She smiled at Hal lightly as she reached over and gently took his hand in her own and laced their fingers together. "That may take me a few days to be willing to let Emma out of my sight…but I'm glad that I had you to help me find her." She spoke softly as the little girl was curled up between the two of them sleeping. Soon, after everything they'd been through that day, Aly was fast asleep on Hal's bed, laying her hand, still entwined with Hal's on Emma's sleeping form. She had curled up under the large blanket Hal had on the bed and was as content as she could get for now.

"'Find' is a bit of a stretch. They left a note telling us exactly where she was." Hal said quietly. And it was his fault to begin with. If he hadn't gotten attached to Alycia and Emma, they'd be a lot safer than they were with him. Or at least a little safer - the neighborhood they were in was not exactly the best place to go if you wanted to live a long, happy life. Some said it was, but then again, the real estate agents really didn't know just how many vampires were running around.
Hal woke the next morning with Alycia and Emma still in the bed, sleeping away. He slowly and quietly removed himself from the bed, deciding that he'd make breakfast for them while they were asleep.

"You know what I meant." She gave him a smile before she drifted off to sleep on the bed with the two people that meant the world to her. Alycia slept until the next morning, waking up to feel Emma in her arms and smiled at the little toddler. She ran her fingers through the little girl's hair softly before kissing her forehead gently. "My beautiful Emma." She whispered softly. She looked around seeing Hal wasn't in the bed with her. She wasn't going to let Emma out of her sight still, so she picked up the sleeping toddler and headed downstairs to see if she could find him. Emma just wrapped her arms around Aly's neck, still very sleepy as Aly smiled seeing Hal in the kitchen.

Hal had made eggs and toast. It was a simple breakfast, but he'd gone out and gotten strawberries, too, thinking that Emma might like those. He cut each one into a little shape. In his five hundred years, cooking was one thing that you tended to pick up. Pearl had done a lot of the cooking in when he'd lived with she and Leo, and the old man was useless by a stove. When Pearl had been doing other things it had been Hal's job to make sure that the old man got his dinner.
"Is she still asleep?" Hal asked quietly as he looked over at Alycia, just finishing up. He turned the stove off and put the eggs on the plates, then the toast, then the strawberries. As usual he arranged them all meticulously before setting everything on the table.

Alycia smiled at Hal seeing him in the kitchen before she nodded. "Yeah, she's probably going to wake up soon though, she smells the food." She was sure. She moved over and kissed Hal softly on the cheek seeing the breakfast he'd made for them. She gently shook Emma who looked at her mama and yawned smiling as she waved to Hal and then saw the food that had been made. She giggled excited as Aly put her down so she could eat up. Alycia sat down beside the young girl and ate the food as well. It was amazing! She smiled at Hal as Emma happily ate the eggs toast…and especially the strawberries. "Good call on those, they're some of the only fruit she'll eat."

Hal chuckled as he picked at his own breakfast, glad that the little girl would at least eat his cooking. From what he was aware, children could be pretty picky when it came to what they ate. Alycia's statement furthered that opinion and he shrugged. "I was hoping. You're usually the one cooking for her, I don't know what all she likes."
Tom came down the stairs looking particularly tired, but of course his first thing to do that morning was to say hello to Emma. "You breakfast is in the fridge." Usually Annie cooked for Tom - Hal had decided to let her off the hook that time because he was cooking anyway. Hal had been going to ask Alycia if she would go with him on another date soon (though only when she was ready to let someone else watch Emma again, he knew that it might take a few days), but he didn't quite want to do that in front of Tom. He'd be teased mercilessly.

Alycia giggled as Emma ate the food happily. She smiled at Hal when he spoke before she nodded. "She seems happy with it so you did good." She looked to Tom as he came downstairs and saw Emma happily wave to him out of the corner of her eye. She adored the little girl and was glad she didn't seem to have any negative effects of what'd happened the night before. After they were finished eating, Aly helped Hal get the dishes into the sink before she kissed his cheek softly. "You want to come over for awhile?" She did enjoy spending time with him, and she knew he'd find things to do while over there. She gently picked up Emma who waved to Tom after she was picked up and Aly carried her back over to the house.

Hal nodded when Alycia asked if he wanted to go over to the other house with her. Before their argument he'd been spending just as much time there as he did at the bed and breakfast, and he was starting to think of both places as home - though admittedly he preferred his perfectly organized room. Mainly because no matter how many times he went and organized the female's closet for her, it never stayed the way he put it.

"I haven't mopped your floors for a week." Hal was struck with the sudden knowledge as he put his coat on, heading outdoors with Alycia and Emma, and moving towards the house. "That - I - I need to mop the floors."

He could only imagine the dirt they'd been walking on, now.