Lindsey and Freddie made their way to the police station, thoughts clouding their minds of where Joe could've been and if him and JJ were safe. Stepping into Dee Valley Police station, Lindsey sighed deeply and walked over to the desk.
"It's going to be okay, I promise. They're going to find them." Freddie whispered, tucking Daisy who had fallen asleep back into her pram before standing beside Lindsey, wrapping his arm around her. Lindsey nodded reluctantly at what he said and turned back to the desk.
"How can we help?" An officer said, looking at the couple.
"I'd like to report a missing person, well two actually." Lindsey spoke, her voice shaking at the thought of it. "My ex, Joe roscoe has gone missing with our one year old son and he won't answer his phone. I've tried calling and calling but it's not getting through, he took his Mum to the airport yesterday and I haven't seen him since."
"Right okay. I'll speak to a few other officers and we'll get straight onto the case of finding them. Can I take your name?"
"Lindsey Butterfield. Please, you have to find them."
"Don't worry m'am, we'll do all we can."
Back in Essex, Joe was scanning through pages of flats on the internet in an attempt to find somewhere for him and JJ to stay other than a hotel. As the news came onto the TV, he looked up to see the missing person appeal.
"Police are searching for 31 year old Joseph Roscoe and 1 year old son Joe'Junior after the pair went missing from Hollyoaks Village. Joseph was last seen outside the 'Alan Roscoe&Sons' garage where he worked with his 4 younger brothers. Lindsey Butterfield, ex fiancé of Joe and mother of Joe'Junior and Freddie Roscoe, Joe's younger brother and Lindsey's boyfriend are both urging anyone that may have seen these two to come forward with any new information."
Joe gasped and shoved the laptop down, jumping up from the bed as he paced up and down the floor. His phone then buzzed, a phone call coming through from Robbie.
"Rob?" Joe said, answering the phone.
"Joe, you're going to have to come back bruv'. Lindsey and Fred are really worried about where you both are and if you don't come back you're going to get arrested." Robbie replied in a panic over the phone.
"I can't come back, I can't let JJ near Freddie again. I've got passports and I'm going to go over to France for the time being."
"I can't help you anymore. I'm going to have to tell Lindsey where you are."
"No no no! You can't tell her Rob please."
"She is JJ's mother and she deserves to know.' And with that, he hung up the phone.
Joe groaned and chucked his phone down angrily, sitting down and putting his head into his hands as he thought about what was best to do. It was take JJ and leave the country, keep his son away from Freddie or take him back and get away scot free. He knew exactly what he had to do.
Lindsey folded up a few of the freshly washed and ironed baby clothes, placing them into piles. Picking up a small blue top, she let out a sigh knowing it was one of her favourite tops to dress JJ in. She shook her head and folded it up, placing it onto JJ's pile of clothes. She wiped her eyes as tears began to blur her vision, the worst thoughts going through her head about what could happen to her little boy. Freddie could see she was upset and sighed, stepping out of the kitchen and walking over to her, wrapping his arms around her waist from behind.
"Stop worrying, Joe wouldn't ever harm JJ. He's got him safe somewhere and that police appeal is going to help us find them." He whispered, placing a kiss onto her cheek.
"Things could've been different, if I'd just stayed with Joe and never betrayed him like I did, we wouldn't have this war going on." She spoke quietly.
"Don't say that, alright? Don't put yourself down over this. Joe just wants control, he wants control of your son and we can't let him win. Stop fretting and let the police do their job."
"I need to go put these things away." She said, avoiding the whole subject as she grabbed the baby clothes from the sofa and made her way into the nursery. She opened up the drawers and placed everything into them before noticing something different.
Lindsey dug through the drawer of clothing in an attempt to find what she needed to. She'd always hidden the families passports in the drawers, they'd had never have been safe in the drawers in the living area so the nursery was the best place. She gasped, noticing that the passports were gone and only the documents were left and beside the documents, a silver watch. Not anyone's watch, Robbie's watch.
"Fred?" Lindsey shouted, slowly taking the watch out of the drawer.
"What's up?" Freddie asked, stepping into the nursery and looking at the watch in her hand.
"Is this yours?" She asked, holding it up.
"Nope it's Robbie's." He said reluctantly, trying to work out why it was there.
"But Robbie hasn't been here since-"
"Robbie knows something about Joe." He clicked onto what was going on. "Are our passports still there?"
"No, they're gone aswell and I reckon Joe has taken them."
"Robbie was acting too nice when he came over the otherday, he's gotta know something." Freddie quickly walked out of the nursery and grabbed his leather jacket.
"Where are you going?" Lindsey asked, following him.
"To go find out what my little brother knows." And before Lindsey could reply, he'd already left the flat.