Seven years had passed since Holly's tragic death and so much had happened in the years that had followed. Moira was now a single woman hanging onto the memory of her beloved John but still keeping Butlers Farm under working order, Isaac was now six years old and like all the Dingle's he was cheeky and mischievous but already showed signs of being fiercely loyal to his family. Freddie was now eleven and was an intelligent and kind hearted boy who wanted to succeed in life. He was John all over, a hard worker through and through and Moira was proud of him. She was now a grandmother; her younger daughter Hannah had got together with Nikhil three years after Holly's death, they married four years earlier with Freddie and Isaac as pageboys and she now had a son named Lucas and was pregnant once more. She knew that Nikhil still missed Gennie but they had a happy marriage and she was a devoted step mother to Mollie who had become a very good friend of Freddie. Adam no longer lived in Emmerdale, his marriage to Victoria was over and he lived in London, he visited occasionally and Moira missed him a lot. She now had Pete and Ross helping on the farm, Ross was now married to Debbie and they had two kids, Lily and Harry.

Freddie was coming home from school with Mollie and Jack, Sarah was supposed to meet them by the bus stop but she didn't turn up, instead she had snuck off to meet her boyfriend from college, she was going to university soon and Jack was gonna miss her. The trio sat on a gate and looked out the village, they saw Diane chasing away some youth on bikes, they saw Aaron and Robert with their adopted twins, Luke and Dylan, they could see April Windsor arguing with Marlon over the length of her skirt and they saw Charity arguing with Rhona about her car.

"The village of madness that's what it is." Mollie mumbled as she ate her crisps, tossing her dark hair out of her face, Jack saw Debbie and hid behind Freddie who grinned and laughed.

"Mummy's boy." He joked and they began play fighting then Freddie stood up.

He saw Cain with his wife Harriet. He liked her in a way, she seemed a really nice lady but he couldn't warm to her. Harriet had become pregnant only three months after Isaac's birth and she and Cain had married shortly after the birth of their daughter, Chloe. Chloe was five years old and was always holding her mothers hand, Isaac often felt out when she was around, it was as if he wasn't a part of the family. Cain caught Freddie's eye and Freddie glared at him, he would never forgive him for his treatment of his mother and the fact that he hadn't helped when she needed help. Nonetheless he had a good relationship with Isaac and it didn't bother him that they had different fathers and that he sometimes felt envious of the fact that he knew his father but he had never had the chance to make memories of John. Isaac came over to him then and Freddie put his arm around him,

"Take no notice mate. Lets go home and get some food down our necks." he remarked as they headed home.

The next day Freddie was playing in the barn while Isaac was in his room watching cartoons. Freddie liked the barn, a good hiding place in the past, he loved it. As he was playing, Harriet came over to him, she was hoping that Isaac would want to play with Chloe.

"Hello Freddie." She called out and Freddie stopped playing and looked at her,

"Hello Harriet, Isaac's upstairs." He said and Chloe appeared behind her, holding her hand. She smiled sweetly at Freddie who smiled back,

"Look Mummy, animals." She said to Harriet and Harriet smiled at her,

"Yes darling their animals. Look a sheep." Harriet showed Chloe the animals while Freddie went back to the house and went in his room.

He lay on his bed. He wished he knew John, he didn't even know what he looked like. He knew his personality as Moira told him often enough. Yet he couldn't imagine his face, how he acted, how he spoke, how he did day to day tasks. It seemed as if he had vanished of the face of the earth. He knew that his mother kept a box under her bed and he had once tried to take it away but she had stopped him saying that he wouldn't understand right now and that he needed to wait till he was older.

"Hope your looking down on me dad. From Heaven. With Holly." He spoke out loud before he began to cry.