A/N. I have decided that this part of the series will be a multi chapter Fanfiction as there are so many elements that I wanted to include and I believe the extent of it would be too long to be accepted as a one shot, I also wanted to give you the next instalment of this series and this is the first full part I have written. As in any of the series, suggestions are welcome, although not always used, however, anything to help towards this Fanfiction would be greatly accepted. Rambling over, time for the first part:
Chapter 1: Make A Splash
"Please, please, please, please, please!" Elle begged her hands clasped in front of her, pouting ever so slightly.
"I don't know, Elle, we have a busy work schedule, I don't think we can get some time off…" Joseph informed her, and Elle's eyes saddened.
"Bu… But, it's meant to be a family holiday, it isn't family without you!" She pleaded once again.
"Fine, I will see what I can do." He spoke louder to make himself heard over her joyful 'yes!' "But I will need to speak with Jac and then we might be able to come. But please don't get your hopes up." He looked into her eyes just as she began shaking her head.
"No, I won't. I promise!" She flashed him a big dimpled smile which made Joseph smile back, alright then. Now, you keep playing in her while I work, okay?" He asked and Elle nodded her head. Placing a soft kiss on her forehead he patted her shoulder and left.
Walking back onto the ward, he met the short smile of Jac, which made him feel a slight bit better; knowing there was no way they would be able to go, and even if he could find the days off, he did not know if Jac would have the days off. He took a deep breath and re-opened his eyes to see Jac walking towards him.
"Hey." She said, her eyes shifting around checking if anyone was watching before she leaned in and kissed him.
"Hello to you too." He kissed her back before pulling away and looking at her slight shiftiness. "What's wrong?" Her eyes snapped to his face.
"Nothing…" She knew it was no use, "I just don't want to start anything. You know, about our relationship, around the hospital." She said and now Joseph smiled.
"Jac, we're engaged. They can think whatever the hell the want anymore." He leaned back in and softly kissed her again, before holding her hand. "It's alright anyway." Both of his eyebrows creased in confusion, "Where's your ring?" Jac now panicked, not because she had lost it.
"I… um… I haven't worn it to work for the past few weeks." She said. "I've never worn it to work actually."
"Jac." He gave her a stern look.
"Sorry! I just, I didn't want the big fuss, or anything like that, and besides, I never wanted it to get in the way of my work. I want to be strictly professional." She bit her lip tenderly, which made Joseph go crazy; there was no way he could moan now.
"Alright…" He took a deep breath, "I have something else to distract you." He said.
"Like?" Jac asked a small smile growing on her face.
"Well…"
"A caravan?" Was all Jac asked as they both stood outside a shabby little caravan park.
"Oh, come on, it will be fun. Beside's, Elle is going to be made up to see us!" A quick kiss on the cheek and he began walking over towards the caravan door of caravan E-24. As Joseph opened the door, Jac held back a smile, slightly amused about thinking if this was the wrong caravan, but as two small arms were thrown around Joseph's neck and she heard Elle's shriek.
"Uncle Joe!" She exclaimed with excitement, and the second Joseph put her down on the caravan floor, she had thrown herself onto Jac. "Aunt Jac!" She smiled happily.
"Hey, sweetie." She put a soft kiss on her forehead and put her on the floor.
"I knew you were going to come! We're going to have so much fun and do everything!" Elle smiled happily and bounced around the caravan listing things off.
"Actually, Darling, we're here for two days. Then we have to get back to London, but I'm sure we can do a lot of things tomorrow and Wednesday." He patted her head softly, to stop the disappointment.
"We can do lots!" She smiled widely and Joseph gave her a nod in approval.
"What do we do tonight then?" He asked, sitting down on the crappy sofa at one end of the small caravan.
"I dunno." Elle paused, in thought before it looked like she had a brainwave idea, "I'll go check!" In a second she had bombed off to the other side of the caravan, each of her footsteps being heard down at the couch end. Then all went silent…
Joseph looked to a still standing Jac who gave a shrug of her shoulders before his left hand held onto her right wrist and pulled her into his lap. He kissed her passionately before hearing a distant coughing and both pulled apart to see Elle's mother standing in the kitchen giving a slight look of disapproval.
"Jac, Amelia, Amelia, Jac." He introduced them.
"Hi." Amelia nodded over to Jac and she gave a smile back with a small nod. Joseph put his hands on her waist and placed her on the couch next to him before standing and giving Amelia a hug.
"Thanks for coming." She said.
"Of course I was coming, you know I'd do anything for that little girl." A nod.
"I think you just made her holiday better, she's been quite a grumpy guts all the time we've been here." Amelia informed him.
"It's no problem really." Pausing, he looked around, "Where's Aaron?"
"Oh, he's over at my brother's caravan, trying to sort out dinner arrangements and swimming. It seems he's the only one of the lot that can swim, but with five children wanting to go, we need to fix something." She sighed.
"Ah, I don't mind swimming, and I'm sure Jac's brought along her costume. I'm sure three of us will be fine with the five of them." Jac gave a nod from behind him.
"Really? It's only four anyway, because CJ is old enough to go off on his own. He can probably look after one of them anyway." She informed him and Joseph nodded.
"Right, how long until dinner?" He asked.
"There's a good few hours before that and the swimming pool shuts in about a couple of hours which is plenty of time." Joseph nodded, probably should find Aaron then, tell him to get the kids changed."
"If Jac doesn't mind getting Elle changed, I'll walk you over to their caravan." Jac's eyes snapped up in hearing her name.
"Uh? Oh, sure. I don't mind." Amelia gave her a nod and a smile before turning down the heat on the stove.
"You're bedroom is down the hall and it's straight up to the back, right next to the back door." Jac nodded watching them both leave before taking their 'suitcases' to the tidy room and putting them on the bed. She began routing around in her own bag to get her costume out when she heard another bedroom door open and through the cardboard box caravan it echoed.
"Elle, sweetheart." She called and a second later she appeared in her door. "Hey, we're going swimming, are you going to come?" She asked, and watched as her eyes light up as she nodded. "Go and find your costume and towel for me then." Another quick nod from the child and she disappeared.
In the time it took for her to reappear Jac had found her costume and laid it on her bed and put Joseph's on his bed.
"Found it!" She head Elle cheer in a 'eureka!' tone and the child appeared in the door way.
"Alright, let's get you changed." Jac took the towel and costume off of her before starting to unbutton Elle's top.
When Joseph arrived at the caravan he saw Elle and Jac sitting on the couch, Elle in a dress with her swim suit underneath it and Jac in a similar attire, he smile seeing them playing a game of cards.
"Give me two minutes and we'll be going." He informed Jac before disappearing into the bedroom.
The thin caravan steps echoed again and it seemed there were millions of feet on them as the caravan filled with people and children, all running crazy.
"Hi, I'm Gemma." A tall, blonde woman shook Jac's hand.
"Hi, Jac." She told her, unsure of what to do with all of the names she was being fed. Her eyes went to the hallway, and she was relieved to see Joseph standing there.
"We ready?" He chirped and a chorus of excited children's 'yes' came. "Alright. CJ, you keep an eye on Kai." He instructed. "I'll watch Elle and Aaron with Ethan, Jac, you've got Adam." She looked curious to see no fifth child there, but was soon filled in as she saw the pram at the bottom of the steps.
"Alright."
Elle smiled widely as they walked along the path towards the swimming pool. Behind her was a worried Joseph who was struggling to juggle between controlling Kai and Ethan as well as keeping an eye on Elle and carrying the pile of water wings and swimming vests.
"Do you want me to take some?" Jac offered, but Joseph shook his head.
"No, it's alright, you've already got Adam." His head nodded over to the baby in her arms.
"I have a free arm you know, now come here." She forcefully took some of the items away from him and then watched as he walked fast again to keep a close eye on the children.
A sigh came from him as he saw that CJ had stopped them at the entrance, making them wait for him and her.
"Where's Aaron?" Jac asked.
"He said he'd catch us up in a second, he just had to hunt for Elle's water wings." Jac nodded.
"Alright. I'll take Elle and Adam into the girls changing room and get us ready. Are you okay with Kai and Ethan?" Joseph gave a nod. "Alright." As they walked into the separate changing rooms, Jac took Elle and tried to find a large changing room. When she finally got there she firstly took off Adam's top leaving the small blonde boy in his grey swimming trunks and swimming nappy. From that, Jac could tell he was pretty young. No older than a fifteen months she predicted. Once she had sorted him out, she slipped the dress off of Elle and left the small child standing in her pink swimming costume, a purple butterfly over the right side of her stomach.
"Can we go?" Elle asked, obviously excited.
"Two seconds, sweetheart." She stood up and alternated between which arm she was holding Adam in to get her dress off.
"Wow. That's pretty." She heard Elle comment when she finally got her dress off and Elle saw her costume.
"Thanks." She smiled at the little girl who was still looking in awe at the white and green swirl patterned bikini. "Shall we get going?" She asked, scooping the things off of the floor and walking out of the room. Getting a locker and locking it securely, she walked out and went over to the side of the pool where Joseph was already waiting while blowing up water wings. She sat down at the edge, not letting Elle get in the pool yet, Adam cradled in her arms. Her tall legs reached the bottom of the pool with ease and she looked around to see mothers, fathers and their children. Her eyes stopped on the boys'. Each on patiently waiting for Joseph to finish with their water wings/jackets etc.
Kai, who was a pale brown boy with very short black hair and brown eyes, waited in his black swimming shorts, blue dinosaurs all over them. Joseph finished blowing up a ring and scooped around for a life jacket that would fit the seven year old before passing both to CJ who put them on Kai. CJ (Clark Junior as she was informed by Joseph), was older than all of the children on the holiday, he seemed to be about 13. His pale milk skin seemed almost blue from the coldness of the walk over to the pool which he had insisted on doing in only his towel and red swimming trunks. He had blonde hair that Jac could tell had gone a shade darker thanks to the shower before getting in the pool. Ethan was put into green armbands and a bright blue and green swimming vest which only made his skin even whiter. His dirty blonde hair was stuck up at the front with gel, which, with the water, was soon going to mess up. She waited an extra minute for Joseph to finish blowing up the yellow safety ring before letting him take Adam and putting the baby in the ring. When she turned back to Elle, she found her brown haired, green eyed father putting pink and purple butterfly shaped armbands on her before letting her jump into the pool and into the waiting arms of Joseph who immediately dunked her in the water. Carefully, Jac then fully got into the pool, which was a bigger fail as the size of the pool and the size of her meant her knees were barely covered with water. She had to fully sit on her bum to wet her shoulders, but once it was done she felt herself adjust to the waters temperature before standing back up and splashing Adam's shoulders so he did the same. Giving a light shiver, she realised that the baby's pool was far warmer than the adults pool, and then her mind told her why. Ew. Pushing the thought to the back of her mind she glanced around and saw the rest of the group walking towards the more deeper end of the pool. Pulling a splashing Adam behind her, she followed until she reached the opposite steps and as she got there, she saw it was a hell of a lot deeper than the shallow end as her bikini top was almost covered in water. Turning to face Adam, she watched as he attempted to splash his big brother and cousins. Her mind became so lost in watching the children all playing that she jumped (as much as you can in water) as an arm sneaked its way around her waist and she felt that nerve melting nibble on her ear.
"Nice bikini." She knew now it was Joseph. "I've never saw it before… maybe I could take a closer look at it tonight…" She pushed him away just as he winked at her.
"You wish." She pulled a tongue at him.
"But I thought with you being my fiancé would give me access to do anything…" He said seductively again. Jac felt his hand snake, but not go anywhere as it just lingered around her waist.
"Oh it does, Mr. Byrne. But what you seem to have forgotten is that caravan walls are like cardboard." She informed him, his eyebrows raising as she shook her head.
"Oh, I remembered, you best be quiet then…" He began deeply kissing her. Both pulled apart with a sudden splashing of water from Elle.
"Uncle Joe, can I go on the water slide?" Joseph's eyes looked up to a blue curly slide that looked safe so he gave a nod and took her armbands off of her before watching her going to stand behind the boys in the line.
Jac turned her attention back to the shivering Adam in front of her and watched how his bottom lip quivered.
"Hey, are you cold?" She asked stupidly. "Alright, let's get you back to the warm." Picking Adam out of the ring, she put him on one hip and stood fully up, putting the yellow ring under one arm. As Adam's torso touched her side she felt the extent of his coldness as the freezing skin made herself shiver. Her hand ran up and down his legs to try and warm them up as she stepped out of the pool. As she came to the steps of the slide where Joseph had now joined Elle, he passed her a confused look. "He's freezing." She informed him. "I'm going to warm him up and take him back to the caravan." He gave a nod.
"Do you remember where it is?" Stupid question. "Of course you do. See you soon, we're almost done here." He pecked her on the lips and watched as she carried Adam away down the slope to the changing rooms.
