"I'm sorry, visiting hours aren't for another hour."

"Look my dad has just been brought in today, I've only just found out half an hour ago he had cancer. Please."

"Come back in an hour."

Rosie was stood at the front of the hospital arguing with the woman at the desk. The girl was pretty young herself probably a similar age to Rosie but god did she need a slap and Rosie was about to giver her one.

"Please! I need to see him!"

"Patients are only allowed guests during visiting hours." The girl said her tone as condescending as ever.

"Look miss!" Rosie's temper rising." If you don't let me see my dad right now I'm going to-"

"Rosie?"

Rosie spun, "Harry?"

"She's fine." Harry said to the receptionist leading Rosie down one of the corridors. The lady's protests went unheard.

"How's my dad, Harry?" Jogging down the corridor to catch up.

"We're still waiting on some test results, but I'm optimistic we've caught it early enough." Rosie knew not to be too optimistic herself. She knew what cancer was like. "Either way, Rosie he's going to need you to be there for him."

"I will be, we all will be."

Harry smiled and nodded, "I know you will." They reached Danny's ward, "He's in room 15, it's on the right. Speak to you later."

"Thanks Harry," Rosie said earnestly as he headed off back the way they'd came. Rosie took a deep breath and headed towards her dad's room.

She saw him sat up on the bed, he looked tired but was sitting up watching the small TV on the wall. Inhaling one final time she opened the door. Danny started in surprise but his face broke in to a huge smile when he saw her.

"Rosie what you doing here?"

Rosie couldn't help herself she ran forward and threw herself in to his arms. "Oh dad." She hadn't realised she was crying till her dad started hushing her, holding her tight to him whilst she sobbed in to his shoulder.

"I love you so much," she whispered, her head still buried in to his shoulder.

"I love you too, Rosie." he replied, choked with his own emotion.

"I'm sorry for acting the way I did. I should've been there." she choked out.

"Forget about all that now, okay?" He held his girl in his arms till eventually her shoulders stopped shaking. He pulled back and wiped the tears from her cheeks, "Now let me see that smile." Rosie couldn't help laugh at him. "There it is." She wrapped her arms round him again burying her face in his shoulder. She wondered if she'd ever grow out of her dad's hugs. She hoped not, they always made her feel safe and that everything was going to be alright.

"Dad, are you ok?"

"I'm fine." She gave him that look. He smiled. "Or I will be." She sat down on the chair next to the bed but gripped on to one of his hands. "How's Dylan?"

"What? Emm he's fine."

"I'm sorry Rosie. I've not been fair on him. He's a good guy."

"Don't dad, it doesn't matter." Danny wanted to argue that it mattered a lot but resolved to leave it there. "How's Bobby, have you seen him?" he asked anxiously.

"He's much better, he was chasing Kassidy this morning, it's a wonder he didn't just bite Robbie's hand off. Honestly, it's amazing how the animals just put up with him." Rosie laughed but her dad's smile was false. She squeezed his hand. "Alice will bring him up as soon as she can, you know she will."

He nodded and tried again at a genuine smile but it didn't reach his eyes. Rosie's heart broke for him. "How are Charlie and Liv?"

"Upset." Danny exhaled, "But we're Trevanions," he nodded, "we'll all be fine. Alice said she'd be up later on."

"Yeah she said. How is she?"

"She seemed ok."

"Watch her for me Rosie, please. I know Nomsa and Caroline are there but help Alice out. I know she's going to bulldoze through this and insist she's coping but you and I both know-"

"She's a big softie."

Danny nodded, "Exactly. But don't tell her I said that." Rosie laughed. "I'm so glad you came back Rosie, I know you've been back almost a year now but I missed you so much."

"Me too." The guilt washed over Rosie as she remembered that important thing she was meant to have told him. She and Dylan had agreed just last night to go view a house. "So how they doing?" she said nodding to the TV in the corner.

"Boro, lost 2-1 to Millwall" Tony Mowbray was currently being interviewed. "He look how I feel." said Danny under his breath.