Having checked his e.mail and made a quick call to Kyori Neal returns to Sarah who is still sitting in the living room.
"Kyori thinks she might have some news, she's found Erin and is going to e.mail me as soon as she has more information!" Neal looks over at Sarah not sure if he can come any closer?
"That's good!" Sarah's voice sounds flat so much crying and angst has numbed her voice and dulled her senses. The fight has left her, Dawn is yelling at fall throttle but even that does not stir her.
Neal looks at her his heart feels as if it is breaking he feels sick that he has done this to her "I'll get Dawn" and he leaves the room.
In the nursery Dawn is sitting in her cot crying and throwing her toys out onto the floor. The light is fading so Neal switches on the lamp "Hush, little one daddy's here!"
Dawn immediately stops and looks up holding out her arms. Neal picks her up and is rewarded with a big smile and the distinct whiff of a smelly nappy.
"Done a present for daddy have we?"he smiles at her and laying her on the changing mat quickly changes her and carries her downstairs.
Stopping at the living room door he can see it's empty.
For a second he panic's thinking Sarah has left him, then he realizes he can hear noise coming from the kitchen.
Entering he can see that Sarah is preparing dinner just as she did most evenings...
"Toad in the Hole, OK ?" she asks without turning around.
"Amm, yes fine... thank you!" Neal feels decidedly uncomfortable at this almost robot like Sarah.
"Dawn's dinner is next to the sink, if you want to feed her?" again said in that same one monosyllable tone.
Taking the bowl of food Neal carries it and Dawn through to the dinning room. Placing the bowl on the table he sits Dawn in her chair making sure he clips on her safety harness before getting a clean bib and sitting down to fed her.
When Dawn has finished her dinner he gives her a bottle and lays the table for dinner. Not long after Sarah brings in their food. She places Neal's in front of him and sit down with her own. She does not speak... Neal does not speak.... apart from Dawn's insensate babbling, banging, and raspberry blowing (a trick picked up the other day from Neal's cousin Luke) the meal is eaten in silence.
After dinner Sarah takes Dawn through to the living room for some play time while Neal clears away and makes them both a cup of tea. He joins Sarah and Dawn noticing the news is on the TV.
Just as he sits down pictures of him and Kyori come up on the screen, the news reader speculates as to what the two are up to and wonders if Sarah knows about the meeting? Before the segment is finished the phone starts to ring. The relief Neal felt that he had told Sarah about his meeting with Kyori is short lived as a picture of Kyori with her hand stroking his thigh is flashed up on the screen. "I...it...she..." Neal tries to explain.
"Shut up and answer the phone! Dawn needs her bath!" and with that Sarah scoops Dawn into her arms and leaves the room.
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Neal cusses as he answers the phone. It's a reporter... as he new it would be.
"No comment!" he talks into the mouth piece and presses a button turning on the answer phone. He wished he could turn the phone off but is worried he might miss a call from Kyori... although she did say she would e.mail him. The phone rings again and the machine picks up, Neal turns the volume down so he does not have to listen to the ring all evening.
Sarah does not return downstairs and eventually Neal goes up in search of her.
He finds her already in bed watching TV. "You, could have told me you was going to bed. I've been waiting for you to come down, we still need to talk! I never even got to kiss Dawn goodnight?"
Sarah looks at him with red puffy eyes "You could have told me you had shagged every tart that came within dicking distance... but there we go!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I don't know what else to say. You had left me! I was a single guy again... as far as I was concerned I could sleep with whoever I liked! I'm no monk ...never wanted to be... YOU left me!" Neal can feel a spark of anger rising within him.
"I know THAT! But don't try laying all this on me! I just don't get why you didn't cover it? I'll have to go and get a check up and we just do NOT want to go there if you have given me an STD!!!!!" Sarah fires back at him.
"But I DID cover it... that's what I don't get? and I'm sure none of them split?" Neal shrugs his shoulders as he starts to undress.
"Don't think your going to get naked in MY bed! You can sleep in another bedroom.... until further notice! Sarah can hear her voice raising.
"Sarah, we need to TALK, we can't do that from separate rooms?" but Neal does put on a pair of boxers. He sits on the side of the bed to put then on and Sarah gives his butt a hard kick from under the covers. "Ooach! That hurt!" Neal turns to Sarah a look of pain on his face.
Sarah wishes for all the world that she did not love him so much. She sits in bed looking at him, half of her wants to tell him to get lost and never come back but the other half... wants him desperately!
Neal senses the change in Sarah and at first hesitates but then decides to go with his feelings, he leans over and holds her then after a while he kisses her. At first Sarah tries to pull away but her emotions are so strung out she soon gives in to his kisses at first their kisses are gentile, hesitant but as Sarah responds Neal feels his passion rising.. Neal knows Sarah will stop him soon but his love for her and their heightened emotion state prevents him from stopping of his own accord. Then Sarah stops him... as he knew she would, Neal groans and moves away from her "do you have a condom?" Sarah asks.
Neal looks at her astonished "A....condom?.... Look Sarah I do NOT have an STD! I told you that! Do you want me to go and get the medical certificate I got last month for the medical insurance company? You, know I have to have a medical every film I make!" He feels deflated that Sarah will not trust him about this.
He looks so cross that Sarah starts to giggle the giggle turns to a full on near hysterical laughing fit which gives her the hick-ups. This sets Neal off and he starts to laugh too.
"I have a cure for hick-ups you know!" Neal tells Sarah between breaths.
"I *hick* remember *hick*!" Sarah laughs and hicks together.
Neal leans in and kisses her..... soon they are making love and this time there is no stopping them! (Oh, and yes, it did cure Sarah's hick-ups!)
What's makes this event even more strange is this is the first time Sarah has let Neal 'go all the way' since Dawn was born?
It's a very strange world?And these two are a very strange couple?
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