Half-Truths [hs, mc, zm, nh, lt +]

Chapter Forty-Seven

Emma's POV

I'm woken up my my daily alarm clocks when they start screaming up a storm, pretty much shaking our whole damn house.

I groan and roll over onto Niall's side of the bed realizing he's not there, I rub my eyes with the back of my hand, slinging my legs over the edge of the bed, standing up I force myself to walk towards the door and towards the twins room down the hall.

The screaming gets louder and louder as I get closer to the room. I walk in towards the cribs, when I notice the babies aren't in the crib I snap my head around. I see Niall sitting on the rocking chair holding them both in his arms as he try's to get them to stop crying. I close my eyes and let out a sigh of relief knowing it's him.

"Your doing it wrong." I tell him pointing at the babies.

"How am I holding them wrong?" He asks looking up at me then back down.

"Here." I say walking up to him, I adjust the babies in his arm showing him how to hold them properly. "Ronin likes when you hold him like this." I tell him moving his hand so it's placed at his lower back.

"And Delta." I start moving her so her head is leaning against his chest. "She wants to be touching you at all times." I tell him taking a step back, now that they are in the positions they wanted they stopped crying.

I sit down on the love seat that is pushed against the back wall. I look over at Niall holding the babies as they sleep peacefully.

We sit there for a couple minutes just watching the babies sleep before Niall slowly stands up and walks over to their cribs placing them down one by one.

"I'm scared, Ni." I admit, rarely am I scared but I'm terrified for them. They are just babies and they have people that want them dead. They will never be free.

"I know. So am I." He tells me. I stand up walking over to him looking over the cribs.

"What do we do?" I ask looking over at him, he looks down at the babies for a little longer before looking down at me.

"I don't know." He tells me before turning around and walking out of the room. I follow behind him and down the stairs.

"Well we can't just sit around and wait for something bad to happen and then take action." I say as we walk down the stairs. Once we get to the bottom he stops and turns around.

"You don't think I know that!" He says raising his voice. I widen my eyes at the sudden change of volume.

"Why aren't we doing anything then?" I say trying to keep my voice to a minimum.

"What do you want me to do, Em?" He asks. When I don't answer he hums waiting for me to continue.

"Oh, I don't know Niall. Maybe you can let me go into our damn basement and get information out of my father? Or did you forget that we have one of our biggest fucking enemies living down there?" I say raising my voice slightly. He looks down at the ground lightly shaking his head.

"I've tried. He won't give us anything." He tells me still looking down.

"Yeah. Ni, you tried. Let me try." I tell him crouching down to meet his eyes. He brings his head back up so I stand up straight. He stares into my eyes what feels like forever as we stand in silence.

"We should never have had them. We knew it wouldn't be safe. We put these innocent babies in danger. I love them with my whole being and I would never wish I didn't have them, they mean everything to me. But they shouldn't be here, you should have just gotten that abortion." He mumbles looking back down at the ground.