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Can't add any more tonight or tomorrow cos i'm at my nans! but there should be some on thurs!!

Haha Kris being jealous about the hat.
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“I do like you hair, Lucy”, Zoe said smiling

Lucy giggled. “Thank you”, she managed to say in between giggles.

“Jess used to have hair like yours, but she chopped it all off!”, Zoe said and Jess smiled. Lucy giggled again then responded by putting her thumb in her mouth and sucking it happily and Jess and Zoe continued to talk. Lucy lay back, resting on Jess and Jess stroked Lucy’s head and gently twirled Lucy’s little brown wispy bits of hair round her fore fingers. Lucy seemed to be drifting off, her thumb still firmly lodged in her mouth.

“Awwww”, Zoe whispered to Jess and Lucy’s eyes flickered shut and her breathing rate slowed down.

“Do you think she’s okay?”, Jess asked biting her bottom lip, but continually twirling around Lucy’s hair.
“Yeah”, Zoe said reassuringly, “She obviously feels safe with you?”
“You think?”
“Yes”, Zoe replied
“She hasn’t even mentioned . . .”, Jess lowered her voice, “Mum and dad yet”
“I know, I think she’s just so overwhelmed by you, and the others. And I mean look at Kris”

Jess laughed

“I know he toned it down a bit but still. . . Bless her”, Zoe continued
“Well she’s tired I know that much, but after that, it’s all so confusing”
“What do you mean?”
“Zo, here and now, it’s fine but on daily basis?! I don’t know a thing. I don’t know her routine, she’s meant to be starting school in a week or so, I don’t have the money. . .
“Jess, stop there. You’ll be fine, and she’ll latch onto your routine, okay? And Angela will help you with school and stuff and as for money, your parents will have left you enough and anyway you’ll get money from the social and stuff”, Zoe told Jess. Then she paused and looked up, a picture of though painted across her face, “I wonder if you’ll get the house?”

Jess stopped twirling Lucy’s hair for a moment.

“What do you mean?”
“The will. Your parents will. You’ll probably get the house”
“I doubt it. I mean, what happened if there’s no will?
“Well, why wouldn’t there be?”
“I don’t think . . .”, Jess paused blinking back tears, “I don’t think they were planning on dying this soon”
“No . . . Jess, I’m sorry . . . I didn’t mean it like that”, Zoe said apologetically
“I know you didn’t”

Zoe smiled at Jess.

“I bet Elliot’s wetting himself over the interviews”, Zoe said laughing a little, trying desperately to change the subject. Jess laughed as well but then Lucy stirred a little in Jess’ arms and gradually her eyes opened. She yawned and removed her thumb from her mouth. As soon as she saw Zoe, she began smiling again.

“Hello sleepy”, Zoe said, smiling at Lucy, grabbing one of Lucy’s hands and shaking her arm so it made her whole arm wobble a little. Lucy thought it was hilarious and couldn’t stop laughing for a while. Jess was glad - it meant more time before her and Lucy were forced to face the music which was making Jess ache deep inside.

OMG this is so sad
Please continue asap
Lucy is so cute

this is fantastic keep going pls
xxxxxx

Cheers 4 al the comments lol !

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Meanwhile, Kris was half way through being interviewed by Angela, in what seemed like a under-sized store room. He had volunteered to go first, then it was to be Elliot who was eager and then Zak was last. Elliot wanted to go over everything but Zak did not want to listen to him wittering on all the time.

“Shut up, will you!”, Zak blurted out. Elliot went quiet, but Zak could see him mouthing it all, counting things on his fingers, trying to remember everything. Zak rolled his eyes and waited, in agony, for Kris to come out so he would be free from Elliot’s annoying presence.

“So, Kris, how would you feel if Lucy came to stay with you at halls?”
“To be honest, I don’t think I’d actually mind that much, though I’m sure the others would beg to differ. . .”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Well, I think the others think that I wouldn’t want a little kid running around me all the time, but I reckon it’ll be okay. I reckon they think, cos me and Jess aregue all the time, htat I’ll be a moany old man all the time with Lucy”
“And you wont?”
“Well no”
“Kris, why do you aregue with Jess all the time, if you two are in a loving relationship?”
“Well, we’ve never called it a ‘loving relationship’, but we just argue over silly things. It’s just playful banter . . . Like a tennis match! You know, I’lls erve, Jess’ll hit back. . . Not the right image?”

Angela laughed.

“Kris, it really doesn’t matter. I’m not interrogating you, we just need to ensure that Lucy would be safe okay? So calm down!”
“Right”
“Anyway, how would you feel if you were left alone with Lucy?”
“Erm, a little nervous I guess”
“Why’s that?”
“Well, I wouldn’t know what to do with a four year old as it is, let alone a grieving four year old”
“But you feel, in a position to . . . You would never look at her as more than a four year old?”

Angela already knew the answer but she knew she needed to ask, even though she personally, thought it was a stupid question because no one would answer it truthfully anyway. She looked at Kris’ horrified face.

“Look, I didn’t mean anything by it”, Angela said quickly. “Just standard procedure. I know you wouldn’t” , Angela said earnestly.

Kris was still too shocked to speak. “Let’s move on”, Angela said, trying to recover Kris from the shock she had sprung on him. Kris nodded, slowly.

“Have you ever displayed any form of violence towards anyone, male or female?”
“Female, never, but male, I’ve been in a few punch ups, never once sided though”
“What?”, Angela asked slightly confused
“I’ve never started on someone for no reason”
“Oh right.

Angela began writing down more notes.

“Kris, I see you have a very . . . Individual sense of style”
“Yeah, but you know, I could tone it down for Lucy’s sake”, Kris paused, “but don’t tell Jess that”
“Tell her what?”, Angela said smiling. Kris smiled back

“Do you think having a young child around the flat would cause you to have problems with your work?”
“No. No more than living with Jess, love sick Zoe, football obsessed Zak and well . . Geek chic Elliot”
“Full house eh?!”
“Yeah. But that’s the best way!”
“In what way?”
“Well it’s never boring you know, and there’s more people to stick up for you. And by the end, you become a tight knit family”
“And you don’t think that an addition to your ‘family’ would dusrupt it in anyway”
“Not at all”
“Where do you think Lucy would sleep”
“In Jess’ room I guess, but I’d happily give up my room for her and I’d camp out on the sofa, or in with someone you know”. Kris paused. “Again, don’t tell Jess”
“Why don’t you want Jess to know you care?”
“Because I’m not a soft touch, you know. I’ve got a reputation to uphold”

Angela just smiled.

“I remember when I used to care about my reputation”, Angela said. She didn’t expand and Kris didn’t ask her to. She looked at her two pages of notes.

“I think we’re more or less done here for now Kris. Send Elliot in, will you”. Kris nodded and walked out, a strange smile upon his face.

loving it
cant wait for more!

bump

Yay!! it's back !!!

*big smiles all round* lol

Here is everything i added up on my [Repost] version of this

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As soon as Kris had came out of the room, Elliot’s breathing quickened. Kris rolled his eyes and gave him a push into the room. Zak was sat still, waiting for Kris to come and sit next to her. He looked, if it was possible, more nervous than Elliot.

“What’s up with you?”, Kris asked Zak, smiling a little
“Mate, I’m going be stuck in a room, just me and her! What am I gonna do?!”, Zak said despairingly
“Zak!”
“What? Whatever happens, I’m gonna embarrass myself. I’ll either end up saying something stupid, trying to crack some stupid joke, or I’ll ask her out and she’ll reject me”
“Zak, is it really the time, or the place to ask her out?!”, Kris said incredulously
“I don’t ant to ask her out!”, Zak said alarmingly, “But sometimes me body doesn’t do what I wan’ it to do”

Kris laughed.

“It’s not funny!”, Zak said indignantly
“Zak, just don’t think about her, okay? Think of Jess, of Lucy. . . Of football if you must, just don’t do anything stupid”
“Oh God”, Zak breathed and he stood up and began pacing up and down, rubbing his head as he walked.

Kris just sat back and smiled.

“What happens if she leans near me?”
“Zak, why would she?!”
“Some women have found me to be irresistible Kris”

Kris laughed again.

“I’m sure they have Zak”, Kris said grinning, “I’m just not sure Angela is one of them. Just concentrate on what she’s asking you, okay”

Zak nodded and stopped pacing up and down.

“Seriously Zak, this is important to Jess. Don’t ruin it by upsetting Jess’ only chance of getting Lucy”

Zak sat down, and nodded. He had calmed down now and was sitting relaxed, talking to Kris about Lucy. Unfortunately the same could not be said about Elliot, who was struggling to talk with stammering. As the interview went on however, he got better and was finally able to talk freely.



“Have you ever had ever experience with young children before?”
“Yes”, Elliot said rather confidently, which surprised him, but he liked it so continued to talk. “At home, in Wales, I help to run the Science Camp Boys Club”

Angel smiled. “So you’re often left alone with the children under your responsibility?”
“Yes”
“And they’ve all been fine?”
“Yes”
“Never any accidents”
“Not really no”
“Okay then”, Angela began to write again on her paper, “So you’ve never taught at the girls science camp”
“Oh yes”
“So then why were you so nervous about Lucy?”
“BEcause, I only helped with the teenagers with the girls”
“Right, not litle kids. Why is that? I would have thought you‘d have preferred the younger children”

“I did, but I had the choice of one young group, one older”, Elliot shuddered at the memories he had at trying to teach teenage girls. “I chose the wrong groups”, Elliot said, somewhat quieter. Angela tried hard to not laugh as she too imagined Eliot stuck in a tent with a load of teenage girls, trying to teach them about rockets and so on. She breathed out and smiled politely, before carrying on, the images on Elliot still affecting her.

“Would you ever oppose to being left alone with Lucy?”
Elliot though for a moment before answering. “No, I don’t think so”
“Good. And do you think having her around will disrupt your life or you studies?”
“No. No more than Kris already does”, Elliot said sighing
“Right”, Angela said, a little confused
“Let‘s just say he‘s somewhat more volatile than I am. Short fused”

Angela couldn’t keep her laugh down this time.

“He seemed very polite to me”, She said after recovering from her slight outburst
“Yes, he seems to do that. Put it on when he needs to”
“Right. Lets move on shall we?”

Elliot nodded, happy to stop thinking about Kris.

“Do you think things will have to change to halls if Lucy came to stay?”
“Well yes”
“What things?
“Well”, Elliot took a deep breath and began, “The others have a tendency to opt to play games such as Spin the bottle -”, which Elliot said almost in disgust, “ - Which usually ends up in a argument, or some sort of Truth or Dare game”

Again Angela felt a smile creping on her face.

“And you don’t participate in these games?”
“Not really, no”
“Right”, Angela said smiling, “Anything else that would have to change?”
“Well all the drinking - the beer and wine. It wouldn’t have to go, but maybe toned down a little. And then they wouldn’t be able to go out and get drunk all the time”
“They do this a lot?”
“Not a lot. Well Jess doesn’t because she is always complaining she never has enough money. Kris is partial to a drink or two, as are Zak and Zoe”
“Do you think the others would mind any of these changes?”
“No. It’s for Jess isn’t it? They know how important it is”

The interview carried on for a while, and Kris and Zak waited outside. Zak was counting under his breath. “1 . . 2 . . 3”, followed by a sudden jerked movement from his hands.

“We have reduced ourselves to play, Rock, Paper Scissors”, Zak said after a while
“You have, you mean”
“Now wait here a minute, you was well up for it before”
“Zak, what on earth are you on about?!”
“God how long does he want to be?!”
“Worried Elliot will beat you to it with angela?”, Kris said grinning
“Shut up!”, Zak retorted

Then he paused and looked at the door behind which sat Angela and Elliot

“Yo don’t think -”
“No I don’t. she’s too pretty for Elliot”
“That’s a bit harsh Kris”
“So. . ?”

Zak shrugged his shoulders and left it at that

“So you think she’s pretty then?”
“She’s alright”, Kris said monotonically, in a very uninterested voice
“Too pretty for me?”

Kris didn’t answer straightaway, so Zak asked him again. Kris however, was saved from answering by a flustered Elliot exiting the room. Suddenly Zak got the jitters, realising it was his turn next. . .


This time it was Elliot who pushed Zak in the room. Kris sat back, slightly shocked at Elliot’s actions. Kris however grinned once the door was closed - there was no means of escape now for Zak.

At this point, Lucy who was with Jess and Zoe was now back asleep, still sitting on Jess’ legs, her head resting in the middle of Jess’ chest. Jess had slid across the floor so that her back was rstin against a wall so that she could stay still. She didn’t want to wake Lucy up. Zoe had followed Jess as as sitting next to her, their shoulders touching. Zoe was holding Lucy’s left hand, as Lucy’s thumb on her right hand was once again in her mouth and the rest of her fingers and curled up, her fore finger resting on the bridge of her nose.

As she slept, Lucy often had odd twitching movements in the finger, where she would stroke her nose. This seemed to be a calming effect and it sent her back off to sleep.

“I used to sleep like that”, Jess whispered to Zoe and demonstrated stroking her noes in the same way.
“You still do!”, Zoe replied grinning
“No I don’t!”, Jess whispered back
“Jess how do you know?! You can’t see yourself when you sleep. Kris isn’t any better however!”, Zoe added smiling.
“What do you mean?”
“He’s somewhat more attached to the koala than he lets on . .”

Jess smiled, not wanting to laugh in case she disturbed Lucy. As Lucy slept, Jess was twirling Lucy’s hair again, this time not the wispy bits at the front of her head, but the bottom bit of one of her plaits. It was so soft and before Lucy had fallen asleep, Jess had taken to tickling Lucy on the cheeks with her plaits.

“I wonder how the boys are getting on with their interviews”, Zoe asked after a while.

They, well Zak, had just come out of the room, the tips of his ears burning pink. Kris grinned as he came out followed by Angela.

“Well boys, that’s all for now. We can make our way back to Jess and Lucy now. As far as I can see there shouldn’t be any problems at all - you all seem like model students to me”

Kris grinned even harder. He knew he hadn’t elaborated on a lot of stuff, and it seemed the others hadn’t either. They were good, but model students - not quite!



By the time they had made it back to Jess, Zoe and Lucy, Lucy was now awake again, and was sitting in a circle with Jess and Zoe. When they all came in he room, Lucy began to grin again and even ran up and hugged Elliot, taking his hat out his hands at the same time. Kris looked stunned that someone actually preferred Elliot to him, but he looked at Jess, who was smiling at Elliot.

Lucy was now running around the room in a circle with the hat upon her face. Angela laughed, as did Zoe and Zak laughed, but his eyes were glued to Angela. Kris sat down on the floor next to Jess. Zak sat down in between Kris and Zoe and Angela perched on a chair watching. Elliot was still standing up, watching this little girl run around with his hat covered her head. She topped, evidently a little dizzy and tried to walk but stumbled sideways,. Elliot leant forward to steady her, as she was about to fall right near him.

He placed his arms round her waist and steadied her.

“There you go”, Elliot said smiling, slightly amazed at how easily he was talking to Lucy. As he spoke Lucy tilted her head sideways, a look of thought replacing her smiley face.

“You speak funny”, she stated. Elliot laughed
“Lucy!”, Jess exclaimed
“Jess, it’s fine”, Elliot said looking at Jess. He looked back to Lucy, who was still in the security of his hands. “I’m Welsh”, he told her, “Which is why I have a different accent”
“Accent”, Lucy repeated
“Yes. And I even speak Welsh too”

Lucy’s face lit up and her shining eyes widened. She grinned and Elliot grinned back.

“Can you. . .teach me?”, Lucy asked, again as usual struggling to get her sentences out fluently

Elliot looked to Jess, to Angela then back to Jess. Both nodded at Elliot. Then, Zak, Zoe and Kris began to talk and the room was filled with voices once more. Elliot took his hands off of Lucy’s waist and Jess watched on as he took Lucy’s hand, and led her to the side of the room and sat down next to her. Lucy gazed up into Elliot’s face as he began to teach her a few bits of Welsh.

Brill.
Elliot makes me laugh.

Thanks Tash lol !!

i'm so glad that all our fics are back !!

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Jess now turned her attention back to Zoe, Kris and Zak.

“. . . It was horrible!”, she heard Zak exclaim and realised she hadn’t been listening to their conversation at all

“Kris, you never answered my question earlier”
“What question”, Kris asked, not really caring for the answer
“When I asked you if you thought”, Zak lowered his voice, “Angela was too pretty for me”
“Zak, it isn’t what I think that matters okay?”, Kris said irritably. Zak took the hint and changed the subject, but struggled to come up with anything else to say.

Lucy came up to them all, sitting in a circle. Angela watched on and quietly wrote even more notes as she watched how they all interacted with each other, and more importantly, with Lucy.

Lucy walked up to them, Elliot holding her hand and she stood up and let go of Elliot’s hand, joining her hands behind her back, rolling her feet around on the spot. Elliot gave a little cough and began to speak.

“Me and . . .well Lucy has something to show you all”, he said excitedly. They all looked up at Lucy who giggled when she noticed they were all looking at her. “Go on”, Elliot whispered quietly. Lucy grinned, but still didn’t speak.

Elliot took charge and knelt down beside her.

“Lucy has learnt two little bits of Welsh haven’t you Lucy?”. Lucy nodded and giggled again. “Firstly she’s learnt how to say ‘Happy Christmas’ . . .

Elliot nodded to Lucy, who took a deep breath, let out a little giggle then spoke

“Nadolig Llawen”
“Wow Luce, that’s fantastic!”, Jess said grinning, and the others all said the same, Zoe gave Lucy a little clap. Lucy giggled again.
“That’s not all she’s learnt. What did you say it was Jess?”
“Fantastic”, Jess replied

Elliot nodded at Lucy again, to take her cue and speak

“Lucy knows how to say ‘fantastic’ as well don’t you!”

Lucy nodded. “Bendigedig”, she said, looking at Elliot, as he mouthed the word to her as she said it.

Jess and Zoe both clapped this time and Zak had a big grin on his face. Jess almost forgot exactly why Lucy was there. . .

This is fab.
It's sad knowing that Lucy still needs to be told about her parents.

Brill

Chers for the comments lol !

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Zoe held out her arms, and Lucy fell forwards into a hug from Zoe. Kris joined in and all that could be heard was Lucy’s giggles.

Jess stood up just as Elliot did and stumbled a little grabbing hold of Elliot as she got to her feet. Kris could have sworn he saw a flicker of chemistry switch between them. He shook his head and then realised he was still hugging Zoe and Lucy. He let them go and looked over at Zak, who was practically dribbling.

“Zak!, stop staring at her likes she’s a pint of beer!”, Kris said, bursting Zak’s pretty little bubble. Zak flushed red and tore his gaze away from Angela, who hadn’t even noticed she was looking at him.

“Elliot, thanks”, Jess said quietly as she stood up and walked away a little from Zoe, Lucy and the other guys.

“What for?”, Elliot asked laughed a little
“That . . . Everything”, Jess said, trying hard not to well up, “Just everything”
“Oh”, Eliot said blushing, “That’s okay”
“You’re so good with her”, Jess told him
“Not really. . .”, Elliot said, who flushed again
“You are”, Jess said.

Elliot smiled and then, all of a sudden, pulled her in for a hug. He felt her begin sobbing into his chest and usually one to shy away from situations like this, Elliot began to master the situation and her rubbed her back with his right hand and held her round her waist with his left arm. Jess had her hands in front of her eyes and her arms squished in between her body and Elliot’s. Angela looked up at them, as did Lucy and Angela quickly ushered them out the door.

Zoe looked at Kris who swallowed the lump which had appeared in his throat and then looked back at Lcy

“Where’s Jess gone?”, Lucy asked
“For a walk”, Zoe invented

Lucy seemed happy enough with the answer and began playing again, then sat up and looked again a Zoe.

“Zoe?”, she asked
“What honey?”
“When’s my mummy coming back?
“What?”. Zoe faltered, not wanting to believe Lucy was asking these questions now. “Jess isn’t your mummy”, Zoe said, trying to throw Lucy off the ‘scent’ as it were.

Lucy giggled again.

“Not Jess!”, she said
“Oh!”, Zoe said, looking at Kris and Zak
“When’s my mummy coming back?”, Lucy asked again, “and my daddy”

She stared into Zoe’s watering eyes. Lucy was too young to realise Zoe was holding back any tears. Kris put his arm round Zoe’s shoulders and jumped into the conversation.

“We don’t know Lucy”
“No, we don’t know sweetie, sorry”

Lucy didn’t seem too bothered but Angela came back in the room and Kris got up to tell her what had just happened.

Not sure how much more i can add up tonight due to athletics and other things, so sorry about that! might be more after 9ish though!