The River Boys are back in town...

[TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross]

@SleepingStandingUp, @CurbsideProphet et al - we filled up a Home and Away thread. This is unheard of. So here’s shiny new one - I know there are only a few of us, but keep the faith.

#bloodandsand

No-one's run over Ava this time - Sleeping & Choccy swerved to avoid her. She dropped her backpack while chasing Buddy. She's run off because she's scared she'll get into trouble. Sleeping & Choccy will be fine - they'll be taken to the hospital, one unconscious, the other mumbling about Ava - both will be discharged later the same day. Sleeping with have a graze on her forehead for 2 episodes, Choccy will have crutches for 3 episodes. Ava will be found not far from the crash site, sitting next to a tree. No-one will be cross for her for running away/being in the road/leaving the scene of the accident without trying to get help. Her mum will hear that she nearly got run over again, cut her holiday short & whisk Ava away promising Justin he'll never see her again, despite the fact that it was her changing plans that made Ava feel unloved in the first place.

Agnu I can see it all on screen, you need to patent your ideas before they steal them.
Please can Ash come and visit? I can go dizzy, they'll worry its a brain aneurysm and there wedding will be back on.

If I'm having crutches I won't be able to light the barbie so will need a steady stream of wellwishers with food, including Leah's moussaka, Maz's muffins, John's gelato and a crate of bubbly from Salt (given it was their relative who ran out into the road). And a nice comfy lounger to sit outside the caravan park house and enjoy the all-new sweeping vista.

It's be friends with Leah just for the food

Sleeping - Ash comes to visit but it turns out it's not an aneurysm, it's a tumour & you only have weeks to live. The wedding's back on & you & Ash go "up the coast" for your honeymoon to a secluded cabin where you can make the most of the time you have left...

Choccy - for putting yourself at risk to save Ava, you get free pizza delivered from Salt whenever you want until you're fully recovered.

Dude, don't let me die!

Doctor Tori will save you, even though you are her main rival for Ash.

She will single-handedly perform a never before heard of life-saving operation without disturbing your perfect hair and wedding make-up and you'll be back in the dinner by lunchtime the next day.

Even sooner if Jasmine gets your blood results back in record time, or Mason shouts advice through the swing door to the operating room (which will be in full view of the only corridor in the hospital.

Ah good. I imagine some vomitting a,few months down the line, a dramatic collapse... has our returned?? Will I die?? No, I'm pregnant with TRIPLETS!!!!!!!! Yay, Daddy Ash and me - shall we move in with Irene or Leah?

Ah but are they all Ash's? Let us not forget that time on H&A when somebody had twins to two fathers.
Pizza sounds fab, ta xxx as long as it is accompanied by fizz.

I "know" someone that actually happened to.

Maybe one belongs to Pa Astoni

ChoccyJules that was Sophie wasn't it?

One twin was Blake's and the other twin was Sally's.

I thought Blake was something to do with it. Sally?! Leah had Pippa for Sally.

I think Sophie miscarried the twin that was Sally's but went into labour with the other one on Sally's wedding day.

Then Blake left her but they got back together later on.

Then Leah had Pippa.

Sorry, Sleeping, I got carried away with the drama... No, I won't kill you off. You'll go to the cabin "up the coast" with Ash for 3 weeks. Just the 2 of you, thinking it's the last time you're going to be together... By the time you get back Tori has spoken to one of her "contacts" who just so happens to be a world-renowned brain surgeon who's developing a new technique. After one 2 minute scene of Ash pacing the corridor, hands clasped on his head just above his man-bun, Tori will emerge in a completely clean surgeon's gown, removing her mask, & announce that the surgery went well & he can see you once you're in recovery. Ash will be so overcome with joy that he'll hug Tori. They'll move apart slowly, her gazing up into his face... "Tori..." he says slowly, frowning a little. "I'm married now..."
"I know..." She murmurs but she doesn't move away. Then he asks which way to recovery, as if he's not been there a million times before, & rushes off to hold your hand & stare intently at you until your eyelids gently flicker open & he can reveal that they got the whole tumour & you're going to grow old together.

Yay, with our triplets - Agnu, Jules and NewC

As your never seen and never mentioned before best friend, I've never been so happy. But wait, what's this? While I am moodily wandering the beach, waiting for you to come out of surgery (Ash won't let me wait at the hospital because I ruined the original wedding when I thought Evil Twin Pygge was pregnant with his child rather than just with a cushion up her dress), I run into Robbo, also moodily wandering the beach because Colby put red socks in the wash and now all his vests are slightly pink. He asks me what's wrong, and tenderly wipes away a single glistening tear, and I gaze into his eyes, completely forgetting to ask him who did that TERRIBLE tattoo on his right arm. It's love at first sight.

But what about my penthouse apartment in the city, and my six figure career as a lawyer, so successful as to rival the mighty Morag Bellingham, and the weekend charity work I do because I am also handily a fully qualified paediatric surgeon who spends my days off saving the lives of tiny cute children? What of them? Who wouldn't give all that up to live in a flat over the diner with Colby and Robbo, and earn a living making vegan tofu mockolate brownies with Marilyn?

Because a vacancy has opened up in the diner since Sleeping is in hospital recovering from brain surgery (which I could have done, FYI, if Ash hadn't banned me from her bedside) and pregnant with triplets. So she has been signed off work for at least half an hour.

But what does this mean for my friendship with Sleeping, you ask? Will Ash ever forgive me, or will my relationship with Robbo be the thing that pushes him over the edge into wild-eyed fury again? Not only is Robbo now deleriously happy, but I am not prepared to give up on my friendship with Sleeping. But somehow, I don't see cosy double dates at Salt in our future...

Oh you, you named a baby after me....summat in me eye

We'll all be besties forever, we won't be split up by men with fists for brains!!

You know we belong together....besties last forever and ever....

#friendsbeforemens

I have just seen a picture of Ash with much shorter hair and no beard.

I had not realised how much his man bun and his beard contributed to how hot he is

Picture!! NewC send me pictures!!

Well, here it is, but I’m warning you, you can’t unsee it...

It was on a spoiler site so I’ve cropped it.

I need to go and look at pics of man bun beardy Ash again now to recover.

That sooo bizarre

hahahahahaha. Oh dear.