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Title: Hope You're Happy Too

Words: 582

Romantic Pairings: Gene&Alex.

About: Ashes To Ashes

Two weeks past, Gene had begun to pick up on Alex being a little distant. He decided that what she needed was a night in, off the booze. He ordered her favourite from Luigi's and plated it up just in time as she wandered into the living room in her pyjamas after having a bath.

"I thought that maybe tonight we could talk" Gene proposed.

"Talk about what?"

"About what ever has been bugging you recently, you don't seem your usual ballsy self"

"It's just the time of the month Gene" she sighed "It'll pass, don't worry"

She planted a gentle kiss on his stubble covered cheek before they sat down to eat.

Even though silence had fallen over the couple, Gene felt a little more relaxed about how Alex had been behaving, he knew for sure that she wasn't telling him something but he had come to the conclusion that she would tell him when she was ready. After all she was a woman who couldn't be pushed into things...

Shaz wandered into the ladies toilets and heard crying, listening to see which cubicle it was from she stopped outside it.

"Pull yourself together Drake" came a mumble from behind the locked door "You can handle this, you've done it before"

Knocking on the door Shaz cleared her throat "Is everything alright Ma-am?"

She heard the toilet flush and the door unlocked, as Alex dashed past her fellow officer she nodded quickly then headed out of the toilets.

Alex walked through the doors to CID, brandishing something in her left hand and a screwed up ball of toilet paper in the other.

"Ey up!" Ray piped up "What's up with you Drake? Riding the cotton pony?"

Alex flashed him a frustrated expression "Bugger off Ray" she walked directly into Gene's office and closed the door, drawing the blinds.

Gene looked up and frowned at his DI "What the hell's going on Bolls?"

Alex placed the pregnancy test down onto Gene's desk in front of him; he looked at the white stick then stared at Alex, who smiled back at him. It had confirmed what she had secretly suspected.

After a trip to the doctors that established for definite that Alex was pregnant, Gene took the team to Luigi's because he was desperate for a drink. The pair had decided not to let their colleagues know just yet that they were having a baby.

"Can I get you a drink Ma-am?" Shaz asked as she propped herself at the bar beside her superior officer.

"Erm no thanks Shaz, I'm not drinking tonight"

She laughed "Why not? It's a Friday; all the guys are planning to get plastered"

"I hope Gene isn't" Alex mumbled "He snores loudly after being on the beer"

"What's it like Ma-am? You know, dating the Guv?"

Alex smiled as she took a sip of the orange juice that Luigi had placed in front of her, having been ordered by Gene to do so. She sighed sweetly and tilted her head at Shaz.

"It's lovely, so bloody lovely that it's hard to put into words...things are changing Shaz, a little quickly but nevertheless they're changing"

"What is Ma-am?"

"Gene and me" she pondered the thought then decided not to follow the three words with 'and my body' knowing that the WPC would put two and two together and successfully make four.

"I think you'll soften him, settle him down a bit"

Alex laughed a little "I sure hope so"