So originally this was a one-shot but after watching the summer trailer and reading spoilers I just had to write this. So It's my idea about how events are going down. I ended it there cause it's really late but I just couldn't hold off on posting so there should be another part to come but I make no promises.
Obv don't own Hollyoaks or the Characters
Criticism welcome.
It was a quiet night in, the type of night where she lounged around the couch with a bottle of wine and a take-away watching her favourite comedy on the telly. Things between her and Ziggy had been tense since he asked her to move in with him and Leela refused. They had only been going out for a couple of months and there was no way Leela was ready for that kind of commitment.
She hadn't even thought that things where that serious between them. She had just been looking for fun with Ziggy and thought he felt the same way until he was talking about moving in together and love. Obviously she was wrong.
"Hey," Leela said as her mum came through the front door looking spooked. "I've just put this on if you want to sit and watch with me. If your lucky I'll even share my pizza with you." She teased.
"Not right now love." Sam muttered barley looking at Leela. "Where's Peri?"
"She's up in her room studying for some maths test or something. Tegan took Rose and is staying at a mates tonight."
"Yeah she text me earlier."
"You OK?" Leela asked pausing the DVD before following her mum into the kitchen. "I was looking for you earlier but it was like you had just disappeared had me worried for a minute
"Yeah I did text you. I just got caught up in some stuff for work." Sam said trying to fake a smile.
"You sure." Leela pressed unconvinced. She knew her mum wasn't taking being demoted well but over the last week of so she had seemed to come to terms with it. After figuring out the time Fraser had really died and clearing Ste she seemed to be getting back to normal.
"Yes, now what kind of pizza did you get." Sam asked pouring a glass of wine.
"Er meat feast of course."
"Of course."
Ever since Leela had wanted to tell Peri the truth, hell ever since her father had moved out things had been strained between her and her mother but she wanted to change that. Leela wanted what was best for her family, with her dad not at home now and her mum barely holding it together it was her job to keep the family together. Tegan was starting to pick up on the tension between her and their mother and the last thing she needed was her sticking her nose in.
"Right what's going on." Leela asked frustrated with her mother's behaviour. They had lounged about the living room all day and Leela hadn't had a chance to talk to Sam on her own. She only had about 5 minutes before Peri came barreling down the stairs with another DVD.
"Nothing love." Sam replied.
"Stop lying! You've been on edge since you came home last night." Leela pointed out trying to keep her voice low. "Then you take the day off work and keep Peri off school so you can have a girlie day in."
"I just think that with everything going on in will be good for us to have a little one on one time. She's had a rough go of it lately."
"Mum just tell me what's going on." Leela begged not believing a word her mum said.
Leela could see her mum visibly hesitate trying to work out what to say before answering. "Your dad's seeing someone."
"What?" She asked shocked that he would move on that quickly.
"He told me last week. I just want to be the one that tells Peri that's all."
"Who?" Leela demanded.
"He didn't say only that he was moving on."
"Is it John-Paul? It is isn't it! I'm gonna kill him."
"It's not John-Paul."
"Because John-Paul is currently seeing Ste."
"Ste? Our Ste? That's sick." Leela said disgusted that Ste would date their fathers ex-boyfriend. The same ex-boyfriend who tore their family apart. "I'm going to go talk to dad."
"Leave it Leela."
"Why? He destroyed this family and is leaving us to pick up the pieces while he swans about with his new man. I don't think so."
"Leela think about Peri." Sam tried.
"I am thinking about Peri! She thinks you're getting back together. Do you know how much this is going to crush her?"
"Just give me this one day."
"What's going to be so different tomorrow? We can lock ourselves away in this house for the rest of our lives but that doesn't mean that the world outside is just going to stop. It's better just telling her." Leela argued.
"Is everything OK?" Peri asked tentatively coming down the stairs holding her favourite DVD.
"Yeah just Leela thinking she should get to pick the next movie." Sam reassured Peri.
"No way it's my turn." Peri smiled obviously satisfied with her mum's answer as she flopped down on the floor and started setting up a new movie.
"Pez we've seen this like a million times." Leela argued half heartedly.
"And?" Peri shot back.
"That's enough girls." Sam said. "Leela can choose next."
"Actually I have to nip out for a bit."
"Can't it wait." Peri whined.
"Can't have a movie day without some proper goodies now can we. I'll nip to the shop and get some." Leela replied making Peri smile.
"Leela." Sam warned.
Leela ignored her as she put on her coat. "I won't be long."
Leela had been seething when she found her father. How dare he try to put their family through even more because of his mistakes. All she could see was him being selfish yet again and her having to tidy up his mess. She'd screamed obscenities at him when she finally found him in the coffee shop. She hadn't cared who heard her as she told him he wasn't welcome in their lives anymore, that he didn't deserve to be a father. That he didn't deserve them.
Bumping into Ziggy had been awkward for her. What do you say to the man who confesses their love for you and you froze and he dumped you. Ziggy had wanted to put it behind them and get back together but Leela was hesitant knowing how he felt.
"I got all your favourite's and I was thinking we could order in a take-away tonight." Leela said coming through the door with bags of sweets from price slice before noticing no one was in the living room. "Hello."
"Up here." Sam called from upstairs.
Leela set down the shopping before making her way up the stairs checking Peri's room first and was shocked to see Peri's room. All her clothes were packed away in boxes, her posters of her current boy band fixation had been taken down from the walls, CD's and DVD's lay neatly stacked on the dresser waiting to be packed.
"MUM!" Leela shouted running to her parents, well her mother's bedroom.
"Here grab this." Sam said when she swung the door open handing her a suitcase. Looking behind her Leela could see the room was looking as bare as Peri's had.
"What's going on." Leela asked already knowing the answer.
"We're leaving."
"What? Why? I spoke to dad. He won't bother us again." Leela said trying to change her mother's mind.
"I'm never going to be able to watch him move on with someone else, I love him."
"Then don't leave, If you want him back fight for him." Leela said going against everything she felt about her dad.
"That's it though I don't want him back, I can never get what we had back but I'm not going to sit around and watch him move on with someone else."
Leela followed after her mother as the set about lugging two suitcases down the stairs. "What about me and Tegan. We can't just up and leave. I've got a job and Tegan's got uni and Rose. What about us? Or what about Peri's school?"
"They're on summer holidays soon anyway and you know you and Tegan are more than welcome to come, in fact I'd love it if you'd both come." Sam said.
"Mum you can't do this." Leela begged.
"I have to Leela."
"What about Peri?," Leela questioned. "You can't take her away she's my daughter."
"Maybe that's what you need right now love, some space to figure out what you want and what's best for everyone. Sam soothed.
"Is this about me going to tell her? Cause I swear I won't say a thing."
"Hollyoaks is poison. Ever since we've moved here it's been one bad thing after another. I need to leave Leela and no nothing you say is going to stop me."
Leela could feel tears sting her eyes. "What about Peri? Is this what she wants?"
"She's a 14-year-old girl she doesn't know what she want's." Sam argued.
"Have you even asked her?"
"I'm her mum I'm doing what is best for her." Sam stated.
"I'll take that as a no." Leela said turning and walking away.
"Where are you going."
"To give Peri the choice that you won't."
"Leela!" Sam shouted but Leela paid her no attention as she made her way out the house looking for her daughter with Sam following behind her. Leela didn't have to look far as she ran down the stair's she seen Peri and Tegan stood together in the middle of the village laughing.
"Have you heard about this move?" Leela asked as she got close to them.
Tegan rolled her eyes. "Of course mum's hardly going to leave without telling me is she."
"And what? You think this is the right thing to do?" Leela demanded.
"She's an adult Leela she can do what she want's."
"What about you Pez." Leela asked turning to Peri. "You want to leave the village as well? Leave me, Tegan and dad behind?"
"Leela mum's made up her mind." Tegan interrupted before Peri could answer.
Sam had finally caught up with them. "Tegan's right. I'm not changing my mind."
"What about what's best for Peri? Your just going to take her away from her friends and her school for the second time? How is that what's best!?" Leela demanded.
"I'm her mum I'll say what's best for her!" Sam shouted nearing tears.
"But you're not are ya." Leela shouted back before realising what she was saying.
The world seemed to go silent as the implication of Leela's words sank in.
"What!?" Tegan exploded. "You are such a liar."
Leela blocked her out waiting for Peri to say something.
"You're sisters lying, right Leela? She doesn't know what she's saying love." Sam said trying to hug Peri close to her as if to shield her from Leela's words.
"Peri." Leela uttered as tears streamed down her face.
"Let's go inside and finish packing." Sam suggested trying to lead Peri away.
Peri broke free from her mothers grasp. "Leela? What did you mean she's not my mum? Of course she is."
"I'm so sorry Peri." Leela's voice broke as she force the words to leave her mouth. "I am so sorry."
"Sorry about what? Why would you lie?" Peri demanded close to tears.
"She's up set love, she doesn't want us to leave. That's all." Sam soothed.
"She's lost it more like." Tegan muttered.
"Stop lying to me!" Peri demanded.
"Let's just all go home and we can talk about this." Sam said noticing everyone watching them.
"No! Tell me the truth! Are you my mum?" Peri shouted at Sam.
"You are my daughter no matter what anyone else says. You are mine. I have raised you for the last 14 years and couldn't be more proud of the girl you became." Sam said.
Peri started crying harder. "But your not my real mum are you? You didn't give birth to me!"
"I am your real mum!" Sam protested before hesitating. "And even though I didn't give birth to you It doesn't change anything. It doesn't change how me and your dad feel about you."
"You what?" Tegan demanded.
"It changes everything!" Peri cried. "It changes my whole life."
"All I'm saying is it doesn't have to." Sam tried.
"Who's my real parents?" Peri said cutting off her mother. "Didn't they want me?"
"It wasn't like that Peri." Sam said.
"Let's go home and talk." Leela cut in.
"And how did you know Leela!" Peri demanded. "How do you know any of this? Did Tegan know? Was I the only person who wasn't told."
"Babe I'm just as shocked as you are." Tegan pointed out.
"Was it some running joke. Oh lets see who can keep the secret from Peri the longest! The poor girl who no one wanted!"
"You are wanted!" Leela argued.
"Not by my real parents though? Am I?" Peri said through her tears.
"Yes you are!"
"And how would you know Leela!?" Peri demanded.
"Because I'm your mum!" Leela shouted. "Your my little girl.