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A/N - Idea popped into my head after reading a comment by someone on DS! It wouldn't leave me alone until i wrote it!

It's 2035 and Aaron Livesy lives in Emmerdale. He's lived in Emmerdale for 28 years and can't ever see himself moving. Its home and it's not only his home but it's his daughter's home also.

Aaron still couldn't quite believe he had a daughter or that he managed to bring her up, successfully on his own. She was fifteen, brunette and her name was Lucy. Aaron had never loved anyone as much as he loved that little girl.

When he had been 24 he had met James, their relationship was a pretty steady one. Unlike most of the men he had dated previously and after 3 years together they decided to have children and James' sister had volunteered and Aaron obviously would have to be the biological Father. It suited him and it suited James. They were lucky, James' sister fell pregnant after the first bout of homemade insemination and 8 short months later; because Lucy was 4 weeks early she arrived.

Aaron had never been as scared of anything in his entire life as he was to hold this tiny little baby. His joy didn't last long however because unknown to him and to Carly, James' sister. James had been keeping a secret from them.

James had cancer. Cancer that was terminal and couldn't be treated, he waited until after the adoption had been finalised and Carly had signed over all her parental rights before he told anyone because he didn't want anyone taking Lucy away from Aaron once he was gone.

When James first told him, Aaron was angry. Angry that he had kept it a secret from him for so long and now was only telling him when he had weeks left to live.

It was hard for him, for Aaron. Dealing with a newborn baby and his lover who was dying but it was worse when James took his last breath.

Aaron being Aaron shrugged it off and tried to keep a steely resolve and act as if he was handling it but he wasn't and it took Paddy turning up late one night at his door for him to break down. It was after his break down in Paddy's arms that Aaron finally began to deal with his grief. It took a while but he was finally able to put James behind and move on. He had to, for Lucy and because he promised James.

Lucy had just been five short months old when James died and she'd never remember meeting him.

Now fifteen years later Aaron and Lucy still maintained contact with James' family and Lucy knew all about how she came to be in the world and was happy with it. Happy with her life and Aaron was happy if his daughter was happy.

The front door to the house Aaron and Lucy shared was slammed shut

"What did the door ever to do you?" Aaron asks his daughter with a smirk.

She shrugs "Nothing. I closed it"

"You slammed it"

"No" Lucy says "I closed it, the wind slammed it"

Aaron laughs and glances at the clock it's just gone one. She should still be at school "What you doing home?"

Lucy plasters a smile on her face and says "Free period. Teacher was sick"

Aaron gives her a look, a look that tells his daughter he doesn't believe a word she is saying but she merely shrugs "Ok! I couldn't be bothered with double maths, alright? Happy?"

Aaron's eyes narrow "how many times have I told you to stop skipping school?"

Lucy sighed dramatically and pulled open the fridge "Cool it yeah? It's one afternoon"

Aaron couldn't believe her sometimes but then, it was mostly his own fault "and anyway you can't blame me for wanting to start the holidays early"

"Maybe I'll ground you just for that?" Aaron threatens but Lucy knows like Aaron knows that he doesn't mean it. Never, not once in her whole life has he followed through with the threat of grounding her.

"No you won't" she tells him "cause you're a good Dad and I have a date tonight so you can't" she turns on her heel and heads for the stairs. Aaron hot on her heels

"You've got a what?"

"A date" she says shrugging her shoulders as she climbs the stairs with Aaron right behind her.

"With a boy?"

Lucy scoffs but has a huge smirk on her face "No, I'm a lesbian. Was gonna break it to you gently"

Aaron sighed; sometimes she was far too annoying. She most probably took that off her Mother. Aaron leans against the door frame of her bedroom and she shrugs off her Jacket throws it onto the bed then turns to face him "Yes, with a boy" she smiles "A nice boy"

Aaron scoffs "No such thing" he tells her "What age is he?"

"Fifteen"

"Yeah" Aaron scoffs "no such thing as a nice boy at fifteen, believe me, I know"

"Yeah but you were Gay" she tells him with a smirk.

Aaron pulls his eyebrows together "Not at fifteen I wasn't"

"Actually you've been Gay since you were born, just took a while to realise and accept it Daddy"

"You know how there is a first time for everything?" he asks his daughter "I might just ground you for that comment"

"No you won't. You love me too much" she tells him, stopping in front of him and grinning. "Now…if you'll excuse me, I have a date to get ready for"

"What time is this date at?"

"Half five" she says with a shrug "He's taking me to see a film"

"It's just past one, you have plenty of time"

Lucy's eyes widen "NO I DON'T!" she exclaims "Now could you leave me alone, yeah?"

Aaron nods and retreats from his daughter's room. Leaving her alone to get ready for her date, he couldn't quite believe how much she had grown. It wasn't her first ever date but he hated when she would go out. He worried. If she was anything like him then god knows what she would get up to.

At exactly five on the dot Lucy comes down stairs, her hair is straight and she's wearing leggings and a vest top with her leather Jacket over it.

"Looking good" Aaron tells her to which she turns her nose up. "Can you give me a lift into town?"

"Sure you want to be seen with me?" Aaron asks already grabbing his keys

"Well, you can drop me off a few streets from the cinema" she tells him as she follows him to the car.

Inside the car Aaron tells her that he won't be dropping her off a few streets from the cinema and that he will be dropping her off outside the cinema.

He pulls to a stop on double yellow lines but he doesn't care if he's stopping people from getting past or not.

"Is he here yet?" he asks and Lucy scans the crowds looking for her date, she finds him, standing by the door to the cinema, scanning the crowd, for her obviously.

Lucy nods "Point him out then"

"No" she says in a determined voice

"Do I get to meet him?" Aaron queries but Lucy shakes her head "It's our first date, I'm not doing that to him"

"Hey!" Aaron complains "What's wrong with me?"

Lucy rolls her eyes and pushes the car door open "You're scary" she tells him and his face almost lights up "Yeah?"

Lucy sighs "Yeah, you're real scary it's something to be proud of"

"How can he be scared of me if he's never met me?"

"See you later Dad" she says about to push the door closed but he reaches over and stops the door from closing "Back before ten" he tells her and she frowns "the film won't finish until about then and It's Friday and the beginning of the holidays"

"Fine. Half eleven. No later or I come to find you and you won't like it"

Lucy nods her head, agreeing with her dad before closing the car door and darting through the crowds towards her date. Aaron watched them, they hugged and he's glad that's all they did because he wasn't above hitting some little punk who got a little too close to his baby girl.

He waited until they walked inside the cinema complex before pulling away. He knew no matter what he did for the next six hours that he wasn't going to stop worrying until she came back through the front door of their house.

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