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Title: Hope You're Happy Too

Words: 1,289

Romantic Pairings: Gene&Alex.

About: Ashes To Ashes

"Oh my God, you're such a bitch!" Gene yelled as he moved over to the window.

"Excuse me?" Alex shouted back "I'm a bitch? You're the one that's being such an arse about it!"

"Why can't you just accept that I don't want to be there?"

"Because I want you to be there!" Alex sat down on the sofa and held her head in her hands as tears began to pour from her eyes, loud sobs escaping her lips.

"Oh Christ Bolls, there's no need to start crying about it"

"Yes there bloody is!" she looked up at him "I'm gonna be all on my own, in pain with nobody there to hold my hand"

"What about Shaz?"

"Shaz?" she exclaimed "Shaz? She's a lovely girl but she isn't exactly who I want to be egging me on when I'm giving birth to our child!"

"I just don't want to see all the blood and stuff, I mean...I'll be going down there at some point once Sam arrives, I don't think I could after seeing a baby come out of there"

"You are pathetic, you'd much rather go and play football or get pissed down the pub than witness the birth of your first and, may I say, last child!"

"So you're still undecided on a birthing partner" spoke the doctor after clearing his throat "But I can tell you that you're due date is going to be September eighth"

Gene and Alex left the hospital in a tense silence, which was broken as soon as they got inside the Quattro.

"Why do you have to be such a bastard at time?"

"I'm going to cut down on the fags and booze! I'm going to drive within the speed limit when the kid is in the care! What more do you want, ey? I know what else you want!" he unzipped the fly of his trousers.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Well I just thought you'd like my knackers too! Maybe you'd like to put them on in a glass box and frame them for the bedroom wall, because you've got everything else!"

She couldn't restrain herself any longer and burst out laughing, she couldn't help herself. She hit him playfully before taking hold of his tie to pull him towards her to kiss him roughly.

"Bloody hell Bolls, only two minutes ago you were shouting like a banshee, now you're kissing me like you want to rip my clothes off"

"I do" she smiled flirtatiously "Let's go back to the flat for a bit, ey? We can just say that the appointment over ran if anybody asks questions"

Gene kissed her back with the same amount of force before starting the ignition and driving in the direction of their flat...

"Who else needs to put money in the kitty?" Shaz asked, holding up a tin with Guv Junior scrawled across it "Come on don't just sit there!"

A number of people dug deep and got up to put money in the tin, Shaz smiled widely and sat back down at her desk.

"I'll count this and then I'll go for my lunch, I'll get the presents then"

Shaz began to count the wad of fives, tens and twenties until she came to the final amount of one hundred and eighty pounds. She shoved the money back in the tin and locked it in her draw as she saw Alex and Gene walk into CID hand in hand.

"Afternoon Ma-am" Shaz grinned widely

Ray turned to face his colleagues "So how was the appointment?"

"It went relatively well, had a bit of an argument with the Guv about who will be there at the birth but I'm sure he'll realise it's in his best interests to be there"

"Well it is his first kid" Chris put in.

"No I was thinking more along the lines of..." she raised her voice from this point on so that Gene could hear her from inside his office "...If he ever wants to get near me again he'll be there!"

"Oh stop your whining woman! I'll bloody be there, alright?"

"So exactly how many weeks are you now Ma-am?" Shaz asked.

"I'm twenty weeks today" Alex smiled, rubbing circles against her stomach "I can't wait until Sam gets here"

"To think your baby has been sort of working with us for five months" Shaz giggled "It's amazing to think about"

As Alex turned to go to her desk she paused, putting a hand onto the side of her bump and letting out an excited yelp.

"Guv!" Shaz called in a worried tone "Guv something's wrong!"

Gene darted out of his office and over to Alex, who had somehow managed to perch herself on the edge of the desk as she laughed between giddy squeals.

"Bolly what's going on?" he questioned sternly "Are you in pain?"

Grinning from ear to ear, Alex took hold of Genes hand and placed it where her own had been, holding it firmly in place.

Gene felt a kick and grimaced "That's weird" he pulled his hand away and shook it "That's really weird"

He went back inside his office but stopped halfway to his desk. His child was moving about and he had the opportunity to feel that movement before the baby came into the word properly.

He turned back and stood in the doorway, saw her slightly disappointed expression turn to neutral.

"You two get in here now" he was smiling as he pointed from Alex to inside his office.

Alex was by him almost in an instant, where after shutting the door, Gene placed both hands on her. If it had been a year ago then the team would have been shocked to look into Genes office and see him sharing such physical contact with his DI, but they had all grown accustomed to such public displays of affection that it was now the norm.

"I'm sorry about before" he whispered as he ran his thumb down her cheek "I just don't want to see you in pain"

"I promise you Gene, I'll be on as much pain relief as possible"

He spun her around and pressed his body against hers, snaking his arms around her waist and kissing up her neck from her shoulder, then back down again.

"You won't stop the fags or the booze Bolls" he murmured in her ear "There two of the only things I enjoy in life"

"You can at least..."

He grazed his teeth across the sensitive area bellow her ear, silencing her "Shut up for two minutes won't you? Bloody motor mouth"

She giggled and tilted her head back, allowing him access to her lips. There was a tap on the glass of his office door and the pair looked to see Ray stood there.

"What do you want Carling?" Gene shouted.

"If you're going to give her a good seeing to in there can you at least close the blinds? Some of us don't want to meet our dinners again thanks"

Alex laughed loudly as she watched Gene hurriedly close all of the blinds.

"You do realise that their now expecting us to be shagging in here?"

He nodded and pulled her towards himself suggestively "I know"

"And you do realise that there is no way in hell I'm sleeping with you in here?"

He pouted his lips and let go of her, sitting down at his desk with a grumble "You're no fun!"

Gene watched with a smile as Alex left his office and began to talk to Shaz. He observed her habitually rub and pat her stomach, and that was when Gene Hunt realised that he was going to make a bloody amazing father.