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Chapter 29

Whitney grabbed hold of Molly's hand and dragged her inside.

"Just tell her, Molly. If you can't make up your mind then you have to say something," she insisted.

Molly nodded slowly and reluctantly followed Whitney into the station, her arms full of her brother. She sighed when she saw no one else in the office and handed Sam to Whitney, she didn't have to ask where her parents were. The raised voices coming from Gene's office were a big enough giveaway

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Alex's eyes widened and her temper flared.

"I don't think you're one to talk about professionalism, Gene!" she snapped at him. "What exactly is professional about you? You beat up people at the drop of a hat, you keep a bottle of Scotch in your desk and drink while you're at work. You have a darts board in your office!" she said incredulously with a gesture at it. "Oh yes, and you sleep with your assistants!" she glared at him. "So tell me Gene, what exactly is professional about any of that!" she asked, her voice had got steadily louder and louder, she was at near shouting point now. Alex folded her arms across her chest defensively and waited for his outburst.

Gene took two steps closer to Alex, his face red with fury.

"I did not sleep with Debbie," he bellowed, slamming his fist down on the desk with each word to emphasize it. "No matter what else I might do that you don't approve of, Bolls, that's not one of them. She even tried it on with Ray, only Rowan caught her at it. Did you think to ask? Have you spoken to anyone about her background?" he demanded to know.

He moved a step closer. "For someone who does everything by..." pound, "the", pound, "book," he said, pounding on the desk again, "you haven't got yourself all the facts yet, have you?"

"She kissed me twice, the first time Ray walked in, the second time you did. I didn't ask for any of it. She's not you! She's just a jumped up tart trying to sleep her way into a promotion," he yelled and then snapped his mouth shut and glared at Alex angrily.

Alex glared at him, undeterred by his anger, she was too used to his temper by now.

"Ray seems pretty convinced, Gene!" she spat at him. "And what am I supposed to think! We hardly get any time to ourselves at home, I'm not at work half the time because I'm too busy looking after your son," she snapped at him. "And then Ray sees you and her all over each other! What other conclusion do you expect me to draw from that!" she snarled at him.

"Yeah, well Ray's not that smart," he snapped. "And she was the one all over me, I didn't touch her."

Alex spun around as she heard a small knock on the door. She opened it and looked at Molly.

"Not now, Molls," she said, trying to keep the venom from her voice, she didn't want to direct her anger at Gene onto her daughter.

"Yes, now, Mum," Molly said as she marched into the office and stood with her arms folded glaring at them.

"Stop fighting! The pair of you," she ordered and Alex pinched the bridge of her nose. "Molls, this doesn't concern you, don't get involved."

"It does concern me Mum, you're my parents, you're Sam's parents and we don't like you fighting."

Alex frowned at her. "We wouldn't be fighting if your step-father could control his urges," she spat, glaring at Gene.

He looked up as Molly came in and he pressed his lips shut as his brow furrowed. He whipped his head towards Alex at her comment.

"For the last time, I didn't do anything!" he snarled. "You're supposed to be some amazing detective, so why don't you investigate and realize that you're wrong!" he added, jabbing his finger towards her face to make his point.

"Oh! I'm wrong am I?" she said sarcastically. "Right let's see, evidence that I'm wrong, your word. Evidence that I'm right, you got caught, twice, oh, and you didn't tell me about it. If it was so innocent Gene, then why did you neglect to mention it to me the first time it happened, hey?" she said.

"Just stop it, both of you," Molly cried.

"Go home Molly, please, just go home," Alex said, keeping her gaze fixed on Gene.

Molly looked between the both of them. They were both so angry at each other, her Mum just wasn't listening, to her or to Gene. Molly could see that Gene hadn't done anything wrong yet Alex was so blinded by her anger and feelings that she couldn't see it.

"Mum, I need to talk to you."

Alex clenched her fists. "For the last time Molly, go home," she snapped and immediately regretted it. The look of frightened hurt on Molly's face tore through her. "Molls," she said, softer, her tone apologetic.

"No!" Molly said. "I came to tell you, though it's obvious that you both couldn't care less," she said, her arms folded defiantly. "I'm pregnant," she said and then ran out of the office, leaving her Mother gaping after her.

"MOLLY!" Alex yelled, she snapped her gaze back to Gene. "This is your fault," she told him before hurrying after her daughter.

Alex grabbed Molly's arm before she got to far and pulled her back. "Molly, please tell me that was a joke?" she begged.

"Because frankly I didn't want to embarrass her anymore than she already was!" Gene replied, his tone still harsh. "Apart from that incident I didn't have a problem with her. I certainly didn't think she'd try it again. I thought she'd got the hint that I didn't want anything to do with her!"

Gene looked at Molly and softened his glare. He felt his jaw drop at her announcement and could only stare after her in shock as she ran off.

He quickly closed his mouth and frowned at Alex.

"How is this my fault?" he demanded. "I never liked that Peter Beale."

He shoved past Adam and strode over to where Alex was talking to Molly.

"You are joking right?" he asked, his voice still gruff.

Adam sighed and followed after.

"GUV!" he shouted to be heard over everything.

"What?" Gene turned to Adam.

"Rhys just called. He's found Sean Slater over at the allotments. Looks like someone attacked him," Adam explained and then hurried away.

"Of all the timing….." Gene began, irritation coloring his tone. He jabbed his finger at Molly.

"You have some explaining to do. I have to go and deal with this," he looked at Alex. "I'll kill that Peter Beale," he growled and stalked off.

"And she was probably afraid of being accused of something she's not," Gene sneered from behind Alex. He stood and listened as Alex tried to soothe her daughter. He was having none of this.

Alex shot Gene a poisonous look as she consoled Molly. "That's low, Gene, real low," she snapped at him and scowled at his back as he left.

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Whitney followed close behind Molly to make sure she didn't chicken out. She'd got her this far. She would make sure that Molly told her mother. She cradled Sam and grimaced at the raised voices floating down the hall. They sure could argue.

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Jack answered the phone as he rushed towards his office. He smiled at Alyssa's voice and his expression changed to one of confusion at her question.

"Who?" he asked curiously. "And how can you be thinking about something like that when Ray or Rowan could be dying? Are they okay?"

Alyssa couldn't help but laugh.

"They're fine, all four of them!" she told him. "Rowan's had her twins, Jack! Claire and Denis, Ray delivered them as well!" she told him. "How fantastic is that?"

"You're joking!" Jack exclaimed. "That's pretty fantastic! So, are you going over to see them or what? I want to go, too," he nearly whined.

Alyssa smiled. "So be a bad boy and bunk off, come and get me and then give me a lift to the hospital," she told him. "Just say it's a family emergency or something and hand over the reins to your deputy," she told him.

"But I've only just got here!" he gasped in mock-horror then chuckled. "I know how much you like it when I'm bad," he said in a low tone. He stepped out of his office.

"I have to go, I'll maybe be back later, bit of a family crisis," he said in a rush and scooted out the door before anyone could argue. He made sure he was well out of ear shot before putting the phone back up. "How was that?" he asked her smugly. "I'll see you in a few," he told her as he slammed out the front door to the school.

"Getting in the car now, bye," he said and snapped the phone shut to climb in.

He pulled up outside the salon and gave the horn a quick beep to let Alyssa know he'd arrived.

Alyssa listened to him and couldn't help but laugh.

"I'll see you in a minute then," she said.

Alyssa looked at the rota and sighed, why was it that today there was only Maddie and Kim working? She went upstairs and told Kim that she was in charge until Alyssa got back. She then ran back downstairs and rushed outside and climbed into the car.

"I'm so excited," she told him. "I think I may have deafened Ray on the phone," she smiled.

"I'm sure he'll go with that for all it's worth," Jack remarked and set off for the hospital.

Rowan added in comments as Ray answered questions. She'd gotten a better look at the car and she'd seen it speed off after sliding into them, before Ray and yanked her down. She was just glad they hadn't hit anyone during their mad slide.

Rowan smiled and nodded. "Yes, it's fine. They both weighed in at 5 pounds 7 ounces and the doctor said they seem just fine," Rowan told her. "You know Ray delivered them?" she added and smiled down at her tiny son.

She lifted her head and listened to them talking about Gene and Alex.

"Do you think he did?" Rowan asked them curiously and then looked at Ray. "I told you to watch out for that...that...tramp," she finished lamely. "She'd already tried it on with you, and then you told me yourself you thought she fancied Gene," she added, disgusted at Ray's lack of loyalty. Gene Hunt was a lot of things, but Rowan was pretty sure he wasn't the type to cheat, not on Alex anyway.

She snorted and looked back down at her son.

Ray grinned at her over the top of the paper and carried on filling in their address.

Shaz looked at Ray in surprise. "You delivered them? You? Ray Carling?" she said.

Ray looked around and then looked down at himself. "Unless I'm suddenly a completely different person, then yes, I, Ray Carling delivered my children," he said smugly.

Shaz shook her head in disbelief. "Wow, I can't imagine Chris doing anything like that," she commented then giggled. "He'd probably faint right there on the spot," she smirked.

Ray looked up at Rowan. "Yes, and it looks like she got what she wanted an all," he said with a frown then looked up at Shaz as she rocked his daughter gently. He held out his arms and Shaz smiled before handing Claire over to Ray. He grinned down at his daughter and then looked up at Rowan.

"You reckon they're gonna be identical?" he asked.

Rowan shook her head at Ray. "I don't think so."

"I wasn't sure Ray was going to make it at first," Rowan chuckled. "And when he found out that there were in fact, really two babies, I thought I was going to lose him right then."

Rowan slipped off the bed and handed Dennis to Shaz before turning around to put her clothing back to rights and tossing the towel onto the bed. She put hand on Ray's arm.

"I am very proud of him," she said and smiled up at Ray fondly. "And now I think he's glad I keep such a well-stocked first aid kit."

She slid her arm around his waist and leaned against him, stretching out her other hand to stroke her daughter's cheek, then looked up at Ray.

"I love you," she said softly and then leaned her head back against his arm again.

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Rhys looked at Sean lying on the grass, blood everywhere and a bloody shovel on the ground next to him. He hurriedly fumbled his phone from his pocket and called an ambulance, then called the station.

"Adam, this is Rhys, I'm at the allotments, Sean Slater's been attacked, it has to have been in the last few minutes. I've called an ambulance, but send forensics over here right away."

He snapped the phone shut and knelt down next to Sean and checked for a pulse. Still there. So he was still alive for now, at least. Rhys still couldn't help the small surge of satisfaction from seeing Sean laid low, not after what he'd done to Ffion.

"Looks like I'm not the only one around here you pissed off," he murmured as he stood up. He shoved his hands in his pockets and waited for the ambulance to arrive.

Rhys stepped back away from the crime scene and watched forensics do their job. He turned to ask one of the paramedics a question and caught sight of his sister.

He walked over to her. "Ffion, what are you doing here?"

"I'm still not talking to you," she said and moved so she could see around him.

"Someone attacked Sean Slater," he told her and she gaped at him and then looked back as she watched someone loaded into the ambulance. She looked at her brother and frowned.

"I suppose this was your doing, huh? Since you couldn't lock him up?" she accused.

"No, I was just walking by on my way back to the station and saw him," he defended, altering the truth slightly. He would never tell Ffion he'd been following Sean.

She snorted. "I don't believe you," she said and pushed past him.

Gene headed over to the allotments and broke into a run to grab Ffion off her brother. He'd never seen her like that before. Rhys' face sported several scratches, it looked like he was getting a black eye and his shirt was torn. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her back from Rhys.

"Calm down," he grunted as she struggled in his grasp.

"This is his fault, he did it!" Ffion shrieked.

"I didn't do anything, Fee, he was like that when I found him. Besides, you're supposed to be in love with Bradley, so what do you care!"

"You're just overdoing it again, it's nothing to do with Sean, you have to leave me alone!"

"I was leaving you alone, Fee," Rhys defended. Ffion squealed in anger and twisted from Gene's grasp and ran off.

"Thanks, Guv," Rhys said. Gene watched Ffion run off and turned back to Rhys. "Any truth to what she says?" he wanted to know.

"No, I didn't do anything."

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Stacey growled in frustration and snapped her phone shut. Sean still wasn't answering! What was he playing at now? She should have just washed her hands of it. She and Ryan had been all ready to leave, but then she's changed her mind. She and little Sean would stay until she'd got her brother sorted out. But she didn't want Ryan to have problems by being gone too long from work. His leave was nearly up. So she'd bid him a very long and fond farewell and then tried to track down her brother to no avail.

She packed Seanie into his stroller and headed out to find her wayward brother. She started at the pub. Tracey was the only one there, everyone else seemed strangely absent. Stacey sighed and left the pub to continue looking.

She finally caught sight of Roxy.

"Oi!" she shouted to get Roxy's attention and hurried over. "Where's my brother? He's usually not far behind you, trailing after you like a lost puppy," she sneered.

Roxy turned and raised her eyebrows. "I haven't seen him today," she said. "Thank god, tell him to stay the hell away from me though. I'm sick of him hanging around."

Stacey heard the sound of sirens and looked at Roxy.

"If something's happened to Sean, I'm going to know it's your fault," Stacey warned Roxy and rushed off to see where the sirens were coming from. She saw a familiar figure being loaded into an ambulance and gasped. She bent down, grabbed up her son and pelted across to the allotments.

"Sean!" she screamed as she ran up. She pounded on the ambulance door. "Sean!"

Gene sighed. It was nothing but screaming females today. He walked over to Stacey and put a hand on her shoulder. She jerked away from him and turned to glare at him.

"You can't imagine how little effect that expression has on me at this moment," Gene informed her.

"What happened?" she demanded to know, craning her neck around to see where her brother had been lying. She saw the shovel and gasped.

"Look, you should go to the hospital," he told her gently.

"Who did this?" she asked him, her voice a strangled hush.

"We don't know yet, we've only just got here," he told her.

"You find out, you find out and you make them pay," Stacey growled and stomped back over to the stroller she'd abandoned. She deposited her son in the seat and set off at a quick walk for the hospital.

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Chris wandered into the hospital and got directions to where Ray and Rowan were. He found the room finally and crept inside. He smiled at the sight of Shaz holding a tiny baby and decided they really should have one soon. He walked over to Ray and patted him on the back.

"Hey, mate," he said and looked down at the tiny baby Ray was holding. "So, all over then?" he grinned and looked at Rowan.

"Congrats."

"Thanks, Chris," Rowan said.

"Oh, I made sure that we got a lot of pictures of your car and you're gonna want a copy of the accident report for your insurance," he told her.

Rowan sighed and went to find her phone. "Where's my phone?" she asked when she couldn't find it and then huffed in annoyance. "Still on the floor of the car," she muttered and walked back over to Ray. She shoved her hand in his trouser pocket and pulled out his phone, ignoring any of Ray's noises, and started looking for the number to the insurance company. She was sure she had made sure they both had it programmed on their phones.

Chris watched Rowan walk back over to the bed and then looked back up at Ray. "You're both okay, though, right?"

Ray smiled and wrapped his arm around Rowan, keeping Claire safely held to his chest with his other arm. He smiled down at Rowan and dropped a kiss on her forehead. "Love you, too," he beamed at her.

Shaz watched them both and smiled at them, then went back to cooing down at Dennis, she looked up and chuckled. "I bet you were shocked when you realised that you had two to get out," she laughed. "I still don't understand why you didn't believe that Rowan was having twins," she commented and Ray shrugged.

"Well..." he said, unable to supply an answer.

Shaz looked up at Chris and smiled at him, then moved her attention back to the tiny boy that she held.

Ray grinned up at Chris. "All right?" he asked.

Ray tried to bat Rowan's hand away as she went fishing in his pocket, if she wanted his phone all she had to do was ask for it. He rolled his eyes at her and looked down briefly at Claire and made a face.

Ray nodded at Chris. "We're all fine," he smiled. "Hunky Dorey," he added with a light chuckle.

Rowan finally hung up with the insurance company and walked over.

"Well, they're going to send someone over to look at the car. Since it's not really our fault, there shouldn't be a problem," she told Ray and shoved the phone back in his pocket. She was going to have to reward him later, if she wasn't too tired. There were some things she could do that giving birth didn't affect at all. She smiled at the thought.

"Are we going out to pub then, wet the babies' heads?" Chris wanted to know.

Rowan looked at Ray and shrugged. "I don't mind if you go for a pint. But wait until after we get home. You know how I feel about being alone in hospitals," she told Ray before he could even ask. She knew he'd want to go, she saw no reason to deny him.

Ray nodded at Rowan. "Fine by me," he grinned. "When do you get to leave?" he wanted to know.

Rowan shrugged.

"I don't know," Rowan sighed. "You've been here the whole time I have been. I'm hardly likely to hear something you haven't," she replied. "I guess they want a doctor to check and make sure we're not injured from the crash. They've done all the baby stuff."

She looked down at her watch. "Might as well not be too impatient, pub's not even open yet," she told him with a smirk. "You've got an hour yet," she teased.

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Alex looked up at him. "It's your fault because if I wasn't so wound up about you then I would've noticed," she told him angrily.

Molly winced at Gene's tone and looked helplessly at Alex. "Please, tell me everything is going to be okay, Mum, please," she said quietly. Alex pulled her into a hug and stroked her hair gently.

"How long Molls? How long have you known?" Alex whispered.

"A couple of weeks, if that" she murmured.

Alex pulled away and looked at Molly reproachfully. "Why didn't you say something sooner?" she asked.

Molly sniffed. "You were fighting with Gene, I didn't want to give you any more grief than you already had," she explained. "You had enough to deal with without worrying about me."

Alex frowned. "Molls, you should've told me as soon as you found out. Does Peter know?"

Molly shook her head. "No, Doctor Bond, Mr. Rimmer, Whit, and now you and Gene."

"Jack knows?" Alex asked. Molly nodded. "I told him first," she said. "He caught me being sick."

Alex held Molly by the shoulders. "What do you want to do about this, Molls. I'm assuming that Simon went through all of your options with you?" she asked. Molly nodded again.

"I don't know what I want to do," she said and wiped at her eyes. "Tell me what to do Mum, what do I do?" Alex pulled Molly into another hug. "I can't tell you what to do Molls, this is your choice. But I do think that you need to talk to Peter."

Molly looked up at Alex. "You're not going to let him kill Peter are you?" she asked worriedly and Alex sighed. "I'm not going to let him do anything, Molls, but at the moment I'm not in a position to try and stop him," she sighed.

Wailing from Sam pulled both Alex and Molly's attention to him. Alex smiled gratefully at Whitney and went to take her son from her arms. "Thanks, Whit," she said with a genuine smile at her daughter's best friend. She cradled Sam to her chest, then hoisted him onto her hip. She started trying to climb over her shoulder to Gene's office and Alex pulled him back.

"He's not in there Sammy, so don't even bother," she told him firmly, then put him back into place on her hip.

Whitney gratefully handed Sam to his mother and looked worriedly at Molly.

"Maybe we should go to Peter now," Whitney suggested.

Molly shook her head hastily. "No! No Way!" she disagreed. "I'm not ready to tell him yet," she said.

Alex sighed. "Molls, you've got to tell him at some point, surely he's best to hear it sooner rather than later. Then you'll have an idea what he wants."

"That's the point, what if he decides that he really, really wants this baby and then I don't and I get rid of it! Or, if I decide I want this baby and he really doesn't and he makes me get rid of it," she said.

Alex sighed and stroked her hair. "The sooner you talk to him the sooner you'll know," she said. "You never know, you might both want to do the same thing."

Whitney nodded.

"You have to tell him," Whitney agreed. "You have to decide between you what you're going to do. Peter's not that mean. He won't insist on something if it's going to hurt you, Molly, you know that."

"FINE!" Molly shouted. "I'll go and tell him!" she snapped as she marched out of the station purposefully. Anything to get the pair of them to stop telling her what to do! How was she supposed to think with those two going on, and on, and on at her!

Molly opened the gate and banged on Peter's front door.

"Peter!" she called out when she got no reply. "Peter, lemme in," she demanded as she rang the bell insistantly.

Fatboy came out, cradling his head. "Jeez, Molls, hangover central here," he told her as he stood back to let her in.

"Where's Peter?" she asked as she went straight through to the front room. Fatboy shrugged. "Ain't seen 'im," he grumbled as he climbed the stairs back up to his room. Molly followed and detoured to Peter's room, she knocked once before opening the door and sighing.

"Where the hell are you Peter," she mumbled as she went and lay down on his bed, relishing the quiet.

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Alyssa waited impatiently for Jack to park the car and then grabbed his arm as they walked to the Maternity Ward. She spotted Chris and Shaz standing up and directed Jack towards them. She waved at Rowan and Ray rolled his eyes. "Here we go," he mumbled.

Alyssa went and hugged Rowan. "I'm so glad you're okay!" she sighed.

She moved away from Ray and jabbed him gently with her elbow at his comment about Alyssa. She smiled and hugged her sister.

"Thought you were going to meet me at the flat later," Rowan scolded. She looked at Jack.

"Shouldn't you be at school?"

Jack shrugged. "Yeah, well, I married a bully, what can I say?" he joked and Rowan shook her head. She put a hand on Alyssa's shoulder. "This is Claire," she said, and gently touched the baby in Ray's arms. She walked over and got her son back from Shaz and carried him over to Alyssa.

"And this is Denis," she said.

Jack looked at Ray. "Law?" he asked and looked curiously at the babies. "They're so small."

Ray nodded at Jack. "Who else?" he sniffed as he glanced over at his son.

"They're twins, so yes, they're generally smaller, they'll grow," she said and looked at Alyssa.

"Well Auntie Lyss?" Rowan asked and made as if to hand the baby to Alyssa.

Ray sighed. "I'd imagine that will take some time, hospital doctors like to play that game where they keep you hanging around for half your life until they get round to you," he grumbled. Now he was on the promise of a pint he wanted to go home and get changed. And eat something. He was starving.

"I'm not a bully," Alyssa protested. "I'm just excited and impatient," she grinned at him. "And you were the one complaining down the phone that you wanted to see them, too," she added smugly.

Alyssa looked at the tiny bundle in Ray's arms and smiled as she ran a gentle finger down the baby girl's cheek and smiled at Ray as she pulled away and watched the little girl. She turned to look at Rowan and her eyes widened as she realized that Rowan wanted her to take the baby. She looked at Rowan. "You want me to hold him?" she asked worriedly.

Ray looked hopefully at Jack. "Don't suppose you brought any food with you?" he asked. "I haven't eaten a single morsel today, and I feel like I'm wasting away," he complained.

"Yeah, well I didn't expect you to bully me into leaving work," Jack countered.

"Well, yes, you'll have to get used to it after all," Rowan told her. "Here," she reached out and moved Alyssa's arms and then deposited the baby carefully in Alyssa's arms.

She folded her arms and smiled as she watched Alyssa. She glanced at Ray.

"Why don't you let Jack hold Claire?" she asked. It looked like Claire was going to be Daddy's girl, Rowan realized with a small inward smile. She went over to the carry all bag Ray had brought with them from the car and fished out a plastic container, which she held up. She looked at Ray as she walked over.

"Pasties," she told him and waited patiently for him to pass Claire to Jack before handing him the box.

Jack grinned as Ray handed him the tiny bundle and went to stand next to Alyssa. "They are cute, though. I did worry, what with Rowan being so hideous and all," he joked.

Rowan slapped Jack's arm. "Be nice."

Chris slipped an arm around Shaz' shoulders. "We should get back to the station. Let me know about the pub," Chris called back to Ray as he headed for the door.

Alyssa snorted. "You have to bunk off at some point, Jack," she said with a shrug. "This just gave you the perfect reason," she smiled at him.

Alyssa held Dennis carefully, making sure to support his head. She wasn't much a fan of holding babies, but it seemed like Rowan wasn't going to let her escape from it. She looked at Jack and shook her head at him with a smile.

Ray looked up at Rowan and then at Jack, then back down at Claire. He sighed, she was quite a welcome weight in his arms, he found he wasn't all that opposed to holding his kids. He actually decided that he enjoyed it. He held her out to Jack and then immediately grabbed the food from Rowan.

"You could of told me you brought this with you, I've been dying of hunger since we got here," he told her as he bit into a pasty hungrily.

Alyssa giggled at Ray and then peered over Jack's shoulder to see the bundle in his arms.

Ray nodded at Chris. "Will do," he called back, around a mouthful of pasty. He hastily swallowed. "See you, Shaz," he added as an afterthought and she waved in response as she slid her arm around Chris' waist.

"They're so tiny and adorable, Chris," she sighed.

"That is true," Jack grinned at Alyssa.

"Where would be the fun in that?" Rowan asked Ray. "Besides, we had other stuff to take care of and you can be pretty single-minded when you eat," she remarked, "not that I mind," she added archly and smirked at him before turning to wave at Chris and Shaz.

"Bye, Chris, Shaz, thanks. I'll see you later," she called after them.

She looked at Alyssa. "They're so small now they're quite easy to hold," Rowan whispered. She went back over and sat down on the bed. "I can't wait to go home, I'm so tired," she sighed.

Jack glanced up from the baby.

"Well, you would be, wouldn't you?" He glanced over at Ray, who was hungrily eating his way through the pasties.

"You're probably hungry, too," he added. Rowan shrugged and rubbed her face. She breathed a sigh of relief when the doctor finally came in. He checked her over and then made Ray sit down so he could check him over, too. When he was satisfied from looking at them and the answers to his questions that they were uninjured he nodded.

"You can go then. If you have any trouble though, come back or contact your GP," he advised them. He took a moment to look at the tiny babies and patted Ray on the shoulder. "Good job," he said. "Word is getting around," the doctor added and left the room.

Rowan got up and clasped her hands together happily. "We can go home," she crowed. She went over and took the baby from Jack.

"How useful that you and your car are here," she said and gestured at the car seats. "We'd love a ride home, thanks for offering," she teased.

"But of course, Short Fair One," Jack said with a bow and went over to pick up the car seats. He frowned. "We're not all going to fit."

Rowan bit her lip. Jack was right.

"I can always come back, it's not like I can only drive one way and that's that," he remarked.

Ray listened to her but didn't respond. He was too busy sorting out his stomachs complaints, and the pasties tasted so good!

Alyssa nodded, it wasn't dropping them she was worried about, but she didn't trust herself around babies, they made her feel uncomfortable.

Ray nodded. "She just pushed two people out of her, I'd say she has every right to be tired," he said. "Mind you, I pulled, so I reckon that I should have every right to be tired, too," he added. Alyssa let out a bark of laughter. "Ray, you haven't been carrying 'two people' around inside you for 9 months," she told him.

"Yeah, but I pulled them out," he argued back but promptly shut up as the Doctor came in.

Alyssa waited patiently for the Doctor to finish and contented herself with looking at Jack as he held Claire. She sighed as she looked down at Denis.

Ray grinned at the Doctor and nodded mutely, then chuckled at Rowan's obvious excitement. He put the lid back on the box and gathered up the bags.

"So, take Rowan, Alyssa and one of the kids, then come back for me, the other baby and the bags?" he suggested. That way Rowan got out of the hospital, and wasn't alone in the flat, just in case anything happened.

Rowan frowned. "I'd rather take both children at once," she commented. "No offense, acuisle, I just want to keep them together."

Jack nodded. "Well, let's get outside to finalize the situation."

Rowan smiled and took Claire from Jack so he could pick up the car seats. Rowan followed behind Jack to his car and watched to make sure he put the seats in correctly. She carefully put Claire in the seat and then turned to Ray.

She took his face in her hands and pulled him down to her for a kiss.

Ray nodded at her and grabbed up the bags, slipped his arms through the loops of the handles and started to follow them out.

Alyssa looked down at the boy in her arms and then looked at Ray. "Umm Ray?" she said and held out the baby to him.

Ray sighed and put the bags down, then took Denis off Alyssa. "You carry the bags then," Alyssa nodded and picked up the bags. Then walked out of the hospital behind Ray.

Ray put Denis in the other car seat and tried to figure out how to strap him in. He did it as good as he could then looked at how Rowan was doing it to Claire. He shrugged. Pretty similar.

He grinned as she went to kiss him and moved his arms around her waist to pull her just a little bit closer.

"Guess what," he whispered against her lips as he looked down at her. "You're a Mam," he told her with a happy grin, then let her go and nudged her gently towards the car. "Come on, I wanna go home," he said. "You may want to check how I've strapped Denis in though," he told her.

"And you're a Daddy," she whispered back.

She nodded at Ray's comment and then climbed into the back seat to sit between the babies. She checked Denis, he was fine. She leaned down to peer out at Ray.

"You got it right," she told him and settled back nervously in the seat. She was sure she wasn't going to enjoy riding in cars as much, not after this morning. At least it wasn't raining again.

"Back shortly," Jack said to Ray and got in the car and started it up.

Alyssa got in the front seat. She strapped herself in and looked in the back at Rowan and the twins with a smile as Jack started up the car. Once Alyssa was settled, he drove to the restaurant.

Rowan quickly climbed out once Jack had stopped. She bit her lip and then got her bag from Alyssa and dug out her keys.

"I don't want to go through the restaurant. I want to get upstairs and sit down," she said. She freed Claire's car seat and carried it to the side door. She unlocked the door and propped it open so she could pick the baby-filled car seat up and go in. She hurried up to the flat, put the car seat on the couch and then gestured Jack to do the same.

"Okay, then," Jack sighed. "I'll go back and fetch Ray. You girls behave," he shook his finger at them and then grabbed Alyssa into a kiss.

"See you in a bit," he told her and then headed back out, making sure the side door was securely shut behind him.

Rowan looked at the babies and then at Alyssa.

"I think some food is in order," she remarked and went into the kitchen. "You'd think Ray would have taken the hint and given me at least one of the pasties."

Alyssa laughed as she sat on the arm of the sofa. "You yourself said how single minded he can be when he eats," she shrugged and watched Rowan. "Need any help?" she asked as she stood up.

Rowan pulled some cold chicken out of the fridge and shook her head as she took a bite.

"I have some leftovers," she said when she'd swallowed. Rowan carried the plate of chicken into the front room and dropped onto the chair. "I'm sure I'm going to have nightmares about this morning," she sighed.

"I can't believe the person just drove off! They had to know they hit us," she added. "I don't think I've ever been so scared. Getting shot wasn't even as scary."

Alyssa nodded. "You were in a car crash Rowan, that's understandable," she smiled. "You were in labour at the time as well Ro, I can't even imagine what that was like!" she said.

"But, on the plus side, you're not pregnant any more and you've got two beautiful children," she smiled.

"The police will find who ever it was that hit you, there's CCTV everywhere these days."

"It was very unpleasant," Rowan remarked and took another bite of her chicken. Rowan smiled softly at her newborn twins and looked at Alyssa. "That's made it worthwhile."

"I hope so. We're going to have to get a new car now," Rowan sighed. "At least it wasn't our fault, so insurance money should help."

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Roxy watched Sean get loaded into the ambulance and walked away. She wasn't going to get involved in this. She was past caring about what happened to Sean. She made her way back to the pub, at least if he was in hospital then she wouldn't have to worry about him. She made her way into the kitchen and sighed as she hopped up to sit on the counter. JT wasn't in here. She would wait until he got back then tell him the good news.

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Peter sat down in the pub and wondered why Molly was still avoiding him. He was sure she was planning to break up with him. He ordered a bottle of beer and sat in the corner.

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Gene shoved his hands in his pockets as he inspected the scene, asking occasional questions of the forensics team. He spotted Roxy off in the distance and his brow furrowed. She and that JT had had that face off at the pub with Sean not so long ago. He nodded to himself. He wasn't going to have to look too far for suspects.

Rhys excused himself and headed back to the station and started to type up a report.

Gene asked a few more questions and then headed in the direction of the pub. Time to establish some alibis, he thought. They could send someone after him if he needed to be told anything. He was not going back to the station, not now, not when there was a villain on the loose. He went into the pub and walked up to the bar.

"I need to speak to Roxy and JT, please," he said to her.

"I think they're upstairs," she told him. He nodded and went to the door and up the stairs.

"Hello, it's DSI Gene Hunt and I need to ask you some questions," he announced when he reached the top of the stairs.

Roxy frowned at the sound of DSI Hunt's voice and clambered off the work top. She was pretty sure he was here because of Sean, she had seen him get piled into that ambulance, it was only logical that the police would be crawling all over this. She wandered to the top of the stairs and looked at him

"This is about Sean, isn't it," she said with a sigh.

"Yes," Gene replied. "I need to establish where both you and JT were this afternoon. I know the pair of you had a problem with Sean, so you are on the list of people who might have attacked him."

Roxy sighed. "The market. I was getting some shopping done," she told him. "Then came back here to unpack," she said.

"I need a list of anyone who saw you, you need to establish an alibi. What about JT?" he asked.

"I was at the club," JT replied from behind Roxy. "I was walking past and thought I saw someone break in," he said.

"Can anyone confirm that?" Gene wanted to know. JT shrugged.

Roxy frowned. "Ask any of the Stall Owners, they all saw me," she replied flippantly and looked over her shoulder at JT. She hated dealing with the police. She hated it with a passion.

Gene nodded and studied the both of them, his brow slightly furrowed.

"Fine, for now, but don't expect that I'm done with the pair of you," he told them and headed back downstairs. He looked at the bar and thought about getting a pint when his attention was caught by the sight of Peter sitting in the corner.

"YOU!" burst from him and he strode across the pub and hauled Peter up by the front of his shirt.

Peter gaped at Gene, what had he done?

"How dare you lay a finger on that girl? Much less anything else?" Gene snarled. "I've a mind to kill you for what you've done."

"I haven't done anything," Peter squeaked and tried to ignore that everyone in the pub was turning to stare.

"YOU GOT HER PREGNANT!" Gene screamed in Peter's face. "I HARDLY CONSIDER THAT NOT DOING ANYTHING!"

"What?" Peter asked in shock.

"You heard," Gene snapped. "But when I get through with you, you won't be capable of it ever again."

Whitney walked into the pub, saw what was happening and ran back to Peter's and pounded on the door.

"Molly! Peter's at the pub and Gene's got him!" she called through the door as she pounded. "Hurry up!"

Molly heard Whitney's voice through Peter's half open window and sprang up off his bed. She charged downstairs, ignoring Fatboys' moaning at her for being too noisy and rushed past Whitney. She sprinted into the pub and it didn't take long for her to spot Gene and Peter. Her eyes widened and she gulped.

Molly ran up to Gene and tugged on his arm.

"Gene! Leave him alone," she begged. "It's not his fault!"

Gene looked down at Molly.

"What are you then? Immaculate conception?" he barked and shook Peter. "I knew you couldn't be trusted!"

Peter looked imploringly at Molly and then back at Gene. "Please, I love her, I've promised to ask her to marry me!" he protested. "Look!" he cried and jerked his head at Molly's hands on Gene's arm. "That's a promise ring!"

Gene glanced down and saw the ring on Molly's finger that he somehow had overlooked before. Girls wore rings. He hadn't really thought about it.

"So, you're going to do right by her and marry her and take care of this baby?" Gene demanded.

"Yes!" Peter nearly sobbed. "If she'll let me."

He looked down at Molly and nearly dropped to the floor when Gene let him go.

"Go on then, you little scrote," Gene growled. Peter looked at him and gulped before dropping to his knees in front of Molly and grabbing her hand.

"Please will you marry me? I know we were going to wait, but…please?"

Molly's eyes widened as Peter grabbed her hand. She turned her head and glared at Gene as she gently eased her hand out of Peter's.

"You really think that with everything in my head right now that I've got room to think about a marriage proposal," she glared at him.

She looked back down at Peter and pulled on his hand to make him stand up. "I do love you, Peter, but I can't think about that right now," she told him.

Molly turned back to Gene and jabbed a finger at his chest. "You, leave him" she pointed at Peter "Alone!" she told him.

Molly ran her hands through her hair. She took Peter's hand and led him away from Gene, shooting a glare back at Gene as she went. She held Peter's hands and looked at him. "Peter, I will marry you, when you ask me again in a year," she told him. "But right now I've got to think about what I'm going to do about this," she said with a look at her stomach. "And I need to know what you want me to do about it before I can make a decision," she told him pleading.

Peter stood up nervously. He hated that he got so intimidated by Mr. Hunt, especially now that Molly was defending him from the man in front of everyone. He felt ashamed.

Gene widened his eyes and stepped back from Molly. Bloody hell, her temper was as bad as her mother's, he thought.

"Fine," Gene spat. He watched Molly lead the boy away and stalked from the pub after her glare.

Peter looked at Molly. "Molly, I'll support whatever you want to do. I know you're not done with school yet, so if you're not ready, it's fine. I won't judge you. My sister had a termination almost two years ago," he confided to her softly. "I just…I love you, Molly and I just want you to be happy."

He pulled her into a hug and glared at all the people still staring at them.

Molly nodded and held onto him tightly. She buried her face in his shoulder and hugged him, unwilling to let him go.

Eventually she pulled away and looked around at the people still watching them, she knew they had had a bigger audience before but still they were being watched. Molly sighed and tugged on Peter's hand to get him to move. She guided him back to his house and went inside, then sat down on the sofa and looked at him

"I don't know what to do Peter, I don't know whether I'm ready to have a baby, or if I'm completely against the idea," she told him. "Mum says she's there for me whatever I choose, and Whit says that Mr. Rimmer will probably help me with studies and everything while I'm pregnant if I do decide to keep it. But I don't know if I'm ready to be a Mum, I barely coped with having Sam around when he was a newborn," she told him as she pulled a cushion over her middle.

"I'm sorry about Gene, he and Mum are still fighting so he's more wound up than usual," she said.

"It's okay, Molly," he said and held her close. "I'm not sure I'm ready to be a dad," he confessed. "I mean, the chippy and the stall are doing okay, and Jane's helping me budget to I can cover the household bills, but I'm not sure I can financially handle a baby. Not to mention the fact that I can't afford to hire someone to cover the hours I work so I could help you."

Molly sighed. "So I get a termination," she said decisively as she put her head back down on his shoulder and leaned against him. "There's no point having a baby if it's going to bankrupt us, I mean, my job is only during school holidays because of school," she said.

She looked up at his face. "We're not ready for a baby," she said then smiled wryly. "I've been agonising over this for a week now, and now I've spoken to you everything's clearer," she smiled.

He stroked her hair back from her face. "But I'll do whatever I have to do to help you, Molly, make sure you know that. You could always move in here if you want," he offered. "You can share my room with me or you can have Lucy's old room, if you prefer."

"We'll try again after we get married," Peter promised. "Until then, you can practice on your brother."

He squeezed her again and then let her go. "You can still move in here, if you want."

Molly chuckled and looked up at him.

"I'll have to talk to Mum and Gene, when they're in a reasonable mood," she said. "At the moment you can't talk to either of them," she said and ran her hand over her face. "The pair of them are just so stupidly stubborn!"

"Why talk? Just pack up your things and leave. Tell them their unreasonable behavior drove you away," Peter grinned. He'd considered it himself until his father had decided to go the US until Ben was done with school.

Molly thought about it for a moment and then sighed and shook her head.

"I couldn't do that to Mum, it'd hurt her," she said. "I'll just have to wait until they've sorted this mess out," she said.

Molly looked back up at his face and smiled. "Though, I'm willing to spend the odd night or two here," she told him then kissed him softly before putting her head back on his shoulder happily.

"Oooh, sleepover," he teased.

"So, do you think Mr. Hunt might have calmed down by now?" he ventured curiously.

Molly grinned back. "Yes. A sleepover," she told him with a grin. "I'll even do you nails," she teased back.

Molly shrugged at him. "No idea, why?"

"I just don't want him to try and kill me again," he said uncertainly and gave her a small smile. "C'mon, let's go to mine and relax away from all these people. We can make an appointment for the uh..." he trailed off.

"Let's go."

He tightened his arm around her shoulders and led her from the pub.

Molly shook her head at him fondly. "He won't," she assured him.

Molly nodded and took his hand. "I'll need to call Mum from yours, too," she sighed.

Molly picked up Peter's landline and dialled her Mum's mobile number.

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Rhys looked up as Chris and Shaz came back into the office.

"You've missed some excitement," he said. "Someone hit Sean Slater in the head with a shovel over at the allotments."

Shaz frowned at Rhys.

"Is he okay?" she asked him as she took her seat. "And just so you know, Rowan had her twins this morning, Ray delivered them in the back of their car," she beamed at him.

"He didn't look okay. He was taken to the hospital. Ffion accused me of doing it," he grumbled.

Shaz frowned "Do we know who did it yet?" she asked curiously.

"He's only just been found. The Guv has his ideas, though. He's gone to the pub to talk to Roxy and JT."

He winced at the pain from his eye where Ffion had hit him and turned back to his paperwork.

Shaz nodded, her brow furrowed. Rhys looked awful. He'd clearly been in a fight. She sat at her desk and tapped her pen on her desk as she watched Rhys curiously.

Rhys stopped typing and stared darkly at his monitor. He couldn't believe Ffion had attacked him. He saw Shaz watching him out of the corner of his eye and looked at her.

"What?"

Shaz shook her head. "Nothing," she said and looked back down at her desk.

She wondered who had done it, she knew that Sean had had issues with a lot of people in Walford but she also knew that Rhys had issues with Sean because of Ffion. She frowned as she turned her attention to her computer screen.

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Ray watched them drive off and walked over to lean against the wall of the hospital. He rubbed his face as he let it all sink in. Twins! He was going to have to call Maggie and arrange for her to come down to meet her grandchildren.

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Jack pulled up outside the hospital and gave Ray a wave.

"Safe and sound," he said out the window to Ray and waited for him to get in the car.

Ray grinned back at Jack and made his way over to the car. He got in the front seat and strapped. himself down.

Ray got out of Jack's car and went in the back door of the Restaurant. He half-ran up the stairs and into the flat. He smiled at the sight of Rowan and the twins, and smiled at Alyssa, too. He looked down at himself and went straight into the bedroom to get changed out of his clothes and into some fresh ones.

Rowan smiled at Ray as he came into the flat and turned to Jack who had followed Ray in.

"So, we both have jobs to get back to," Jack reminded Alyssa.

He walked over and gave Rowan a quick kiss on the top of her head. "Be good."

Rowan rolled her eyes and waved her hand at him. "Go back to work, pester some poor kids and leave me alone."

Alyssa smiled and went to hug Rowan. "Take care," she smiled. "I'll be back round soon," she added.

Rowan hugged Alyssa back tightly.

"Come over this weekend, I think I'll have people over, just a few, sort of a formal welcome to the twins," she said. She watched Alyssa and Jack leave and then sat down on the couch again. She put the empty plate on the coffee table and promptly picked up Claire to cuddle while she looked fondly at Denis and stroked his cheek and blinked back her tears. Her very own family. She didn't think she'd ever felt so happy in her life, although the day that Ray broke down and told Rowan he loved her came very, very close.

Alyssa sighed at Jack and pouted. "I don't wanna go back to work," she told him then slid her arm around his waist as they walked back to the car. She looked at her watch and sighed again as she got into the car.

"I suppose we'd best go back to work and see what chaos has happened while we've been gone," she smiled at him.

Jack chuckled. "Considering you left Kim in charge, I shudder to think."

He parked in front of the salon and pulled her to him for a kiss.

"Well, now that the twins are arrived, I think we can plan that weekend trip up north," he suggested. He hadn't wanted to plan it sooner because although he knew Alyssa wouldn't say it out loud, he knew she wanted to stay in Walford until Rowan had her babies. He didn't mind. There wasn't much he wouldn't do for Alyssa, whether she said it out loud or otherwise. He just wanted her to be happy.

Alyssa nodded at him. "Not this weekend, it's too short notice and Rowan's having that welcome thing for the babies now," she smiled at him.

"Well, I didn't want to go this weekend, I said we could plan now though," he reiterated gently and tapped her nose.

"I'll have a look at the calendar when I get back to school and come up with some options. You write down your schedule for the salon and we'll see what we've got. Then I'll call Declan," he suggested.

He waved as she got out of the car and headed back to school.

"Talk to Declan and pick a weekend and let me know so that I can arrange something with Tanya," she told him and pressed her lips to his again.

"I'll see you later," she smiled as she climbed out of the car and headed back inside.

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Syed had caught sight of Ray coming in the other door and hurrying up the stairs. Why did it look like he had blood on him?

He went back to the kitchen.

"I just saw Ray come in and rush upstairs, it looked like he had blood on him. I'm just going to go up and see that everything's okay," he said to Trevor and Mercy and then went upstairs and knocked on the door.

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Rowan sighed at the knock on the door. "Come in," she called out and watched the door open and Syed poke his head around.

"Are you okay? I just saw Ray…." he trailed off when he realized what Rowan was holding and his mouth dropped open and he quickly crossed the room.

"Oh my goodness, you've had the twins!" he exclaimed softly. Rowan nodded.

"I went into labor this morning. But a car hit us on the way to the hospital…." she waved off his expression of dismay, "we're fine, but we were trapped in the car and Ray had to deliver them."

"You're joking!" he breathed.

Rowan shook her head. "Nope."

"You know, Christian and I helped Mum deliver Kamil," he told her. "We got locked in the unit office when she was in labor."

Rowan giggled. "I had to tell Ray what to do. Thank goodness Gem was the local midwife back home, so I had a good working theory for what to do."

"Christian got talked through it on the phone and passed the instructions on to me," Syed said.

Ray felt a lot cleaner as he washed his face once more. The cuts on his face had been cleaned at the hospital, but he felt better doing it himself. He went back out of the bedroom and smiled at Rowan cuddling with one of the babies. He sat down next to her, threw an arm around her and picked up Denis.

Ray looked up at Syed, he'd caught parts of their conversation as he had come out of the bedroom.

"I think I'd have rather had someone over the phone, mind you, Rowan's instructions got us through," he grinned and squeezed Rowan's shoulder.

Rowan blushed. "You did pretty good yourself," she told him.

Ray looked between Rowan and Syed and frowned. "Have you told him the names yet?" he asked her then looked back up at Syed. "Claire," he said, pointing at his daughter. "And Denis," he smiled as he gestured to the boy he held.

"I was just getting to that!" she said in mock-irritation.

"Those are lovely names," Syed said. "I better get back down there, I told everyone I saw Ray coming in with blood all over him and now I better reassure everyone you're not dead."

He stood up and pulled his phone from his pocket and took a quick picture of the babies. "Proof," he said with a grin and winked at Rowan as he headed out.

Rowan leaned against Ray and looked up at him. She reached up and touched his face.

"I didn't realize you'd been hurt," she said to him as she stroked his cheek, taking care not to touch the scratches. They weren't too bad, she decided. She drew his face close and gave him a soft, lingering kiss before leaning against him again to gaze at the babies.

"We'll have to call your mother sometime today," she murmured absently, "and I should let my Kin know."

She tucked her feet up underneath herself and settled against Ray. Now she was content and warm and safe, she could feel her eyes begin to droop.

"I guess you'll be going to the pub with Chris soon," she said drowsily and yawned.

Ray looked at her and shrugged. "They reckon it was glass from the windscreen or something, I'm fine, Ro," he told her gently.

Ray nodded. "I'll give Mam a call later," he told her and then smiled. "Do you want me to take a picture of you with the pair of them so you can email it over or something?" he offered. "And you should probably let JT know an all," he said.

Ray smiled. "I've got time yet, besides, Chris'll be working still," he told her as he twirled some of her hair around his finger. "I'll give him a text when I'm ready to go out," he said and smiled as he noticed her yawn. "Go to bed if you're tired, Ro," he told her. "I'll take care of these two," he said with a small gesture at the twins. He wasn't sure how he'd do it, but he'd try to look after them if she went to sleep, though if they needed a nappy change then he would have to wake her up, because he hadn't got a clue how to deal with any of that.

"Well, yeah, JT is part of my Kin," she reminded him.

Ray rolled his eyes. "I know," he told her. "I only meant because he lives down the road instead of across an ocean," he explained.

Rowan shifted and draped her legs across Ray's and leaned her head against his chest. "I don't want to go to bed," she said. "If I have any bad dreams about the accident, I want to be near you."

Ray sighed lightly. "If you fall asleep Ro, then I'm only a phone-call away if you wake up after having a nightmare," he reassured her.

"We'll have to….figure out….the car," she yawned. "You know, I should have asked Syed to take a picture of all of us, nice family photo," she murmured, the smell of warm, sleeping baby mixed with the smell of Ray comforting her and causing her to drift.

"The car's easy enough to get sorted, we shouldn't have a problem getting the insurance, it wasn't our fault," he told her.

"I meant pick out what kind we want," Rowan corrected.

Ray chuckled lightly. "We have plenty of time to do that Ro, we don't need to do that just now," he grinned down at her.

Ray grinned at her. "Well, we want a five door certainly," he smiled. "Otherwise we're going to go through hell when we try to get these pair in the car," he smiled at her. "If you want to go to sleep now, I promise to wake up before I go to the pub," he told her as he dropped a kiss on her forehead.

Rowan fought to open her eyes and lifted her face to look at Ray.

"You can take a picture of them to show around if you want. But don't encourage people to come over today, I don't really want visitors. Maybe tomorrow," she told him. "I just want to be with my family today."

She smiled at Ray fondly and then leaned over to carefully scoop Denis from Ray's arms and then shifted over so he could stand up.

Ray smiled at nodded at her. "I'm not going to encourage anyone to come round, I don't really want to come home and have to deal with people," he shrugged. "I'm all for a quiet day at home with the kids," he chuckled.

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Bradley finally caught sight of Ffion.

"Where have you been?" he demanded. "I turned around and you were gone!"

"I had to get out of there," she told him.

He took in her disheveled appearance and his brow furrowed. "What have you been up to?"

"I had a run in with Rhys," she replied shortly and turned away.

"Why?"

"I just, I just did, okay, I don't have to explain myself to you, Bradley," she snapped.

Her eyes widened as someone grabbed her shoulder and spun her around.

"Then you can explain yourself to me," Stacey ordered as she spun Ffion to face her.

"I don't have to explain anything to you," Ffion protested.

"You can explain what happened to my brother."

"Someone attacked him, it wasn't me," Ffion shot back and pushed Stacey away.

"Who then? Your precious brother?" Stacey sneered.

"He's not my precious brother anymore and yes, I think he did in fact," Ffion replied haughtily. "So get out of my face and leave me alone!"

"You were probably in it together, the pair of you, you to distract him and then your brother to hit him," Stacey accused.

Bradley looked back and forth between the arguing girls and held up his hands.

"Hold on! What is going on?" he wanted to know.

"Someone attacked my brother in the allotments. They hit him in the head with a shovel, he's been taken to hospital."

Bradley's jaw dropped and he looked at Ffion.

"I didn't do it!" she shrieked and bolted down the street.

Stacey watched her go and then turned back to Bradley. "Nice choice in girlfriends there, Bradley," she huffed and walked away. She stopped at the house and gave little Sean to Mo and headed for the station.

She stormed in and ignored Adam as she headed down the hall. She slammed open the double doors and focused in on Rhys.

"You did it didn't you!" she screeched. "You and that marshmallow-headed sister of yours."

Rhys jumped to his feet and looked at Stacey in shock.

"What are you talking about?"

"The attack on Sean! It was you wasn't it! You couldn't lock him up so you decided to get rid of him another way!" she accused.

"No, I didn't! I had nothing to do with what happened, I only found him!"

"A likely story!" Stacey snorted.

Stacey whirled and glared at Alex.

She jerked away from Alex and snorted. "Yeah, you lot all stick together don't you. You've all got it in for my brother," she accused and slammed out of the station without a backward glance.

Alex looked up as Stacy burst in and watched her have a go at Rhys. She sighed and stood up

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Malloy, but you can't just come in here and yell accusations at my officer," she said. "If you have a complaint you're going to have to back to the front desk and file it with the desk Sergeant," Alex explained to her.

She stepped around her desk and placed a hand on Stacy's shoulder. "We are going to be following up all lines of inquiry, even if it does mean investigating one of our team," she said truthfully with a glance over at Rhys. "We'll let you know when we catch the culprit," she said and guided Stacy out of the office. "In the mean time I'd appreciate it if you'd keep your accusations to yourself, or tell a police officer rather than shouting them about," she said firmly.

Alex went back to the office and stood in front of Rhys' desk, her hands on her hips "Well?" she asked

Shaz came out of the kitchen, a wailing Sam balanced on her hip. "Alex," she said and Alex went over and took Sam from Shaz. Alex walked into the kitchen and filled one of the mugs up with Milk. Shaz followed her.

"Ma'am."

Alex turned. "Shaz."

"Well, you remember when Sean got arrested?" Shaz continued and Alex nodded. "Well, Rhys didn't get any of the clearance to arrest him, he just barged straight in and slapped him in cuffs, no warrant or anything," she said.

Alex frowned and Shaz went on. "And even when Ffion retracted her complaint, Rhys still refused to release Sean," she explained. "He's got a grudge against Sean because he thought that Sean raped Ffion, and then because of Sean harassing her, too".

Alex nodded as she handed the mug to Sam. "Thanks Shaz, I'll bear that in mind."

Shaz nodded and left the kitchen to return to her desk. Alex looked at Sam. "Well Sammy, looks like this has just got a lot more complicated," she sighed.

Rhys looked up at Alex. "I found him, ma'am, that's all," he told her. "Ffion's already been at me," he explained and gestured at his face. "She got physical."

He glanced over at Shaz and then back at Alex. "I didn't attack him."

He turned back to his monitor and finished typing up the report, showing he was done with the discussion.

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Alyssa pulled the laptop towards her and looked over her Schedule. She and Tanya had fixed it so that they had everyone's shifts sorted up until Christmas. That way they knew way in advance if someone was off whether or not they needed to arrange some form of cover for them.

She printed out her Schedule for Jack and then copied and pasted it to a different document on the computer and emailed it over to Jack's work email. She folded her printed copy up and put it into her bag.

Jack looked over Alyssa's schedule and noted down the time of her next full weekend off and checked it against his own diary, then wrote the dates down.

He quickly sent Alyssa a text with the dates that worked for him and said he would be calling Declan when he got home from work.

Alyssa looked down at the text from Jack. She nodded.

She was anxious about going up to see Declan, Jack had assured her that Declan had got back wit his ex-wife but she found that a small consolation. The guy had had her kidnapped. She would try to forgive him but she knew that it was going to be difficult. She sighed, she didn't want an argument between Jack and his family, she'd had enough family arguments to last her a lifetime. She put down her phone and went upstairs to check on the girls.

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Chris looked up as Shaz came back in.

"So, it's lunchtime now, should we go see about meeting Ray over at the pub like we'd planned?"

Shaz nodded. She smiled at him as she grabbed up her jacket.

She slipped her arm through Chris' and raised her eyebrows "Are you going to call Ray?" she asked.

Chris nodded and quickly hit Ray's number on his phone.

"Hey, mate, it's lunchtime if you're up for a pint," Chris said when Ray answered.

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Stacey walked determinedly back to the Square. She would find out the truth about who had attacked her brother, whatever it took.

She noted Janine standing across the street, leaning against her door. Stacey's eyes narrowed and she quickly moved in Janine's direction.

"You did it, didn't you?" she immediately stated.

"Did what?" Janine asked lazily. She was sure Stacey was talking about the attack on Sean; it was the talk of the Square just now.

"You know what," Stacey said through clenched teeth.

"I had nothing to do with it," Janine assured Stacey airily and turned to go back into her flat.

"If I find out otherwise, Janine, I will make you sorry."

Janine slowly turned and looked Stacey up and down. "Of course you will," she said, her tone dripping with scorn. "Good day."

Stacey mutely watched Janine walk back into her flat and let out a growl of annoyance. She whirled around and headed for home, certain that Rhys and Ffion, or Janine had to be responsible. Janine had been knocked back and she had form and Ffion and her overly-handsome brother had it in for Sean in a big way.

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Alex nodded at him. She glanced over at Shaz briefly once Rhys had finished talking. Shaz raised her eyebrows at Alex and shrugged.

Alex sighed and sat Sam down on the floor, giving him a pencil and some paper to keep him occupied.

She watched Chris and Shaz leave then looked over at Rhys.

"Are you staying in for lunch or going out?" she asked.

Rhys looked up at Alex.

"I haven't decided yet, ma'am," he replied and then glanced down at Sam.

"I'm not willing to babysit, though, if that's why you're asking," he added.

He furrowed his brow in thought a moment and then stood up.

"However, before you keep on berating the Guv for having an affair with Debbie, you should know that it never happened. I overheard her, talking with her mates, her plan was to get promoted by getting into either DI Carling or the Guv's beds. Neither of which she managed."

He looked her up and down. "With all due respect ma'am, I thought you were a detective and would have found that out by now, considering how much you seem to dislike unfounded accusations being tossed around. Not that I don't appreciate you stopping Stacey from yelling at me. But I did nothing wrong. She should thank me. If I hadn't been heading back this way and seen him lying on the ground, he very well might have died."

He turned on his heel and left the room.

Alex sighed and looked down at Sam. She needed someone to be in the office so that she could take him home and get some lunch. Unfortunately it looked like that wasn't going to happen any time soon. She pulled him onto her lap to stop in trying to draw on her leg and looked at the door Rhys had left through.

She knew deep down that Rhys was telling the truth. But she had wound herself up about Gene so much that she couldn't just stop. She'd tortured herself with images and made herself so angry over it. Now she was being told that it wasn't true. She growled and looked at Gene's office. She would have to apologise, and admit that she was wrong. She fought the impulse to rest her head on the desk and stood up, Sam balanced on her hip.

"Come on little man," she smiled at him brightly. "Home time."

Alex walked out of the Station, she stopped at the front desk.

"Adam, if Gene gets back, will you tell him that I need a word," she asked and Adam nodded. He'd heard almost every word she had had with DSI Hunt, the whole station had. He watched her go and get into her car with a sigh, he wished they'd get this solved.

Rhys slammed around in the kitchen, making himself a cup of tea.

Bloody stupid Sean Slater. Bloody stupid Ffion. Had to mess everything up didn't they? He was used to trouble from Ffion, it followed her around, but this was more than he was willing to take. He sighed and went back to his desk and was glad to see that Alex had gone.

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Rowan nodded and watched him go. She looked down at the twins and smiled.

"So, what should I do now, do you think?" she asked them. "I agree, I definitely need something more to eat, two pieces of cold chicken just wasn't enough." She got up off the couch and headed into the nursery and carefully laid the babies in the large crib then went into the kitchen to find something else to eat. She really should have asked Syed to bring her something up when lunch rush was over, but she'd been too tired to think of it. She looked at the nearly empty fridge; she's been planning to go shopping today until circumstances had interrupted. She shrugged and pulled out bacon, eggs and decided breakfast for lunch would do just fine.

She set about making the food and sat down to eat it, her hand occasionally going to her oddly-deflated belly. It felt very strange not to be swollen up anymore, very strange. She finished eating and put the dishes in the sink and then lifted up the dress and looked at herself. At least that cream Alyssa recommended had prevented stretch marks, she noticed happily. She picked up her phone and quickly took a picture of the newborns and then sent it off to Louisa, who would no doubt show it to everyone.

Then she went into the nursery, sat down next to the crib and stared at the babies. She still couldn't quite believe they were real.

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Ray stood up and pulled out his phone, he quickly snapped a picture of Rowan as she held the twins and then barely had time to save it before Chris' name flashed up. He answered the call.

"Sure, see you down there in a bit," he said back and then shut his phone off and bent to kiss Rowan. "I'll be back in a bit," he told her as he smiled at her happily and waved at them as he left the flat.

Ray walked into the pub and sighed happily. He went and sat at the bar and drummed his fingers on the counter as he waited.

Gene saw Ray come in and walked over to him.

"Raymondo, survived…the event then?"

Chris led Shaz into the pub and went straight over to Ray.

"Heya, mate," he greeted. "Guv," he added.

Gene nodded at Chris and grunted.

"Anything yet on Sean Slater?" Chris asked Gene.

"No, lots of accusations flying around, but nowt else," he replied gruffly.

"Hey, Tracey, pints here," he said and gestured at himself, Shaz, Ray and Gene. He handed over the money and then grinned at Ray as he raised his glass.

"To your Rowan and the birth of your twins what you helped deliver," Chris announced, "Cheers!"

He took a long drink from his pint and then patted Ray on the shoulder. "Well done, there mate."

"Yes," Gene echoed. "Congratulations."

Gene drained half his pint and then looked at Ray speculatively. "I suppose you'll be wanting to take that leave now instead of the beginning of October," Gene guessed.

Ray grinned at Chris and took a long drink from his pint glass. He sighed as he put the glass back on the bar.

He looked at Gene and nodded. "Yeah, if that's alright, Ro's gonna want all the help I can give her," he said with a shrug. "And if I'm honest, I want to spend some time with Ro and the twins," he smiled.

Ray looked up at Gene and nodded. "Yup, at least you didn't have to actually deliver Sam!" he said. "Scariest thing I've ever done!" he said. "And there were two of 'em."

"No, but I have delivered a baby before," Gene reminded him.

He looked at Gene's face and sighed. "Still arguing with Alex?" he half-asked, half-commented.

He sighed. "Yes, no matter what, Alex refuses to believe I didn't have an affair with Debbie," he complained. He then frowned at Ray.

"And some help you were there, mate," Gene spat, "or did you forget when Debbie kept trying it on with you?"

Shaz raised her glass as Chris toasted Ray and Rowan and the Twins and drank from it. She smiled at Ray as she put her glass down and then looked at Gene. "Guv did you know that Rhys arrested Sean Slater for Ffion's rape, before he had evidence or a warrant?" she asked. She didn't want to stir things up but she couldn't help but think that Rhys might have had something to do with Sean's attack, surely it wasn't coincidence that he had found Sean lying beaten up?

Chris' mouth dropped and then he snapped his mouth shut again as he looked from Gene to Ray. He looked over at Shaz as she began to talk.

Gene's frown deepened as he turned to Shaz.

"He did what?" Gene bellowed and drained his pint and slammed the empty glass down on the bar.

Chris watched Gene go and then looked back at Shaz.

"Rhys did that...really?"

Shaz nodded with a sigh. "Yeah, I've never seen Rhys so angry. He just left and arrested Sean. Point blank refused to follow procedure," she told them.

Ray sighed as he watched Gene go. He didn't like Alex and Gene fighting but he honestly did know what else he could've done. He had kept Gene's secret for as long as he could.

He shrugged and drank down some more of his pint.

"That's pretty crazy," Chris commented.

"What's pretty crazy?" Ginger wanted to know.

Chris looked over and turned slightly.

"How's the day off?" he asked.

"It's fine...so what's pretty crazy? What have I missed?"

"Rowan had her twins," Chris said hurriedly and jerked his thumb at Ray. "Ray delivered them in the back seat of the car, pretty crazy, yeah?"

"Nice one," Ginger congratulated and grabbed Ray's hand and shook it. "Pint, please, Tracey."

Chris let out a small sigh of relief. Ginger was Rhys' best mate, but Chris wasn't sure if he knew what Rhys had been up to and Chris had no intention of spilling it.

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JT looked at Roxy. "So, who do you think attacked Sean? I give you my word it wasn't me," he told her.

Roxy shrugged "I don't know" she sighed and looked up at him "But Sean has a lot of enemies besides you and me JT" she said "It could have been anyone, though my bet is on Ffion or her brother, they've got it in for Sean" she sighed

"Is it wrong to feel happy that he's in hospital?" she asked quietly, she couldn't help but feel a little relieved that Sean was out of their lives for a while.

"It's not wrong at all. I'm a bit relieved myself," he admitted.

"Why don't we go downstairs and have a drink. Peggy's in with Amy," he suggested.

Roxy smiled up at him and nodded. She was feeling a little better now that she knew JT felt the same as he about Sean's attack.

She led him downstairs and pulled him a pint. She handed it to him then got herself a glass of wine.

JT turned his head as he heard Rowan's name and the twins mentioned. He looked at Roxy.

"Did you hear that?" he asked her and put his glass down and walked over.

"Rowan had the babies?" he asked curiously.

Ffion sat on the couch and tried not to look as agitated as she felt. She felt Bradley looking at her and shifted in her seat.

She looked at him.

"What?"

"Nothing," Bradley replied defensively.

"I didn't do anything, Bradley," she told him. "I wasn't the one who attacked Sean."

She stood up and walked over to Bradley, not bothering to hide that she was tearing herself apart.

"If I'd been alone with him, it would have been an altogether different sort of attack. I'm sorry, Bradley, but I won't lie to you. I'm not sure this is me...all this..." she waved her hand around as she tried to find the words and sighed.

"I don't do serious relationships and I should just go," she told him. "I don't mean to hurt you, but if nothing else, Sean showed me that I'll keep looking for that thrill. I'm not ready to stop yet."

"You can stay," Bradley began as he stood up.

"No, Bradley, this is a one bedroom flat, how can I? I'll go stay at the B&B, at least until I find someplace. Or maybe I'll just go back to Cardiff," she shrugged.

Bradley looked down at the floor and then back up at Ffion. "If that's what you want."

She nodded and then picked up her bag and left.

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Alex sighed and handed Sam a bread roll as she reached for her phone. "Hello, Alex Hunt," she answered.

"Mum."

"Molly! Where are you Molls? Did you talk to Peter?"

"Yeah, I'm with him now," Molly replied with a small smile at Peter.

"And...?" Alex asked anxiously as she sat down opposite Sam.

"And we've decided that it's best if I don't have the baby," she replied.

Alex sighed in relief and managed a smile at her son. "Are you sure Molls, he's not pushing you to get rid of it or anything?" Alex asked cautiously.

"Of course not!" Molly said sharply.

"You sure?" Alex clarified.

"Yes, Mum, we've discussed it and decided it's best. He was all prepared to have the baby, Gene even tried to get him to propose, which he's already planning to do next year anyway," Molly said softly with another smile at Peter.

"Propose..." Alex replied uncertainly.

"Yeah, but that's not the point," Molly said. "The point is that I'm not having this baby, so I'm going to make an appointment with Doctor Bond," she said.

"Molls, I want you to ask him to prescribe you the contraceptive pill to prevent this from happening again until you're ready" Alex said seriously.

"We used contraception, Mum," Molly protested.

"And proved that it doesn't always do its job! Molls, please," Alex asked.

Molly sighed. "Fine, I'll ask him," she agreed.

"Thank you!"