Hollyoaks fiction, Unexpected visitors and surprises

ive decided to post 2 of the chapters today, so here is chapter 7 as well

chapter 7


“How did it go?” Louise asked later the next evening, as she walked back into the flat. “Good, Lucy seemed to take to Russ straight away. It was strange, just watching her in his arms, it just felt...” Dani pauses, trying to find the right words “it felt right, felt natural”

Flashback to earlier that morning, there is a knock at the door, Louise answers the door, “Hi Russ, come in, they are in the living room” “Thanks Louise,” “no problem, I’ve got to go to the salon, so I’ll see you around,” “ok Louise, bye” “bye Russ” Just as she leaves the flat she shout to Dani that she will be back later after work. Russ walks hesitantly to the living room, and is mesmerised by what he sees. Sitting down on the floor, is the one person he had never really got over, playing with a young baby, a baby that quite possibly was his.

“Hi” Russ states, “Hello” Dani replies obviously nervous of the situation. “So this is Lucy?” Russ asks, “Yes she is,” Dani picks up the baby, and talking to her as she does, Dani says “Lucy look, we have a visitor, this is Russ”, Russ has his first chance to see the baby properly, “hello Lucy, your mummy told me all about you, can I…” hesitant to continue his question, not sure if it is the right thing to do, given that they did not know the truth yet, he continued any way, “can I hold her, if you don’t mind?” “Of course I don’t mind” Dani handed the baby to Russ, and Lucy just looked up at him, and smiled.

Dani could not help the emotions she felt seeing her daughter in his arms, happy and excited, but at the same time fearful of the possibility that he was not Lucy’s father. The three of them spent the morning together, Russ and Dani talking about everything and anything but the DNA test that loomed over them.

“Do you fancy a Chinese tonight, I am not in the mood for cooking anything?” Louise asked, bringing Dani back out of her memories of earlier that day. “That’s a good idea, we can have a girly chat, we have not had that properly since I’ve been back, besides it will help take my mind off tomorrow”

“What time is the appointment?”

“Its at 11.30, so Russ is picking us up at 11.00”

“How’s Russ taking this?”

“Better than I thought he would, he seems fairly calm about it, he is still in shock I think, but he does not seem to hate me for it”

“I told you he wouldn’t”

“He has every right to hate me though, I have kept this from him for so long, when he was holding her today, I felt a real sense of guilt, I cant help think that if she is his child, that because of me he has missed so much time with her already”

“I know, but you cant take the past back Dani, things happen for a reason, and at least you have told him now, you could’ve never told him.”

Meanwhile at Russ flat, he gets a knock on the door. He answers the door with apprehension, knowing who is on the other side, and that no doubt there would be hell to pay for what he is about to tell her.

“Hi Russ, what’s a matter, you sounded like there’s an emergency”

“Kind of Mercedes, you may want to sit down”

“Ok, what is it”

“I wasn’t exactly honest with you yesterday, when I said I was feeling unwell, something has happened and I needed some time to get my head around it, to be honest, I still haven’t come to terms with everything, but you should know the score”

“Russ you’re scaring me, it’s not the cancer, its not back is it?” Mercedes asks, knowing that Russ had gone for a check a week or so earlier “no, nothing like that” he replied. “What is it then?”

“Someone from my past showed up in the village, she had something to tell me” “She? Who is she?”

“Dani, an old girlfriend of mine, she left the village over a year ago”

“Why has she come back now?” Mercedes asks suspiciously

“You had better sit down”

“Why do I think I’m not going to like this” she replies whilst sitting down

“Probably because you aren’t, you see she did not come back alone, she bought someone with her, a baby”

“Your baby?” Mercedes questions

“I don’t know, hopefully she is mine”

“What do you mean you don’t know, some kind of slapper was she?” Mercedes shouts

“No she wasn’t a slapper,” Russ shouts back, defensively

“What then? Come on you are telling me that you don’t know if you are the kids father, and at the same time you are hoping that you are!” she screams

“Calm down Merc,”

“Don’t tell be to calm down, my boyfriend is telling me he is hoping he is the father of someone else’s brat! And I am meant to calm down! Who is this Dani any way, you’ve never mentioned her before ”

“Look, that’s something personal, there is a lot of things that happened between Dani and I, that I don’t really want to go into right now, I am still trying to get my head around everything that has happened, and I don’t need this right now.”

“You don’t need this now!” she screams back “how am I meant to react to this Russ!”

“I am sorry Mercedes, but I can’t go into this in detail right now, but Dani and I have an appointment tomorrow, for the DNA tests to be done, so we know what the situation is?”

“What will you do? If this kid is yours?”

“Honestly, I don’t know, seeing Lucy today I…”

“You what” Mercedes screamed, interrupting Russ,

“you have already seen her! And you are only telling me this now”

“I didn’t mean to keep this a secret from you, it has come as a shock to me too”

“Hold on, is this Dani, the person who is staying with Louise”

“yes she is, how do you know that?”

“Carmel mentioned something about Louise having a friend and a kid staying with her for a couple of weeks, no wonder the conniving cow had a grin on her face when I was there the other day, she knew about this didn’t she?”

“Louise knew of Lucy’s existence, her and Dani are friends, and they kept in touch after she left”

Mercedes and Russ talk for a while longer, then Mercedes leaves Russ at the flat, contemplating the results of tomorrows test.

chapter 8

It’s the morning of the test, Dani is rushing around the flat, she did not sleep very well last night, to worried about what would happen. Russ knocked at the door, and Dani let him in “sorry Russ, I am running a couple of minutes late” “no problem, we have plenty of time” Just as if on cue, Lucy started crying, whilst Dani was finishing getting ready, Russ went over to the crying baby, to see if he could soothe her tears, miraculously the moment he lifted her out of the baby bouncer, she quietened immediately. Dani cant help but notice and comment on it “She seems to like you, its not many that she does that for” In her mind Dani cant help but hope that it is a sign that he is Lucy’s father and some how, instinctively Lucy knows this, she sighs, trying to get that thought out of her head, for fear of disappointment.

The three of them set of, heading towards the clinic where the tests would be done, there was an uncomfortable silence in the car, Dani and Russ too enveloped in their own thoughts to make small talk.

When they arrived at the clinic and sat in the waiting room, and time seemed to go so slowly every minute felt like an hour.

Eventually they were called into the doctor’s office, who explained to them what would happen, and that it would take five days for the results to come back. The doctor took the samples from the three of them, and it was over in minutes, both Dani and Russ could not believe in their minds, that something that could change the rest of their lives, only takes a few minutes in a doctors surgery.

By the time they had gotten out the surgery, both were getting hungry, so Russ suggested they go to and get something to eat at a restaurant near by. Dani agreed, the atmosphere was lighter now than it had been on the way to the test, though it was still on both of there minds that in 5 days time, there lives could potentially change forever.

However to any other onlooker at the restaurant they looked like any other normal happy family, little did they know of the turmoil that they had been through over the years.

chapter 9

The last few days had passed, Russ spent time with Dani and Lucy, in an attempt to get to know them both (much to Mercedes chagrin), whilst initially he thought that Dani had not changed, apart from her hair, he had noticed other subtle differences about her, she was defiantly stronger than she was before emotionally, and she was softer in a way, he could not explain it, but she was less of a daddy’s girl, and more her own woman, and he liked what he saw. He realised he was falling for her all over again, though a part of him conceded that he had never really fell out of love with her in the first place. However, he was too afraid to deal with his love for her, time had moved on, he was with Mercedes, and she had her life with Lucy in Rome.

Dani and Russ had both agreed that if Lucy was his child, that he could come and see her whenever he wanted, and that Dani’s spare room in her house in Rome was available whenever he wanted to come and visit.

In truth Dani wanted more than that, she wanted him to be with her, but she had no idea of the internal conflict that he was having over his feelings for her. She knew that Russ still found her attractive, as she would catch him watching her now and again, when he was visiting Lucy. But she wanted more; she needed him to love her like he used to, to have something based on more than attraction, and the fact that they may have a child together. When she decided to come back to the village, she promised herself she would not allow herself to be hurt by him again, and neither did she want to disrupt his life that he had built up here.

Dani received a call from Russ, it was late and he was not sure whether to call her. “Hi, its me I’ve not woken you have I,” “no I could not sleep, my mind is to busy thinking about tomorrow” “I know what you mean, I cant sleep either” “why don’t you come over, Louise is asleep, and I could do with some company, maybe we can talk some more” Dani suggested

“that’s a good idea, I’ll be round in a few minutes”

Ten minutes later, Russ knocks gently at the door, not wanting to wake up either Louise or Lucy. Dani answers the door in her pyjamas, and Russ comes in. Dani suggests opening a bottle of wine, so they do and then sit on the sofa together, just reminiscing over the past, finally able to confront the reasons the relationship broke up and Dani leaving. By 12.30 in the morning, neither of them were still any where near tired so they decided to watch a DVD together.

That is how Louise found them, both of them curled up together on the sofa, some point in the early hours of the morning, they had fallen asleep in each other’s arms.

Russ awoke first, from hearing Louise in the kitchen, and for a moment, allowed him to think how good it was to have Dani back in his arms. Dani woke within a couple of minutes of him, and initially both felt uncomfortable about being so close to one another after all this time. The discomfort passed quickly though, and both joined Louise in the kitchen for some breakfast.

After breakfast was over, Russ excused himself, telling Dani he would be back in half an hour or so, as he would go back home to get changed, and would be back to pick her up for the Doctors appointment to get the results. As he left, Russ gently kissed Dani on her cheek.

Dani turned around as she closed the front door behind Russ, to see a smirk on her friends face. “Don’t start Lou, nothing happened, we are just friends”

“At the moment maybe, but you to looked very close this morning, fast asleep on the sofa”

“Its not like that, neither of us could sleep last night, and he phoned for a chat, so I asked him to come round, we just sat and talked for a couple of hours and then decided to watch a film, and we just fell asleep in front of the sofa”

“Come on,” Louise tormented, “you two looked mighty close when I saw you this morning”

“Knock it off Lou, he doesn’t think of me that way anymore, he is with her now, and as you well know, we were both fully clothed, nothing happened at all”

“So you are telling me, if he had kissed you last night, you would not have responded?”

“Lou, I said pack it in”

Sensing her friends’ discomfort, Louise dropped the teasing and changed the subject. In truth, Louise hit a raw nerve, as Dani knew in her heart, that had he kissed her, she would no longer be able to keep the wall up that she had built around her so she would not get hurt.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to wait with you until Russ gets back?” Louise asks, as she is about to leave for work.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine, he should be here in a couple of minutes anyway”

“Ok, if you are sure, you know where I am if you need me, give me a call when you know the results”

“I will do, thanks, see you later”

“Bye” Louise states as she leaves the flat. Leaving Dani alone with her thoughts and her baby.

Not long after Louise has left, Russ arrives back at the flat, “you ready” he asks, taking a deep breath, Dani replies “as well as I can be” “it will turn out alright” Russ tries to comfort her, and puts an arm around her. “Lets go,” he says. The two of them exit the flat, both filled with apprehension and nerves.

Not long after Louise has opened the salon, Mercedes comes around again, to see Carmel. “You here again,” quips Louise, “I need to have a word with Carmel, not that its any of your business” Louise hears Mercedes call here a nosey cow beneath her breath, but Louise decides to ignore it, smiling to herself, “if only she saw what I did this morning” she thinks to herself

“She’s with a client, she will be out soon,” Louise states to Mercedes.

“Fine I will wait”

“If you must,” replies Louise

A short while later, Carmel’s customer leaves the back room, and gives Louise the money, Louise tells Carmel that Mercedes is waiting for her, and Louise then goes into the back office. After a few minutes, Louise goes back into the main area of the salon, to over hear Mercedes being nasty about her again, and Carmel telling her to be quiet.

Pretending that she did not hear what Mercedes had said about her, she asks Mercedes if she did anything nice last night, Mercedes is suspicious of this, as it is not like Louise and her to have small talk, so offhandly, Mercedes just said “what’s it to you”

Louise can’t help but rub it in, knowing that she shouldn’t, but she still could not resist.

“Just wondered that’s all, seeing as you weren’t with Russ last night” “What is that meant to mean” Mercedes replied, (what Louise did not know, was that Mercedes had tried to make plans last night with Russ, but he blew her off, stating he had too much on his mind). “Nothing, just that he was at mine last night, with Dani and Lucy”

“So what, he popped around for a couple of hours to see the baby, it may be his kid after all”

“That’s funny, Lucy was in bed by the time he came around, and he was still here for breakfast this morning” Louise knew what she was insinuating, but could not resist. Whilst she knew nothing had happened between them last night, she could see the chemistry between Russ and Dani was still there, but both of them were too stubborn or afraid to admit it.

“You’re lying” accused Mercedes

“Am I?” Louise answered with a smirk

“Yes you are, he would never do that to me”

“Wouldn’t he, come one what goes around, comes around and all that”

“What’s that meant to mean”

“He cheated on Sophie with you, what’s to say that he would not cheat on you with Dani?”

Mercedes storms out of the salon, and Louise continues to grin, though at the same time, she feels guilty for implicating Dani, when her friend was innocent.

Not long after, with Louise’s comments going around her head, Mercedes phones Russ,

“Where were you last night?” she demanded.

“What do you mean?” he replies

“Exactly what I asked”

“I was at Louise’s”

“Did you stay at the flat last night”

“I did but its not what you think?”

“Isn’t it Russ? What do I think eh? My boyfriend spends the night at someone else’s flat, what am I meant to think”

“Look Mercedes I cant talk now, I am about to go to the doctors to get the test results, I will talk to you later”

“Don’t bother, I know where your loyalties are!” Mercedes screams at him down the phone, and then hangs up

Dani realises that she found out that he stayed at the flat, and apologises to Russ “I am sorry, I did not want to cause you and her problems” “don’t worry about it, I’ll sort it out later with her, this is my priority right now” “Thanks Russ”. Sensing Dani’s nerves he grabs hold of her and squeezes it, trying to reassure her everything will be okay in the end. “Come on, let’s go inside” Russ states, and the pair of them exit the car, and head towards the clinic.

When they get inside the clinic, they are shown straight to the Doctors office, who asks them both to sit. The doctor talks to them for a few minutes, explaining that he is aware that DNA test results can have consequences, and that if either or both wish, he can offer a referral to a councillor. Dani has Lucy in her arms, and as the doctor reads the results, Russ puts his arm around Dani’s shoulders, in support. It is then that she realises, that no matter what the result is, Russ will be there for her and Lucy. The doctor reads out the results, and says to them “With an accuracy of 99.95 I can confirm the tests results show that…”

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The doctor reads out the results, and says to them “With an accuracy of 99.95 I can confirm the tests results show that…”

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OMG GREAT STUFF!!!
fantastic brilliant hollyoaks but in written form

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OMG GREAT STUFF!!!
fantastic brilliant hollyoaks but in written form

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i am glad you liked it, i will get the next chapter up either sunday or monday

ahhh wow, this is great stuff, can't wait to find out.

Author note: thanks to everyone who has sent feedback on the story, I am glad you are enjoying it, and I appreciate you taking the time to read the story. As promised, here is the next chapter:

Chapter 10

“Mr Owen, you are the father”.

Dani and Russ, sat there for a couple of minutes in a daze, then when she realised that it was true, and that her attacker could not have fathered her child, she smiled, and a huge sense of relief washed over her. Russ too was speechless, finally realising that he was a father. He also realised for the first time, that he was happy about that, not just because did not want Dani to have had to deal with the alternative option, but also over the last few days, he had started to fall in love with the baby Dani was holding in her arms.

They both walked out of the doctor’s office in silence, both processing the thoughts in their minds. When they got to the car, Russ took Lucy out of Dani’s arms and put her in the baby seat in the car, only then registering that it is own daughter he was holding in his arms.

Russ turned around to Dani, and realised she looked like she was about to cry, he held her, calming her, and when she finally did she answered his questioning look “sorry, about that, I guess it is the relief and the stress of it all finally getting best of me” “don’t be silly” Russ replied smiling, and still holding her “ you have every right to be emotional at the moment” just as they were about to let go of each other, they both looked into the others eyes, they kissed each other gently at first, then it became more passionate, until they were interrupted by Lucy’s crying from inside the car.

They drove home in silence, both feeling awkward about the kiss, Dani thinking that Russ regretted it, and Russ thinking that Dani kissed him because she was in an emotional daze with everything that had happened.

When they pulled up at the flat, Dani asked him to come in, but Russ said he couldn’t, that he had to do something, but would pop around later. As Dani got out of the car Russ turned to her and said “about the kiss…”

Dani, thinking that he was going to say that it should not have happened, could not face hearing the words, so she interrupted him and said “forget it Russ, its Ok, I know you’ve moved on, lets just put it down to the upheaval of the last few days, and forget it happened” not seeing the disappointed look on his face, she got Lucy out of the.

It was not until got indoors to the safety of the flat, and closed the door, did Dani let the mask slip, and a tear fall over what might have been between her and Russ had she stayed in the village all that time ago. She cursed herself for the tear, as she swore to herself she would not let herself admit how she felt for him, she could not risk her heart been broken all over again.


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chapter 11

After the day that they found that Russ was Lucy’s dad, Russ saw them everyday, yet neither Russ or Dani could voice their true feelings for the other, and neither bought up the subject of the kiss again. Time was running out for them, as Dani and Lucy were leaving in two days for the flight back to Rome. Louise could tell that something had happened between them, neither Dani nor Russ would tell her what it was.

That night Russ was at Louise’s flat, he had just tucked a sleeping Lucy into the travel cot in Louise’s spare room, and kissed her on the head, Louise watched Dani, who stood at the door to the room. Dani, not realising she was being watched, turned around, to see Louise watching her. It was then that Louise saw the look of real love in Dani’s eye, and it was then her heart broke for her friend, whilst pretending to be strong, she could finally see that Dani was not as strong as the mask she had was making her out to be, and was too afraid of being rejected by him to tell him how she felt.

She also realised, that Dani was oblivious to the looks that Russ gave to her, when he thought no one was watching him. Sure he had Mercedes, but his feelings for her were nothing in comparison to how he felt about Dani. It was then that Louise decided that she would confront Dani once Russ had gone.

“Time is running out Dani” she said a short time after Russ had left

“What do you mean?”

“You need to tell him the truth, about how you feel about him, you deserve to be happy”

“Look, he does not feel that way about me, I mean after I kissed him, he couldn’t get far enough away from me, he made some excuse so he could not come into the…

“Wait” Louise interrupted “you are telling me you kissed? When and why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because it doesn’t matter, he does not feel the same way about me any more, and I am not going to make any more of a fool of myself than I already have done, I cant risk making it difficult for him to see Lucy, and it will do, if I tell him how I feel, we will both be uncomfortable”

“So you are not going to tell him at all? You already have what ifs about whether you should have left in the first place, do you want to be wondering what might have been if you don’t open up to him”

“I have made up my mind Louise, he is with her now, he does not feel that way about me any more, so please end the subject”

Louise realising that she was banging her head against a brick wall dropped the subject. Dani on the other hand could not help the thoughts going around her head, and ended up having a very restless night.

Chapter 12

Louise got home from work the next day to see her friend sitting in the flat on the floor in the hallway. She was sitting with her head in her hands and had obviously been sobbing.

“Honey, what’s wrong” Louise asked, as she knelt down on the floor and took Dani in her arms.

I did it, I told him how I felt, I should have gone with my instinct, and kept quiet, I’ve made an idiot of myself, I swore when I left I would not let anyone hurt me again, I built a wall around me so no one could, why is it, whenever he is around I let it crumble” Dani said between sobs.

Flash back to a few hours earlier, Russ was helping Dani pack hers and Lucy’s things for her flight the next day, both quiet and melancholy, both in their own worlds. With Louise’s words in her head from the night before, she finally plucked up the courage to tell him how she felt, that she wanted them to be together, and not just so Lucy could have a father in her life permanently. Russ’s response was not how she had hoped though, and realising that Louise was wrong, he did not still have feelings for her.

“Dani, I can’t come with you, I have a life here, we have both changed, we are not the same as we were before, we are different people. I have my degree to finish, and I cant hurt Mercedes like that I care about her,” He continued for a few minutes reeling why he and Dani could not be together, and then says his goodbyes to her and Lucy, knowing that he would not see them for a while, until he could fly to Rome for a visit in a month or so time. Earlier in the day, he had offered to take them to the airport, but Dani declined, stating she hated airport goodbyes.

Whilst Russ was there, she put a brave face on what he told her, and walked him to the door, after saying goodbye, and closing the door behind him, that is when Dani broke down, she lent against the wall in the hall way, and slid down it, breaking down in tears, which is how Louise found her half an hour later.

For the rest of the evening, Louise tried to cheer Dani up, and whilst Dani put on a front that she was ok, and that she just had a “mad moment” as Dani put it, Louise knew that her friends’ heart was breaking.


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AHHH wow, sensing something else will happen maybe a dash to the airport!!!!:hmm: Can't wait to read more!!!!