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I got this idea the other day and thought it would work for Molly and Charles. Hope you like it.

Our girl – Molly and Charles 10 years on.

Molly

Molly looked at herself in the mirror, she was 32 now and she was one of the best trauma doctors in the country, it had taken her a lot of hard work but she had done good.

After leaving the army after her first tour went so wrong with smurf and her captain she couldn't shake the feeling she messed up, so she went back to school and university, had been accepted into medical school after completing and graduating with honours, she had married the job and she loved it, she was lonely sometimes but her friends and family would fill her life even if she didn't want them to, but now she was in full command of a small 6 year old boy who was her best friend Julia's son for the week, while his parents flew to Toronto to go and sort out her late mother in laws estate, after she had died suddenly from a short illness, as Molly was Harry's god mother, She was the only one who Julia was comfortable leaving him with. Julia's parents had died when she was young so she didn't have any close relatives around.

If you get this kind of call from your friend you just say "yes", she told myself after she had agreed to it. What had I got myself into.

To command an emergency department was easy but to get a 6 year old, up, dressed, feed, and out the door to school was another thing. Give me a trauma unit any day!

It was 7:15 and I was dressed and ready to go wake Harry up, I had planned this like a military operation, my army training came in handy sometimes.

We were all ready to go out the door on time 8:30, Harry had woken up, got dressed, eaten breakfast and made sure all his school stuff was ready the night before so there was no running around trying to find anything. It was a cold January morning with frost on the ground, it was the second week back after Christmas holidays and with all the new regulations with children being taken out of school, Julia didn't want to get into it with the school about taking Harry out, when she knew all they would be doing is sitting lawyers offices for the week and he would have so much more fun at school and home with me.

As we made our way into the school playground and then to the classrooms, I didn't have the foggiest where to go but Harry would lead the way. It was then I heard in front of us where two (how should I describe them) yummy mummy's gossiping about the new deputy head teacher, who was set to start today and that he was very handsome and not married, listening to this made me glad I had married the job and didn't have to fill my day with idle gossip about the latest teacher replacement. I had a hospital Emergency Department to run.

As we found Harry's classroom, I introduced myself to his teacher Mrs Bennett quite a young lady about 25 years old, I thought and told her I would be dropping him off and picking him up all week till his parents can back next week. She told me that she had been made aware of the situation. As I was leaving the school I had the feeling I was being watched but thought it must be one of the kids or Harry watching me go as their classrooms faced the playground I was walking across, so I turned around and the only face I could focus on was the tall dark haired man standing in the middle of the playground watching everyone leave, he must have been a teacher or something, there was something very familiar about him but I couldn't put my finger on it. So I turned around and left. As I was walking back to the house I heard these other mothers saying that must have been the new deputy head in the playground. Breaking news in the playground!

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Charles

Charles looked at himself in the mirror he was 40 now and had left the army after a couple years of desk job as his leg had never really healed properly from the terrible mission on his forth tour of Afghan which had gone so badly wrong. So he decided to go into teaching he had become the go to person to sort out schools in a bit of trouble, this time it was a bit different as it was one of the best schools in the county, he had been asked to take over the role of deputy head, as the former one had moved to Australia midway through the year and they couldn't get anyone to start till next September. He was unmarried as the job he did now, he moved all over England, it was a bit like the army sometimes. But this time he was here for eight months, hope I like the place he thought.

As he stood on the playground watching all the parents with children come in and drop off their children to the classrooms, he watched a woman with a boy about 6 years old come in the playground, he watches as she dropped him off at Mrs Bennett class and then leave, he had a funny feeling he knew her but couldn't put his finger on it. Maybe from one of his other schools he had worked at.

The whole day he had been thinking about that woman in the playground, as it was a cold January morning she had a scarf and hat on so he couldn't she much on her face. It was bugging him who was that woman.

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Molly

It was 3pm now and I was on my way back to pick up Harry from school and was relieved that it had warmed up from what it was like this morning, so no need for the hat and scarf. I had kept herself busy doing paperwork, which I never had time to do, a few conference calls with the hospital and sorting out the food shopping for the week.

As I entered the playground again I got the feeling that someone was watching her but looked around and couldn't see anything. As I got to Harry's class I saw him coming out so I waved to him and he waited by the door to be collected. I picked up Harry from the class and turned and started to cross the playground heading home, Harry then dropped his book bag and all his school stuff came out as I bent down to pick it up, there was someone there immediately picking up the books. As their eyes meet I knew instantly who he was, it was the past I had closed the door on ten years ago, it was Captain Charles James, as they stood there staring in each other's eyes as everything felt like it was going around in slow motion. Time stood still as the shock of this encounter with him filtered through my body, what would I do now.

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Charles

I know who she is, of all the schools in England I walk into hers. That must be her son, she looks good. I can't let her go without saying hello, as I watched her make her way across the playground I saw the boy drop his bag, this was my chance. I was there in an instant and picked up the books and looked direct into her eyes. I could see the realisation of who I was come across her face. What would I do now?

"Hello" He said

"Hi" She said

"It's been a while"

"Yes it has"

"How have you been?"

"Fine"

"Molly, I would like to talk to you sometime."

"Why"

"Just want to know what you been up to since". He stopped at that word suddenly.

"O, ok that might take a while, as you can see I don't have time now, I have to get Harry home."

"O, ok another time."

"Another time, Bye"

"Bye"

Just then Harry came over and said "come on Molly let's go home" and she left as soon as she had entered his life again, watching every step she took, till she had gone out of sight.

Then he thought it was strange that he called her Molly, she must be his step mother or something, well at least she managed to meet someone and have a life he thought.

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Molly

OMG its Charles I thought as I had sat down at the kitchen table watching Harry trying to do his homework. Griping my tea cup tighter. He still had that effect on me all these years later. He still looked great with the eyes and smile to die for. What was I going to do tomorrow I was here all week it's not like I could just avoid the place. Maybe it would be nice to see him and find out what he's been up to, and tell him what I have been up to…..