The next few days began to pass quickly, Joe was out of Lindsey's life for now at least and she'd felt as though a massive weight had been taken off her shoulders. Lindsey hummed a song under her breath as she finished buttoning up the buttons on Daisy's baby grow. She smiled softly to herself, picking the baby girl up into her arms and holding her close as she walked out into the kitchen where Freddie was with JJ in his arms as he tried to sort out bottles and clean up whilst JJ tried to grab everything.

"Now I can see why you try and palm this job off on me every time, I've only got one pair of hands and that is /not/ enough for all this." Freddie proclaimed, moving JJ's hand away from the bottle he was making every couple of seconds.

"Why don't you just put JJ down then?" Lindsey suggested, leaning against the worktop as she placed a kiss onto Daisy's head.

"Because he's being clingy and wants to be held constantly, despite being able to walk wherever he wants." He shrugged, turning to look at JJ who just giggled at him.

"Right, why don't we swap then? I'll take JJ and you take Daisy." She added, raising an eyebrow.

"Deal" He said quickly, handing her JJ and taking Daisy into his arms.

Lindsey flashed a smile at him before leaving the kitchen after hearing the post come through the letter box. Grabbing the post, the first thing on top was a visiting order from Joe for her and JJ. She sighed deeply and shoved it into her back pocket.

"Fred?" Lindsey called out, walking back into the kitchen.

"What is it?" He asked, turning around from what he was doing.

"I just need you to look after the kids for me this afternoon. I've got somewhere really important I need to be." She said, placing JJ onto the floor and walking back out, grabbing her coat and bag.

"You can't leave me here with both of them! I've not got enough hands." He said, panicking at how he was going to cope with these two children.

"You'll live! I'll be back in a couple of hours, I promise. I love you!" She exclaimed, grabbing her phone before leaving the flat.

"Lindsey!" He shouted and then sighed after hearing the door go, both Daisy and JJ almost immediately starting to cry. "You've gotta be kidding me." He mumbled under his breath.

Lindsey took in a deep breath, nodding to gesture thankyou to the prison guard as she stepped out into the room, the barred windows, the inmates in their vibrant orange vests. She glanced around and slowly walked over to where Joe was sitting, taking a seat opposite him.

"Linds." Joe said, his face lightening up as he saw her, frowning when he noticed JJ wasn't with her. "Where's JJ?"

"Do you really think I'm going to bring my son into a prison to see his criminal father?" Lindsey chuckled sarcastically and shook her head. "He's at home with Freddie."

"What and you left him in his 'capable' hands?" He spoke angrily.

"Be quiet, Joe. JJ is safer with him than he ever was with you. I'm only here to hear what you've gotta say for yourself."

"I took JJ because I was trying to protect him. Freddie doesn't deserve to be a father figure in his life, he's not safe with him!"

"How dare you judge him like that? We both know that Freddie has done some pretty dodgy things in the past but I'm the one that lives with him day in day out watching him raise our daughter and a little boy that isn't biologically his but the amount of love he gives him is crazy. JJ is ten times better off with Freddie than he is with you, I'm sorry."

"Linds, you can't just let him bring up /our/ son. He's mine aswell."

"And you're in here. I'm sorry Joe but you had enough chances to prove to me that you could be a good dad."

"We both know Freddie killed Fraser, he could get arrested if I told the police."

"Yeah and who are they going to believe? Look at you, you're a mess and you're just throwing around empty threats because you think it's going to scare me."

"I'm telling the truth! When will you understand that you're putting our son at risk?"

"I'm not! I know Fred better than you do and I know that he would /never/ harm me, JJ or Daisy so you can keep your nose out of /my/ life." She leant in closer to him, glaring. "I hope you rot in here and I never have to see your face again." She whispered sternly, getting up from where she was sitting and making her way to leave.

"Lindsey!" Joe shouted, Lindsey turning around to look at him.

"Bye Joe." She said, her voice breaking as she let out a sigh of relief and left the room.