The first day of Joe's trial had arrived and it was safe to say that neither Freddie nor Lindsey were looking forward to it. Lindsey pulled her grey plaid blazer onto her body and sighed heavily, buttoning it up. Freddie walked over behind Lindsey wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, resting his chin down on her shoulder.

"Everything is going to be okay, I promise you." He whispered, placing a kiss on her cheek.

"But what if it isn't? What if Joe gets out and he does it again?" Lindsey replied nervously.

"He's not going to and if he does, we can go. We can move away with the kids but that is not going to happen."

"I just want to protect them." She glanced over onto the floor where JJ was playing with his toys and Daisy was alert and looking around in her swing before turning round to face Freddie. "I can't do that if he gets out."

"All we can do is hope but he abducted his son and tried to take him abroad, I doubt they're going to take that lightly Linds, just, don't worry. Finish getting ready and I'll get them two ready, everything'll be fine." He planted a kiss on her forehead and smiled gently.

Lindsey nodded and smiled back before heading into the bedroom to finish off getting ready. She pulled open the drawer she stored her jewellery in and sighed, the one diamonded silver banded engagement ring that Joe had given her stored in the back. She picked it up carefully and stared down at it before the glistening ring on her finger, smiling softly. She chucked her old engagement ring to the back of the drawer and grabbed her necklace from the drawer before closing it.

Freddie and Lindsey were sat close beside eachother in the courtroom as they waited for Joe to arrive. Freddie could hear Lindsey's breathing get heavier and almost like she was panicking so he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to him.

"Stop worrying, everything is going to be okay, I promise." Freddie whispered, placing a kiss onto the top of her head.

"If he gets out, we're not going to be able to get on with our lives." Lindsey whispered, sighing quietly.

"He's not going to, alright? If he does, we move away but like I said that's not going to happen." He assured her, sighing softly.

Just as he finished talking, the pair of them looked up to see Joe being led into the dock with two prison guards by his side.

"Lindsey, can you explain to the court the events that unfolded when you found out your son, Joe'Junior Roscoe were missing?" Lindsey's defence asked.

"It was JJ's first birthday. We were having a party and my at the time two week old daughter stopped breathing and was rushed into hospital with pneumonia. Whilst at the hospital, Joe offered to look after JJ whilst me and my partner were in hospital with our daughter. After a few days, we left the hospital and headed back to our flat in the village where we noticed that both my son's clothes and passport was gone. Obviously, alarm bells began to ring and I knew then that something was up." Lindsey spoke nervously as she stood in the witness box.

"Well done." Freddie mouthed, nodding gently with a smile over at her.

"Okay and what happened next?"

"Joe and JJ were then found two days after about to board a ferry to France."

"Thankyou, Lindsey."

"Joseph Roscoe's court case will continue tomorrow at 1pm." The judge spoke, packing away all their books and other documents.

Lindsey let out a sigh of relief and stepped down out of the dock, greeted by Freddie who handed her bag to her and took her hand as the two of them left the courtroom, Lindsey glancing back at Joe on her way out.

"You did so well, I'm proud of you." Freddie spoke softly as he walked alongside Lindsey and they walked out of the court.

"That was horrible. I can't believe I actually had to stand there and say that my son was kidnapped by his own father. But, only a few more days of this and hopefully Joe'll be out of our lives for good." Lindsey replied, the two of them stopping and turning to face eachother as Lindsey looked up at Freddie. "I love you." She said quietly before leaning up and pressing her lips against his.

"I love you too." He replied after the two of them had pulled themselves away from eachother.

A/N: Sorry for such a long time to update. I've spent the past week wondering if I even ship these two anymore so I've had literally no motivation to write about them but I'm back! I'm not going into massive detail with this courtcase because I've got other things that I'd like to write before I finish this around the chapter 30 mark so, yeah. I'll be jumping in the next chapter and then heading to the finish line!