Sorry, this is probably gonna be really bad - I have a mashed brain full of French - damn taking French at GCSE!

Alice awoke slowly, she rolled over expecting to feel Danny's gentle body, instead she was met by an emptiness as her hand hit the mattress. She opened her eyes abruptly, her natural instinct awaking her. She noticed he was gone, and looked at the time. 7.20am? God, she'd only slept over 20 minutes, and Danny was worse at getting up than she ever was - how early had he got up?

Alice sighed as she pulled herself out of bed, she had no ambition, Danny gave her that inspiration every morning, seeing those green eyes, that greying hair, that gorgeous smile that melted her heart.

She quickly showered before jumping into her usual work attire, she chose a checked shirt along with her denim shorts, it seemed like a warm day.

As she was about to leave she noticed the bag she'd hidden under the bed was ever so slightly visible she walked back in to change it, she gently picked up the bag and took the boxes out, she stared at the largest box and sighed, before throwing a vitamin down her. She tossed the bag right under the bed… later she thought as she walked out of the room.

Three days Danny thought to himself smiling. He watched as Sonia walked over to him, she smiled at him cheekily and he grinned back. She handed him some bags and rubbed his shoulder.

"So have you considered when you're going to tell her?" She asked.

"Not really." Danny mumbled, it was true, for all his planning, which was already a shock, as Alice said he was disorganised, he hadn't even considered how he was going to tell Alice, or if he was going to tell Alice.

"You need to you know Danny." Sonia whispered sweetly before walking off, Danny stared blankly forwards, before climbing back in his Jeep and heading to Fatani's.

"I wish you'd tell him Alice." Zoe said humbly as she walked, well hobbled her way down to the animal hospital with Alice. "It's doing you no good."

"I know, I know, but how do I tell him. I mean, maybe I should just go to the doctors and…"

Zoe stopped her mid sentence, she leant further forward on her crutches. "Alice you have to tell him before, I mean, he's… he needs to be involved, you need him Alice."

"I know I need him, but, it is hard. I mean, how do you tell your husband that sort of news?" Alice asked shrugging her shoulders.

"Well people do Alice." Zoe laughed before patting her shoulder. "Come on you anyway! Danny'll be back soon I should imagine, wherever he's bloody got too, you know where I am if you want to talk."

"Thanks Zoe." Alice smiled as they continued their trek down.

Dupe groaned as Caroline handed him yet more unappetizing food. Fruit salad just was not Anders Du Plessis and to be frank, he didn't quite know how much more he could take. Every part of him craved a beer, a big fatty breakfast. He sighed, he was even losing weight - he had to wear a belt! He shook his head as he forced the salad down… he needed a plan. At that precise moment, Olivia walked in… he smiled. Perfect.

Danny rushed into the animal hospital to see Alice going about her work. He noticed Zoe just leaving, who had given him a welcoming nod. He walked up to Alice and wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"Hey." He mumbled into her neck.

"Hi, where've you been?" Alice asked, turning to face him, she rested her hands gently on his chest, her head gently leaning on his shoulder.

"Erm… nowhere really, nipped to Fatani's, had some stuff to sort out with him and I went for a walk up the copy." Danny grinned.

"Ahh okay, you should of woken me up, I'd of come with you." Alice smiled.

"You said you were tired yesterday." He said, Alice frowned slightly, she couldn't tell if that was just a genuine statement or whether there was some bluntness in his statement, she chose to ignore it, and just laughed slightly.

Alice gently clenched her fists and playfully gave Danny some punches in the chest, they weren't harsh punches, more the playful punches, the type that didn't hurt, Danny laughed but otherwise just held her.

"Fight back!" She teased.

"Nope!" He laughed, as she tried to seduce him into fighting back. "The answers still no Alice!"

Alice continued, Danny suddenly began to pat his hands gently down her back and down towards her bottom.

"You've been karate chopped." He laughed as they pulled away, Alice simply smiled at him before walking off.

Matt arriving back from his chores of checking on the animals in the bush, parked the Jeep quickly. He looked around, hoping to find Zoe. He rolled his shoulders, where on earth would he start? Animal hospital? Study? House? Was she even here? He smiled to himself, she most certainly wouldn't be staying still for long periods of time. At that moment he saw Alice wandering up from the animal hospital, he ran to greet her, hoping to gain some valuable information.

"Hey Alice!" Matt called as he joined her by her side. "Have you seen Zoe?"

"Hi Matt, erm, well she was in the animal hospital about half an hour ago, but she left when Danny came. Not sure where she's gone, she had some papers in her hand, so I'd try the study if I was you." Alice grinned.

"Thanks, so how's things?" Matt asked, as they slowly made their way to the house.

"Fine…" Alice trailed off, Matt stopped causing Alice to stop. "What?"

"Nothing." Matt mumbled carrying on walking, Alice gritted her teeth slightly, was Matt beginning to sense her discomfort too?

She didn't have any more time to worry about it as he ran off in desperate search of Zoe. Matt knew one thing - he had to speak to her. Something just was not right at Leopards Den, and she would know what.

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