He was recovering well, she was so happy that things were looking up, that he was pushing himself because after all, they were on a deadline. She visited him every day for the last week and she felt really good about herself and from here she was able to realise that her future was looking bright. She had been taking it easy making sure she was recuperating but the problem was she was very bored, Carla always had to be doing something and working from home was just not cutting it for her, she wanted to feel that power and ambition again. She decided she would try a couple of hours in the office under the watchful eye of Michelle and Frank of course. She drove into work then went into the office everyone looked at her and wondered why she was so chirpy and happy but when they realised that Peter had made a start on his recovery they soon came to realise that he was why Carla was so happy.

"You seem overly cheery" Michelle narrows her eyes fiddling with a black biro pen

"Well, wouldn't you be?" Carla states "When your fiance is finally on the mend"

"You what?" Frank scoffs, Carla just shrugs, Michelle brings her in for a hug "I dont believe it"

"You will have to believe it, Franky, mind you dont tell anyone, I haven't even told Peter about me accepting his proposal"

"Have you thought about how this will affect Leanne?" Frank questions, Carla just laughs dryly "What's so funny?"

"Well Leanne doesn't rule my life Frank, neither does she rule Peter's either so quite frankly its none of her business" she smirks, Frank shakes his head

"I will offer my congratulations" Frank nods before groaning and dipping his head into his hands

"What?" Michelle chuckles looking at his computer screen "Oh...lovely"

"What is it?" Carla questions, Frank turns the laptop around "A business meal, why on earth are we nominated"

"Oh...that was my fault" Michelle bites her lip, Frank and Carla pin her look "I just thought it would be a good idea to get some positive PR for this place especially with everything which had happened the last year or so"

"Thanks for that Michelle, I guess we have to show our faces now-"

"You won't be" Michelle chuckles, Carla just grunts in annoyance "You're still meant to be on bed rest"

"I'm not stressed or 'out Michelle, please I'm so bored at home, I will sit for the entirety of the thing" Carla begs, Michelle sighs before nodding "Yay thank you!"

"It doesn't leave this room though, I dont want this getting back to Peter and letting him think that I'm not looking after his fiancee and unborn child"

"Fine by me" Frank chuckles, Carla nods "Why dont you get off Carla and rest then you will be a bundle of energy later tonight?"

"Yeah ok, sounds good to me" she smiles grabbing her bag and waltzing out of the factory back home...

She slept for a while curled up in none other than her pregnancy pillow. All she had done is sleep these last few days but that was ok, she was growing a baby after all and that was how she justified it. She then decided she would go to the hospital as she was having a really good day today and she wanted to see Peter. She arrived at him attempting to stand and he actually did it which made her rather happy that things were going well, she just hoped that he would be able to come home soon because she really did miss him. She watched as he ate his lunch, she was picking away at his food as well because she was hungry, mind you, she always was nowadays.

"When are you coming home?" Carla whines, Peter raises his eyebrows "I miss you"

"Yeah I know you do" he smiles "Hopefully soon, aren't you meant to be resting?"

"Well yes but I was bored" she pouts her lips, Peter rolls his eyes playfully "Why can't you come home now?"

"Because I'm not ready" he states, Carla, sighs slightly "It'll be soon baby, I'm sure of it, I'll be in the wheelchair but hopefully I will be able to come home soon"

"I wanted to talk to you about this" she takes her ring off, he frowns knowing the arrangement they had "I want to get married"

"What?" Peter's eyes widen, she nods eagerly "Seriously? You want to get married?"

"I do" she smirks allowing him to take her hand and slide the ring on "It just feels right and the more I've been without you the more I've wanted you and there's no better way to do that permanently as husband and wife"

"You dont have to say this because I'm all crippled and in here you know"

"I'm not saying that because you're in here, I'm saying it because I've thought about it long and hard and I want to marry you"

"I want to marry you too" he says "I really do Carla, I love you so much, and I love our baby so much"

"Good, that's all I ask" she smiles leaning over to kiss him on the lips "It just feels right"

"So what are you going to do for the rest of the day?"

"I dont want you to get mad"

"Why dont I like the sound of this?"

"Well because you probably won't but Underworld has been nominated for some sort of business award, so me and Frank need to go to this as we jointly own Underworld together, it just looks bad if we dont, Michelle's coming too"

"I can't stop you I suppose but please take it easy for me, I dont want you to end up in here again" he smiles taking her hand and kissing it gently "Go on, why dont you go home and have a nice relaxing bath before you head off, then you can get ready?"

"That sounds amazing" she smiles before wincing

"Are you ok?" he asks "Maybe its not a good idea you going to this meal"

"Peter, I'm fine" she chuckles slightly "She just kicked me in the rib"

"Oh," he chuckles slightly placing his hand on her bump "You be good in there little one, look after your Mum for me yeah?"

"More like make me crave really weird things and annoy the hell out of me when I'm trying to sleep" she smiles patting her bump "She's ok, we both are"

"Well that's good, why dont you head off now yeah?" he suggests, she nods slowly "See you soon"

"See ya"

Carla went home and did what she was told. She had a nice soak in the bath and worked on doing her hair for the evening, even when she was pregnant she wanted to make a statement. She got dressed into the only maternity dress she owned not really seeing the point of buying another dress as she was nearing the end of her pregnancy in a couple of months. She then slid her dress on and worked on sorting herself out for the evening, she then waited for Frank and Michelle to come to her flat as they were all meeting there.

"Come up 'Chelle!" Carla calls pressing the buttons on the intercom and opening the door to allow her to enter

"Gosh I dont know why I decided to wear these heels" Michelle moans, Carla just chuckles slightly

"Oh they look fine to me" Carla shrugs, Michelle rolls her eyes "So then we're waiting for Frank surprise surprise"

"Are you two ok?"

"Yeah we're fine I guess" she mumbles "He was just saying weird stuff again but I've accepted that it's probably just Frank, that's the only thing I can put it down to"

"Fair enough" Michelle chuckles as the buzzer goes off again, Michelle answers it "Hi Frank...yeah, come up doors open"

"So you're just inviting people into my flat now?"

"Oh shut it you" Michelle chuckles slightly, Carla pouts her lips watching Frank enter "Hello, again"

"Hello Michelle and Carla, my car's parked downstairs so if we want to head down, we're running a bit late"

"Oh right" Carla smiles picking up her clutch bag and following both Michelle and Frank out of the flat and into the car "'Chelle can go in the back, I need space for the baby"

"That's a rubbish excuse" Michelle states, Carla just glares at her "She just wants to be next to you Frank"

"It's like you're siblings squabbling over the last sweet in the sweet jar" he states, Carla just shrugs pulling her seatbelt across, Frank starts the drive

"Where even is this place?" Carla drones "Can you stop going over bumps?"

"What why?" Frank pulls a face

"It makes the baby too excited" she states, Michelle, frowns utterly confused at her statement "What? She's squirming about in here and it's doing my head in"

"Sorry Queen Carla" Frank mutters, Carla whacks him on the shoulder as he pulls up at the hotel and heads to the car park, a security guard taps on the window "Can I help?"

"The event has been cancelled due to a leak in the venue hall"

"You have got to be kidding me" Frank mutters "Ok, well has it been rescheduled?"

"No, sorry, we'll host one next year"

"Great, just great" Frank mutters "Well I guess I'll drop you both of home unless you want to make a night of it in town or something?"

"Best not ey? I doubt it would do wonders for Peter's blood pressure" Carla smiles, Frank's eyes light up

"I know we'll have a couple of drinks around mine? Order in? Does that sound good to you two?"

"Yeah fine by me I'm not doing anything?" Michelle questions glancing to Carla who sighs slightly and nods

"Yeah go on then" Carla smiles, Frank nods staring the drive off to his place...

Carla and Michelle were impressed, it was a lavish house with what seemed to be a numerous amount of bedrooms, it was luxurious, they were both convinced it was from one of those divorced footballers. Carla and Michelle made themselves comfortable on the sofa, Michelle placing her hand on Carla's bump as they laugh over the baby. Frank made them all mocktails knowing Carla couldn't drink and he thought it wouldn't be fair to single her out as such. He then ordered them some takeaway pizzas for them to indulge on throughout the night.

"Oh, stop moving for once, please" Carla grunts in annoyance, Frank and Michelle glance to each other knowing it may impend a hormonal meltdown

"Give her something to do then" Michelle mutters taking Carla's hand and resting it on her bump "There she can beat you up twice"

"Oh thanks" Carla mutters "I'm just going to pop to the little girl's room, I swear she's using my bladder as a squeeze toy"

"Oh ok" Michelle smiles helping her up out of the comfort of the sofa

Carla walked to the bathroom and went to the toilet, she then exited the toilet and out of sheer curiosity of Frank's house, she decided to have a snoop. She walked into the study and looked around, she placed a hand on her bump and she wondered what if she could one day give her daughter something hse never had. She was very impressed by what Frank had built himself up to be, she sat down in the chair and chuckled slightly at the mess he had on the desk, and out of instinct she went and tidied his papers up and put them in the desk, she opened the drawer and frowned at the picture which was there, she pulled it out and then there was another one, she places them on the desk and stared at them; three pictures, one of herself and Peter walking arm in arm in a local park, another of her enlarged sonogram picture of her daughter and another of just Peter walking armed with a bag of presumably take away food, she glanced to the date and frowned, it was the date of Peter's attack...