Carrick had left Jade and Luke on their own with the file, aware that they needed to look through it with each other on their own. CJ and Faith were fast asleep in their rooms. Luke quickly made two cups of tea and they sat down beside each other, looking over the file one more time.
The file contained two sets of information, a set of boy and girl twins who were only just over a month old, and had been signed over immediately by their mother when they were born, and had effectively been abandoned by her.
When they'd read that, Luke had squeezed his wife's hand, aware that it hit close to home for her with what Elena had done to her nearly twenty five years previously.
They had been named Charlotte and Jackson, and the only picture was of the two of them together, fast asleep. Jade and Luke read the files before looking at each other.
'So, that's two kids Jade, not just one. There is a… ten month gap between CJ and them, I mean, I think we can do it but I- I- what do you think?'
Jade sighed, curling up into her husband, putting the file down 'I was only twenty when we got married, do you know how many people told me that twenty was too young to get married? Probably about fifteen people, you know how many people told me that I should wait to marry you?'
Luke shook his head, never having heard this before and Jade smiled
'No one, not one person told me I was rushing into it or said I should wait? No one, Luke, not even my Dad for god's sake. They all knew that you were right, we just worked, and there was no use in waiting. We had Faith at 21 and I had CJ at 24 and you know what… I think we can take anything that we're faced with. We survived Jack Hyde and me going to Israel for god's sake, I think… you know I think we can do this Luke'
He leant over and kissed her gently, his voice quiet 'of course we can babe, I just don't want you to feel pushed into something'
They sat curled up into each other before Luke started kissing her again, this time letting the kisses quicken and deepen quickly, feeling his wife's smirk against his lips as he lightly pushed her back against the sofa, making quick work of her t-shirt and bra.