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Chapter number 41. Finding peace with the past

"Peter!" Lara cried out, looking around her, what if something had happened to him? What if Jesse had caught him? The thoughts ran through her head, flooding it until tears ran down her face. She wouldn't forgive herself if he'd been hurt looking for her. "Peter" she tried again. Jemma who was behind her laid a hand on her shoulder for support, but some how it wasn't needed when a voice spoke from behind.

"Lara" the voice came, Lara turned around remembering how warm it sounded, it was Peter, standing at the door of the old shed, smiling with complete happiness. She ran to him, falling straight into his arms where she belonged, she wasn't going to let go, not ever.

"I thought I was never going to see you again" she cried, sobbing into his shirt.

"Well you did, I'm just glad your back where you belong" he whispered, running his fingers through her hair, holding her close to him. He'd got her back, just when he thought he'd lost her, this was something he'd only dreamed about all day, no trip to mars was better than this.

She lifted her head up to look at his face, the same smile was still there; smiling at her, his warm eyes shone back at her's making her smile through her tears.

Peter whipped the small droplets away that ran down her cheeks, then gently he cupped her face, bringing her closer until she was so close he could feel her breath. Then he kissed her, promising to make up for the hours of fear that they'd both just been through, separated from each other.

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Rose sat next to Danielle on the couch, Boyd had just gone to get Izzy from down stairs, leaving the pair in an orquad silence. "So is your mum in town with you then?" Rose asked breaking the silence.

"No" Danielle explained, "she's still back home".

"She let you come by yourself?"

"No, she didn't, she doesn't actually know I'm here". Inside Danielle felt like hitting herself across the head, 'damn, the rebel thing again, dad might not have picked it up, but she probably will' she said to herself, "You probably think I'm a rebel now don't you?"

"No, not at all" Rose had already made up her mind about Danielle, she was a lost girl trying to find her place in the world, and that involved finding her dad. "So why did you leave then?"

"Well... lets just say we don't see eye to eye, she always told me that she tried to find dad when she found out she was pregnant, but then she'd always say something else like were better off with Fred. I hate Fred" she sighed.

"Who's Fred?"

"My step dad, I hate him" she shot out, "he always like to make everyone think that we get along, but as soon as Mum's out of the room he always tells me how useless I am, it's pretty obvious Mum thinks I'm useless too" she continued before speaking softer, "she'd believe him over me any day, she probably hasn't even noticed I'm gone" she spoke, a tear escaping her eye.

Rose looked at the young girl stairing of into space, she was lost, not that her mother had obviously cared, by the sound of her she was probably self centered, not caring about people around her, well she probably cared about Fred, but her own daughter even seemed left out, which to Rose wasn't acceptable, Fred didn't sound much better ether, she already had a picture in her mind of a teachers pet, happy and perfect when people were looking, but horrible and mean when there backs were turned.

Rose placed a hand on Danielle's back, "Your not useless" she reassured her.

"Yeah I am" she sobbed, "I'm baggage that gets dragged along with the parents".

Rose shock her head, "no your not, your much better than that".

"You don't mean that" she answered, putting herself down again.

"Yeah I do, look I know I might of sounded horrible the other day, but I was just shocked, I still am to be honest, but I'd never think of you as baggage or anything like that" she told her pulling her in for a hug letting Danielle cry into her shoulder.

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Jack walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, water droplets were still running down his bare chest. He stepped into his room, whipping off any remaining water before slipping on a pair of jeans and a blue shirt that were sitting on the end of his bed. "So..." he sighed, looking around the room, this was the first time in the two days he'd been out of prison that he'd actually had time to stop and look at the place he and Serena had shared.

On the small shelf on the wall was a picture of the two of them on their wedding day, he still remembered it a clear as day. No family had been there, they hadn't even met Serena yet. He'd met her there on the Gold coast only two months before in one of the pubs, both had gone there that night to drown their sorrows.

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2010...

Jack sat alone at a table in a crowded pub taking yet another mouthful of his beer when a stranger sat down beside him. It was a male who looked about Jack's age, he had light brown hair and seemed very... well, interested in Jack.

"Hey mate, I'm Zack" he introduced himself.

Jack, totally oblivious to the fact that this guy had the hots for him, just smiled and introduced himself, "nice to meet you, I'm Jack".

In the distance behind Zack, Jack could see a blond girl sitting in one of the bar stools, she looked around at him and smiled before turning back to talk to the guy behind the bar, little did Jack know, the blond girl was laughing at him, she knew Zack, and she had a fairly good idea that Jack was straight, she'd seen him flirting with a girl at the bar earlier.

Feeling sorry for him, she got up and made her way to the table where Zack was trying to make a move on Jack, she sat down next to Zack, clearing her throught loudly to get his attention, "Zack maybe you should go for the guy over there, he's more your type" she embarrassed him, sensing a relief from Jack who seemed a little uncomfortable about Zack hitting on him.

With his cheeks going red, Zack hopped up, "fine, he's all yours then" he told her before walking off.

"Thanks" Jack said greatfully when Zack was gone.

"That's ok" she smiled sweetly. Jack could see a twinkle in her eyes, there was something special about her, so Jack did the first thing that came to mind to stop her from going back to talk to the guy at the bar, "so can I bye you a drink?"

"Yes please" she accepted, bringing a smile to Jack's face.

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Jack smiled as he remembered that night, it was the first time he'd been able to think about it without feeling sad since Serena had passed, he actually felt quite happy remembering the times before they came to Summer bay to introduce Serena to the rest of the family, well most of it was happy, there were still things he'd never be happy about, well one in particular; the baby that was supposed to be there's.

Serena had been a month and a half pregnant when they got married, to be honest it was the only reason they decided to rush it, they'd been so happy that day, for Jack it had been a new start, an new start that had been captured by the photo that now sat in his hands after removing it from the shelf where it once sat, he ran his thumb over Serena's stomach, you couldn't tell she was pregnant, she wasn't far along enough to be showing, but Jack knew what ha been in there.

They'd lost the baby a month later, July 15th, the day they both hated so much.

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July 15 2010...

Serena sat on the edge of the couch in there hotel room, she was clenching her stomach, there was so much pain. "Jack!" she screamed.

"Serena, what's wrong?" he asked concerned, coming into the room and sitting down next to her.

"Somethings wrong with the baby, it hurts like really bad cramps" she managed to get out, she was leaning over so far that she was almost touching her knees, letting out a scream in utter pain.

"Come on we need to get you to the hospital".

"Not yet, it'll probably pass" she insisted.

"Come on, we need to make sure even if there isn't anything to worry about".

"Look Jack it's ok, it's starting to go away" she told him, sitting back up and taking a deep breath.

"Well we should probably still take you to the doctors for a check up later anyway". Serena just nodded, letting Jack take her in his arms, "you stay here and I'll go get you a drink" he told her, giving her a quick kiss on the for head and lent down to kiss her stomach before getting up, little did he know that that would be the last time he'd kiss there unborn child.

As soon as Jack left the room to go to the kitchen, the pain came back and Serena rushed to the bathroom, slamming the door. Jack heard this, and rushed to see what was going on, he put his ear up against the bathroom door and heard his wife's crying. "What's wrong Serena?"

Serena didn't answer, she was curled up on the floor, blood was surrounding her, she could feel pushing, painful pushing, and the blood continued to come out of her. "Ahh" she screamed.

Hearing that Jack pushed the door open running straight to Serena's side when he saw her in a heap on the floor, "Serena".

"I lost it Jack" she cried, "I lost it".

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A tear ran down Jack's cheek, that little girl or boy would have been about six months younger than Dylan, they'd always talked about having kids in the future after that, it was probably the only thing that kept them both going.

They hadn't told anyone about the baby though, it was the only way to stop Serena breaking down.

Jack placed the photo back up on the shelf, whipped away the tear and looked down at his left hand, on it was still his wedding ring, gently he slid it off and placed it on the shelf in front of th photo, not to for get, but to move on.

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Peter guided Lara into his office away from Jemma who was being escorted into one of the interview rooms for questioning, hopefully once Jemma told them the truth about everything they'd find a way to lighten her sentence when she showed them where Jesse would probably be. "So how are you feeling now?" Peter asked softly, sitting down and guiding Lara by her hand to sit on his lap.

"I've been better" she answered, trying to smile.

Peter smiled at her in a comforting way, Lara had explained everything about Jemma to him in the car, by the sounds of it she wasn't a criminal at all, she was just a lost girl, trying to find her place in the world, almost like a teenager, just stuck in an adults body. "So you must be hungry".

"Yeah I'm starving".

"Well how about I take you out to lunch then, maybe that will help take your mind off things for a little while" Peter suggested.

Lara smiled, "sounds good, but can I get changed first?"

"Sure, how about we go past your place and I'll go get a few things while your getting changed".

"What kind of things?"

"You'll just have to wait and see, if I told you I'd have to kill you" he smirked, making Lara giggle.

"You Peter Baker would never have the guts to even try and kill me" she teased.

"Well your definitely right about that one".

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