Chapter number 25. Affected by her?

Tony stretched his arms out as he walked through the lounge room, yet another sunny morning in Summer bay and once again he'd slept through his alarm clock.

"Morning dad" Jack greeted him as he poked his head out from the kitchen as the smell of fresh coffee began wafting through the room.

"Hey" he replied making his way past the couch and into the kitchen to join him, you've cheered up since last night" he commented about his son's sudden change in behaviour, not that he was complaining about Jack being happier, but he didn't usually go from that sad to this happy overnight.

"Yeah, sorry about going off at you, you didn't desurve that" he appologised.

"Look it's fine, you obviously needed to blow some steam off, I can understand that".

"Yeah but I still shouldn't of taken it out on you like that".

"Jack it's fine, I'm just glad you've cheered up a bit" Tony reasured him. "So you slept with Martha then?"

"Yeap" Jack sighed, taking a sip of coffee, "Yeah I know it was stupid. She's going throught a hard time and I'm going through a hard time and it just kinda happened".

Tony just nodded, listening to his son's regrets. "Did it mean anything? Between you and Martha I mean?"

Jack shook his head, "no, we were both just a mess. Her with the..." he paused remembering that his dad never knew about the abortion, "just some stuff, and me with Sam and Rory. I guess we just didn't think. I wasn't anyones fault, it was just one of those things that happens and theirs nothing you can do about it" he sighed.

"Come on Jack, who are you trying to kid? You and me both know you've always been affected by Martha-".

"No dad, used to be affected by her" Jack corrected him, "When I was with Sam, I really ment it when I said I could see a future without Martha, it hasn't changed either. Yes we used to have something special, but that's all in the past".

"Fair enough" Tony nodded, not completely convinced, but then again it was probably cause he'd always seen Martha as a part of their family even after she'd split up with Jack.

"Anyway I better get to work" Jack told him, "I'll see you later".

"Yeah se you".

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Martha took in a deep breath as she reached the front door of the rocket club. She'd managed to avoid this place for a while, but she couldn't for much longer, she hasd to face things, and that ment coming here. Looking around from the spot she stood on she saw a group of men passing by the bouncers thst guarded the front door, they were regulars, ones she knew all to well, but then again their weren't really any regulars she didn't know.

Getting herself together again she walked th the door saying hey to David, (one of the bouncers) as she passed by. The place was pretty crouded for a morning, normally a croud this size would turn up at night.

"Is Cam in?" she asked Amy who was washing up some glasses behind the bar.

"I'm not sure" she shrugged, "he might be but I haven't seen him in the last hour" she explained. "So where have you been lately? Some of the guys have been asking when you were going to dance next".

'That's just great' Martha told herself sarcastically, she was starting to feel a little uneasy, people had been asking about her?

"My mum's been in town and she brought my dad with her, I've never met him before, so I've been spending some time with him" she told her.

"Oh ok, that must be exciting".

"Yeah it is" she smiled, trying not to sound like she didn't want to be here. Truth was if she wasn't here to quit then she would of run for the door already, actually she wouldn't of even been back here in the first place.

"Hey" Cam's voice grabbed her attention from behind, "I was just about to come and see you".

"Really?" she exclaimed, this was going to be harder than she origanally thought.

"Yeah I need to talk to you about something" he suddenly turned more serious.

"Well funny that cause theres something I need to talk to you about too" she nodded.

"Alright well how about we go up to my office then?"

"Yeah sounds good" she agreed grabbing his hand and following him throught the crowds and up the stairs that lead to the quieter part of the club.

Next time:

-Cam and Martha talk

-Pete has a 'chat' with Brett about Roo

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