"are you sure that it was her?" aaron asked shocked putting the overnight bag on their bed and unpacking it and placing the contents back into the correct draws
"Yes i am sure it was her car" robert said and aaron frowned
"i mean you don't really like her are you sure you weren't seeing things?" aaron asked desperately wanting robert to be wrong
"you don't really like hazel either" aaron added and robert rolled his eyes
"just go to work aaron" he said turning to leave the room
"look if you are making it up tell me please i won't be angry" aaron said
"why don't you believe me?" robert begged and then shut the door behind him and hobbling down stairs and grabbing a mug of coffee and sitting down at the table to read the paper and aaron followed
"i will see you tonight, spaghetti bolognaise for dinner" he said and aaron kissed his fore head
"i will see you later" aaron said and robert nodded and murmured a love you and aaron nodded then wandered out of the house and bumped straight into hazel
"morning love how are you and willow ?" she smiled and aaron smiled back
"morning not too bad thanks she didn't want to go back to school but once she saw teddy she was happy and i'm fine me and robert are just having a heated discussion, he has this idea in his head that you drove him off of the road i keep telling him that he was seeing things i'm a little worried " aaron told her as they were walking along the road
"oh right well i can check in on him if you want?" she asked kindly
"nah i'm gonna take him out to lunch" he smiled and she bid him goodbye as they walked in a different direction
robert had been treated to lunch in the cafe and he had buried the hatchet and become friends again he spent his time making a lovely meal for his family he made the garlic bread which was rather hard one handed and he began to make the bolognese when he realised that there was no garlic powder in the house and he needed garlic powder he couldn't make it without it he grabbed his jacket and crutches and headed to the nearest house with a car in the drive was hazel's, all he wanted was garlic powder he slowly approached the door and knocked gently and it swung open
"robert how lovely to see you come on in" she said her large face red and shiny
"i was just wondering if you had any garlic powder i could borrow?" he asked
"come on in i should have some" she said pulling him in and he stumbled into the dining room table chair that she ushered him into
"chas has told me all about you" she smiled to him as she began to search through her cupboards
"all good i hope" he laughed nervously and she shook her head
"no not at all you sounded like a right evil bastard" she said as she put the garlic powder down on the table and he coughed in surprise
"oh that was then i'm a complete different person now thanks to aaron" he smiled going to take the powder from the table
"no you were an awful person you still are" she shouted to him and he jumped
"no i am a different person now" he said getting up slowly knowing that if he jarred his leg he wouldn't be able to get out of the house
"is that why you tried to kill him multiple times? or why you tried to kill most of his family or at least threatened to?" she asked getting closer to him
"no that was a mistake i love his family now i was worried about people judging me back then" he said stuttering whilst scared of this woman who was much shorter than him but had two fully working legs and arms
"you know my son and him loved each other more than anyone i've ever seen before and then there was the accident but they still got along happily and now he is rotting in the ground rotting whilst you get to have the life my son deserved" she shouted as he got up to leave the house and she pushed him onto the floor and he groaned as his head hit the wall
"no your son asked for aaron to help end his life" he said desperately trying to think which pocket his phone was in
"you are the worst type of person you don't care whereas me if aaron lived with me i would make sure that him and willow wouldn't want for anything and i wanted my son to have what you've got he was aaron's first love and he deserved everything that you two have and he can't because he is dead!" she shouted at him and shoved a knife in his direction
"Daddy were home" willow shouted bursting in through the door and the burning smell wafted through the house
"robert" aaron shouted looking through the house for him and willow rushed through the house
"Daddy where are you?" she shouted and aaron rushed out of the house and bumped into his uncle
"have you seen robert?" he begged and he shook his head
"no why what's wrong?" he asked confused
"roberts disappeared he has left the dinner on and everything is how it was when we left this morning and now he isn't there we had a fight" he explained
"right calm down we will find him okay" cain begged and layla wandered out of david's shop
"is everything okay?" she asked noticing how stressed they looked
"roberts not in the house and it's all left the same way and i don't know where he has gone?" he explained and layla nodded
"i saw him going into hazel's house" she said and aaron thanked her and he ran to the house he saw the window open and saw hazel leaning over robert and cain held him back
"see how it runs out" he said and they silently listened in
"please listen hazel i am so sorry about what happened to jackson but It was your son's choice he made it himself it is all on him" he said frightened
"i drove you off that road in the hope of you being stuck like him i obviously didn't do it well enough" she said
"when i was a kid my dad he kicked me out of the village he told me to go and to never come back, i spent years trying to work out who i was i couldn't work out why i felt the way i did" he began to tell her and she looked like she was going to explode
"You treat aaron like shit you are shit on my shoe he deserves so much better than you" she shouted at him
"hazel please calm down, aaron can't ever imagine how sorry i about the chaos that i caused and i am grateful every day that i wake up to him and i see him laying there he is an angel on the earth and after 14 nearly 15 years of being together i am still the luckiest man in the whole of the world now please let me go home" he begged and she laughed
"i want to finish what i started" she said as aaron burst through the door followed by cain and adam who had wandered what they were doing
"get off of him now" aaron shouted and hazel looked shocked and began to shout
"my son spent his last few months paralysed because of your stupid mistake and yet you get to have the perfect life my son deserved with you but because of your stupid mistake he can't get married or have children robert deserved to die stupid man trying to replace my son" she shouted angrily at him as the police followed behind and aaron knelt down by his husband
"i'm so sorry" robert sobbed and aaron hugged him tightly and rocked him from side to side
"want a hand home?" adam asked aaron who nodded and helped robert up and out of the house he was visibly shaken but had yet to say a word aaron and adam sat him down on the sofa aaron saw adam out and thanked him for having willow for the night once he had gone aaron sat next to robert who was silently sobbing aaron did not have a clue what to do
"fancy a bath?" he asked and robert nodded as aaron headed into the kitchen to get the bags to go over his leg and arm and he saw robert sat there
"she hated me more than anything else in the whole world" he said and aaron held his hand
"she hated me so much it really scared me" he cried into aaron's arms
"lets just go to bed?" aaron asked and robert nodded
"i am so sorry i love you" aaron said tears flowing down his cheeks and robert wrapped his arm tightly around him and then he used his spare hand to undo the sling and gently lowered his arm
"let's never let anyone get between us ever again" he sobbed and robert nodded through the tears and they headed upstairs and robert sat on the bed and aaron looked down at him
"i'm sorry about what she said" he said gently caressing his husbands back
"It was all true though what she said was right, i was such an evil person i don't deserve you at all" he said sadly looking down and playing with his hands
"look at me Robert, you are the most perfect person ever yes i loved jackson but he was a first love but you and me we have a such a ground shaking earth moving passionate love i think that me and jackson would have lasted two years tops but you and me we are in it for the duration 14 nearly 15 years of being together not counting the 2 years worth of affair we are what i want" he explained taking his jeans off
"but are you sure? I mean are you sure that you want me?" he asked and aaron laughed
"no for the past 17 years i have just put up with you" he laughed and robert smiled a weak smile and aaron grabbed the top he slept in
"how's your shoulder feeling?" he asked and robert smiled
"yeah much better than i thought it would be it's been a few days now and the pain meds are good" he smiled to him and robert slid onto the bed and sat against the headboard
"are you sure? or does it need kissing better?" aaron asked smiling a charming smile
"well you say that it does hurt a little" he laughed and aaron kissed all along his chest and robert groaned
"you're not used to being out of control are you?" aaron asked and laughed as he began to pull down roberts boxers with his teeth and he let out a groan then shook his head
"i love it when you take control" he laughed and then groaned in pleasure.