Chapter number 36. No one's fault
Rose sat on the rocking chair in Izzy's room, holding the little baby in her arms and rocking back and forth. She studied the small six month old baby, she was the perfect match of her and Boyd, their baby, and Rose had always thought that she's be the only mother of Boyd's children, well up until half an hour ago, now that dream had been shattered, torn away and burned.
A tear came to her eye, she had a pretty good idea of who Danielle's mother was; Janae Timmins, no DNA was needed to tell that, she looked so much like her. She still remembered Janae, back in high school they'd been enemies, both fighting over Boyd.
She could hear the door opening slowly and she looked around to see Boyd standing there, "Rose" he spoke softly, seeming lost.
"Yeah" Rose managed to get out through gentle sobs as Boyd approached her and sat in the chair beside her.
"I'm so sorry" he whispered, tears in his eyes, "I'm so sorry".
"It's not your fault, it's not really anyone's fault, just a big mess that couldn't be resolved... I mean, you didn't know, and Janae didn't know where you were" she said, trying to make sense of the whole situation, "I can't believe I'm not blaming her, because when I first found out I so badly wanted to, but I couldn't".
"Hey come here" Boyd said gently before Rose got up with Izzy and sat on his lap, "You know this isn't going to change the fact that I love you and always will don't you?" he told her reassuringly.
"Yeah I know" she nodded, finding it harder to control her crying.
Boyd pulled her in, holding her and Izzy close and kissing Rose on the top of the head, "It's going to be ok" he whispered, "we'll get through this".
"I hope so" she said softly, "I really hope so".
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Martha and Jack walked along the empty beach, the sun was only dim now and it wouldn't be long before it was dark. Jack held on to Martha's hand gently and looked over at the peaceful waves that rolled softly as they reached the shore line and spread out into a thin layer of water before rushing back out to sea. Then peacefully he took in a deep breath of the air, taking in the smell of the ocean, "I missed this place so much" he sighed.
"I beat you did" Martha smiled, "just being in the city for to long makes me miss it".
"So is that the real reason why you spend most of your days here" Jack grinned.
"Partly, I guess it's also got something to do with getting away from all the ciaos of the city".
"Well why don't you just move here then?"
Martha just looked at Jack blankly for a second, "I don't know".
"Well you could always come and live with me, it'd save you a lot of fuel" Jack suggested.
Martha stopped in her tracks, let go of Jacks hand and tilted her head to one site, "I though we were taking things slowly".
"We are" Jack simply replied, making Martha's face suddenly look more confused than there relationship was, "I mean we've taken things extremely slowly, just think when we first got together you were still eighteen, and now your twenty six".
Martha chuckled slightly and smiled, taking Jacks hand again and taking a step forward, "well if you put it that way how could I say no" she beamed, "but I'm still staying in the spare room for now".
"Ok, I guess that makes sense" Jack nodded, moving his hand from hers and placing his arm around her shoulders.
"So what do we tell the others then? I mean there going to start to wonder what's going on".
"Well we just tell them part of the truth then" Jack suggested.
"What do you mean?"
"Well I want to be closer to Dylan, which is true".
"Yeah" Martha smiled as they came to the end of the beach where the rocks started.
"You wanna go up there?" Jack asked innocently pointing up to the cliff top.
"Yeah sure" she answered before hearing her phone beeping from in her bag, "hang on one second" she told him removing her arm from around him to rummage through her bag to receive the text message. "Well looks like I won't be in a rush to get back home later then, Rose and Boyd had a change of plans" she said before putting her phone away and taking Jack's hand again.
"Well in that case why don't you stay for dinner and we can tell the others together hey?"
"Yeah sounds good" she answered, resting her head on his shoulder as he pulled her into him as they walked, "I'm sure Dylan will be happy too".
"Yeah, I've got a lot of catching up to do with him".
"Well your going to get that now".
"Sure am" he answered happily, "it's going to be great" he whispered, kissing her lightly on the head.
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"So is that everything?" Lucas asked Maddie who was carrying her last bag to the car, they were finally going on there honeymoon.
"Yeap, I think so" Maddie told him dropping the bag in the boot and wrapping her arms around his neck just after he closed the boot.
"So Mrs Holden where do you want to go then?" he asked smiling happily at her, placing his hands on her sides.
"Anywhere, as long as it's just you and me" she smiled sweetly, looking adoringly into his eyes and giving him a kiss before he helped her into the passengers side of the car. He then walked over to the drivers side and hopped in, not taking his eyes off her once.
"Well then lets go".
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"Here we are" Jack said as he got to the top of the cliff and turned around to help Martha up the last step.
"Wow, I forgot how beautiful it is up here" she smiled making her way closer to the edge.
"Yeah it's been a while since we were up here" he added, sitting down near the edge and guiding Martha's hand to help her sit down too.
Martha chuckled slightly and looked out to sea, "If I remember correctly the last time we were both here was when you tried to get me to jump".
Jack nodded slightly, also looking out to the water, "I've been back since then though".
"Really when?" she asked, looking back at him, admiring how peaceful he looked.
"After you ran away" Jack told her, "coming up here was my way of remembering how we used to be".
Martha moved herself closer to him, leaning sideways slightly so that she could rest her head on his shoulder, "well I'm not going anywhere now".
Jack looked over at her, admiring the beautiful girl in his arms that he'd just wrapped around her, "and that makes me the luckiest man in the world".
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Lara sat in her office, tears were running down her face and she rocked herself back and forth on the chair, huddling her arms around her stomach like she was trying to hold herself together, someone was out to get her, they'd already framed her, who knows what they could do next.
She's already been through a list of people in her mind that could of done this to her, it couldn't be Matt, he was behind bars, and it couldn't be Sean for the same reason. Jemma didn't even know her so she'd already forgotten about that idea, and now she was left wondering again, wondering about who it was, wondering about where they were right now, wondering what there next move was now, and wondering if they'd do more to her.
She staired at the clock on the wall, it was seven thirty already and the sky was dark. She heard a bang which made her jump so high she was surprised she didn't hit the roof, her hands were now on the edge of the chair, holding on for dear life and her eyes looked around the room searching every inch of the room in fright.
Then she heard foot steps, loud haunting foot steps, they could be heard echoing, ringing and tapping along the wooden corridor floor, they got closer and closer, making more and more noise with each step... until they stopped and Lara could see a shadow through the small translucent window of the office door.
Then the handle moved, it's sliver dimensions turning ever so slowly, Lara's heart racing more with each inch it moved. The door opened slowly, letting out a haunting creeping sound as it moved and a face appeared, stepping inside and shutting the door quickly holding out a gun directed right a Lara who was sitting at her desk completely defenseless and weak.
"Oh my gosh it's you" she exclaimed in shock.
"Don't say a word" he warned, giving her a look that made her even more scared, "I suggest you cooperate, otherwise there might be trouble, we wouldn't want that now would we?" he continued, smiling to himself, Jemma had been right, this was all going to go as planed.
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