Our hug is cut short by Marie pushing herself between us.

"Ne pleures pas maman" she said clumsily wiping Delphine's face with her hands. Delphine let out a tearful giggle before kissing her on the forehead and uttering "merci bébé"

"Feeling slightly rejected here" I joke poking Marie in the side lightly, she giggles.

"Oh does that tickle" I say as I continue to tickle her sides, she begins to shriek and squirm into Delphine for protection, Delphine simply laughs and moves her arm away making Marie an easy target. Marie continues to scream in French at us before getting off Delphine's lap and running to the other side of the room.

"I tell you something" I say to Delphine she looks at me very seriously, worried about what I'm about to say,

"You're going to have to teach me French now"

She laughs hitting me with a stray cushion clearly relieved I only made a joke rather than had a serious comment about our new found family situation.

"Maman j'ai faim" Marie says moving closer to Delphine but giving me a wary look.

"D'accord bébé" Delphine says as she gets up from the sofa she walks towards the kitchen, I realise Marie must have been asking for food. I follow Delphine into the kitchen after switching on the TV for Marie.

I wrap my arms around Delphine's waist and put my head on her shoulder, she turns to look more at me.

"There I told you the beginning now it's your turn where did you find her?" She asks as she prepares a sandwich for Marie.

I tell her about finding Marie on my way back to the lab and her odd reaction to our picture.

"I didn't know what to think I was like ermm what is going on, I thought I was having a strange dream" I explain.

"So she was just wandering around? That's crazy, how did she get out. Her room was always secure I couldn't go without someone taking me with a key"

That confused me. I hadn't thought about how Marie came to be sat in the corridor or where she had been when she lived inside dyad.

"Get her to wash her hands will you," Delphine asks as she routes through the cupboard looking for a plastic beaker.

"Ermm yeah that's not really in my French vocab"

"She'll understand if you ask her in English, how do you think she knew what you were saying before"

I hadn't thought about this either it amazed me a girl who was not yet 4 being able to comprehend French and English. It was way behond me I could barely speak English right.

"What she speaks English, that's crazy"

"I wouldn't say speaks, she understands but her answers are often quite funny" Delphine replies as she shoos me out of the kitchen.

I take Marie into the bathroom to wash her hands and she is merrily chatting away to herself in French, I don't ask until she gives me a funny look and giggles at me.

"Woah no fair I don't speak French so I don't know what your laughing at"

"Tu as swish hairs" she says through giggles, Delphine was right about the funny answers I spin round which caused my dreads to swish through the air, Marie clapped and giggled again which lead me to believe I had understood the strange combination of incorrect English and French right.

When we got back to the lounge Delphine was sat on the sofa with a plate in her hand and a beaker on the table next to her.

"Ici Marie" she said indicating for Marie to sit on her knee, Marie did as she was told and Delphine handed her a sandwich after moving Marie's hair from her face. Seeing the two of them together I was amazed I had not seen the resemblance when I initially found Marie. Marie's hair although slightly lighter than Delphine's curled very similarly at the ends, they share the same pale complexion and same beautiful French accent.

"Do you think they know, that we have her?" She asks I can hear the fear in her voice knowing she must be afraid they would take Marie again.

"Probably" I say trying to make it sound like they know and are okay with it "they will have realised she's gone by now and there's loads of cameras they'll have seen me leaving with her"

"Do you.. Do you think they'll.." She stutters her voice shaky with fear.

"No it'll be okay they'd have come by now" I say trying to reassure her even though I'm not so sure myself, if dyad went to the trouble of housing a 3 year old just to manipulate Delphine I was fairly certain they would find a way to get her back, after all Marie was the only thing that kept Delphine at dyad.