Just a quick One-Shot. – Set after the episode in December 2010 where Carla tells Michelle that she loves Peter. However, Carla eventually accepts her offer of visiting him in hospital.


Michelle and Carla arrived at the hospital, and were walking towards where Peter's room was in intensive care.

"Listen Carla, I'll just pop-in and see Peter okay? And then I'll leave you two alone for a bit. I'm sure you're gonna have a lot to chat about. And I think you need to, because once he's out of hospital, he's gonna be enjoying his newly-wed life, so I'd chat to him now, before you can't track him down, alright love?" Michelle told Carla truthfully.

"Alright then. And thanks love, this means a lot." Carla thanks Michelle as they reached the door to Peter's room.

"Are you ready?" Michelle asked her, and Carla took a deep-breath-in as Michelle gently squeezed her sister-in-law's/best-friend's hand.

"Yeah." Carla said as she released the breath before the pair of them walked-in.

"Oh Michelle he's asleep, I don't wanna wake-him!" Carla said to Michelle quietly as she backed-off.

"Uh, you're talking to him whether he likes it or not. Now wake-him-up. Listen you. Peter and you are really close friends, so close that I thought you were having a flippin' affair didn't I? He'll be delighted to see ya! Now wake-him-up!" Michelle encouraged Carla, and eventually Carla gave-in and gently shook Peter's arm.

"Peter." She said quietly, and Peter immediately began to stir from his sleep.

"Leanne?" He questioned as his eyes were still focussing after being asleep for a while.

"No m'love…..It's Carla." Carla said gently, and suddenly Peter's eyes looked much more awake, and a smile grew across Peter's face.

"Carla!" He said happily.

"Hey. It's good to see you smiling! Michelle's here too!" Carla told-him.

"Oh right, hi Michelle." He said politely, he liked Michelle as a friend, but his main-focus was on the fact that Carla was there, right infront of him.

"Hiya Mate. I'm not gonna stay, but I just thought I'd pop-in to say hi!" Michelle said, rather chirpily before she headed towards the door and then left.

"Oh okay." Peter said before he turned his head to look at Carla. "You don't know how pleased I am to see you." Peter told her sweetly.

"Hey, not half as made-up as I am to see You." Carla told him quietly, she didn't want to cause him any pain so she was trying to keep her voice quiet so that he remained calm.

"How are you anyway?" Peter asked Carla, that was typical Peter, never-mind the fact that he was laying in hospital bed having not long had life-saving surgery, he wanted to know how Carla was.

"You see, why are YOU the one asking ME that ey? You're too kind for your own good Mmmister Barlow." Carla joked, before she paused as she just looked at Peter, she observed all of his injuries, and how painful they must have been for him to endure. And the dust mark left on his jaw from the explosion just made Carla fall in love with him all the more. "Anyway, how have You been? Sorry that's a stupid question, I meant what are the doctor's saying? No no no no no sorry you don't have to answer that!" Carla said in a panic. She really didn't want to upset him.

"Carla." Peter said calmly as he interrupted her panicking.

"No I shouldn't be being so nosey; you're in hospital for goodness sake!" Carla said, annoyed with herself.

"Carla stop-it." Peter said, interrupting her again as he gently took her hand into his.

Carla stopped panicking and just looked at Peter. "Listen to me. I'm fine. Yes I'm a bit bruised and battered, and everything hurts if I move, but you don't need to worry about me Carla." Peter paused as a cheeky smile grew on his face. "I'm a big boy." He joked as he laughed slightly.

"Oh Peter look what you do to me eh? You've got me all flustered. But really, how is everything? Bet you'll be glad to see the back of this place ey?" Carla asked him sympathetically.

"Yeah I'm beginning to get bored stiff led in this….." Peter said as he shifted uncomfortably.

"Are you alright?" She asked him as she gently placed her hand onto his shoulder and helped him to move.

"I will be." Peter said breathlessly.

"Hey you just take it easy ey? I don't wanna pro-long your boredom." Carla told him with a soft-giggle.

"I could never get bored with you around Carla." Peter practically whispered to her as he pulled her hand towards his lips, and then kissed the back of it.

"Oy you, you're married, and I could do without the encouragement thank-you very-much!" Carla teased as she gave Peter's hand a quick squeeze.

"Oh…..Sorry….." Peter said innocently, before he winked at Carla.

And with that, Carla caught Michelle's face in the window of the door, and that signalled to her that it was time for her to leave.

"Anyway you, sorry to leave you in a state of total-boredom love…..But Michelle's waiting outside, so I suppose I should go." Carla told Peter truthfully, still gripping onto his hand like it was the last-bit she had left of him.

"Okay." Peter said with a sweet and understanding smile. He was just glad that Carla had bothered to make the effort to come and see him. Even-though he secretly knew that it was most-probably Michelle's idea and that Carla had to be dragged kicking and screaming all the way to the hospital and all the way to the room that they were in now.

"You look after yourself yeah? If you need anything…..And I mean anything…..Just let me know, and I'll see what I can do okay. Sorry I woke you up." Carla said with a cheeky-wink before she then kissed Peter's hand, in return for his-kiss earlier and then giggled slightly.

"Well I could murder a packet of malteasers….." Peter joked.

"Uh Peter Barlow, I don't think the Nurses would be very impressed with that. Do You?" Carla said sarcastically as she all of a sudden reminded Peter of his English Teacher from when he was at Secondary School." Carla laughed and then smiled sweetly at Peter. "Cya Soon Peter." She said as he watched Peter close his eyes with a smile on his face.

"Cya Carla." He said as he drifted back-off to sleep.

As Carla and Michelle headed-out of the hospital, Carla told Michelle that she would meet-her by the car, before she then rushed-back to get-something.

She quietly crept into Peter's room, placed something down onto his table, and then ripped some spare paper off the edge of the Doctor's notes, before she started to write something-down.

Here's those malteasers you asked for. Don't a habit of it will ya?...I almost got caught by one of the Nurses. Stay out-of trouble my love.

Lots of love and hugs as always. From Carla. XxX.

Carla wrote before she placed the note on-top of the malteasers, and then she crept out of the room un-noticed.

"Where did you get to?" Michelle asked her as they were re-united by Michelle's car.

"Oh, well I urm…..I went and forgot my handbag didn't I?" Carla lied, Michelle could've sworn she had her handbag with her when they had left the room that Peter was in. But she chose to say no more about it as the two best-friend's/sister-in-law's drove-home together.

Later that afternoon, Peter awoke from his slumber and immediately spotted the malteasers with the note on-top of them. He picked the note-up and read-it as a growing-wide-smile spread right-across his face.

"Thank-You Carla." Peter whispered as he kissed the note on the part which had Carla's name written-on-it, and then smiled like he had never smiled-before as he then drifted back-off to sleep-again.


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