A/N: Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. This chapter Niamh gets to know people in the village, she comforts Ste and Pete arrives. This chapter is shorter than usual but is still a good read. So keep reading.

The next day she was in Chez Chez on sat on the sofas, watching the place because Brendan had dashed off all of a sudden. Her phone buzzed she looked at it and she had a text of Declan. She smiled at this; she missed her brothers so much. She couldn't wait to see them again, even though she weren't sure when that would be.

D: Hey Niamh, heard about your ladder accident, are you okay? X
N: Hey Deccy, I am fine, it was only a concussion and a bruised back. I was very lucky. How are you at the moment? X

She heard someone enter the club and walk up it was Mitzeee, she went and sat on the sofa opposite her.
"Hey love" said Mitzeee.
"Hi Mitzeee" said Niamh, she had never had a conversation with her before only knew she was Brendan's beard.
"Is Brendan about?" asked Mitzeee, Niamh shook her head.
"Gone out for a bit" said Niamh, her phone buzzed and she saw she had a text from Declan.
"Who was that?" asked Mitzeee smiling at her.
"My younger brother Declan" said Niamh, she stuffed her phone in her pocket and looked at Mitzeee.
"Ah got any other brothers or sisters" asked Mitzeee.
"Yeah another younger brother, it goes me, Declan and Padraig the baby of the family even though six, what about you?" said Niamh she liked talking to Mitzeee, it was a break from her boredom of being sat on her own.
"I have an older sister called Maxine, get what you mean my cousins Jason and Seth are the babies of our family and their sixteen, I watched them grow up" said Mitzeee. Niamh nodded and smiled relating to what she had said.
"Yeah, oh are they the ones that live in the pub, with Carl, Heidi and the fit footballer" asked Niamh, she had seen them round the village.
"His name's Riley, yeah that's them, what do you do at the moment, why aren't in college or sixth form?" asked Mitzeee.

Niamh slipped her shoes of and put her feet up on the sofa making herself more comfortable.
"I am babysitting at the moment, babysit Ste's kids mostly, I was at college in Belfast but I got kicked" said Niamh. Mitzeee frowned at her "don't ask". They both started laughing.

XOXOXOXOXOX

Niamh spent the rest of the morning talking to Mitzeee. She liked her she was alright to talk to. They had even swapped numbers. She heard the door open downstairs and someone running in and slamming the toilet doors shut.

Niamh jumped up.
"I'll just go check that out" said Niamh. She ran down the stairs and went in to the ladies toilets she walked down the rows of cubicles opening them one by one. Nobody was in there so she went in to the men's toilets she knew she shouldn't technically be in there but it could be an emergency. There was a smell of sick in the air and the sound of male dry heaving at the end of the toilets. She ran to the last cubicle and pushed the cubicle door open, Ste was huddled up over the toilet. Niamh gasped and got on the floor opposite him. She flushed the toilet for him and he leant against the wall opposite her, he was crying.
"What's wrong Ste? Are you ill?" asked Niamh. Ste whimpered.
"No well yeah but it doesn't matter she lost the baby and I am so powerless to help" cried Ste. Niamh put her arms out and crossed her legs. Ste came closer to Niamh and soon they were in an awkward hug with Ste practically being on Niamh's lap with his arms wrapped round her neck and she was hugging him back tight. Rubbing circles on his back and making shhh noises.
"It's okay, it's all going to be okay" said Niamh.

He cried for a while longer just cried and then soon enough he stopped crying and shuffled so he was sat next to her. She put her arm round his shoulders.
"Want to talk about it?" asked Niamh breaking the silence.
"I'm proper gutted, I found out earlier, Brendan took her to hospital, I was at the doctors with Leah she's got a sickness bug and I guess I've got it" said Ste. Niamh shook her head. The sickness was brought on by shock or stress. She had seen him this morning and he seemed fine then, "is this my karma for cheating on Rea and all the bad stuff I have done!" She looked at him and sighed.
"Oh Ste" said Niamh she put her other arm round him and pulled him in to her shoulder. The cubicle door opened and Brendan stood there he leant himself on the cubicle door. "Hi dad" said Niamh she looked up at him and then looked at Ste.
"I'd better be going" said Ste. They got up and walked out the cubicle.
"Text me if you need me and I'll come over yeah" said Niamh softly. She hugged him one last time he walked away from her. Brendan followed him quickly.
"Niamh stay here I am just going to take Steven home" said Brendan. Niamh nodded and went back upstairs.

XOXOXOXOX

Niamh was in the club on her own again waiting for Brendan to come back. She was down stairs this time looking at the door. She felt so bad for Ste she wanted to take all the upset away from him and make him happy again. Niamh cared a lot for him and hated to see him so upset. Brendan walked and Niamh jumped off the stool. He pulled her to him and hugged her tightly. She knew he was affected by this too. Niamh could tell by the way he was hugging her tight that he was upset.
"This looks cosy" said an Irish voice from the door. They broke apart and looked round, to see a man in a wheelchair in the door way. Brendan put his arm round her shoulders and put on a defensive stance. Niamh wasn't sure if this was a defence for him or her.
"Excuse me, who are you?" asked Niamh.
"Me and your daddy go way back, I am Pete" said the man.

TBC

Next chapter; Niamh sticks by Brendan, ends up getting in between an on-going feud and get irritated with customers at Chez Chez so uses the Brady way to deal with it.