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Chapter 5
Livie re-entered the Jeffersonion to see April and Tali standing side by side, slowly Tali lifted her leg and did a slow motion round house kick, grinning April copied her, "hey Livie" Tali called "you ok" she nodded and pushed Dr Sweets' card into her pocket "what's going on" she asked "ninja school lesson 1" Tali said with a smile "want to join in" Livie grinned "sounds interesting" she said "where did you get the crash mats" she asked looking at the mats on the floor "Hodgins likes to do weird experiments a lot" April explained "you can find practically anything around here, though I think these were health and safety from Hodgins' experiments" Livie laughed, with a grin Tali stepped forward "try to punch me" she said to April who eyed her warily "is this going to break my wrist" she asked, smiling Tali shook her head "no I am in control I promise", April shifted and then swung her fist at Tali's jaw.
Lighting fast the youngest of the three of them ducked round the blow catching hold of her wrist and throwing it away, April lashed out at her side this time but Tali parried it away again with ease, she caught her next swing and twisted behind her pulling her arm behind her back, instantly April used her leg to knock Tali off her feet and they both tumbled to the ground where they lay laughing loudly "nice improvisation" Tali said as she got to her feet and pulled April up "how did you know where I would strike" April asked, Tali smiled, "you put all your weight behind your punch" she said "meaning I see your weight shift so I know which arm you will use and when you went for my hip you angled down before you even began the swing" April stared "ok am not doing that again" she said, Tali grinned "want to try Livie" she asked, Livie shook her head "um I have never thrown a punch like that in my life so I don't think I will be much good" April smiled at her "probably sensible" she said.
She showed them how to get out of choke holds though she said if there was a gun involved don't even try, she told them to jab your elbows into their stomach, if they had you pinned against the wall the first thing not to do would be panic, second hook your elbow over their arm and yank it down, Livie found she felt slightly better when they finished, they looked over and spotted Ziva watching them, she smiled and stood up moving over to Tali who grinned at her mom before speaking to her in Hebrew, Ziva raised her eyebrows and replied, then Tali grinned and struck out with her fist.
Ziva was just as fast as Tali, maybe even faster, she knocked Tali's blow away before sending her own back as April and Livie both back out of the way, Tali dodged the blow catching hold of her fist, with a small laugh Ziva pulled her into her arms pinning her arms, Tali giggled before twisting sending her mother off balance and freeing herself, Tali danced clear fists raised, as Ziva spun round "not bad tateleh" she said, Tali grinned again, they threw a few more blows at each other before laughing and backing away, they turned to find everyone watching looking shocked except for Tony and Gibbs who had seen it many times before, they were watching looking slightly bored "shall we go get lunch somewhere" Tony suggested, everyone nodded "anyone know anywhere good" Rick asked "we know a place" Booth said and his team nodded.
XOXOXO
Half an hour later they were all seated across the entire length of the counter at the King's Diner which thankfully was empty so they had the place to themselves allowing them to discuss the case as they ate, Livie, April, Tali and Alexis all sat chatting at a booth nibbling at their food, eventually the talk strayed away from the case and Kate and Ziva began to talk about their job in general being the only female cops in the group, McGee began to ask Rick about his writing and Brennan joined in after a while and the rest of the men all began to talk about sports.
Giggling April and Tali offered to take Alexis and Livie on a short tour of DC someday soon and they both agreed eagerly. They were just discussing where to go when Gibbs' mobile rang, he pulled it out and answered it, instantly his face darkened, everyone stopped and looked at him as he said "thank you, we will be there soon" and he hung up looking at them all sombrely "there has been another killing" he said "Marine down by the docks, they believe it is our killer" he looked at Tony, Ziva and McGee "gear up" he said, the three of them slid off their stools and headed to their car, Gibbs looked at the others "you coming" he asked, they all nodded "fancy being our medical examiner" he asked Brennan "I know skin and organs isn't your thing but Ducky is out of town and I don't trust the replacement" Brennan shrugged "I guess that with my expertise I can generalise it to the whole body" "that's a yes" Booth simplified "come on Bones lets go" "what about us" Tali asked, everyone looked at them " "might as well" Gibbs said "killer is long gone, you stay close though" he said, they all nodded.
XOXOXO
When they arrived the dock yard had been cleared of all workers who were giving their statements to the other uniforms, the team moved forward towards the body and Brennan crouched down next to him "well preliminary cause of death would be massive internal bleeding from the bullet wound to the heart", she stuck a probe into his liver "liver temp suggests he died at least 12 hours ago" Gibbs nodded and looked around before looking back at her "anything else you can tell me" he asked, she studied the body then picked up a phone lying next to him "he was on his phone when he died" she said "well maybe whoever he was talking to heard something, DiNozzos" he called, Tony and Ziva came over cameras and sampling kits in hand "leave that to McGee I want you to find out who this marine was on the phone too when he died" they both nodded and took the evidence bag and headed off to go see Abby, with Tali on their heels.
Gibbs looked around and spotted a security camera "Beckett" he said spotting her studying the body, her daughter was eyeing the docks uncertainly, Kate looked up "why don't you and agent Booth go get those security tapes" he said, they nodded and headed off with Rick and their daughters towards the office, then he looked at Brennan still studying the body "your boss going to be ok to do the autopsy" he asked "yes I believe she will be" she said without looking up, eventually she did "I will call for a van" she said and he nodded.
XOXOXO
Kate and Booth stepped into the security office, instantly one guy stood up "can I help you" he asked, Booth held up his badge "Special Agent Seeley Booth FBI, this is Detective Kate Castle" the guy nodded and looked over their shoulders at Rick and the girls "tag along" Booth said "listen I take it you know about what happened here last night" the guy nodded "well we want to see all the security videos you have" he said, the guy nodded "right this way" he said and he lead them into the back room, Rick and the girls followed.
They all waited patiently until he had loaded yesterday's footage, then they all peered in until they spotted their victim, slowly they began to follow his route on the cameras, he was talking animatedly on his phone "he looks excited about something" Booth noted, Kate nodded and kept her eyes on the screen, then their victim jerked and fell to the ground dropping the phone as his white shirt blossomed with colour as blood stained it red. They rewound it a couple of times looking for anything but there was nothing "do you cover this place in audio" Booth asked and the security guy nodded he fiddled for a bit getting to the right time before playing the track, it was night time so there were no loud clangs and crashes as things were moved on and off the boats, there was just one loud bang which echoed around in the near silence making them all flinch.
BANG, Bang, bang
The shot echoed loudly, then there was a crash from behind and they all whirled round to see Livie stagger backwards her eyes wide with terror, she staggered into another table, instantly Kate realised what was wrong and turned to her "Livie, shh its ok" she soothed, Livie shook her head breathing hard "I need to get out of here" she gasped, heading for the door, Kate made to follow her but she cried out "no mom I will be fine, I just need space" Kate froze "Livie" she called but she was already running "I'll meet you back at the lab" her daughter called then she was gone, before Kate could even try to follow her.
Kate stared after her daughter in worry, April made to move past her but Booth caught hold of her arm "if she wants space give her space" he said quietly, April looked at him then slowly nodded, Booth turned back to the guy who looked confused "can we take those videos and the audio please" he said, then he turned to Kate who was leaning against the wall "she ok" he asked gently, Kate sighed and ran her hands through her hair "when she was kidnapped, the kidnappers made an exchange point at the docks, to stop me from trying anything, they shot her" Booth and April's eyes widened "three times" Kate said softly, "that echoing shot must have reminded her of what happened", she sighed "let's go get everything so we can get back to the lab and I can talk to her" she said and they all nodded, collecting the videos and heading back down to the crime scene.
XOXOXO
Livie ran blindly, her terror taking her over as the memories came flooding back;
Standing on the docks, wrists bound staring at the barrel of a gun pointing straight at her mother "try anything little Beckett and it will be mommy Beckett that gets hurt too" the man said, nodding and then staring in horror as he suddenly swung the gun up and round to face me "and to make sure mommy Beckett does nothing" he smiled "sorry kiddo this may hurt a bit" then pain.
She gave a little cry of terror and ran out, she shot passed the crime scene ignoring everyone calling out to her and she ran, she didn't look where she was going, she barely heard the cars screeching to a stop to avoid hitting her, she could barely see through her tears which filled her eyes, eventually she managed to stop and she ran down an ally gasping and sobbing at the memories that overcame her, she leaned against the wall gasping then she staggered backwards until she was leaning against the other wall and then she sank to the floor shivering and gasping, then she felt her phone vibrate and she saw Alexis was calling her, she declined the call throwing her phone down next to her gasping placing her head in her hands, crying hard as the memories hit her again;
I could see my mother, running towards me, she knocked me clear of a knife that was heading towards me again, I saw her eyes widen in pain as we both fell to the ground, I staggered to my feet once again but my mom didn't move, there was a huge red stain spreading across the side of her top, I could hear myself crying out to her and another voice to the side of me crying out 'Kate', our attacker was now moving towards her, raising the knife now stained in my mom's blood, I saw my mom roll over hand holding her side and she began to wiggle away gasping in pain.
I didn't want anything to happen to her so I stepped in front of her crying out to the attacker 'no you said that if I did as I was told you wouldn't hurt her' he grinned almost delightedly at me 'really did I say that' he leered 'well I lied sorry' I heard my mother gasp out to me 'Livie run' but I couldn't just leave her, she was my mother, I remained where I was keeping my wrists bound together raised defensively, our assailant laughed and said 'very well, you can die first'.
My mother screamed 'NO' at the top of her voice as he almost threw himself at me, the knife came down towards me but I caught hold of it to my surprise, I fought to keep hold of it but he pushed me backwards, until I felt the edge of the docks behind me, I felt him push me again and I staggered and stumbled trying to keep my footing, he kept hold of me preventing me from falling, forcing me to stare into his cold merciless eyes, 'such a brave child' he snarled at me, he gave me another push so that only the tips of my toes were on the edge of the pier, 'pity it didn't get you anything' he then shouted and I saw the knife plunge into my stomach, I gasped as I felt it slide through me, looking down I could see the hilt of the knife protruding from my belly, blood pooling out from either side of the blade, I looked back into his eyes now full of delight 'bye' he whispered and then I felt him release me and I fell into the churning waters below.
Livie rocked backwards and forwards trying to comfort her self, crying uncontrollably "I can't do this" she sobbed to herself, hiding her eyes from the world as she rocked backwards and forwards again, she could feel something in her pocket and she pulled it out to see the little card with a name and number on it, a name with a number that could help her.
Still trembling she picked up her phone and with shaking hands she dialled the number and held the phone to her ear in trembling hands.
XOXOXO
Sweets looked up as his phone rang, he looked at the number, he didn't recognise it, so he picked it up and answered it "Lance Sweets"
"Sweets" came a small frightened voice, "its Livie" he frowned "hey Livie are you ok" he could hear her shivering uncontrollably "no" she whispered but it came out in a strangled sob "no, I'm not ok" he stood up "shh its ok" he said comfortingly "its ok I promise, now take deep breaths, long and deep" slowly he heard her breathing slow after a few minutes of talking soothingly to her and when she spoke again her voice was steadier "ok" she whispered "good girl now do you want tell me what happened" she didn't answer at first then she said quietly "I had another flashback, at a crime scene and I ran" he frowned "You ran, where are you now"
"I don't know" she whispered "I don't know where I am" "ok" he said "stay calm can you see a street sign, I will come and get you" he heard her shift "I am in an ally on the corner of M Street South East" "ok" he said grabbing his keys "I will be there as soon as I can I want you to stay calm ok" "ok" she whispered.
He hung up and hurried down to his car offering no explanation to anyone who asked where he was going, he just got in his car and headed down towards M Street.
XOXOXO
Livie sank back to the floor after telling Sweets where she was, she rested her head in her hands and carried on crying hitting decline at every phone call that came through to her, she was scared and right now, she wanted to be alone, she didn't totally understand why she had called Sweets, maybe because the last time she had seen a psychologist in New York it had really helped and he wasn't too connected to the team.
She heard footsteps and then someone crouched down next to her "hey Livie" Sweets said softly, she didn't look at him she just kept her head in her hands "why" she whispered "why do they keep coming back to me" "I don't know kiddo" he said "but give it time they will go away", she looked at him "it has been a year" she said "a whole year since I was taken, I think that has been long enough, I want them to stop, make them stop"
Sweets looked at her "come on" he said "let's get you to my office, we will talk there ok, get you out of the rain" Livie hadn't noticed the rain that had come pouring down on her, slowly she nodded and got to her feet realising she was soaked through, she followed Sweets back to his car and climbed slowly in, he turned the heating on full blast and then he drove hurriedly back to his office.
He steered her into the FBI building through security saying she was with him and up to his office past Caroline Julian who looked at him sceptically, he just ignored her, he gently steered Livie over to his sofa and sat her down before fetching a blanket and wrapping it around her as she sat there shivering slightly, then he sat down opposite her and studied her, a traumatised 14 year old girl who had seen more violence and pain than anyone should at that age, life was unfair for her.
She looked at him "I want them to stop" she said "how do I make them stop" he sighed "Livie you can't make this stop, you have to let it go away at its own speed, it is you healing, and you can only heal at a certain speed" "well I want to heal faster" she said "how do I do that" "Livie I can't make you heal faster" he said "everyone is different, you are who you are"
"Well I want to be more than who I am" she said desperately, he sighed and looked at her "why did you run Livie" he asked, she looked at him, "what" "why did you run away from the crime scene", she frowned "because everywhere I looked I could see a gun pointing at me, every sound I heard were 3 gunshots, and everything I felt was three bullets burying themselves into me and pain and fear, I had to get out of there, I needed space, and I didn't want everyone to see me like that, I mean I hate it when I see the pain in my mom's eyes every time she has to wake me up from a nightmare, I don't want everyone else to have to see me like that, I don't want their sympathy"
Sweets looked at her "let's talk about something else" he suggested "what do you like to do back home in your spare time" she gave him a small smile "I like to ride" she said softly, he nodded "do you have a favourite horse", instantly he knew he had hit gold as her smile widened and her eyes lit up and she visible relaxed "yeah" she said "yeah, Rick bought her for me for my birthday last year, her name is Skye, she is beautiful, I love her so much" Sweets smiled "tell me about her" he said settling down to listen.
She told him of how Skye had brought back all her memories after she had been taken, how she had sat on that horse's back and let her carry her down the road to recovery, how she had ridden round a few laps before pointing her at a fence and the moment she had taken off, she was free, all the walls blocking her memories had disappeared as she had leapt over them.
Skye had been there for her, now she always would be, she told him of how she loved to go out riding with either Alexis and her mom or her two friends Megan and Laura, how she loved to ride bareback and she was working on her jumping bareback, how they had gone into a competition not long after her mom had married Rick and they had won it.
By the time she had finished her eyes were shining and she was relaxed, then as she stopped everything flooded back to her and she visible drooped, "that worked for a while" she mumbled, he gave her a sympathetic smile before he sighed and looked at her, her phone rang again but she just pressed decline and stared around the room, he stood "come on" he said helping her to her feet, "let's go" and he carefully led her back out to his car saying "tell me about that competition, were you nervous, I bet it took a while to prepare".
XOXOXO
Kate followed the rest of the team back into the Jeffersonion and instantly looked around, Livie was nowhere in sighed "hey boss" Tony called from Angela's office where he was sitting next to Ziva on the sofa, Tali was on his lap and she was giggling as he tickled her "did you find out who the victim Owen Marks was speaking too" Gibbs asked as they all headed over and Booth handed Angela the videos "yeah Abby traced the call to a Petty Officer and we went to speak to him, he was pretty frightened, told us they had been discussing his bachelor party" he gave a small smile "the irony of him saying that it was going to be a blast right before he heard a gunshot" everyone smiled dryly "but he said he didn't hear anything else" Ziva added "that was the last he heard" everyone thought, then Tali said "hey where's Livie"
Kate's head snapped up "what do you mean where is she" she demanded "she is meant to be here, she said she would come right back here" they all looked at Angela, she shook her head "no she hasn't come back here" she said "I have been here all day I would have seen her" "oh god" Kate muttered pulling out her phone and she called her daughter, it went straight to voice mail "Livie honey, where are you, you said you would go back to the Jeffersonion, but you didn't, where are you call me now, I am really worried honey please call me" she hung up breathing hard, and she began to pace.
Rick caught hold of her "hey" he said "she is going to be fine Kate" she didn't listen to him she continued to breath hard "hey" he said squeezing her shoulders "look at me Kate", slowly she did and stared into his blue eyes and instantly she felt calmer "she is going to be fine" he said softly "I promise Kate we will find her"
An hour later and there was still no Livie and Kate was beginning to panic so Booth pulled out his phone to call the local PD units and ask if a girl matching Livie's description had been spotted anywhere, Alexis moved forward and hugged Kate who was tense, Kate clung to the older girl, holding her tight as she waited
"um" said Tony suddenly "Booth no need to call in some uniforms to hunt for her" Booth looked at him from where he was on the phone "found her" Tony said nodding towards the doors, they all turned to see her come stumbling in as the doors slid open, she was soaking wet and shivering, her arms were wrapped around her small frame which shook, Sweets came in behind her looking around.
"Livie" Kate breathed and ran out of the office towards her daughter, Livie looked up at the sound of her approaching, and then stumbled forward into her mother's arms, Kate clung to her tightly stroking her hair lovingly as she clung to her daughter, everyone else moved out too, Alexis ran forward relief written across her face, Kate pulled away to look at her daughter "what happened" she exclaimed "I was so worried", Livie smiled sheepishly "I got lost" she mumbled "and I called Sweets to come pick me up", Kate looked at the young psychologist and nodded gratefully, he smiled and nodded back at her.
"Come on" April said "there is a spare change of clothes of mine in mom's office that you can borrow before you catch the death of a cold" Livie smiled weakly and then still shivering she stumbled off after April with Tali and Alexis right behind them. Everyone instantly looked at Sweets who looked from face to face "what" he said.
"What happened" Rick asked, Sweets sighed "well I gave her my card the last time I saw her, and said she could call me if she ever needed my and then a couple of hours ago I get a call from her, she is crying her eyes out sobbing and near to hyperventilating, I eventually manage to get her to calm down and she tells me that she had another flashback at the crime scene and she ran, she told me where she was and I picked her up and took her back to my office and we talked for a bit then once she had calmed down I brought her back here"
"thank you" Kate said, she looked at him "what did you talk about" she asked, he hesitated "Sweets" Booth warned "tell her, none of your confidentiality crap", Sweets sighed "she told me how it has been a year since she was kidnapped, and how she is sick of the flashbacks, she wants them to go away, I told her that they would go away eventually, but for now they are a part of her and quote on quote she said 'well I want to be more than who I am" he looked at them sadly, "she is just upset, and I don't blame her, she has just met two girls who have been through a similar trauma to her and gotten over it easily, she feels uncertain by the fact that she hasn't yet"
Everyone was silent "emotionally though I am not surprised" he said "I told her this but April has been here since she was tiny, she knew all about the evils of the world from a very young age, and from what I have gathered" he looked at Tony and Ziva "Tali has been coming to NCIS for a long time too, she is like April, she knows too, Livie" he looked at Kate, "you kept her apart from the horrors of the world to protect her and it was the right thing to do, not saying it was wrong of you to introduce it to them" he said to Tony, Ziva, Brennan, and Booth "it just meant that when it did come and hit her in the face, it sent her flying, she was unprepared"
Kate nodded silently "I understand" she said "what can I do" she asked, he gave her a small smile "not much, she needs to get over the trauma on her own, you can just support her, though when she has a flashback, ask her about Skye", Kate and Rick looked at him "How do you know about Skye" Kate asked, "whose Skye" Ziva asked confused "she told me" Sweets said "calmed her right down to talk about her" Kate looked at everyone else "Skye is Livie's horse, Rick bought her for her" she explained, they all nodded happy to understand.
"let's turn in for the night" Booth suggested "tomorrow, we start again running down more leads and I think we will all be a bit more awake because I think we are all a bit tired" everyone nodded, Ziva and Brennan headed off to fetch their youngest children whilst Kate and the others headed over to the girls, Livie was standing in some dry clothes talking quietly to April, Tali and Alexis, she was quiet but there was a happy smile on her face, they all leapt up as they saw their parents. "Hey" Booth said "ready to come home bud" April grinned and nodded and they all began to gather their things.
They heard giggling and looked over as Ziva and Brennan reappeared, Libby instantly ran to her daddy who picked her up whilst Tony moved towards Ziva "hey little guy" he cooed "did you annoy the carers today" Ziva smiled as she bounced AJ on her hip "actually they said he was as good as gold and they didn't understand why I warned them", Tony looked at his son giggling in his arms "seriously" he said "what are you only naughty for us at the moment" Aiden giggled and grabbed a handful of his daddy's hair making him yelp and everyone else laugh.
They all headed out on their separate ways and headed back to their homes, when they arrived at the hotel though Kate hung back "I'll catch up" she said and moved into the lobby and sat down pulling out her phone and dialling the well-used number "hey Lanie" she said softly.
Her best friend instantly sounded worried "Kate hey how are you, oh my gosh I can't believe it, how are you" Kate smiled "I am hanging on Lanie, how are you" she asked "pissed at you for making me have to hear this from the boys" she said "nah just kidding, not bad, me and Javi are going out to dinner later tonight" Kate smiled "have fun with that" she said, Lanie must have picked up that something was wrong "hey Kate what's wrong"
It all came flooding out, her fears over the case, her worries about Livie and her amazement about the three girls, that even shocked Lanie and it took a lot to shock the coroner who had seen nearly every cause of death possible. "what all three of them" she said "they have exactly the same past" "yeah worse than Livie for Tali, the youngest, you should see her Lanie, she is deadly, her fighting is unbeatable, she is a deadly assassin when she fights, yet when she isn't and she is just normal, she is the sweetest little girl ever, I can't believe what happened to her, how anyone could hurt her, she was 12 the first time she was shot"
"god poor kid" Lanie said, Kate sighed "thanks Lanie I guess I just needed to safely vent" "no problem girl, call anytime, say hi to the girls and writer boy for me" Kate smiled "will do say hi to the boys for me and make sure you and Javi have fun tonight" "thanks Kate, talk soon yeah" "yeah" Kate agreed and she hung up feeling slightly better.
She headed up to her room and carefully slipped in "hey" Rick said closing his laptop "how's Lanie" she looked at him "how did you know" she asked, he smiled at her "because she is your best friend" she smiled at him "she is good off out to dinner with 'Javi" she said quoting Esposito's nickname affectionately given to him by his girlfriend, Rick smiled, "they are pretty cute together you have to admit" he said, Kate nodded "well that is what they said about us" she said crawling onto the bed next to him "and they were right" he said happily "the four of us do make a great family" Kate smiled and hugged him "that we do" she whispered.
XOXOXO
Alexis looked at Livie lying curled up on the bed fingering her bracelet "hey Livs" she said softly rising from her bed and moving over to her "what is wrong honey", Livie looked at her "nothing is wrong Lexie I am better now I promise" Alexis looked at her as she sat down, she placed her hand on her sister's hip "so you are not trying to delay falling asleep" Livie looked up at her "no" she said, Alexis looked at her before lying down next to her and pulling her closer and tickling her stomach making her squeal "you sure about that little sis" she asked tickling her again making her giggle and kick out laughing loudly.
They continued before Livie managed to wriggle away and then she dived at Alexis making her let out a shriek as it was her turn to be tickled, the two of them rolled around together laughing madly until the door burst open and their parents came rushing in.
Kate stared at their daughters lying tangled amongst the sheets and on top of each other, they both looked up and grinned at them "hi" they both chorused together "what on earth are you doing" Rick exclaimed "you nearly gave us a heart attack, we thought you had decided that only one of you was leaving DC alive and you were going to fight to the death to see who it was" Livie laughed as they untangled themselves from each other "nah just bonding" she said, Rick shook his head "you and I have different ideas of what bonding should be" he said and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Kate saw both girls glance at each other and grinned "I think you are about to experience their way Rick" she said with a smile "huh" he said then he yelped as they both tackled him pulling him backwards onto the bed and leaping on top of him laughing loudly, he grabbed Livie pulling her into his arms tickling her madly as she wriggled and gasped, giggling happily, Kate stood there laughing until they all sat up and looked at her "oh no" she said as they all stood "don't even think about it" she warned backing away as Rick moved towards her grinning "no way" she squealed and bolted out of the room down the hall.
She didn't get very far before she felt Rick's arms wrap around her waist, she squealed again as he lifted her throwing her over his shoulder "Rick you had better put me down" she said giggling thumping him on the back "shall I girls" he asked "nah" they said as he carried her into their room "traitors" she growled at them as they followed them back in shutting the door behind them.
She was deposited on the bed but before she could do anything Livie and Alexis launched towards her and they began to tickle her mercilessly "hey I thought us girls stuck together" she yelped laughing "that is a fair point" Livie said and before he knew it Rick had all three of them tickling him mercilessly.
Eventually they stopped and just lay there breathing hard, Livie rested her head on Kate's stomach and Kate played with her hair gently as she leaned against Rick who had one arm around her, the other round Alexis. They lay there happily together for a long while none of them felt like moving, Kate looked down at Livie who had her eyes closed, glancing over she saw that Rick had his eyes closed too, Alexis was grinning at him, she grinned at Kate before closing her eyes too, smiling Kate looked down at Livie, she looked so relaxed, but she knew that the terror was still there and would be there for a long while, all they had to do was keep it under control, but how long could they do that for before it went out of control?
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