Ethan walked stiffly from the hospital and through the car park. He had to get out of here and calm down. Hard man Danny asking him outside yeah right! He thought sarcastically. God never tell woman the truth coz it blows up in your freaking face! He was spoiling for a fight! He heard Danny's voice calling him. If that was the way he wanted it then so be it!

"Ethan I am talking to you!" Danny said coldly. Grabbed his arm. Ethan spun quickly.

"You got some sort of problem huh?" he spat getting in Danny's face.

"Actually yes I do!"

"Well guess what Daniel I don't care!" Ethan told him angrily. "Let go of my arm Danny I'm warning you!"

"Ha your warning me boy? After what I heard YOUR warning ME?"

It was the boy comment that got Ethan. "I told you LET GO!" Ethan Pushed Danny hard. He stumbled back. "Now leave me alone before I do something I regret!" Ethan warned.

"You'll regret it if you try boy!"

They were face to face again. Nose to nose. Fists clenched tightly. Alice appeared and put herself between them.

"C'mon you two calm down!" Alice pleaded.

"Move Alice!" Ethan said his eyes never leaving Danny. "Me and Danny are going to sort this out!"

"NO! C'mon please for me yeah?"

They both looked down at her. She had one hand on Danny's chest and the other on Ethan's looking at them pleading. They both relaxed their stance and walked over to the bench sat on either side of her.

Alice sat collecting her thoughts. Best start with Danny. Ethan might take it the wrong way if she started with him. Plus Danny was the mature adult here. At least she hoped anyway! He lost it when it came to Lexi.

"Now firstly." Alice started "Danny look Lexi is nearly 16 and…." there wasn't much else she could say. She looked at Ethan. "Not that it should have happened you were both after all only 15!"

"Look Danny." Ethan said calmly. "This doesn't make it better but we didn't plan it. It just happened. And I do love her!" Ethan told him calmly.

Danny's hands were clenching and unclenching. At Ethan's words he exploded again. "What and that supposed to make me feel better? It just erases the fact you were both underage. I love you Lexi." he spat. "Ok lets go!"

Ethan jumped from his seat. "Don't dare belittle what I feel for her again! It definitely wasn't like that ok!" he yelled.

Danny jumped up too. "You took advantage of my daughter!" he fumed.

Ethan bit his tongue out of respect for Lexi. "I should have you for what you just said!" Ethan said coldly.

"Let's go then!" Danny said. Ethan took a step towards him.

Alice stood up. "C'mon please don't do this!" she pleaded again.

Danny looked at her. "Alice you seem very calm about this. Did you know?"

Alice jaw dropped. "Of course I didn't know. And I resent that insinuation. But one of us needs to be the adult and since you two are intent on killing each other it just so happens that I have to be the adult! I am seriously pissed but the three of us yelling won't help us settle this! Oh and need I remind you Daniel how Lexi came along? You were a 15 year old boy too once Daniel I remember what you were like even if you don't!" she then whispered. "And the morning after the beach how I acted?"

Danny remembered. Alice had instigated the whole thing was Alice trying to tell him maybe Lexi might be to blame. And Ethan was guarding her. Trying to be noble. Protecting her. Danny sat down and crossed his arms.

Alice turned to Ethan. "Look we know what it's like to be 15 and in love. But just coz you love each other doesn't mean you should rush into something physical. We did that and eventually it tore us apart. And that's aside from the fact that you were both underage when it happened. Did you even think of the consequences? I mean didn't it occur to you that she could get pregnant!"

Danny and Alice glanced at each other nervously.

Ethan was quickly losing patience. "God you must think I'm stupid. Of course I protected her. You two think I don't care but I do! You both don't understand how much I love her! How I would die for her is she asked me to! As far as I'm concerned the sun rises and sets with her!"

"Ethan of course we understand that. Well I do. It's why I'm not as irate as Danny. I know what's it's like to feel like you love someone so much that you can barely breathe when your together. To miss them so much when your apart you count the minutes until your back together again. But rushing into the physical side complicates things. Look it's been proved by the argument today!"

"I'm sorry Alice but you don't understand Alice. You can't!"

"I can. I do. Your Lexi is my Danny. Remember I didn't have the best start either. Me and you are more similar than you think."

"Your both too old to remember what it's truly like. You didn't have the obstacles we have. And you know what he's only against us having a relationship coz you adopted me. If I had been then you wouldn't be bother. If I'd been the boy down the road you wouldn't care. Why can't you comprehend how much I love her?"

"Your 16 you don't know what love is!" Danny exploded.

"Well you and Alice are together. And you were together at 16. What' different? O yeah coz it's Lexi!"

"Yeah and look what happened. We spent 5 years apart. I missed all those years. It doesn't matter anyway coz I forbid you to have a relationship!" Danny said angrily.

"You forbid us? I'm telling you NO!" Ethan said coldly.

"I'm telling you Ethan!" Danny stood up again.

"You don't tell us anything! If we wanna be together we will! With or without you behind us!"

"Time out!" Alice shouted breathing heavily. "Right Danny you go back and see to Lexi and Daniel. I'll take Ethan home coz this is escalating. It's about to go too far!"

Ethan decided to play it cocky. "You know Danny she is 16 in a few months time. Then you can't do a thing about us! We might even run away together and as soon as we're old enough, maybe before go to Vegas!"

Danny's face contorted. Fists clenched tighter. "Over my dead body!"

"That can be arranged! So c'mon big man take a swing! You know you want to!"

O God so they were back to this! Alice thought. "Danny GO!" she said.

"And Ethan for gods sake stop provoking him!" she yelled.

Danny walked away.

"Why are you pushing him?" Alice asked Ethan.

"He's the unreasonable one!" Ethan said with an edge.

Danny turned around. "Ethan if you think that your getting in that room again forget it!"

"That's it!" Ethan ran towards him. Alice went to grab him but he was too fast.

"Hey Danny!" Ethan said.

Danny turned and smiled cockily.

Ethan swung for his head Danny ducked. Grabbed his hand and spun him quickly shoved it up his back. "I told you not to try it boy! And remember no where near!"

"Try and keep me away!" Ethan warned.

Danny shoved his hand up his back more. Ethan restrained a wince.

"Danny let go of my son NOW!" Alice warned. Or I swear I'll kick your ass husband or not!"

Danny released him and he spun so he faced him.

"You wanna try again boy?"

Ethan glared at him. "You'll be sorry Daniel!" he said coldly. "I swear you'll be sorry!"

"I don't think so!" Danny replied.

Ethan walked away.

Alice turned on Danny. "You know what your getting on my nerves. He's 16 and in love. Trying to defend himself and his feelings. What's your excuse for being a jerk?"

"I'm defending my daughter!" he said.

"She doesn't need it! He's a good kid. I'd rather it be him then someone else who couldn't care a less. We can keep an eye on them and that's aside from the obvious reasons that they care. I'm not gonna say love coz we don't know but they think it's love. It real and intense to them!"

He scoffed.

"Don't you remember what we were like? What would you have done if my father tried to keep us apart?"

"I would have respected his decision!" he lied.

"That's bull Danny. You would have fought tooth and nail for me same as I would have done for you! It's one of the reasons I fell for you. Your stubbornness. But Danny if you try and keep them apart it'll blow up in your face and you'll lose both of them!"

"I'm going to see my daughter since you obviously have taken HIS side!"

"Danny I haven't take anyone side. I'm stuck in the middle here! I hate being stuck in the middle!""Easy solution Alice. Come to my side!" he said cockily.

"See you later Danny grow up while I'm gone yeah. Act like a father!" she walked away and towards the car opened the door for Ethan. She climbed in the driving seat while he was in the passenger seat.

"You gonna start now?" Ethan asked nastily.

She shook her head. "No believe it or not I understand it to a degree. But I also understand Danny's side. Your both my babies and I'm pissed that you did that. Your still kids. He's angry coz you are both under 16." she started the car and pulled out of the parking lot.

Ethan exhaled.

"When did it happen?" Alice asked.

"The night with the alteration with Josh. I was talking to her. Told her about you. Then we started talking about her illness and our fears. Tried to comfort each other and…" he trailed off.

She nodded.

"But I swear Alice I didn't plan it. And I do love her. Maybe I've never been in love before but it feels like it!"

"Where do you plan on taking the relationship?"

"You mean you'll let us have one?"

"I'll talk to Danny. But yes I will. There will be strict boundaries of course!"

"Well if you and Danny had of walked in 5 minutes earlier you would have heard me telling her that although I don't regret our first time I regret how and when it happened. I was telling her that we weren't going to have a physical relationship for 12 months at least. See I want a proper boyfriend/girlfriend thing without sex. Get to know each other slowly. Properly. Coz sex does complicate things and clouds things too. The only reason my mum married my dad was coz I came along. There's no way I'll do that. I love her too much to ruin her life in that way!"

Alice glanced at him in the rear view mirror, saw his eyes.

"Was I right? About Lex?"

"I know what your thinking how the hell can a 15 year old girl do that to a strapping lad…."

"She's a lot like me!" was all Alice said.

Ethan looked at her. "Really?"

She nodded. "Lexi is here coz of me!"

"She asked me to do it before too. When she got her diagnosis. I told her unequivocally no!"

The car pulled into Leopards Den.

"Ethan what did you mean? That Danny would be sorry?"

"Don't worry Alice I'm not gonna axe him to death or something. Lexi would never forgive me. Nothing will happen to him I promise." he worded his statement very carefully.

Alice looked relieved.

"Why don't you go back to hospital. I'm sure he has calmed down!"

Alice hugged him. "We'll talk when I get back!"

Ethan nodded. "I love you Alice. Tell Lexi I love her too please!" he said seriously.

She nodded and climbed back in the car. "Love you too son. See you later."

Ethan walked into the house.

A/N ooo angry danny and ethan out for vengance what is going to happen. how will lexi react to danny's forbidding her relationship? and most important what is ethan planning? all will be revealed next chappie! x