Problems

Right new chapter, first one for about a month I believe hopefully it's okay, I know this is a very slow story but it has to be for what I have set up hopefully in like the next 2/3 chapters I aim to have the story progressed up to a certain point but I thought this story would only last about six or seven chapters and have had the last one written for about three four months now :s but anyway I will get to it eventually even if the slow stuff has to happen first anyway I hope you enjoy and I don't own COD but I do own Anchor.

After about two weeks we finally were able to take Ashley and Jessica home once again Bailey took us back to the house and we set up Jessica's room. She had a little pink cot which I spent the first few weeks pretty much stuck to; she was so small and so perfect. I did keep tabs on Ashley who was still recovering but by a week back home she was up and about.

I continued to speak to Jessica as she laid in her cot she just looked up at me she was very quiet not really crying too much but she was soothed easily if she did begin to cry. One night when she had reached about a month old she had woken up and was crying I managed to get her back to sleep but whenever I put her down she started crying again so I spent the night laid on the floor with her laid across my chest not really asleep but not awake either.

I didn't think anything of it until about two weeks later when she was laying in her cot and she did not respond when I spoke to her, I put it down to her being asleep but she would normally roll towards my voice if I spoke but now nothing. I told Ashley and we immediately rushed to the hospital.

We waited in A&E for hours waiting to be seen but eventually we did get seen, it was a young female doctor she had a white and red striped blouse on with black trousers, her hair was cut in a dark brown bob. She checked over Jessica eventually once she had checked everything she gave both Ashley and I a very solemn look.

She took a deep breath and sighed, "I'm sorry, it appears that Jessica had some undiagnosed fluid inside her ears which has now perforated her ear drums and misaligned the inner ear bones," She paused for a minute and Ashley grasped my hand tightly, "She is now completely deaf in both ears, we can see what we can do but it's not likely that she will ever be able to hear." She finished as Ashley kissed Jessica on the forehead whilst she sat on my lap.

"Is there anything that can be done?" I asked her trying to keep Jessica stable and Ashley upright.

"If we can get her on the waiting list for cochlear implants then we could give them a go but there is a very long waiting list and she'd be school age by the time she could actually hear again which would set her back years in terms of speech," The doctor replied looking deeply into Jessica's eyes who were none the wiser as to what we had just heard.

"Could we go private?" I asked her.

"You could but this procedure is very expensive, it's almost one hundred thousand pounds for the NHS to perform it, for you to perform it yourself it would be an astronomical figure," she replied.

"We can save up!" Ashley exclaimed.

"No we can't Ash," I said to her as I held her, "we have just taken out a mortgage and we don't have much money as is."

"Then what are we meant to do?" Ashley sobbed as she broke down in her chair.

"We will manage, we can learn to sign," I paused as she buried her head into my shoulder, "will you treat her any different?" I asked her.

"Of course not she's our beautiful little girl," She replied.

"Well I won't treat her different either." I said placing my hand on Ashley's lap and Jessica reached across to grab Ashley's arm, "We are a family now," I smiled at her as I stood up, "Thank you, Doc, how will we be informed about the implants?"

"You will receive an information pack and some lessons on how to do very basic sign," She said as she got up to open the door, "I hope this all ends well for you."

My time at home with Ashley and Jessica was rapidly drawing to a close I spent my last few days making sure that Ashley and Jessica were as comfortable as possible because I was going to be going back to Lympstone for at least eight weeks.

It came to my last day I was out for once just on the way to the shops to get a few bits and pieces but this would be more eventful than my previous trips to the shops, I was going down a small path which lead down beside the canal I saw a couple of men couldn't have been more than twenty five they had a small animal with them when I got closer I saw that it was a little puppy couldn't have been more than six maybe eight weeks old but that didn't stop the men from kicking the crap out of the poor bastard.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" I shouted over to them as I approached.

"None of your fucking business you stupid cunt!" the taller of the man replied.

"Oh you're in my path so I think it is my business," I told them as I continued to approach.

"Stay fucking back!" The shorter one exclaimed as he looked up at me with the dog pinned to the floor.

"And if I don't," I added whilst walking closer.

"Or you'll get it!" He then told me as he stood up and pulled a blade out from the pocket of his hoodie.

"Oh so you're getting real serious aren't you," I said as I started to brace myself.

"Fuck off!" The taller man told me as he barrelled towards me, I stepped just left of him as he tried to throw a punch at me. He missed and whilst he was off balance I gave him a right hook under his ribs, causing him to collapse on the floor.

"Now leave that dog alone!" I demanded as the tall man rolled on the floor, the shorter one then turned on me with his blade. He kept slashing at me but I just kept parrying him after ten or so slashes he started to tire and so I could grab his arm with the blade and I put my CQC training to good us. Grabbing his wrist and his tricep on his right arm whilst simultaneously stamping on his right knee, I could feel the joint pop as it gave way under the man, through my boot I could feel the tendons and ligaments rearrange as his face winced in pain. After he was completely collapsed I twisted his wrist feeling it crack as it inverted causing him to drop the lade on the floor.

I turned my attention to the dog who was unconscious on the floor and had a blooded mouth, "Poor bastard, come one," I said as I scooped up the almost lifeless remains. I ran home to Ashley with the dog in arms and smashed on the door.

Bailey answered as I rushed inside, "What's that?" She asked as I ran into the kitchen.

"A puppy, two guys were beating the shit out of it and I couldn't leave it," I told her.

"No you're right we need to get it to a vet," She replied as I continued to check over the pup.

Ashley came down into the room with Jessica in her arms, "Why have we got a dog?" She asked as she placed her hand on the dog's back and stroked him.

"I found him with his previous asshole owners," I said to her as I looked down at the dog, "We need to get him to a vet."

"Okay I'll get the car going," Ashley said as she placed Jessica in Bailey's arms.

I ran out to the car when I heard it turn over, I placed the puppy on my lap with a blanket around it. It took about ten minutes to get to the vet in the town but when we got there I just leapt out of the car and bolted inside the vets.

"I need a vet now, I found this little guy on the bank of the canal, he was beat up pretty bad," I told the nurse at reception.

"Alright follow me," She said in a rush as she banged on an office door and we rushed into what looked like an operating room.

After about ten seconds a vet entered the room in green clothes and immediately started looking over the puppy, "Looks like a strong boy, German Shepard cross?"

"Yeah two guys were beating it down by the canal," I told him as I stepped back.

"Probably trying to get him to do man work," he told me as I looked down at the mangled pup.

"Can you fix him up?" I asked as the vet continued to check the pup over with his stethoscope.

"Sounds and feels like he have a few broken ribs and an punctured lung," The vet told me as he put a tube down the dogs throat and called the nurse over.

"We'll need you to wait outside, sir," The nurse said calmly as she ushered me out of the door.

I waited for about four hours just pacing with Ashley sat on the chair calling Bailey to see how Jessica was.

It came to about five o'clock and the vet came out with a bundle in a blanket, "He's made it, he's really weak but he's made it," He nodded with a smile on his face but his face suddenly dropped, "The question is what do we do now?"

"Erm…" I looked at Ashley who was sat on the chair next to me.

"Are we allowed to keep him?" She asked.

"If you're willing to take him in," The vet replied.

"That's great then," I smiled as I offered to take the dog from the vet.

He handed it to me and then grabbed something from behind the desk, "If I just give you this," He said as he handed me a card which had been stamped, "Its when you need to bring him in for his vaccinations and a check up to see how his rib is doing but apart from that I don't think there's anything else to do," he smiled, "Oh and we can put this operation through the RSPCA but it would be appreciated if they received a donation for their work."

"That's fine we will do it," Ashley spoke for us as we looked down at our new bundle.

By the time we got home the dog was more with it, by no means fully awake but he was definitely with it, he was rolling his head in the blanket whilst being sat on my lap with Jessica sat on Ashley's lap right next to us.

"So what are we going to call him?" Bailey asked as she stroked his head in the blanket.

"Erm….. fuck knows," I said to her as the puppy started to move in the blanket.

"Mind your language," Ashley said as she covered Jessica's ears.

"What about lucky?" Bailey than asked.

"He's not a spaniel!" Ashley protested.

"You got any better ideas?" Bailey then asked her sarcastically.

"Yeah I do as a matter of fact, Fenrir!" She said confidently.

"What the hell is a Fenrir?" I asked her.

"It was a Norse mythical wolf," She replied with a smile on her face.

"Fairy snuff, well I kinda like it, Bailey, what do you think?"

"Yeah that sounds good to me," She smiled and plucked Jessica off Ashley's lap, "What do you think of that?" She asked Jessica as she lifted her up in the air. Jessica just laughed as she did Fenrir started stirring in his bundle, first his front paws lead him which was followed by his head and massive floppy ears.

"Looks like someone has come out to see what's going on," Ashley laughed as he started nervously looking around, "Come on, it's okay," She said soothingly as the pup slowly crepy out and onto the sofa in-between Ashley and I.

"Hey there little fella," I said as I tried to stroke him but was met with the razor like puppy teeth, I looked down at my thumb which had blood trickling down between it and my index finger.

"I guess he doesn't like men," Bailey said to me as she grabbed me a tissue to stem the blood.

"Yeah I guess so," I said as I kept the tissue over my cut, I then put my hand down next to the puppy with my fingers splayed, I kept my nerve and the puppy kept his distance, Bailey went to the kitchen and grabbed me some of the gammon joint, that we had eaten over the week. I pressed it under the palm of my hand, eventually the pups smell and hunger got the better of him and he came to sniff, I edged my now tissued up hand towards him to which he was nervous but I did land my hand on his head and gave him a stroke after which he got the gammon. "Gotcha." In that moment everything seemed like it would be okay. But I did not know how wrong I would be.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter so, it appears Anchor is settling down into family life but for how long I wonder and what will happen next, will Jessica get the implants? Will Fenrir actually learn to trust Anchor? Find out soon …PEACE!