Alice walked into the surgery with Amie and saw a old yet familiar sight. Danny sorry Peter at the table operating. She ushered Amie into the office where the other Amy sat colouring.

"You need help?" Alice asked. Pulling on scrubs.

She pulled on gloves and sat opposite him.

She moved the forceps out of the way and swabbed at blood. He was digging in the lions side. Trying to find something. He pulled it out and grinned. It was a bullet.

Poachers again! She thought angrily.

She handed him stitches without thinking and he frowned.

"What? You need something else?" she asked.

"No, this is exactly what I need. At the exact second I thought of it. Weird!"

She smiled. As time progressed the same thing happened. She passed him things without being asked. Swabbed blood without being asked.

"Can you read my mind. I think to myself I need that blood swabbed or I need this or that and you do it or give it to me!" he asked in disbelief.

"My husband was a vet too. I'm used to anticipating stuff like that."

The lion was moved into the recovery area.

"I'm newly qualified." Peter told her. "Mr Du Plessis had a lion in the truck and I was passing. He nearly fell over when he saw me. Someone else called me Danny! Do I really resemble him that much?"

"You really do!"

Alice and Peter stood at the sink side by side and scrubbed their hands and took their aprons off. Their arms brushed and they both worked hard to ignore the sizzle.

"I'll show you a picture if you want."

She went to walk away and stepped on some water they'd splashed. She skidded and he grabbed her upper arms to steady her. They both froze. Stared. He leaned in Alice ducked.

"I'll get that picture!" she said shakily. She walked over and prayed this was Danny coz the feelings he evoked were more powerful than 5 years ago. She looked at him and felt herself falling for this Peter/Danny whoever he was. He seemed so familiar yet new at the same time. She walked in into the office and looked at the giggling girls.

"Amie."

Both girls looked up.

"We won't be long ok."

"Mum can Amy stay at ours tonight?" Amie asked.

"O sweetie her daddy doesn't know us. He doesn't know if we're good people or bad people. He loves his little girl lots and won't let her stay with strangers. I'll be back through in 5 anyway."

Went on the desk and pulled off her favourite picture. Smiled at it. They were all happy on there. Took it back to Peter and handed it to him.

"Wow, if I didn't know better I'd say he was me too."

Peter envied the man in the picture. The woman's eyes rested on him. She looked at him with such devotion. He didn't want her looking at this Danny like that. He put the picture down so she couldn't see it.

"I'm glad your little girl is alright."

He still couldn't explain the flat out terror he felt when he saw her on that stretcher.

Alice nodded.

The 2 girls stood at the office door.

"Daddy can I stay at Amie's house tonight? She's nice people."

Peter looked at Alice and smiled at the wording.

"Baby, this is our holiday. Can't we spend time together?"

"But I gots you for the whole of forever. I only got Amie for 2 weeks!"

"Baby…" Peter started.

"They're not strangers daddy. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Amy pleaded.

"Tell you what. If Alice doesn't mid I'll spend some time up at the house and then decide!"

Both Amy's jumped up and down.

"Girls!" Both Peter and Alice said at the same time. Then smiled at each other.

"Mummy, why you making kissy faces?" Amie asked.

Alice blushed bright red. "Um c'mon Amie. We'll see to them lion cubs."

(X)

Peter and Alice sat on the veranda. He had beer and she had coke. Daniel had been given a temporary reprieve from his room. He tried to apologise to Amie who had hid again. He now sat on the computer. 30 minutes only.

"The girls made friends really quickly." Peter said.

"It's hard out here. It's pretty isolated. Amie had a friend at the neighbouring reserve but we get so busy I don't always have time. So having your little girl here could be a help for me. I have to apologise about earlier too. Your on holiday and your taking care of our animals."

He smiled and she almost forgot to breath physically melted. "No worries." she smiled back automatically.

"Can we go to my room mum?" Amie asked her. Alice nodded absently. Still hypnotised by that sexy smile. They were alone. He had a funny look on his face as did she.

"I like seeing you smile." Peter said huskily. Touched her cheek. She felt tingles. "Ever since I first saw you at the house you've been on my mind. I mean it was only yesterday but I can't stop thinking about you. This has never happened to me before!" he stood up and pulled her gently into his arms. "Stop me now if you don't feel the same. I know I have no right but if I don't kiss you right now I'll die." he whispered.

Their lips touched for one brief second and they both jerked from the power of emotion that flooded them. Their lips fit perfectly. Feelings rushed though them. He kissed her deeper this time. He tasted an unnamed texture on her lips. Only knew that whatever she was feeling he was too. His hands plunged into her hair and he kissed her hotter. And deeper. She pulled him closer and hung on for dear life. She was being overwhelmed by desire. For Peter. Not Danny. But Peter. He pulled away reluctantly. Breathing heavily.

"Wow, that was weird. Familiar!" he gasped.

Alice had no doubts anymore. "Look your Danny. I know you think your not but you are. You really REALLY are." she spluttered. "There is only one man who has ever kissed me like that and only one man I respond too so unrestrainedly."

"Look I'm sorry but…" he started.

"I'll prove it you have scars!" she blurted. "One on your chest - here." she touched his t-shirt where his scar lay. "And one on your arm here." she touched his arm. "And a birth mark on your foot. The heel of you left foot."

He stood frowning. "How do you know those things?" he asked softly.

She smiled. "Danny?" he took a step back.

Ethan walked up the stairs. "Alice you ok?"

"I'm fine. Can I talk to you later Ethan?"

"Ethan?" Peter choked. That dream. He had shouted Ethan. Ethan looked at Peter's face he looked worried.

"Come inside." Alice said to Peter. Took him in the study. "Sign Daniel Trevanion for me."

"No!" Peter said.

"Please."

He scribbled it quickly. She went in a drawer. Pulled out the contract they signed to purchase half of Leopard's Den.

"Look." she said softly comparing the signatures.

The scrawl was practically the same. He sat frowning at it.

"Means nothing." he told her.

"What are your parents names?" Alice asked.

His face went blank.

"Do you have any brothers or sisters?" she continued.

"Quiet!" he yelled. "Look your off your head. I'm not Danny! I'm Peter!

He paced. "Coincidences that's al!" he muttered to himself. He had actually convinced himself he was this Peter Robinson!

"I'd never forget my kids and what about Amy?" he muttered.

Alice sat quietly while he paced. Let him work through things in his head. He sat on a chair with his head in his hands.

"Who AM I?" he asked. Voice hoarse. He wasn't sure anymore. He had always had this feeling that he didn't know himself.

"Daniel Lawrence Trevanion." Alice said simply.

"Explains the wallet I had. I woke up and had a black wallet with all sorts of cards belonging to a D Trevanion."

He was beginning to think that everything was beginning to point to him being this Danny.

"My date of birth?"

"4th February. Your 40 this year."

"What, I thought I was 45." he mused out loud. "My parents names?"

"Amanda and Daniel Senior."

He frowned.

"Does any of this sound familiar?"

He shook his head.

She grabbed two photo albums. One was their wedding album and the other was the album of the kids. She opened the kids one first.

"Our oldest child. Alexis Marie Trevanion. Born on the 17th May. She's 23 now."

He studied the picture. "She looks like me." he said quietly.

"Our second child is Ethan James Bell. he's 23 too. His birthday is 20th September." "Bell?"

"We adopted him when he was 13. He had a tough time. that's him."

She pointed a smiling boy with his arm around Lexi.

"Our third child is Daniel Junior Ethan Trevanion. He was born on the 10th October. He's 7."

He looked at him. "Do all the kids look like me?"

Alice smiled., "Our youngest is called Amie Amanda Trevanion. She was born on the 31st of October. She's 6."

"Daniel, you call him Dee Jay don't you?"

"Yeah." she said smiling.

"I smiled whenever I saw the letters d and j. I thought I was some sort of weirdo." Peter admitted.

"Anything else?" Alice coaxed.

"I remember Lexi. Queen Lexi. And sunlight or sun rays?" he asked.

Alice smiled wider. "Sunshine. Your getting it!"

"How do I know this stuff?"

"Coz you're their father." Alice told him.

"But I only have one daughter who is 6 years old. I was in the army. My last tour before I came home."

"How much of that do you remember? Or did you read it all from letters and other paperwork. Do you remember anything about being in the army. What about family and friends?"

He shrugged. "We had moved in a new house. No family ever got in touch."

"Look Amy, she isn't your….."

"NO! she doesn't get taken away. She is all I have left of my wife" he blurted.

It hurt Alice to hear him speak that way about another woman.

Peter would never admit it but he had no memory of his so called wife. A letter came through the door saying she had died in a plane crash. The first week in the house was blurry in his mind and anything before that is a blank.

"Look Danny we got told you died in a plane crash. I can't explain what it's like to have you back!" she admitted.

"That explains my panic attack on the plane." he murmured. He had a memory. Well it had been a reoccurring nightmare actually. It's fuzzy and unclear. He could smell the strong odour of petrol. And a fire so intense it singed the hair on his arms. The sweat evaporated before he even felt it. Flashes of faces. Mangled metal and upended chairs. A bright orange flame threatened to engulf them.

Alice saw the distant but panicked look on his face. "You ok?" she put her hand on his arm and he jerked.

"Is there any way to prove this you know definitively. It's not that I don't trust you. I just don't know you."

"We can have DNA tests done on the kids to prove you're their father. I think that'll tell you."

He nodded.

"I need proof." he told her.

She nodded.

"I'm sorry. I really don't wanna hurt you but I just…" he put his hand on his forehead.

"When did you marry…..me?" he questioned.

"19 years ago on the 22nd of July." she closed the kids album and opened the wedding album.

"We were happy?" he asked.

"Yeah. We had the best day. And every day after that only got better!"

He looked through the album. Smiled at the pictures. They always seemed to be touching in some ways. A hug. A kiss. Or the way Danny's eyes seemed to caress Alice when he looked at her.

"What about meeting the kids?" he asked nervously.

"Lexi is at work but tomorrow will be no problem."

"What does she do?" Peter asked.

"Paramedic."

"You must be proud." Peter told her.

"I am. You know if you forget everything, ho did you remembered vetting?"

"I'm newly qualified. I was an accountant at home and hated every second of it. The vets course was ridiculously easy for me."

Alice smiled at him. "I'll leave you alone. Let you process everything.

"No please stay with me. You calm me. If I'm by myself I might over react."

It wasn't like Danny to admit to being vulnerable.

"Ok. Do you wanna go back outside?" Alice asked.

He nodded in agreement.

A/n alice is almost certain and danny is startin 2 believe now. the main question tho how r the kids gonna react? keep readin :) x