If she's being honest she had been dreading this since yesterday but it was time that Adam actually met his dad. Molly had told Bones what had happened over text the night before and in the end they ended up talking on the phone because of she needed to talk to someone.
Today he had sent her a message telling her good luck and that if things go badly then he could always kidnap Charles and keep him until he changes his mind on the situtation. Molly had wanted to laugh but that just made her feel ever the more nervous but sent back an eye-rolling emoji instead. Bones had replied with a grinning one and told her that everything would be okay and that she needed to relax.
This was actually the most supportive anyone has been when it came to Charles and she knew the two of them didn't get on for whatever reason.
Molly had told her mother this morning that Charles was coming round to finally meet Adam and she wished her luck and Molly felt like she was going to need it right now, meeting at Molly's place would make sense because she wanted her son to actually be comfortable with meeting Charles not that he would know straight off who he actually was.
Molly cleaned around the flat to make sure that everything was tidy but at the same time she wanted it to look like a normal home. Not that Charles would actually worry about what her place looked like because he was here for a meeting with his son. She found herself then starting to worry over whether he had told his mother but with the lack of her coming around to Molly's flat she had guessed that he hadn't told her since yesterday and that was somewhat comforting.
She made sure that Adam had had something to eat and Molly put him in front of the TV so that she could finish cleaning up and putting the washing away. It was on her way to getting a cuppa when she saw that Adam had got his cars out and was pushing them around the floor in the front room and she couldn't help but smile because it was just so like him.
He wasn't interested in what was on the TV because he had his cars and was pushing them around.
As the time passed Molly was starting to get worried again that something wouldn't go to plan, that Adam wouldn't want anything to do with Charles. He didn't know the man but she hoped that he would pick up on something but being that young then maybe not?
She wasn't sure how all of this would go but for the first time she just wanted everything to go right, it had been hard enough when she was in Sierra Leone and away from her boy and she wanted this to go right. Because they needed the good luck.
Molly had just settled for a cuppa when the door went and like every time Adam ran to the door and she took a deep breath and followed after, luckily he wasn't tall enough to reach the handle so when Molly opened the door and came face to face with Charles she felt a relief that he was in fact on his own.
Adam was looking around his mother's leg at Charles and Molly reached down and ruffled his dark hair before smiling at him and then letting Charles in and shutting the door behind him.
"I didn't know whether to bring anything but I brought you some flowers" Charles smiled and handed them over to her.
Molly smiled back at them and really wasn't the type that wanted flowers all the time but there had been times where she found them on the table in a vase waiting for her when she got back from a trip overseas. "Well thank you, you didn't have to buy any but they are pretty"
She looked down at the little boy who Charles had looked at now "This is Adam" she said.
Charles crouched down so that he was the same height as Adam and said with a soft smile "Hello Adam" looking at him Charles could see Sam in him but also there were bits of Molly too, his hair however was curly like his. A perfect mixture of both parents and his brother.
"Say hello" Molly urged him but she knew that Adam would do things when he was ready. She watched as he then moved from behind her leg and ran into the front room. Molly sighed softly and watched as Charles stood up "He gets shy, he will warm up to you, I promise" she nodded and then nudged her head in the direction of the kitchen "I will put these in water if you want to either sit in the front room, unfortunately Paw Patrol is on and it's starting to drive me around the bend"
Charles laughed softly "Well at least it's not Baby Shark"
Molly grimaced at the thought, she had heard so much about that song and was thankful that Adam hadn't got in to it just yet "Trust me, that won't be playing here" Saying that she had heard her mother humming it so she guessed it was only a matter of time before that silly song was playing through the flat.
She moved away from the hallway and into the kitchen and grabbed a vase from underneath the sink and she smelt the flowers. They smelt pretty good but then again Charles was always so good at picking out flowers. Molly took them out of their wrapper and made sure they were short enough to go into the water and they were but put the food in first then the flowers and as she was putting them on the table she looked up and saw Charles by the door of the kitchen. "So, did you get any sleep last night?" she asked.
"I was nervous about meeting Adam" he admitted and then leaned against the frame of the door.
"I'm not surprised" Molly couldn't imagine what it felt like to meet the son he didn't know about until now. She made him a drink and then handed over the mug.
"I looked through those pictures that you had given me and you both looked happy" he said and looked down at the mug he now had in his hand and was standing up straight. Charles hadn't meant that she looked unhappy now but they looked happy without him being there.
Molly watched him for a moment; that definitely hadn't been something she had expected him to say when they were in the same room and he was here for Adam. "He was a happy baby, and I was happy that he was happy" she admitted and continued to watch him because she felt like this was leading up to something bigger and she wasn't sure if she wanted to even go down that route, especially if it ended with him saying something that he might regret later on.
Thankfully he didn't say anything that would make that even worse and instead he smiled at her before he cleared his throat and the two of them moved from the kitchen and into the front room.
Adam was sat on the floor with his toys and Charles put his cup down on the coffee table and took his coat off. He was dressed in normal clothes rather than his uniform and Molly had to admit that she definitely liked seeing him in the uniform more than normal clothes. Molly sat down in the chair and watched as Charles sat down on the floor with Adam. She wished that she had told him about Adam in the beginning because at least then they would have the father/son relationship that he had with Sam and then things wouldn't be so worrying right now.
Adam looked up at Charles when he sat down on the floor and smiled at him, the soft cheeky smile that Sam had and it melted Molly's heart because Sam and Adam were the two boys that she loved so much and she couldn't wait for them to meet but first Charles had to strike up a relationship with the boy first before everyone else was brought into his world.
"Can I play with your car?" Charles asked and pointed to the car that was just to his right and watched his son.
Instead of his car Adam picked up a cuddly toy and took it over to Charles and handed it over. Charles smiled at him "Thank you" he said and then gave the toy a hug before he handed it back and watched as Adam gave it a hug too.
Molly knew that he would come out of his shyness in his own time they couldn't rush it because he was still young so the last thing they wanted to do was push him into anything.
Adam finally picked up the red car and walked over to Charles before putting it into his palm.
Molly sat back in the chair and watched the two of them but her heart was feeling light because finally these two had come together and now everything would really be right in the world.
"Thank you" he smiled and then started pushing it around the floor beside him and making car noises and Adam seemed to find that funny because he tried to make the noises himself but couldn't quite get there.
Molly has done some wrong things in her life, mostly having the friends she had had before she started training for the Army, and the drinking, but her son; he was a good thing. He was the most pure thing in her life that she wondered just how she had manged to be blessed with someone so good. She moved her eyes from her son and up to Charles who was still making those car noises and she wondered what if, what if they did manage to get back together?
But for now they had Adam to concentrate on and if they ended up getting back together then that would be a big bonus.
Molly grabbed her phone and she took a picture of the two of them and would later show it to him but for now she would keep hold of it. She remembers how he was when she first met Sam and it was definitely something she wanted him to have with Adam but something told her that from here on out everything would be okay.
She felt her phone vibrate and there was a message from Bones: How did it go/how is it going?
Molly would answer that later but for now she was more than fine watching these two play.
-.-
Charles was there most of the day and he actually didn't want to leave but he knew that he had to go at some point otherwise he would actually stay here all day which was more than fine with him but he wasn't sure just how Molly would feel about that. So he grabbed his coat and walked out to the door with Molly "Thank you for today" he said once they reached the door and he turned to look at her, a soft smile pulling at his lips.
"I'm glad that you enjoyed the day" she admitted, the last thing she had wanted was for this to have turned out badly for him and thankfully it didn't so it was a win all around right now. "You do know that you can come any time to see Adam" Molly wanted him to know that, she wanted him to be able to see Adam as much as he wanted.
Charles nodded but more than anything he wanted them to live under the same roof, he wanted Molly back in his life permanently; he wanted his wife back even if she hasn't been his wife for a while. "You will probably get fed up of me being around"
"Never" she said and shook her head once "I will never get fed up of you being here"
Charles smiled and looked down at his coat that was in his hand and wondered if there was a way he could actually get her back some how, maybe one day there would but first he was happy to have his son in his life. "I know that I said I would leave it for a while but I'm going to tell mum and dad about Adam and I will tell Sam a little bit later on"
Molly really wished that he didn't have to tell his mother anything but of course if she didn't know and she found out from someone else then it would probably be a hundred times worse for her and Adam because she kept the secret from her son. Something told her that she was going to get a lot of grief from that woman even now "Okay just make sure that you tell them that you are seeing him at the moment and you don't want to push a lot of people into his life right now"
"I will" Charles nods before looking at the door "Well then I shall see you tomorrow or at least let you know If I can make it because of work"
"Have a good night, Charles" Molly spoke around a smile because even now she still couldn't help a little smirk when she says his name.
"Good night,Molly" he leaned in and kissed her cheek gently before pulling away and opening the door then walking out and shutting it behind him. Now for the harder bit, he was going to have to tell his family about Adam. This was something that he wasn't going to enjoy at all.
-.-
All the way to Bath he couldn't help but worry about what his mother would actually say, about how he would explain that Molly hadn't told him of Adam until the night she had been rescued in Sierra Leone, even he knew that this wasn't going to go down well and now he was dreading the thought of coming clean.
He parked up outside the house and took a deep breath before putting the key into the lock "Hello?" he called out as he shut the door.
"In here, darling" Pam called out from the dining room.
Charles twirled the car key around in his fingers before he headed in the direction of the dining room and actually expected to find both of his parents taking tea but that definitely wasn't the case, it was just his mother sitting at the table with a tea pot and cup with a book and it was the first time he has seen her actually look calm and he knew that was about to change when he told her his news. "No dad?" he asked.
Pam put her book down and then looked up at her son "No, he's gone to the office, he's actually been pacing most of the day so I told him to go and get out of my hair," she then realised something "you didn't say that you were coming in today, so it must be important"
"It is" Charles nodded and knew that he had to do it now rather than just stand here worrying over the fact that his father wasn't here at all.
"Well take a seat and tell me all about it"
Charles did take a seat and chewed on his lip and after a moment he finally said "I'm going to come out and say it, I found out recently that I have another child, a son to be extact with Molly"
Pam sat and listened to him and then when he said he had another son with Molly she kept her face a neutral and wasn't sure whether it actually passed like that but she hoped it did because the last thing she wanted was to let it show just how she felt about that.
"His name is Adam and I met him today and I don't want you to do anything stupid that would compromise me seeing him" with that he stood up and went to leave
"You have only just met him, Charles, Molly could change her mind on letting you see him at any time, you know how fickle that girl is"
Charles chewed on his lip again and then turned to his mother "You do anything to compromise me seeing my son and I swear I will cut you out of my life, and that is the mother of my child that you are disrespecting there so I would go very careful what you choose to say next" he waited for her to say something but Pam never did so he said instead "And who knows maybe one day she will want to join this family again as my wife but right now I am more than happy having her in my life at all so don't fuck this up for me mum and now I'm going for a shower" with that he walked out the dining room and up the stairs to his room.
Pam waited for a moment before she then got up and grabbed the hand held phone and put the number in. "Hello Marcus, this is Pamela, I want to talk about custody of my grandchild" she said and looked towards the door "No, not Sam, my new one, Adam"