Alice arrived home, she looked around, it seemed... quiet. Too quiet. She frowned, what was going on? Suddenly, the silence was broken as Dupe's old rattling Jeep screeched to a halt.
"Hello Mrs Trevanion." Danny murmured walking up to her.
"Hey." Alice smiled, her smile broadened into a radiant grin as he wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug. "What's all this?" Alice asked.
"Because I love you and I want you to know that." Danny replied.
"I love you too." Alice whispered clutching him tightly. Danny squeezed her body gently before pulling back a little bit and kissing her on the lips tenderly. "I'm going for a lie down... care to join me?"
"Do you need to ask?" Danny beamed, "Although, you go through, I just need to check something with Thabo."
"Ok... I suppose I can survive ten minutes." Alice replied as they made their way through the halls of Leopards Den. Danny dropped her off at their room before rushing to the study.
Danny sighed as he entered, okay, he did not need to see that.
"Ahem."
Olivia and Thabo finished their making out session and turned to Danny, both looked down with embarrassment as Liv turned a slightly pinker colour. Thabo smirked slightly as he noticed her going red. Danny too smirked, maybe Liv was spending a little too much time with Alice!
"Find anything or have you just been making use of alone time?" Danny asked good naturedly.
"No, we found something, we were celebrating." Liv winked.
"Spill then." Danny waved his hands in a 'well' motion. Thabo and Liv laughed. "Come on please, Alice is waiting for me! Last thing we need is her coming on a search party."
"Doubt she would anyway..." Liv murmured.
"What?" Danny asked.
"Erm, we found it it's tomorrow 11.30am." Thabo quickly intercepted to stop himself laughing at Liv's smart comment.
"Great!" Danny beamed, "Now Liv you need to kind of try and get friendly with Vanessa. You..." Danny raised his hands in the quotation marks sign. "Understand." He winked wiggling his fingers for effect.
"Got yer." Liv beamed.
"Great, well I best get off..." Danny said before turning round and swiftly exiting.
(x)
Alice was led on the bed looking out of the window. She smiled, the landscape was so beautiful, so perfect. She sighed as she thought of Danny, their whole journey, their whole relationship. They'd come such a long way. Didn't mean she forgot when they first got together, the words they'd uttered. The way he'd kissed her. How beautiful it had felt to feel his masterful lips upon hers, how amazing it felt to have his hands caressing her body. She felt herself smile as she thought of it. Then of course there had been other events... events they somehow got away with. She smirked as she remembered him sneaking into her room, her sneaking into his. The secrecy of it all!
She jumped as she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist. She smiled, Danny. She placed her hands over his arm, hugging it gently as he pressed his lips to the back of his neck.
"Mrs Daydream." Danny murmured.
"Thinking about us." Alice mumbled back, "When we got together."
"Hmm... best thing I ever did." Danny replied, snuggling his face into her shoulder.
"Me too." She muttered sleepily. She yawned as exhaustion and emotion caught up with her.
"Sleep." Danny ordered her, his voice soft and gentle as he soothed her. He smiled as he felt Alice nod against him. He closed his eyes too, savouring the feeling of her in his arms. The love they shared still felt fresh and new, yet deep and passionate. He'd never felt anything like this, not for anyone. He couldn't imagine a life without it, without Alice! He couldn't imagine that! It physically hurt for him to think it, let alone imagine it and god forbid it ever happen.
"Love you Danny." Alice whispered sleepily.
"I love you too." Danny whispered back, kissing her neck gently, as sleep finally took hold of her.
(x)
Matt walked up the stairs to Leopards Den, he could hear very little from the kitchen and the hallways, but there seemed to be considerable noise being emitted from the living room. He walked into find Sam and Lyndon playing some sort of game as Georgia and Petal drew on some card.
"Daddy!" Sam shouted grinning.
"Hey son." Matt replied, "What you up to?"
"Playing armies with Lyndon." Sam replied.
"Awesome!" Matt grinned.
"You wanna play?" Lyndon asked.
"Sure thing!" Matt beamed, he saw Liv and Thabo sat together watching TV, well... In the Night Garden. Both seemed childishly happy to be watching it. "Where's Danny?"
"With Alice, in their room. Nuff said." Liv murmured.
"Sleeping." Matt added as he walked over to where Lyndon and Sam was.
"Together." Liv added smiling sweetly. "Ok, yeh I'm kidding... Alice is sleeping, Danny is just skiving."
"Alice is under Zoe orders and so am I!" Matt laughed, he began to play with Sam and Lyndon. The two boys were shooting him. Matt pretended to dodge. Lyndon shot him once more. Matt clutched his chest and began to sway. He fell on the floor.
"QUICK! We'll have to play vets." Lyndon nodded seriously to Sam. Sam agreed and ran to Matt. Liv and Thabo were in hysterics as Matt began to moo playfully.
"Why you mooing?" Sam asked.
"Cos vet's look after animals! Doctors look after people."
"But I thought vets were doctors?" Sam pestered.
"They are, but they look after animals. They are animal doctors. Human doctors are just doctors."
"Well that's a bit unfair! Still that must mean mummy and daddy are special." Lyndon beamed.
"You gotta love those kids." Thabo laughed as they ran off to play again.
"Yeh... they're two amazing boys." Matt smiled watching them. He looked across to Georgia and Petal. "Hey girls what you up to?"
"Drawing." Petal replied. She was the most like Vanessa, even the way she spoke was distinctly Vanessa.
"It's a card." Georgia sighed, she was the most like Rowan. His shadow in fact, well she had been.
Matt peered over at it. He sighed, it was actually a letter to the angels, asking them to give them their daddy back. He stood up and walked out, not quite being able to take that just now. Olivia stood up and walked out after him leaving Thabo with the kids.
"Matt!"
Matt turned round and smiled as he lowered himself onto the steps of the veranda. Olivia sat beside him.
"Too much huh?" Olivia asked him.
"Yeh, I mean, that could be Sam doing that for Zoe." Matt's voice had become almost a whisper by the end of his sentence.
"But it's not." Olivia replied. "Anyway, what's these orders of Zoe's?"
"To get Alice to the funeral, speak to Danny, get Sam and bring him to her." Matt told her, he looked towards her. "You wanna come see her?"
"Yeh, I'll get Thabo to drive, I think everyone is itching to see her!" Liv laughed.
"Yeh." Matt sighed. "Anyway... when do you think Danny will come out of that room, not fancying going in?"
"Well... Alice is tired I think and well you know how over protective he is." Liv explained, Matt chuckled, she smirked back. "But yeh, he's probably just gonna be there til she wakes up. You know I don't know if this is right or not as it's kinda my musings, but I think she's had nightmares about the storm."
Matt looked at her with a raised eyebrow, a question set in his features.
"I've noticed whenever there's a storm she changes, yet tries to hide it. She's always tired and Danny always, always goes to bed at the same time as her and they just get... I dunno... like always holding one another." Olivia got tongue tied trying to explain. "You know what I mean..."
"Yeh I do, must be tough." Matt murmured.
"I think Danny's had his fair share too." Olivia replied quietly.
"You too." Matt replied. "Me, Zoe, we all have them."
"You do?" Liv asked.
Matt nodded.
"The amount of times I've relived that bombing is unreal. Then there's the children's home." He stopped, "Zoe helps me through though."
Olivia nodded before both fell into a companionable silence.