FA 9

'So your really going to do it?' Emma asked shocked.

'Yeah. Its about time I moved on.' Marian smiled.

'Yeah but you could have moved on to someone hotter.' Emma stated.

'Hey. He's not that bad.' Marian smiled.

'Marian your going out with the Grim Reaper of the twenty first century.' Emma implied.

'Well not everyone is lucky enough to have a guy like Allan.' Marian mocked.

'I know.' Emma smiled. 'Which reminds me. I better get going, I have to meet Allan and go to the first ultra sound.' Emma said excitedly.

'You finding out what the sex is?'

'Hmm not sure.' Emma said as she thought about the subject. 'Anyhoo see you later babe.' She shouted as she left Marian's.

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Robin didn't know what had come over him. He had asked Stephanie to marry him. A part of him knew he was only doing it to get back at Marian. But the other part thought it was the right thing. He wasn't in love with her, and never would be, but she was pregnant, what else was there to do?

'So she said yes?' Will asked.

'Yep.' Robin sighed.

'Well you seem over the moon for a guy that just got engaged.' Will smirked.

'Why would any bloke be happy that he's engaged?' Allan shrieked.

'Oh come on Allan, even your going to settle down one day.' Robin stated.

'Yeah. In the playboy Mansion.' Allan smirked as the image came into his head.

'Yeah, as their pet Chihuahua.' Will laughed.

'As long as they stroke me.' Allan stated as he winked.

'Aren't you meant to be meeting Emma?' Robin asked.

'Oh shit.' Allan shouted as he junmped from the chair and dashed from the house bolting past the front window.

'The only place he's settling today is a graveyard if he's late.' Robin and Will laughed.

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'Hey you ready for our date?' Guy asked as Marian opened the front door.

'Yeah, i'll just get my coat.' Marian smiled as she walked away into the house.

'So where's Aiden?'

'My dad's watching him tonight.' Marian smiled as she pulled her cardigan on and walked out the door with Guy. 'So where are we going?' Marian smiled.

'Well I thought we could go to the Ivy for diner then maybe out to a club?' Guy answered.

'Sounds great.' Marian smiled.

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Emma lay on the hard hospital bed as the midwife prepared the equipment. Lucky for him Allan had just made it before the midwife had called them into the room, otherwise he would have been the one needing medical attention.

'Right say it with me. ' Allan said taking Emma's hand in his own and closing his eyes tightly. 'Boy.. big boy...boy...big boy.'

'Allan I am not wishing for it to be a boy. Just that's its healthy.' Emma smiled. 'And likes pink.' She added in a whisper.

'Right here we go.' The midwife smiled as she squirted some of the jelly on Emma's stomach making her jump slightly as the cold fluid sat upon her belly.

The midwife pressed the scanning mouse on Emma stomach and pressed down as she began to move it across her skin.

Emma smiled as she could hear Allan whisper boy repeatedly under his breath.

'Here is your baby.' The midwife smiled as she indicated the baby on the monitor.

'Aww Allan look.' Emma blushed as she looked to the tiny figure that moved on the screen.

'Look at um.' Allan scoffed.

Emma sighed. 'Allan that's his leg.'

'So you want to know that sex of the baby?'

'He's too young for that.' Allan frowned.

'Allan she means whether its a boy or girl.' Emma said rolling her eyes.

'Oh right...err yes.' He answered as he blushed.

'Well...you are having a girl.' The midwife announced.

'Yes.' Emma smiled.

'What!' Allan shouted as he stood and walked over to the monitor. 'It can't be. Give me that.' He said taking the machine from the nurse and roaming over Emma's stomach.

Emma simply rolled her eyes as she sighed and lay back on the bed as Allan studied the monitor very acurately.

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'So how has your day been?' Guy asked as he look to Marian across the table.

'Hectic. Aiden didn't want to go to my fathers. I think he feels as though the same thing is going to happen again.' Marian winced at the memory of her son in the water motionless.

'Thank God he's OK.' Guy said.

'I know I felt so bad. I should have looked out for him more. I should never have left him alone.' Marian stated.

'Hey. It wasn't your fault. You can't watch over them all the time.' Guy smiled as he reached across the table and took Marian's hand in his own.

'Thanks.' Marian smiled as she looked at her hand held in his own.

It felt so Alien. Robin's hands were so soft and gentle with her, and he would normally massage her hand with his thumb when he held it. But Guy was nothing like that. Her hand felt cold in his grasp. His hard ruff hands against her own smaller softer hand. He held it as though she were trying to escape, which she mentally was.

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'I can't believe that you got us thrown out of the hospital.' Emma said for the tenth time as they walked up the stairs.

'I was only taking an interest in medicine.' Allan defended.

'Allan you took the scanner and put it to your stomach.' Emma shouted in annoyance.

'I was just making sure that I wasn't pregnant.' Allan stated. 'Besides its not like we got great news today.'

'Allan would you stop sulking.' Emma sighed as they walked into the apartment.

'I wanted a boy.' Allan moaned as he threw himself down on the couch. 'Who am I going to teach football to? Who am I going to pass on my outstanding knowledge of women to?'

'Yeah Allan, maybe you should get more of that knowledge of women cause your about to have two of them to live with.' Emma stated as she walked into the bathroom to have a hot bath.

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Marian was dying of conversation as the date progressed. She honestly had no idea why she had agreed to come on it. She believed that it was time to move on, which it was, she just wasn't sure what she was moving on from. It was true she had not dated since Robin. But that was because she had no time with raising Aiden, it had nothing to do with her feelings for Robin, right? She didn't love him anymore. They were just friends. Yes they were just friends that had a son together. Then why was she so sad. Why did she wish that more than anything in the world it was Robin here instead of Marlyn Manson. Why did she want to go home to Robin, and know that it was he she shared her bed with. She loved him that's why. She had to tell him. She had to explain that she was wrong, that she couldn't live without him.

'Err Guy. I'm so sorry. But I don't feel well. Is it OK if I take a rain check?' She asked pretending to cough.

'Of course. Here let me take you home.' He offered as he stood.

'No. I eh will probably go to my dad's house to get Aiden. I'll just get a cab. I'm so sorry Guy.' Marian said as she quickly grabbed her coat and left the restaurant.

She ran as fast as her feet could take her with the exception of her heels, which she rarely wore. She hissed and swore as she ran through a puddle soaking her feet, but that would not stop her from reaching her destination. Her chest began to hurt and stretch as the cold attacked her lungs as she gasped from breath. Her wet feet sliding in her shoes making her slide and slip easily. She was almost there. She ran across the road, cars stopping abruptly screaming their horns at her still running figure. She smiled when she saw Robin's street. She was just a corner away. She slowed to catch her breath as she walked towards the corner of his street. She was just about to turn it when she heard his voice as he left his apartment. She placed her back against the hard stone wall, its sharp detail scratching her skin. She smiled as she heard him laugh. That laughed that could infect even the dullest of people. But then another's voice broke through her happy thoughts. Stephanie's.

'I can't believe we're engaged.' She laughed.

Marian's eyes widened in shock as the words carried to her ears. Engaged. He had asked her to marry him. And she had said yes.

'Yeah.' Robin laughed. 'Come on babe, let's go celebrate.'

Marian's back slid down the stone wall to the cold dirty floor. She began to sob powerfuly as the information went through her head to her heart and broke it.

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'He asked you to marry him.'

'Yeah.' Stephanie said sadly.

'And what did you say?' The man asked testily.

'Yes.'

'What!'

'I'm sorry babe. I'm not going to marry him. I just have to do this.' Stephanie winced at her boyfriends tone.

'Why!?' He shouted.

'Hon. I know your angry but please can you just try to understand.' Stepahnie pleaded.

'Yeah of course I can understand that my pregnant girlfriend is marry another bloke.'

'Carter please. I need you to understand.' Stephanie began to cry as Carter walked out of her apartment.