A lovely little story that came into my head on the way home from college months ago so I wrote it down and finally got round to uploading it on here
Disclaimer-I do not own and of the characters. They all belong to Kudos and the BBC.
"Mum?" Alex woke with a start. Looking around frantically, there was no-one there.
"Mum? Mum?" There it was again, but all Alex could see was darkness. Then a flash of white light.
"This is it, it's over. I'm going home, away from here...From everyone...from Gene" Alex slowed down as the sudden realisation of what she was leaving had begun to set in. She and Gene had become so close over the past few months. She knew she felt something for him but she never brought herself to admit it. She was always fighting to get back to Molly, her daughter.
"But no back to molly" She said confidently, hoping she could reassure herself.
From the blinding white light she could see a figure emerging, leaning towards her. As the figure came closer Alex could begin to pick out features of the figure. Long blonde hair, a grey woolly jumper, a striped scarf. Molly's striped scarf.
"Molls? Molly" She just needed to get home, to be with her daughter. She wouldn't leave her like her mum had done to her. The figure became so close she sat beside Alex on the sofa. Alex now knew it was her daughter. She threw her arms around her but before she could Molly moved and stood back off the sofa.
"Molls what's wrong? Where am I?" Alex's voice full of confusion and sadness.
" Mum, don't panic I'm here." The room went dark and Molly vanished. The TV screen came to life. There she was, her daughter stood by Alex's bed her hospital room in 2008. "They say you might be somewhere else now and you'll never make it back. But if that's true I want you to know something. That, that I love you and I never want you to feel guilty. I'll be fine. I've got Evan and Dad and I'll never forget you ever. I just only hope you can hear me and you find someone to be happy with too." Molly squeezed her mum's hand, Alex felt it and raised her hand to her chest, trying to hold back the sting of tears she could feel threatening to break free.
"Mum, I'm really going to miss you and you were best mum anyone could ever ask for and I'm sorry for not listening to and you were right. You always are" Molly said with a slight giggle. " I just only wish that you had found someone to be happy with again. I know you said you didn't want to and I only hope you didn't lie to me just to protect me. But where ever you are I hope you find someone and your happy. You deserve it and don't worry about me mum. I'll be fine and we will see each other again one day. I love you so much." Molly bent down and pressed a kiss on her mother sleeping face, leaving a tear as she pulled back. Alex could feel her own tears now running down her face. She couldn't believe that was her little baby. She seemed so grownup, so mature, much more mature than she ever gave her credit for and somehow Alex believed her that she would be ok.
Then Alex saw Evan appear over Molly's shoulder and place a comforting arm around her.
"You ok squirt? You all done?"
"Yeh thanks. I'll never forget her and she'll always be in her." As Molly said this she place a hand over her heart. Alex smiled believing that she would always be there in her daughter's heart. Then confusion hit Alex as Molly reached in to her shirt pocket and pulled out a long golden locket. It was the one Evan had given her when her parents had died to help her remember them by. Molly opened it and showed it to the TV screen and there between Tim and Caroline Price was her and Molly taken just days before the accident. "Now you'll always be with me mum." And with that Molly snapped shut the locket and placed the feeble chain around the neck.
"Goodbye Alex and I'm sorry for everything. I only hope you're with your mum and dad now. They would be so proud. Like I am." With this Evan brushed the hair from Alex's face and bent down to kiss her forehead.
"Goodbye Mum. Be happy where ever you are and I'll see you again one day." Molly wiped a tear from her eye and placed her hand in her mums once more and with it a copy of the photo Molly had placed in the locket. With that the TV screen went blank leaving Alex alone in the darkness and silence. She opened her clasped hands to brush away the tears which had strain from her eyes and found a small photo, the same which was in Molly's locket and which Molly had just placed in her hand. This time Alex knew this wasn't just a dream. Somehow she knew it was over. She could never make it back to Molly. But she didn't feel the sadness and loss she normally feels when thinking of Molly and 2008 because she had seen her and Molly had told her she would be ok and Alex believed her. Someday they will be together again.
Then Alex thought, if she couldn't go back then she would stay here in 1981 with everyone, with Gene. If she had nothing to lose then she could finally tell him how she felt. But what if he didn't feel the same, he rejected her. There was only one way to find out. Somehow thinking about Gene didn't leave her feeling racked with guilty like it had done previously. No she now had Molly's blessing to be happy and to find someone. Alex stood from the sofa and tucked the photo of her and Molly in a photo frame on the sideboard, and left for Luigis. She was finally going to tell Gene Hunt.