Summary: Neil/Andrea. Six mini-chaptered one-shot fic. Can love be found despite a handful of bittersweet moments during a day?
Disclaimers: Characters featured belong to Talkback Thames Television, The Bill.
Author's Notes: This is a six- chaptered fic that i'll be posting over the next few days, two chapters at a time. So it will hopefully be complete before my holiday. The chapters (scenes as i like to call them) arerather short which is why i'll be posting two at a time.And the story is supposedly set over 24hrs.
Anyway this is my first fic in what seems like ages, so i apologise if it's all over the place. Please read and review.
Thanks: To Vix, for giving me some encouragement with this and making me feel a bit more confident about my writing again. :)
Dedicated: To my friend Debs, who's been in hospital this last year with serve M.E and who turned 18 today. Am thinking of you.
Bittersweet Moments
One
It's the steady rush of early morning traffic, teamed with the streaming rays of sunrise that rouses Andrea Dunbar from a dream filled sleep. Blinking sleepily, she sits up letting her eyes search the glowing red numbers of the alarm clock, perched in its home on the bedside table. 7.00 AM. The numbers sink in and are met with a groan. Her first day off work in ages, she's woken early, sending her planned lie in out the window.
It's only as she lies back down against the pillows that her gaze takes in the empty space beside her. A regretful sigh and a quick sweep of a hand along the cold side of the sheet confirms any occupant as having departed a good few hours beforehand.
Disappointment waits a moment, before then immediately setting in. It's shown all over her face, the sadness at finding him gone. Rolling over to the empty space, she buries her face in the cold pillow next to her, breathing in his scent, trying to blink away tears of frustration and annoyance. Wishing things to be different. But that's what happens the voice inside her head tells her, when you go getting yourself involved with a married man, not to mention one with a child.
It doesn't stop her slowly falling in love with him though. It's not like she's asking for much either. Just to wake up and find him still there, not having disappeared before daylight. To wake up and find herself in his arms would suffice for now. Just a little bit more than those few passion filled hours, every now and then, that seem so bittersweet in the mornings after.