Danny and Alice lay in bed the following morning. His hand rested on her slightly swollen stomach. They had their emergency scan tomorrow then 5 days later they went home and straight to the doctors they went. Midwifes and hospital appointments he couldn't wait! He smiled. He did that a lot recently. At the thought of his wife and children. Although the thought of Lexi brought on oh my god I could strangle her for what she did thoughts! He rubbed Alice's stomach slightly she was still asleep. He loved watching her sleep. Her face relaxed, she looked serene. No worries. He pressed a kiss to her cheek, then her stomach. He felt an answering flutter beneath his lips. He gasped. Oh God had it just moved? He'd never felt a baby kick before! He put his hand there softly and felt the flutter beneath his hand. He welled up, God his child was in there growing. Wow he was in complete awe at what he and Alice had created out of nothing but love!

He wished he could stay here and feel their baby kick all day but he had to get up. He had his daughter to deal with! He rose from the bed. Caressed Alice cheek. "Love you honey!"

He'd decided not to tell Alice about Lexi's little….lapse in judgement. He didn't want her stressing about things unnecessarily. If he could carry her around on a humongous pillow or wrap her in cotton wool he would. He dressed and walked out of his room. Saw Lexi and Ethan at the breakfast table.

"What do you mean Evan and Tristan didn't come home or go to his last night?" Lexi asked.

"Exactly what I said. No one can find them! Caroline's worried sick. I hope your happy!" Ethan hissed.

"That's not fair Eth!"

"No what wasn't fair was lying to Tristan then asking me to lie for you too!"

"You said I should kiss him!"

"God Lex one I said I was joking no less that 4 times. And secondly I had no idea he was 18 at the time. And thirdly there actually is no thirdly just don't try to blame this on me!"

"Alexis!" Danny said.

Lexi closed her eyes. She was gonna get the full name treatment o joy!

"Outside please!" Danny said.

"I'll just get out of my pyjamas and pull some proper clothes on." she jumped into her room and came out with a white vest top and white cargo trousers rolled up to the knees. Her sunglasses on and sandals on her feet.

They walked from the house towards her nanas hut but stopped halfway. They were silent.

"You gonna start with my third degree?" she asked insolently.

"Don't even go there Alexis you lied about your age! And take your glasses off when I'm talking to you!"

She took them off. "I told a tiny white lie. Who cares no one got hurt!"

"He could have, he could have been in heaps of trouble. You're a minor Lexi. If it went too far he could have got sent to prison for statutory rape!"

"But it wasn't rape! Not that I would have let if go that far!"

"Erm Lexi you are under the age of consent in the eyes of the law it is rape. And don't tell me you were gonna stop. Or did you lie about losing all control!"

Lexi went pale.

"When we get home you've lost all TV, laptop, telephone. Everything and your grounded until further notice. I want you to apologise to Tristan too if he even wants to see you that is! If it happened to me I'd be a million miles away from the girl who tricked me!"

They were silent for a moment.

"On the subject of you losing all control, um, well Lex your mum did have the baby talk with you didn't she. Well are you like 100 percent sure on the protection front."

Lexi looked at her father. He looked uncomfortable. She decided if he wanted to torture her with all this sanctimonious crap then she was gonna do the same with him. Like he didn't think about sleeping with girls at 15!

"Why no dad!"

Danny paled. She smiled wryly enjoying seeing him squirm. God of course she understood how to use condoms!

"Well Lex um, what are you not sure about?"

"Just general usage you know! Mum tried to explain but obviously you and she used them wrong or baby wouldn't be here. So you explain it to me dad!"

He ran his hand through his hair. "Well you see, you sort of...well when a man..."

"Dad what brought this on?" she said letting him off the hook. God he looked like he was in pain.

"Well you nearly losing control Lexi for one. And your nearly 16 so you could be considering….." he trailed off.

"God dad I haven't even got a boyfriend! Even if I did it's not like I'm gonna be ripping his clothes off on my birthday GOD!"

"I'd appreciate if you wouldn't talk about ripping anyone's clothes off Lexi!" he didn't say he knew how quickly things could escalate. Her being here was proof of escalation!

"Well look when your 16 I can't stop you, when your ready. I just want you to be protected."

"God dad stop please, I feel a when 2 people love each other, sperm egg story coming on and that would be painful for both of us. I know how not to make a baby and the way you do that is basically do nothing at all! Trust me any boy I decide to go out with will know that there's a no entry sign on me and if he doesn't like it then he isn't worth knowing coz he obviously doesn't respect me or care about me! Plus I SOOO don't want to be pregnant or have I baby. I mean mum looks tired and is sick all the time. Plus even after the baby is born she'll be tired and babies are smelly and gooey and most of the time they cry. I soooo couldn't deal with that!"

"So you haven't….."

"Look dad I haven't had sex with anyone. Oh God I so can't believe I've just said that to my dad. I can't believe I'm having this conversation with you. My dad of all people. Couldn't you of asked mum or preferably Shauna. She'd of been cool about it!"

"Lexi this isn't the conversation I wanted to have with my daughter either!"

"Well can we please stop now before I end up in therapy!"

He nodded and she was relieved. "You know I came to the conclusion years ago that I came from a different planet from you and mum. You've just proved it dad!" she said seriously.

They walked in the direction of the house. "Not a word of this to your mother. I'll find a way to explain why your grounded et cetera."

A motorcycle roared into Leopards Den. It came to a stop. Evan climbed off jerkily. His eyes darkened when he saw Lexi. He walked over to her and Danny.

"I have to apologise to you. I brought my friend Tristan down to the party last night and he kissed your daughter. Ethan came before they made a mistake!"

Danny felt respect for the boy. Trying to shoulder blame for his friend when actually he had nothing to do with this. Also how he didn't make excuses for his friend when it could have got them both off the hook!

"It's ok Evan I know the truth. All of it. Isn't that right Lexi!"

She nodded. "Look Evan will you tell Tristan I'm sorry I shouldn't have lied about my age. I didn't wanna get him in trouble!"

"I'll make sure she stays away from you and your friend from now on." Danny added.

"Doesn't matter I'm taking him to my mums. We wont be back till after you are gone. Enjoy the rest of your holiday." Evan shook Danny's hand then walked in the house. He left 10 minutes later he attached a bag to the back of the bike then roared away.

Dupe rounded the corner in the truck. He had the cheetah cub in a cage. It had stayed at Mara last night. Dupe had insisted. Especially since they had all been otherwise disposed. Alice had been adamant about wanting to take care of it until they left. Alice walked outside as dupe brought the truck to a stop.

She walked towards Danny. "Good morning Mr Trevanion!"

"God morning Mrs Trevanion. That name sooo suits you!" he said and kissed her passionately,

Lexi rolled her eyes. "Oh God!" she muttered and walked into the house.

Dupe walked towards them carrying the 2 day old cheetah.

"Hello Jana!" Alice crooned. "They better have taken good care of you over there. Bet they weren't better than me though!" she said in a singsong voice.

"I have a business proposition for the 2 of you. I'll come to the animal hospital with you.," Dupe said.

They arrived and Alice made the baby up a bottle which it suckled greedily. "Hey slow down there you'll make yourself sick!" she said softly.

They all sat in the office.

"Well." Danny asked.

"Ok how would you two like to buy into Leopards Den and be my new business partners?"

"Excuse me?" Danny asked.

"Whoa!" Alice said.

"Look I've got a good feeling about you two. This place could fly with you here!"

"We're vets from Bristol. We know nothing about the business side of running a game reserve!"

"That's easy sorted. I run the business. Caroline runs the hotel aspect and you run the animal hospital. An even distribution of responsibility!"

Dupe looked proud of his logic.

Danny and Alice looked at each other.

"I'll leave you to talk this over!" Dupe walked away.

They sat in silence for a while.

"It would mean selling the business and the house!" Danny said.

"And relocating to Africa!" Alice added.

"And this could go belly up and we'd be screwed!"

"But we'll have each other!" Alice told him.

"Are we crazy?" Danny asked sensing they had made a decision.

"Probably." Alice said.

"Shouldn't we think this over more?" he asked.

"Definitely!" Alice grinned.

"Are we doing this?" he asked.

"Without a doubt!"

They smiled at each other. Danny still didn't look completely convinced.

"You've always wanted to do something like this Danny. Since you were 15 years old You even did that extra year doing the exotic animals degree on top of your vetinary degree. I won't let this opportunity pass you by. Plus this will be a whole new start for us. Bristol held happy memories but they hold bad memories too! Me you Ethan Lexi and Dee Jay. All of us here. Fresh start!"

"Dee Jay?" Danny asked.

"It's my nickname for baby."

"What does it mean?" he asked grinning.

"Danny Junior. I'm pretty sure he's a boy."

The cub was put back in his cage. He was in her arms and kissed passionately before she knew it. It got very heated very quickly. He stood there with her. Arms around her waist.

"I feel like I'm going to wake up from a dream any minute now. Me and you are happy and in as much love as ever. Everything's going right. The kids are happy and your pregnant. VERY pregnant!"

"C'mon Danny there shouldn't have been a doubt about the pregnancy eventually. With Lexi and baby 2 I felt like you looked at me and poof I was pregnant. My only surprise was it took you this long!" she kissed his neck. She lowered her voice. "You won't miss a thing this time Danny. You never know how sorry I am that you missed stuff with Lexi. But not with this child I promise!"

"Alice don't worry it hadn't even crossed my mind! Now lets go tell Dupe and our family the good news!" Danny said. He twined his hand with hers.

"Dee Jay." he said. "I like it!" as they walked out of the hospital.

"Good, coz it's final!" she joked.

They saw Dupe halfway up to the house.

"We'd like to accept your proposition. But we'll need to discuss everything later." he sneaked a looked at Alice.

"Of course your still on holiday!" Dupe smiled widely and held out his hand to shake Danny's. Danny shook it vigorously.

"This is the beginning of a brilliant friendship!" Dupe said.

They carried on walking towards the house.

"Lexi Ethan!" Danny shouted.

"Yeah!" they replied at the same time both heads had popped out of Lexi's room. They had a peculiar look on their faces.

"We need to talk kids." Alice said.

A/N i liked this chapter hope u all did 2. lol at lexi's and danny's lil chat. haha if my dad tried to do that 2 me i would have run literally run review please leave me with your thoughts :) x