Protection

chapter 67

Tristan's pov.

After Eliza introduced us all. I could tell she was getting nervous, I place my hand.over elz 'it's okay' I whisper in her ears. 'The reason why riles and I had different names is because we were in the army, and our last duty was difficult one, we had to leave with no contact with them, new identities and history.'

She tells them about her past and how she met us all. 'It was when I got attacked and seb got help for me was when I saw dad and tris for the first time'  'so you knew?' Chris asks seb 'yes mate, but I told them I wouldn't tell anyone, I wanted to make sure she was safe,' seb says, 'today was the first time these 3 saw her, at the meet and greet they didn't know it was her. It was only after she played 2 songs on James guitar and she showed her prospetic they twigged who it was' I say laughing.

'Yeah you got us good there Elz, tris you did so well keeping it a secret' brad says.

Eliza gets off my lap, 'I need, I need ' she says before running out of the room. I get up and look to seb, before we run out of the room after her.

Joes pov.

Eliza runs out of the room. Tris and seb run after her, 'is she okay?' Chris asks worried, 'I'm not sure but tris and seb will find her.'I say, her  cast mate look at each other and talk quietly before nodding 'we won't tell anyone,' Chris says 'we will support her what ever she does.'

Sebs pov.

Tristan and I run after Eliza, we find her sitting under a tree looking out at the lake, 'Eliza?' I ask as I cautiously approach her, she looks up at me with tears in her eyes 'sebbie?' She says I nod sitting down beside her 'sebbie Where's trissy' she says crying, I pull her into a hug 'trissys here' I say.

Tristan sits down with us 'trissy?' She asks 'hey love' he says sitting down with us, 'what happened?' I ask 'I got scared' she says crying into my chest, 'hey there's no need to be scared trissy and sebbie will keep you safe' tris says. We calm her down before heading back to the others, I walk with her in my arms, Tristan places his jacket over her.

Once we reach the others we walk in before we enter tristan tell me to wait out side, joe comes out and we update him,

Tristan's pov.

We arrived back, I asked seb to wait outside so I can get Joe, he comes out and we update him. 'Tris let's head in, seb I will come and get you. We will tell the others about her age regression' Joe says, seb nods his head, before we walk in.

Joe closes the door and we sit on the sofa, 'before Eliza comes back in with seb we need to tell you something.'  I start.

'Eliza has age regression, which started after she came back from her last duty, it normally happens when something traumatic happens and can last a few hours to longer periods of time. The last time it happened was when she was attacked.' Joe says.
'She calls me trissy, seb sebbie, Riles papi and joe daddy' I say.  'When it happened at the hospital she called seb sebbie, we don't know why and neither does she. When's she is like this she snuggles into people she is comfortable with. This doesn't mean she isn't comfortable around you, it's just how the regression is with her.'

'It's okay, I hope we can help and make her comfortable' Chris says. Joe walks to the door 'I'm going to let them in now' he says, not long after seb walks in with Eliza.

When she sees me she reaches out 'trissy hug' she says, seb passes her over to me and she falls back to sleep on my chest, as seb sits next to me. 'She looks peaceful' seb says 'she does' I reply.

We all sit chatting, 'hey tris, hey seb' i look down to see Eliza awake 'hey love' I say 'hey doll' seb says "what happened? Did I' she asks 'yes love' I say, she looks towards the others 'they know' seb says we can tell she looks sad, 'hey hey doll it's okay, your okay, we are okay' seb says he hold his arms out and Eliza climbs over to hug him, 'thank you, I don't know what happened, one moment we were here talking, next thing I knew I was sat under the tree and you where there' she says, leaning into Seb.

I watch as seb helps calm her down rubbing her back and whisperin quietly to her. 'It's okay doll, your safe, I'm here' I hear him whisper 'baz' I hear her whisper back I can hear her crying slightly 'please don't cry doll' seb says quietly kissing her forehead.

I see Eliza looking calmer as she sits up and turns to face the others, she looks at them 'sorry guys' she say before getting up walking over to them 'it's okay' Chris says, she sits down beside him, 'it not I should have told you,' she says looking down, I can see she's getting tears in her eyes, 'hey Eliza look at me please' Chris says softly, 'you don't have to tell us anything your not comfortable with okay, just know you have people who will support you and has you back. Just look at tris and seb they care so much for you, they went after you to make sure you were'  he says  'thank you' eliza hugging Chris.  'Els do you remember the film we all watched during your last week before training' James asks 'yes, it was Captain America, the first Avenger' Eliza says 'now look at you part of the cast' brad says, 'we watched it whilst camping out in joes garden' Eliza say 'some nights we found her in her hammock which is attached to two trees' James says.

Sebs pov

'Don't you have a show to do?' Eliza asks the lads, she gets up and walks over to them pulling them into a hug, 'I can't wait to see you perform again it's been so long. Don't worry I'll be okay' she says before walking over to me 'don't worry guys ill make sure she's okay' I say. 

We leave to head to our seats, 'you okay doll?' I ask Eliza I have my arm around her shoulder 'I am seb, thanks. I don't think I've told you this but I think of you like a brother'  she says this made me smile, 'I think of you like a sister Eliza.' I smile at her. 'Let's see your lads perform.' I say pulling her into a hug.

The lads were having a chat between songs 'the next song is for someone special in the audience' James says 'it for our wildheart' brad says, I look down to see Eliza smiling I'm on oneside of her and riles is on the other.

At the end of the show we head backstage to meet the lads, when Eliza sees tris she runs and jumps on his back, I look to see riles laughing, 'does this happen normally?' I ask him 'sometimes, very random but she hasn't regressed, I think it's because she has missed him, they haven't had contact for so long' he say 'she looks so happy' I say we watch as she jumps down from tris going to James doing the same, 'as you know Eliza spent sometime with each of them growing up, James being the first, like you they all like her brothers, which makes her happy. There was times when it was just me looking after her and sometimes it was the Sargent who knew about her suitation and help look after her. At the base there were people who didn't take too kindly to her so when she finds and makes a connection with people she trust its one that lasts. She was telling me that to her your like a caring brother who would do anything to protect her and make sure she is safe, you proved that when you helped her after she was attacked. So thank you' Riles tells me, 'that's okay, she makes me happy'

The next thing I knew someone had jumped on my back 'she got you too seb' Riles says chuckling 'heya elz' I say turning my head to face her. 'Hey seb' she says 'thank you' she says jumping down and hugging me. 'It's okay doll, I love you' I say 'love you too sebbie' she says smiling. 'I'll see you on set?' She asks 'yes, see you on set' we say goodbye and I watch as she says goodbye and thank you to the others before she heads towards Joe with Riles.

'Hey man you okay' Chris asks snapping me out of my thoughts 'yeah, Eliza told me she thinks of me like a brother' I say smiling 'well you have proved that mate, we  can all tell how comfortable she is with you'