Estranged
Readers Note: - As we are all aware we are more than likely never going to see Les and Stella meet on screen at all. This is an idea that has been rattling around my head since Stella was introduced in the show and was discovered to be Leanne's Mother. Some little bits of pieces have been changed just to fit into my Story Idea but the main world is there.
Chapter One
Leanne gave out a load exasperated sigh out as she finished the last sentence of the e-mail she was currently reading. She was unsure how to take this and re-read it hoping that she had read it wrong.
Leanne,
I'm so sorry that I was unable to make it to your wedding but I am so happy for you Lea. Hopefully things will go better with Nick than it did with Peter.
I know how busy you are with work and with looking after Si, so I thought it would be easy to contact you by this than by the phone.
I've got a nice surprise for you. I'll be coming back to Weatherfield next week for a few weeks. It's about time that I catch up with you and actually see Chesney's boy.
I can't wait to see you, considering with never really talk about anything more.
I'll see you next week Lea, Have a pint ready for me in The Rovers and hopefully a warm welcome for this new landlady I've heard so much about! Apparently she is quite a looker, but that is all I can get out of Ches. I don't know why he won't tell me more about her!
See Ya
Dad.
Leanne put her head down into her hands. This was not a good thing for her, at one time she would have loved for her Dad to come back to Weatherfield and pay them all a visit. But since her Mum Stella had come back into her life she was dreading this moment coming. Both of her parents in the same place in the same time, and it wasn't like she could make certain that he would not go into the Rovers. Les love a pint and nothing would stop him from going, so she knew she wouldn't be able to try persuading him not to.
She had deliberately not told him about Stella being around considering his opinion of her that she could remember from the few times he talked about her when she was growing up. And she had asked everyone else not to mention that the new Rovers Landlady was her Mum and his ex-wife which why Chesney was being so elusive with him.
To be sure that he didn't find out about her, she had even made certain that during the short time that she lived in the pub that she didn't tell him she was there and also just told him to contact her on her mobile or by e-mail if he needed her which during that time he rarely did.
But now it seemed that scheming had come to nothing and the way that she had kept her Dad from knowing she was in contact with her Mum and actively having a relationship with probably about to end spectacularly when he would first see her over 30 years later on.
Leanne looked down at the clock on the computer before shutting it down, noting that the Rovers wasn't open yet and that also the Eva would be at work. The relationship between her and her Sister had improved slightly but it was still cold between them sometimes, and she knew that Eva would take this news with glee and run with it. So gratefully she and Stella would have a chance to talk to each other about this alone without the chance for anyone else to overhear them.
BANG! BANG!
Stella heard the doors to the Rovers rattle after each bang, looking at the clock she noted that it was still a long time until opening time which means the person who was pounded on her door would want to see her.
Walking out of the back room she headed to the front doors of the pub yelling out once to the person who was there.
"Hold On, I am coming."
Pulling down the locks that held the door shut she pulled open the doors to see her oldest daughter standing behind them.
"Lea, what are you doing here?"
"I need to talk you, Can I come in?"
"Sure, go through the back" Stella said letting Leanne walk past her and quickly bolting the door behind her
Following her into the back room she watched Leanne quickly sit at one of the chairs at the table and she sat down next to her, quickly she spotted the look of anxiety and fear plastered over her face.
"What's the matter Lea, I can see from your face something is wrong."
"It's Dad."
"What about you're Dad?" Stella said cringing internally at the mention of Les
Leanne took a deep breath before speaking
"He's coming to Weatherfield next week for a few weeks, He is coming back to the Street"
Stella was slightly shocked by what Leanne has said.
"What! Les here on the Street." She blurted out before she managed to control her feelings. "Well, it was bound to happen at some point that he would come back for a visit."
Leanne's eyes quickly flitted down to her hand which were placed in her lap, trying to not catch Stella in the eye after she had finished speaking.
Stella was quick to notice that her daughter was avoiding her gaze and she decided to pull her up on it.
"Lea, what are you not telling me?"
Leanne looked backed up at her.
"Um, well Dad, doesn't actually know that you are here on the street, let alone running The Rovers. He still thinks that I have never meet my Mum in all these years."
Stella blinked and swallowed slightly at that, she had never broached the subject in the almost 18 months she had been back into her life.
"So Les doesn't know I'm here, doesn't know I am the Landlady of the pub that was his local and he doesn't know that you know who your Mum is."
"That's about it, I could never work out how to tell him that you around. Dad is going to completely lose it when he sees you Mum, he is not going to leave you alone until he knows that you have left Weatherfield and me for good."
"I'm sure you are worrying about nothing, there is plenty of water that has gone under the bridge since I left your Dad Love. I am sure me and Les can sort our issues like adults."
"I'm not sure Mum; look how long it took me to forgive you and actually build a relationship with you. The names I overheard him call you when talking to Gran sometimes when I was growing up, he never forgave you for walking away from him and leaving me with him. As I said he will hound you out of my life again, purely on the fact that you dared to have a relationship with me, I know how his mind works, you left him but only bothered to come back for me. If he can't have you, then I can't"
"Lea, Regardless what will happen when Les makes it back to Weatherfield be certain of one thing. Now that I am back in your life I plan not to leave it anytime soon. "
"Don't you care about what Dad called you at all? How he described you to Gran and to me?"
"From the few run-ins that I had with them both after I tried to get you back I am very much aware of how they thought of me and how they would describe me. I do need to know Love, how come Les hasn't found out I am actually here already. He must be in contact with some people here, Ches or Fiz perhaps?"
Leanne blushed slightly, she had been prepared for Stella for asking this question but the thought of answering it still made her worried.
"Well, I kind of pushed everyone that knew him quite forcefully not to mention your identity. All he knows is that there is new woman that has taken over being the Landlady of the Rovers and that the only involvement we have with each other is over a bar when I buy a drink."
Stella groaned slightly at that comment. Leanne could be quite a persuasive person when the moment needed it, exactly like she was. But as this moment in time she would have to be the more persuasive of the two when it came to next subject.
"I know Love that you want the least of amount of people to be aware that Les is making a visit until the last moment; but I think we need to let Eva know what is about to happen."
"Why?" Leanne was incensed that Stella thought it was appropriate to bring Eva into the loop in regards to the tangled web she has put herself in. She may have been her Sister, but there had never been much love between them since they had found out about each other, and especially since the stunt she had pulled at her first attempt to remarry Nick. "It's not like he is her Dad, she doesn't need a warning that he is coming into town to prepare to meet her."
What Leanne didn't notice was the minute moment of fear which came across Stella's face in regards to Eva's parentage. Something which she had never discussed with her older daughter at all. But she might had to quite soon in the future.
"She needs to know Leanne, with Les being in town and with her living in the Rovers she is going to notice your Dad coming into the pub with a seething hatred for me for what I did."
"I don't why. I forgave you for what happened and I should of have more reason to hate you compared to him, you were just married him and he then went onto meet Jan and be happy. You gave birth to me and left him."
"Let's just say there few more things than me just leaving him and you that has caused his intense feelings for me."
"Like what?" Leanne said her interest piqued.
"Like something which needs to be discussed between me and Les, if you need to be told Lea you will be." Stella said trying to steer the conversation away from this. Not even Eva knew the truth, as far as she knew her father was a one….
"Mum?" Leanne said "You blanked out for a moment."
"Sorry Love, but what I just said goes. She needs to know, Eva needs to know what is about to happen."
Both of the woman hadn't heard the door creak open and another person enter the room.
"Eva needs to know what?" Stella's younger daughter said.
Reviews? Comments? Should I continue with this? Any Opinions will be gratefully received. I may of ficced other shows but this is my first Corrie one so any comments will be received about the writing especially if I lean towards a more South East England way of speaking. My tenre living in the north was only for a short while and mostly before I have writing skills and my northern accent and phrasing has been gone for a long time now. So long I cannot remember when I stopped having it and picked up a Southern one!