China Girl

(An Ashes to Ashes Fic)

Hey everyone :D I'm so sorry for the MAJOR delay in updating, its really hard to find any time away from College work atm, but i'm going to try to update at least once a week from now on. So if any of you are still interested in this then here's a short chapter to keep it going until I can next update. Please review as i'd love to know what you all think and any ideas you might have for the rest of the fic :)

Chapter 16 –

Perfect Day

Alex Drake was the first one to leave the car, as the Quattro skidded to a halt at the side of the river Thames, not bothering to shut the door as she ran towards the man standing on the River, beside a smaller, more timid figure.

As she ran, it was almost like a magnetic force was pulling her towards the two people by the river, like this really was her destiny, this was how everything was meant to happen; and as she eventually reached them, even without looking she knew…

…She knew that the girl in front of her, stood on the banks of the river Thames with nothing but a bright pink suitcase and the clothes on her back, was her daughter.

The one she'd been cruelly snatched away from on the morning of the 7th February 2008 and the same daughter she'd been fighting to find since that day onwards.

And that was why as she held her in her arms for the first time since that said day, she found herself praying to god that they'd never be parted again, that all of the torment she'd been through was finally over and that maybe, just maybe she could finally be happy.

That maybe this really was her true destiny.

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It was nearing eleven in the evening when Molly had finally fallen asleep on the sofa beside Alex, who was watching her daughter with somewhat amazement.

If this really was all in her subconscious like she had once believed and if it really was a dystopia, then how was Molly here? And if she was real, then did that mean that Gene Hunt was real as well?

But what did it matter anyway? She was happy for the first time in god knows how long and above all, she was finally reunited with her daughter; so as far as she was concerned, anything else could wait until another time.

However it was then that her thoughts were interrupted by a loud banging on the door, and Gene Hunt's billowing voice.

'Oi Bolls. Open the flaming door… Open the door Bolly or ill…'

'Alright' she laughed, as she flung the door open and Gene Hunt stumbled into the flat, a champagne bottle in either hand.

'What are we celebrating?'

'The return of Mini Bolls…or in my case the…the…first…first appearance of…'

'Gene will you shut the fuck up and kiss me!'

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