is further along than she thought. The choice she believed she had disappears in an instant, replaced by a reality she has to face whether she’s ready or not. Iain’s promise to stand by her sounds like the beginning of something hopeful — but for Faith, hope has become something she treats with caution.

When Iain suggests they try again, she asks the question that matters most: does he want her, or does he just want to do the right thing for the baby?

It’s a brutally honest moment, and his inability to answer clearly tells her everything she needs to know. Faith isn’t willing to be someone’s obligation. She doesn’t want to be the problem he fixes or the responsibility he accepts out of guilt. She wants to be chosen — fully, honestly, without hesitation. When she doesn’t get that, she walks away.

What makes Faith’s story so powerful is that she isn’t running from commitment. She’s protecting herself from another kind of abandonment.

At work, she keeps going. She does her job. She helps patients. She even shares a moment of teamwork with Iain that reminds her of what they used to be. And then comes the quiet turning point: a conversation with Stevie Nash, who tells her that some things are worth fighting for — not because they’re easy, but because they matter.

It stays with her.

Later, seeing a couple’s proposal in the ED becomes the unexpected push she needs. Faith realises that she doesn’t want to build her future on fear alone. She decides to give her relationship another chance — not because it’s perfect, but because it’s real. She goes looking for Iain, ready to try again.

And he isn’t there.

Instead, he’s out, making a mistake that will change everything.

When Faith eventually learns the truth, the betrayal cuts deeper than just jealousy or anger. It confirms the fear she’s been trying not to believe: that when things get complicated, Iain still escapes instead of staying and facing them. For someone who has fought hard to rebuild her life and her self-worth, that’s not a small wound. It’s a breaking point.

Faith’s storyline isn’t about whether she loves Iain. It’s about whether she loves herself enough to stop accepting half-answers and half-commitments — especially with a child on the way.

In Holby, emergencies often arrive in ambulances.

For Faith, the real emergency is deciding what kind of future she’s willing to fight for — and what she’s finally ready to walk away from.