Only The Strong Survive (Sequel to Survival)

Chapter 25- Seperation

  It's been a few days since Elsa left. And things have been weird around the house. Like, Jack staying over longer because he doesn't want to take Aidan out of their house. And Rapunzel who's been quieter than usual but helping Jack with Aidan by making sure he's doing everything right. Then, her parents who are completely upset and did what they could to try and get Elsa back but with no luck, so now they have to wait till the end of the week to see her and get her back.

And then there's Aidan. He's been acting....different.

The first day from Elsa he was normal. Then two days passed and he hasn't been himself. He hasn't been wanting to eat, play, smile, or sleep, and Jack can hardly take it.

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Jack's P.O.V

I spot Rapunzel eating her breakfast by the counter. Slowly, I make my way towards her and take a seat as well with the baby monitor in one hand.

I rub my eyes and yawn. And it's almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

"You look terrible."

I face Punzie as she raises her eyebrows at me.

"You would too if you were up with a baby who's doesn't sleep for more than an hour at a time." I mutter.

She scoffs at me, "I kinda was. By helping you and telling you what he needed."

"Aidan's been non stop waking me up. And I'm just so tired."

From the corner of my eyes she gets up and rounds the counter and faces me.

"Just...." She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.

She opens her eyes and thinks for a bit, "Just be patient. Okay?"

And then we turn out heads to Aidan's cries that are heard through the monitor.

"I just put him to sleep!" I grunt and hop off the stool and proceed to check on Aidan. Again.

I barge into the guest room that I stayed the night and bend over the pen we moved in here and pick him up.

He cries and cries until I try to feed him. He ended up refusing the bottle until I had to force it down.

Just another day.

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Well, the baby is asleep upstairs after a few hours of rocking him to sleep. And Rapunzel and I have been watching tv when the doorbell rings. That's probably the rest of the guys. I actually wanted to talk to others who aren't an infant who that needs undivided attention. Just some human contact.

Merida and Hiccup come in and take a seat with us. And I appreciated the silence after a couple of minutes.

"So, how are you holding up Jack?" I look at Hiccup and shrug my shoulders.

"I've been up the whole day for the past three days so you tell me." I snap.

"Okay, you're moody. I get that."

And then he turns to Punzie, "So how's Aidan?"

"He's okay. It's been a little hard on everyone these past days. My parents did everything they could but there was nothing that they could do. Now we just need to wait for the week to be over already."

Merida then asks what no one has the guts to say, "What about Elsa?"

My attention now turns to the read head. "Why do you wanna know?"

Merida fully faces me and turns her body. "We can't just ignore what happened. I know that's what were all thinking. So, I might as well let it out."