Emmerdale and it's charactors belong to ITV, not me!

Sorry about the delay in updating, been busy lately that's my only excuse. I know where I'm going with this story and I know how I want it to end, so please stick with me.

"Mum!" Aaron said as he walked into her bedroom through the already open door.

"Hey kiddo," Hazel said as she sat in her chair looking out over the village. "Look's like the whole village has turned out."

He walked up to stand beside her and looked out of the window. "He was well liked mum."

She nodded. "I liked him…a lot."

"I know you did," he said kneeling before her, she looked down and smiled at him. "Are you ready to go?" he asked.

The smile dropped from her face. "I don't know…what do I say to people, to his children. It's my fault they no longer have a father."

Aaron was stunned by what she had said, he took her hands. "It wasn't your fault mum."

"Cause it was," she said standing up and almost knocking Aaron over in the process, "he died saving me…it should be me whose being buried today and not Bob..he's got two little children that need him, they're so young, he was needed more than I am."

Aaron was angry about how little his mum was thinking her life was worth. "You've got us, we need you, me and Jackson. I can imagine what Cathy and Heath are going through at the moment because of Chas, and it's horrible losing a parent, but I'm not going to say that I wish it was you and not Bob that had died. I don't want to think about you not being here anymore, it almost killed me when you had cancer and I don't want to ever feel like that again," he walked up to her, "you're my mum and I love you, and Bob loved you as well and that is why he pushed you out of the way of that car…so please, come and say goodbye, Bob would want you there."

Hazel who had tears running down her face, smiled. "When did you get so grown up."

"When I met your son," he said pulling her into a hug.

Jackson who had been downstairs waiting with Paddy had come upstairs when Aaron had been gone a while, he had been standing at the door watching his mother and husband talk. He was so proud of Aaron at the way he handled thing's, he knew he loved his mother as much as he did, which made him really happy. "Everything alright?" he asked walking into the room.

Hazel and Aaron turned and looked at Jackson. "Everything's fine," Hazel said, "come on, let's go and say goodbye to Bob," she walked out of the room followed by Aaron and Jackson.

Paddy was waiting downstairs and when Hazel came down they all walked out of the house and towards the church. Bob's older children where there, as well as Cathy and Heath. The service was lovely with several people getting up and saying nice things about Bob and Carly, one of Bob's daughters gave her father a lovely tribute. Hazel looked at her as she talked and when Carly's gaze settled on her, Hazel could tell that she blamed her.

Hazel hadn't been out in the village since she had gotten home from the hospital, but Diane had been to visit her several times and she knew that Carly was blaming her for her father dying and Diane thought it was best to keep out of her way while she was in the village. Diane had also told her that Cathy and Heath would be leaving with Carly straight after the funeral to live with her.

Walking back from the graveyard after the burial, Hazel was holding onto Paddy's arm for support, Aaron and Jackson were walking to the side of her, they were all worried about Hazel and wanted to be close to her to be of help if needed. The four of them walked into the Woolpack behind the other mourners and Paddy went straight to the bar to get them a drink, he knew that Hazel could do with a large gin and tonic. As Hazel walked further in Cathy ran up to her shouting her name, Hazel smiled and picked the little girl up and hugged her. "Hiya love," she said.

"I miss you," said the little girl.

"Oh sweetie, I miss you too." Hazel was about to say something else when Carly walked up to her and took Cathy from her arms. "Your not welcome here," she said.

Aaron and Jackson who had gone over to talk to Adam and Holly where now by their mother's side. "What's wrong?" asked Jackson.

"Get out," Carly said with some menace.

Hazel looked at Carly. "I'm so sor…"

"I don't want to hear it, you got him killed."

"No she didn't," Aaron said stepping forward, Hazel took his arm. "It's okay love, we'll go."

Aaron turned to her. "You have as much right to be here than anyone." By this time Paddy had walked over. "Hazel?"

Hazel turned and looked at him. "Can we just go Paddy, please."

"Course we can, come on boys lets go home." Hazel took one last look at Cathy in Carly's arms, then started to walk out of the pub with Paddy and Jackson, but Aaron didn't move. "Bob loved my mum," he said standing his ground, "and I'm sorry that he's dead, but it wasn't mum's fault."

Carly put Cathy down and stepped towards Aaron, she wasn't afraid of him. "Oh no, then why is she here and my dad is dead. If he hadn't been walking her home he wouldn't have been on that road. He should have got out of the way and left her, he had kids to think about and she's just an old slapper," she said getting right in Aaron's face.

"What?" Aaron said feeling the anger rise in him.

"You heard me," Cathy said not backing down.

"Don't you dare call my mum name's, and you, you call yourself Bob's daughter, but when was the last time you visited him eh!" He felt a hand on his back. "Aaron," Hazel said softly, "come on love, we don't have to be here for Bob to know how much we cared about him." Aaron smiled at her and they both turned to leave.

"Don't you come near my family again," Carly shouted to their backs. Aaron made to turn but Hazel stopped him. "Let's go home," she said squeezing his hand.

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"Are you alright?" asked Paddy as they all walked towards home. Hazel smiled. "I've got the best family in the world, I know I'll be alright." They all smiled and Paddy put his arm around Hazel's shoulder and they continued walking. "How about you make us one of your famous shepherd's pie's?" Aaron and Jackson smiled at each other, they both knew that Paddy was trying to take her mind off thing's by giving her something to do, and the thing she liked best was cooking for her family.

She smiled. "I think I could manage that."

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Five weeks later and Hazel was back at work, but only for two days a week. Aaron had been working hard at the garage as was Paddy at the vets as he still hadn't found a new assistant to replace Kathy. Jackson who hadn't had a job for over a week was due to start a new project the next day.

"How long will you be gone?" Aaron asked as he sat on their bed watching Jackson start to undress.

"Shouldn't be more than a week," Jackson said pulling the t-shirt over his head.

Aaron stood up and walked towards him. "I'll miss ya."

Jackson smiled and pulled Aaron towards him. "I'll miss you too, " he said kissing him lightly on the lips.

"I'm gonna be bored on my own," Aaron said, he didn't want Jackson to go, he hated it when he wasn't there.

Jackson laughed and started to take off Aaron's t-shirt. "It's a good job Aaron and I can't afford to turn it down, anyway I'm sure you'll find someone to entertain you," he said as he started to work on Aaron's trousers whilst kissing his neck at the same time. Aaron moaned and closed his eyes. "I'm going to give you something to remember me by," he said taking Aaron's mouth for his own, pushing his tongue inside to meet Aaron's. Aaron put his hand behind Jackson's head and crushed their lips together. Breaking from the kiss they started to strip each other of the rest of their clothes, then they fell onto the bed. Jackson moved himself on top of Aaron and smiled down at him. "I love you."

Aaron smiled. "Love you too."

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The next morning was hard, Aaron was never good when Jackson was going away and he sighed every time he looked at the holdall by the front door.

"I'll just go and say see ya to Paddy," said Jackson walking out of the kitchen, leaving Aaron and Hazel alone.

Hazel went and stood next to Aaron and nudged him with her shoulder. "He'll be back before you know it."

Aaron smiled. "I know…it's just," he sighed, "I don't know…I miss him when he has to go away." Hazel kissed Aaron on the cheek. "He misses you too, but you'll be able to spend some time with your friends."

"I'd rather spend it with Jackson."

"Spend what with Jackson?" Jackson asked as he walked back into the kitchen.

"Your husband is already pining for you."

"Muuummm," said Aaron dropping his head.

Hazel squeezed his cheek. "Your not going to deny it are you?"

Aaron shook his head and walked towards the door and picked up Jackson's holdall. Jackson and Hazel watched him then Jackson moved towards his mum and hugged her. "Take care son," she said.

"Look after him for me," he said as he released her and kissed her on the cheek.

"I will."

Jackson smiled and walked towards the waiting Aaron, he picked up his coat and opened the door, they both stepped outside and Jackson took Aaron's free hand. "I'll ring you everyday," Jackson said, "don't worry," Aaron smiled. "Why don't you go into town one night with Adam, you two haven't been out in a while."

"Maybe," Aaron said not looking at him as they walked. They reached Jackson's van and Jackson let go of Aaron's hand to open the side door, Aaron put the holdall inside and Jackson shut it. Turning back to Aaron he could see that Aaron's eye's were starting to fill up. "I'll come home as soon as the job is finished," he said putting his hand on the side of Aaron's face and leaned in to kiss him. Aaron returned the kiss with passion, knowing he wouldn't be feeling those lips for a week, he didn't want the kiss to end, but Jackson finally pulled away. "Love ya babe," he said and Aaron smiled, he loved it when Jackson called him babe. "I love you too, so much."

Jackson gave him one more brief kiss. "Don't find my replacement while I'm gone."

"As if," said Aaron, "no one else would put up with me," he said laughing.

"That's true," said Jackson as he got a friendly slap on his arm from his husband. "I've got to go." Aaron nodded and watched as Jackson got into his van and started the engine. "Bye," said Aaron as he smiled. "Bye," said Jackson as he put the van into gear and drove off. He kept looking in his rear view mirror watching Aaron until he turned the corner and drove out of Emmerdale.

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Jerry knew that Jackson would be out of the way for at least a week, because he had phoned him pretending to be a potential client and Jackson had said he wouldn't be available until the second of July. He wanted them altogether for his final plan, but with Jackson going away it would have to wait, he was in no hurry, and why not have a little fun along the way. He was going to enjoy this.

He looked at his phone and he knew what he was going to do, how would Jackson react if he thought Aaron was sleeping around.

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"Have you spoken to Jackson?" asked Adam as they sat in Bar West having a drink.

Aaron nodded, it had been nearly a week since Jackson had left. "He rang me about four, he's pulling an all nighter tonight, so he rang early because he wouldn't be able to ring later."

"No phone sex for you tonight then," Adam said with a smirk.

Aaron nearly choked on his beer, remembering Jackson's phone call last night and how they had both tossed themselves off talking to each other over the phone.

Adam was laughing now. "I knew it, you've had phone sex with your husband."

"Keep your voice down," said Aaron looking around.

"Nobody cares," said Adam smiling, "anyway he'll be home tomorrow night, so you can have the real thing."

"Can we stop talking about my sex life," Aaron said shaking his head, then he noticed Nathan and Carl walking towards them. "Hey guys," Aaron said, "wanna join us."

Carl smiled and sat down next to Aaron. "Don't mind if we do, he can get boring after a while," he said pointing at his husband who immediately hit him round the head and they all laughed.

"Drink?" asked Nathan to everyone.

"Yeah, another couple of pints please mate," said Aaron and Carl was about to say something. "I know you want one idiot," Nathan looked at Adam, "give us a hand." Adam nodded and got up and followed Nathan to the bar.

"Where's Jackson?" asked Carl.

"Away on a job, he'll be back tomorrow night thought, can't wait."

"You've missed him?"

Aaron smiled thinking about Jackson. "Like mad, I hate it when where not together." Carl nodded and they continued to chat until their drinks arrived.

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He paid the prostitute extra to keep quiet while they had sex, he did all the talking down the phone, he was enjoying this so much, he just wished he could see Jackson's face when he heard it.

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Jackson was knackered, he'd been working all night so he could go home early, he was planning on having a couple of hours kip in the van, then driving back to Emmerdale. He missed Aaron and he wanted to get back to him as soon as he could. He opened the door to his van and got inside, it was just after eight thirty and he wanted to ring Aaron to tell him he would be home by dinnertime. He got his phone out of the glove compartment and straight away he noticed that he had a voicemail and two messages. Smiling he assumed the voicemail and both messages would be from Aaron, he knew he had been out with Adam and he nearly always rang when he was on a night out without him just to let him know he was okay. He played the voicemail, at first he couldn't make out what he was listening to, but it didn't take him long to work out that it was someone having sex. "What the hell," he said out loud. He could hear the grunting and groaning, he was about to click it off when the person started moaning a name and Jackson suddenly felt very sick, the name the guy was groaning out, was Aaron. Aaron was having sex with someone…no he wouldn't…Aaron loved him, this had to be some kind of sick joke. Aaron wouldn't do this to him…would he? He couldn't listen to anymore, he stopped the voicemail and sat looking at the phone in his hand. His head was spinning, Aaron had gone out last night, what if he had met someone and gone off with them….no, he was with Adam and he wouldn't let Aaron do anything stupid. He then remembered the two messages, he clicked on the first one. It was from Aaron "missing you xxx". Jackson wanted to smile but he couldn't, the voice was in his head, the voice that was crying out Aaron's name as they were having sex. He opened the second message and read it "your husband is a great fuck." Jackson threw the phone on the passenger seat and put his forehead on the steering wheel. He stayed like this for what seemed like ages, then he made up his mind, he was going home straight away, he had to see Aaron to ask him who he was with last night.

To be continued

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