Sorry guys I just realized that instead of adding chapter forty five I added another chapter forty four, so it's there now. Anyway here's chapter forty six.

Chapter number 46. I couldn't let myself

Two weeks passed in Summer bay, Jack's birthday party was tomorrow at the Holden's place, Tony and Beth had insisted on doing something for him. Janae hadn't lived up to her promise of taking Boyd to court, her lawyer had pretty much looked at the case and told her that cause Danielle was over twelve and didn't want anything to do with her that she'd have not hope what so ever in winning. Martha had moved her stiff into Jack's room finally, Jack had insisted that she did before he turned thirty one. Izzy was back to normal sleeping patterns and Rose was getting a full nights sleep again. And as for Colleen and Madge Wilkinson in the retirement village, well they'd been there usual selves again, Morag had even started locking the doors during the day and pretending that her and Alf weren't home to try and stop being visited by them.

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Danielle sat on the end of her bed reading her book, well she was kind of reading it anyway, her mind wasn't concentrating properly, she had to many other things to think about; her mum for starters, she couldn't believe the fuss she'd caused over the last few weeks. There was also the suggestion that her dad had made this morning; going back to school, she knew she had too, but she really didn't see the point, not this year anyway, there was only a week left which Boyd realized, but he'd told her that she'd have a better chance of making more friends before next year.

Down the hall way Izzy's loud cry could be heard, Rose was out for the morning to Danielle put her book down and went to leave the room. As she got to the door way she heard footsteps coming up the stairs from the basement, she didn't know why, but she felt uneasy about it, no one ever went down there, well not that she knew of anyway. She stepped back in her room and watched as her dad went passed without even noticing her or looking in, he seemed distracted, like he'd been working on some hard jobs and his brain had gone to mush. He opened Izzy's door which was next to Danielle's and walked in, lifting Izzy out of her cot and holding her gently to settle her.

"Dani, I'm just going to take Izzy for a walk ok?" he called out.

"Ok" she called back sitting back down and pretending to still be reading her book in case he came to check on her, but he didn't and about a minute later she heard the sound of the front door closing.

Danielle put her book back down stepping forward and looking out into the hall way both left and right too make sure the coast was clear, there was something about that basement that she wasn't quite sure about, it seemed so isolated and secluded, not that that wouldn't be unnormal, but there was something about it that puzzled her.

She stepped out of her room, turning to the right to reach the end of the carpet that turned to tiles before turning left and down a small stair way. The tiles were white, perfectly lined and not a foot mark on them, the walls cream to compliment them. As she reached the bottom she slowly took the last few steps before she reached the wooden dull blue painted door. She reached one hand out to the silver door nob, placing it gently on the top before moving to turn it, but it didn't budge. So she tried again, with more force this time, then with two hands using all the muscle she had she finally opened it, hearing the rusty creeping sound it made as it moved... then she stopped, looking puzzled, she'd heard that sound before, she'd heard it every night at midnight... someone had been in here a lot, which wasn't what Rose had first told her, she'd said it was never used. Feeling a sudden fright come over her, Danielle closed it steadily again, taking in a deep breath before proceeding to reach out and open it again.

"Well she was easy to put to sleep" Boyd commented as he walked back through the front door, Danielle panicked and ran straight back to her room berrying her nose straight back in her book before Boyd could look down the hall way.

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"So is that the last one then?" Peter asked Lara as he carried the last suit case into his flat, Lara was finally moving in today.

"Yeap, it sure is" she smiled, "I'm so glad were finally doing this" she sighed, bringing him into a warm hug and resting her head on his chest.

"Yeah me too" Peter grinned

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"So big guy how does it feel to be thirty one?" Martha tease as she wrapped her arms around Jack from behind him where he stood at the kitchen bench, even though his party wasn't until tomorrow, his birthday was today, and so far Jack hadn't been to happy, well not that he had time to think about his age properly, he was more worried about Martha, the longer it took for something to happen the more well planed it would be, thats if Jesse or who ever sent the letter was planning anything, for all he knew they could just want him scared.

"Well pretty depressing really" Jack grumbled.

"Aww, does Jacky boy need some cheering up?" Martha said in a baby voice.

Jack turned around to face her just nodded, he usually would of gone along with her silliness, but right how he couldn't really see the silly side of life.

Martha saw this and suddenly her face turned serious, she looked down at her feet for a second before looking back up at him, "Jack I'm going to be fine".

"How did you know I was thinking about that?"

"Maybe cause it's the same thing you've been thinking about for the last two weeks... Look Jack he's just trying to scare us, he's in top security, Peter's made sure of it" Martha reassured him.

"Yeah I keep telling myself that, but I just can't seem to see it that way, I'm really scared of loosing you Martha, I can't make my brain think of it any other way" he said honestly wrapping his arms around her and pulling her into his chest where her head lay.

"How else am I supposed to convince you I'll be fine" she whispered.

"You can't" he admitted, "just stay here with me, I can't let you out of my sight, I couldn't let myself".

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