"He's sleeping now, I think the medicine is working."

"Thanks Nomsa, whispered Alice smoothing Bobby's hair. She made sure his night light was switched on before closing the door softly behind her.

"How's Danny?" Nomsa asked now that they stood in the hall.

"He's ok, his treatment starts tomorrow so...you know." Nomsa nodded her expression filled with sadness.

"Danny has had so much heartbreak and so much trouble Alice." Alice nodded not trusting herself to speak. "But that has made him strong, stronger than any man I know. He will fight through this. And you, you share his strength Alice, you will both fight through."

"Thanks Nomsa." The women embraced.

"Goodnight Alice."

"Night."

Alice watched her go. As soon as Nomsa's door was shut Alice took a deep steadying breath. Knowing there was no point in trying to sleep she wandered down to the animal hospital. Rosie had came earlier and dealt with all the animals so there wasn't anything that needed doing. Sitting in the office Alice allowed herself to think about the visit. Danny had seemed fine but Alice saw through it all just like she always did. He had put up a brave face for Charlotte and Liv, smiling as much as possible chatting generally as if nothing was different. Everyone was aware that things were different though and that was obvious. However Alice could see Danny was different and the difference went further than his illness. There was something else beyond the initial worry she'd seen earlier.

Tactfully she'd managed to convince Dupe and Caroline to take the girl's home with them just to give her a chance to speak to Danny.

Then he'd told her.

He'd spilled his heart out to her. At times she hadn't been able to understand a word he was saying he was crying so hard. After a solid twenty minutes of merely trying to console him, he'd blurted out that a side effect of his treatment was loss of his fertility.

"No...no more kids...Al...Al...I'm so so sorry." and he'd jammed his fists into his eyes again.

Tears of her own had started to fall then. And not because of his news or because they wouldn't have another baby but because of her amazing, selfless husband. She'd held him in her arms as he repeated apology after apology.

"You, Daniel Trevanion are the biggest idiot in the world." And Danny let out another sob. "You think that I'd be upset about that when we have five gorgeous babies at home. You are the most important thing right now. Our priority is getting you through this and getting you home. Danny, I love you so much whether we have fifty children or we just have our one crazy toddler."

He'd laughed and she'd pulled him closer.

Now she'd had time for everything all to sink in, Alice felt numb. She couldn't go on without Danny beside her.

Liv stared at the phone. She had to do it. She had to tell Evan. God, it was killing her and, if she was being honest, she hadn't been as half as close to Danny as Evan had been. "Evan is Liv" She refused to speak in past tense. Taking a deep breath she hit call.

"Hey sis! Long time no speak! How's it all going? How's Bobby, bet he's getting big now eh? Liv? Olivia?"

"Evan.."

"What's happened?"

"It's...it's Danny."

"WANT DADDY!" Bobby was back at nursery today as he had been deemed no longer contagious. However, he was less than happy about the fact. "Daddy takes me to nursery!"

"Bobby, daddy can't do it. Now come on. Put these shoes on."

Alice was just about tearing her hair out this morning. Danny started her treatment and she'd made a promise not only to Danny but to herself that she would be there for him.

"No!"

"Robert Daniel Trevanion, if you don't put these shoes on right now there will be no Ben 10 tonight or for the rest of the week." He frowned at her, Alice couldn't help notice the Trevanion stubborn frown. With a huge "huff" her stubborn son relented. "Good boy, now grab your bag."

Not massive chapters, I know but I'm going for quality over quantity...I hope! Tell me what you think. This was just a filler here. Hopefully Evan will be back soon :D and you can kind of see how Danny's absence is affecting Robert (I hate calling him Bobby it's my budgie's name, I think I might just not do that)