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Note: When Katie talks there are Typos, purposely there, because she can't talk perfectly yet.
Chapter One
Shit
Eddie
I look at the disdain on Trudy's face, then she breaks into a smile.
"Hello Dear", she says.
"Hi, Trudy. This is Katie", I say as she unburies her head from my shoulder. Katie's three now, talking, and walking, and she's mine.
"Hi Katie, I'm Trudy.", Trudy says with a smile to my daughter. God that never gets old, my daughter.
"Hi Trudy", she says with a smile, drawing out the u.
"Daddy can I color?", she asks to me.
"Yeah. Come on, I'll take you to the dining room", I tell her setting her down at a chair in the room.
"Well Mr. Sweets wasn't lying. She does look like you", Trudy says taking another glance at Eddie. I've spoken with Trudy quite often lately. She's helped me, with quite a lot.
"You'll be staying in Vera's old room, me and Jasper converted it over break. It's got a bathroom now", she says to me, "And no worries, you'll be able to go to classes like normal, I'll watch Katie here.", Trudy smiles at her.
"Hey Daddy, look I colored a kitty green, isn't that silly", she giggles, I smile back.
"Sure is", I say sitting down with her.
"Is anybody else here?", I ask, she shakes her head no.
"Your dad's not even here yet", she says. Then she goes to the kitchen and I color with Katie. I look like a wimp, but Katie's the light in my world, and I would do anything for her. But I stuck her with my mom a lot over break when I went out.
It still surprises me how okay Katie is with everything. She knew I was her dad when I picked her up, I think the Maxfields told her about me being her dad.
I grab a crayon and that's when the door to the house opens, and Jerome walks through the dining room door.
"Hey Eddie", he says walking to the kitchen to get whatever Trudy was taking out of the oven. Then he freezes and walks backwards, looking to the table.
"Who's this?", he asks, gesturing to Katie.
"I'm Katie", she giggles again, smiling, "Look at my pisure.", she says, no pronouncing it right, "I colored a Kitty Green!", she breaks into another fit of giggles.
"It's lovely", he says with a confused grin, "Now Eddie who is she?", he asks.
"She's my daughter", I tell him, and his mouth falls open in a surprised, "O".
"I'm calling Nina", he says turning away.
"She already knows", I tell him, he turns back to me.
"Well alright then.", he says the confusion has not disappeared from his voice. I get up and head into the kitchen.
"Hey Trudy, I have to head to work. Can you watch Katie?", I ask, she nods with a smile.
"Bye dear.", she says, then I go back to Katie.
"Hey I have to go to work", I tell Katie.
"Can I come?", she asks.
"No sweetie. Trudy's going to watch you for a bit.", I say patting her head, then Jerome walks in with a plate of brownies and sits at the table.
"I'll see you later", I say kissing her cheek.
"Bye Daddy", she says, then she looks at Jerome. I stand by the door watching the exchange.
Katie stares at Jerome with a blank face, and he looks at her. Then it's a staring contest, both blank faced. Then Jerome cracks up laughing passing Katie the plate of brownies where she takes one. Maybe Katie will be okay here, I think as I head out the door.
Tats shop has always felt like a home. When I first got to England it's the first place I went, then me and Tats attempted a battle of wits in which I won, where she promptly gave me a job. Tats is one of the few people I trust.
I relax as I sling off my leather jacket when I enter her shop.
"Tats", I call.
"In back", she yells back, in back is where she does her tattoos and piercings, I head back there, entering the shop. Michaels is there too working on th second of three tables. On both a young looking girl, one waiting off to the side.
"Hey Eddie", Tats, smirks. She glances up from her work of a butterfly, on the girls ankle. Tats hates meaningless tattoos, but she has to make a living.
"Eddie man", Mike says from the table. He's Tats on again off again fling. If he was working they were on.
"Eddie can you give this girl here a tattoo.", Tats asks, nodding her head at the blonde standing off to the side.
"Designs on the table", she tells me. I nod, knowing she can't see it and grab the design, walking over to the last table.
Minutes later I've transferred the design, and have the needle in my hand.
"You ready?", I ask the girl, she nods. I start in on the same design the other two are getting.
Having the needle in my hand again calms me. I like tattooing. Transferring a piece of art or a saying to a person, but like Tats, I hate meaningless ones. That's why I've yet to get another. Unlike Tats who has many covering her arms. But they all mean something. A family tree, designed as a serpent. A snake for the one that bit her sister while she was hiking and killed her. A distorted breast cancer ribbon for he r mom, who died when she was younger.
But a tattoo like a butterfly? I design stories for the person so they don't feel like meaningless tattoos. While I work I come up with a story for the girl I'm tattooing. She used to go butterfly catching with her sister, who admired them so much. Her sister ran away from home, leaving a note that she wasn't meant to be like a butterfly, and be caught, but to be free. So she came to get this tattoo so that she could always have her sister with her.
I finish the story as I finish the tattoo. Then the three girls smile, pay and leave. The one I tattooed handing me a card with her number on it as she leaves. Mike laughs.
"You going to tap that?", he asks. I laugh and shove him tossing the card to the trash. Then Tats hugs me.
"Your back", she says, before releasing me.
" I didn't think you would be, now that Katie is yours.", she says.
"Yeah well, I wouldn't leave you with this lug now would I?", I ask jokingly.
"Beers to celebrate your home coming", cheered Mike.
"Not in the store", Tats says taking the beers Mike just set on the corner out the back door.
"Now let's drink", Tats cheers. I laugh.
"One of us should stay sober, and I have to get back in one piece", I say.
"Then come out with us later tonight, bring Nina and Trix.", she says pleadingly. I shrug.
"I'll try", I say. Heading back in the store.
It's a few hours later when I'm off. It was a slow night so I head back to Anubis. And when I walk in I do believe I'm in shock.
In the living room sits Nina, Jerome and Katie. And in the floor are all of Katie's dolls. I watch as they play with Katie. All of them laughing.
"Daddy!", Katie cheers, as soon as she sees me, " I missed you! Jerry and Ninny where playing dollies wuth me!", she giggles some more, and I look at a smiling Nina.
"You missed dinner", Nina tells me, I shrug.
"Tats", I tell her.
"And you kiddo", I say to Katie, "It's time for bed.", I tell her.
"Okay Daddy. Nightie Night Ninny. Night Jerome", she says.
"Goodnight", Nina calls.
"Sweet Dreams", Jerome adds as I carry Katie upstairs.
Twenty Minutes and Two Bed-time stories later, and she's asleep. I turn on a monitor. She'll be fine, but if she wakes up in a strange place she might get scared, so I turn it on and bring it with me.
I find Nina cleaning up the toys, and everyone else relaxing in the common room.
"I was coming back down to clean those up", I tell her, she smiles.
"It's fine.", she says, standing up.
"Hi", she says, once she does.
"Hey", I say smirking at her.
"Tats says she wants us to go out tonight.", I tell her. She looks at me confused, before taking my hand, and pulling me out to the hall.
"You want to go out with your daughter here?", she asks. I shrug.
"She's asleep, and I'm dying to go out", I tell her.
"You can't go out", she tells me.
"Loosen Up, Nina. Come on. Did a summer away from me do you bad. Are back to being tight?", I ask her and she scoffs.
"No Eddie. I haven't. I can go out if I want. But you can't", she tells me. Never has anyone told me what to do, and the disdain in her eyes is clear.
Nina wants me to be like the old her.
"I can do what I want", I tell her, anger creeping into the conversation like a snake.
"Eddie.", she says in her soothing tone. She used to use that tone last year. But it wasn't as soothing. It was more of a listen.
But the way she said is stung. I heard, "I know better than you so do what I say".
"I'm not going to sit here and listen to you Nina. You can't tell me how to raise my daughter.", I say my voice rising slightly. That's when Jerome joins us.
"What's going on here?", he asks. I glare at them.
"I'm out of here", I say about to turn.
"Your leaving Katie?", he asks, I roll my eyes and slam the door on my way out.
No one's going to tell me what to do. So when I meet with Mike and Tats and take several shots, I don't feel guilty.
Eddie Miller doesn't change for anyone. Not anybody, ever.
Tats doesn't ask questions, that's why I like hanging with her. She knows I love Katie, why doesn't Nina get that? Tats know I care about Nina, but why doesn't Nina see that?
Things start to get blurry around my fifth beer, and third shot. And soon my fist is connecting with someone's face, and that's the last thing I remember.
My last coherent thought being, shit.
And the action begins…Next Chapter. I used this one to explain everything.