A/N: I googled handsome doctor and got Benedict as Dr Strange- I can see him as Nate..

Nate was there in under twenty minutes and as John and George hovered in the doorway he performed different tests to assess her pains.

"How is it now Louise, slackened off Luv?" Nate leaned over to check her pulse, Louie nodded calmly "Good, good"

"Was a long trip, cramped up hmmm. You have more blood flowing at the moment with the baby, your body needs some movement to let it function. Like if you sit loads at work in the office you might get a big pudding bum after years, yes?!" Nate watched Louie perk up and giggle "That a girl. I do need to do a check down below, but we can wait for a nurse or go to the consulting rooms?"

"I'm not getting back in the bloody car again, Nate" She frowned and looked over his shoulder "I should be the one selling tickets now" Nate glanced behind them at the crowded doorway and laughed. Paul now stood with George and John, the front door slamming, Richard would be in moments...

"Arrr... I need a good strong light, I have my flashlight but the extra light would assist" Nate questioned no one in particular as he again checked Lou's vital signs. John took off and presented a bedside table lamp, plugging it in in a socket nearby.

"So, are they in or out Louise Luv?" Nate watched Louise bite her lip, she was feeling much better he already could tell.

"Oh no, I'd enjoy the look on their faces immensely if they stayed in that corner of the room to view" Louie nodded at Nate and he was on her wave length, she certainly was great fun and he enjoyed indulging her joke now that she was indeed feeling better.

"Ok then, you four stay there and hold on to your moptops!" Doctor Nate pulled his fingers into his surgical gloves with a resounding snap on his skin, he winced comically as he looked down at her, making Louie stifled a giggle at his humourously overdone pained face.

Nate placed his head mirror on and directed it to position. The way Lou and Nate were situated the boys couldn't see anything nasty, Nate wasn't even positioned correctly to examine her as he sat by her hip still. Placing a cold hand on Louie's belly he then made a grand gesture like he was going to insert his whole arm in Louie, she could barely hide the grin, then the muttering started.

"See" George said on the quiet "I told you they liked it"

"Its dead wrong, his whole arm, nah I'm out" Paul went for the door, as Richie fell on the floor, dead faint.

Lous eyes widened at the sound of poor Richy sliding to the floor in an ungraceful heap.

"We better stop this Nate"

"I agree" Nate turned to look at the wide-eyed still watching but now gaping lads.

"Marvellous acting by the way doctor" Louise laughed clutching her stomach to stop the rough movement of her laugh, stirring her belly.

"Oh, very funny" John was ashen but recovered quickly.

"Is the drummer ok?" Nate motioned to the floor where Richy sat recovering "I have smelling salts in my case"

"No thanks doc" Richy chuckled slightly embarrassed at his falling over as he sat scrubbing his head a little perplexed to being on the floor.

"Now get out the lot of yer, so I can have the bloody exam in peace!" Louise ordered. The door was left ajar for Nate's practice licence would be cut in half otherwise. The gloves snapped on once again.

It was horrid as always but she hummed God Save the Queen and thought of Richy as he lay dead faint on the floor, it was over rather quickly.

"So, one's your brother?"

"Yes George"

"The quiet one"

Louie huffed "Not likely" She went to sit up, with Nate's assistance." So, the little 'un staying put?"

"Yes, for now. Just no long trips or if need be, stop and have a stroll around for a few minutes to break the journey"

They stood at the door quietly after taking tea in the living room, the boys stood around awkwardly and unusually silent, waiting for the doctor to leave.

"So, you'll post me the bill or I'll pay when I come in next week?"

"Don't worry about it Louise. Consider it a welcome to London present" Nate chuckled but stopped when he saw the looks on all the faces behind her.

"If that's a present I better go back to the 'pool" Louise grumbled.

"Alright alright, maybe not a present. How about lunch after the appointment next week, my shout,  you're booked for 12 noon anyway- have to eat, right?"

"Sounds super. Thanks again" Louise smiled nicely at Nate as he stepped off the stoop to walk down the path, waving "Bye" She shut the door feeling much better.

"Oh doctor, doctor, feel my breasts they are a-heaving" George imitated with a girly voice, Richy elbowed him "Oh well he was a right tosser, checking his patient out like that"

"It's called an internal examination" Louise picked up her cup to go find the kitchen and the kettle and the fridge, she hadn't had a grand tour yet.

Oh yea, I give them all the time" Paul toyed "But with more feeling about and moaning"

"Paul you're such a sleaze" Louie tossed loudly over her shoulder not realising he was directly behind her "oops, didn't mean to yell in your ear like that"

"George is right you know, he's trying to get right up your garden path luv" Richy sat at the kitchen table drumming his fingers on the timber.

"No one can find that particular path at the moment" she mumbled under her breath, then a bit louder "well only with a bloody torch and guidebook"

Paul laughed, he'd heard the lot. He grinned broadly as she watched him fill the teacups again, she blushed a deep pink.

"I got a blush" Paul teased "You look real nice in bright pink, Louise"

"I'll be going to the next appointment" John informed the room like the lord and master "To the doctor's surgery, that is"

Louise rolled her eyes and levelled him with a glare. He ignored her and kept going, digging himself deeper.

"You need an escort and you're married, you just can't do that sort of thing without a companion" John chanced to look up and her eyes bore laser beam like holes in his skull.

"You all better leave now" Louie warned the other three. 

The lads obediently left the kitchen, slammed the front door then toddled down the corridor to the bathroom, door ajar to eavesdrop. "Stay right there you" Lou pointed at the chair in which John sat. Louie stalked down the short hallway and stood in front of the now shut bathroom door "I said leave" she tapped on the door, which opened to reveal three caught lads with a chagrin look written all over their faces.

"Sorry Lou, couldn't resist. Worth a try, right lads" Richy chuckled.

"Come back later.... for the remains" Louise deadpanned. The boys went out the front door making all sorts of gagging noises for John to hear, she saw them off from the lit entry. Off they all walked to the car then they all started a mock fight. Louise rolled her eyes- children..... they finally piled in the motor when Louie had cleared her throat. 

Louise was tired, she had slept in the car but it wasn't a bed and now this doctor's check-up mixed with the boys teasing and Johns un-required possessive streak, she'd just about had enough.

Moving slowly back through to the kitchen John had set a new cup of tea down for her and a bowl of cereal.

"Peace offering" He sat down pointing at the cereal bowl, she stared at it for a few seconds contemplating her hunger then gobbled it down in minutes. "Hungry then"

"mmm. I ate it, doesn't mean I accept it as a peace offering though" She went to stand then John held her arm to stop her, he took the bowl and started washing it.

"He's a predator Mabel, wants something"

"You're talking to me" She waited, then pointed to herself when he faced her "To me John, about predators. If anyone knows about predators it's going to be me, don't you think?"

"I don't mean-"

"You do. Nate has become someone I trust, maybe more so than you" Lou felt terrible verbalising it but he should know how she felt "You and I are supposed to be married, especially in front of my own brother, but ohhh nooooo you couldn't keep it in your pants, for what- a few hours, til George was well clear"

"I. I needed..." John held his head "I needed to check something"

"Your pulse maybe" She retorted tersely.

"Oh, come on"

"No Winnie, a few hours while George and us two married people were in the same vicinity, that was all we needed to keep this ruse afloat. I've asked nothing of you, nothing John, this was your idea, you came to me, you wanted to marry me" She spat it all out.

Louise stood then thought better of it, if she swooned to faint now it would not be good.

"Here's the thing" John stopped putting dishes away.

"This should be entertaining"

John now glared back at Lou and she shut up.

"Here's the thing. I knew you would be coming here, to my house"

"Thanks for the reminder that I am nothing to you" Louise took all the anger she felt on board, as a way to keep the threatening tears at bay.

"Shit Louie, stop it would ya" John then ran the words out quickly "I fucked the girl cause I ... thoughtitwouldbebetterthan ... fucking you"

She fumed, her mind seeing red instantly, so angry at him she was, so angry at the absolute gall of his words.

"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Clenching her fists so tight, Louise stood and stomped as well as she could from the kitchen, hunting for a room, perhaps to find 'her' room.

She found one without 'little boy's' clothes thrown everywhere and slammed the door befitting the anger she felt.

Yes, and now.... She would indeed cry, and thump the pillow, and it would make her all better.