About three months after we brought the twins home from the hospital, Caitlin and I were playing with them in the garden. Elliott had taken Tommo and Theo out for the day and as it was a rather nice day, we had decided to take the twins outside for some sun.
We lay down on the grass side by side with Imogen in Caitlin's arms and Liam in mine. I held Liam above me and moved him through the air as if he was an aeroplane, which of course, he loved. The baby boy had the biggest smile I'd ever seen him smile. His sister had decided to fall asleep on her mother's chest as she was a very sleepy baby.
I was watching little Liam smile and laugh when I suddenly felt Caitlin tense up beside me and wrap her arms tightly around her daughter.
"What's wrong, Caits?" I asked her.
"I heard footsteps on the grass." She replied in a whisper.
"What?" I said, shifting so that I was sitting up with Liam tucked into my chest (which made him cry because he was no longer an aeroplane), and looked around to see if anyone was nearby.
That was when I saw him.
There was a tall blonde man standing on our lawn less than ten metres away, smiling his face off. It only took me a couple of seconds to recognise his face: he was James Riley, the serial killer who caused all this, and the father of the twins I had taken on as my own.
He started to move towards us so I held Liam closer, afraid that he would take his children away or even worse, kill them and Caitlin.
"Not so fast!" came a male voice from not far away, a voice that I recognised as Elliott's, he had returned with Theo and Tommo.
James began to run, and Elliott chased after him. Theo and Tommo appeared and asked what was going on, and I explained.
"Are Caitlin and Immy alright?" asked Tommo. Caitlin had become silent, seemingly terrified by the thought of James being so close.
"I think they're okay, just a little shocked is all." I wrapped an arm around the two of them, Liam still tucked into my arm and screaming, Imogen still sleeping, unaware of what was happening.
"Niall, let me take Liam. At least let me calm him down, he seems so annoyed with you." Said Tommo.
"I know, I know." I said, calmly handing her the baby boy.
Five minutes later, I got a text from Elliott saying that he had arrested James and was taking him to the police station, which was met with cheering when I read it out to everyone.
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FanfictionA young boy senses that something mysterious is going on in his home one stormy night. The next morning his uncle decides to investigate and finds a girl, beaten and weak from hunger, curled up on a mattress in his nephew's old room, to which they h...
