Charles put his stuff in his room at the barracks and knew that he still had a long way to go when it came to making Molly see that he was more than happy with the way that things were going.

His mother was screwing everything up again and he really needed to stop her from doing so and that's why in the end he just had to walk away to tell her that her actions wasn't making anything better.

Once he put his stuff at the barracks he decided that he was going to call Molly but it seemed like she wasn't going to answer him and if he's honest he doesn't blame her because of the fact that his mother was messing everything up, if it was the other way around he wasn't sure if he would talk to Molly yet either but he needed to make her see that he wasn't after full custody of Adam and that he was more than happy to keep things the way that they were.

If he managed to get her back then that would be a double bonus but at the moment he wasn't sure just how bad things were. He doesn't know if Pam had screwed up all chances of them getting back together or if he would still be in with a chance.

Molly was angry he knew that and going to see her tonight might make things a little bit more worse so he decided that he was just going to leave it for tonight and then go and see her in the morning because at least then he might be able to salvage something, if he went there tonight and forced her to talk to him then it might just make everything so much worse and push Molly away from him for good.

He laid on his bed and looked up at the ceiling and knew that he wasn't going to get a good nights sleep at all; especially when he was fighting everything in him to try her again on the phone.

-.-

The next morning however things didn't go as he had planned especially when he was called into his own boss' office and was told that he would be part of a group that would be heading out to Syria for a few weeks and that really didn't fill him with the best feeling at all especially when he was trying to get his wife back but he was a Captain and still had a job to do.

He wasn't going to enjoy telling Molly that he would be heading out or that he was going to be taking another medic with him this time. As much as he loved having her with him on the last tour he knew that he would be too distracted with trying to win her back than actually looking after the men and women in his charge.

Charles found Molly at work when he went to see her, Adam was with a friend as Belinda wasn't very well and couldn't take him, so a friend of Molly's offered to look after him for a few hours and the boy had walked off with a smile and a wave and Molly knew that she would be able to get those few hours of work done on the base.

"We have to talk" Charles said and looked over at her.

Molly chewed on her lip for a bit and wished that she could tell him to just leave her be for a while but he was still a Captain and she still had to follow the rules even if he had been her husband at one point.

She wasn't sure if he would pull rank and make her listen to him and that was the last thing that she wanted him to do, so she handed the clipboard over to another one of her team mates and said that she would be back soon before she walked off with Charles and wondered exactly what all of this was about.

They found an empty room office and she looked out the window at the other men and women who were marching up and down before she slowly turned around and looked at Charles "What is it you wanted to talk about, sir?" she asked and watched as that hurt crossed his face but she still had to keep things cordial after all he was higher than her.

"Molly, you don't have to call me sir, we know each other well enough" Charles said but she didn't relent and he sighed before he sat down on the edge of the empty desk and watched her, he wasn't sure just how well she was going to take this because of how well their conversation had ended the day before.

When she didn't speak he then carried on and said the words that he had been hearing in his head all morning and the last thing he wanted was to say it out loud but he had no choice because of the fact that it wasn't going to stop him from leaving. "I was told this morning that I will be going out to Syria with my team" he said and watched her face.

Her heart caught in her throat at the thought that he would be going out again even if she knew that that was his job but it didn't mean that she didn't worry about him and even more now that he knew about Adam. But the more she wanted to tell him just how much he meant to her she couldn't actually do it, the more she tried to get those words out the more they caught in her throat and instead she asked him something else "How long you going to be gone for?"

"A few weeks at most; i'm going to say maybe six?" but if he's being honest he wasn't really sure how long he would actually be out there.

Molly nodded and took a deep breath before she looked back at the window; and decided to ask him something else "It doesn't get any easier, does it?" she asked and glanced back at him.

"No it doesn't" he admitted and watched her for a moment and then moved his eyes away to look out the window. "Look, Molly.." he spoke and she turned to look at him "I know that you don't want to talk about it now but I really am sorry for what my mother done, you know that I would never go for full custody especially when you are doing an amazing job"

Molly watched him for a moment and wasn't sure if she had wanted to talk about this here especially if there were heated words exchanged and if those were the last words she ever said to him... she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. "Your mother is always going to have us at odds isn't she" it might've sounded like a question but it definitely wasn't, more like a statement.

"Isn't that what mother in laws do?" he asked and then stood up before he came to stand next to her and look out at the other men and women outside the window.

Molly looked up at him, she hadn't grown in the time that they were married so it was a bit of a neck work out when she did look at him, and it did sometimes give her a pain in the neck. "Your mother reminds me of Viola in Monster-In-Law when she tries to stop Charlie from marrying Kevin by putting strain on their relationship; I'm sure she's not far off from there"

That description made him smile before he looked down at the ground, she wasn't far off there.

"So, who is your new Medic because I'm sure you didn't ask to have me on the team this time, Georgie?" even if she knew that Georgie wasn't doing any overseas tours anymore and staying based in the UK; like Molly there was always that one that would tempt them back into the overseas point of the job.

Charles shook his head "No someone else, I think it's a male this time but doesn't mean there won't be a female somewhere on the team" he knew that it would be different having a male medic instead of a female like he's always had. He couldn't get in to trouble with a male medic; though knowing him he would get in to trouble somewhere.

Molly nodded once and wasn't sure if that made her feel any better especially when things were still up in the air with the two of them. "I need you to come back safe, for Adam's sake" she said and looked at his face.

"Just for Adam's sake?" Charles asked and watched her too.

Molly wanted to shake her head and actually went to do it but instead her head had other ideas and nodded instead. Now she felt like an idiot because of the fact that she had just told him that she didn't care about him as much as he thought she did. Now she felt like the biggest idiot of the world and knew that she would regret saying it, even if she actually didn't say it. "You really do need to come home safetly because I don't want to raise a small boy on my own"

"Well you have been doing well for the last couple of years or so" Charles didn't say that out of spite but more out of fact because it looked like Adam was well loved no matter who was in his life.

Molly frowned a little at that but it didn't cause her to say anything horrible because again her brain was telling her to think before she spoke as she couldn't take the words back once she had said them if they were nasty. "That doesn't mean I don't want you to come back and be in his life now, I'm not that spiteful even though I'm sure your mother thinks so"

"I really don't care what my mother thinks" he admitted. "And maybe you should stop thinking what she thinks too because that is why she keeps winning when it comes to us" Charles knew he was probably overstepping the mark but right now he didn't care, he had to tell her straight that she was letting his mother get to her more and more everytime, if she did that then he doubts they will ever get back together as Molly would be too worried about his mother and he couldn't live like that.

"I'm trying but she still gets under my skin" Molly admitted and watches his face. He then moved and stood in front of her and put his hands on the top of her arms and she could see those eyes that she loved so much.

"Then don't let her" he said softly to her, he knew it was easier said than done and he had let her get under his skin too but now he was done with what she thinks; as long as he has Molly and Adam in his life then he is set. "Since when have you worried what people thought about you?"

Well she had been worried what her team mates thought when she was out in Afghan and Smurf had been a right dick and plus this was his mother, the woman who literally did make her life a living hell. If she's honest she feels like she's back in Sierra Leone with all of those smugglers.

"I have never stopped worrying about what people think" she admitted and chewed on her lip for a moment before she shook her head and looked away.

"Hey.." he said and reached out gently and pulled her back to him and Charles gave her a hug and he was glad when she hugged him back. It had felt like a long time since he had hugged her. He then kissed the top of her head and then only pulled back when she pulled back and then looked at her. "You don't need to worry what I think about you"

"Don't I?" Molly asked and looked at his face once more.

"Never" he said and shook his head once as if proving that point, there was no way he would think any less of her no matter what.

"Come back to me" Molly said those words that he had said to her in Afghan in the medical tent right before she left to go back him for R&R.

"I will" he put his hand gently on her cheek and then leaned his forehead against hers and they both closed their eyes up.

Molly knew that they had a lot of talking to do but she wouldn't do it before he left for Syria especially when if things went sideways then it would be on his mind, no she wanted him to concentrate on the task at hand and come back and then they both could talk; that way they could deal with whatever consequences that his mother had started with that letter that was sitting on her table back at her own place. "We will talk properly when you get back" she promised and pulled her head away from his and looked up at his eyes once they were open.

"I love you" Charles said to her.

Molly smiled at him and then said those famous last words of a movie "I know"

-.-

Charles knew that they had a lot to talk about when he got back but for now he was going to be keeping his mind on the new tour and the men and women in his charge.

It was only a few weeks, they could survive that.

Plus those weeks would give Molly some time to think about whether she really wanted to stay in the Army or whether she wanted to leave and bring Adam up full time.

Unfortunately for Molly there was always that fear of getting that knock on the door to say that Charles had been hurt or worse, only this time it would go to his mother. Molly might not even find out what had happened until it was too late. She needed to stop thinking like that because if she didn't then she wouldn't be able to get through those weeks and they could turn out to be very interesting indeed.