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"Are ya missing me yet?"
Thomas had made it a daily routine to call Lucille at exactly midnight every night since he moved to London for his 'promotion'. He knew that she would be home at that time (even on the days she was working late) and he knew that she was always awake at that time, having a cup of tea and relaxing herself before she went off to bed. Plus the kids were sleeping by that time and wouldn't interrupt them.
"You call me every day, Thomas. You don't give me the time or the chance to miss you." She had joked and he let out a breathy chuckle down the line. "So, how's things?"
"Alright. Ada's been keeping the kids occupied while I'm working and when I'm done it's all playing chase and having dinner then going to bed."
"You're living your best dad life, eh?" He chuckled once again. "And work?"
"Same as always." As he spoke to her, he looked around the room and settled his eyes on a few figures across the street from his new home. "How's Pol and Finn?"
"They're okay. She asked me over to have lunch with her the other day."
"Did you go?"
"Of course I did." Tommy just hummed as a response, too occupied with watching the suspicious figures outside from behind the curtains. "Shall I let you go?"
He wasn't listening to her and she knew that his mind must have been preoccupied since he was always very interested and talkative whenever they called each other so she just decided to hang up.
'If he wants to talk he will call back' she thought as she put the phone down and began making herself a new mug of tea.
A gut feeling told her that he wasn't going to call back tonight.
Thomas hadn't even noticed that she had hung up and yet he still held the phone close to his ear as if she was there whilst he watched the figures down in the street walk around.
'You're going to lose her, Tommy'
The sound of Grace's voice was what brought Thomas back to reality. She was on the other side of the window frame, stood the same exact way she was when she appeared to speak to him when the family were living at Ada's. The realisation of the silent phone and his wife standing across from him washed over his body and he tossed the phone down onto the table to pay attention to her.
"How?"
'You tell her all the things she wants to hear yet you do nothing about it.'
"I don't know what I'm supposed to do, Grace. She deserves more; you deserved more."
Tommy was stressed and emotionally overwhelmed with the darkness he was feeling inside of him tonight and he knew that Grace must have sensed that he needed someone or else she wouldn't have come to him.
