The flat was silent. Alex was sat on the sofa beside Gene, who had his arm wrapped around her whilst he dozed. She stared across the flat into space. How could he be so rude and god dam inconsiderate? She was risking her life, or at least what she had left of it, in order to take him to a place where she knew, if he gave it a chance, he would be truly happy. They could be happy together. This was stupid, back in the real world Alex had never needed a man but all because of some sexist, alcoholic, chain smoking, floppy haired, boot wearing pig she couldn't even enjoy the one good thing that death had to offer. No, why should she be the one to make all of the sacrifices? She deserved happiness too! She moved Genes arms from around her, standing up and turning to look at the man she had been willing to risk everything for.

"You were always so ignorant Gene, if you'd have opened your eyes sooner then maybe none of this would be happening" she spoke quietly to him as he slept.

And with that, Alex Drake reached for her coat and left the small flat above Luigis, disappearing off into the night...

Gene awoke with a jolt, his whole body sitting upright as he shook himself from his dream of dark shadows in the night attacking Alex, thinking about Alex where had she gotten to?

"Bolls, you in the bathroom?"

There was no sound in the flat but the ticking of the clock by the door.

"Bolly?"

Gene got to his feet and checked in the bedroom to see if she was sleeping, still nothing...

Alex thumped her hands against the pub door repeatedly, yelling over and over again and receiving dirty looks from the drunks making their way home from the surrounding pubs.

"Ma'am? What are you doing out here this late?" Ray frowned as he headed in the direction of Luigis, who had kindly offered to give the spare empty flat to him, Chris and Shaz until further notice "Ma'am does the Guv know where you are?"

"Oh sod the bloody Guv!" she scoffed, screaming in frustration "Let me in, god damn it!"

"I'm gonna go and get him..."

Ray went off in search of Gene, letting him know where she was and what state she was in. When Gene finally saw her, clawing at the door and tugging at the handle, he felt a pang of guilt, it was all because of him that she had come back and now she wanted to leave she couldn't because he didn't want to go too.

"Bolly, stop that, it won't open" he sighed.

"Then bloody well make it open!" she snapped, turning around to face him, tears in her eyes and her face flushed "I want to go back!"

"You can't, not unless..." he trailed off.

Alex roughly wiped her eyes on the back of her hands "Not unless you come in there with me, which you won't do, so now I'm trapped here forever on the run from Keats, thanks a lot Gene!"

"I was twenty Alex! I was twenty when I died! I had barely had a life! But here...here seems so real, so now I have that life, but if I go in there then that means that I am accepting that my life is over"

"It's the same in there as it is out here Gene; please don't make me leave again? Because the next time that I leave I'll be gone for good"

He sighed and took in her appearance, the sad eyes and the pale skin, the way she shivered slightly in the cool breeze.

"He's clocked onto you being here Alex, the only way that we're going to be able to move on without him trying to break us one last time is for us to break him first" Gene spoke.

"The only way we're going to be able to move on?" she asked with a puzzled expression on her face.

"Yes, move on" Gene smiled, cupping her face in his hands and kissing her softly "I want to be with you Alex, and if that means that we go to heaven then so be it"

"Thank you Gene"

"You don't have to thank me, you came back for me and I can't let you down, we're unbreakable Alex, unbreakable"

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