Here comes Teddy

Daddy's not Superman (Seventy-three)

Teddy PoV

It was a Saturday morning, the sun was shining through the bedroom window, the weather actually looked like we were in another bloody country because it was too nice looking for England, I was surprised that I had managed to stay in bed until after the sun came up.

Everyone else was still in bed, so naturally I made myself my usual early morning coffee, like I always do, and then I sat on the windowsill and pondered on how the last year had just gone by so fast, and while a lot of shit happened to us, a lot more good things happened to us too.

Mikey was up and about, not long after I had finished my first coffee, his little Afro had grown wild during the night, and Kevin the plushy owl was also in Mikey's hand, (which is an important detail here because Kevin went to most places that Mikey went to until he was about 7).

"Morning Daddy"
"Morning Baby, (kisses cheek) did you sleep ok last night?"
"Yeah I did Daddy"
"That's good to hear Bambino"
"Can I have a cuddle please Daddy?"
"Of course you can Sweetheart, you don't have to ask me for a cuddle, ok"
"Ok"

Mikey then climbed onto my lap, wrapped his arms around my neck, I ran my fingers through his hair, and we kinda just stayed like for awhile, waiting for everybody else to wake up, which was a good while as I would guess that it was about 5 O'clock then.

It was about 7 O'clock in the morning when Ro got up, at this point Mikey had fallen asleep again, obviously tired from the early morning lull as he wasn't used to it.

"Daddy, is your eye feeling ok now?"
"Yeah Baby, my eye is feeling ok now"
"See, this proves that you are Superman Daddy"
"(Sighs), Rowan Sweetheart, Daddy's not Superman"
"But to me you are Superman Daddy"

How the fuck do you even argue with that?, like honestly it didn't matter what I said or did because at the end of the bloody day, since Ro was still going to say that I'm Superman, even though I'm so fucking far from being Superman.

"Daddy, can I ask you something?"
"Yeah Baby, you can ask me anything"
"Is he coming back?"

I knew exactly who she was talking about, and even though I knew that she didn't see him do anything to me, she still looked absolutely terrified of the thought of my Dad coming back, though I don't blame her for that since that's probably the only thing that she remembers of him.

"No Sweetheart, he's not coming back"
"Not ever?"
"No, not ever"
"You promise Daddy?"
"Yeah Baby, I promise"
"He scared me Daddy"
"He scared me too Bambina"

Ro then put her head on my shoulder, her baby blue eyes looking up at me, looking all sad, so I kissed the top of her head.

"You ok there Baby?"
"Yeah"
"Are you sure about that Sweetheart"
"Yeah"
"You know, (kisses top of head), I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong Tesoro"
"It's silly though Daddy"
"It's not silly if bothers you that much Baby"

I kissed the top of her head again, because I knew that she was upset and that didn't sit right with me at all.

"What if he does comes back and, and, he, uh, he hurts you more than he hurt you this time?"
"I don't know Darling, uh, but that's scares me too Baby"
"It does?"
"Yeah Sweetheart, it absolutely terrifies me, and being scared of him coming back doesn't make you silly at all, ok?"
"Ok"
"I love you Tesoro"
"I love you too Daddy"

Ro then sat on on my lap and fell back to sleep, and so I had 2 asleep children on my lap and that was weirdly peaceful, Jack came in a while after that.

"How long have you been up for Handsome?"
"I've been up since about 4 O'clock"
"Did you sleep?"
"I did a little bit Babe"
"Ok so how many coffees have you had today?"
"I've actually only had 1 coffee this morning"
"I would ask you why but then I realised that you probably didn't want to wake anyone else up"
"You know me so well, I'd say even too much"

Jack gave like a little laugh, as though to agree with what I said or something like that.

"Maybe that's so Handsome, but I wouldn't have it any other way"
"I'm glad that you feel that way"
"Is your eye feeling any better or is it worse?"
"It's ok, it's been like way worse than it is"
"Well that's good to hear, do you want another coffee?"
"That would actually be nice thank you"