sorry it's taken ages to update, back to school and thrown in at the deep end with coursework and stuff! so sorry if it's not very good but i tried! this chapter's for CaleighWho because well, i stole her name!

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"Enjoying Iggle Piggle are we?" Rachel laughed.

"Actually that's Makka Pakka, Iggle Piggle's blue, god Rach!" he explained, not looking away from the TV. Rachel rolled her eyes and sat down on the floor and lay Gabriella on a blanket with her bunny.

"FIVE!" he shouted, making Rachel jump out of her skin.

"What?"

"Five stones," he replied, only to be greeted with a confused look off Rachel, "Makka Pakka collects stones, today he has five. How many stones has Makka Pakka got? Five."

Rachel threw her head back in despair, he was enjoying it more than the baby, surely that wasn't normal? "She's not even interested Kev, put something else on!" He sighed as he caught the remote Rachel threw him and turned it over to Peppa Pig.

"No dipshit, I meant for you. She's three weeks old, she's really not gonna be interested in anything on TV is she? Put the rest of that Harry Potter on that we didn't get to finish the other night or something." She suggested. She wondered why people ever called him thick, it just didn't add up… He put the film on and Rachel joined him on the sofa and gave Gabby her bottle.

"Shall I put tea on? Kevin asked when the movie finally ended.

"Yeah you can do, what have we got?" she asked. He went into the kitchen and she could hear him rummaging through the freezer. He came back carrying a large pizza and some garlic bread. She nodded her head and turned the TV off just as the doorbell rang. "KEV?"

"Can you get it? I just burnt me hand!" he shouted. Rachel rolled her eyes and made Gabby comfy on the floor, making sure she couldn't go anywhere! It must have been the fourth time that week he'd hurt himself in the kitchen, he was a liability! She ran to the door, aware that whoever was there was probably getting impatient. She opened the door to find the one person she was definitely not expecting.

"Christ!"

"Nope, I'm Janet. Sorry." She chuckled.

Rachel just stood and stared for what probably seemed like ages. Janet Scott was standing on her doorstep. The Janet who was so mad at her she couldn't even talk to her. The Janet that chucked her out, the Janet that was so ashamed and disgusted by Rachel that even their working relationship had fallen flat on its face. Rachel half-expected her to start yelling at her there and then. Telling her what an irresponsible, disappointment she was, start screaming abuse left, right and bloody centre. But instead she just looked down at the floor awkwardly. She didn't seem angry or hurt or even upset, she was calm and if anything, pleased. And slightly awkward because of the long silence Rachel had created. Janet looked up at Rachel with a small smile "Hiya Pal." She was close to tears, as was Rachel now. Rachel picked up on the 'Pal'. She was still her friend after everything? She stepped forward and grabbed Janet into a very much-needed hug. Tears now spilled down both their cheeks as they let out everything they'd bottled up for the last year.

"Janet, I'm so sorry," Rachel cried into her shoulder making Janet's top dripping wet, "I'm sorry." She wanted more than anything for Janet to forgive her, so they could finally put it behind them; she just wanted her friend back. It had been pretty crap without Janet really.

"I've missed you Rach. I dealt with the whole situation really badly and I'm sorry too! I didn't mean what I said, well most of it anyway, I was just angry and I didn't think." She almost whispered, trying hard to hold in the tears long enough to get a whole sentence out. She stood back and wiped her eyes, trying not to smudge too much mascara. "Your hair looks different."

Rachel smiled, "Does it?" Just then she noticed Janet's bags. "You staying?"

Janet glanced at them momentarily, "Well Her Maj gave me eight days, thought I'd get a hotel and make the most of it!"

Rachel raised her eyebrows and shook her head at Janet's comment, "You're not paying for a hotel mate! Have you seen the prices in Edinburgh, it's ridiculous. Stay here. Please?" Truth be told she wanted to spend as much time with Janet as possible, after a year they had a lot of catching up to do and a day just wasn't going to cut it! Eight days? Gill was certainly feeling generous, Rachel remembered one time where she'd asked for two days and Gill almost had a fit. "How is she?"

"She's fine. She misses you…a lot would you believe it. She says hello." Godzilla missed her? Was she ill? Beneath it all Gill did care an awful lot though, Rachel knew that. That's why she got so frustrated when she screwed up all the time. "Sammy's engaged! And he wants to be a cop…somebody needs to knock some sense into him, poor boy!" she laughed. "Your Mum's been worried about you. For once. Sorry shouldn't say that should I? She's been phoning in a lot asking where you are, not as much as Alison obviously! She's been close to a nightmare!"

Rachel did feel bad she left them in the dark but she wasn't ready yet. She still needed time to settle properly before she let them back into her life. Wait…her Mum was…worried? Well there was a revelation if ever there was one. So she had changed deep down? Maybe she did all that stuff for show, a bit of attention from Rachel once in a while? Alison was no surprise at all, she stressed over absolutely everything. For now though, Rachel was fine with Janet back, she'd give it a little while longer for everyone else. "So are you staying or what?"

"Yeah."

She helped Janet take her bags in and put them at the bottom of the stairs. On hearing the door close Kevin wandered through with a massive bandage on his wrist. It looked like he'd been in an accident or something! As he got to the hallway he saw Janet and his jaw dropped, "Hi Scotty!"

"What happened to your wrist?"

"Burnt it on the oven."

Janet sighed loudly, he hadn't changed at all.

Kevin took her bags up to the spare room whilst Rachel made Jan a coffee and checked on the pizza. They went into the living room and Janet stopped dead in the doorway. She looked like she'd seen a ghost and Rachel was confused until she realised Janet didn't know about the baby. Janet managed to come in and sit down on the sofa, placing her coffee on the table, not taking her eyes off the baby for a second. Rachel found it quite funny, not that she'd let on. "Come here missy!" Rachel whispered picking her up gently, "Gabriella, meet your Auntie Janet!"

"Can I?" Janet asked, signalling towards Gabby. Rachel passed her over for Janet to make a fuss of.

"How are the girls?"

"They're fine. Elise is still with Josh! Taisie's annoyed at me cos I wouldn't let her come with me! But as it was a longshot you'd even be here…and you know, I didn't know how it would turn out so I thought it best to come on my own!"

"How did you know I was here?" at that moment Kevin sat down and Janet explained all about what Mitch had seen.

"Why don't the girls come up in a couple of days? There's enough space." Rachel suggested.

Janet thought for a moment, there was no harm in it was there? Elise was eighteen, she was perfectly capable of getting a train! "Okay, I'll phone them later."

"Great, I'll make your bed up." She halted in the doorway, "I've missed you."

Janet laughed, "Oh God she's turned you soppy Rach! Missed you too now go on or I'll end up sleeping on the floor!"