The next morning came around quickly as Lindsey and Freddie had spent the evening back at the hospital to get Daisy's last lot of antibiotics. Lindsey was up bright and early, cleaning up any mess that was left from the night before. Having texted Joe to see when he was bringing JJ back, she'd fallen for the lie of 'I'll bring him back this afternoon' and she believed that was what he would do.
"Linds, do I have to do this?" Freddie's muffled shouts echoed through the flat.
"You are her dad you know?" Lindsey yelled back, attempting to not giggle.
"I know but this is awful!" Lindsey chuckled at his response and made her way into their bedroom to see Freddie attempting to change Daisy's nappy with his top over his nose.
"Right, she's a baby, you're her dad and you've got another year of this so you better get used to that smell." Lindsey grinned, taking a sip of her coffee.
"I have done it before it's just this is really bad." He responded, doing up the tabs on the nappy but failing.
Lindsey tutted and walked over to him, pulling his top off his nose and handing him his cup before doing up the tabs on the nappy successfully and buttoning up Daisy's vest and babygrow before taking the cup and walking out of the bedroom with a smug smile upon her face.
"You're welcome." She yelled, giggling to herself as she sipped on her drink.
Freddie just watched and glanced back and forth at how Lindsey did it so quickly and he could barely open the nappy without gagging. He shrugged and carefully picked up Daisy, placing a kiss onto his daughters head before walking out into the kitchen where Lindsey was.
"Sorry but how the hell can you change this kids nappy so quickly? The smell is vile and the babygrow is harder than trying to tie a tie." Freddie moaned, sighing deeply.
"You'll get the hang of it. After two weeks I'd have thought you'd have learnt to do it by now anyway." She shrugged, placing her empty cup on the side. "Anyway, what have you got planned for today."
"I was going to take Dais down the garage and see Zig whilst Joe's at home with JJ and then you can have a child free afternoon, do what you like and I'll be out of your hair for a few hours." He replied, making his way into the living room and placing Daisy into her pram, tucking her up with many blankets and making sure she was warm.
"But I'll miss you." She frowned, crossing her arms as she followed him.
"I'll make it up to you later." He winked jokingly, kissing her softly her reciprocating.
"Get gone you." She chuckled, pushing him playfully, both of them laughing as he left the flat. Lindsey slumped onto the sofa and shoved her feet onto the sofa, flicking on the tv and letting out a sigh of relief.
Robbie pulled up in the hotel car park, climbing out of his car and locking it up after grabbing a bag of things from the back. He made his way into the reception where he met Joe, both of them going up to his room. Robbie sighed and closed the door, cooing over JJ for a minute before looking at Joe sternly and handing him a bag of baby things.
"I'm not doing this again for you. It was risky getting these things yesterday, Linds is going to know things are missing." Robbie said.
"Rob, you're a life saver. I just need to get away from here as soon as possible, keep JJ away from Freddie. It's the best thing."
"Fred has a daughter, Joe. He knows what he's doing and he's perfectly capable of taking care of JJ – please, just take him back where he belongs before you get arrested and never see your son again."
"Where he belongs is with me, not Lindsey and not Freddie, with me."
"Fine but when you're stuck in handcuffs being driven away in a police car, don't come crawling to me." He spoke angrily, leaving the hotel room and slamming the door behind him.
"Aw, she is gorgeous! And I don't say that about most kids, I find them a bit…loud." Ziggy mumbled, staring down at Daisy who was asleep in his arms.
"Gets that from her mother! Don't be fooled just because she's quiet, she's a proper little Roscoe and knows how to wreak havoc with the amount of noise she makes." Freddie tutted, chuckling slightly.
"But she looks so peaceful, how she could ever be like any of us lot I don't know! JJ's already turning into a mini Joe with his temper."
"Don't even get me started on JJ – he's got his dad's genes that is for sure. Speaking of who, where's Joe and JJ?"
"No idea, he didn't come back last night. I just imagined he'd stayed with Nancy or something." Ziggy replied, shrugging his shoulders as he rocked Daisy in his arms.
"What? He never came home? We haven't been able to get hold of him for a few hours, he said he'd bring JJ back this afternoon but…"
"You don't think he's taken him do you?"
"Fred!" Lindsey called out, running into the garage as Freddie stood up to the sound of Lindsey's voice.
"Hey, what's wrong?" He responded, looking at her with concern.
"Rob just called me, he told me he's not seen Joe and JJ since before he took you Mum to the airport. I've tried calling him but he isn't picking up. He was supposed to bring JJ back over two hours ago!" She spoke quickly and in a panic, running her hands over her face as Freddie pulled her into a hug.
"Right, just calm down. Zig hasn't seen him either and the only thing we can both think off is that he's taken JJ."
"What? No, he can't do that! That's my baby!" She voiced, her voice cracking at even the thought of it.
"Just stay calm. We both know how much he wanted JJ away from me and this is the only reasonable explanation."
"So what do we do now?"
"We go to the police. We file a missing person report for both Joe and JJ and the police /will/ find them."
"We have to do that now then, we can't waste any more time. Let's go." Freddie took Lindsey's hand and they made their way quickly out of the garage.
Ziggy stared on blankly as Daisy woke up in his arms, a screeching cry echoing through the garage. He turned slowly to the baby in his arms with a clueless look on his face.
"Uh, guys? Your baby!" Ziggy yelled, hoping that they'd not ran off too quickly.
"We forgot Daisy." Lindsey said, coming to a hault. They both let out a chuckle and ran back to the garage, Freddie quickly taking Daisy from Ziggy's arms.
"Sorry bruv'." Freddie spoke quietly. Ziggy nodded reluctantly and smiled sarcastically at his brother as both Lindsey and Freddie tried not to laugh at how clueless he was.
Lindsey grabbed the pushchair whilst Freddie kept hold of Daisy to calm her down as both of them left the garage and made their way to the police station.
