Overnight(DIKY sequel)

Waiting (Chapter 5)

A/N Not much Sweenett in this chapter but there's some Sweeney and Daniel cuteness ;)

Enjoy

Sweeney was beyond mad by this point. He'd been waiting for five hours for Nellie to return from her 'outing' with George and she still wasn't back and by this point Daniel had returned from his friend's house and kept pestering Sweeney about where Nellie was and when she was going to be back but  Sweeney had just had to tell him that he didn't know when she'd be back and that she was out with a 'friend'.

Naive Daniel took his word for it but when it reached dinnertime and she still had returned both Daniel and Sweeney were worried "Mr Todd..um..do you reckon you could make dinner? I'm hungry and mum isn't back yet." 

Sweeney could tell that the boy was hesitant to ask him which he didn't really blame him for seeing as he was usually in a rotten mood and tended to accidentally snap at Daniel-despite them getting alone better now-but he wanted them to get closer after last night;he'd discovered that he really liked the idea of being a father again and even though it wasn't Johanna he wanted Daniel to look up to him like a father so he agreed to it. Plus he was hungry too.

He went downstairs with Daniel back into the pie shop, noticing that he visibly tensed up when they went outside into the dark night which reminded him about their conversation last night that they'd had about getting him a nightlight but he decided to talk to him about that later once they both had eaten.

Sweeney prepared an easy meal of spaghetti seeing as that was one of the only things he knew how to cook but he was still nervous that Daniel wouldn't like it seeing as he was no where near as good of a cook as Nellie.

"Here you go Daniel." Sweeney said as he placed Daniel plate in front of him along with some cutlery,noticing a smile appearing on the young boy's face as he smelt the meal "It smells nice." He commented,building up Sweeney's confidence about the meal but he was still nervous.

"Thanks lad, let's just hope it tastes as good as it smells." Sweeney joked as he sat down opposite Daniel, also admitting that it did smell good but he hoped it would taste good too. But before anyone could start eating Sweeney discovered that he'd forgotten the drinks and he went to go and get them when Daniel intervened "I'll get the drinks." He announced and raced off into the kitchen.

It wasn't that Sweeney didn't trust Daniel to get the drinks it was just that he was only a kid so he was worried he'd drop the glasses and hurt himself and his fears soon came true when he soon heard a crashendo(hehe puns) of smashing glasses, followed by the sound of crying.

He sighed quietly and got up, carefully walking into the kitchen which was a disaster area with half the glasses that were previously stacked on the counter now lay on the floor in pieces, the glass littering the floor. And then his eyes lay on Daniel who was standing amongst the glass, crying and holding his hand which Sweeney soon noticed was bleeding rather heavily. 

Sweeney cautiously stepped around the glass pieces and soon reached Daniel who he noticed was only wearing socks,he didn't want him to cut his foot too so he scooped Daniel up in his arms and carried him out of the kitchen, placing him down in the living room on the sofa where he sat still sobbing.

"It's okay, I'll make it better don't worry." Sweeney comforted Daniel softly before hurrying out of the living room and up to the bathroom where he rummaged about in the medicine cabinet and pulled out the first aid kit before rushing back downstairs to Daniel who he sat next to.

"Daniel can you please show me your hand so I can look at it?" He asked and Daniel shook his head, shuffling away from Sweeney "I won't hurt you I promised, I just want to look." He assured the boy who looked anxious still to let Sweeney look at his hand but he decided to trust him and slowly held out his left palm which had a piece of glass stuck in it which was surrounded by blood which obscured the cut.