Sunshine on Leith Page #6
Well, there's nothing
for me here now, so...
- Where are you gonna go?
- Where do you think I'm going?
I've joined up again.
Ally, you know what it's like out there.
You know what can happen.
- It's not that bad.
- We nearly died, Ally. It's crazy.
So it's not what
we're supposed to be doing?
Looking for some sort of adventure,
something new, something else?
- Not settling for what we've got?
- What about Ronnie?
Think he'd settle for what he's got?
- Ronnie was unlucky.
- You need to think about this.
- I have.
- Think again.
- Stop telling me what to do.
- Why would you want to go back?
Because they wanted me!
- Ally, I'm begging You-
- Davy.
I get it.
You need to let me do this.
Keep your head down.
Don't do anything stupid.
D'you hear?
Hey.
I'll be fine.
I'll be fine.
Hi, Rab. Jean dropped this off
earlier for you when you were asleep.
I thought I'd pop it in.
Where's that?
That's Ullapool, I think.
Have you been up there?
No, I've been meaning to.
It looks so beautiful.
Lizzie.
- We're all gonna miss her.
- Yeah.
As if my heart
wasn't breaking enough.
The joys of parenthood.
You'll want to go shopping when you
get there. You don't need all this.
Tell me about the hospital again.
Well, it's a teaching hospital,
so I could choose a specialism
and do a masters if I want.
Well, you'd better.
What will you go for?
- Nurse practitioner?
- That's nearly a doctor, isn't it?
Not quite.
Well, that's what I'll be telling people
when I'm bragging about you.
You'll be fine, Lizzie.
You'll be fine.
Go on, try that now.
When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the rail track
From Miami to Canada
Broke off from my work the other day
I spent the evening thinking about
all the blood that owed away
Across the ocean
to the second chance
I wonder how it got on
when it reached the promised land
When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the rail track
From Miami to Canada
I've looked at the ocean
Tried hard to imagine
The way they felt the day they sailed
from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia
We should have held you
We should have told you
But you know our sense of timing
We always wait too long
When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the rail track
From Miami to Canada
Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Skye no more
Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Skye no more
Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Skye no more
I wonder, my blood
Will you ever return
To help us kick the life back
to a dying mutual friend
Do we not love her?
Do we not say we love her?
Do we have to roam the world
to prove how much it hurts?
When you go
will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the rail track
From Miami to Canada
Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more
Bathgate no
more Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more
Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more
Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more
Across the ocean
To the second chance
I wonder how it got on
When it reached the
promised land
Everything with your dad
makes you think a bit, doesn't it?
If the same thing happened to my mum,
I'd wanna be there for her too.
Of course.
Even if it meant me going home?
Nothing has happened to your mum.
- Has it?
- No, but it could.
What if I had to go?
Well, then, I'd understand.
I thought you might be a little bit
more concerned than that.
- Well, course I'd be concerned.
- Well, good.
That's a slight improvement
on 'I'd understand'.
What's the problem here?
- This is all hypothetical.
- But this isn't, us. This is real.
- I thought this was about your mum.
- No, Davy, this is about me and you.
If something happens,
I wanna know if you'd come with me.
- To England?
- Does it matter where?
Well, aye, if it's England.
What?
Look, my family's here.
I can't just abandon them.
You ran off to the
army quick enough.
- This is ridiculous.
- Oh, right, so I'm being ridiculous.
- Aren't you?
- OK, fine.
Tell me, if I went,
would you come with me?
Or what? That's us finished?
- It's not an ultimatum.
- Well, it sounds like it.
- Well, answer the question, then!
- No.
- I think you'd better go, then.
- Fine, I will.
Ally?
Hi, Ma.
How you doing?
Yeah, I'm good, thanks.
Yeah, no, I just...
I thought I'd ask how you'd feel
about me maybe coming
home for a bit.
Well, I don't really know yet.
Maybe quite a while.
Or for good.
Not sure.
So am I back on the couch?
You broke your vows, Rab.
I cannae pretend it didn't happen.
I cannae act like
I'm not hurt by it.
But I'll live with it.
Thank you.
I'm not gonna stop seeing Eilidh.
With Liz and Davy,
you made me promise
that I would be as good
a father as I could be.
And I tried. I'm still trying.
But you just can't turn
that off like it's a tap.
I need to try for her.
I need to see her.
What are you thinking?
I think you're stubborn.
Infuriating.
And utterly predictable.
So are we going home
together or what?
Why don't you ask the driver?
Hi.
Hiya.
How are you feeling?
Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Good.
Right.
Car's just outside.
Dad wants a cup of tea.
I'll make it.
You all right?
Aye, fine.
Do you wanna make it work?
- Eh?
- You and Yvonne.
Do you really wanna make it work?
- Aye, I do, but...
- No buts, Davy.
If you love her,
just go and get her.
- Where are you going?
- I need to speak to Yvonne.
She's gone.
You're too late.
What do you mean?
Where's she gone?
- I don't know if I'm allowed to say.
- Francine.
- Well, I...
- Where's she gone?
She's gone to get the train home,
to England.
She was really upset.
What? I had to tell him.
They're in love.
Sorry.
Yvonne!
Yvonne, wait, please. Yvonne.
- What do you want?
- I need to ask you a question.
- I don't wanna talk to you.
- I need to know something.
I'm gonna be late
for my train, Davy.
Do you want to make this work?
- What?
- You and me, I mean.
- Do you want to make this work?
- Look, Davy...
I don't know how things'll work out,
Yvonne, and I can live with that.
But if you're not ready
to take that chance...
Me? What do you mean,
if I'm not ready?
- So you are ready?
- No, not any more.
- But you just said...
- I was ready.
And then you made your
position perfectly clear.
But, I thought you were
looking for an excuse to end it.
I was looking for a reason
to keep going.
- Why didn't you say that?
- I did. I asked you and you said no.
- That wasn't the question.
- Yes, it was.
Was it?
Look, look, ask me again,
but this time
please keep it simple.
Your family, your home, they're
important to you, I get that, but...
I don't know where I fit in.
You're a part of all
of that now.
What if I have to leave
and you have to choose?
I don't wanna be the one
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