"alright you two, its almost eleven and you need to get up." Cooper awoke to his wife standing above him. on his chest Savannah pulled more covers up over her so she could block the light. "No you don't," she laughed as she scooped up savannah who was swaddled in covers.

"mommy." She laughed. "put me down."

Char only held her tighter and swung her back and forth, "Lord, you have gotten so big." She looked down at her, "you know I remember holding you like this when you were a baby."

She snuggled into her moms chest. Cooper rubbed his eyes to awaken. "youre already up and dressed? What time is it?" he jumped up realizing how late hed slept.

"Calm down it's a Saturday. Masons at a friends. So its just us three right now."

He looked up fully evaluating her now, "should've known."

"whats that supposed to mean?" she eagerly questioned.

"youre in a sun dress."

"And?"

"sun dress' are 'casual' for you." He made sure to add a southern accent on the word casual.

His wife cocked her head. "your daddy is lookin' for a time out." She laughed "lets go get you dressed."

++t

They returned downstairs and took Savannahs temperature. "you seem to be getting better." Coop helped his daughter off the kitchen counter. He turned to Char, "its only at 99.7" he smiled in relief.

"must've just been a bug." She laughed as her child ran into the play room.

"What do you want to do today?" she wrapped her arms around his neck. He returned with his arms around her back.

"maybe," he looked down at his wife and smiled, "we could send Savannah to Vi's house." He kissed her lips gently, "and have today," another kiss, "to ourselves."

She pulled her hands to his jawbone, "shes sick coop."

"And pete and Vi are doctors." He showed a cocky grin as his hands slid lower, "so are all of the other people we work with." His hands slid over her ass and she returned the favor with devious eyes and a smirk.

"I don't know," she looked down before he kissed her again. Reminding him all too much of her recovery from the rape not too many years ago. His arms quickly released her in a sudden movement, so quickly he stepped back pulling out of her arms too. She looked up nearly shell-shocked. "What?" she raised her eyebrows.

"I just, I remembered something." He ran his fingers threw his hair. "Just a memory." He turned to walk away.

"Cooper." She watched him take a few more steps, "Cooper, look at me."

This made him stop.

"Cooper," she caught up to him. "Coop, what?" he turned. "what did you remember?"

He looked into her eyes and was sure as hell she knew what it was. Her gaze became a glare, "It was nearly eight." She closed her eyes, "Damn," open, "years AGO." She quickly placed her hands on his chest and pushed him from her way. She grabbed her keys off the dining room table and slammed the door behind her.

He went to the door to stop her but she quickly flew out of the drive way. He turned to the kitchen only to see his daughter standing there with wide eyes. He took one step toward her and she ran quickly past him and up the stairs to her room. He was right behind her until the door was shut in his face. "Savannah open the door, please."

It took about a minute for a response, "No."

Cooper was shocked at the word. He had last heard it when she was four and not in this context. "Young lady you need to unlock your door now."

"You made momma Scared." He could tell she was leaning against her door.

He drew in a deep breath, "Anna, listen, sometimes mommies and daddies fight about stuff-"

"It wasn't fighting, you scared her."

He realized the word she was using, "honey," he sat down and leaned his back to the door, "why do you say Mommy was scared?"

It was silent for a while, "she does that thing with her eyes."

"wha-"

"she looks at stuff but doesn't look at it. she was looking at you but wasn't like, well I don't know."

"No, No keep going." He heard her unlock her door.

"its like she isn't there. Like shes thinking of stuff and isn't listening." She cracked the door, "remember that time Mason ran across the street and went to a friends and we couldn't find him?"

Her father nodded.

"when I talked to her when that happened she gave me that look."

Cooper was amazed by her memory, "how do you know she's scared by a look?"

She looked up then tried to shut her door until her dad shoved his foot in it. "I," she drug the 'I' out, "Dunno." She looked at her dad, "Mason told me." she began to chew on her lip. "am I in trouble?"

Cooper looked at his more the frusterated daughter, "nope," he stood, "you're just observant."

"what are we going to do today?"

"hmm, how does a movie day sound?"

She smiled and agreed. They watched every princess movie possible, from Repunzel to Anastasia. They picked up mason around three and by the time they finished it was somewhere around 9 at night. Mason took his shower and Savannah took a bath. He put them both to bed and about an hour later right as he got in the shower, the front door was heard opening and shutting.