"And the Glen goes on" by Yankydoodle (thanks go to AngleRose for the name!!)
Part 1 - Winter Wonderland
This story is set 5 years on from series 5. Archie has come back as Laird and him and Lexie have a daughter who is now 4 years old called Katie.
One cold crisp morning in the Highlands, the newly laid snow glistened in the sunlight. It lay like a white blanket covering the whole of the Loch Laggan area. Glenbogle estate was silent and only the chirping of robins disturbed the quite of the new morning.
Up early the Laird's wife hurried out of the house toward the Estate office. She looked troubled and was only wearing a thin dressing gown over her nightclothes. She hurried along shivering and was about to open the door when, SPLAT! a large snowball hit her squarely in the back. She turned around sharply. Who had thrown that? Surely no one could be up this early on a Saturday morning? Not seeing anyone she turned around and started to fiddle with the keys again until SPLAT! another snowball narrowly missing her this time whizzed past her ear and landed splat on the window. This time she turned around quicker and spotted a kilted, cheeky grin disappear behind the bushes.
"DUNCAN!" she shouted, "Wait till I get you!!" she said playfully, and scooping up the nearest snow started running over towards the rustling bush. Suddenly she stopped dead still in the middle of the drive with an anxious look on her face. She stood there for quite some time until Duncan stood up from behind the bush.
"What's the matter Lex?" he asked concerned,
" Dunc, my water has broken!" she replied still staring at the ground with the same worried _expression transfixed on her face.
"Oh" Duncan replied
TO BE CONTINUED.............