Together is my favourite place to be❤️

Chapter 42

The 5 of them made their way home and they decided that they'd all watch a movie together after they'd all had a bath and got in their pyjamas. It was getting late, but they'd all had varying degrees of late afternoon naps so Andy and Robert weren't too bothered about sticking to a strict bedtime tonight. Grayson was grizzly, understandably after what he'd been through, so Andy gave him his pacifier and he cuddled right in. Enzo was sat on Robert's lap and Savannah snuggled in between the two of them. Robert was feeling an immense sense of gratitude. He felt like he could keep his whole family safe at this moment in time and Andy was just grateful to be back in the comfort of their own home.

When Cars had finished playing, Robert took the babies up to bed, one at a time because they'd already fallen asleep and Andy stayed downstairs with Savannah, talking about things that had happened in the movie and asked if she wanted a late night snack.

"No thanks Mummy. I'm still full from Uncle Dean's chilli." She said, rubbing her belly.

"Okay Mi'ja, no problem. Shall we go and brush those teeth then and get ready for bed?"

"No, I don't want to go to bed. I don't want to go to sleep."

"Baby we all have to go to sleep."

"No Mummy, bad things happen in my sleep. I never want to sleep again."

"Hey" She softly said, brushing Savannah's curly hair from her face, "come here." Savannah crawled on to her Mum and started fiddling with her necklace. "Those bad things that happen in your dreams, they aren't real. Ok? None of it is real. I know it feels real, but Daddy and I will never let anything happen to you. We promise." Robert was stood at the bottom of the stairs, watching the two of them but not wanting to interrupt.

"But Mummy, you can't stop the bad dreams. I don't want to have them, why can't you make them go away?"

"Darling I wish I could take them all away, but I can't. We are going to go and see a very nice lady that will help you to try and stop having those dreams though, ok?" Andy looked back at Robert, she could feel that he was there and was looking for some back up.

"Princess, these bad dreams don't happen every time you go to sleep. What if they don't come tonight? You can have a nice long peaceful dream about Lightning Mcqueen instead, or Anna and Elsa. We never know what our dreams are going to be about, but what I do know is that they aren't all going to be bad. Let's go and read your favourite story book, all 3 of us, ok?" Robert was trying to be soft, but convincing enough to at least get her ready for bed.

"Guess How Much I Love You?" She asked.

"Of course Baby. Come on." He picked her up off of Andy's lap from the behind the sofa.

"Mummy come too."

"I'm coming Baby I'll be right behind you. Go and brush your teeth with Daddy." She called after her.

Andy very quickly sorted out downstairs and got some water for them for their bedside tables. She rummaged through the draws in the kitchen to find the baby monitor they'd used after the fire, when Savannah was having nightmares before. She thought it would be best to be able to hear her through the night, just incase. She turned all the lights off, took a deep breath, thinking about how long this night was probably going to be and then made her way upstairs. She could hear Robert pretend arguing with their daughter over who loved who the most, which gave her a warm and fuzzy feeling inside and lightened the load she was starting to feel. She was so grateful to have him in their lives.

"Okay, Mummy's here. Are you all nice and snuggly?" She asked.

"Yes Mummy I'm ready! I have Mr Floppy and Daddy has my book."