Ok, here we go ch 49, there are still no review responses I'm afraid but I feel like I owe you another chapter, so here you go…let me know what you think with this, I'm a little tentative at the moment because I've lost track slightly and I don't know quite where to take this next…..
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Ch 49
An hour back in bed, a shower and two cups of coffee later Abby and Nick were on the El back to their apartments; it had just hit eleven.
"D'you think that your Mom's going to be ok?" Nick asked, he actually felt quite about leaving her alone with Imogen and Lauren.
"I'd be more worried about whether Immo and Lauren were ok." Abby said as they stood up to get off at their stop.
"I'm sure the pair of them are fine, I think the apartment might be trashed and your mother might have taken on more than she knew." He asserted, rolling his eyes slightly as they made their way off the El and up the street.
"I think that probably if anyone's trashed your apartment it'll be her and probably she's having a great time with the two of them." Abby smiled up at him as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, sighing.
"Well…" He started blowing out heavily as he did. "I'm reassured by the fact that there aren't cop cars surrounding the building at least." He laughed as they approached the building.
"It's bad when the fact your daughter hasn't required police assistance reassures you, you know that?" She smiled up at him, he laughed slightly, as they headed up the street. "So what's you're plan, are you taking Imogen to see the house today?" She asked as he brought his hand back from her shoulders and up through his hair.
"I might as well yeah, will you come?" He asked as he let his hand drop to his side and they continued up the street.
"I should probably spend some time with Maggie." She said with a slight shrug as she looked over at him.
"Try to claw back some of your favourite child status?" Nick grinned at her, nudging her shoulder playfully.
"Yeah, well, I'm not sure I ever had that, and if I did then I think I may have lost it to Amelia forever yesterday." She smiled over at him, "No, I think probably I should, I've not seen her for a while…" She trailed off, shrugging, and it was true, the last time she'd seen Maggie was when Lauren was sick and since then they'd shared amicable phone conversations, revolving primarily around what Eric was doing, and how Lauren was. She's seen Maggie having a good time last night and knowing her she was probably still revelling in a post Amelia's wedding glow, she should really talk to her.
"Ok, well, if I take Immo to the house d'you mind if I leave it for you to tell her we're all living together?" He asked looking over at her with a sceptical expression on his face as they reached the steps.
"Why don't you want to tell her?" Abby frowned up at him, turning and crossing her arms as the sun beat down on her back.
"I do, but I think that you should tell her, I think that she'll be excited about it and I think that you're the cause of that and so I want you to get to tell her, that and I'm not sure she'll believe me." He smiled.
"Ok." She nodded her agreement. "You still owe me favours though don't you?" She asked with a smile as they stood at the bottom of the steps.
"I actually owe you promises but why?" He asked looking at her warily.
"Ok, two things." She started.
"No beach sex, and you have to find out how I got my scar yourself." He smiled at her is eyes sparkling.
"Ok, one thing then." She said rolling her eyes, smiling down at him as she mounted the first step, rolling her eyes.
"Shoot." He nodded at her, looking into her eyes on a level.
"When we tell her, you have to be there, it cant just be me, it has to be us telling her, this isn't down to me, I'll tell her but you have to be there." She nodded at him pouting slightly. He moved up onto the step beside her, smiling a little as he did.
"I'll be there." He nodded as his smile broadened.
"Abby, Abby look, I'm making cookies with Lauren's Granny." Imogen grinned, grabbing her hand, dragging her into the kitchen, she looked at Nick slightly bemused as she allowed Imogen to pull her through the apartment. Abby smiled warmly at Maggie as she entered the kitchen, who to her credit had a handle on Imogen, who was still in her pyjamas and covered in flour but she would have been in the same state if anyone had attempted this with her.
"Are you having fun?" Nick smiled looking at Imogen as he rounded the corner venturing into his surprisingly clean kitchen. "Hi Maggie." He smiled warmly at the woman who'd been the facilitator of his plans the night before.
"Where's Lauren?" Abby asked looking over at Maggie before she could start a conversation with Nick.
"Jasper's sister came to fetch her already, she's a very nice girl." Maggie smiled at Abby, as she looked over from her washing up.
"Emma?" Nick questioned as he turned towards the coffee machine flicking the switch. Maggie nodded back at him turning towards the sink again. Nick noticed the questioning frown crossing Abby's face. "Jas's sister, she's awesome actually." He nodded at her.
"Emma and my auntie Holly live in Africa together with Luke and Mattie." Imogen told her excitedly.
"Really." Abby said smiling at Imogen's excitement, she'd heard about this before, now she placed who Emma was she knew.
"Yeah." Imogen nodded and grinned at her, turning to her father. "Daddy, Em left a whole bag of stuff for you from Holly." Imogen said climbing off her chair and pointing to a duffle bag on the floor.
"Cool, we'll check it out later." Nick nodded at her as the steam began to scream from the machine beside him.
"Can't we look now?" Imogen frowned up at him as he turned and tended to three mugs of coffee.
"I thought you were making cookies." He said pointing to the trays on the table, as he looked over his shoulder. Imogen checked from the bag to the cookies and back, she decided that the cookies at that moment were more important and headed back towards them and Abby.
Nick handed a mug to Maggie and then one to Abby before taking one for himself.
"Immy, you and I are going to go see something this afternoon." Nick said resting up against the counter cradling his steaming mug, pulling Imogen out of her conversation about the best shapes for cookies with Abby.
"What?" Imogen asked looking over at him, frowning, pouting slightly as she did, it was a puzzled face she'd picked up off Abby and he loved it.
"Just something, so finish up with the shapes." He indicated the tray, laughing slightly as he sipped from his mug.
"I've got four more." She told him after checking the mounds of dough she had to cut, holding a metal outline to her chest as she turned to him kneeling on her chair.
"Can I do one?" Abby asked smiling at Imogen, she was, she was having a great time. Abby smiled at the fact she was having a good time with Maggie, if nothing else Maggie knew how to have fun with kids.
"Ok, that one." Imogen pointed at the smallest pile of dough. Abby laughed slightly as she picked up the dough and rolled it in her hands, flattening it slightly, she picked up an outline as Imogen pressed hr full body weight down on the table her face grimacing as she pressed the shape into the dough. The phone started to ring as Abby placed her shape on the tray net to a variety of what were best described as blobs that Imogen had created. As ever Nick made no attempt to move and the machine cut in.
"Mate hi." Jasper started obviously trying to sound cheery; Nick pushed himself off the counter and headed for the phone.
"How are you feeling Mr Carmichael?" Nick asked with a smile in his voice as he picked up the phone. He laughed slightly at Jaspers response; he had no doubt that Jasper was a rough man this morning. "Ok, let me just check, what time?" He asked.
"Would you be up for going to there house around four, Jas recons that they have enough food left to feed a small army." Nick said looking between Maggie and Abby. Abby raised her eyebrows and nodded, Maggie checked Abby reaction and agreed eagerly as well.
"Oh, find out if Amelia got off work." Abby added, as Nick was about to speak again.
"Did Meal get someone to cover her shift?" Nick asked, laughing as Jasper replied. "I bet she's a happy woman." Nick smiled, chuckling again at Jasper's response. "Ok, awesome, well we'll see you later then." Nick finished hanging the phone back on the wall, turning to Abby, "She did yeah." Nick nodded at her.
"How was he?" Maggie asked, the last time she'd seen Jasper he'd been standing behind the bar, engaging in some very college type behavior.
"He sounded ok, he said that he was nursing a hangover but there were people worse off than him sat at his kitchen table." Nick smiled at her nodding. "Ok, Immo, you done?" He asked turning to Imogen who was now pointing out shapes to Abby. She nodded at him, turning after surveying her creations proudly. "Ok, go get dressed." He told her picking her off the chair. She scampered off to her room. "Thanks so much for looking after her." Nick said honestly looking over to Maggie.
"No, no, I enjoyed it." Maggie smiled at him.
"They can be a bit of a handful when you put them together." Nick laughed, nodding at her.
"They were fine, they were very well behaved." Maggie assured him. He and Abby both laughed at the comment as Maggie shot quizzical looks between them.
"Are you sure you picked up the right two kids?" Nick chuckled, smiling as Abby moved the tray from the table to the counter and grabbed a cloth to wipe down the table.
"They were great." Maggie almost beamed.
"Well thank you." He nodded at her smiling still.
"You're very welcome." Maggie assured him.
"I'm going to go grab a shower." He said backing towards the door, pointing with his thumb, "Thanks Maggie." He smiled as he turned, and headed for his bedroom.
"Where's Daddy?" Imogen asked having remerged from her room wearing her underwear, surveying the kitchen briefly before looking up at Abby.
"He went to have a shower, I thought you were supposed to be getting dressed." She said smiling down at Imogen, who appeared only to be succeeding in getting undressed.
"Where are we going?" She asked dodging Abby's question.
"I don't know." Abby shook her head with a pout, a smile in her eyes.
"Are you coming?" Imogen asked craning her neck.
"No." Abby shook her head.
"Why?" Imogen frowned up at her.
"Because you and Dad are going, and I'm going to stay here with Maggie." Abby said indicating Maggie.
"Oh," she started looking up still. "You're not going to eat the cookies right?" She frowned suspiciously, Abby laughed at her before answering.
"No, I'm not but I might if you don't go and get dressed." She smiled as Imogen sized her up and ran back to her room.
Ten minutes later Nick reappeared showered and changed, looking actually very good Abby thought as she checked out his long shorts and white tee shirt, He yelled for Imogen as he entered the kitchen, a towel rolled under his arm. Imogen appeared beside him dressed in what looked like gear to go trekking through the Rockies.
"You're going to boil." Abby said looking at her noticing her before Nick did.
"When I said we were going somewhere I didn't mean the Antarctic Imm." Nick laughed down at her.
"Come on." Abby laughed taking her hand and leading her back to her room, to get her changed.
"So did you show her what you wanted to last night?" Maggie asked turning to Nick, taking a seat at his table, he followed her and sat as well.
"I did yeah." Nick nodded with an involuntary smile.
"Good." Maggie nodded smiling at him, she wasn't going to push, she didn't want to intrude, but she could see that Abby was happy, and she liked it. They filled a couple of minutes with small talk, Nick answered her questions about the members of Jasper's family she'd met the previous night and assured her that she'd meet them all again tonight, as Abby and a more appropriately dressed Imogen returned.
"Ok, we set?" Nick asked looking down at Imogen as he pushed his chair back and stood up.
"Where are we going?" Imogen asked looking up at him.
"It's a surprise." Nick grinned down at her.
"What kind of surprise?" Imogen asked looking up, excitement crossing her face.
"The kind of surprise that you don't know about until we get there." He told her conspiratorially. "You need your bathing suit though." He added.
"Are we going swimming." She asked taking a deep excited breath, as a smile spread across her face.
"Maybe, go and get your swimmers." Nick instructed, smiling as Imogen cheered and ran off. "Well she's easily pleased." He shrugged, "I'll see you later." He added to Abby, heading for the door, he stuffed his towel into a bag and took Imogen's as she tore back to him.
"Bye Abby." Imogen called as Nick shepherded her out of the door.
"Bye." Abby called back.
Abby was alone with Maggie, they'd headed across the hall, bringing the cookie tray with them because neither of them knew how to work Nick's oven, and she needed a shower and all of Maggie's stuff was in her apartment. She'd hopped out of the shower and joined Maggie and a welcome mug of tea back at the kitchen table.
"So did you have a good time with them?" Abby asked with a smile as she sat at the table opposite Maggie.
"Has she really asked you if she can call you Mom?" Maggie asked jumping on Imogen's comment from yesterday afternoon.
"Yeah." Abby nodded with a pout, smiling as she did.
"What did you say?" Maggie asked, the hope that she'd said yes evident on her face. Abby laughed for a second.
"I told her no." she smiled, laughing slightly at Maggie's dropping face. "Why? did you like her?" Abby asked laughing again.
"Yes, well, no, well yeah, I thought she was a nice little girl, and she obviously likes you." Maggie nodded, sighing frowning, not quite sure.
"Mom, she's going to be around for a while, he asked me to move in with him last night." Abby told her smiling involuntarily.
"Really?" Maggie asked her excitement for her daughter clear in her words.
"Yeah." She nodded still smiling.
"What did you say?" She asked, her look inquisitive.
"I… I said yes." She nodded at Maggie standing up as a knock came at the door. She made her way over leaving Maggie behind, with a happy, shocked, bemused expression on her face.
"Hi." Abby said as she pulled the door open, a slight comedic frown on her face as she was faced with a dishevelled Susan on the other side, car seat in hand. Susan handed her screaming son and his car seat to Abby instantly as she made her way inside.
"Please can I hide out here?" Susan said, blowing the hair out of her face as she did.
"Yeah." Abby replied laughing as Susan made her way past her, dumping a load of bags on the couch.
"Chuck is driving me up the wall." She told Abby by way of explanation as he headed for the kitchen.
"What are you looking for?" Abby asked frowning as Susan pulled her refrigerator open, blowing her hair up again as she did.
"Hi Maggie." Susan said waving momentarily as she backed her body into the open door; Maggie waved back, laughing slightly and Abby un-strapped her screaming godson, picking him out of his car seat. "Nothing, but having an argument, packing a baby bag and getting from my apartment to yours it very hard work in this heat with a screaming four month old." She sighed heading out from the refrigerator, which she'd almost climbed inside of.
"Oh, ok." Abby said, grimacing slightly as she tried to hand the screaming infant back to Susan.
"No just please." Susan said waving him away, taking a seat next to Maggie at the table.
"Yeah, ok, but I don't think this is anything other that hungry." Abby said, frowning apologetically.
"There are bottles in the bag." Susan said rubbing her forehead wearily as Abby carried Susan's still screaming son away to the couch to search through his bag and Maggie engaged her in conversation. Less than five minutes later Abby took a seat back in the kitchen with Susan's now quiet son, who was sucking on his bottle, more than satisfied as she picked up her mug. He was clearly like his Mom, awesome, but as soon as soon as a solution was found to their problems they were satisfied, this little guy's problems were brushed off as soon as the wrongs were made right as far as he was concerned, when he was old enough to have friends Abby hoped he was the same as him Mom, practical, straight forward, always there with some kind of brush away comment, caring but knowing that life was life, if you went after what you wanted, if you brushed off the things that hurt then you'd end up like her; Susan; and It wasn't a bad way to end up.
"He asked you to move in with him?" Susan asked intrigued, leaning on the table as she looked at Abby. He should end up like her apart from the gossip that was.
"God, you can keep a secret." She half frowned at Maggie, laughing slightly.
"You never said it was a secret." Maggie shook her head in her defence. Abby smiled and laughed slightly, looking down, letting out another, laughing, self-depreciating sigh before looking over at Susan.
"Yes he did." She smiled, her tone unassuming as she nodded.
"What did you say?" Susan asked conspiratorially, leaning on the table.
"I said yes." Abby told her, her eyebrows raised, laughter in her voice.
"Well it's not like you have to move far at least, just carry stuff across the hall." Susan said with a shrug.
"Actually no." She smiled looking down at Jake the bottle never shifting from his little chugging jaw.
"Why actually no?" Maggie asked, her eyes narrowing slightly as she surveyed her daughter. Abby remained silent looking up; she looked between the pair, both of whom had their eyes focussed on her.
"God, getting things out of you is like getting blood out of a stone." Susan said rolling her eyes. Abby smiled and laughed slightly.
"He's bought a house." She said still smiling taking another draught from her mug to avoid looking at either of their reactions.
"Is that what he wanted to show you last night?" Maggie asked breaking the silence as she and Susan stared at Abby.
"Yes, how did you know?" Abby frowned at her slightly.
"He asked me to look after Imogen because he wanted to show you something." Maggie explained.
"Is it a nice house?" Susan asked, still leaning over intrigued.
"Yeah…" Abby started, nodding, "Actually it's a very nice house." She told Susan pouting slightly as she looked over at her.
"You don't have a problem with the fact he just went ahead and bought a house with the assumption you'd move in with him?" Susan asked shaking her head slightly, looking dubiously at Abby.
"He actually bought it a year ago, before I even knew him." Abby shrugged.
"So when are you moving in with him?" Maggie asked, genuinely thrilled for he daughter.
"I don't know, as soon as possible I guess." She shrugged looking back to the baby, shifting him slightly as she reached for her mug again. "Although there's no furniture."
"Why aren't you excited about this?" Susan asked, slight aggravation in her voice as she did, Abby as usual was playing things down which was winding her up, she could see that Abby was happy with this turn of events and she was happy for her, but she wanted her to show it. Abby laughed, looking over at Susan, a smile breaking on her face.
"I am, I am excited about it." She smiled still looking at Susan, she let it show as she laughed and bit her lip slightly, standing up, handing Jake back to his mother, heading for the kettle again.
"So where's the house." Maggie asked, turning slightly as Abby moved.
"It's actually out by the lake." Abby said resting on the counter as she waited for the kettle to boil.
"Wow, impressive." Susan said turning as well.
"Yeah." Abby agreed, kicking the floor, looking down as she did, attempting to mask her face.
"What?" Maggie asked as she looked at her daughter's demeanour.
"What? Nothing." Abby said a little too defensively as she looked at Maggie.
"What else happened?" Maggie asked knowing that there was something that Abby was keeping quiet about.
"Nothing, why? Nothing." She lied, shaking her head as she did, looking away.
"Amelia was right yesterday when she said you were a bad liar." Susan said, her attention focussed on Abby as she looked over.
"I…nothing." Abby shook her head, looking down laughing slightly as she crossed her arms, composing herself looking back up at Susan.
"Spill it." Susan said her eyebrows raised as she looked semi-seriously at Abby.
" I…I asked him to marry me this morning." She said quickly, leaving them flabbergasted as she turned to the kettle. Susan and Maggie exchanged astonished looks and both turned to stare at Abby's back.
"Wha…" Maggie started faltering over a half laugh, her eyes dancing as she swallowed and continued, "What did he say?" She asked, her eyes wide as she stared at Abby, who turned to look at her.
"He said yes." She nodded once at Maggie, trying to stop her mouth from twitching into a smile as Maggie beamed back at her. She laughed slightly and rolled her eyes, looking away for a second and then back to Maggie with a smile on her face.
"Oh my god." Susan laughed, beaming at Abby, who raised her eyebrows and nodded her agreement.
The three sat at Abby's kitchen table, Maggie and Susan shooting questions at Abby about the house, and when she was going to get married and what the hell was going on with her generally, Abby was almost exhausted by the time Susan announced that she should probably head home at around two o'clock. She hugged Abby as she left, she couldn't wipe the smile off her face and actually neither could Abby. As Abby pulled the door open Nick and Imogen rounded the corner. Susan smiled at him as they exchanged pleasantries and she headed off.
"She knows doesn't she?" He said smiling, laughing slightly as Abby nodded at him. Abby looked down at Imogen who had damp hair, and red rimmed eyes.
"Did you go swimming?" She smiled down at her, Imogen nodded mutely looking dejectedly down at the ground as Nick pushed her gently into Abby's apartment. Abby frowned slightly at Nick and bent to Imogen. "What's the matter?" Abby asked her gently, running her hand down Imogen's arm. Imogen looked glaringly up at Nick and then over to Abby, her face full of concerned sadness. She held her arms up for Abby to pick her up which she did obligingly, carrying her through to the kitchen where Maggie was still sitting. She sat down in a chair with Imogen on her lap. Abby looked over at Nick again as he took a seat next to her, and Maggie beat a hasty retreat to the living room.
"I'm not going." Imogen pouted as she pulled away and looked up at Abby and then over to her father.
"She doesn't like the house." Nick explained, his hand stretching on the back of Abby's chair as he looked at his daughter.
"Why not." Abby asked looking at Imogen, pouting slightly, meeting her eyes. Imogen's eyes were filling with tears again as Abby watched her.
"I'm going to stay here with you." Imogen told her resolutely, sniffing slightly as her eyes exploded and tears began to make their way down her cheeks.
"I don't think you can stay here with me." Abby shook her head, empathetic humour on her face as she looked at Imogen.
"No, I can, I won't be naughty at all, and I'll be really good." Imogen nodded at her, tears still streaming down her cheeks.
"Sweetie, you don't have to try to be good." Abby said half laughing as Imogen buried her head into Abby's body. Abby held Imogen as her little body shook with her ragged breaths as she tried to regain some of her composure; Abby rubbed her back soothingly, smiling almost sadly over at Nick who was smiling at his daughter.
"I don't want us to move, I want us to stay here so that we can still live with you." Imogen tried again giving her quiet sniffling cries over to body shaking sobs as she clung to Abby, as though if she didn't let go it wouldn't happen.
"Imm, Abby's not going to be living here any more either." Nick said quietly as he lent towards Abby, his shoulder fitting over Abby's as he moved his hand to find Imogen's back.
"No, no, I don't want any of us to move." Imogen whimpered as her tears continued.
"Sweetie all of us are moving." Abby told her quietly, still rubbing her back.
"No." Imogen frowned resolutely, rubbing aggressively at her eyes, even at the age of five she hated crying, she was brave, she was a big girl, and big brave girls didn't cry, they argued, like her Daddy argued, and that was what she was set to do. "I'm not going to the beach with Daddy." She said resolutely, pulling herself up off Abby, rubbing at her eyes again, a frown creasing her smooth forehead, as she looked between Abby and Nick.
"Well I'm going to live at the beach with Daddy so if you don't come who are you going to live with?" Abby asked her, smiling slightly. Imogen's eyes widened and she looked from Abby to Nick; he was smiling at her as well, his eyebrows raised as Imogen stared disbelievingly at him, the lines on her forehead reducing as her face relaxed and took on a bewildered, disbelieving expression.
"You and Daddy are going to live at the beach?" Imogen asked her eyes still wide; her cheeks still tear stained as she looked to Abby. Abby nodded at her, a smile creeping onto her lips as she did.
"Me and Abby want to live there but I think that we only want to live there if you want to come as well." Nick said smiling at her
"We're all going?" She asked wide-eyed, looking from Nick back to Abby who nodded her confirmation again.
"We're all going if you're coming." Nick told her smiling still as he laughed slightly at Imogen.
"I wanna come if you're going." Imogen said looking at Abby seriously.
"You and Daddy and me are all going." Abby smiled at her, telling her what she wanted to hear, what she herself wanted to hear, what Nick wanted to hear. She let out a quietly satisfied sigh as Imogen buried her head back into Abby's shoulder and laced her arms around her neck.
"Does that make it better?" Nick asked smiling at her.
"Yeah." Imogen nodded at him, rubbing the last tears from her eyes, as she looked up at her father from Abby's shoulder. "Can we get a puppy?" She asked, still looking to Nick, pulling her head up again and looking to Abby as well for agreement. They both laughed.
"We'll see." Nick told her, running his hand through her hair, leaning to kiss her forehead as he did.
"Did you see the house yet?" She asked looking at Abby as Nick pulled away from her.
"Yep." Abby nodded at her, smiling.
"It's cool hunh, it's right by the sea and we have a yard and everything." Imogen said, almost instantly consoled now she knew that Abby was coming as well.
"It's not the sea." Nick shook his head.
"It definitely was, you could only see water for ever it was definitely the sea." She told Abby, ignoring her father. Abby said nothing, but smiled at Imogen who was now almost bouncing on her lap, she didn't really have anything to say, Imogen clearly had a lot to say though as she continued. "We went swimming in the sea, me and daddy, you can walk right to it from our house." She grinned.
"Daddy and I." Nick corrected as he stood up, Abby laughed, shooting him a smiling glance, shaking her head slightly, he wouldn't pick up the phone, he didn't care if she was naughty if she was having a good time but always without fail he picked up on grammar mistakes.
"We runned all the way from the beach and into the house didn't we?" She said looking up at Nick for confirmation. He nodded back at her as Abby glanced at him, god, five year olds were so easily excited.
"Come on then Miss Johnson, you need to have a bath." He said, she slithered off Abby's lap and ran to Maggie who was on the couch, and began her tale again excitedly for Maggie, Abby stood up as she did.
"So she likes it then?" Abby smiled at him as he looked at her, his hands dug deep into his pockets.
"It would seem so." He grinned nodding. They stood looking at each other for a long moment, their eyes dancing over each other's. He bent slowly and met her lips briefly, pulling away and smiling again. "Right…" He started loudly turning, pulling his hand off Abby's hip as he did, "Imm, bath." He said, she pulled herself away from Maggie and grabbed his now outstretched hand, heading with him towards their apartment.
Abby watched them head away, Imogen was looking up over at Nick still talking to him as he looked down at her, nodding and smiling at her.
"She loves you, you know that?" Maggie said looking at her, Abby hadn't even noticed her stand up; her eyes were still lingering on her now closed door. She began to nod as she turned her head towards Maggie; still nodding, she blinked once, slowly.
"I know." She said as a smile began to form on her lips.
Ok, so let me know, and also I'm looking for any input on what you think should happen next, I've got a couple of ideas knocking about but I've reached a stage of uncertainty where I'm struggling a little so all ideas are welcome. I think this is a bit of a nothingey chapter so I'm interested to see what you guys think… cheers for all the reviews though xxx K