Frankie was just adding the finishing touches to dinner when she heard a knock at the door "It's open" she called from the kitchen.
Frankie expected to see Heath walk into the kitchen but she was surprised to see Brax walk through the door "Hey" Frankie smiled "I was expecting Heath"
"Yeah he's on his way, I just wanted to drop in before he got here" Brax seemed nervous.
"Is something wrong?" Frankie wondered.
"Not really well kind of…I don't know" Brax stuttered "Thing is I had a visit from Morag today and she asked me some strange questions about Tegan and how well I knew you"
"Really that doesn't sound like Morag" Frankie frowned "Are you sure you weren't just reading too much into it?"
"Nah, she asked how well we knew each other to start with" Brax replied not taking his eyes away from Frankie's "Should I be worried about her building a case on me or something"
"No of course not" Frankie quickly moved away, Brax sensed this question was awkward for her to answer "Why would she need to build a case against you?"
Brax paused for a few moments before his eyes glance down at some documents which were laid out across the table. Brax saw the words Abortion and then Frankie's name "What's this?" Brax asked curiously as he picked up the paper and read more.
"Nothing, just a case I am working on" Frankie said as she quickly grabbed the paper.
"Hang on this says you had an abortion" Brax frowned "What kind of case is this Frankie?"
"Like I said it doesn't matter, it's nothing" Frankie was now quite jumpy.
"Please" Brax grabbed Frankie's arm and made her look at him "Talk to me"
"It's a case I have been working on for the last 7 years" Frankie finally admitted "It finally made it into court"
"Yeah but this says you had an abortion?" Brax was confused "Did something happen?"
"The people we are representing are suing a company for negligence, and yes I happen to be one of the people. Morag is representing the case, because obviously I can't" Frankie sighed.
"I don't understand" Brax moved closer to Frankie who was now perched on the kitchen table.
"I had an abortion a while ago and something happened" Frankie found it painful to discuss this with anyone "The instruments that were used for the procedure had not been sterilised correctly and I ended up with an infection. The short of it is, their cock up means I can't have children"
"Shit Frankie I'm sorry I didn't know…" Brax said as he tried to hug Frankie, but she walked away from him.
"Don't be silly" Frankie sniffed "How could you know? I haven't told anyone about it, well except Tegan and Morag" Frankie looked at Brax and saw how horrified he looked "Hey its ok, I have learnt to deal with it"
"Yeah but it must be hard" Brax replied.
"Yeah it was at first, but I was only 18…" Frankie realised her mistake as soon as she opened her mouth, it was too late to take her words back now.
"18" Brax repeated nervously "You were 18? Frankie please tell me the baby wasn't mine. Tell me I'm not the reason you can't have children"
"Brax you're not the reason I can't have children" Frankie smiled weakly.
"But it was my baby" Brax replied "I was the reason you needed an abortion in the first place"
"This is not your fault" Frankie tried to reassure Brax as she put her hand on his arm "It was my decision to have the abortion"
"Yeah but you wouldn't have even considered an abortion if I had been better to you" Brax argued.
"Brax we were kids" Frankie chuckled "It's like I've always said we were toxic together, we always brought out the bad in each other. There was no future there it was just good sex and nothing more"
"Good what?" a furious voice interrupted from behind them, Heath stood and just stared at them. Neither Brax nor Frankie had heard him come in "You've been sleeping with me and my brother?" Heath spat.
"No of course not" Frankie quickly replied.
"But you just said it was just sex, what the hell does that mean?" Heath replied angrily.
"It was a long time ago mate" Brax finally spoke "Frankie was 18 at the time"
"18" Heath repeated, Frankie knew the penny had dropped in Heath's head as soon as she saw the look on his face "It was you" he added as he flew across the room at Brax.
"Heath stop" Frankie yelled as she pulled Heath away from Brax. Heath threw Frankie away from him.
"What happened to 'brothers don't cross that line' eh Brax?" Heath spat.
"There is no line there Heath, why are you reacting like this?" Brax frowned from behind Frankie.
"Because I love her" Heath announced to a stunned Brax and even more stunned Frankie "I've always loved her" he added before storming out of the house.
"Heath wait" Frankie chased Heath out onto the driveway "Please don't leave like this"
"How can I stay when I can barely look at you?" Heath snarled "All I can see when I look at you now is the two of you together"
"Heath please" Frankie tried to stop him but he pushed her away.
"No leave me alone" Heath seemed more devastated than angry now "Did I mean anything to you at all?"
"Of course you did" Frankie replied "You still do Heath I?"
"Or were you just using me to get what you want? I have always been there for you ever since we were kids, how could you now realize how I felt. When you married Phil it really hurt, but I knew it was something you had to do" Heath had never opened up to anyone like this before.
"I know" Frankie put her hand on Heath's arm "I'm sorry you weren't meant to find out like this"
"I wasn't meant to find out at all" Heath snapped "If you had your way I would never have known the truth about you and Brax"
"That's not fair" Frankie pleaded "I knew if you found out you would be devastated. I didn't want to hurt you over something that meant nothing to mean, Brax means nothing to me…Heath you do"
"What?" Heath paused for a few moments and waited for Frankie to continue.
"Heath you mean everything to me" Frankie frowned as she grabbed Heath's hand "I thought you would have guessed by now…" Heath pulled away before Frankie had chance to say anything else.
"No I can't do this" Heath shook his head and backed away "You slept with my brother; you got pregnant with his kid. It's too much" he quickly turned and walked away.
"Heath please" Frankie started after him but was stopped in her tracks by Brax.
"Let him cool off" Brax suggested "He just needs some time to process it all" he added as he looped his arm around Frankie's waist.
"You're right, I'll call him later" she smiled as she let Brax lead her back inside the house.
Sorry to leave this so abruptly but I wanted to reveal another secret of Frankie's, please review and let me know what you think much love Nikki x x x