Overnight(DIKY sequel)

Worry and Forgiveness (Chapter 6)

It was past midnight by the time Nellie finally returned to the pie shop.

After Sweeney had put Daniel to bed he'd been pacing around the shop, anxiously waiting for Nellie to return. He'd gone through about three cups of coffee as well to keep him awake. It was clear that he was worried about her, so it was more understandable that when she returned Sweeney blew up.

"What the hell kind of time do you call this?!" He demanded the second the baker got in the door, giving Nellie an annoyed look "I've been worried out of my mind!"

Nellie gave Sweeney a skeptical look as she put her bag down on the counter "It's only.." She then looked at the clock on the wall and stopped her sentence, realizing that she was a lot later than she'd intended to be "I'm sorry love, I just sort of lost track of time cause we were catching up. I didn't mean to worry you." She replied guiltily, looking innocently up at Sweeney.

The barber sighed. As much as he was annoyed at her he couldn't be anymore when she gave him that look. Plus it was clear that she was sorry so he tried hard not to hold a grudge against her for it "It's okay..I just.." He stopped himself before he could confess about the fact that he'd been worried that she'd hooked up with George because now he thought about it he was stupid to even worry about that. It was clear that Nellie was crazy about him.

He managed a small smile ""Sorry pet, you know how I worry about you."

Nellie reached up and gave Sweeney a gentle kiss on the cheek, making his pale cheeks glow "I know, sorry again for worrying you but I'm here now." She said softly and Sweeney soon no longer felt angry at her at all and his worry about George had been pushed to the back of his mind for now.

"I know." Sweeney replied just as softly before gently putting his arms around Nellie's waist and drawing her closer before giving her a long, sweet kiss that left both people breathless and pink faced.

"If I get a kiss like this every time I come home late I'll have to do it more often." Nellie teased before quickly adding "Just joking love." when she saw Sweeney's worried expression as if he actually thought she'd do that.

"You better be joking." He teased back, gently punching her arm before yawning, showing how exhausted he was and Nellie smiled.

"Tired? Daniel wasn't too much of a handful was he?" She asked and Sweeney smiled sleepily as he remembered the nice bonding time him and Daniel had had today "No we had quite a good time actually." He replied and Nellie smiled too.

"Well I'm glad you two are getting along." She replied,relieved that Sweeney hadn't lost his patience with him whilst she was gone like other times she'd left them alone and come home to a grouchy Sweeney and an upset Daniel and she dared to hope that Daniel might start seeing Sweeney as a father, unaware that he already was.

Sweeney nodded along to what she said but he wasn't really paying attention because he was practically falling asleep as she spoke which Nellie noticed and giggled quietly at "Let's get to bed then love before you fall asleep on the floor." She teased before leading Sweeney upstairs to the bedroom the two of them now shared.

Sweeney was so tired he didn't bother to get changed and he just slipped his shoes, holster and jacket on and dumped them on the floor before collapsing onto his side of the bed.

Nellie chuckled at how cute Sweeney was when he was tired "I'll just go get ready for bed and I'll be back in a minute." Nellie told Sweeney who only grunted in response,too tired to even speak he just wanted to lie here forever and not have to do anything.

Once she left the room Sweeney did do something though. He rolled over and grabbed his old teddy bear from under the bed where he'd been hiding it since he found it yesterday and cuddled it under his arm with a small smile. He appeared to have grown more attached to the small bear than he'd meant to but he didn't really care. It was nice to have a piece of his childhood with him to remind him of the simpler times.

A few minutes past before Nellie returned to the bedroom "I'm back love."  She announced quietly but the barber didn't hear her. He was already fast asleep.

The baker smiled fondly at him and climbed into bed beside him, pulling the duvet over both of them and cuddling into his side "Night Sweeney." She whispered and soon also fell asleep.

A/N Hey guys!

I know this is short and long overdue but I've been short on ideas recently. I have some big ideas but I need to think of some things to do in the meantime leading up to them.

But I hope you enjoyed it anyway, and what do you think of George? Do you think he's trying to take Nellie from Sweeney?

All will be revealed hopefully soon ;)

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