A/N: Hi Guys, please don't expect updates this quick in the future. It is just this weeks episode really disturbed me and I had to write something happy for Jo and Alex. I hope you like it. I want to thank you all for so many kind reviews. It really makes me want to keep going, knowing people are enjoying what I am writing.

Chapter 8 – Single life

"Hey Jo, you wanna tell me why Leah and Stephanie are blaming me because you won't go out with them Saturday night?" Alex asked.

"I don't know." Jo lied, refusing to look up from her chart she was studying.

"God this place gives me the creeps." Alex said looking around at how differently this ward was set up to any other. Getting no response from Jo he pushed on. "How do you stand it up here with all these weirdo's." Alex said knowing exactly how to get Jo fired up.

"Alex! You are such a jerk. These people are sick just like... God I fall for it every time. What do you want?" She said even more annoyed. Why didn't he just get it that she didn't want to go out. She was happy "playing families" with Alex and Thomas.

"I want to know why you are lying to your friends."

"Well technically I'm not."

"Technically? This should be good."

"Well I didn't know what your plans were. I assumed you would have some and that there would be no-one to watch Thomas."

"Well I don't have plans, and I'm not on call. So you should go and Tommy can come and have a sleep over at mine."

"Oh well, you don't...well I mean its short notice."

"Jo? It's Tuesday. Not really short notice."

"Oh All right! I don't want to go and you can't make me." Jo huffed.

Alex stared at her and started laughing really loud. "Oh Princess you need to drop the bottom lip a little more and stomp your right foot and you look just like Thomas when you make him eat peas."

"I do not." She said throwing a pen at him.

"Oh yes you do. At least I know he doesn't get that from me." Alex said still laughing.

"Shut up. I'm not going."

"Why? You should go out with your friends you need a break. You work, study and look after Thomas. You need to take some time out."

"When did you become Dr Phil?"

"Say that again and I will have to think of something nasty to put in your coffee." Alex said smiling. God he had missed her. Missed her being his friend, missed their stupid banter.

"Okay, you win. I will go out with the girls. I haven't been out since before Thomas was born."

"I'm sure you will be just fine." Alex replied as he walked away and back to his own Department.

Four nights later, Jo was standing at the front of Alex's door about to drop her son off. It was going to be the first night since he had been born that she would not be with him. She knew Thomas would be fine, she knew Alex would be fine, she wasn't so sure she would be.

"Hey, come in." Alex said trying his best not to stare. Jo was dressed in an above knee length little black dress. Nothing too much but on her it looked amazing. He took Tommy's bags from her as Thomas launched himself at his father.

"Guess what daddy?"

"What's that?"

"I brung free movies."

"Three? I don't know if we will have that much time." Alex said. The thought of watching Cars and The Lion King again was not appealing.

"We will. Put it on now."

"Slow down a bit, let's say goodbye to mommy first then we can put it on." Alex said to Thomas before whispering to Jo. "Please tell me there is something new in there I haven't seen?"

"Afraid not. Cars, Lion King and Finding Nemo. Enjoy your night!" Jo said with a slight laugh.

"Well I can see we are going to need a lot of sugar to get through tonight and I've bought all kinds of treats that only dad's provide." He replied glaring back at Jo as he picked Thomas up. "We have chocolate ice cream and some lollies and some pop corn for the movies."

"You are the best dad ever." Tommy said giving his mother a very smug look that he had definitely inherited from his father.

"Great work. You can deal with his sugar high and enjoy the low when it hits." Jo replied. "Give mommy a kiss goodbye." Thomas gave his mother a quick kiss and went back into the living room.

"I'll miss you too." She muttered to herself.

"Stop worrying. He will be fine and you look great. I'm sure you will have a good time."

"Really, I wasn't sure about this dress." Jo said as she ran her hands over the material.

Really, you are gonna stand there and touch yourself, in that dress that I want to get you out of and be so unaware of what you are doing to me!

"No it's a great dress. Go. Have fun I will see you tomorrow."

Alex just wanted her to leave. The longer she stood there the less self control he was having. He didn't want her to go out anymore than she wanted to go. He knew men, he knew she could walk into any bar in the city and ten or more guys would be lined up to talk to her, buy her a drink and think they would have a shot at taking her home. The last thought alone made him want to punch something.

By Nine pm, Thomas had had his sugar high and was now in the low. Alex carried him up to his bed and tucked him in, leaving the night light on that he had bought in case Thomas woke and was frightened. He then went downstairs to tidy up. Alex was flicking through the TV stations when a knock at the door came.

A part of him was surprised, yet another part of him wasn't when he could see through the glass door that it was Jo.

"It's nine thirty." He said as he opened the door.

"I know. I'm sorry. I just didn't want to be there. Can I hang out here for a while? I promise I will leave and you can have your night with Tommy without me."

"Is that what you think?" He asked.

"Well isn't it? You want to spend time with him alone, without me around. Isn't that why you want me to go out with friends, I don't know maybe start dating."

"I have never said that." The thought of her dating hadn't really crossed his mind, but fuck if he was about to let that happen.

"Well why are you pushing so hard to get me to go out?"

"I thought that was what you should do. I don't know. You have given up so much I just figured you should go out and get drunk and stuff."

"Alex. No. You should know me better than that." Jo said as she sat down next to him.

"Let me get to know you again." He said taking her hand.

God I'm easy. All he has to do is say a few nice things and yep there it is those eyes he gives me and I am his. All his.

Alex looked so serious; he looked at her eyes and then glanced at her lips. Her free hand reached up and held the side of her face. They both leaned in at the same time and their lips lightly touched each other. Within moments, the kiss had intensified and Alex had pulled Jo onto his lap. In between moans of pleasure from both of them, hands began to wander wanting to feel each other again after so long apart.

Jo pulled away and rested her forehead on his and tried to get her breathing under control.

"Sorry, I'll slow down." Alex said, touching her on the side of her face and trying to regain his own breath.

"No! It's not that. It's just I haven't...well done this for ...well since the last time we did."

"What? Oh. Okay umm well what is it you need?" Alex said trying very hard to remember all things Jo. He used to be able to speak fluent Jo.

"Just you." She said. As she began to kiss him again and take his shirt off.

"Oh right got it. Hard and fast, first time, slow after that." He whispered in her ear remembering just what it was she was trying to tell him.

"Very good. But save the dirty talk for later, if you do that now too, well this will be over very quickly." She mumbled through his kiss.

He pushed her dress up to her waist and ran his hands along her legs, before touching her in between them, she was already a little wet and he moaned into her ear as he felt her. Jo could feel how hard Alex was and she couldn't wait to feel him inside of her again. Right now though she could hardly think as he pushed her slightly back onto the sofa and slowly pulled her black lace panties off.

She mildly protested something about wanting to please him too but he was not having any of it. He silenced her with a kiss and using one hand he gently pushed one breast out of her dress and teased her nipple with his thumb and forefinger, before taking it into his mouth. The other hand was running from her knee up to the inside of her thigh.

"Alex..." she moaned

He ran his hand along her centre, before entering one and then two fingers inside her. She was so sensitive and aroused and was finally with him she knew this first time with him touching her like this wouldn't last long.

"Alex I'm so sorry but..."

"Don't be sorry, come for me babe." He whispered huskily as he lifted himself off her so he could watch her underneath him. She felt tight, she was so warm, wet and he wanted to be inside of her desperately but that could wait. They had all night. He was damned sure there would be no sleeping tonight. He moved his thumb over her clit and within minutes her toes were curling and she was coming harder than she had ever remembered.

"Oh. My. God." She gasped as the last waves of orgasm washed over her.

"Are you okay?" He asked genuinely concerned.

"Yes more than okay. I'm just so sorry that was all about me. Let me..."

"No. Do I look like I am unhappy?" He said kissing her lightly. "Do I feel unhappy?" He said taking her hand and placing it on his painfully hard erection.

"No. It's just..."

"Shh! Let's just go to bed. Let me take care of you tonight. Let me get to know you again."

She sat back up and they walked up the stairs to the bedroom. When they got to the top of the stairs Jo automatically went to Alex's bedroom door.

"No, Thomas is asleep in there; we will have to go in here." He whispered, gesturing to the door across the hall.

"Fuck Alex. I forgot about him. In four years I have never forgotten him. I am a bad mother."

"Stop it." He said with a smile, pulling her body flush with his. "If I get this right, I will make you forget your own name." He said with a smirk.

The bedroom door closed behind them.

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