A/N: Sorry for the wait again, I have no idea what's going on with FF but for the past couple of weeks it's not been letting me submit any chapters. A few others also seem to be having this problem, but I'm hoping now it stays fixed.

Enjoy.

SIAN POV:

6:56pm.

I walk back and forth up the length of my living area as I wait for Sophie to arrive at my house for our date. I honestly don't think I've been this nervous in years, it's like I'm a teenager all over again going on my first date. I wipe my sweaty palms on my jeans as I take a seat on the couch to try and calm these stupid nerves. "Calm down you idiot it's only Sophie." I tell myself not wanting to be a nervous sweaty mess for when she arrives.

I move over to the mirror and check my hair and make-up quickly before she arrives to make sure my worrying hasn't ruined anything. I do a quick once over of my outfit, I've got on my extremely tight black skinny jeans and blue shirt with a decent amount of cleavage showing, Sophie always said she liked blue one me. My hair is curled loosely and I've got minimal make up on not wanting to go overboard. "I guess I'll do." I say adding a bit more lip gloss.

Knock…knock…knock.

I hear her softly tap and my heart starts to speed up again. I take a few deep breaths and head to the front door. I brush down my hair quickly, calmly open the door and I'm greeted with a huge bouquet of beautiful red roses. "Soph?" I ask with a laugh and she pops her head over them with a big grin.

"Hey there beautiful." She says stepping past me as I motion for her to come into the house. "These are for you." She hands me the beautiful flowers.

"Thank you for those, you didn't need to." I lean in and give her a kiss as thanks before going to put them in some water.

"Well if that's the thanks I get I'll be sure to get them all the time." Soph says will a small smirk.

"Cheeky. Right so where are you taking me?"

"That's a surprise...so shall we go?" She asks holding out her hand for me to take.

"Lets." I grab my leather jacket, take her hand and she leads me out my home and down to her car. Sophie opens the door for me and I settle in the car as she runs around to her side.

"Off we go." She winks driving off. Sophie and I talk about random things for a few minutes while we drive around the busy streets of London. I've got to admit that some days I miss Manchester so much some days, but I can't deny the joy and awe I feel driving around London at night.

"At least we got the weather for it."

"Do we need good weather?" I ask.

"Maaaaaybe." Sophie grins. "So where does Paul think you are tonight?"

"Oh, uh...Jackie is covering for me, we're having a girls night." This afternoon while I was at work Paul asked me if I wanted to head to SoHo for a few drinks and dinner, obviously I couldn't say yes because Sophie has already asked me to go on a date. When I told him I couldn't go out I felt so bad about this, a few days ago I kissed Sophie and now I'm going on a date with her. "Do you think I'm a bad person."

"What?" Soph frown taking a quick glance at me. "Of course, you're not."

"I'm cheating on Paul though, he'd be so hurt if he knew I was doing this." I sigh closing my eyes.

A few seconds later I feel the car come to a stop and Sophie's and grab mine. "Look at me, come on Sian." I open my eyes and see her looking at me with a sad smile on her face. "I can easily turn around you know, I'd never want to put you in a hard position. I told you that I can wait, and I will, I'd wait forever for you."

"I want this Soph, I really do. I just feel awful. Paul has really been good to me these past 2 years."

"We can put this off Sian until you've sorted some things out at home."

"But I don't want to." I pout making Sophie laugh. "I just feel bad."

"Well how about this...tonight we don't call it a date, just two old friends having an evening together and seeing if they still like each other. And maybe for the rest of the night I keep my hands to myself."

"Well this is okay." I grin nodding to our hands.

"Okay the, so shall we continue our friendly evening?"

"That sounds good." I nod patting her hand before she puts it back on the wheel and start driving to our 'friend date'.

"Good thing, because I didn't have long to sort this out." She huffs.

"That's fair." I laugh, she really didn't have long to put this together. "Oh wait." I gasp.

"What?" Soph asks worried.

"We're not going to SoHo are we? Paul might be there with some friends."

"No, we're not going anywhere to public, I took the fact that we might bump into someone we know."

"Smart girl." I grin.

"You know it." Sophie winks.

After about 35 minutes we finally pull up outside an old abandoned building, and I wonder if Sophie is just trying to throw me off the scent about where we're really going...but that theory is soon squashed when she pulls up outside of it, cuts off the ignition and takes her seat belt off. "Are you planning on murdering me or something?" I ask looking at the building that could be a location for a slasher film that Sophie enjoys watching.

"If I told you I'd have to kill you." Sophie says with a cheeky grin and opens her car door. "Come on then." She says while getting out of her car.

"Are you serious?" I shout to her as she comes round to my side of the door.

"Yes I'm serious...now chop chop." She holds out her hand for me to take.

"Soph...no."

"Don't make me carry you out of the car." Sophie grins still reaching out to me.

"Alright." I take her hand and she leads me towards the horror building.

"That's my girl."

"I'm going to kill you if I get murdered."

We walk towards the building and she unlocks the big padlock on the door and leads me inside. As we head inside the huge building I find that it's surprisingly warm inside and not as messy as I thought. "Not as big of a shithole as you thought eh?" She says with a smirk.

"I wouldn't go that far." I tease, and she just sends me a smile and leads me up some concrete stairs.

We walk up a couple floors of stairs and on the way up I see the walls have paint splatters all over them, as if this place has been used as a paintball area...or just some mad parties. As we near the top of another floor and I hear Ed Sheeran's music softly playing, and as we turn the corner my breath catches in my throat as I see all the effort Sophie has gone to. The room I'm now stood in looks nothing like the outside mess and horror set, the room is dimly lit with candles, there's beautiful artwork covering the walls and in the middle of the room is a candle lit table with roses, champagne on ice and two plates of food with two large cloches on top.

"So what do you think?" Sophie asks coming behind me and wrapping her arms around my waist, I can also hear the nervousness in her voice.

"Soph, this is incredible." I whisper still taking in the details of the room. No one has ever done anything like this for me...not even Paul.

"I'm glad you like it." She gives my shoulder a small kiss. It seems we've both forgotten…or don't care about the no touching rule.

"It seems all the nice restaurants out of town were fully booked and I didn't want to risk anywhere we both normally go, so this will have to do I'm afraid." She says walking over to the table and pulling out a chair for me to take a seat.

"Sophie this is lovely but you really didn't have to go to all this trouble." I tell her taking a seat and she goes round to the other side.

"I know I didn't have to but I wanted to. I'm committed to this Sian and I want to show you that." Sophie says taking my hand across the table.

"Thank you. So what's for dinner?" I ask tapping the cloche.

"Well I didn't know what you liked or disliked anymore so I just went with what used to be our favourite meal." She says with a shy smile.

I narrow my eyes at her not to sure what's going to be underneath it. She nods to the cloche so I slowly lift it up and laugh out loud at what is underneath. On a fancy plate there is fish and chips with mushy peas and gravy in a small bowls.

"Is it okay?" Sophie asks with a small giggle. "I thought a little blast from the past might be nice."

"It's perfect." A happy smile appears on her face and we both start eating. "And it's still nice and hot, how is it still hot?"

"I might have had a little bit of help from a couple of people that want us back together." She shrugs.

"Rosie and Jackie." I laugh shaking my head. "Is that who you were texting at the lights?"

"I told them we were just a few minutes away. If I set it up myself the food would have been freezing...and no one likes cold chips." Sophie says seriously.

"Very true."

During our meal we sip our champagne and just catch up over everything that we've missed over the past 8 years. Sophie tells me all about how she turned her life around when I left, how she didn't want to be stuck on the street for the rest of her life so she went back to school got her grades to become a teacher and did just that. She spoke about wanting a fresh start from Weatherfield so decided to join Rosie in London. She asks about my career and why I chose the force, I tell her about how I wanted to help people in some way but the medical profession was never for me, because as she knows I'm not good with blood, so the police seemed like the next perfect option, I tell her about worked my ass off for the past 8 years and I became detective last year.

"Wow that's amazing, so you like being a detective?" She asks with some gravy dripping down her chin making me laugh.

"Yeah I love it. I especially love that I don't have to wear those uniforms anymore, god they were uncomfortable." I shudder thinking back to those tight vests that would always dig in.

"I really do want to thank you again Sian, if it wasn't for you I most likely wouldn't be alive right now." She says grabbing my hand again and rubbing her thumb back and forth.

"You don't need to keep thanking me Soph, I would never have let anything happen to you." I tell her seriously. I really do think if something had happened to Soph in there I wouldn't have coped.

"I know. but I really am grateful for what you did."

"So are you finished here? I've set up something up stairs, we can talk there." Soph says motioning to the food.

"Yeah let's go."

I get up from my seat and follow Sophie out of a side door that leads to more stairs. She reaches back for my hand which I gladly give to her. She leads me up a couple more sets of stairs before we come to another door.

Sophie opens it and I feel the cold hair hit my face and notice we're on the top floor. I take in my new surroundings and I'm amazed by what Sophie has done again...the roof has been fully decked out with more artwork and in the middle of the roof is kind of a seating bed area with pillows, blankets and fairy lights dotted all around it as it looks out to a huge window of the skyline of London. I also notice at the side of the bed there is another table with Champaign and chocolate covered strawberries, but the thing that really gets me is not only the lounging area, on the walls, there is old photos of me and Sophie framed...at least 20 of them

"Oh my god Soph...this must have taken you forever." I whisper walking over and looking at all the photos.

"Well you're worth it." She says quietly walking up next to me and squeezing my hand. I turn to her and I lose my breath from the look of love in Sophie's eyes.

"You're so amazing." I tell her and I see a dimpled smile come onto her face.

We looked at each other for...I don't know how long. It felt like an hour, and it felt like a split second. Those beautiful ocean blue eyes were open and full of anticipation, and her lips were parted slightly, inviting me. Did she know how her eyes and her mouth made my knees tremble and my heart flip-flop? I tried to resist but I couldn't for much longer and surge forward. Our lips came together in a slow kiss. I carefully slid my tongue into her mouth, and she made a sound that would've been a whimper if our mouths weren't together. She accepted my tongue and tangled it with her own. Sophie had her arms around me now as she squirmed against me. Sadly, soon I had to come up for air and we both pant when I pulled my lips back.

"No don't go." She whined when I pulled back and moved toward the bed.

"Come sit down...we need to talk remember." I say patting the bed.

Sophie pouts for a couple seconds before coming to join me on the bed. "That's my side." She says with a smirk pointing to the right side of the bed.

"Oh, how could I forget." I grin rolling over and letting her sit down next to me.

"Are you cold? Do you want a blanket?" She asks.

"Yeah a blanket would be nice." It's surprisingly not that cold but there is still a slight chill in the air. Soph grabs two of the many blankets from the bottom of the bed and drapes them over us both and settles back on the pillows next to me while handing me some more champagne.

"So I'm going to get right to the point because if I don't I know I'll fucking burst." Soph says with a small laugh at the end.

"Go ahead." I nod.

"I love you Sian, I really do. I may be an idiot for wanting us to have another go, but the fact remains that I have fallen for you all over again and I don't want to change that. I want you to know that I would much rather have you in my life and take a chance on losing you than not taking that chance at all and wondering then, what it would have been like between us. Every night when I close my eyes, thoughts of you fill me with joy. Every morning when I open my eyes, you're the first thought on my mind. I'm certain that I am in love with you. I want to hold you, kiss you and to feel your body near me." She finishes with her tears falling and I can feel my own rolling down my face.

"Soph..." I whisper but I stop as she holds a finger up.

"Don't worry you don't need to answer now, I just needed you to know how I feel. I'm in this Sian, and I'll wait forever if I have to."

"I hear you." I nod.

"Good." She sniffs wiping at her face. "Now how about we just enjoy the rest of our night."

"Sounds good to me." I nod laying back next to her.