Hey, this is my first Home and Away fanfic. It's kind of touch and go as to if it'll work as a story or not but the idea was floating about so I though why not use it? It's kind of AU and is a Charlie/Brax fic with lots of Heath, Casey and Ruby. So I've got three chapters I'm going upload now so you can tell me what you think. Hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter 1

In a small town called Summer Bay, one of the newer residents Charlie Buckton was sitting in her almost two year old daughter's room watching her sleep. The Buckton's had only moved in two weeks ago as they felt they needed a fresh start in a place where Ruby could grow up happily. This
was the first time she had been alone with her daughter as her parents were away on holiday up the coast for a week and had left her. You see, Charlie had only just turned sixteen and had the help of her parents since her daughter was born. Now you are all probably judging her at this point in time but please, do not judge anyone unless you know the full story. Charlie had been abused and raped when she was thirteen by her boyfriend and that is how she ended up with Ruby. She struggled to begin with and had to fight with her father, Ross, to let her look after Ruby. He thought that it would be best if the brought Ruby up thinking that Charlie was her sister and that he and his wife,
Elsie, were her parents. Charlie fought with him and eventually after the persuasion of her mother he gave in and took the role of grandfather to little Ruby. Ross and Elsie were due to return the next day so Charlie was savouring the alone time with her daughter. She gently stroked her baby's cheek and whispered,
"I know that there may be struggles and I may be very young but Ruby, I love you with all my heart and I will do anything for you. I love you my baby girl, always remember that."

In a neighbouring area to Summer Bay Darryl Braxton was holding a household together as usual while his mother was out at a bar or a casino trying to find a man to take her home for the night. Darryl, or Brax as he prefers to be called, was the eldest of three boys. The boy's father had left them before the youngest, Casey, was born just over two years ago and ever since then Brax had been keeping the family together. Their mother had never really been much use to them, but ever since their father left she just stopped caring completely and left her eldest in charge. Brax had
looked after Casey since the moment he was born, he woke up in all hours of the night to feed and change him. He made sure his other brother Heath went to school every day and did all his
homework. Brax found himself getting a job at the age of fourteen just to keep food on the table and diapers on Casey as their mother was continually losing jobs and when she did have a job she
would go and gamble all of the money away. He started gardening for the neighbours and in roughly two years he had himself quite the business going. Brax was basically a father to Casey. Heath looked up to his older brother like he was some sort of hero. In many ways he was because if it wasn't for him the boys would probably all be in care and alone.
"Right Heath, time for bed dude," Brax told his younger brother. The eleven year old huffed in annoyance but obeyed his brother.
"Okay Brax, night," he said as he shuffled off towards his room. Brax smiled,
"Night mate." Casey fussed from where he was sprawled on the sofa.
"Bak, bak." Brax walked over to his youngest brother and picked him up.
"Hey little man, you ready for bed?" Casey didn't reply he just snuggled up into his brother's chest and fell asleep again. Brax chuckled and made his way to Casey's room placing him in the crib that was there. He tucked him in then kissed the toddler lightly on the head.
"Night buddy, I love you so much. You and Heath mean the world to me, I would do anything for you. We may have our problems but we will get through them. You're gonna be great little man. I'm so proud of you."
With that Brax left the room and went to bed.

Charlie woke the next morning to the sound of her daughter.
"Muma, Muma! UP!" Ruby shouted from her room.
"Just coming baby," Charlie replied rolling out of bed to go and get her daughter. She looked at the clock on her way passed, 'Hmm... Half eight, not bad Rubes,' Charlie thought. She walked into Ruby's room to find her standing up holding the bars of her crib. As soon as Ruby saw her mother she grinned.
"Bekfas mummy?" Charlie chuckled.
"Yes baby we can go have breakfast if you want."

The two Buckton girls went and had some breakfast and watched some Saturday morning cartoons for a couple of hours before going to get ready for the day.

Saturday morning started at the Braxton household with Heath waking up at around eight so he could watch all the cartoons he could. He heard Casey calling as he walked passed and went and got him out his crib before the two youngest brothers made their way to the living room. Heath decided that Brax should get a lie-in because he was always working so hard. The eleven year old turned on the TV sitting his brother at one side of the sofa before going and pouring two bowls of cereal putting milk in one as Casey would just spill it if he had any. As soon as he gave the toddler the cereal he squealed with joy and dove his hands into the sugary bowl and stuffed it in his mouth. Heath laughed before turning to the TV.

Brax woke around twenty minutes later hearing the sound of the TV. He stretched and swung his legs over the side of the bed before getting up to see what was happening with his brothers. He walked into the living room to find Heath staring at the TV with his mouth hanging open and Casey on the other side of the sofa happily munching some cereal.
"I see you two are enjoying your morning," he grinned.
"Morning Brax, and yes we are," Heath replied his eyes still transfixed on the TV.
"Bak me go' seewul!" Casey beamed at his brother. Brax laughed and walked over to his youngest brother placing a kiss on his head. He picked Casey up and sat down in his place with the youngster on his lap.
"I can see that buddy, is it good?" Casey only nodded feverishly as his hands were shovelling as much cereal as possible into his tiny mouth, making both his brothers laugh.
"So what do you guys want to do today?" Brax asked.
"Can we fix my Bike?" Heath asked as his bike had broken earlier in the week.
"Sure no problem Heath," Brax replied. The three brothers sat and watched TV till the cartoons stopped and what Heath called 'the boring adult stuff' came on. They then went and got ready for a day of messing around in the garden.