Together is my favourite place to be❤️

Chapter 22

It had just gone 2am when Andy was woken up by one of the twins. She carefully got out of bed trying not to wake Robert or Savannah and went to their room. It was Grayson who was crying so she picked him up, put their white noise machine back on and sat in the rocking chair cuddling him. She lifted her pyjama top so he could nurse and he very quickly fell back to sleep. Just as she was putting him back down she heard "Mummy! Mummy where are you!?" Coming from her room. A very loud, high pitch and terrified scream was coming from her daughter. She shut the boys' door and practically ran back to their room where she could hear Robert trying to comfort her.

"Mummy's not gone anywhere baby, shh she'll be right back."

"No, no Mummy's gone! Uncle Ryan came back, he made her dead, he was here, he's a bad man! Mummy!"

"Mummy's here baby, Mummy's here" Andy repeated running into the room and around to her daughter in bed. She got under the covers and pulled her daughter in to her. She stroked Savannah's hair as she sobbed in to her chest. "Mummy's here, I'm not going anywhere. You're ok, Mummy's here." She whispered.

Robert had his arm over them both and was stroking Andy's back, he knew that her heart was breaking and he too felt helpless and sad that his daughter was going through so much and he couldn't stop it.
She eventually sobbed herself back to sleep in her Mum's arms, but Andy and Robert were now both wide awake.

"Babe I don't know what to do, how do we make it stop?" Andy whispered.

"I really don't know. I think I should take the boys to daycare today so we can just focus on her, focus on how we can help her. What do you think?" he whispered back.

"But they aren't on the register for tomorrow because we're both off..."

"I'll call them, i'm sure they'll make room. Failing that, Luke and Vic?" He whispered.

"Yeah that could work. Do we go and see Ryan? Or will that make it worse?" She asked.

"No I think that might be a good idea, she's been before, she can relate it to your dad and see that he's really dead and these dreams are just her imagination, you know? It might help her to differentiate between what's real and what's not."

"I hope so. I just want it to stop. I hate seeing her like this."

"I hate seeing you both like this. Not being to help is the worst feeling."

"You help more than you know, I couldn't do this without you." She whispered.

"Try and go to sleep baby, tomorrow is going to be tough." He leant over his daughter and softly kissed her.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

*A few hours later*

"Thanks so much guys, I'm so sorry to hijack your day off." Robert said, as he passed over his boys to Luke and Vic.

"Don't be silly, anytime. Just let us now if we can do anything to help with Vannah." Luke replied.

"I will, call us at any point of you need to alright, that goes for both of you." Robert made sure he looked at Vic as he said that.

"We will, go, we got this."

Andy had spent the morning with Savannah in bed whilst Robert got the boys ready and took them to Luke's. They were watching cartoons and eating sugary cereal straight from the box, playing with each other's hair and doing lots of snuggling.

"Baby, is there anything you want to do today?" Andy asked.

"Can we stay in yours and Daddy's bed all day? I like it here it feels safe when I'm awake."