A/N: I AM SO SORRY, MEIN LIEBLINGS! I was at camp and then my friend was visiting from up north and then I was at the Exhibition and Toronto Fan Expo with my best friend and then I was lazy! But here is a lovely little boring chapter. But I have had terrible writer's block. The kind where you know what's going to happen but you don't know how to write it down. Bleurgh I KNOW!

And more angst...so I'm sorry.

Disclaimer: It ain't mine! But Theodor is and apparently Gemma is...she's only mentioned briefly

Enjoy (I doubt you will)

Vince stared at the Pret A Manger from the sidewalk across the street. He wasn't sure if he'd go in. He wasn't sure of anything these days, so it seemed that he probably would go in just to test. He could see Theodor through the window. He had earphones in and seemed to be watching something on his iPod.

He sighed and walked across the street to the coffee shop.

"Alright," Vince said, sitting down at Theodor's table.

"Hi, Vince!" he exclaimed pulling the buds out of his ears and turning of his iPod. "I wasn't sure if you'd come."

"To be honest, neither was I!" Vince smiled. "But, I really understood everything you told me, so...yeah." His face fell again.

"Look, I'll take you to a meeting and you can tell me what you thought," Theodor said. "Okay?"

"Yeah, sure," Vince mumbled. "Look, I told Howard I wouldn't be gone for long. I'm supposed to be working."

"Alright, you have my number. There's one tonight at 10 at St. Leonard, if you want to come."

"Erm, yeah, thanks," Vince said getting up from his chair and heading to the door. "I'll think about it."

And he did think about it. He thought about it and went to the meeting.

He hated it.

But something stopped him from ignoring them.

He'd go to a meeting and then upon arriving home have a glass of wine with Howard. It was no big deal. He was rewarding himself for going out and doing something good for himself instead of getting wasted.

He realized though, after a month that he started enjoying the meetings. He'd made friends and had actually started having fun.

His drinking suddenly came to a halt one day after his friend, Gemma, had gotten her one year. He was so proud of her, yet felt like he shouldn't be because he wasn't sober. Suddenly, it all came into perspective for him. If he was going to feel anything he had to let go of drinking. It wasn't doing him any good.

He still hadn't told Howard about the meetings. He was scared of how he'd react, but he knew it was time.

"I had my last drink today," he told him as they sat for dinner.

"What?" Howard said.

"I've stopped drinking."

Howard said nothing.

"Erm, Howard...I'm an alcoholic."

He still was silent.

"For the past month I've been going to AA meetings, but I've only just had my last drink."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"That you're an alcoholic."

"It's not something that you just know, Howard. It was sort of cycled into my face," Vince laughed at his own joke. Which had become a bit of inside joke for him and Theodor.

"Why are you laughing about this? It isn't funny!" Howard was angry, Vince could tell, but he was trying to keep everything as calm as possible.

"I know it's not funny, Howard! But I can't live without some sort of humour. I'm not getting anywhere being a pessimist."

"You've just told me that you're an alcoholic, Vince, I hardly think that's worth laughing about."

"I thought you would have known," Vince whispered. "I thought you would've been able to tell that I was out of control, that I had this disease!"

"It's not a disease," Howard scoffed. "It's just an idiotic addiction!"

"Yes, it is, Howard. Addiction is a disease. It's an allergy that you can't control. You don't know."

"You know what, I-uh, I don't want to look at you right now," he got up from the table and went downstairs to the Nabootique. Vince heard the downstairs door slam and he knew Howard was going out to try and clear his head.

"Howard! Please, we can work this out!" But he knew he'd have to give him time.

He grabbed his mobile from the counter and called Theodor.

"Hello?" Theodor's voice rang out through the phone.

"Hey, Theo, erm..."

"Vince?"

"Yeah...can I stay with you for a little while?"

"What's wrong?"

"I told Howard that-that," and he couldn't finish his sentence, because he couldn't hold his tears.

"Calm down, calm down, Vince," Theodor soothed down the phone. "I'll come pick you up, alright?"

"Yeah," Vince sniffed. "I'll go pack."

He left a note for Howard telling him to call him on his mobile when felt like it. He hadn't ended it with Howard. He never could. They both needed their space now. Vince needed to focus on getting better and Howard had to focus on accepting what Vince had told him.

It was just a matter of time.

Well, even though you're tearing your eyes out with boredom, please review anyway xD It would make me happy!

~Winn xx