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As Alex walked through the front door he was bombarded by questions from several different people.

"Did you find your way around?"

"Did you find any friends?"

"How was your day? Fun?"

"Are you still gonna mwarry mwee?"

Alex looked around his new family and smiled, "Whoa, wait a minute. Let me through the door and I'll answer all your questions." Alex followed the others into the garden where they'd been sitting around drinking lemonade and chatting. Looking around he noticed who was there, Hack and Maria were on recliners; Ted was in a garden chair and Lucia was being pushed on the swing by Jack.

"How was your day, honey?" Asked Maria, handing Alex a glass of chilled lemonade as he joined Lucia on the double swings.

"Good thank you, I met some really nice people. In fact, I met one boy who lives opposite, Austin something…" Alex trailed off, trying to remember Austin's second name.

"Austin Pales?" Ted asked.

"That was it" Alex smiled.

"Oh, Victoria's son, nice boy. Captain of the basketball team isn't he?" Marie asked.

"Yeah, that's him. And I met a girl, Matilda Wright. She's nice, lives over by-" But he was cut off.

"Noooo, that's not fair" Squealed Lucia, jumping of the swing in mid air and surprisingly, landing on her feet.

"What's not fair?" Alex asked, bewildered.

"You can't lobe anovver girl. You're my Awex" Lucia pouted, jumping on to Alex's lap and wrapping her arms around his neck.

"It's okay, Lucy-Lou, there's no-one else. In fact, I think Matilda might like Austin, but shh" Alex whispered the last part of the sentence, "You can't tell anyone, it's a secret. Understand?" Lucia nodded, and held her finger up to her lips.

"So, anything interesting happen on your first day?" Jack asked, slipping an arm around Alex's waist and giving him a kiss on the forehead.

"Not really, oh, yeah, I made the mistake of telling Matilda I knew Robert Pattinson." Jack smiled, but Ted and Marie looked confused, "He's a movie star that was a few years above me at school in London. We met through the acting class Uncle Ian made me attend" Alex explained, "I was mobbed by a gang of girls, the only way I got them off me was to tell them that Coach Alistair was coming in to the gym."

"So, what happened when practice was over? Didn't they corner you in the corridor or something?" Jack laughed.

"No, I ran away before they got the chance. I'll just give them all a fake email address or something." Alex mused.

After Alex had thoroughly described his day, leaving out the bit about the dream in Chemistry, he was allowed to take off for a shower and to do his homework. It was surprising how much homework just one day at school could generate; he had to read two chapters of Great Expectations for English, do a pop quiz for Chemistry (he might need Jack's help on that one), and translate a whole sheet of vocabulary for French. Sitting down at the desk in his room Alex reflected on his day. All in all it was a pretty good first day; he thought it could have gone a lot worse.

Closing his French book with a snap he turned his ipod, currently blasting The Killers, off and made his way downstairs. As he reached the hallway he was surprised to see Harry and Amy just entering the front door. Harry was wearing a tired pair of old jeans and a smart shirt with a stethoscope slung around his neck and Amy was wearing a smart school uniform. School uniform was one of the only things Alex didn't miss about life in England.

"Hey, Alex, how are you?" Harry grinned, clapping Alex on the back as he reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Not bad, thanks. How about you, doc?" Alex grinned back, pointing at the stethoscope around Harry's neck.

"I never did tell you what my job was, did I?" Harry asked, "Well, I see your powers of deduction have not failed you."

"Alright, Amy?" Alex asked, smiling at the younger girl.

Amy nodded, biting her lip, shyly.

"Where do you go to school? I don't recognise the uniform." Alex had seen the middle school kids coming out of school, none of them in uniform.

"St John's" Amy whispered, "It's private, I got a full scholarship."

"Wow," said Alex, impressed, "Well done!"

"Thanks, I love it" Amy grinned and Alex smiled back, he loved his cousins.

Harry and Amy followed Alex in to the kitchen where Marie was preparing pasta for dinner. The smell of freshly chopped herbs and garlic bread wafted through Alex's senses. It smelt wonderful.

"That smells gorgeous, I don't know where you got your cooking skills from, Jack, but they're not a patch on your mothers" Alex joked, lifting the garlic bread over to the table.

"Oi, cheeky. Watch your tongue when you're talking." Jack swiped Alex with the magazine she'd just taken off the table.

"Thatb's nob eazpy" Alex said, sticking his tongue out and crossing his eyes so he could see it.

The whole family laughed and the conversation turned to the newcomers, "Hello, darling, you are staying for tea, right?" Marie asked Harry who was already sat at the table.

"If that's okay, mom?" Harry asked.

"Fine, I assumed you were so I did some extra. Where's Lucia?" Marie disappeared through the door to the Living Room, "Lucia? Dinner's ready"

"Coming Gwanny," Lucia's small voice came from the Living Room, accompanied by small footsteps.

As the whole family crowded around the table Alex observed the small things that gave away the fact they were all related, the way they all talked non stop and had a knack for keeping track of several conversations at once with ease, for example.

As Alex climbed in to bed that night he smiled, he was happy. Just as his fingertips reached out to turn off the light his cell phone rang. Blinking, startled by the sudden noise, Alex looked at the caller ID, Amy? What was she doing calling him at, Alex glanced at the clock on his bedside table, 11.30pm?

"Hello?" Alex mumbled down the phone.

"Alex?" Amy sobbed, her voice wracked with emotion.

Alex sat up straight, something was not right. His twelve year old cousin should not be ringing him up at nearly midnight in tears. Amy had seemed fine merely four hours earlier when she'd left with her father and sister. What could have gone wrong?

"Amy? What's the matter?" Alex asked urgently.

"It's dad, something's not right. He's in pain and won't answer me. I tried ringing Granny's house phone but no-one answered." Amy sobbed down the phone in a state of panic.

"All right, calm down. Have you rung an ambulance?" Alex asked, climbing out of bed and going in to Jack's room. As he switched on the light Jack woke up, "Jack? Something's up with Harry, Amy says he's not well, or even conscious."

Jack sat up straight and held her hand out for the phone. "Amy?" Jack swung her legs around and out of bed. "Right, so you've called 911. Okay, I'm going to get in the car and drive over just as soon as I've woken Granny and Grandpa. Is Lucia awake?" Jack paused to listen to the answer, "Right, don't wake her. Alex, Granny, Grandpa and I won't be ten minutes and Alex will stay on the phone to you the whole way. Okay?"

Alex took the phone and nodded at Jack who was pulling Jeans over her PJ bottoms. "Hey Amy, Aunty Jack's just gone to wake Granny up, I'm getting in the car right now. Are you okay?" Alex knew it was a silly question but he could think of nothing else to say to the terrified young girl.

No less than 5 minutes later, it was a good job the whole family lived in the same neighbourhood, Jack, Marie, Alex and Ted were pulling up outside of the small apartment which was home to Harry, Amy and Lucia. Having arrived in two separate cars, jack and Alex were in the house before Marie and Ted, when Marie entered jack was in conversation with one of the attending Paramedics.

"So you don't know what's caused him to collapse?" Jack asked.

"Not at the moment but we suspect appendicitis. We're going to take him in, who wants to come with him?" The paramedic asked whilst her colleague tried to make Harry comfortable on a stretcher.

"I will, I'm his mother." Marie said, running to her son's side. "He's allergic to penicillin by the way, just thought you should know."

"That's very useful, thank you Mrs Starbright. Now, we need to get Dr Starbright to the hospital ASAP, I take it someone can look after the children?" The female paramedic looked at Jack and then at Ted.

"Of course, Alex?" Jack turned to Alex who had one arm around a crying Amy and the other around a sleepy Lucia who'd been woken by the arrival of so many people.

"Yea?" Alex asked.

"Can you go with the kids back to the house and then Dad and I can follow on to the hospital?" Jack asked, her face pale.

"Of course, is the house on the way?" Alex inquired.

"Yes, we'll drop you on the way, Dad needs to drop his car home anyway." Jack was already bundling Lucia into her coat and finding Amy's asthma medication to take with her.

"Right, come on then sleepy head." Alex carried Lucia to the car and rode all the way home with her sleeping in his lap.

As Alex settled Amy in the spare room and Lucia in Jack's bed he prayed that Harry would be okay, this family had been through enough.

"Awex?" Alex looked up from his bed, where he'd been trying, and failing, to get some rest, Jack had called twenty minutes ago to say Harry had been rushed in to theatre. Lucia was standing in the doorway, clutching a teddy with tears streaming down her face.

"What is it, Lucy-Lou?" Alex said, lifting the small girl on to the bed with him.

"Is Daddy going to be okay?" Lucia looked at Alex with big blue eyes full to the brim with tears.

"I hope so, I really hope so." And with that Lucia fell asleep in Alex's arms; Alex just watched the phone, willing to ring, willing Jack to say everything was fine, willing Harry to live, if not for his sake, for the sake of his two little girls.