Title: Trista and Tamara

Rewrite Of: Tamara Drewe (Movie-verse)

Author: Me

Fandom: Tamara Drewe

Pairing: Andy/Trista

Summary: There was two of them. Tam and Tris. Tamara and Trista Drewe. Fraternal twins. Tamara left and Trista stayed behind. Both loved one man, who only seemed to have eyes for Tamara...who had left him in the dust.

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Chapter Six:

Andy watched Trista, who was sitting with Casey and Jody in a booth at the corner. Trista was holding a rather distressed Jody, who blamed herself for Ben's absence. Back at Winnards, Tamara was falling into bed with Nicholas, which was inevitable in the long run. Hindsight was a bitch, wasn't it? That evening, when Nicholas went back to Beth at Stonefield, he brought her a sampler box of all her favorite teas.

Spring. Trista's bump was completely unmissable now. She'd taken to stealing Andy's shirts, which amused everyone, including Andy. Glen and Beth were getting closer, friendship was such a good thing nowadays. Especially when Beth started to notice her husband drifting off again. She had no idea that he was now sleeping with Tamara. And speaking of Tamara, she bumped into Andy when he was loading for the Saturday market.

"Andy," Tamara looked a little relieved to see him.

Andy schooled himself, wanting to keep things civil for Trista's benefit.

"Haven't seen you in a while," He commented, "have you bothered talking to your sister lately?" He asked, "she's had some rather interesting news."

Tamara's brows furrowed. She went to speak, when the woman in question made her appearance, carrying some bundles of flowers.

"Zoe just finished making them up," Trista passed them to Andy, who put them in the cooler with the ones that he already had, Trista resting a hand on her stomach before she spoke again, "She said that Jody and the girls were going for the wild flowers half a mile from Stonefield tomorrow."

Tamara looked completely gobsmacked, staring at her sister's baby bump.

"Oh and Quint's gonna check the bee hives this afternoon," She chuckled, rubbing her belly when she felt a flutter, "he said that he may have enough to make his mum's famous honey candies."

Andy grinned, "He finally found the recipe, then?"

Trista nodded, "Yeah, he did. His sister's coming in from Cardiff next week."

Andy rolled his eyes. Quint Mitchell's elder sister was a midwife, so Andy guessed that she was coming to check on Trista and the baby. Tamara looked stricken that Andy and Trista were happy without her. Tamara disappeared back off to Winnards, Trista letting out a sigh.

"You do know that she was standing there, don't you?" Andy asked.

Trista only gave him an innocent look. She took his hand and put it to the bump, Andy feeling a flutter against his palm.

"The flutters started this morning," She chuckled.

Andy stole a kiss and grinned at Trista, who rolled her eyes at the dopy look on his face. Back at Winnards, Jody and Casey were privy to Nicholas kissing Tamara before he left the farm. Casey sent Trista a text: PLASTIC IS SHAGGING NICHOLAS! before she turned back to Jody. Over the next couple of days, Jody and Casey let the air out of the tires of Nicholas' 4x4, much to Nicholas' chagrin. Of course, he never figured out who did it. Tamara pointed out to Nicholas that somebody knew: by now it was Jody, Casey and Trista, but Nicholas didn't believe her. Glen asked Beth to help him with his book, much to Beth's surprise. And secret delight. She liked how Glen wrote much better, and much more, than her husband's writing.

Casey snapped an incriminating picture of Nicholas and Tamara, storing it away for a 'rainy day'. Jody was much delighted by it. Jody knew exactly what to do with it, but she decided to wait. She didn't want to upset Trista enough to lose the baby. Back at Winnards, the teens were on Tamara's computer yet again. And just as an email from Ben, telling Tamara that Fran's baby was born and that it was Steve's. In the email he asks Tamara to keep Boss while recording in Paris.

Jody writes a reply, telling him that she knows a reliable dog-lover in town and to call Jody and Trista. She said 'You'll remember Trista, my sister. Jody is one of her only female friends in town. All the others are either in Cardiff or London. Maybe one in another little village further off, but I can't remember right at the moment'.

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Tamara lit up a bit when she saw Andy mending a fence and decided to talk to him.

"So how's Trista?" She asked, clutching her tea with both hands.

Andy chuckled, "She's good. Zoe won't let her carry trays anymore, so she's stuck for something to do."

Tamara chuckled. She knew full well how her sister got when she was bored.

"Does she know what the baby is yet?" She asked.

Andy gave a dopy grin, "Twin girls, absolutely perfect twin girls," he chuckled, "I'm glad the bassinet that I gave her for Christmas is big enough."

They did end up getting into an argument over Nicholas and Beth Hardiman. Andy asked her if she actually cared about anyone but herself. Which included her twin sister. Because her sister was almost six months pregnant and Tamara never knew until a few days ago. Both Beth and Trista had helped Andy when he'd hit rock bottom, so he was hurt that Tamara would carry on with Nicholas like she was. Tamara, though, couldn't see how her affair with Nicholas would hurt her sister and she even told Andy so. Andy told her that it would hurt Trista, because Beth was her friend and was even the chosen god-mother of her and Andy's baby girls. That stunned Tamara. She never knew, or she was oblivious to the fact, that Andy was the father of her sister's babies.

Over at Stonefield, while Beth was cooking in the kitchen, she was being regaled with tales by Glen. The two of them were now like Andy and Trista were once upon a time: the bestest of friends. She dropped the mixing bowl, though, when she saw a picture text on her phone. It's the picture of Tamara and Nicholas that Jody and Casey had snapped a few days ago. Glen looked as horrified as Beth, when he saw the photo. And when Beth broke down, Glen held her like Trista would any of her friends when they cried.

With Nicholas at the book fair, Tamara tells him that it was Andy that outed them. Though it wasn't. Though, Nicholas' reaction wasn't the one that Tamara was counting on. He was relieved. She didn't want him to be relieved, she wanted him to be pissed off. Like, beyond angry.

Jody calls Casey, after her mum refused to let her take Boss. Casey wasn't having it either, so she decided to call Trista about it.

"I'll think about it, lovey," She spoke, her voice soft since Andy had fallen asleep with his ear to her bump, "hey, I'll be there when he drops him off. I may ask him if we can breed Boss with Quint's dog, Duchess. They'd be gorgeous pups."

Duchess was a beautiful Pitbull/German Shephard mix, who also had heterochromia; one blue eye and one dark coffee brown. Trista knew that Jody's personality, what she only lets very few people see, would suit Ben well. Now if only she could get him to wait three years for Jody to get older.

Glen and Beth had both went off to the book fair to confront Nicholas and Tamara. Though, Glen was there merely for moral support. Which starts an argument between Tamara and Nicholas. And when Nicholas started in on Andy, it set Tamara off.

"Andy Cobb is a far better man than you!" Tamara replied, a little loudly, "he didn't have to step up and be a dad to Trista's babies, but he is. And yes, Nicholarse, the babies really are his!"

She turned on her heel, feeling so much lighter. She was relieved with everything and found herself no longer caring that Andy and Trista were having kids together. If anything, she felt supportive. Trista went with Jody to meet with Ben, who wasn't too happy about finding out that it wasn't Tamara that sent the email. Trista told him that Jody was as arse-over-teakettle in love with Ben, that Trista was for Andy. Which softened Ben considerably and made Jody blush like a cooked lobster.

"She's a good kid, Ben," Trista sighed, "if a bit misguided. Her mum ignores her, except to yell at her. Her dad left as a babe. So it's been up to me to raise her, if you want the truth. But when Andy hit rock bottom, I wasn't around like I wish I could have been."

Ben actually felt sorry for the girl. He loads the girls and Boss into the car, driving them over to the pub, where Andy waited outside at one of the tables. Back at Stonefield, Nicholas arrives to find Beth and Glen sharing a kiss. Beth tells Nicholas that she wants him out, gone.

"Have you ever thought of breeding Boss?" Trista asked Ben over a pint of ice cream.

She and Jody were eating ice cream, where the boys were drinking beer. Jody pulled out a picture of her and Casey with Duchess, from over a year ago.

"She's a beauty," Ben chuckled, seeing the dog in question, "what is she?"

Jody grinned, "American Pitbull and German Shepherd. Her mum is pure blood Pit, her dad's pure blood German Shepherd," she put the picture away, "Quint is moving to Cardiff with his sister, after Trista has the twins. But he can't take Duchess with her. Trista even said she'd keep Duchess for me, gave Quint two months worth of allowance for her."