Hello! I might go on a break from this fanfiction as I'm in Europe for only two more weeks and I'd rather be having some family
time and going on activites then writing :) Let me know what you want? Also using 'Coronation Street' names have been creating some confusion seeming Rachel and Finn are American, I only got this idea seeming I'm on Holiday and all there is on TV is British Soaps. Please review and tell me whether you think I should continue writing this fic?

Rachel spent the rest of the morning and some of the afternoon in work, though when it reached two o clock she left and went to the nursery to pick Abigail up. Rachel had just lifted Abigail to hold on her hip when Finn walked over to her. She smiled, remembering their earlier text conversation over text on the new phone he had bought for her. "Hello"

Rachel smiled "hi . . ."

"Have you decided on what you want to do?"

Rachel shook her head "no have you thought of anything?"

Finn shook his head before speaking again, though this time his question was aimed at little Finn and Abigail. "Where would you two like to go?"

Abigail hesitated for a moment before she answered him "we go swimming?"

"I'm not sure . . ."

Before Rachel could finish Finn interrupted "how would you like that son?" he questioned and smiled in response to little Finn's nod. "So swimming it is then?" he raised his eyebrow a little and turned to Rachel.

"I'm not sure we can . . ."

"Why not?" he frowned.

"I need new swimming things and so does she and I've not had time to get any"

"So get some?"

"Well you haven't sorted my wages out yet so I'd have a job doing that . . ."

"So let's go to a shop and I'll get you whatever you need"

"Finn, I can't expect you to buy me clothes"

"You're not, I'm offering and technically, they're not clothes." He smirked, "come on . . ."

"Please mama" Abigail pouted and Rachel sighed in defeat, which caused Finn to grin.

"I don't suppose I've been left with much choice have I?"

Finn shook his head and laughed "nope" he stepped over to the door of the car and opened it for her to get inside.

After going to a shop with Finn, Rachel had gotten herself a bikini and Abigail a little swimming costume. She hadn't been too keen on the idea of spending her night in a pool full of people but she guessed that if it was what Abigail wanted to do then she should make the effort. Rachel would have been lying if she'd have said she wasn't a little nervous about wearing so little in Finn's presence though she refuse to admit the reason behind that to herself.

After getting into the changing area Rachel and Abigail split from Finn and little Finn, but arranged to meet the two of them by the side of the changing rooms before making their way over to the pool. In the changing room, Rachel helped an excited Abigail to change into her swimming costume before blowing up armbands for her. After placing one on each arm she changed into the bikini that Finn had just bought for her.

"Mama we go now?"

"In a minute"

"You take long time"

Rachel laughed and nodded "yeah I know."

After putting their things into a bag she zipped it up and stepped out of the changing room and over to the locker that she'd got a key for, Abigail leant against her legs a little. Once Rachel had put the bags away the band that held the locker key around her wrist she headed out of the changing area and over to the pool, smiling when she found Finn was already there. Before she had chance to speak Abigail raced off towards the pool and Rachel was quick to grab her around the waist and lift her from the floor. "Don't you dare run off in here, Abigail."

"You were quicker than me"

Rachel frowned "what do you mean?"

"He was right off over there" Finn gestured to further ahead in front of them where the slides were and Rachel laughed.

"It seems we might have our work cut out for us"

"You're not wrong there"

"Well just remember if this all goes wrong that it was your idea to come here"

Finn smirked "which pool?"

"I think we better start with the babies one before we venture off into the big one, don't you?"

Finn nodded and laughed a little "yeah I think you might be right there . . . Ladies first . . ."

Rachel walked through into the pool and on getting into water she knew would be comfortable enough for Abigail to stand up in she put her down and was met with an excited squeal on doing so. Rachel smiled at her excitement and moved to sit down in the pool, her back now against the side. "You don't get out of this pool without me"

Abigail nodded her understanding before plodding off further into the water. Finn put little Finn down and told him something similar to what Rachel had said before he ran off to meet Abigail. Finn sat down beside Rachel with his back against the side too, and Rachel was glad that the pool wasn't too busy. There were only two other people with their children and Rachel was beginning to think that spending the time in a swimming baths might not be as bad as she first thought.

"So . . ."

When Finn spoke Rachel turned to the side and let a small smile pass her lips, "so . . ." she repeated and bit down on her bottom lip a little as she silently admitted how fit his body was. She couldn't deny she had taken note of it and she was impressed, though she had no intention of telling Finn that.

"It would seem that we have time to talk . . ."

"So it does . . . You know, people of a suspicious mind might think that you're deliberately creating situations where you can spend time with me . . ."

He shrugged before turning to her with a devilish grin "well who knows, they might be right . . ."

Though Rachel didn't turn to Finn he knew that there was a hint of a smile tugging at the corners of her lips. There were a couple of moments of quiet between them before Rachel spoke up again, with a question that changed the conversation completely. "Does wifey know you're out with the enemy?"

Finn raised his eyebrow "enemy?"

"I can't imagine she's very fond of me"

Finn chuckled a little and then shook his head "she's not around."

"Oh . . ."

"It's her mum's birthday this week and she's taking her away for a couple of days and then on to a spa weekend."

"It's alright for some . . ."

"You're here with me Rachel, how could you possibly want anything else?"

She laughed and gave a gentle shake of her head in response to what he had said. "Why did she come back for a night if she was going away again?"

Finn shrugged "for Finn I guess and for me, of course"

Rachel smirked "you're so annoying sometimes."

"How?"

"Well when your ego gets in the way of my conversation for a start."

He laughed

Rachel turned to him and smiled at the sound, before thinking aloud. "I'd love to just be able to jet off whenever I felt like it."

"Have you ever been abroad?"

Rachel nodded "I lived in France for a little while with . . ." she paused for a moment, not ready to share that bit of her history with him yet. " . . . Abigail but then we moved back here and we haven't been since."

"Is there somewhere you would like to go?"

"Like I would tell you if there was."

"Why?"

"Well I might end up with a couple of tickets for us landing on my desk tomorrow and be forced to accept them."

Finn laughed "fine, point taken . . ." he hesitated for a moment, a little unsure of what he was going to say next though he didn't want to admit to himself why. However, before he could get the full question out, Abigail raced towards Rachel through the water. "I've got something to ask you . . ."

"Mama" Abigail grinned and plonked herself down in Rachel's lap.

"You know for a dinky little thing you're pretty heavy"

"No you heavy"

Rachel smirked and raised her hands to smooth her now wet hair back before turning to Finn who was sitting at the side of her. "You having fun mate?"

He smiled shyly and nodded "you take me on slide?"

Rachel nodded "course I will sweetheart." She turned to Finn before speaking again "do you mind sitting with her while I take him?"

Finn shook his head in answer, a small smile playing on his lips.

"I go too?" Abigail questioned, a small frown now upon her expression.

"Once I've taken Finn, you've got to go one at a time baby." Rachel held her hand out to Finn who took it and moved to stand at her side.

"But on the other hand, you can spend some time with me . . ." Finn told Abigail, giving her a playful grin.

"I make you ready to swim?"

"Go on then"

Rachel bit down on her bottom lip to silence a laugh that was about to escape her when Abigail made Finn help her to take her armbands off to out on him. "Have fun . . ." she teased, before picking little Finn up and walking towards the stairs to get to the slide with him. "Your daddy doesn't know what he's let himself in for."

After swimming and getting some food Finn had persuaded Rachel to go back for a drink and she had accepted. She was now sitting in his huge living room with a glass of red wine rested in her lap with him sitting beside her on the couch. "Abigail really enjoyed today . . . Thank you . . ."

Finn smiled "thank you for taking your job back"

"It should be me thanking you for that too"

"No, it shouldn't"

Rachel had a little more of the wine and hesitated for a second before speaking again, a little quieter than she had been. "What was it that you were going to ask me?"

"Oh . . . That"

Rachel nodded "yeah, that . . ."

"I throw a party every year for some friends and people that work for me and I wanted to ask you if you would come. I've already invited everyone else from the factory and I didn't want to leave out my favorite employee . . ."

Rachel laughed "favorite?"

Finn nodded

"Now what would that do for staff moral?" Rachel raised her eyebrow a little and tilted her head to the side so that it was rested gently against the back of the couch she was sitting on.

Finn's arm was stretched out across the back of the couch and when Rachel tilted her head to the side he let his fingertips brush the nape of her neck gently, grateful when she didn't move away. When he spoke his voice was considerably quieter and now nothing above a whisper. "I won't tell if you don't . . ."

Rachel swallowed hard at the words he chose, the feeling of his fingertips against her skin, the offer of the party, her feeling's for him? She rose the glass to her lips to have a little more of the wine that was in it as a way of distracting herself from the road her thoughts were going down. She couldn't do that now; especially when she was sitting next to the man they were about. "The party . . ." she breathed and Finn nodded slowly. "What day is it?"

"Friday . . ."

"What time?"

"You can come whenever, I've told everyone else about half seven though."

Rachel nodded, his fingertips distracting her from what she was trying to say though as distracting as they were she knew that she would have been disappointed if he'd made any attempt to move and stop his touch. "Can I bring Abigail . . . It's just I have no one that could take care of her right now . . ."

"Of course you can, what would Finn do without her?"

Rachel gave a small smile "they do seem to be getting on rather well"

"They're not the only ones . . ."

Rachel swallowed once more as quiet fell upon them, the only sound in the room of their breaths. Rachel's heartbeat was ringing in her ears and though she wanted to kiss Finn, she just about managed to stop herself. "I'd better get going to put Abigail to bed . . . Thank you for tonight and for the wine . . ." she whispered, before getting up and reluctantly moving away from him.

Finn nodded and stood himself "I think Finn will be ready for bed too . . ."

"Where are they, in the playroom?"

Finn smiled and nodded "yeah come on, let's go and get them"

Rachel followed Finn into the playroom and as she stepped through the door she smiled at what she found. Finn and Abigail were curled up side by side on a huge beanbag flat out. "I guess they were even more tired than we thought," she whispered.

Finn nodded in agreement "I guess they were . . . Do you want to stay here for the night?"

Rachel shook her head "no . . . You don't have to do that, but if you have a blanket it might help?"

Finn smiled and nodded in response, he left the room and Rachel smiled at the to toddlers before her. Finn returned only seconds later with a blanket for her and she nodded her thanks before carefully picking Abigail up and wrapping her in it. She stirred a little but Rachel ran her hand over her back to settle her once more. Abigail nuzzled into Rachel's neck and let one arm fall over her shoulder as she clutched the other in a fist against her chest.

"I'll get Dom to take you home," Finn whispered and though Rachel didn't want him to so he wouldn't find out where she lived, she knew it would be unfair to walk home with Abigail in the cold.

"Thank you . . ."

Moments later he returned and Rachel followed him it into the hallway and to the front door as Dom exited and walked to the car before getting inside. "I'm glad you enjoyed tonight . . ." he whispered.

Rachel nodded and gave a small smile and when Finn leaned in to kiss her on the cheek, Rachel accepted, the pair of them lingering for a title longer than what could be considered as friendly. Rachel reluctantly pulled away and gave a small, shy smile before turning around and walking to the car with her daughter. Once she was in the car Dom drove away from the house and Rachel gave Finn a small wave before they were around the corner. It wasn't long before Rachel was confronted with the question that she dreaded and she knew that there was little she could do but tell Dom her address. However, his reaction wasn't like what she had thought it might be and after telling him where she lived he just nodded and drove in that direction. It was only minutes before Rachel arrived at home and Dom got out of the car and opened the door for her, she gave a grateful smile and got out with Abigail in her arms once more. She turned the key in her front door and then spoke to Dom before he left.

"Dom . . . I would really appreciate it if you didn't tell Finn where I lived . . ."

He nodded once more "course miss, take care."

"You too . . ."