A/N RECAP - As Danny chases someone he suspects as Lauren in a building unbeknownst to him Lily who he told to go to a security guard has been kidnapped by someone and they are taking her outside.

(X)

All Danny could see was Laurens shoulder length brown hair flying behind her as she weaved through the hallways of the set offices. She passed a plant and pulled it over, he vaulted over it. He saw try another burst of she speed and she raced through them. He was faster though, his legs longer and he soon caught her. He took her arm and she swivelled, clenched a tight fist and hit out hard at his chest, Danny didn't feel it.

"Calm down!" he coaxed her gently.

"Ah divn't na who ya fink ah am but am nowt to dee wi yee!" yanked her arm roughly. "Lerris gan!"

god even without the accent she sounded like her mother, and like Lily he added. The attitude was identical, and the angry I could kill you tone.

"Me dad is ganna kick yee all owa just wait!" and she pulled hard with all her weight.

What was weird is she hadn't screamed yet, almost like she didn't want to draw attention to herself, why?

"Don't run please, I'll release your arm."

She looked up at him and he almost melted at the sight of her big green eyes, so much like Alice's, except for the colour. She just had this expression her mum wore when she was weary of something. She nodded quickly, not saying a word. He slowly loosened his grip and she took a step away.

"People are waiting for iz in the car park." she rubbed her arm.

"Ok." he replied simply. "Let me go get Lily and I'll take you to them."

"NO!" she yelped.

"Why?" frowned at her.

"Erm, coz they'll kick off if they see me with a strange man you moron! Howay what would yee dee?" rolled her eyes.

"Well I'm not letting you go by yourself….." he never got to finish that statement as an ear splitting scream filled the air. "DAD!"

He paled automatically. "Oh no Lily!" he breathed, grabbed Laurens arm once again and ignoring her protests dragged her down the hallway to where the last spot he knew his daughter was. He arrived there and found the hallway empty and was about to take her to the office when he saw pink in the corner of his eye. He went to it knelt down and saw Lily's phone. He started to feel a little bit sick, she never went anywhere without her phone, not only so she could stay in contact with her friends but because she knew how important it was for her parents to be able to stay in contact with her at all times.

"No….no…" he whispered and released Lauren walking down the hallway and saw jet black hair and droplets of blood he knelt down and touched the blood to find it still wet. "Lily…." he breathed and looked around. It was then he noticed Lauren backing away quietly. He was up and beside her in seconds. She had spun to try and run but he caught her around the waist before she could move. He held her to his side while he fought to get his phone out of his pocket.

"LEMME GO!" she screamed fighting him hard. "Al kill yee for this ah swear to God!"

A lift dinged and a woman walked out. Danny didn't turn his head so he didn't see Alice walking towards them.

Alice left the lift on the bottom floor, where she planned to meet Lily and Danny. She immediately heard her daughter, except her voice was weird and she was irate! She saw Danny and by his side a girl fighting. She walked towards them.

"Danny why are you holding Lily like that and why is she putting on that ac….." she caught sight of the girl her husband was holding. "….cent." Alice's eyes widened as her voice escaped her. "Lauren?" she managed to whisper and stood in front of her. She was small for her age, and had stopped fighting and was staring back at her with wide green eyes, the image of Danny's. "Lauren is that you?" she asked softly. She looked the same as she had as a child, except taller and she had lost the rest of the baby fat from her face and she was much shorter than….Alice looked around realising, if Danny wasn't holding Lily then where was she? "Where's Lily?" she asked Danny.

Danny didn't answer so she grabbed his arm. "Danny where is Lily!"

"I told her to go to security and she didn't get there!" he told her dialling another number on his phone. He was soon talking quickly. "Keep her, she keeps running." and he began to run down a hallway and out of the door.

Alice didn't understand what he was trying to tell her! She was with him, so why wasn't she here? He remind was being yanked it all kinds of directions. Lily was gone, Lauren was here and almost in shock staring at her. It had to be their Lauren, she resembled Danny so much it was uncanny! On a blood relation could look so much like him, she even had the tilt to his head he did when watching someone.

"Are you ok?" Alice asked her. "Please don't run,. We'll get this all cleared up in no time ok?" touched her arm gently.

An unusual look flitted across Laurens face at the contact and her face was soon neutral, almost cold. "You're that actress woman then?" Lauren mused. "The dead famous one who was in all the papers, and that Lass was aswell, someink about a horse?"

Alice found it almost surreal hearing Lily's voice with such a natural distinct Newcastle accent. That kind of accent was hard to imitate as it sometimes went badly wrong. She had heard Danny do it once or twice after watching a program called grafters and it was weird. She was getting off subject, but she was finding it hard to concentrate. "Do you live in Newcastle then?"

"I asked my question first!"

Alice nodded. "Yes my name is Alice Collins and I am an actress. Lily was in the newspapers recently after saving a young girl on a horse."

"He ya husband?"

Alice nodded.

"Me dad is gonna kick him all owa for grabbin me ya na!" Lauren nodded.

"Is your name Lauren?"

"Yeah." and she crossed her arms.

"And is your birthday April seventh?"

Lauren frowned. "This is pua weird like! You stalking is? Just coz ya an actress doesn't mean you can invade me privacy!"

"I didn't….."

"Then how do ya na that stuff then?"

Danny appeared down the hallway and was putting the phone away. He looked ill. "The police are on the way, security has the building on lock down, they won't get out."

Lauren heard the word police and almost bolted. This was all going wrong! Alice blocked her in on one side and Danny the other. Danny motioned to her, "What do you think? Is she?"

Alice nodded in agreement. "Could be! It's uncanny how much she reminds me of Lily, she has this…."

"attitude?" he supplied.

Alice nodded and even though Lily was gone she found it within herself to smile.

"Can ya not talk aboot iz like am not standing reet here man!" again she rolled her eyes.

"Lily!" Danny told Alice. The attitude right there. "But try not to worry, she'll be around somewhere, she was away from me five minutes tops. She'll be close. I had a quick look around and the police are cordoning off the immediate street area. They will get her. I have them her description." and he looked down at Lauren. "First we need to confirm who she is!"

"Divn't yee botha even talking to me!" Lauren snapped. "Al get yas both done for kidnapping!"

And wasn't that the biggest irony of the whole situation? Alice wondered. Officers approached them from down the hallway and Danny walked halfway to greet them. Alice missed the way Lauren gulped at the sight of them.

(X)

Lily was held tightly against a woman's body. She catalogued all she could. Medium build, slightly taller than her, and she was tall for her age, her captor had longish hair that tickled her face and it looked brown from the corner of her eye. Her vision had cleared and she was aware they were heading for the car park. Cameras! They had cameras and she looked directly at once straightening her face so they got a clear look.

"I know what you're trying to do Lily and I fixed the cameras, all blacked out!" she hissed. "AND the ones in the hallway!"

Lily clenched her jaw, felt her feet stumble and her ribs screamed with pain. They walked through a draughty space and cars were lined up like soldiers. As the daughter of a big star she had the threat of kidnapping hanging over her wherever she went and she'd had it drilled in her head that you under no circumstances get any car! So she was gathering her strength for what she considered the final showdown, she would die before she got in that car because if she did she was as good as dead anyway! And at thought she felt a strange sort of calm, like she knew her choices and that was it. She already had her plan too, whoever this freak was she had to loosen her hold to open the car door and when she did Lily was going to be ready! They headed for a black Peugeot and nerved filled her, heart pounding hard. The person didn't loosen her hold as she went into her pocket for the keys. She pulled them out and beeping filled the area along with orange flashing lights.

Ok here we go Lily thought and kept her body taut waiting for her opening.

Her captor fumbled with the keys, she sidled closer to the car and began to bend over. Lily felt the pressure on her neck loosen and she took her chance, flung her head back and felt the impact jaw the back of her head. The arm dropped, but the door to the car opened and she was pushed inside. She fell face down on the seat the person holding her face swearing, blood spewing from her nose. Lily didn't waste a second and turned and launched herself out of the car,. Impacted her captor in the midsection and she were in the ground, rolling. She kicked out.

"You're sister wasn't this much trouble!" her captor roared. Lily made a fist and when she was above the woman hit down hitting her in the face twice. Her captor hit her back with so much force she saw stars, but being aware she was fighting with her life made her impervious to the blows. She fought harder and knew she was loosing when the sound of a car startled her. Lily hit her again, rolled off her and ran into the darkness. She stumbled towards the line of cars and weaved between them, decided to crouch behind one, it was white. Heavy footfalls approached and she closed her eyes and released a breath silently. She kept her breathing shallow and crouched low. The lights were out in this area and everything was dark. She knew she couldn't stay here, it was too dangerous that she'd be caught so Lily , staying as low as she could moved towards the exit for the cars when she reached the wall she was leaving herself open but she had to. She moved swiftly and ran, gun shots echoed but she was under the pole and towards the street. All she needed was a phone…another gunshot echoed and something tear through her shoulder and she fell to her knees. Holding her arm to her stomach she pushed herself up and ran. She'd find a phone and call the police. Looked at her shoulder and saw blooding leaking steadily.

(X)

Danny, Alice and Lauren were sat in a police station. Since Lauren was refusing to talk to anyone about anything, except to give her parents names as John and Jane Smith she was there too. That combined with Danny and Alice's insistence that she could be their missing daughter meant she had been fingerprinted to see if she was on their system. Her fingerprints from South Africa were being faxed over. They were going to compare them as a DNA test took a long time. Meanwhile they sat in a pink room with cushioned seats, a TV on the wall and magazines which were months out of date, Lauren held a can of Fanta and slouched low, face mutinous. Danny and Alice were sick with worry for Lily. They had been told nothing, but they had heard the gunshots.

"Me dad will come soon." Lauren kept saying. Except she had no dad and Emma had never told her his name. Still she had to admit her resemblance to the man across the room was weird, it was kind of like looking in a mirror at an old male version of herself. It was obvious he was worried about Lily, he had a right to be! If Emma got her hands on her then it was bye bye Lily. She hated Alice and would do anything to hurt her. Her mums friends had once told her that her mum had kidnapped a kid years ago and killed her, not before she tortured her though….she knew ALL about that!

What if her mum didn't call the police to collect her though? What then? Would she be forced to go with these people? Certainly not right? Just coz she's famous Alice couldn't do that! The again you heard about famous people buying kids all the time! Her mum would say this was a singular opportunity but she didn't want it, she didn't want to be some famous persons kid!

Danny had his head bowed in his hands while Alice sat and studied Lauren and her body language, it was interesting. Being an actress she knew the importance of taking into account all aspects of your body when acting. It was no good acting like you loved someone if your body indicated you hated them. Sometimes the body spoke more than words ever could and this girl's kept changing. Going from cocky to closed and then to scared stiff. Her arms were crossed tightly almost in defence and she made herself as small as possible. Not to mention her face…..Danny's face…. And those eyes, they darted all around the room resting on her and Danny momentarily before they moved on again. She was trying so hard to be cavalier and nonchalant and while this might fool a lot of people Alice knew a mask when she saw one, she worked with people who pretended after all.

"You ok?" Alice asked again.

"Aye." Lauren answered. A single syllable and stared at the wall opposite.

"I recognise your accent, you never did say if you lived in Newcastle. Are you on holiday?"

"Ya divn't have to pretend to be interested in iz ya na!" Lauren muttered. "Am too common for you!"

"I am interested."

Lauren sighed. "We just moved here" she shrugged. "Nee jobs at home. Nee fixed address there either," then quieted. "Yee divn't have that problem eh?"

Alice noted the girls clothes were old and faded, torn too. Her jeans had seen better days and the jumper was very old. Her trainers almost falling apart. She thought of Lily who had everything she wanted and more. She had riding lessons, two horses in a stables she went to private school and went shopping on a whim. She had forgot that years ago this young girl could have been her. It was hard. "I'm very lucky." she agreed. She got paid so much for a job she loved. "We're both vets at home too. We have a vetinary surgery."

"Budgies and rabbits. Sounds really glamorous!" sarcasm thick in her tone.

"Lions, giraffes, the odd hippo, Leopards Cheetah."

Lauren sat up. "You own a zoo?"

"No we own a game reserve at South Africa, we have land filled with animals, a surgery, pens a huge house and a wind fan which I love!"

In her minds eye Lauren saw a flash of a hat sun and brown dust, the scent of the land after it rained was around her and she was filled with happiness. Water was trickling, when she turned she saw a small girl in a fountain with a man and was moving towards them. "C'min Lauren!" the girl laughed. She fell inside the water trying to climb in, before she could panic gentle hands picked her up and she saw the woman before her in her mind. "You ok Lauren?"

"Lauren?" the same voice asked and she jumped.

"Um yeah…." voice shuddering, chest heaving. The mask slipped back in place but the feelings still remained. "Am good. That's jobs sounds cool." she nodded. "So is the fountain." she added absently.

Alice looked at her closer. "How did you know we have a fountain?"

"You said."

Alice shook her head. "No I didn't….did you, did you see a fountain in your head?"

Lauren was frowning. "No, ah just guessed, ah thought you said fountain that's all." the girl was fidgeting and Alice could tell she was struggling so she backed off.

Danny got up suddenly and checked his watch. "Why haven't they said anything about Lily! It's been hours!" he was trying not to ignore Lauren but he couldn't believe they were going through this again.

Alice was trying not to focus too much on the terror coursing through her. This time it was Danny falling apart while last time he had been calm, assuring her that Lauren would be home soon.

"But the gunshots! Lily!" he fisted his hands in his hair.

At the mention of the name Lauren seemed to blanche. She recovered but Alice still noticed it, Alice began to wonder. She turned to Lauren. "Why were you at the studios?" especially the offices, not much chance of seeing an actor/actress up there!

"Trying to get a catch sight of me favourite actor Connor Lescott." Lauren lied smoothly. "Maybe get a autograph, I got lost."

Alice nodded satisfied. "I worked with him in this film. Lily thinks its cool I get paid to kiss people." Alice kept her eyes trained on Laurens face and put emphasis on the name Lily.

On cue her face seemed to change. So the tick wasn't a figment of her imagination!

"How old is Lily?" Lauren asked softly.

"Twelve, her birthday is April seventh. She is thirteen next year."Lauren nodded, the significance of the date not seeming to occur to her.

There was a loud knock on the door, Danny stood up and went to the door. "Lily?" he asked the officer stood there. At his word a figure appeared and flung herself in his arms. "Dad!" Lily cried.

Danny held his girl tightly unwilling to let her go. "Oh my god!" he breathed. And tears filled his eyes. He bent down and kissed her head. Pulled back to look at her and ran a hand down her face. Alice came over and wrapped her arms around both of them.

Lauren sat there, in the corner of the room, alone playing with the rung pull on her can until it snapped. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the way they surrounded Lily. Lily with her designer clothes, the sunglasses alone were probably worth more than her whole wardrobe at home! Look at the way they babied her, Lauren thought deriviously they were so gentle….. There had been precious little of that in her life, she rubbed her arm absently. At that moment she hated Lily! At the bottom of her jacket she saw a scar peeking and she pulled it down covering it. Even in the heat of summer she kept her jumper on. Her arms evoking questions she didn't like to answer. She hadn't ever been swimming because of it! Cigarette burns were the thing of choice, there was always the belt, whatever her mum had to hand. Even a knife once! Lauren could sit quietly, but even breathing too loud could still that would let her off. She learned to be invisible but it didn't help.

"It's not only that…" the officer continued.

Danny looked up.

"We received the faxed information regarding Lauren Trevanion from Johannesburg and compared them to hers." pointed to Lauren. "They are a perfect match."

Danny and Alice froze at the words.

"A DNA test is still needed to be sure but the fingerprints are conclusive." then he left the room to get them some paperwork.

Danny and Alice turned and looked at the girl slouching on the sofa playing with the ring pull of her can, lost in thought. She looked up at them and noticed the staring. "What? Take a picture it'll last longer!" shook her head and crossed her arms.

Danny and Alice turned to each other unable to believe that he daughter they hadn't seen in seven years was sat there and as mouthy as her twin, if not more.

"Mum? Dad?" Lily asked then noticed Lauren. "What is she doing here? This is all her….."

"She?" Lauren stood up. "Hello, I have a name ya na and you might be famous Alice Collins daughter but it won't stop me from popping you one on the jaw!"

The breath escaped Alice, she had said almost the exact same words to Lynsey! This was too much!

"You think I'm scared of you?" her t-shirt coated in her own blood, her face bruising but she still took a step forward. "I took kick boxing from the age of six until eleven."

Lauren smirked cockily. "I don't need lessons. Naturally talented!"

"Calm down!" Danny requested

Lily was mutinous.

"Ya think at better than me wi ya clothes an ya kick boxing and ya famous mam but howay lets face it you're not. We're the same. The difference between us is money, nowt else!"

"No the difference between us is my mum and dad are here and yours aren't!" Lily's voice superior. Alice hated it when she put on that voice. "My parents love me, how long have you been waiting? Or do you even have a mum and dad?" looked her up and down and dismissed her.

Lauren moved towards her to tear her head off, it didn't matter if you had the most rubbish parents in the world, no one was allowed to bad mouth them!

Danny released Lily and went to Lauren, put his hands on her shoulders.

Lauren looked up at him. "Do ya want to take ya hands off iz reet now!" a threat evident in her tone.. Although she made it sound like a request it was obviously an order.

"Look girls, sit down please." Alice asked. Girls, oh God! Plural! Two! How long had she dreamed of this? Unfortunately in the dream her daughters didn't want to kill each other. It made a twisted kind of sense seeing how she and Danny acted when they first met.

"Ah didn't have to listen to yee!" Lauren shouted. "Me da'll be here soon!"

"No Lauren." Alice told her softly. "Your dad is right here." and looked towards Danny.

Lauren looked between Alice and Danny. "No way!" I was told…."

"NO way!" Lily yelled at the same time. "He's my dad not hers!"

"Who told you what?" Danny asked Lauren.

"Look at them." Alice told Lily.

Lily looked between her dad and Lauren and she was identical to her dad, her name too…."Lauren?" she whispered.

Alice nodded. "She's your sister Lily, Lauren is your twin."

Lauren came to life. "Twin? She looks nowt like iz!"

"You're non identical twins. Two separate eggs but you have the same birthday, born twelve minutes apart and spent every moment together before… It was my friend Mandy, without her we'd only have one of you."

"Ya ALL crazy!" Lauren exclaimed starting to freak out. "I know who me mam is!"

"I agree!" Lily seconded. "THAT is not related to me, twin or not!"

"That?" Lauren bristled. This lass just kept pushing her luck!

"What's the matter?" Lily asked snidely. "Is a four letter word too much for you!"

Lauren had reached her limit and lunged for Lily. Danny caught her and held her back.

"Alice you take Lauren. I'm gonna take Lily." Danny told her.

"You stay with Lauren." Alice asked, she felt more comfortable with Lily.

"She doesn't trust me. Go on." and he released Lauren, took Lily's arm and left. He felt her wince when they were outside. He looked closely and saw the padding on her shoulder.

"What happened?" he asked.

She carried on walking. "Dad tell me it isn't true." she pleaded.

"It's true."

"But she can't be! I always imagined her as someone nice!"

"Think of it in her point of view Lil's. she has just found out that the only life she can remember is a lie and she has to live somewhere else, with people she doesn't know and oh yeah, she has a twin who she didn't know existed."

Lily pondered. "Suppose it explains how I knew what she was thinking." she murmured.

"What?"

"When I was talking to her I looked in her eyes and….I dunno, I got these feelings that told me if she was lying and how she was feeling. It was weird." shook her head.

Danny was taken aback.

They walked outside and sat down.

"Your shoulder?"

She shrugged. "I fell."

"Is that all?" ran his hand down her hair.

Lily closed her eyes and everything she went though was at the front of her mind. She bent doubly covering her face. Danny pulled her close. "Ssshhh its alright." he crooned. "You're safe."

"She had me in the car dad! I panicked I didn't know what to do!" tears falling faster. "All I could remember was how you and mum told me never to get in a strangers car."

He rubbed her back almost raging at the woman who terrorised Lily.

"And she told me she was going to kill me like she killed Lauren! She said she cut her throat!"

His arms tightened around her. "We'll be home soon but first you have to tell the police everything you know."

"I never saw her face dad. She was always behind me and then hit me my eyes were blurry ages."

He kissed her forehead. "Lauren mustn't have been random all those years ago., not with what you are saying. We need to tell the police everything and when Lauren does they'll finally catch her!"

Lily pulled away. Lauren won't talk, I know it! She's working with her! She tried to make me leave with her to take me to her I'm sure of it!"

"Did she ask you to go with her?"

"No but I could read it in her eyes! I don't trust her dad! She wasn't acting normal, something doesn't feel right."

"You just need to get to know her Lily, she's your sister!"

"NO! Because of her I was almost shot!"

His heart stopped for a moment. "Shot?"

"I got away from her and she was shooting at me, a bullet grazed my arm, thankfully I shifted or it would have been my chest! That was my so called sisters doing!" she seethed. "So NO she isn't my sister, she died on a beach seven years ago when we were five. The Lauren in there? She tried to hurt me. Tried to take me to the person who called my twin and that makes her the enemy!"

"Lils!"

But Lily had already headed inside, he followed her so they could talk to the police.

A/N Well it looks like Lauren is actually their daughter…..wow….the plot thickens….there are plenty of secrets she is hiding. But she seems to have a softer side and does feel guilt…..sometimes. However Alice has her doubts and Lily is suspicious…..watch this space The next chapter it starts to become clear what is going on! x

shout out to Stephen Tompkins on in this chapter as he is a originally a Geordie lad (before he moved to Blackpool) well he's from Teesside which is slightly down the river from Newcastle and he was in fact in a program called Grafters and he sounds well weird doing a Geordie accent. Love where am from Geordies FTW!

straight up without checked so sorry for any mistakes I couldn't be bothered to check almost 5000 words x