Guess who's back?. After 2 years I've decided to come back and finally complete Lacey's story, you may have noticed, all the other chapters have disappeared, I've decided to take Lacey's story in a different direction, similar to the original, but with different twists. I didn't see the previous story going anywhere and my writers block was lasting literally forever anyway, after reviewing the story plan and doing most of the chapters I have decided on this and each chapter will be updated every 1-2 weeks, with a sequel already in the planning. I hope you guys enjoy and I'm sorry it was such a long wait, but Lacey has returned :).
"Hush little baby, don't say a word-"
Roman stood at the door watching Lacey rock Luca to sleep and smiled, he'd never pictured himself as a dad, let alone a grandad, but he knew, even though he was the 'bad guy' he was loving it.
"He asleep now?" he asked, making Lacey aware he was there.
"I think so" she looked up at Roman, "just making sure".
"Want me to take him up?".
"Um, yeah, that would be great actually" She kissed Luca, "night baby, I love you" she carefully handed Luca over to her dad "thanks dad".
Roman smiled, holding Luca and taking him upstairs. He walked into Lacey's room and carefully placed Luca into his crib, pulling the blanket over him and sighing carefully. He looked down at his grandson, he had someone that he could grow to become just like him and carry on what he was doing, he was proud of Lacey, for everything she was doing and had done, but mostly, he was proud of her, for giving him the boy that would carry on his legacy, just as Lacey had been doing.
He got back downstairs to see Lacey staring at her phone.
"What's up Lace?".
She sighed heavily "Just drama as always dad".
"Lace if it's that idiot giving you shit again I will kill him, I mean it this time".
"Dad no, it's fine I'm sure me and him will work something out, and it's quite the opposite of giving me shit. He's said nothing since Luca was born, it's been over a year now. It's like he's not even interested in his son".
"I told you he was a bad egg Lace" Roman walked in the kitchen, pouring a glass of wine for him and Lacey, he sat down next to her on the sofa, handing her the glass "best advice, let him come to you, if he really wants to see his son, he'll make an effort".
"I just didn't want Luca missing out on a father".
"He has me, I'll make sure he's raised right" she smiled and took a sip of the wine.
.BANG
Lacey and Roman shot their heads at the door, and both pulled out their guns pointing it at the door, Roman slowly walked to the door looking through the eyehole in their door, Roman sighed in relief when he saw it was Riley. "Just Riley" After opening the door Riley shot in and was panting heavily, Lacey knew something was up.
"Riley, what's happened?".
"Pe-penguin, him and his men" Riley took another deep breath "they're coming for you Lace, you and the baby" her eyes shot open.
"So you came here, instead of calling?!" Roman responded, slowly getting more angry.
"I-I didn't know what else to do. We just heard it on the radio transmission, Lacey I hate to say it but he's annoyed at you, something about-".
"Yeah I know" she interrupted Riley "I'm going to grab Luca, go somewhere safe".
"Where?" Roman asked.
"Anywhere I can't stay here with him, we'll be sitting ducks" Riley agreed and Lacey ran upstairs to grab Luca, she carefully woke him "come on baby, we gotta go".
"Momma?" Luca questioned, rubbing his eyes.
"Come on baby" she grabbed him and was about to run when she heard the door get kicked in, she took a deep breath in, her heart frantically beating, she slowly put her hand over Luca's mouth telling him to be quiet, Luca saw the look in his mum's eyes and knew there was something wrong.
"WHERE ARE THEY?" she heard someone downstairs demand and heard someone being hit.
"I told you" Roman said "they're gone, they skipped town".
"Isn't that funny" she immediately recognised the voice as penguin and let out a shuddered breath "only yesterday we were told that Lacey and the baby were here, it's time for me to get my own back Sionis, starting with that baby".
"Your sick" Riley retaliated.
"Just like all of us" Penguin replied "now tell me, where are they?".
Lacey panicked, she had no way to get out, they were on the top floor, and she couldn't exactly waltz out the front door.
"Check upstairs" Lacey gulped and ran into her room, grabbing a gun she turned to Luca "Okay baby, momma needs you to be really quiet and close your eyes okay, I'm going to make the bad people go away" Luca listened, closing his eyes and putting his hands over his mouth.
Penguin's guy walked into the room looking at Lacey and the baby and smiling "FOUND-" was all he could get out as Lacey shot him, she took a deep breath again as her heart beat even faster.
Roman closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he knew there was no way for Lacey and Luca to get out and knew they would have to fight their way out of this, with him and Riley tied up he knew there was nothing he could do, not until Lacey got a significant amount of the men down.
More of the men ran upstairs and he heard Lacey scream, he panicked and knowing he couldn't do anything made it worse, Riley turned to him "I know this might be out of place but try to calm down a little, the last thing Lacey needs is you going down" Roman looked at him, completely ignoring what he had said, he looked back up at the ceiling, hoping Lacey could do this.
Back upstairs, someone had a gun pointed to Luca's head "STOP!" Lacey cried at him "please don't hurt him, take me but not Luca, he's just a baby" her plea's went unheard as Penguin snatched Luca off Lacey "NO!" she screamed at him as Penguin walked off with him.
"Momma?" Luca cried as he was taken away.
"Momma's going to come get you baby, I promise".
One of the men shot her in the leg as they walked out and as she tried to run after them, one of them pushed her down, they walked out the door and Lacey hobbled downstairs, as they went she turned to Roman and Riley, with tears streaming down her face "they got him daddy, they took my baby".
Roman got up and grabbed her, sitting her down he started to look at her leg, "Riley, go to base and group up as many men and weapons as you can" he handed him the keys "tell them what's happened and tell them we'll be down as soon as we can with a plan" Riley nodded walking out the door, he took one last sympathetic look at Lacey, he was going to do whatever it took to get her baby back to her.
So that's the end of the new chapter 1, you may have noticed that Lacey's son is alive this time. Again with the slight change in story direction this made more sense and will make much more sense as the story goes on, hope you guys enjoyed.
LaceySionis Xx
