Danny carried Alice up to their room. He sat her softly down onto the bed. She pointed to her dresser drawer. He walked over and opened it. It took him a minute before he found the letter he held the envelope in his hands. They both looked at it for a moment. This small innocuous looking envelope held such life changing information. It looked so innocent. Alice knew better though!

"So do you wanna open it?" Danny asked.

Alice shrugged.

Danny sat beside her and placed the enveloped in the space between them. Neither touched it. Just clasped hands and held tightly.

"We could just throw it away!" Alice whispered.

"But then we'd wonder forever wouldn't we." he whispered back.

"Don't know why we're whispering." she told him.

"I know."

Alice released his hand and reached for the envelope. She just stared at her name on the front. She took a deep breath and turned it over. She went to lift the flap that sealed it. His hand rested on hers to stop her opening it. Her face lifted and her eyes looked into his.

"No matter what the outcome, no matter what it says this changes absolutely nothing in my eyes. I love you and we'll get through it as a family ok!"

Alice nodded and he removed his hand. She then tore the envelope quickly. She slid the folded letter out and opened it. She had her eyes closed but then opened them to read. Danny sat beside her literally dying of anticipation. Alice's breathing quickened and her eyes filled, she started gasping. It took Danny a while to realise that she wasn't gasping she was muttering one word over and over.

"Oh no no no no no no no NO!" she said quickly. "This isn't happening to me!"

"Alice?" Danny asked suddenly apprehensive. The only reason for a reaction like that would be if…

Alice dropped the letter on the ground and placed her face in her hands. Tears streamed down her face. Danny read the letter.

Miss Collins,

The DNA results show that the samples you sent us were incompatible. There is a zero percent chance of the two samples being related.

Danny felt his heart stop beating in his chest. Zero chance? So that beautiful little girl wasn't his. She was someone else's. He should have known. It wasn't possible that someone like him could have a hand in creating someone like her. She was too gorgeous, too smart too everything to have ever been anything to do with him! It had been amazing while it lasted. She'd been his little girl and he loved it but now she wasn't and his heart was breaking. He never imagined anything could hurt as much as this did at this precise moment. Forget tearing his heart out this went far beyond that, it felt like it had been frozen solid, never to beat again!

Both people sat. Alice bent double, with her head in her hands. Tears streaming from her eyes. Shoulders shaking. Danny was in shock. The letter clutched in one of his fists. Neither person looked at the other. The mental distance between them was like a barren wasteland of a million miles. Danny got up suddenly and left the room. He didn't look back just walked out. Alice was too heartbroken to even realise he was even gone. Danny's mind was in turmoil. How was this possible? It wasn't. this was impossible, this had to be wrong. He pulled his coat on and slammed the door as he left. He felt a wave of resentment. He couldn't help it. Why had she insisted on doing this to them? Did it really make that much of a difference? Except leave him heartbroken, or more like with no heart at all? It made no difference to her! Lexi is still her daughter. Now he was left with nothing. His family in tatters.

He walked randomly paying no attention to where he was going. He saw a seat and decided to sit down and consider his options. Not that he had many! They had been so sure that Lexi was going to be his! Why couldn't she have been his? Life is so freaking unfair! His options limited as they were are moving out of Alice's and back into his own flat and avoiding them at all costs! He didn't really like the thought of that as the very thought of not seeing Alice or talking to her made the breath catch in his chest. And the other option was…well there wasn't any other option. Except he could go back to Bristol. Just up and leave. His mum would be royally pissed that he was abandoning his daugh…. He had to stop thinking like this! She isn't yours you idiot! He nodded finally mind made up. He rose from the seat quickly and walked back towards the house. Was he making the right decision? He didn't want to hurt anyone but maybe it would be better if he left now. Then eventually Lexi would forget he even existed and then Alice could find her a good father someone who could be better than he ever could! I would be for the best if she did that. God he couldn't do anything right. The simplest thing in the world, things men have been doing for millions of years and he gets it wrong. He couldn't even make a child right! he thought with disgust. The one thing she wanted from him, the one thing he thought he could give her and he'd been wrong. He couldn't even give her that! Fixed with the strength of his resolve he strode towards the house faster.

Danny let himself in the house quietly and grabbed a backpack from the cupboard. He'd use the big holdall in the dining room for his clothes. He walked into the living room and the first sight he seen was a framed picture of him and Lexi on the wall. Alice had insisted she'd said they looked so alike on this picture. They knew that was impossible now though. He took the picture down. He couldn't bear to see that gorgeous child's smile. It killed him. Totally obliterated him. He ghosted through the living room and picked up his stuff. Wiping every piece of his existence from their life. Like he'd never been there at all. He went over to the photo albums and removed his pictures too. They would forget him quicker if ALL traces of him were gone. He looked at a picture of them lying on the living room floor. He and Alice had been sat chatting. He'd just been about to swoop in and grab a quick kiss when Lexi suddenly dived on him. She'd told him she loved him and gave him a sweet baby kiss on his cheek. That was in the beginning when she told him she loved him every chance she got. Anyway Lexi had dived on him and he'd ended up flying backwards with the force of it. Alice had then leaned down and propped herself on her elbow and smiled her soft smile. Shauna had shouted his name and he'd popped his head up and he'd nearly been blinded by the flash. The actual picture was Lexi grinning like a Chesire cat at the camera on his stomach. He wore a shell shocked but amused expression and Alice, she just looked at him. Although they technically weren't a couple at the time. She just lay there and smiled at him adoringly. Like he was the only man in the universe. He'd miss the smiles and laughter but he'd lived without them before and he's live without them again. He'd even miss Shauna and her sarcastic jibes and barbs, even though he'd never admit it.

He clenched his jaw and walked into the kitchen and picked his gel up from the top of the fridge. Lexi had gotten into his gel once. He smiled widely at the memory. She'd watched him spike his hair up once. He never did that anymore but Alice had asked him to and he could never say no to her so he had. Lexi had tried to copy him….badly. There had been goo everywhere, all over her face and clothes and of course her hair. It had been matted with the stuff. She'd put so much on it hadn't dried just stayed extremely slimy. Half of her hair had stuck up and the rest had hung limply. He walked in and she'd smiled her dimpled grin at him. I look like you daddy! She'd declared he closed his eyes. That memory hurt! He looked in the drawers not even noticing what he was taking. He had to get out of here. It was 2:30. He had to get out of here before Lexi was home from school. He couldn't see her. His memories were making it hard enough for him to keep a handle on his emotions as it was, he couldn't see her. He'd break down. He couldn't look in her angelic face and not see his own anymore. He walked into the dining room and picked up the holdall. Then went upstairs into the bathroom. Unzipped the side pocket and dumped all his toiletries inside. As he walked out he looked at the bright pink door which was the entrance to Lexi's room. He knew if he walked in there he would smell talcum powder strawberry shampoo and the other scent which was completely Lexi. Sunshine and sweet smiles he liked to call it. He felt another ache, if it was possible! He looked at his own room. Alice was still in there. He felt a pierce of guilt that he had left her in there helpless. That had been mean but he had to get out of there! He steeled himself and slowly walked into the room.

(X)

Alice was in pieces. She'd hung on to Lexi being Danny's baby. She'd used it as a life preserver in the stormy sea that had been her life. Without it she would have floundered. Sunk into a deep ocean of depression and despair. She lay on this bed in the room. Alone. He'd left. As soon as they got the results he'd up and walked out. She was left here trying to make sense of these thoughts and feelings. She couldn't even blame him either. Not really. She knew she had been right though they should never have told Lexi before they had the results. Not that Danny would do anything. He just needed time to calm down collect his thoughts. He'd come back. He loved them both far too much to ever leave them! If she'd ever been certain of one thing it had been that! It was a good thing she'd asked Shauna to pick up Lexi today. Neither she nor Danny were in any fit state to pick her up!

It had taken time but her tears had finally dried. Why couldn't Lexi have been a product of love? Could she and Danny work through this? Were they strong enough? Of course they could. It would take time and probably a lot of tears but they were impenetrable when they were together. One single voice in her head disagreed. The voice that had stayed with her long after the rape. The one that told her she was dirty. Worthless. Better off dead because no-one would ever love her.

"Shut up!" she said "I silenced you long ago!" she grabbed her head willing the voices away.

You deserved everything that happened. What was the poor boy supposed to do? You led him on. Alice clutched her head tighter. Flopped back on the bed. She held her head so tightly within her arms that she felt like she was going to crush her skull.

"NO!" she yelled.

You knew all along Lexi wasn't Danny's. you just wanted to hurt him didn't you. You don't deserve him. Look at you, a paralysed barren worthless whore! Do you honestly think he loves you? Now that it's out that Lexi isn't his then he'll leave and you won't be able to stop him. The voice laughed maniacally. No one will ever want you. No one can break through the layers of filth and dirt and grime. Everyone will know by looking at you exactly what you are!

"Shut up!" Alice yelled. This voice knew every single insecurity she had and played on every single one. "Just SHUT UP!" she screamed and punched her head hard.

The voice quieted but now her head hurt. She shouldn't have hit herself. That had been stupid, she just lashed out though. She rubbed her head. She was left alone again. Silence was preferable to the voice though. She lay in the quiet darkness breathing slowly.

Alice was lost in her thoughts when she heard the front door open and the soft tread of feet across the floor. The person seemed to potter about for a while. There was a pain filled gasp. So Danny was home. She listened as he walked upstairs and into the bathroom. She heard the hiss of a zip and the clatter of bottles as they were pushed into a bag. Her eyes filled with tears. She'd been wrong. He wasn't the man she thought he was. He was leaving. She covered her face with her hands. Felt a lump lodge in her throat. Bit her lip to stop hysterical sobs from escaping. She heard the squeak of the door handle and soft footsteps as Danny walked into the room.

A/N ok people i know im the nastiest person eva in the history of the world bt please review next chappie up asap :/