Shockwave

                                    

                                          
"I know she's in New York, I've just been there and guess what, they have fucking phones! She needs to ring me back now."
                          
"Thank you for ringing." The receptionist told her for the fifth time as she hung up.
                          
Danny had been pacing around her old home desperately trying to get hold of Kate and work out how the fuck this has happened, she wasn't ready for her new found family life to disappear.
                          
Simon the weird computer geek was home but Danny had only seen him briefly. Helen walked into the kitchen and didn't even acknowledge her, it would appear her she was firmly on team Rachel.
                          
She had to get some fresh air, she could feel herself spiralling so she went to the corner shop and bought a bottle of tequila and 20 Marlborough. Arriving back at the house she opened the patio doors and brushed off a seat, reluctantly she tried Kate's mobile again but it went straight to voicemail.
                          
Flicking through the pictures of Rachel and Tommy on her phone, she opened the tequila and took a large swig, she couldn't believe she'd lost it, lost them. The people Rachel promised she'd never lose, that all hinges on one mistake apparently. She stayed out there for hours torturing herself with the articles splashed all over the internet until her phone ran out of battery. Lounging in defeat she walked back into the kitchen and put her phone on charge when she saw Alex talking to someone in the corridor. Her heart threatened to break through her chest and she hoped Alex had managed to convince Rachel to talk to her.
                          
Alex and Steph walked into the kitchen breaking Danny's heart all over again. Alex immediately went to retrieve the tequila from the photographer. 
                          
"You'll make this worse!" She warned, able to tell Danny had been crying but at this moment her sympathy was firmly with Rachel. 
                          
"It can't get any worse." She replied physically trying to retrieve ownership of the bottle.
                          
"You need to sort yourself out and start explaining to us how you've got here." Steph tried to explain softly.
                          
"I never fucking slept with her. She kissed me, for a brief moment I lost it and kissed her back then I stopped it! That's it!"
                          
"But you still went to New York knowing this woman was after you." Alex questioned. "And ended up with her on top of you in an office?
                          
"That was... look I was drunk, she tried it on. I told her no and that if she couldn't control this then I couldn't work with her. Then I literally walk into this fucking shit storm. Al, it was only her who could have leaked these pictures. The one in the office must have come from CCTV."
                          
"Well whoever leaked it seriously wanted to cause you some damage." Steph interjected.
                          
"She won't answer my calls. It's like she's destroyed everything and fucked off. I'm going to kill her. What sort of sick, twisted person does this?" She was buckling underneath the weight of it all, she could feel her lower lip trembling and tried to get control of herself.
                          
"You need to stop thinking about her and start thinking about Rachel."
                          
"She's pissed me off too."
                          
"What the fuck Dan?"
                          
"She convinced me to go to New York and she was all over that job as soon as I got offered it! She promised me that whatever happened it would be fine because I'd have her and Tommy, she's the one who fucking lied.
                          
"You've got to see it from her side, if the roles were reversed you know you'd go mad! You need to work out a way to get her to trust you again."
                          
"I haven't done anything to break her trust."