Erin
The guys left last night, and it wasn’t until the early hours of this morning when Zack finally called me to tell me everything that happened, that they were all meeting up at the hospital because that’s where they took Hannah. At six this morning, I dropped Beth off with Dean and got myself over to the hospital to be with Hannah.

“Thank God,” Matt exhaled with relief when I walked into Hannah’s room with her bag in my hand. He got to his feet and met me halfway across the room and wrapped his strong arms around me “I’m so glad you’re here,”

“Me too, Matt,” I chuckled lightly, reaching my hand around his back to pat it roughly “You got anything on the assholes who did this to her?”

“The guys went off to work on it,” He told me “But we’re going to find them and we’re going to put an end to them before they have the chance to beg for their pathetic little lives,” I could only smile tightly at him and nod twice before my eyes flicked over to Hannah who was asleep in the bed.

“Why don’t you go home, freshen up and grab yourself some breakfast and then you can come back, I’ll send you a text if she wakes up while you’re away,” He quickly hugged me again, looked back at Hannah, thanked me twice and then took off out the room.

I sat Hannah’s bag on the floor at the foot of her bed and sat myself in the big chair at her bedside, it was still warm from when Matt occupied it minutes ago. I took her cold hand in mine and watched her face before my eyes flicked over to her heart monitor.

“We’re gonna get them,” I told her quietly “And you’re going to wake up and you’re going to be just fine and get married next week,”

I spent the next hour or so talking to Hannah, reading to her and brushing her hair. I couldn’t have her looking like this when she woke up, she’d get a fright when she saw herself in a mirror or a… spoon or something. I’d just gone to bed myself when Zack called me to tell me Hannah was in hospital, and after that I barely slept, so I was starting to doze off in the chair when Hannah started to stir. My eyes popped open just in time to see her tug the drip out of her arm and try to get out of bed.

“Whoa!” I exclaimed, jumping from the chair and around the bed before she could move “You gotta stay in bed baby, you’ve been asleep all day and you’ve got too many tubes inside you to get yourself anywhere,”

“I need to go to the bathroom,” Was all she responded with, looking right at me with a blank stare. A small smile tugged at my lips.

“You can do that right here,” I tried to hide my smirk, but I knew I was failing as soon as the blush crept up her cheeks.

“They put a catheter in?” She asked quietly, I nodded, and she groaned loudly, hiding her face in her hands.

“Stay put, I’ll go get a nurse and have her come take it out,” I kissed her on her head and left the room quickly, taking my phone with me to text Matt and get him to hurry back here.
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Hannah
Despite the pain radiating through my body, mainly in my side where my stitched up stab wound still bled lightly through the bandaging they’d wrapped around my torso, Erin had someone come remove my catheter, then she helped me to the toilet, then she helped me take a shower, get dressed and back onto the bed.

“Did you bring any makeup with you?” I asked her as I looked at my busted face in her compact mirror, gently poking at the shiner around my eye.

“I packed everything you need to get ready every day,” She told me, reaching into the bag she had brought with my things and pulling out my makeup bag “You want me to do it for you?” She asked.

“Please,” I smiled at her “I can’t exactly reach up all that well, you know, with the busted ribs and the lovely hole in my side,” That made her chuckle “I don’t really give a shit about what I look like, really, I just want to make sure this mess can be covered with makeup for the wedding,”

She laughed a little and sat in front of me on the bed, we were both sat facing each other, legs crossed under us. She unzipped my makeup bag and started rummaging through it, fishing out my usual makeup.

“Let’s see what we can do,” She smiled widely at me, opening my foundation and getting to work.
~~~~
“All done,” Erin announced, finally removing her hands from my face.

“Whoa…” Someone breathed from the door, making us both look over to see Matt walking into the room with a McDonald’s bag in one hand and a cup holder in the other “You look beautiful,”

“Save it for when we get her home, lover boy,” Erin chuckled “And bring that food over here, we’re starving,”

“You’re lucky I got you some food and not just my fiancé,” He chuckled, placing the bag on the bed where the makeup bag had just been and pressing a kiss to the top of my head. He gently took my face in his hands and looked at me closely, studying every inch of my face “You can’t even see what they did to you,”

“Well, Erin is a wiz when it comes to makeup magic,” I told him with a tight smile “But I just wanted to make sure it could get the bruises covered for the wedding,”

“Well you look beautiful now, I can’t imagine what you’re going to look like next week,”

“Don’t you two dare get all mushy on me now,” Erin groaned, biting into her burger “I’d like to keep my food down,”

Matt and I just looked at each other, smirked and then he crashed his lips against mine and I welcomed the kiss, moved my hands into his hair and pulled him closer to deepen the kiss when I opened my mouth and moaned slightly.

“Alright, alright!” She squealed, covering her eyes and turning away. Matt and I eventually broke the kiss and laughed at her, she soon joined in.

“Now you know how everyone in the house feels when you and Zack suck face,” Matt told her between laughs before turning back to me “Eat something, I’m going to go find out when you can get out of here,” I just nodded at him and let him go before tucking into my own burger and fries.

“So,” I started with a mouth full of food “We haven’t exactly had a chance to talk since we’ve both been doing a lot of wedding planning, but when are you going to tell me what happened between you and Dean?”

“What are you talking about?” She asked, swallowing her food while looking at me like I’d grown a second head “Nothing happened between Dean and I,”

“Bullshit,” I scoffed, taking another bite of my burger “Since the weekend I spent over there when I called off the engagement with
Matt, the day that Sam and I took Beth to the park and she fell off the playground, you were gone for a while, and then you were all weird when you came home, you went right in the shower and I keep catching you playing with something on that damn chain,” I pointed to the chain around her neck, I knew it had a locket on the end with a picture of her mother, but she never played with it half as much as she does now “Coming home late without giving a real answer as to where you were and going almost straight into the shower, I know what that looks like, and if that’s what it is then I want you to tell me right now,”

He burger was almost in her mouth when I finished speaking and looked at her, waiting for her to answer me. She looked down and exhaled slowly before placing her burger back on the wrapping it came in and set it on the bed.

“Something happened,” She admitted quietly, rubbing her hands together to get rid of the crumbs “And I regret every second of it, but ever since those boys got back into town, Dean’s been making advances, catching me off guard, but I… I haven’t been telling him to stop, I’ve been going along with it and making my own advances, just like we used to do when we were younger,”

“Erin,” I said slowly “What exactly happened?”

“After you and Sam left with Beth to go to the park, we got into it about me getting engaged to Zack, Dean started going off about how he wasn’t the right guy for me, that it wasn’t safe for Beth and I to be with him, then some things were said, some moves were made and we…”

“You what?”

“We did it on the table,” She practically cringed as the words left her mouth.

“Erin, no…” I groaned, dropping my head into my hands “You cheated on Zack, you realise that?”

“Of course I realise that!” She whispered harshly, glancing to the door to make sure Matt hadn’t come back “But Dean gave me
this, and I lost all respect I have for myself,”

She grabbed the chain and pulled it over her top so that I could see her locket, but there was a ring on the end of it. It was small, but it was an engagement ring, and I’d seen it before.

“He gave you that now?” I asked, cringing at the gesture.

“Yeah, why?” I gave her a knowing look “You knew about it?”

“Of course I knew about it,” I admitted “He told me before you went into labour that he wanted to marry you, then Beth decided to come a little early and he had to rush the process, but then you said something to him in the hospital and he decided it was a better
idea not to bother asking you,”

“And you didn’t tell me?!” She yelled a little, smacking my arm with a smile on her face “If he had asked me back then of course I would have said ‘yes’ because I was so madly in love with him, and it would have been so perfect for Beth, but now, I have a new life with Zack, without Dean, he’s in my life as Beth’s father, nothing more,”

“You have to tell him that,” I told her seriously, placing my hand on her shoulder and looking into her eyes “You have to tell him that you two aren’t going to be together because you’re in love with Zack and the two of you are getting married, and you have to give him the ring back,”

“I can’t do that,” She insisted, shaking her head “It’ll break his heart,”

“Taking his daughter away would break his heart, and you think Zack is going to let you and Beth be anywhere near Dean if he finds out?” I asked, raising my eyebrows at her, making her jaw drop.

“You’re going to tell Zack what I did if I don’t return the ring and put Dean back in his place?” She asked in disbelief.

“I won’t have to,” I shrugged, shoving four fries in my mouth “What are you going to say when he sees the ring and asks you where it came from?” I asked “You’re good at deception, but you’re not that good of a liar and you know fine well that he would be able to see right through you, confront you about it and then you would break down and tell him everything he never wanted to hear,”

“Alright,” She sighed after a moment “When I go over there to get Beth back today I’ll give it back to him and tell him what’s what,”

“Good girl,” I leaned over and kissed her cheek “Now finish your burger and go get your daughter back,”

“Don’t you want me to hang around and take you home with Matt?” She asked.

“The man is capable of getting me home without injuring me more,”
~~~~
Matt
I got back to Hannah’s room after filling out a shitload of paperwork for her release. Apparently her doctor had gave her the all clear to go home once she woke up and kept some food down, so now, she was all good to go home.

“Where’s Erin going?” I asked Hannah “She just passed me in the hallway, looked like she was in a rush,”

“She has some business to take care of,” She shrugged, smiling at me a little while crumpling up her wrappers and tossing them in the McDonald’s bag.

“Everything was alright,” I told her, a little randomly “Just like I promised,” She smiled and shook her head.

“Matt, what happened-“

“I know,” I whispered, cutting her off as I sat on the bed with her “I want to forget all about what happened, and just focus on getting you home and back on your feet,” She blushed when I reached out and cupped her cheek “I know you love me, Hannah.” I said bluntly.

“M-Matt, I-“ She was starting to stutter like she does when nervous and caught off guard, but she stopped talking when my fingertips traced over her lips.

“We’ve both been trying to ignore it for so long,” I told her “I don’t know how long I’ve felt like this about you, but it’s getting stronger every day, and after you left for a while I didn’t know what I was going to do without you because I realised then just how much I really need you,”

“I didn’t think you’d ever be able to love me,” She admitted, her eyes refusing to meet mine “And I knew I felt something strong for you after a while, something other than pure hatred,”

“I want you to… to let me love you,” I whispered again, forcing her gently to look at me “In every way that I can,” I stopped, just in front of her lips, her shallow breaths fanning over my face, as I’m sure mine were doing the same to her.

“I love you, Matt.” She admitted, smiling warmly before I could place my lips over hers.

She reached up and slid my shirt over my shoulders, leaving me in my t-shirt before she tugged that off and dropped both items of clothing onto the floor. I stood and she tried to follow, her lips leading her since mine left hers, but I gently gestured for her to stay on the bed while I locked the door and shut all the curtains around the room to give us some privacy. I was back against her quickly, sucking and biting at her neck, applying more force with ever moan that slipped between her lips. As I leaned over her she started to fumble with the button on my jeans, trying to unbutton them while I gently peeled her tank top from her body and unclasped her bra, dropping them to the ground with my clothes.

She finally managed to undo my jeans and tugged on them, signalling that she wanted them off. I got off the bed and stood on my feet, removing my shoes before I pulled my pants down and kicked them off onto the floor.

“Boxers,” She smirked, biting her bottom lip “Take ‘em off,”

I did as she ordered and removed my boxers, and my socks too. If we were really going to do this I wanted to be totally naked. I didn’t know who moved first, but our lips were soon moving together, attacking each other with a passionate hunger I’d never felt with a woman before. I climbed up the bed and over her. She propped herself up on her elbows to kiss me deeper, I pulled back to stare at her.

“What?” She whispered.

“I just want to take this all in,” I told her, looking down at her now completely naked body underneath me “I’ve never seen a woman so beautiful before,” She blushed furiously “What did I ever do to deserve you?”

“You’re a good man, Matt.” She told me “You always have been, sure, sometimes you don’t go about things the right way to get what you want, but you’ve always been a good man, you have the biggest heart I’ve ever known, and you always have the best intentions for everyone,” She brought her hand up and cupped my cheek “No more talking,” She smiled “Love me,”

I looked at her lovingly, feeling my heart swell in my chest. A single tear slid down my cheek and landed on hers, just like last night in the car. What was wrong with me? All this crying has to stop. Again, I was kissing her, licking her lips, begging for entrance into her mouth while nudging her legs open with my knee and positioning myself between her legs. I took her hands in mine and linked
out fingers together.

“I love you,”

Before she could answer, I was gently pushing into her, stretching her and filling her. She groaned and squeezed my hand, so I waited for her to adjust, I knew I wasn’t of just an average size. Once she was ready, she kissed my collarbone and rocked her hips up against mine. I responded by setting a slow and steady pace, being careful not to hurt her. I pulled almost all the way out before slowly going back in. She arched her back up and I kissed down her chest to each of her breasts, releasing one hand at a time to play with one breast while my mouth was on the other, nipping and sucking at it. She moaned and used her free hand to grab my hair between her long fingers, tugging and pulling. I could feel her tighten around me every so often, and I knew that I was getting her closer as her moans got louder, filling the room.

“Matt,” She moaned “I need more,” She gasped when I pushed quickly all the way in, hitting that special spot inside of her. I removed my lips from her breast and leaned up over her face.

“What do you need, Hannah?” I asked, breathing into her ear before nipping at it.

“I need you to go faster, please,” She begged. I pulled away and kissed her hard, as I did, I began to make long, hard thrusts into her, hitting her spot every single time. Our groans and moans mixed together like music filling the room. I felt her tightening around me again. I nipped her lip between my teeh and smiled at her through hooded eyes.

“I l-love you,” I moaned. I could feel that I was getting ready to let go, and so was she, her fingers laced with mine again.

“I love y-you t-too!” She screamed as I thrust into her harder, sending her over the edge. She screamed my name, making me
moan out hers as I filled her up with everything I had.

We rode out our orgasms together, but only once we’d come down completely did I pull out, roll off of her and pull her gently into my arms. I kissed her forehead, making her look up at me.

“We’re going to get married,” I reminded her “Are you still sure you want to do this?”

“If I wasn’t before, I certainly am now,”
~~~~
Dean
I’d just finished eating lunch with Beth when Erin came in, letting herself into the house like she usually did. She came straight into the kitchen and told Beth to go and pack her things and get ready to leave. Beth didn’t notice that anything was wrong, but I noticed it the second I saw her.

“What’s the matter with you today?” I asked her. She only responded by holding out the engagement ring I’d given to her before, waiting for me to take it “That’s yours, I want you to keep it,”

“I can’t do that,” She responded quickly “I’m engaged to another man, the man I love now, not you, the man I loved before,”

“What are you saying?” I asked “Do you regret what we did?”

“Of course I do!” She snapped “What we did was wrong, and if Zack ever finds out it’s going to kill him, and if he doesn’t leave me because of it he will make Beth and I leave you, do you really want that?” She asked, but my silence answered her question “You
are in my life as my daughter’s father, nothing more and nothing less, so you take being her daughter and I suppose, my friend, but that is all, take it or leave it,”

I hesitated for a few moments before holding out my hand and letting her drop the ring back into my palm.

“Good,” She nodded, blinking away the tears I saw briefly in her eyes “I’ll bring her back at the weekend, you can spend the whole weekend with her again, we’re going to be busy finding the guys who put Hannah in hospital,”

“No problem,” I grumbled, turning away from her to was a glass in the sink “I’ll see you Friday,”

“Yeah,” She whispered. She took a step back to leave, but stopped. I thought she was going to say something, but she kept her mouth shut, turned on her heel and left the room, walking to the front door where Beth was waiting for her.

“Bye Daddy!” Beth called out.

“Bye baby!” I called back, standing in the kitchen doorway “I’ll see you on Friday!”

“See you on Friday!”

I watched my two girls walk out of the front door, I knew I was going to see Beth again in a few days, but she wasn’t my only girl, and as much as Erin tried to deny it, I knew she was mine, too. She always had been and she always would be.

Notes

Matt and Hannah lovin' is some good lovin'!
Drama between Erin and Dean. Will things be weird between the girls now that Hannah knows what Erin has done?
More to come soon!

- LMV