We waited in an uncomfortable silence I was thinking of things we could do. Delphine had shied away from my touch and ran her fingers through her hair as she always did when she was scared or stressed. She still did not get along with Sarah, now feeling responsible for Kira's kidnap I assumed she firmly believed she was about to get killed by a furious Sarah this thought had also crossed my mind as wondered how Sarah would react towards seeing her, I hated the constant tension between the two of them I didn't understand why Sarah couldn't trust me about Delphine. 20 minutes later there was a pounding on the door. I open the door and find Sarah on the door step. Tears of anger and desperation rolling down her face as she basically throws herself at me, pulling me in to a hug so tight it shows all she is feeling without words. Sarah releases me from the painful hug and proceeds to yell
"I bet you knew frenchie, I bet you ordered it"
"Woah shhhh Sarah Nonono calm down and will you be quiet" I said glancing at the open bedroom door hoping she had not woken Marie Sarah was not in the correct mood to meet a 3 year old.
"I will not calm down" Sarah continued to yell "that bloody Rachel has taken Kira"
Sarah's yells are interrupted by a cry from the bedroom Sarah spins quickly to look fully at the door and Delphine is quickly on her feet racing towards the room. The small figure of Marie appears at the door holding her arms out to Delphine in a similar way she did to me earlier "maman" she cries.
Delphine picks her up rubbing her back "oui bèbé" she mummers rocking Marie slightly in her arms.
Sarah stands open mouthed looking from Delphine to Marie and back repeatedly. I try to speak but don't know what to say ,'oh yeah Sarah that's Delphine's daughter who may or may not be part of the reason Kira was kidnapped' didn't quite cut it for me.
"What was the deal then my daughter for yours" Sarah spat at Delphine who is slowly moving towards the sofa Marie still in her arms.
"No Sarah it wasn't her, I brought Marie here" I interrupt just as Delphine was about to speak I knew Sarah was more likely to be calmer with me than Delphine. Sarah pushes her hands to her forehead.
"You did this" Sarah shrieks "you put your lying monitor above your sisters, we're your family Cos"
"Delphine's my family too" I yell angry too now as I felt protective I couldn't help it following the realisation that Delphine only lied to protect Marie not because she didn't care but because she cared too much. "I didn't know okay I can explain"
"Nah no way I'm done Cos" Sarah shouts moving towards the door
"Please just let her explain" Delphine pleads "I promise she didn't know who Marie was lwhen she brought her here, I didn't know that they were planing to take Kira just please sit down. We can help get Kira back"
Sarah stopped clearly slightly affected by the sad pleading tone of Delphine's voice.
"Go on then" Sarah spat the anger still clear in her voice but she had clearly calmed down enough to realise we could help to get into dyad.
I explain finding Marie in a dyad corridor and some of what Delphine told me just the parts about Marie being taken and Delphine kept from seeing her, I was hoping to show to Sarah that she and Delphine had more in common than she thought. During my tale Sarah had slumped in a chair anger fading to sadness.
"As much as I hated them having Marie they never hurt her she was always safe" Delphine adds to the silence that followed the story. "Kira will be too"
"I need to get her and fast" Sarah adds voice much calmer now "what if they fly her to the other side of the world"
"They won't they want you as well they just want to use her against you how they did with Marie" Delphine replies
"We have to work in the morning" I say trying to come up with a solution "so we could go into dyad"
"Not happening Kira's mine I'm going too" Sarah replies sharply.
"You could" I say "you could go with Delphine pretending to be me"
Delphine and Sarah both turned and stared at me.
"Both our cards have to be used otherwise they'll know that one of us is here with Marie right?, so if you go using yours" I gesture to Delphine "and Sarah pretends to be me and uses mine they won't notice anything different." I explain I realise this might not be the best plan ever walking straight into dyad but it was the only one we had.
"Although what about Marie?" I ask glancing at the sleeping child in Delphine's lap. "She can't go with you obvs but do you think she'd stay with me?"
"I think so but I'd rather not.."
"I'll keep her safe" I interrupt looking Delphine in the eye reassuringly "I'll take her somewhere they won't look"
"Felix" Sarah says "Cos could take her to the loft. Fee has proven himself as babysitter and child smuggler before"
We then had a plan formulated Delphine was going to find out as much as possible about what dyad knew about Marie's location and what they had done with Kira. Sarah was going to look for Kira in the building. I was to take Marie to Felix's and guard her with my life, I felt I owed it to Delphine to keep Marie with me at all times as I could see she was uncomfortable leaving her again even if she was with me.
I applied the finishing touches to Sarah's fake dreadlocked style as Delphine said goodbye to Marie. She kept her in a tight hug and I could see it was hard for her to let go.
"We'll be okay" I said rubbing my hand up and down Delphine's back "you're gunna have fun with Auntie Cosima yeah" I say to Marie who seems equally uncomfortable saying goodbye to her mother.
"Be safe" Delphine says as she passes Marie to me "call me if anything..."
"We'll be fine yeah" I interrupt trying to keep Delphine from upsetting herself "it's you two who need to be safe" I wave bye to Sarah and carry Marie through the door.
