Brassic (on hold)

Episode three - P5

"He's fine. Well, nothing life-threatening. Two of his ribs are cracked, his face won't be its gorgeous self for a while." The doctor said to the group who were waiting on news about Vinnie.

"Can we see him?" Dylan asked her.

"He needs rest. Lottie's with him so don't worry. Come back tomorrow." The doctor reassured before she walked off to do her rounds.

"Fuck that. Let's go." Cardi said wanted to see his mate for himself.

"No, no, the doctor's right. He needs his rest. Lottie will look after him. Come on. Come back tomorrow." Dylan said to Cardi as they began to leave.

"Dylan, listen. I need to wee, OK? So I'll meet you outside. Yeah. Two minutes." Erin said as she walked down the corridor towards the toilets but turned the other way instead.

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Lottie was tracing the tattoos on a sleeping Vinnie's arm when Erin came in.

"Out" Erin said to Lottie with a demanding voice making her confused as well as Vinnie who just woke up.

"Um I'll go get a drink then." Lottie stammered as she got up but didn't leave without kissing Vinnie's forehead softly which made him smile.

"Hi. You're looking good." Erin said when they were alone in the room.

"Mm-hm." Vinnie agreed with a scoff just wanting Lottie with him as Erin grabbed his hand.

"I know you were there the other day, Vin, in the pub, when I was talking to Kath. I'm not sure what you heard." Erin began to say.

"Mm. Not much." Vinnie said to her as he moved his hand away.

"You know, I'm in a mess, Vinnie. I...I do wanna have a kid with him. With Dylan. Because Tyler is not his and I'd love him to be a real dad. But the timing's not right. It'd mess up all my plans, my future. Tyler's future." She said with a sigh, "Oh, for fuck's sake. I can't believe I let this happen again. You know, getting pregnant by mistake once... Understandable. But twice? It's starting to look like stupid, eh." She said hoping to get a reaction from him, "All the lies that I told the first time around...The elaborate bullshit. I stopped the guy from finding out it was his. Because it was a shag. It was just a shag. And the guy would have felt obliged to be a part of Tyler's life. I didn't want that. It was my choice to keep him. And I wanted him on my terms. I never wanted anything to tie me down, Vin. So I lied. I mean...The guy didn't really even remember it happening. He asked me the next day, and I told him nothing." She said which caused things to fall into place for Vinnie as he just laid there in shock at what he discovered, "We were too wasted. So I lied. And that's what I'm gonna do this time because if I tell Dylan, he'll want to keep it and if we keep it will tie me down. So whatever you've heard, you need to un-hear, OK? Because it's going away." Erin finished saying, abruptly leaving knowing that he worked out that he is Tyler's dad.

"Erin. Er..." Vinnie tried to call her back needing to talk to her but she left.

"What happened? Is everything alright?" Lottie questioned Vinnie worriedly when she came back in the room and sat back next to him.

"I've  just found out I'm Tyler's dad." He told her still in a state of shock as he subconsciously grabbed her hand for comfort.

"I know." Lottie said softly with a gentle smile as she softly ran her hand through his hair when he began to cry.

"What?" A tearful Vinnie questioned confused on how she knew.

"He looks exactly like you did when you were that age." Lottie explained gently knowing that he was still in shock.

"Vincent O' Neill, pleased to meet you. I'm Terence McCann." A man dressed in a suit said as he interrupted the couple and closed the door behind him.