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Joy Aston is a nurse and former Ravenhill patient, who cares for one of the practice dolls as if it were alive.

Appearances[]

Series One[]

Joy, as one of Ravenhill's former patients, is one of the six who receives a letter from the mystery blackmailer in the pilot episode of the series. Initially, she simply rips it up and throws it away - her husband, George, ends up finding it in their bin and becoming suspicious. Joy appears again in the episode, working with a group of expectant parents in a class that she runs on how to hold a baby correctly. As she hands out the practice dolls, one of the parents tries to take Freddy (an older, fabric-bodied doll) from her, and she becomes particularly agitated, as if her actual baby had just been taken from her. At the end of the episode, she returns home with Freddie in tow, and hands him over to George. He is clearly very reluctant to take part in this.

In the second episode, Joy is once again seen at work, talking with her co-worker Nicola (who is taking a few practice babies back to the store cupboard). She offers to take Freddy back with her, but Joy declines. Nicola then makes a small retort about him looking like he belongs in a bin - Joy, in response, punches her in the face. Joy is seen again later in the episode, in the blood bank of the hospital. She steals a substantial amount of blood, replacing it with fruit squash, and leaves.

The third episode also includes Joy, who is hosting a class on water births for her group. However, this is interrupted when Nicola tells her that her husband had called, and wanted her home immediately. Upon returning, she finds that the blackmailer has sent a VHS tape of a performance of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat' from her time in Ravenhill, featuring the other patients (namely David, who was the main singer). George expresses his worry to Joy, telling her that she isn't well (hence her attachment to Freddy, who was given to her during her time in the hospital). She is not receptive to these concerns by any means.

Joy is seen again in her self-titled episode. The episode begins with herself and George returning home from a murder mystery dinner, having had Nicola over to babysit Freddy. Later, when she's working on her scrapbook of 'family photos', Freddy can be heard over the baby monitor - she hurries up the stairs and into his room, but he is not in his crib. He is, instead, in a pile of stuffed animals, and begins attacking her once she finds him. Freddy, now seemingly sentient, sits atop a remote control car which drives towards Joy in the upper hallway of the house, and crashes into her repeatedly. This leads to her falling down the stairs. She then gets up, hiding herself in the bathroom after seeing that she had been removed from all of the photos in her scrapbook. George returns home at this point, and Joy soon finds him dead in his chair, Freddy sat next to him. She clutches her chest, and falls to the floor. It is then revealed that Freddy was not in fact alive, and it was Nicola hidden in the room attacking her. Her and George (who was not dead), assuming Joy to be dead, hurry off together after the latter decapitates Freddy. Joy, however, is very much alive.

Joy is next seen in a frantic panic, carrying Freddy through a hospital, yelling for someone to help. The doctors soon brush her off, as they realise that her baby is not real, and she swears to help him by her own means. Nicola, of course, is a key part of this plan, and is soon drugged by Joy, knocking her out. The two are then seen together in an ambulance headed to Ravenhill. After this point, Joy sets up in an empty room of the now-abandoned hospital, and begins a blood transfusion from Nicola to Freddy. The former, however, is found by Jennifer and Lomax, who take her along with them.

Joy, upon seeing Jennifer, immediately believes her to be Freddy, commenting on how quickly he's grown. This continues on throughout the finale of the series. The two continue to bicker as the plot continues - even when they're trapped by the mystery blackmailer (revealed soon after to be Mr. Jolly). Joy had played a key part in the death of Edwina Kenchington, Jolly's mother, and he had decided to bring them all back to the scene of the crime in order to strike back. However, as he is doing so, Kenchington reveals herself as still being alive, bewildering the group. The hospital blows up soon after, as Jolly had rigged himself with a vest of explosives.

Series Two[]

Despite the explosion, Joy is revealed to have survived, now taking care of a paralysed Jennifer. George, who is packing his things to leave, remarks that Jennifer's real family will be coming to collect her soon, but Joy isn't so sure. Either way, she vows to give her the love of a mother while she's in her care. She does continue to do so, until a visit from Detective Finney throws a spanner in the works. She denies any knowledge of the locket he is searching for, which he is not best pleased by. He stabs her in the neck with a pencil, framing Jennifer for the crime as he leaves.

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