She begins taking steps to adopting Sharice, however, once Zoe realizes that she is struggling to balance her career and Sharice, she allows her to live with Abby's parents. Zoe later begins a relationship with Nick Jordan (Michael French), which Nick ends when he leaves the ED at the end of series 23. At the beginning of series 24, Nick's clinical lead replacement, Adam Trueman (Tristan Gemmill), assigns Zoe three of the new junior doctors – May Phelps (Laura Aikman), Lenny Lyons (Steven Miller) and Yuki Reid (Will Sharpe) – to her to show them the ropes of the ED and Zoe reassigns May to Ruth Winters (Georgia Taylor) and Yuki to Jeff Collier and Polly Emmerson (Matt Bardock and Sophia Di Martino), while she keeps Lenny under her wing. Zoe later discovers that Nick left because he has a brain tumor and wanted to die alone. Zoe then lies to save his life against his will by forging his signature on documents allowing him treatment. Much remains unsaid in the relationship as he originally didn't appreciate the actions she made. As time goes on, Nick begins to assume she signed the papers saving his life because Zoe is pregnant, prompting her to begin failed cycles of fertility treatments. Nick never realized that she was not pregnant, but after she tells him that she isn't pregnant, Nick ends the relationship again. Nick and Zoe, however, continue to be great friends and close colleagues. Zoe then begins a relationship with Joel (Max Deacon), unaware he is only fifteen and still in school. She discovers this and Joel steals her memory stick containing her work on, to ensure that Zoe would see him again. Zoe tracks him to a school trip to the zoo he is on with Nick and he attempts to swallow it causing him to be brought into the ED as a patient. In series twenty-five, Zoe is shown to have developed a friendship new staff nurse, Mads Durrani (Hasina Haque) and encouraged her to get more involved with the team outside of the ED, like going to the pub – despite her religion. A new consultant, Dylan Keogh (William Beck), arrives in the ED and makes quite an impression on Zoe and the rest of the team, but after spotting his light side, Zoe begins to warm to him. This is later seen again when Zoe discovers that