A/N: Apologies for the lack of update yesterday, had a million things to do on my day off and when I finally finished this chapter my internet stopped working. Thanks again to everyone who is reading and to those who have left reviews.

"Try this." Emily held up a forkful of pasta to Naomi's lips. They had gone back to Sharon's and the blonde was sitting on the bench beside the oven, keeping Emily company as she prepared tea for the rest of them. Emily was concocting some sort of pasta with spinach and pesto and Naomi had instantly turned her nose up at it. As it slipped past her lips she let out a content sigh. "Told you you'd like it. You need to try new things." Emily grinned at her smugly as she turned her attention back to the pasta.
"Maybe." Naomi agreed. She reached over to get another forkful of the pasta and was met by a slap to the hand.
"Not done yet." She put the pan on to simmer for a while and dragged Naomi back in to the living room to join the others. As she walked in she heard the front door open and two very excited little boys shouting for their grandmother. As Sharon greeted the boys and helped them take their coats and shoes off, their mother Lucy walked in to the living room. Her eyes lit up at the sight of Emily and she wrapped the smaller girl in to a tight hug. "Emsy!" She pulled away from the hug and kissed the redhead. Far from a friendly peck on the cheek it was a full on kiss. Naomi sat awkwardly beside her, politely looking away. "Heard you're single again."
"Lucy, you leave that girl alone!" Sharon warned as she brought the boys in to the living room.
"Auntie Emsy!" The two young boys ran across the room and dived on to her, laughing and giggling as she hugged them both.
"They're twins!" Katie exclaimed as she watched the two boys wrestling for Emily's attention. They caught sight of Katie and stopped. A huge grin spread over Caelan's face. He was the oldest by eight minutes and his hair was little longer. Other than that the twins were identical blonde haired four years olds with huge green eyes and gap toothed grins.

"Are you Katie?" Caelan spoke for the two of them as Ryan stood quietly beside Emily. He offered a shy smile towards the stranger who looked like his 'aunt' Emily. "Are you a twin too? Do you have a top secret language? Me and Ry do!" Katie was not used to conversing with children, unless Cook counted, but she did her best to be friendly to the little boy. "I'm oldest by eight whole hours!"
"Minutes." Lucy corrected her young son from where she sat perched on the arm of the sofa beside Emily. "God knows I was in labour long enough with Caelan without waiting another eight hours for Ryan to turn up." Lucy was a young woman, she looked four or five years older than Emily and Katie guessed she had conceived the twins at an early age. She could not imagine being responsible for another human being at her age, never mind two.
"How'd you hear about me and Anna?" Emily quizzed as Sharon and Katie took the boys in to the kitchen to help set the table.
"It's all over Facebook. She moves fast like, she's seeing some Sara girl now…fancy a re-bound Ems?" She winked suggestively at the younger girl. Naomi shifted on the sofa beside her, and Emily seemed to remember she was there. She laughed but shook her head.
"What would your husband say?"
"Can I watch?" Lucy laughed, she even managed to get a laugh from Naomi. "Henry knows I've still got a soft spot for you." Although she was joking there was a hint of truth to her words.

"You get around." Effy piped up from the other side of the room, a teasing smirk on her lips.
"I've only slept with three girls!" Emily objected, trying and failing to defend her honour.
"Three and a half." Naomi and Lucy both spoke at the same time. The older blonde gave Naomi a knowing smile as Emily rolled her eyes.
"Sadly I wasn't one of them." Lucy supplied helpfully.
"Well I was only fourteen when we went out." Emily reminded her.

"You two went out?" Katie chose to walk back in to the room just as Emily made her admission, asking the question Naomi had wanted to.
"She was my first girlfriend. I'd known I was gay for a while, but when I was fourteen I told Sharon. I cried my eyes out as I told her I was in love with a girl in the street. She told me to go for it."
"I didn't realise it was my eighteen year old daughter." Sharon scorned. The 'relationship', if it could be called that, had only lasted a few weeks and had never gone further than innocent kissing. Lucy had met Henry a few months later and they had gotten married when they realised Lucy had fallen pregnant. Henry was a good man and he and Emily had always gotten on well. He worked hard and cared for his family. Lucy and Emily had remained close; they had grown up like sisters after all. The older girl had chosen Emily as a bridesmaid and she was godmother to the twins. Though they referred to her as an auntie.

"Emily's going to be my girlfriend when I'm older!" Caelan declared proudly. "Ryan can marry Katie." He added as an afterthought. Being the oldest Caelan tended to do most of the talking for the both of them as well as making the decisions. Ryan was a follower, hiding in his brother's shadow. The younger boy was sweet and timid and eager to please. Emily had never really thought about it much but as she watched the boys that afternoon she began to wonder what she might have been like had she grown up with Katie. She was younger by six minutes and she had a feeling Katie would have been like Caelan, deciding who and what Emily should be. She shuddered at the thought of how repressed she would have been had she grown up with Jenna Fitch for a mother and Katie for a sister. They would probably still be wearing matching outfits. She supposed it wouldn't have been all bad though. She would have met Naomi sooner.

Once Lucy and the twins had left the girls all went upstairs to their rooms to get changed for their girls night out. Naomi sat on the floor, curling her hair in front of a hand mirror, while Emily fussed over what to wear. "So, you and Lucy?" The blonde brought the subject up out of the blue, though Emily had been expecting an interrogation ever since Naomi had learnt of her ex. Emily tried to keep a straight face and not laugh at the blonde's predictability.
"Me and Luce." She replied, a small smile tugging at her lips as she finally decided on what to wear. Shimmying out of her jeans she crossed the room in her underwear and her t-shirt. Naomi's eyes followed her through the mirror as she bent down to get something out of her suitcase.
"How old is she anyway?" The blonde tried to make her tone flippant and not really interested.

"She's twenty two." Emily answered as she pulled her T-shirt over her head and stepped in to a rich purple dress. The material draped at the front, coming down to a thick black band of material that served as a belt. She slipped it over her shoulders and then turned to Naomi to ask her to zip it up. "She'd just turned eighteen when we got together. She'd been seeing this guy off and on for ages and he'd been hitting her. I think I was just a safe option for her at the time. It wasn't anything serious between us; we only went out for a few weeks. She met Henry the same year and fell pregnant with the twins." Emily answered the questions she knew the other girl would ask next. "We never had sex."

"So it wasn't Lucy on the pool table?" Naomi teased as she pulled the zip up on the back of Emily's dress. One hand rested on Emily's hip to keep the fabric in place as she tugged the zip up.
"That was Anna." Emily admitted in a quiet voice. She didn't really feel like getting in to a conversation about her exes so she changed the conversation as she pulled away and started applying the finishing touches to her makeup. "You hoping to pull tonight then? Get a bit cock." She waggled her eyebrows suggestively at the blonde.
"Maybe." She shrugged without commitment as she fluffed her hair up a little in the mirror. "Not like I can pull and invite a guy back to the top bunk."
"Well don't go back to anyone's house." Emily warned. "We're leaving tomorrow afternoon and I am not running around Newcastle looking for you."
"You'll just have to keep an eye on me then." Naomi shot back with a smirk as she applied her lipstick. "And Katie and Effy." She quickly added.

"I think Katie and Effy can take care of each other." Emily grumbled under her breath as she followed the blonde out of the room and downstairs to the living room. Effy was already sitting there, sharing a bottle of wine with Sharon. Katie took her sweet time getting ready as usual so Emily fetched a glass for her and Naomi too. It had gone eight by the time Katie finally finished getting ready and appeared downstairs. They were all already quite buzzed as a taxi arrived at nine to take them in to town. Emily took them to a trebles bar for starters, where a group of lads tried their best to hit on Emily and Katie. Effy rolled her eyes as Katie shamelessly flirted with one of them, trying to get Emily involved and playing on the twin things. She was certain the eldest Fitch was only doing it to annoy her as it had been months since she had shagged anyone other than Effy herself. There was the odd flirt and a grope with boys at clubs, but she always ended up going home with Effy. "Maybe you and your sister can come back to mine." The guy Katie was flirting with leered. Losing the last of her patience Effy walked past Katie and softly shoved Emily back against the pillar she was standing by. She kissed her like she would kiss Katie, long and slow, running her fingers through the other girl's hair before pulling back. Emily was left open mouthed and speechless.

"She's taken." She snapped at the leering bloke and she was not talking about Emily. Katie took it the wrong way and went in to a huff, flirting with him all the more. She was all over him in the bar, sitting on his knee and practically eating his face as they snogged. Effy sat quietly fuming beside Emily, only half listening to the conversation she and Naomi were having. When Katie pried herself away from the bloke's lap to go to the toilet Effy followed her. "What the fuck?" Katie snapped as Effy barged in to the cubicle with her, slamming and locking the door behind her. She roughly pulled the smaller girl in close and crushed their lips together. When she finally pulled away both girls were breathless. Effy still held the other girl close and ran a teasing hand under her dress and up her thigh. Katie gasped as she pinched her soft flesh and whispered harshly in her ear.

"You can flirt with any loser you want, you can suck his dick in the middle of the bar for all I care…just remember whose bed you're sharing tonight. And whose name you're going to be screaming." She bit at Katie's earlobe, something that never failed to work on her, and the younger girl shivered in anticipation.
"Why wait?" She leant forward to kiss the teasing girl, only to have Effy pull away and shake her head. She unlocked the door with a smirk.
"Because I said so." She replied matter-of-factly, slipping out of the cubicle before Katie could object. She knew how to play the smaller girl and knew all too well how riled Katie would be all night. She would not give the creep at the bar a second thought when her mind was on just how Effy would rip her name from her lips later.

They moved on to another bar. It was livelier and the dance floor was crowded. Katie was in her element as she dragged Effy to dance. Emily snaked through the crowd with Naomi in tow and flashed the barmaid a smile. "Emily!" She came around the other side of the bar and crushed the smaller girl in tight hug. "Heard about you and Anna. You doing ok?" Emily's 'friend' was a little too friendly in Naomi's opinion as her hand lingered low on her back. She shot Naomi a look, weighing her up. Emily pulled away from the other girl's touch, insisting she was fine and promising to catch up with her later. Once they had their drinks Emily made her way over to one of the tables by the door. She had been stopped by three different girls and a guy just crossing over from the bar. Emily was certainly popular. She greeted them all with a wide smile and made small talk, insisting she was fine about her and Anna's breakup and declining offers of a drink from at least two of the girls. As they took a seat she leant over and shouted over the music.

"How long do you think it will take Katie to figure out this is a gay bar?" She laughed as Naomi's eyes widened and she craned her neck to take in her surroundings. The blonde had failed to pick up on just how many same sex couples there were in the bar. She felt stupid for not picking up on the kind of bar they were sitting in. Katie would freak when she found out. "Don't worry. I'll protect you from the raging lesbians." She teased, her breath hot and ticklish against Naomi's as she leant in close to be heard. Naomi's stomach was doing flips and her head felt fuzzy from the wine and the shorts they had been drinking. As she turned her head to speak in to Emily's ear her lips brushed against the other girl's cheek.
"Oh, and who's going to protect you?"

"Fucks sake, how many girls do you know?" Naomi grumbled as Emily said goodbye to a group of girls who had started talking to her as they stood outside smoking. It was close to two in the morning and people had been talking to Emily all night. With Katie and Effy disappearing off by themselves in every bar they went to that left Naomi sitting like a gooseberry as Emily talked to her friends. Effy had eventually sent Naomi a garbled text message that she presumed was supposed to say the other two girls had gone back to Sharon's an hour ago. Naomi had overcompensated for being left to her own devices by drinking as much as she could, and as such she could barely see straight as she sat on a low wall behind the club they had wandered to.
"Aww, jealous?" Emily teased, fuelled by Dutch courage.
"No." Naomi pulled a face at her, sulking as usual. "I'm just sick of all those bimbos glaring at me because they think I'm fucking the legendary Emily Fitch." There was a bitterness to her tone that would have hurt the other girl to hear, but the petulant pout on her lips was too funny for Emily to take her serious.

"They know I'm not fucking you." Emily giggled as she stood in front of her. She pressed her lips against the blonde's, pulling away before Naomi had even had a chance to respond. "You'd be smiling more if I was." With a wink she turned to walk away. Naomi caught her arm and pulled her back. Emily stumbled forward and put her arms on Naomi's shoulders to steady herself. The blonde's arms wrapped around her small waist, keeping her in place.
"I think you're all talk Fitch."
"Want to be proven wrong?" Emily fired back, her tone cocky as she straddled the blonde's legs. Naomi was suddenly very glad she was sitting down as she had the smaller girl's body pressed up against her.

Naomi's voice was shaky as Emily's lips ghosted across her own. "What do you have in mind?"