"Dad!" Lexi yelled running after her father. He ignored her.

"Where you going dad? STOP!"

Danny had ran across the road. Lexi stopped.

"Please don't go dad I need you!"

Danny turned to face his little girl. He heard a engine and saw a car speeding towards his child.

Christ how fast was this nutter going he was going to hit her! Hit his baby girl!

Lexi turned and looked at the car. She froze she physically couldn't move. She just stared. Her face held a resigned look. Like this was going to happen, there was nothing she could do to stop it and she'd just let it. Like hell! danny thought

He moved without thinking. "Love you sunshine." he told her and then put his hands on her chest and pushed her hard. She felt like she flew through the air and landed on the pavement with a thud. She saw the car plough into her father. She wanted to look away but couldn't. She saw his head hit off the bonnet and watched him roll and hit the windshield. Then the car braked and her father rolled off the hood and he skidded across the road. He lay unbelievably still. Lexi sat there stunned. Unable to take all this in. She was gonna wake up in a minute, any minute now!

(X)

Alice ran to the front of her house. It took literally a minute although in her head it felt like hours. Each step seemed to take an eternity. A white car was parked diagonally across the road. The bonnet was streaked with blood. Alice felt ill at the sight of it. She saw her daughter sat on the path in front of her house. She was shaking her head.

"Lexi?"

She turned around and saw her mum. Alice ran to her and looked at her face and body. She looked fine.

"Lexi where's your father?"

Lexi was looking at her like she didn't understand what she was saying. Like she was in shock or something. Then she looked at something down the road, Alice looked in the direction of her daughters gaze.

She saw Danny. He lay a few feet from the car. He was unconscious on the road face down his arms splayed above his head. His face was all grazed.

"Danny!" she whispered.

"Daddy." Lexi said still a little shocked.

Ethan appeared beside Lexi.

"Christ!" he whispered. He looked so broken lying there

Alice looked at Danny and realised he almost looked like he was asleep or dea… she wasn't finishing that thought she had to help him.

"Daddy!" Lexi suddenly screamed. She started trying to get up to run to him.

"Ethan take her inside. Phone my mum ask her to come down if she can please. Phone an ambulance too!

Ethan grabbed Lexi and dragged her to the house. She fought and kicked. "Let me go I need to help him!"

Alice ran over to Danny. Her mind ran through procedures. But they were for animals. He already had a huge bump on his forehead. She placed her hand over his mouth. She didn't feel any breath coming from his mouth.

"Dammit no!"

She checked his pulse and couldn't find one.

"Dammit I said no Danny!"

"Look Mr I need you to help me turn him." Alice yelled at the driver. "I've got his head. You turn his body when I say so, make sure we go at the same time. We risk spinal damage if we jar him! 1,2,3 Move!"

They turned him and Alice searched for his pulse. Still nothing.

"How hard you hit him?" she asked . As she checked.

"Dunno?"

"Well how fast were you going then?" she asked getting angry, he was being evasive.

Alice started to do cardiac massage. She felt strangely calm at the moment considering her husband lay essentially dead on the road.

"Well?" she asked.

"50."

"50? Are you out of your mind. This is at best a 25 zone! God kids live here!" she shouted still working on Danny.

"Look they came from nowhere, I swerved but I was gonna hit the kid. I'm so sorry!"

"C'mon Danny!"

Nothing.

"Dammit Danny no!" she screamed. "I swear if he dies I'll kill you!" she warned.

The paramedics arrived suddenly and they moved her out of the way. As they worked on him in front of her she felt the calm desert her. She heard them talking but heard no words. She only heard her own heart beat pounding in her ears. She wished she could share it with him. She suddenly started to shake uncontrollably. A second ambulance arrived. She saw Ethan bring Lexi outside. Danny was loaded onto a stretcher.

"Where you taking him?"

"Bristol general!"

She watched the ambulance carry the man she loved away. Then walked over to the ambulance that held Lexi. She ached to go with him but she had 2 kids she couldn't leave.

"Clean bill of health Miss." the paramedic told Lexi.

Than God!" Alice said and took Lexi back into the house. The police had arrived and were interviewing the driver.

Lexi was crying on the sofa. She saw her mother and sobbed harder. "Is my dad dead?" Lexi wailed.

Alice went over and hugged her child. Ethan's eyes were moist and she motioned for him to come to her too. She hugged them tight, trying desperately to stay strong for the both of them.

"Look both of you, your dad is strong. He'd never leave us ok."

"Mum we have to go to hospital. He's there alone!" Lexi told her.

"No Lex we can't go there!"

"Please mum I can't let him stay there alone!"

"Look baby I hate leaving your dad there too. I love him more than anything but I'm not having you sat in a waiting room!"

Especially for the type of news Alice was sure was coming. She couldn't get Danny breathing and the paramedics were ventilating him manually. Oh god why was this happening? She couldn't lose him. They been together for too long, life without him wasn't life it was existing. She'd had no life without him. She didn't remember a life without him. It started with him on that day in Bristol. All her memories he's there smiling in the background or stood by her side. She rubbed her face.

As soon as the kids had calmed down. Well calmer than they were. She checked her phone. Mrs Elliott had text her. She couldn't get away till later God she couldn't stand that. He could be dead by then and she'd never have the chance to tell him everything she wanted to say. Who was she kidding he could be dead by now! She rang the hospital.

"Hello."

"Hello my husband Danny Trevanion was brought in after being hit by a car. I was wondering if you had any news on him?"

"Sorry Miss I can't give out any information over the phone. I am only a nurse. The doctor will telephone you later."

"Look can't you tell me anything?"

"Sorry I can't."

"Look I have 2 kids at home who are worried about their dad. I can't get way or I'd be there. Please I'm begging you can you even tell me if he's alive?"

The nurse took pity on her and tapped a keyboard. "Look Mrs Trevanion if you are hit by a car hypothetically you could be in surgery for a collapsed lung. You may also have a concussion and be in a coma. Maybe even have a few cracked ribs. Of course this is all hypothetical of course!"

"Oh yes of course. Thank you so much."

"Your welcome." the nurse said and put the phone down.

"Collapsed lung? Coma? Oh god oh god oh god oh god. That phrase just echoed through her brain. He was gonna die. She collapsed on the sofa. C'mon Danny fight. We need you and love you. Don't even dare give up on us!"

(X)

The kids were in the living room fidgeting . Alice was in the kitchen cleaning. Lexi was nervous. She knew her mother. When something was bugging her she wiped. When she was angry she scrubbed. She never seen her like this before. She was attacking the counters and cooker. All the surfaces. Like they had done something to personally offend her. Her arm was moving as fast as lightning. Her face intense. Her mother had made them something to eat, it at on the table untouched. The police had been in and took her statement. God reliving it was just as bad as watching it. How'd she ran after her father, scared he was going to do something stupid. How she said she needed him to please not leave her. He'd been across the road at this point. She had stopped in the middle of the road shouting for him. How his head had turned at a noise, his face had turned from shock to complete fear. She had then turned and saw this car flying at her really really fast. She'd knew she had no way of getting out of the way in time so she sorta resigned herself to her fate. She'd been frozen to the spot. She didn't know how her dad had did it but he'd reached her in time but and he'd pushed her out of the way. So hard that it had knocked the wind out of her for a second. Then the car had hit her father. She'd closed her eyes at the memory, trying to escape from it. She couldn't see his face, that she was sorta glad of. To see his body just fold into itself like that was bad enough! The bumper had hit his stomach and he'd immediately bent double. His head hit the car and she'd seen blood just splatter everywhere. Her eyes had filled as she spoke about this bit. The tears started falling as she'd carried on. She'd seen him roll onto the bonnet and hit the windshield. He was moving really fast, the car had hit him really fast! The driver of course was braking at this point trying desperately to stop. As the car did eventually stop her father had rolled off the hood, his head bouncing off the floor as it connected and then he rolled along concrete till he came to complete still. Then her mother had came outside and everything suddenly went wild. Shouting and screaming her mother running to her father while she was dragged in the house.

The officer had went to ask more questions but Alice had stopped him.

"No way! She is upset enough. Come back tomorrow!"

"But Mrs Trevanion we need her to talk when it's still fresh in her mind."

"Do you think she'd gonna forget what she seen today? Get out of here before you upset her more."

As the officer had been leaving Lexi had asked if they knew how her father was. Did they know if he was dead. They'd apologised and said they hadn't heard anything yet. Lexi was sorta relieved in a way, they'd know by now if it was manslaughter wouldn't they? After that her mother had waited till she was fine again and the into the kitchen to attack the counters.

She walked into the living room.

"C'mon kids it's 10 0clock. I want you to go to bed please."

"No mum I'm waiting for news on dad." Lexi said.

"Come in my room for a while Lexi. We'll listen to music huh?" Ethan suggested. Alice wasn't coping to well here. He could tell.

"No Ethan!"

"Lex!" he then cocked his head so slightly towards Alice and widened his eyes. Lexi looked at her mother. She looked terrible. Her eyes red rimmed from tears she wouldn't allow to fall. She looked on the verge of a breakdown but she'd never do it in front of them.

"Alice will tell us if they phone." Ethan said softly.

Alice nodded at them not trusting her voice.

Lexi stood up and followed Ethan out of the room. Alice went back into her kitchen. The tears she'd fought so hard to contain spilled. The ache in her chest expanded to mammoth proportions. She dropped her cloth in the sink. She fumbled on the counter for the radio that was there. Switched it on even through her vision was blurred with tears. She turned the volume right up. Alice recognise the song playing it broke her heart. R Kelly I'm your angel.

I'll be your cloud up in the sky

I'll be your shoulder when you cry

I hear your voices when you call me

I am your angel

And all is hope gone I'm here

No matter how far you are I'm near

It makes no difference where you are

I am your angel

Right that was the last straw. That song right there was far to close for comfort! Alice was soon bent over the sink sobbing. She hoped her kids didn't come and see that coz she didn't have it within her to stop. The tears were never ending. Shudders wracked her through her body. She cried for the longest time. She cried so hard her head ached. She thought they were about to subside when she felt soft hands on her shoulders. The hands lifted her up and turned her. She was looking at her mothers sympathetic face. She broke down again. Just collapsed in her arms and cried even harder than before.

Her mother wrapped her in her arms and stroked her hair as she cried.

"He might d…d...die!" she sobbed against her mums chest.

"H…H…How do I l…l…live without him?"

"Alice he's going to fine!" Mrs Elliott said softly trying to calm her.

"He wasn't b…b…breathing he was being ventilated. I couldn't get him breathing!" she said almost hysterical.

Alice felt her mothers hand motion behind her back. She didn't notice her daughters face. Her heartbroken face at the door. She backed away from the kitchen and ran to her room.

"It's ok Alice." Those words were universal to all mothers all over the world. They were said to every child at one time or another. Even if it wasn't ok and may never be that way again!

A/N more about how tha family is coping in the next chapter too. i think that one will b fairly short.

hpe u enjoyed and review x