Joining Soul
By Dueler312
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of OLTL.
Chapter 11
A couple more weeks went by after the discovery of where Todd had been hiding. Starr and the others were standing as close as they could to each other, to make sure that Todd wouldn't have a chance of getting close to them. The officer who was watching from the car was now watching from the hallway. Still, Starr still wanted to live her life with Cole and their daughter, and even though she was getting scared that her dad could appear any minute, she wasn't going to let that stop her.
Today however, she, Cole, and Nicole were staying at home for the weekend. Starr and Cole talked about it and decided to have some time to them after what has happened. The day started off when Starr woke up, smelling something good coming from the kitchen. She then noticed Cole wasn't in bed, so she thought that Cole was making breakfast.
Starr's guess was proven when she walked into the kitchen, while she put her bed robe on. Cole was in his bed robe as well, but at the stove cooking what seemed to be blueberry pancakes. Starr wrapped her arms around her fiancé and said "Morning," as she kissed his cheek.
"Morning, yourself," Cole said, looking over at her from his shoulder, but then turned around to concentrate on the cooking.
"You didn't have to cook breakfast for us, Cole," said Starr.
"I know," he said," but as it being our special day with just us and Nicole around here, I wanted to make it special." Starr smiled and said, "Everyday with you and Nicole is always special." They shared a quick kiss before hearing a patter of feet coming toward them. "Am I smelling my favorite breakfast?" asked Nicole.
"Yep," said Cole. "And they are going to be extra good for you," he added, lightly touching Nicole's nose, which Nicole laughed.
"Hey, why don't we get changed while your dad finishes up here," Starr suggested.
"Okay, Mom," said Nicole, and headed over to her room. Starr and Cole looked at each other lovingly and then Starr headed over to her daughter's room to help her change.
Neither of them noticed that the tree was shaking real bad there.
The future Thornhart family was having a good family time at home. They actually played some board games, in which Nicole wanted to be on her mom's side. Cole played on that by saying that he was being betrayed, and started to tickle Nicole, which Starr played along as well. Cole then played a little trick by tickling Starr, which she was laughing as hard as she could.
They had so much fun during the whole day. At lunch, they played with their food a little bit by stacking the hamburgers that Cole made with potato chips. Starr though didn't participate in that event, but laughed at it, especially when Cole tried to take a bite of his burger with the potato chips in, and had all the chips pile onto his lap, with a little ketchup and a pickle. "Daddy being a mess," Nicole stated.
"So are you," Starr pointed out. Nicole smiled at that while Cole scooted his chair over to the counter to get the paper towels so he could clean himself off.
The afternoon was devoted to movies. They all picked one for each of them while watching them on the couch. They let Nicole watch her pick first, but half-way through it, she fell asleep, and Starr turned the movie off for a while, Starr laid back into Cole, while Cole let her melt into him. Starr giggled a little bit, and Cole noticed it. "What's with the giggling?" he asked.
"I'm just too happy, about what I have, and about what I'm going to get real soon," said Starr. Cole smiled and said, "Me too." They shared a good long kiss until Cole broke it off.
"Hey, do you mind if I head to the grocery store for a few minutes?" he asked.
"Why?" Starr wondered.
"Well, I was planning to make some lasagna for dinner tonight, but I got to get some Mozzarella because someone ate the rest of it last night on their pizza," Cole explained, nodding his head to their sleeping daughter.
"Well, you're the one who said that she could use the Mozzarella on her pizza, Cole," Starr reminded him. "But its okay. Go on. I'll put her in the bed and maybe clean up a little around here," she added. Their place did look a little messy after today.
"All right," he said, kissing her forehead, and getting up. He grabbed his jacket and said, "I shouldn't be away more than a half an hour. If you need me, just call me, okay." He held up his phone to show that he would have it on, and Starr nodded to let him know she understood. He went out, and Starr went to go lock the door. Starr started to think about how lucky she was to have Cole and their little girl as she picked up Nicole and carried her over to her bed in her room. As she laid her down, she said as Nicole slept on, she said real quietly, "Just think, sweetie. Pretty soon when you are in your teenage years, you may find your soulmate, just like how I found your dad."
Just then she heard a big thunk. Starr looked up for a little bit, but then thought it was one of Nicole's toys falling off of the shelves. She went out of Nicole's room, and headed in to her and Cole's room. She looked at all the pictures of her, Cole, both of them, and even some of them with Nicole and others with just her. She was just looking at the picture of Nicole as a baby, to the most recent picture of her daughter, when she heard a voice that made her scared. "So, she's the result of what that punk rapist did to you?" Starr turned around and saw the one person she did not want to see at all. Todd was in their home.
"YOU!" Starr yelled. She tried to get to the phone, but Todd blocked her with his arm, and said, "Don't run away, Starr. I know you're just confused-"
"The only one who is confused, is you, Dad," Starr said with all the anger she had for him.
"Starr, he's manipulated you. I can help you get away from him, and even save your daughter," Todd tried to say, but Starr blasted back at him.
"YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS MANUPULATING, YOU JERK!" As she yelling that, she slipped out her cell phone and hid it behind her back without Todd noticing.
"Starr, once you seen that Cole has been manipulating you, you can start to think straight, and do what's best for you and your daughter," Todd said, almost screaming. While Todd was saying that, Starr text the words "DAD! HELP!" and sent it to Cole's phone, hoping that he would get it.
Cole was at the grocery store to get the Mozzarella he needed when he saw Langston and Markko walking by him.
"Cole, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Starr?" Langston asked him.
"Oh, I'm just picking up some Mozzarella for some Lasagna. Then I'm heading back," said Cole.
"Well, we just came to get some groceries ourselves," said Markko.
Just then, Cole heard his phone rang, alerting him that he got a text. "Hmm. I wonder who texting me?" he said, in a sarcastic, but happy mood. Unfortuantely though, that happy mood turned into a scared mood. "Cole, what is it?"
"Its Starr," he said as put his phone back into his pocket in a hurry and put the cheese back. "Her and Nicole are in trouble. Her dad's is in our place."
"Oh my god!!" said Langston. "We've better get over there."
"Right, lets hurry," said Markko, as he, Cole, and Langston headed out of the store without buying anything. On the way to his car, Cole called John on his phone.
"John!" he yelled in the phone.
"Whoa, Cole. What's wrong?" John asked.
"Its Starr. Her father is in there, and she needs help," Cole quickly explain.
"All right, hang on. We're on our way," said John. Cole then hanged up and pulled out of the parking spot and headed back to his place along with Langston and Markko behind him to stop Todd.
Will Cole and the others get to Starr and Nicole in time and stop Todd? Find out soon.
