Set after 2:8, the events and discussions which may have taken place if Alex was to wake up back in 2008.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ashes to Ashes or any of the characters in it, Ashes to Ashes is owned by Kudos/BBC.

Today the was the day, the day in which Alex would return home to Molly and Evan. She had spent two months in hospital and the last three weeks in and out of rehabilitation being thrown like an old toy from psychologist to psychologist. None of them understood her when ever she brought up the 80's and the world she lived in they would tell her that it wasn't real, that's what frustrated Alex the most the fact that it felt so real. How could a bunch of psychologists ever understand what I went through this is what she asked herself every time she was introduced to one of them. Every one of the psychologists that she had seen would give her the same look of sympathy and as soon as Alex opened her mouth she would see their expression change from a sympathetic sometimes even an apologetic smile to a concerned sincere expression. Today all that would change she wouldn't have to talk about the situation to people who she didn't want to, she'd finally be reunited with her daughter and she would no longer be forced to see a psychologist who worried about her mental frame of mind.

'Alex are you ready?' Called a familiar voice down the hospital corridor, Alex knew the voice as soon as she heard it.

'Yes Evan, on my way.' Alex couldn't wait to leave the hospital, to her it was more like a prison with everyone watching her every move and questioning her on everything she did and everywhere she went.

Alex returned home with Evan, she had been instructed by the nurses that she should be living with another adult, in case of emergency. Alex knew this wasn't the case being a psychologist she knew exactly what the nurses had meant. They were saying that they didn't think her mind was in the right state to be able to cope with Molly, they thought she was crazy, absolutely barking mad she thought to herself. She also wasn't very happy about an insinuation that one of the nurses treating her had made, she heard the two of them talking about her while she was believed to be asleep 'You've seen how aggressive she gets when we accuse her of being wrong about the so called world she was in, what if Molly says something to upset her-' she remembered the nurse turning her head slightly to see if she was still sleeping and continuing 'What if she acts aggressively towards Molly, we don't know what she's capable of anymore, not since the accident.' By that point Alex was fuming she felt like shouting at them but she knew that by doing that it would only confirm their theory. Alex would never lay a finger on Molly, why on Earth would they think that, but what made Alex's blood boil even more was the fact that the nurses had called it an 'accident' like they were just passing off the fact that she had been taken hostage and shot right in the head by the same man who killed her parents back in 1981.

'Mum, I'm so happy you're home again' Molly dashed towards Alex with her arms flung open.

Alex kissed Molly's head gently and held her tighter than she ever had done before, she was never going to leave Molly alone in this world again. The scent of Molly's shampoo on her hair made Alex's head spin, Alex breathed in deeply and closed her eyes making every second count. While Molly took in the sweet smell of Alex's perfume, how Molly had miss that smell, nothing could ever make Molly sad again not now that she was back in her mums arms, the worse was over.

Alex was tossing and turning all through the night, with images of Gene and the rest of CID taking over her thoughts. She was back there, face to face with Summers, him tauting her filling her head with mixed thoughts about home. Gene appeared from the distance and with a loud bang Summers was lying on the concrete floor, scarlet seething from underneath him 'Gene!' she shouted as he turned his back on her and left 'Gene!' 'Gene!' by this point she was screeching. She was writhing in her covers as sweet glistened on her forehead.

'Mummy!'

Alex jolted and sat upright in her bed, her heart pounding and racing like never before. Her breathing so heavy she was blinded. After a few seconds her vision came back and her heartbeat steadied itself, there was Molly sitting at the end of her bed looking as though she had been crying.

'Molls, what's wrong?' Alex extended her arm and pulled Molly tightly to her.

'You was screaming mum, you was screaming 'Gene' ' Molly looked up into her mums eyes 'you sounded scared like you was having a nightmare.' She buried her head into Alex's neck.

'Don't worry about me Molls, I'm fine'

Alex and Molly curled up on the bed together, Alex's arms wrapped around Molly's waist. Molly could feel Alex's heart beating against her upper back and she slowly began to fall asleep.

They were awoken by the smell of bacon in the morning air, Alex nudged Molly gently trying to get her out of bed. She knew why Evan had done bacon, it was Molly's favourite it was going to take a lot of persuasion to get Molly to go to school today, both her and Evan knew that.

Molly had just finished her breakfast when she decided to plead with them both to stay off school today, she was using all the excuses she could think of but Alex and Evan weren't allowing it.

'Molly you've already spent a lot of time out of school.' Evan replied calmly.

'It's not fair, I just want to spend time with my mum!' Molly hissed and with that threw her school bag over her shoulder and stormed out of the front door.

'Evan. I think we need to talk' Alex suddenly looked very serious. 'I know everything.'

End of chapter 1.

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