Escape

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Beyoncé's POV

"What are you doing here at 12:30 in the morning?" he asks rubbing his tired eyes. "I, umm, need a place to stay for a while. I promise I will explain everything tomorrow, I just need to stay here for now" I plead. "Fine, come in" he says moving aside, to let me through.

I walk in and wait for him to lead the way. "Follow me" he says. He leads me to one of the guest rooms, I'm guessing. "What about the cribs?" he asks, looking at the sleeping babies in the car seats. "They're in my car, but it's fine they can sleep on the bed with me and Blue" I say. "Are you sure? I can go get them from the car" he says in a concerned voice. "Yes Marshall, we'll be fine, go get some sleep" I say in a demanding tone. "Ok, ok" he says raising his hands in surrender.

He leaves and shuts the door on his way out. I see Blue is already on the bed sleeping, I tuck myself in and put Rumi on my right side and Sir on my left side. I close my eyes and fall into a deep sleep.

*The Next Morning*

Marshall's POV

I wake up to a lightweight body on top of me shaking me. I open my eyes and see that it's Blue. "Hey" she says. "Hi sweetie, what are you doing here, is there something wrong?" I ask her. "No, I'm just hungry and was wondering if you could make me something, since mommy is not up yet. Sorry for waking you up" she says while fidgeting with her hands. "It's okay sweetie, how about you help me make some pancakes?" I ask.

Before we leave to go make breakfast, I change and brush my teeth. I then go get the luggage, cribs and high chairs from Bey's car. I set the luggage in the guest room along with the cribs and tell Blue to change and brush her teeth.

When she's done we go make breakfast, I set the high chairs in there. We take the pans out and I carry her in one arm since she couldn't reach, we then take turns flipping pancakes. Something about this reminds me of when Hailie was little.

Beyoncé's POV

I wake up to the babies crying and decide that it's time to feed them. Before I go downstairs I notice that Marshall must've brought our luggage and the babies' cribs to the guest room because it's all standing neatly by the door.

I also notice that Blue is nowhere to be seen, she must be with Marshall, hopefully she didn't wake him up. There were some times where Blue would wake her dad up and he would get mad and yell at her, this made Blue think that he hated her. Afterwards he would apologize and she would forgive him. Even though he's a terrible husband, he's not that bad of a father.

I snap out of my thoughts and quickly change myself and the twins and then go brush my teeth. I get their baby food from the diaper bag. I go downstairs with a twin in each arm. I really need them to learn how to walk so that I don't have to carry them that much anymore. They crawl and have wanted to get up and walk but they keep falling down which scares them. That's why they don't want to try and walk. I'm gonna have to teach them later.

I walk into the kitchen to see Marshall and Blue making pancakes. I also notice that the high chairs are in there, how thoughtful of him. "Mommy" Blue waves her hand as she sees me come in. "Hey guys" I greet.

When the pancakes are done, I help Marshall set the table. Marshall offers to feed Rumi and then I can feed Sir. I first help Blue cut her pancakes and then start feeding Sir. Since there is silence I decide to break it.

"Blue, I hope you didn't wake up Marshall, you know that everyone needs their sleep" I state. "I did, I'm sorry momma, but he didn't yell at me like daddy does when I wake him up" she says. I freeze and look up to see Marshall looking at me with raised eyebrows. "Umm, baby, why don't you go-go upstairs, while I-I talk wi-th Marshall" I say stuttering a little bit. She happily goes upstairs.

I turn to face Marshall with a sigh. "I guess I should explain why I needed to stay here" I say. "That would be nice" he huffs. "Ok, so it all started the second year of me and Jay's marriage, he started becoming more jealous than usual. He would think I was flirting with guys and sometimes even girls, I would try to explain that nothing was going on but he wouldn't listen. So, to take out his anger, he would use me as his punching bag, he would beat me until I couldn't walk anymore. I have scars from some of the beatings. Yesterday when we got to the hotel he slapped me and I thought enough is enough. I grabbed the kids and our belongings and left. I can't be with him anymore not after all the pain he has put me through. I tried to leave before but then found out that I was pregnant with Blue, I knew that a girl needed her father so I stayed. But now I don't even care, he even started to yell at the kids, especially Blue. If she wakes him up or doesn't do something right, he yells at her. When the twins cry, he yells at them to shut up like they can understand him. Anyways, I didn't want to go to a hotel because they'd probably tell the media that I was staying there and I don't know anyone else in Detroit besides you, so I came here" I finish explaining everything and Marshall looks furious, like he's going to murder someone.

"That motherfucker, how dare he abuse his wife and yell at his kids. Is he stupid or what? I mean you didn't even do anything to him, that asshole is gonna pay" he says cracking his knuckles and heading towards the door.

Before he can leave, I stop him. "Please don't do anything, if you do then he'll know that I'm staying at your house" I plead. "Well I can't just do nothing, what do you want me to do?" "Just please let me and the kids stay here until I settle this out." "Okay."