Discovery Devotion Destiny

Protect the Family

"My family is my strength and my weakness."

-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Oliver's hands were paused in the place around his tie as he stared at the brown door that leads to their bedroom. The night before, his wife finally got her memories of him and their life back. He assumed that once she remembered, everything would just be better somehow. He thought that maybe that piece of their lives that was stolen by Damien Dark would come back. But that's not what happened. Katie was angry and he's not completely sure why. He assumed this was what she wanted, that she wanted to know everything and yet that trip inside of her head only confused him even more.
The door to Ari's room opened, and the teen stepped out only to stop at the sight of Oliver standing there frozen in the hall. She followed his eyes down the hall to the door and sighed. From what he finally told her once they came home was that Katie now remembered everything, but she wasn't taking it well.

"Has she come out yet?" Ari asked and Oliver turned to her and just shook his head.

"Uh, not yet. We'll give her some more time." he said and Ari simply scoffed before turning and heading down to the bedroom door. "Ari, wait, don't-" Ari pushed opened the door stopping with a furrowed brow. Oliver came into the room behind her, his eyes scanning  the room only to realize it was empty.

"Where is she?" Ari asked. Oliver didn't say anything as he walked over to the bathroom door that was slightly cracked. He knocked and when he didn't hear anything he just pushed it opened to find it empty. Oliver felt his heart rate pick up, and he turned and stormed out of the room. "Where did she go?"

"Ari, just give me a minute." Oliver said impatiently. He was nervous, and he was scared and right now he just needed to know where his wife was. He came to the door of the nursery, pushing open the door and walking inside. The crib was empty. Ari came in right behind him, looking around the room only to state the obvious.

"Ok, so wherever she is, she took the baby with her?" she turned to Oliver who let out a heavy sigh before once again stalking out of the room, forcing her to follow. "At what point should we start worrying?"

They came downstairs, and Oliver's eyes went to the front door. He shook his head hoping that when he looked out the door, he saw her car. His hand had only touched the door when he heard the sound of something crashing from the kitchen. He turned to Ari who turned toward the kitchen door before hurrying over and steps inside.

Ari stopped just inside the kitchen where she saw Robyn sitting in her booster seat, her face covered with milk. Her eyes looked down to Katie who was picking up Robyn's bowl from the floor before turning to see the teen and Oliver standing there. There was something in the look on their faces.

"What's wrong?" she asked, but neither answered her question. "Guys?"

"It's nothing." Oliver finally said coming into the kitchen and placing a kiss on the top of Robyn's head. Katie looked over at him before turning back to Ari who still looked strange and so she walked over to her.

"What's going on?"

"Nothing," Ari said as well before moving around the woman to grab some cereal. "So just so I'm clear on what's happening today..." Ari looked between Oliver and Katie and Oliver seemed to look to Katie who let out a sigh before turning to the teen.

"You're going to go to school with some extra security." she looked over to Oliver. "You're going to go to work with some extra guards as well."