Hi guys,

Thank you all so much for your reviews, alerts, favourites and everything on the last chapter. It really means the world to me- so keep them coming! Special thanks to those who have reviewed both chapters so far- keep them coming!

I apologize for a couple of inaccuracies that in my last chapter to do with pregnancy that were pointed out to me. I will try a lot harder with my research in future! Sorry again!

So here is chapter three! I hope you enjoy it :)


"Oh come on," Alex muttered to herself, "You have got to be kidding me." She tried sucking in her belly to do up her jeans, and failed. Alex sighed in frustration and threw her hands up in anger at her reflection. "Just perfect." She knew deep down that her skin tight jeans were probably quite unprofessional, and she never would have thought about wearing them to work in 2008, but she liked them. And now they wouldn't do up. It was most frustrating, especially because she didn't even look pregnant yet. She just looked like she had let herself go slightly.

"Bolly!" Gene hollered from the living room. "Are you almost bloody ready?"

"Stop rushing me!" She shouted back. She pulled her jeans and blouse off as she decided an entirely new outfit was in order. She pulled a grey jumper dress and leggings out of her wardrobe and Gene poked his head in the door.

"Bloody hell," He said sounding frustrated. "You don't even have your clothes on yet?" He checked his watch.

"Look," She said exasperated. "You can go if you like- I will be over when I am ready. I didn't bloody ask for you to wait."

"Bolls-"

"Just go already!" She shouted at him. Alex knew she was probably being irrational, but not being able to get her jeans on was not the only reason she was angry at him. "I take it you still aren't coming to the appointment with me?" He had told her last night that he was not going to go with her to the twelve week scan.

"I told you Bolly, we can't both take the time off work." The look she gave him as she pulled her dress on let him know that was not a good enough answer. "Plus I went last time, what's goin' to be different?" This time he definitely knew he had said the wrong thing. "Shit, Alex-"

"It's fine Gene. It's fine that you don't want to be there the first time we can properly see our baby, when it doesn't look like a bean." She pulled on her leggings and shoes and barged past him.

"I didn't say I didn't want to go, I said I couldn't."

"Well you aren't exactly trying are you?" She asked angrily. She sighed. "Right, you go to the office, I'll stay here then go to the appointment. I'll come to work when I'm done.

"Bolly-"

"I just think we could do with the time apart right now, don't you?" She loved the man, but living and working with him was driving her up the wall at the moment.

"Fine." He said leaving the bedroom doorway and stormed towards the front door. "See you at work Drake." He slammed the door behind him. Alex clenched her fists in anger.

"Bastard."


Two hours later, Gene Hunt was sitting in his office considering how much of a bastard he was. In all honesty, the team would have been able to handle both him and Alex not being there. He was not exactly sure why he had been so reluctant to go with her, and he felt like a total twat for making her go alone. He looked up as he heard the doors to CID open, and he saw Alex walk in. As she moved towards her desk she shot him a look of thunder. Gene was well and truly in the shit. He considered that he may as well get the tirade of anger and the unavoidable argument out of the way, and stood up from his desk.

"Drake," he called out to her. She was half way through taking her jacket off and looked up at him. "My office, now." She rolled her eyes at him and walked to his office, with her jacket in hand, and closed the door behind her. Whilst it was painfully obvious to the whole of CID that they had argued, she didn't want them to hear this. She sat in the chair opposite his instead of her usual place on the desk in front of him. She sat looking at him expectantly. "Well?" He finally said.

"Well, what?"

"How did it go?" He asked frustrated. She really could be a difficult cow when she tried.

"Everything was fine." She said shortly, but he didn't miss she small fleeting smile that wiped across her face. She reached into the pocket of her jacket and pulled out a small picture. She all but threw it at him so it landed on the desk in front of him. "If you are even interested, there is the picture." She said bitterly. Gene picked it up and looked at it, he felt his breath catch slightly in his throat. It actually looked like a baby. His baby. For some godforsaken reason this suddenly made this a lot more real.

Unfortunately for Gene, his slight moment of awe was caught by Alex, who was now smiling at him.

"If you had been there you would have been able to hear the heartbeat." She told him, her voice softer than before. "Just make sure you come next time." She instructed. She could tell he was sorry, and she knew he would never say it, so she accepted it. Plus, who was she to stay mad at him when she was as horny as she was. Every little thing the bastard did was turning her on at the moment, and it was driving her crazy. Alex certainly had not missed pregnancy hormones, but she was pleased that she had seemingly seen the back of morning sickness. They were silent for a moment, and then Gene spoke again.

"So, what are we goin' to tell the team?"

"What?" She asked, slightly taken aback.

"Well you said that if we got the all clear at 12 weeks we would tell the others, we got the all clear. So what do we tell them?"

"Well, I don't know." She honestly didn't want to tell them- couldn't they just let them figure it out for themselves? They were detectives after all, it shouldn't take them long. Whilst she was thinking Gene suddenly stood up and opened his office door aubruptly. She got up and stood behind him, expecting him to leave the small room.

"Right you lot, Bolly-Kecks here is up the duff. Any questions?"

"Gene!" She said outraged, stepping out from behind him. He could have put it a lot more delicately than that. The team looked at them in mainly in shock, apart from Shaz who looked overly happy for someone who had just found out. Alex had suspected Shaz had figured it out the previous week when the young WPC had offered her a cup of decaffeinated coffee. The girl definitely deserved a promotion, she was quicker than all the bloody men in the department. It took a few moments for anyone to speak, until Ray decided he had a clever remark.

"Well, I thought she was looking podgier than normal." He laughed, as did a few of the men of CID. Alex did not. Gene sighed.

"It was nice knowing you, Raymondo."


So, what do you think?

I know this chapter was a little bit shorter than usual, but the next chapter starts off exactly where this one ended. It will be up in a few days :)

As always, I hope I still have the characters right and nothing seems too unrealistic.

Please review if you want to read more, it makes me really happy to know people are enjoying my work.

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