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Ashby POV
Alex was sat on the chair since he couldn't sit on the sofa as I had the duvet down and had Austin's pillows. Alex was completely zoned out and was looking at his feet. I went to the kitchen and made Alex a tea and went over to him. "Hey, I made you a tea." I said quietly and Alex just blanked me. "Alex, I've made a tea." I said and he still blanked me. "I'm pregnant." I said and he snap out his trance and looked at me. "What?" He asked confused. "I'm not really, wanted your attention." I said. "Oh, I was going to say." He said quietly. "I've made you a tea to cheer you up a little." I said and handed it too him and he took it and smiled. "Thanks." He said quietly. I smiled and went back over to the sofa and just pulled duvet over me and carried on watching Orange is the new black. I was falling asleep when Austin came home. "Hey you two." He said and lent over the sofa and kissed my cheek. "Leave me alone." I groaned and pulled the covers over my head. "That's my pillows." He chuckled. "How you feeling now Alex?" Austin asked. "I'm okay. I'll leave you two alone for the night." He said. "Where you going?" Austin asked. "Tate's. I going to stay there for a week or something." He said. "You sure he said you can stay?" I asked. "I texted him earlier and he said it was fine as long as I don't puke all over the place." He said. "Was it because of today?" Austin asked unsure how Alex would react. "Yeah, I don't want to see or be near Jack at the moment." He said quietly. "I understand." Austin said quietly. Alex got up and walked to the kitchen. "Thank you, for everything you've both done today." He said and got his bag. "You want me to drive you there?" Austin asked. "No, I need to clear my head and think how I'm going to explain this to Tate." He said and looked at his arm. "Well if you need to come back here then your more than welcomed to." I said. Alex smiled and got his bag and walked out the door. "Is he going to be okay?" I asked. "Yeah, Tate is a good lad and he looks after Alex when Alex needs help." Austin said. "What you going to cook me?" I asked and looked at him. "I was going to get a Chinese because I'm too lazy to cook." He said. I smiled and Austin came and sat on me.

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Alex's POV I got to Tate's and knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. Tate answered the door. "Alex, what happened?" Tate asked and looked at my arm. I looked down. I felt Tate's hand on my and he gently pulled me in the sitting room and pulled me into a hug with i returned. "Tell me whats the matter." He said quietly. "Jack." I whispered. Tate knew about Jack but he didn't really know that much. "What did he do?" He asked. "He hurt me." I whispered. Tate pulled back and looked at me. "Where?" He asked quietly. I pointed to my stomach and my face. Tate got my hand and took me too his room and gently pushed me onto the bed and sat next to me and lifted my top up. I pulled it down straight away as I didn't know what he was going to do. He looked at me. "I was going to kiss it better for you." He said and looked at me. I looked down feeling stupid. "Hey, I should of known. Don't feel stupid, its my fault." He said quietly and moved to my face and kissed me softly. "Can I kiss your stomach better?" He asked and looked at me and I nodded and he moved and up my top up and kissed my stomach and then he moved to my arm and kissed the bandage then he moved to my face and kissed my cheek where Jack had punched me. He pulled back and looked at me. "Better?" He asked and I nodded and rolled onto my side and cuddled into his chest. He wrapped his arm round me and kissed the top of my head. "You look really tired, go to sleep and I'll be here when you wake up." He said quietly. "Don't leave me." I whispered. "Wasn't going to, I have coursework to do so I'll do that while you have a nap." He said and I smiled and got comfy and slowly fell asleep. I was woken up by someone moving on the bed. I looked at saw Tate with a cuppa and a bowl of soup. I poked his bum a d he looked at me. "Hey there sleepy head." He smiled. "Hey." I yawned. "Thought you would wake up when you felt me sit on the bed, so I made you a cuppa and got you a bowl of soup." He said and I sat up. I looked on the bedside table and saw a bowl of soup and a cuppa. "You didn't have too." I said and looked at him. "Sure I did! Someone has to look after you, since Peter doesn't want to I'm going to do it." He said. I smiled. "Thank you." I whispered and got the bowl of soup and lent against the head borad and slowly began to eat it. "How long are you staying this time?" Tate asked not looking away from his laptop. "A week if thats okay." I said quietly and looked down. "You sure?" He asked. "Yeah, don't want to out welcome my stay." I said quietly. Tate looked at me. "You won't out welcome your stay." He said. "It's better if I stay here for a week and I'd better go back to Peter and get that bollocking I desvere." I whispered. "You don't have to go back to him Lex." He said quietly. I looked at him but looked back down again. "What's the worse he could do?" I muttered. "Alex, he could kill you that's the worst thing he could do." Tate said seriously. "Maybe I'm better of dead." I sniffed and put my bowl of half eaten soup back on the bedside table and wiped my nose in my sleeve. Tate moved and pulled me to his side. "Don't ever say that again Alex." He said and kissed the top of my head. "But its true." I whispered. "No its not, its no where near ture." He whispered. I sniffed and rested my head on his shoulder. "Lie down with me." Tate said and moved and lead down and I followed him and rested my head on his chest and he messed with my hair. "It's late go too sleep." Tate yawned and I sat up and pulled the covers over us and got comfy again and watched Tate sleep and the night slowly passing.

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