8. Nostalgia

"I'm going out."

"Fine."

"Don't wait up for me."

As she reaches the door he cannot resist sniping, "going to see Grace again, I assume."

She turns to him deliberately, eyes burning. "Yes," is all she says, and somehow it cuts like a knife.

She leaves him to the silence, contemplating how things have gotten so bad between them. They haven't made love in two weeks. They don't even sleep in the same bed anymore.

The days of laughter, of happiness, of spending hours in bed are over. He still loves her, he thinks, but he longs for the past.


A/N: I re-watched series four, episodes nineteen and twenty recently. It still hacks me off how Andrew stays at the end but disappears without explanation for series five.

Sazzy - I'm glad you liked these. :)