Chapter 2
Authors note: Thanks for the reviews, here's the next chapter :)
Two months later
"Mama, monkey?" Asks Scarlett, toddling into the kitchen.
"What about monkey Lett?" Lillie asks
"No monkey!" Exclaims Scarlett throwing her hands in the air.
"Why, where's your monkey Lettie?" Clark asks
"No monkey!" Scarlett repeats
"You can't find him?" Asks Lillie and Lettie shakes her head. "Well I'm sure daddy can help you find him because mummy needs to go to work ok baby?" Lillie gathers up her things, kisses Scarlett and Clark and heads towards the front door with Lettie hot on her heels.
"No mama no!" Shouts Lettie and tries to follow Lillie out of the front door.
"Lettie no, mummy has to go to work so you need to stay with daddy." Says Lillie as she scoops Scarlett up and places her in Clark's arms. Clark quickly closes the door and puts a wriggling Scarlett down on the floor.
"Mama! Mama!" Scarlett shouts and tries to open the front door again.
"No Lettie, come on. Mummy has to go to work so you're going to spend the day with daddy ok?"
"No! Want mama!" Scarlett shouts and bursts into tears. Clark picks her up and jiggles her around in his arms. "Dada no! Down! Want mama! Dada!" She shouts and bangs her fists against Clark's back. He carries her into the living room and sits down on the sofa, picking up her sippy cup from the coffee table and handing it to her. She bats it away a few times before giving up and letting Clark put the tip of the cup in her mouth. A little while later, when she has fully calmed down, Clark places her back on the floor and she quickly toddles off to her bedroom and closes the door behind her. Clark sighs and starts to follow before seeing Lettie's stuffed toy monkey on the floor by his and Lillie's bedroom. He picks it up and makes his way into Lettie's bedroom.
"Hey look who daddy found!" He exclaimed and sat down in front of Scarlett who was sitting on the floor. She took the monkey out of his hands and buried her face in his chest. "So what do you want to do today Lett? Do you want to go to the park?"
"No."
"Do you want to play with your teddy's and have a teddy bears picnic?"
"No."
"Do you want to play with the new dolls house that uncle Spike bought you?"
"No."
"Do you want to go swimming?"
"No." Scarlett repeated
"Scarlett, come on." Clark said sighing. "How about you and I go and watch some TV together?"
"No dada."
"Ok well daddy will leave you here to think about what you want to do and I'll just be in the living room when you're ready ok?" Said Clark getting up and leaving so that Scarlett could decide on what she wanted to do.
A few minutes later, Scarlett toddles into the living room, her small suitcase that Lillie and Clark had bought for her for when she stayed at uncle Spike's house, in tow.
"Lettie? What are you doing baby?" Asks Clark
"We go swimming dada!" She exclaims and sets the suitcase down beside Clark before unzipping it to show him the contents. Inside the case was three stuffed toys, including monkey, a swimming costume, a colouring book and pens and a princess dress.
"Lettie of we're going swimming you don't need all this, you're not sleeping at uncle Spike's house so you don't need to take all that stuff." Says Clark laughing.
"Why?" She asks tilting her head to the side just like Lillie does when she's confused.
"Because daddy can take a bag with our things in it and there's no need to take all that stuff Lett."
"Why?" She asks again
"Because we're just going swimming."
"Why?"
"Because," Clark starts and then sighs. "Lettie come on let's go and get some towels and daddy's swimming things and we can go."
*At the pool*
"Lettie don't run because you're going to... fall over." Says Clark and rushes towards Scarlett as she slips. He scoops her up just as she starts to cry.
"It's ok you're not bleeding, you shocked yourself more than anything." He says and rocks her in his arms until her cries turn to sniffles. Clark goes and sits on the edge of the pool, dipping Lettie's feet in the pool making her squeal. After a few hours of playing in the pool, Clark took Scarlett to McDonalds for lunch and then home for a nap before Lillie came home.
*That evening*
Lillie shot up in bed, jolting Clark awake as his arm fell from her waist. He slowly opened his eyes and adjusted them to the light in the room. Once his eyes had fully adjusted, he saw Lillie sitting in the middle of her side of the bed, knees pulled up to her chest, arms wrapped around them, sobbing.
"Hey, Lils, baby what's wrong?" He whispered sitting up and pulling her to him. She fell into his arms and clutched handfuls of his t-shirt in her fists as she wept into his chest.
"Ssh Lils it's ok." Clark repeated rubbing her back gently.
"Don't let go." Lillie begged and held onto Clark tighter and Clark nodded and kissed the top of her head.
"Did you have a nightmare?" Clark asked and Lillie nodded, her weeping slowly turning to sniffles.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Clark asked and she shook her head. Clark kissed her forehead again. A few minutes later, Clark looked down at Lillie and found that she had fallen asleep again. He lay back on the bed and held Lillie close to him as he fell asleep.
"Do you want to talk about the nightmare you had last night Lils?" Clark asks as they lie in bed the next morning.
"No, I know I should but I don't want to right now." Lillie replies turning from her back onto her side so that she is facing Clark. "You know what tomorrow is right?" She asks, quickly changing the subject.
"Nice way to change the subject and of course I do! It's our anniversary." Clark exclaimed and leant over to kiss Lillie quickly. "One year since I married the love of my life, one year since one of the best days of my life."
"Good answer!" Lillie replies laughing. "What are the other best days of your life then?"
"The day I met you, the day Lettie was born and the day that you agreed to marry me. Now back onto our original topic of conversation and don't change the subject this time! You haven't had a nightmare since we got married, what do you think could have triggered it?"
"I don't know." Lillie muttered and snuggled into Clark's side.
"Why don't I believe you Lils?" He asks and she shrugs. "Lillie come on, you need to talk to me."
"Fine. I'm probably just being paranoid or something because I thought I saw... him... the other day when I was walking through the park with Lettie and again yesterday when I left work." She replied
"Him? Babe who's him?" Clark asked, slightly confused.
"Him. Ethan Jones."
"What? Lils why didn't you tell me?" He asked sitting up and pulling Lillie up with him.
"Because I knew that you would freak out and I don't even know if it was him or not!"
"Lillie we have to tell our parents in case it's something that we need to worry about. I can't, won't let you or Lettie get hurt Lillie, I won't."
"But if its not him then I would have wasted our parents time and..."
"Lillie stop. We're telling our parents ok."
"Fine. Whatever you want." Lillie mutters and gets out of bed to go and get Scarlett who had just woken up.
*Later that day*
"Uh oh!" Shouts Scarlett as the block tower that her and Lillie had been building fell down.
"Oh dear! Maybe we built it a bit too big! What do you think Lett?" Asks Lillie
"Too big!" Lettie repeated as Clark walks into the living room and sits down beside them. "Dada!" She shouts and crawls onto Clark's lap.
"Hey baby, so I spoke to my dad just now." He says and Lillie nods.
"About what we talked about earlier?" She asks and Clark nods "And what did he say?"
"That he will speak to your dad and he'll get the team to keep an eye out for him when they're patrolling and that he wants you to ring any member of the team or your dad if you see him again."
"Ok, that's fine. So have you got planned for us tomorrow?"
"And you change the subject again! And I thought we could take Lettie to the zoo and then we're going out for a romantic meal."
"What about Scarlett, is she coming out to dinner with us?"
"No, she's staying at my parents house, trust me Lils, everything is sorted."
"Should I trust your daddy Scarlett?" She asks Scarlett who nods and then starts to build her tower again.
"Ok then, I guess I trust you then!" Lillie announces and presses a kiss to Clark's lips before helping Lettie with her tower.
AN: So do you think Ethan is back or is it just Lillie's imagination? Don't forget to review!