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Trying to keep it real. Life isn't always happy!

There will be a happy ending soon though!
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Alex had lost the baby. She didn't feel anything though: no sadness or regret. Tears didn't pour from her eyes. Her body was immune to emotion. She'd shut everyone out, afraid that if anyone came close they'd realise she felt relief. Relief that she could focus on Molly; relief that everything could return to normal; relief that she could return to her job without worrying about somebody else.

Gene had woken her last night once he realised that she was bleeding. He'd rushed her to hospital, but she hadn't been scared. Surviving a shot to the head can do that to you- it makes you feel invincible. She hadn't even cried when she'd been told the news. She'd just sat there whilst Gene paced the room; anger radiating from his body. In any other situation he'd have stormed out and inflicted his anger on someone else. But not this time. He hadn't left her side the whole time and he had stayed with her all night stroking her hair and trying to offer her comfort. Comfort that she didn't need.

She felt terrible. How could she not feel something at the death of her own child? She knew the answer, but believed it to be too awful to admit out loud.

She hadn't wanted it, yearned for it like she had done with Molly. She'd hated it for the 2 weeks she'd known about it, angry that it had ruined her exciting new relationship. A relationship filled with desire and passion. As Gene pressed his lips lightly to hers that evening, she wondered if she'd ever get that passion back.

"You're not bloody coming with me!" Yelled Gene, his voice shaking with determination.

"I don't want to be cooped up here. I'm fine! Please just let me get back to normal?" Alex pleaded.

Gene sighed, finally giving in and opening the door of the Quattro for her, showing some willing.

"Fasten your seatbelt", he reminded her.

"I remember you once telling me that seatbelts were for vicars…?"
"Things have changed Bolly."
"I'm not a kid. I don't need looking after." She muttered, a triumphant gleam in her eyes when he said no more on the matter and sped off, nearly running over an elderly couple as he did so.
"Bloody pensioners!"

When they arrived at the scene of the crime, Ray and Chris were struggling to hold onto the perpetrator. Gene leapt out of the Quattro and returned to his 'Manc lion' persona, (they hadn't told anyone about Alex's pregnancy or miscarriage). Alex felt reassured; it seemed that doing the job that he loved so much, reinstalled a sense of normality in him. However, just as she was starting to feel better about the whole situation, she saw Gene punch the man, out of the corner of her eye. This of course, wasn't unusual. It was the next ten or so punches that followed: knocking the man straight to the floor. Gene wasn't coping with this well at all.

What's Gene going to do next? In a strange twist, will Alex be able to stay strong for Gene?

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