Chapter number 42. Take a step with me

"You look beautiful" Peter smiled as he hopped out from his car to see Lara walking down the stairs from her flat.

"Thanks, you took your time" she called back to him, smiling that he'd finally got there. While he'd gone she'd taken a shower, gotten dresses and still had time to spare. Some how she had a feeling he was going to a lot of effort.

"Yeah well I'm sorry it just took a little longer than I though it would" he apologized, drawing her in, wrapping his hands around her and smiling down at her. She really did look great, well she always did to him, she had her hair down, just the way he liked it, curling nicely around her face. He could feel her arms creeping around his neck, her soft lips moving closer, smiling.

"I'm just glad your here" she whispered, breaking the space between their mouths and capturing his lips in hers and moving one hand to the back of his head to move his head in closer. He responded imediently, running his hands from her hips right up her back, pulling her in closer. Her feet left the ground as Peter brought her up so that her face was in front of him rather than underneath him, that was one of the things that Lara hated about being short; everyone was taller than her.

Peter found himself getting carried away, he ran his hand down until it was holding her thigh, moving it up around his waist. Lara slowly moved her face back so she could look at him, she'd missed him so much, and she also thought about how much she missed teasing him, so gently she untangled her leg and his hand and rubbed her nose against his for a second, "so are we going to go or are you just going to keep looking at me like that?" she smirked.

'Peter control yourself' he told himself, but he couldn't, she was standing there right in front of him, smiling in such a way that she was controlling him, teasing him to the point where he didn't want to talk, he just wanted to kiss her more and more. He knew what she was doing, she was trying to see how long he could resist, gosh she knew how to get under his skin.

"Well lets go then" he answered pulling away, trying to stop himself from going back in. He escorted her around to the passengers side, opening the door like a true gentlemen before hopping in the drivers side.

"So detective where are we off to then?" she flirted.

"Well you'll just have to see when we get there" he grinned.

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Jack walked along to the cliff tops, in his hands was a small round container containing Serena's ashes, his family had left them for him to discard himself when he was ready to; and now he was, it was time to move on properly.

About half an hour ago he'd been to see her grave for the first time, in lost of ways it made himself even more sure that he was doing the right thing, the right thing for everyone, even Serena, she wanted him to be happy.

He came to the edge of the cliff, lifting the lid of the vase like container and tipping it over so that the ashes fell into the ocean like snowflakes, scattering in different directions until they fell beneath the surface out of Jack's vision.

Taking a step back he took in a deep breath, the past was settled now and his future was sitting at home, waiting patiently for his return.

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"Did I ever tell you how much I love you?" Lara spoke softly with her head rested on Peter's chest where they lay on a blanket on the grass, Peter had taken her on a picnic, and she loved it, it was the most beautiful place beside the lake and the small fluffy white clouds in the bright blue sky complimented it all perfectly.

Peter smiled, looking down at her face which was looking up at him, "once or twice". He looked into her eyes, the ones he'd missed so much "you have no idea how much I missed you" he whispered.

"And you have no idea how much I missed you ether" she answered, moving herself up so that her head now rested on his shoulder. "I was so scared when I woke up there and you weren't there to tell me everything would be ok".

"And I'm never letting you out of my sight again" he promised, "nothings going to hurt you now".

"That's a pretty big call, especially since we don't even live together" Lara commented, not realizing that she'd just popped the most brilliant idea into Peter's head. Lara turned back to look at his face which had the most ridiculous smile plastered all over it, "what?"

"Your right it is a big problem" he grinned, suggesting more than he was saying.

"Oh would you just spit it out already".

"Move in with me?"

Lara just looked at him in shock, she didn't see that one coming, they hadn't been seeing each other for that long. She couldn't speak, she didn't know what to say.

"Please say something" Peter begged, he didn't know what she was thinking, she just had the same shocked look on her face that didn't give anything away.

"Oh my gosh I don't know what to say" she exclaimed sitting up with Peter following her lead, "It's so soon".

"Yeah it is soon, but does it really matter? We love each other right?"

"Yeah"

"Well why not?" Peter asked.

Lara thought for a second, he was right, 'why not', today had been a reminder to her just how important living every day was, she'd held back on a lot of things in her life, never really done anything at the spare of the moment, life was about taking chances right?

"Look how about we just forget I said anything and you can have time to think" Peter suggested.

"No" Lara shot out, "I don't need time to think". Peter looked up, waiting for her answer, then he could see a smile coming on her face which made him feel a little more at ease, "I'd love to move in with you Peter".

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Rose, Danielle and baby Izzy sat on the balcony outside the lounge room, Danielle with Izzy in her arms, helping Izzy stand up on her tiny little baby feet. "She's so gorgeous" Danielle smiled.

"Yeah she is" Rose agreed, feeling happy to see Danielle with her sister. "You know what?"

"What?"

"You've both got Boyd's eyes".

Danielle smiled thoughtfully, "yeah i guess we do, I never noticed that".

"Ga ga" Izzy tried to talk, "Mu-mu-ga".

Danielle and Rose laughed at this, "yes we know your still there sweet heart".

"So I forgot to ask before where are you staying?" Rose asked turning her attention back to Danielle.

"Oh just down at the hotel at the corner" she explained.

"All by yourself? We can't have that, come on were booking you out and your staying here" Rose told her.

"You sure?"

"Of course I am, there's no use you staying there when you could be here" Rose told her, looking at the lost girl who seemed like she wasn't so sure about invading them, "you know your always welcome here don't you?" Danielle just nodded, a tear of happiness falling down her cheek. "Good" Rose said, placing a hand on her back, "now come on lets go get your stuff".

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