RE: The guest Review J - Firstly thankyou for your review, In this fic as it goes further within this part she was allowed to drink in the training course and she got silly with it, she does know respect of course she does but when shes got the drink inside her she doesn't have respect (this is my view on Nikki drunk) which is why George is helping her. Don't forget Nikki left on a bad note when she was younger shes never had respect for George and coming home she remembers this, read the next part and it should explain further.

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The Talk

It was Saturday morning, Nikki hadn't come out of her room since the fiasco last night. She was awake she was on her phone talking to her friends.

George came upstairs and knocked on her door with two cups of teas. "Morning"

Nikki looked up and then back at her phone.

"You know your acting like a teenager, Your 27 and what do you have to show for it, getting smashed every night?"

"You wouldn't understand" Nikki sighed

"No try me, why you are smoking ten a day and your getting yourself drunk?"

"It doesn't matter"

"Well if you don't book your ideas up your have to move out and find yourself a job, Maybe even settle down like your brother"

"Why do you always compare me to my brother" Nikki sighed

"I don't"

"You know my mothers dumped me and you basically are, it wouldn't harm one of my parents to actually be proud of me"

"Proud of you for what?"

Nikki sighed "I'm going out"

"don't even think about coming home smashed"

"I'll do what I like im an adult" Nikki said

"yeah and living under my roof"

"Whatever" Nikki said picking up a key George has left her and walked out the house

"Don't come back drunk"

Nikki ignored him and got into her car and drove off.

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Later on the evening George was sat just finishing his marking as Nikki came through the door completely sober.

"Hi Dad" Nikki said running upstairs with the two big boxes she had. Containing a TV and an Xbox. She had started getting it set up.

George was wondering where her daughter had got too. He went upstairs and knocked on the door "Nikki?" He walked in to see her playing on her Xbox with a bottle of beer next to her.

"What are you doing?"

"playing a game clearly" Nikki said

George turned the plug off "I want you to talk to me"

"Dad! I didn't save it!"

"Nevermind!" He said sitting down "I don't even know who you are anymore?"

"What do you mean?" Nikki said moving over on the bed so he could sit down

"I thought going into the army would make you grow up"

"Dad I saw a lot of things out there"

"So.."

"I drink to erase them from my memory of course I have grown up its just hard to show it, when your out on service your used to seeing the things, when the army took me out of Afghanistan and shoved me on a training course, I wasn't seeing it everyday, they allowed us to drink on base they allowed us to have more free will then we did in service" she whispered

"Okay so is it a problem that needs help?"

"I don't know it makes me feel good, it makes me forget"

George Nodded "what was the training course anyway, its unlike the army to train you and then dump you?"

"Its not like that its fast track teaching, Weve been taught how to teach English and Physical Education"

"So you're a qualified teacher?"

"yeah, but I can't teach like this, I'm a mess, since I left Afghanistan 8 weeks ago and I went wild but now its something I need to keep going if I don't have it I go insane"

"Nikki, you know I'm here to help you im your dad, your moms left you she doesn't care but I do and its worrying seeing you like this, im worried for you, Nikki your still my little girl 27 or not"

Nikki just looked at her dad "I just don't know what to do anymore dad, everything's falling apart around me" she said bursting into tears

George put his arms around her and held her close; he hadn't done this for over 15 years. "Look lets start with ending the drink yeah I know its going to be difficult but I'm here we can go to the doctors get you some anti-depressants and get a career going for you alright then we will tackle the smoking"

Nikki pulled back a bit and nodded "where will I work though?"

"I'll speak to Christine"

"Shes not gonna hire me after yesterday is she?"

"Well we will see, you need to prove to her your improving though, you wont be able to work until you have a clean track record though you know"