Zoe and Matt were walking slowly through the township, talking quietly as they followed the tracks of the giraffe. It was at that point they heard the piercing screams that belonged to Alice. Zoe and Matt took one look at one another before running like mad towards the source. Zoe gasped as she saw the wildebeest galloping towards them, at speed, horns ready to butt straight into them. She could see Danny protecting Alice, standing his ground as she tried to pull him away, she saw him raise the gun shakily, saw him shoot, saw him close his eyes. If it wasn't for the fact she was frozen, Zoe too would have closed her eyes.

Alice stopped screaming at Danny and just clung to him, her face hidden in his back, her arms around him tightly. She'd heard the gunshot, but she'd not heard the animal fall to the floor.

Danny was waiting for it. Waiting for the animal to collide straight into him, he knew he hadn't got the right shot, it hadn't dropped. He knew this was going to end bad, the horns would impale him, he'd fall back, probably onto Alice. Why couldn't she just leave him, be safe herself? God, if the horns by some grace of god missed him, the speed the animal was coming if he bullet had clear missed him he'd still be in a bad way!

Danny felt it hit him... he felt the force pushing him backwards, but wait... this was weird, it wasn't as strong as he thought it would. He was still falling to the ground. He could still feel the excruciating pain on the upper left side of his chest. With the last of his energy and with a strained yelp as the pain engulfed him, he forced himself sideways, to avoid landing on Alice. As he landed he groaned. He kept his eyes closed a moment. His breathing was heavy.

"Danny?" Alice shouted, her landing had been awkward and she felt pain slowly ebbing away at the bottom of her back but she ignored it. She leant over Danny, placing her hand on his face. Slowly, with clenched teeth Danny grabbed her hand and opened his eyes. "Oh thank god." Alice whispered as a tear escaped her liquid blue eyes.

"Don't tell me... you doubted... your... wonderful... husband." Danny said with a cocky grin. Alice leant down and kissed him quickly. She looked to his feet where the wildebeest was scrambling along the ground. So he'd hit it in the leg, and managed to shatter the leg too. The animal had been falling when it collided with them. She then noticed the blood on its horn.

"Danny, move your hand" Alice told him as she noticed him clutching the upper left hand side of his chest, it was almost his shoulder. He did so and she gasped as she saw his hand covered in blood. She moved closer to his chest and shook her head as she looked at the cut he had. It didn't even need stitches.

"God Danny, you scared me half to death!" She laughed. "You do get yourself in some situations!"

"Good god Danny." Danny grinned as he sat up. Alice tilted her head at him and shook her head.

"You have a cut on your head too..." Alice smiled, she touched it and he winced in pain, yelping. "You nearly die and you act like it's nothing, you get a few cuts, scratches and bruises and it's like you're dying!"

"Maybe I want you to play nursey... in a nice outfit would be nice as well." Danny wiggled his eyebrows as she dabbed at his cuts with her blouse. "Ouch!"

"Alice, I think Danny is delusional." Zoe said breathlessly, she and Matt had just ran over. She stood holding her chest.

"He has been for a long time, Danny stay still you wimp!" Alice laughed. "I'm having de ja vu here you know Danny!" She smiled remembering when he fell when the wild dogs chased them. She grimaced at the fact she'd been with Terry, eww, what had she been thinking?

"I'm seeing stars." Danny winked. Zoe and Matt stared at them in confusion.

"I bet you are, let me have a look." Alice replied winking back at him. She leant forward to look at his head once more. Zoe and Matt frowned as he moved away, a minute ago he'd been letting her touch it, what were they doing? "Right, I'm not gonna hurt yer!"

"Yes you are!" Danny replied, laughing as they relived the scene.

"Oright, I am going to hurt you." Alice said in the same tone she'd adopted that day. "But it's for your own good."

"You know, you'd have made an excellent dentist." Danny smiled, he was about to continue when she looked pressed her hand to his head once more to try and stop the bleeding. "OW! And that actually did hurt!"

"Wimp." Alice mumbled.

"Ah there it is the warm, sympathetic nature" Danny smiled changing the words. Both began to laugh once more. Danny looked at Alice intently. "We're mad you know."

"As if we still remember that" Alice beamed, "Anyway, come on you, you Mr Trevanion are coming to get some first aid..."

"Do I get a thorough investigation." Danny asked raising his eyebrows.

"Yes, complete with antiseptic wipes, come on you big baby!" Alice teased, "Matt could you give us a hand."

Matt nodded as Alice and he helped Danny up. Alice put Danny's arm around her and looked to Zoe and Matt.

"You two ok?" Zoe asked, concern ebbed on her features, "Oh and what was that just then, it was weird!"

"We'll be fine, oh and something that happened ages ago, before we even got together." Alice laughed, "See you later, be safe."

"Will do." Zoe promised.

An hour later and all the animals had been rounded up. They'd worked quick after the attack of Danny and Alice and soon the whole workforce had returned. Danny and Alice were in the back of the Jeep. Alice was patching Danny up still. The walk back had been hard for him, the pain intensifying each step of the way. The doctor was going round to Leopards Den later tonight to check Danny was free from infection, but he seemed fine. Alice was having to restrain him!

"Alice, dressing me is so unlike you." Danny teased, Zoe made a face of disgust and rolled her eyes as she walked past the Jeep to give Peter the good news about the animals being caught and loaded up.

"Danny... behave yourself." Alice told him, "Right you are done!"

"Kiss for your injured man to make him feel better?" Danny asked sweetly.

"Hmm..." Alice pretended to think about it. "Go on then, though do not raise that left arm!"

"Yes Mrs Trevanion!" Danny saluted using his right, before wrapping it around her. She laughed slightly, before cradling his face in her hands and pressing her lips to his. Soon they were kissing passionately in the back of the Jeep. Everyone was repairing the fence line, or so they thought.

Peter wandered over, he felt bad about what had happened. After all they were all his animals, his responsibility. The way he'd treated them he hadn't even deserved their help! He looked away as he saw their kiss. It seemed so full of love. Love, he sighed. He walked over as she saw them pulling away.

"Mrs Trevanion." Danny grinned not noticing Peter.

"Yes Mr Trevanion?" Alice asked him.

"I love you." Danny said, a silly grin on his face. He sounded just a like a young boy!

"I love you too..." Alice replied as she put the first aid kit back in the box.

"Erm..." Peter began. Both Danny and Alice turned to face him. Both waited patiently, an expectant look upon their faces. "I just wanted to see how you were."

"We're fine." Alice replied smiling.

"I'm not." Danny said in his 'hurt' voice.

"You're fine." Alice repeated.

"I'm really sorry about what happened, I feel responsible. They were my animals, my fences." Peter said but Danny cut him off.

"Honestly Peter, it's fine. We're vets, we know the dangers of the operations we get ourselves in. It's no big deal. You didn't know this was going to happen." Danny said with a smile. Peter nodded.

"So I don't need to get my insurance documents out?" Peter asked quietly.

"Insurance docs?" Alice laughed. "No."

"God, this is so different to city life." Peter mumbled before walking off to help with the fencing again.

"You know Alice, I don't think he's that bad of man... I think he's just a misunderstood city lad who needs to learn this way of life."

Alice nodded, maybe Danny was right... but would Peter learn their way of life?