Zoe was stood watching Alice walk up the road. She sighed; there was nothing she could do. Not yet anyway, she knew Alice well enough to know that. Alice was just angry, upset and in shock, who wouldn't be, she needed a few hours to calm down.

(x)

"Danny, I know! Just come get me please!" Alice cried brokenly into the phone as she walked up towards the main road. "I'll turn left towards town, wait for you on that memorial bench?"

"Ok Alice... I will be there as soon as ok?" Danny said quickly with determination, he heard Alice reply and quickly ended the call so he could drive. As he drove his mind was in turmoil. God, he'd never thought this day would come, Zoe and Alice not as one. He sighed to himself; he just hoped Alice was ok. The pair had become impossibly close since Rowan's death and he just hoped beyond all hope that this didn't break his wife.

(x)

Frank had found his sister in a real state and so he'd saddled up a pair of his horses and took her out on a ride. He knew this was something big... for her to fall out with Alice anyway. He never thought he'd have seen the day.

"So, come on, what was that all about?" Frank asked as they pulled up from what had been a long and leisurely canter.

"Frank... this is huge." Zoe told him looking down and pushing a strand of mane that had fell onto the wrong side over. "Edward."

"Dad." Frank corrected.

"Edward," So repeated. "Is not my father. My dad is... Rowan Senior as in... look." She said pulling out the paper that revealed it all. Frank pulled his horse up completely to a standstill. His reins were in one hand as he read it quickly. He gasped and looked up at her.

"God Zoe... I'm so sorry." Frank said softly. "You've lived your whole life..."

"A fraud." Zoe completed. "I know... anyway, come on... we're still brother and sister. Race you to the top of the hill!"

Frank laughed as she set off at break neck speed. His sister had so not changed! She'd been a speed freak ever since she was little and so natural too. He smiled to himself before squeezing his horse gently and launching into a gallop... she was going down!

(x)

Danny drove the car until he found Alice. He pulled the hire car over, god, it was tiny... give him a jeep any day! He parked it quickly before rushing to his wife. The minute she saw him she was stood and walking towards him, needing his arms around her. Danny opened his arms and wrapped her in them, holding her tightly as she buried her face into his chest, her shoulders shaking with the intensity of her emotions.

"It's ok Alice..." Danny murmured into her hair. "Everythin'll be fine."

Alice said nothing but tightened her hold on him; gripping him like a vice. She couldn't describe how safe she felt in those strong, powerful, masculine arms of his. How much love that coursed through her veins as held her in the most comforting way, whispering sweet nothings into her ear every now and then. Eventually, she pulled away wiping her eyes. Danny looked down at her with a warm expression laced with admiration.

"Come on, we'll get to the hotel then we can chat?" Danny smiled. Alice nodded taking his hand, he grinned before kissing her gently... a kiss of reassurance and a reminder that no matter what happened he would forever love her.

(x)

Frank, Zoe and Edward were all sat in the living room. The atmosphere was awkward. For the first time Zoe saw an emotion in the man she'd called her father for a number of years. She was remorse, sorrow, almost guilt in his eyes. He was sat in his chair, but slumped, not his usual proud stance which he usually held. Usually he sat there like he was king of the world. But today, he was just a humble and old looking farmer.

"Why?" Frank asked. "Come on, the story and the full story!" He stood up and began to pace slightly before returning to Zoe's side.

"I don't know." He lied avoiding the pairs gaze.

"Well I know." Zoe announced angrily. "Because you... because you're a control freak."

"Yeh..." Edward agreed. "Yeh I am... you know what Zoe... I never could have made you could I?"

Zoe shook her head, her arms crossed in a defensive manner. Her blue eyes boring into his dull pits.

"I knew your mother loved him. She loved him for fifteen years before they got together. She'd been to Glasgow visiting some oil rigs. That's where she met your dad... they fell in love but waited." Edward announced. "I built a resentment toward him and your mum. I loved her. Then she was pregnant... I knew you weren't mine. It was impossible, but your mum and I decided to give it a go. He still had a wife and two young kids, obviously Alice and Rowan, and we had our own life down here. I tried to treat her right. But I couldn't... couldn't face it."

"What about me?" Zoe asked.

"When you came along... I couldn't help it! You are a constant reminder that your mother never loved me! But she tried... she'd already got him to sign the registry stuff... you were born in Scotland Zoe... then she came down here, registered you again somehow but with my name." He shook his head. "We were going to be a family."

"We were..." Frank added.

"Yes son, but don't you see! She was him! Part of him! She wasn't mine!" Edward protested.

"Yet you still act like you owned me!" Zoe shouted, "Look... why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"You're mother wanted to tell you at sixteen but I refused. I refused for years, didn't want to be disgraced, didn't want..." He paused, "Didn't want to lose my grip on you... I promised I'd tell you when she died, you know when she got ill. Rowan Snr tried to make me tell you but that ended in a row."

Zoe sat watching him make his confession. Everything was making sense now. She stood up and looked away, far away.

"Can't we forget this?" Edward asked, "I could still be your dad."

"You've never been my dad... and never will." Zoe turned round sharply. "No. It's over. You've made my life hell... you've caused me problems, you've never loved me or supported me... you know you didn't like Danny when you met him, but maybe if you were a little like the way he is with his step children, maybe, just maybe I'd give you a chance. But no. It's over. I get anything that belongs me, I want Frank to take my old horse that I left here, and he can take anything else as well. As for your will, I know what it says, and I wish to be cut from it."

"Zoe!" Her dad stood up.

"No!" She yelled. "No. Look at me now! Where I am! I've lost people and that's hard, but I'm not letting you control me any longer. You don't need to bother about the wedding... Frank..."

"Yes Zoe?" He asked turning his back on his father and taking her hands.

"You're still my brother. You always will be and it's for this reason, that I want to invite you out to South Africa and... I want you to give me away."

"It would be an honour Zoe." Frank grinned, he nudged her gently, "Wouldn't mind seeing where you live!"

"I'm going anyway..." She turned to Edward, "Goodbye."

Frank shook his head at his dad before ushering Zoe out. The siblings hugged before Zoe climbed in her car.

"I'm sorry Frank." She said before driving away.

A/N – Kind of explanation there... Alice/Danny chat next :')

Sorry for lack of update, but I went to see Verdict yesterday, Dawn was awesome and I even met her afterwards and got her autograph! Ahh... I want to relive yesterday, best day ever :P