Day 29! Thanks for all your reviews! This is the start of another multi chapter fic I've come to call "Glitter Fic", I'll let you know next chapter as this is a short one and kind of a filler but hope you enjoy it anyway! Depending upon how I divide up the 5+k words it could be several chapters long! Let me know what you think! XxX


12. "Take my jacket, it's cold outside."

Iain sighed as he arrived home from a gruelling shift, not any repeat callers or simple cases, three RTC's all with multiple casualties. It had been a juggling act and one he could've really done without. His sister, Georgia, had left Iain taking care of his niece and nephew from the Friday to the Monday that weekend whilst she attending the wedding of her best friend. They were due back within the next half an hour, just enough time for a shower and to remember how he had come to be in the situation he was currently in.

Iain had agreed months back and put it to the back of his mind only remembering hours before she had turned up laden with bags of toys and clothes. He'd managed to swap shifts and get his night shift off that night but it meant he would have to do the Saturday day shift as a replacement, he'd called Rita in a moment of panic asking if she knew of any good childminders that would work last minute notice.

"Got something to tell me, Dean?" Rita laughed down the phone.

Iain smiled, he could always rely on his best friend for that. "Georgia just dropped Holly and Jake round for the weekend, I've got tonight's shift off but can't get out of Saturday's, need someone to take the kids to some Birthday parties, I'd ask Dix but she's-"

"With Jess and Olivia in Cornwall." Rita finished for him.

"Exactly," Iain sighed, running his hands through his hair. He knew Jez was off but didn't want to leave his niece and nephew to run rings round the young paramedic.

"I'll do it," Rita said, filling the silence that had fallen over their conversation.

"I can't ask you to, anyway aren't you on shift too?" Iain asked, he hadn't set out to make Rita feel like she had to help him.

"I'll swap with Robyn, she wanted Sunday night off anyway. It's no bother, I'm sure I can handle a kids party or two!" Rita reassured Iain.

"You're a life saver Reet, if you were here I'd kiss ya!" Iain blurted out before he properly thought about what he was saying.

"Steady on!" Rita laughed, her head spinning with possibilities. "What parties am I attending tomorrow anyway?" She asked, changing the subject.

It turned out to be paintball and a fairy princess themed party, padding and tiara required then!

Rita had turned up at Iain's house half an hour before he needed to leave for his shift, dressed in trainers, jeans and a pale pink t-shirt, Iain smiled as he opened the door, pressing a kiss to her cheek as they pulled back from a hug.

"I've got leggings in the bag for paintball and a matching set of fairy wings for Holly and myself." Rita informed Iain as she set the rucksack down on the hall floor. "Where are the kids?"

Iain smiled at that, she really thought of everything. "Brushing their teeth in the bathroom, because they're 'all grown up now'!" Iain told her, "coffee?"

"Sure," Rita replied, following him into the kitchen.

Rita had met his niece and nephew twice before, once two Christmas ago when Iain had invited her round and then remembered his whole family were descending to his and then again at his sisters birthday party just 4 months ago. They were excited to see her again when Iain had told them she would be looking after them for the day, remembering her as 'the pretty one mummy says you want to kiss' Iain thought it best to leave this detail out when he told Rita about their reaction.

He'd given her the numbers he thought she could possibly need, including his own and that of the very hospital she worked at.

"Iain, I'll be fine. Go to work, call me on your break and I'll tell you all is well." She had told him, practically shoving him out his very own front door.

"You didn't bring a jacket." Iain stated, finally out the door, which Rita was now shutting.

"What?" Rita asked confused.

"Take my jacket, it's cold outside. It's hanging up on the hook in my room." Iain told her before turning to go to work, leaving Rita to close the door biting her lip in a smile.


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