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General POV

Two weeks had passed since Caroline had been allowed out of hospital and things had slowly begun returning to normal. Celia and Alan were living in Celia's flat at Caroline's but they had begun going back to Halifax again, Gillian and Raff were back at the farm and William was back at university but they would all still check up on Caroline frequently because she was so determined that she was going to continue working for as long as possible.

It was Saturday morning and Caroline was sat watching the news with Lawrence. 'Mum?' Lawrence said making Caroline jump slightly due to the fact that no one had spoken in the past half an hour, she nodded in reply so that he knew he could continue 'I was thinking, could we do something today just you and me, because I kind of wanted to go to that new laser tag place and well, um, yeah' Lawrence trailed off no longer knowing where to go with the conversation. 'Well Lawrence, I would love to do that, I am going to be terrible though, I'll warn you now' Caroline replied with a small laugh 'I will go upstairs right now, get Lexie dressed and take her around to your gran and granddad's, call Kate so she knows where we all are when she gets back from seeing her dad, you can go and get dressed and then we can go if you want' to which Lawrence's only response was to run to his bedroom excitedly.

Hours later having gone to laser tag for almost an hour before giving up and out for lunch Lawrence had resumed his position in the living room except this time he was playing video games and Caroline was sat in the dining room with Lexie. Kate having received a text from Caroline earlier didn't bother going into the house but straight around to Celia and Alan's instead 'hello Kate, what brings you around here?' Celia spoke cheerfully as she opened the door for Kate to enter. 'Caroline said she brought Lexie around here, but I'm presuming that since I can't see Lexie she has already collected her' Kate concluded having noticed that neither her child nor her child's toys were there.

'Yes she collected her half an hour ago, I don't think laser tag was a success, Lawrence looked slightly worried when they returned, he said his mum had had to stop half way through because she was too tired. How are you?' Celia asked Kate as she made space for Kate to join her.

'I'm fine, just scared as always, I can't lose her, I love her so much' Kate began but had to stop because she could feel tears welling up in her eyes. 'Oh dear, I didn't mean to upset you' Celia whispered 'listen Caroline is strong and once she's put her mind to something she will do it and she is determined she will beat this, so she will. Now Caroline invited me and Alan over for dinner and she said to get there for 5 which I believe will be the time in five minutes, so how about we go over there now' Celia said in a way which calmed Kate down to the point where she just nodded.

As they entered the house the three of them stopped to admire the scene in front of them. Lawrence was dancing around the kitchen with Caroline and Lexie who sat contently in Caroline's arms as her brother and her mother sang along to the song on the radio. Celia couldn't help but smile at the rare scene in front of her, Lawrence being the age he was could rarely be seen laughing and joking with his mum however as soon as they saw they were being watch both Lawrence and Caroline stopped dead and let out a sheepish and embarrassed laugh.

The evening was uneventful and after dinner was finished, Celia and Alan had returned to their flat and Lawrence went to his room leaving Kate, Caroline and Lexie in the living room together. Caroline was lying with her head on Kate's leg and Lexie was lay on Caroline's stomach fast asleep. 'Kate?' Caroline questioned as she shuffled her position so that she could see Kate's face, Kate looked at her and so she continued 'I was thinking, I love you, I really do, in fact you are quite easily the love of my life and I'm very sick, I know that but I was wondering would you be willing to marry me because I can't stand the idea of dying having never been married to you, and I would do it more romantically but I don't want to disturb Lexie' she ended with a giggle as she looked towards the little girl sleeping peacefully on top of her. Kate was sat looking at her girlfriend cuddling their daughter with tears in her eyes, she couldn't believe Caroline was saying this to her, it was all she had dreamed of from the moment she met Caroline, as she sat there she saw Caroline's blue eyes fill with fear and her features changed pushing Kate back into reality reminding her she still needed to give her girlfriend an answer 'Caroline, you do not have to ask me in any other way, I love you too and I will most definitely marry you, however you will NOT die, do you hear me? We will get married as soon as you want and you will get better, we will be together well into our 90's' Kate ended her speech as the tears that had been threatening to fall were now flooding her face and she could see Caroline was crying just as much. Throughout the rest of the evening they discussed where they would get married and when and they decided they wanted to get married at the registry office as soon as possible with the boys and Lexie only and they decided that they would have an official wedding party after Caroline was better and able to enjoy the day.

The next day they went to the registry office and booked an appointment, they were getting married in a fortnight's time meaning it would be over a week after Caroline's next radiotherapy session so she would be slightly less tired. Caroline called William and he agreed he would come up the Friday before and after speaking to Lawrence too they were both very excited knowing how happy the boys were with the idea.

Kate's POV

Life has seemed so surreal recently, I thought when Caroline and I got back together that the surreal moments we would have would be happy ones like Lexie's birth and getting married. Our wedding will be happy but it is also going to be weird, we got engaged on Saturday and now exactly one week later I am watching my beautiful fiancée go through radiotherapy which makes her tired and sick. A week today we are getting married, it should be a fantastic day in which we are able to celebrate with our family but we decided not to do the big family celebration thing because some of Caroline's family are judgemental and I want both of us to be able to enjoy it so we are going to have our actual wedding when Caroline is better. We are going to do the legal part on Saturday with our children though; I don't care what happens on our wedding day because all I care about is Caroline becoming my wife.

I had to go and pick Lawrence up from football at 4 pm so after her radiotherapy was over I dropped her and Lexie off at home and made my way over to Lawrence. As I got to the football pitch he was already waiting 'hey Kate' he said as he got in the car 'was mum okay at radiotherapy today? Did it make her sick? Is she okay? Is she really tired again?' Lawrence asked me so many questions but didn't give me a chance to answer, Caroline getting ill was terrible but I know how happy it has made Caroline to see that Lawrence does love her, I don't know how she thought he didn't but somehow she did and that made me so sad to hear. 'Lawrence, she's fine, a bit tired but that's all' I reassured him to which he let out a massive breath that I don't think even he knew he was holding 'Saturday is going to be great you know' Lawrence grinned at me, in the past he had had a problem with me and his mum being together but now he seems to have relaxed. He told Caroline and I the night we told him we were engaged that his problem wasn't even that I was a woman, it was that he suddenly had a different mother to the one he grew up with, his dad wasn't involved, but then he realised that was good because Caroline was happy now and John was never really a good parent or husband.

I know that our actions on Saturday may have some ramifications; we saw that when Alan and Celia got married with Gillian's actions but I like to think that they'll understand.

Gillian's POV

I called Caroline tonight because I knew she had her radiotherapy today and after the last session she had been really tired and sad but this time she seemed so much happier. We talked for half an hour before she had to go and see Lexie who was apparently crying for her mama. I must admit I have been very worried about her ever since the incident but whatever the thoughts that lead to her doing that were seemed to have disappeared because when I called her we were laughing and joking about our parents antics just like we used to. She told me she and Kate were going to get married on Saturday but that I couldn't tell Celia or dad because Kate and she had decided they only wanted their kids there because she doesn't want it to be sad and Celia has a tendency to obsess over her illness at the moment. It worried me slightly but I promised I wouldn't tell.

I just hope that Celia doesn't act anywhere near as badly as I did when dad and Celia got married the first time.