what should have happened but didnt

[Bee]

Ok this is just my little fantasy fan fic about Bridget never dying, her trip to Oakey with Declan and her family.

BRIDGETS P.O.V
"Didge, Dec time to wake up!" Steve said excitedly.
Didge sat up from her slumber in the car, India was looking at her curiously from her carseat, Declan's dribble was now running down her shoulder making her warm then cold. He was still very much asleep.
"Dec" Bridget said gently pushing his head off her shoulder.
"Mmph" Declan groaned and re-settled himself down on her shoulder.
"Declan" Bridget tried again a little loader and more forsefully she pushed him off.
"Huh?" Declan shook his head to look at Bridget who was now looking at her shoulder as if disgusted.
"Are we here?" Declan yawned and stretched.
"Declan we are always somewhere but yeah we are, i think dad just went in to get my rallies, this should be interesting" Didge moaned then started unbuckling India's carseat to get her out.
Declan got out of the car and walked over to the other side to help retreive their daughter.
"Ahh!!" an elderly woman screamed and ran over to them.
Declan was taken aback by his wife's grandmother and stared at her as if she was somehow contaminated.
"Bridget!" the woman hugged her granddaughter.
"Hi Nan" Bridget grinned over her grandmothers shoulder at Declan who looked even more put out.
"And who is this strapping young man hey?" Bridget's grandmother asked.
"Nan this is my husband Declan, and that's our daughter India" Bridget grinned.
"Husband, Daughter, seems like only yesterday your father brought you and Riley home for the first time!" Bridgets nan cried and peared into the bassinet that held her first great granddaughter, "We'd better get inside, i baked sconnes and cream, you'd better come in before your father's eaten the lot!".
"Alright we'll be in in a second, Dec and i will just get the baby things and our bags" Didge said to her nan, the elderly lady walked off.
"Well that was weird" Declan raised his eyebrows at his wife.
"Well i told you you'd have no fun here, i bet you they'll try and make us sleep in seperate bed's too, dad told me they used to do the same to him and mum even when we all used to come up as a family" Bridget rolled her eyes.
"like hell they will" Declan mumbled.
"I know i know, anyway i better give you the four one one about who everyone is before we go in, well you know my grandad, then that was nan obviously, i think dad said that my Uncle Stu would be in there, he's youngish and he'll have a woman with him, that's my Auntie Sindi" Bridget said.
"Anyone else?" Declan asked smiling at his wife listing off names.
"Nope, let's go" Didge sighed, and the young husband wife and daughter walked into the house together.

[suse]

What a great idea Lia. I got a bit emotional reading that, even though it wasn't sad as such it still made me wish that we had this kind of stuff to look forward to .

I hope you continue with this. I like it ;D.

[Bee]

yeah suse, that's sorta why i'm writing it, after going through months and months of episodes to to my "every single decget scene" sorta made me sad knowing it will never happen again, so i'm going to try and fit in Decget Drama to the storylines aired now.

[Bee]

DECLAN'S P.O.V
After being awakened by my wife i get harrassed by my elderly grandmother in law, that woman is scary!.
I look down at India whom i'm carryin in my arms and remind myself why i'm here, for my daughter and my wife, to meet my inlaw's for the first time.
I step into my grandparents in law's house and it smells like cabbage, i look down and a random old dog starts sniffing my leg.
Jim comes over to us and gives Bridget a hug then prompts me to hand India over to him which i do, Jim then hold's India in one arm and shakes my hand.
We head deeper into the house, its one of those old weatherboard homes that have random long passageways that lead off to unused bedrooms or little sitting rooms, he shows us where we'd be sleeping.
"Nan almost made you two stay in seperate rooms but i told her that you guys would be fine in one room together" Jim told Bridget as he handed our daughter back to her mother.
"thank's grandad, well we'll just get settled here, Indy need's changing and Dec can you set up her porta cot?" Didge asked.
"Sure" I said as Jim leaves us be.
"Your finding all this weird arent you?" Bridget asked me.
"Just a bit, i mean you have no more of my family to meet, apart from an uncle that i've barely seen three times in my life anyway" I said setting up the cot.
"Argh gross!" Bridget grimaced, "Why why why dont you save these nappies for daddy India!".
I looked over, the nappy was certainly full, i crinckled up my nose and laughed, "That's what you get for getting me to do the cot!".
Bridget laughed and finished changing her.
"You cant hide in their forever!" Steve banged on our door.
"Alright just a minute dad!" Bridget picked up India and we made our way out the door.
As we walked down the hallway i heard the chitter chatter of my in laws laughing and talking.
"Bridget, Declan, Tea, Coffee?" Miranda offered as we walked in.
"Ah!!" The woman i picked to be Sindi ran over, she had a very pregnant belly, and i was shocked to see Mickey, Ned and Kirsten sitting together at the table along with Riley.
"Hey" I went over to them.
"Congratulations on the baby mate" Ned shook my hand.
"This was a surprise, that we'd meet you up here, but mum and dad and me are going back to Perth after this" Mickey said.
Riley stood up and went over to Bridget, i watched from affar their conversation.....

[suse]

Excellent excellent ;D. We are all going to have to keep them alive with our fics.

[Bee]

DECLAN'S P.O.V
"Having fun with your little husband are you?" Riley practically sneered at Bridget.
Bridget glared at him, "as a matter of fact, yes loads".
"too bad you ruined the family name, too bad you upset our own mother so much but not inviting any of us to your wedding!" Riley sneered some more.
"Mum and dad have forgiven me for that, and since when do you care about mum?" Bridget asked.
"Since she rang me crying her eyes out" Riley glared at her, "Multiple times, when she found out you were pregnant, we were on the phone for about 2 hours, she was telling me about how you shut her out, then when you had India, you shut her out again, she's been trying so hard with you!" Riley glared at Bridget some more.
"Hey" I finally stepped in, "Dont talk to her like that".
"Oh here's the husband, the one that freaked out when he found out you were pregnant, come to save the day again!" Riley remarked sarcastically.
"Declan stay out of this!" Bridget said pushing India into my arms.
I swear India Napier was the only thing holding me back from talking with my fists to my brother in law that day. I walked out of the room with Indy and went back to mine and Bridgets and got the baby ready for a nap.

[smilelino]

I am liking this story. I could imagine it happening.

[Bee]

BRIDGETS P.O.V
"I hate Riley Parker!" i stormed into my room and slammed the door.
Declan was sitting with India feeding her a bottle, they both jumped when i slammed the door.
"Shh" Declan glared putting India over his shoulder as she started crying.
"Sorry" i said, "Give her here Dec".
Declan handed our daughter to me and i started to calm her down as i ranted about my brother to my husband.
"He wasn't here, he doesnt know what we went through when i was pregnant with her, so how can he think he has the right to stick his nose in our personal family business?" I ranted.
Declan looked put out about my ranting, "I dunno, i guess he's just being a brother".
"he's a crap brother, he's never been around for me anyway" I ranted, India still not calm in my arms so Declan took her again, "By the time i was old enough to want to count on him he was out of the house, because he was out with Auntie Nicola".
"Bridget your getting unreasonable" Declan sighed, he finally got India calm enough to start feeding her her bottle again.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked him.
He looked at India and shook his head, "Your brothers right about us, we are too young to be doing all this".
I was shocked that he of all people would suggest this, "Do what? be parents?".
"Bridget i'm eighteen, your seventeen, We shouldn't even be married this young, let alone have a baby that depends on us" He sighed as India finished the bottle.
"Do you regret it?" I asked him crossing my arms.
"No, no way, i love you, i love India, he's just got me thinking about where we'd be as a couple if we didnt have Indy" Declan said burping India.
"Where do you think?" I asked him.
"I dunno, i suppose we'd still be together but i dont think we'd be as serious" Declan told me.
"What do you mean not as serious?" i asked.
"Well we are serious because we have a baby" Declan started.
"So we wouldnt be this serious if India wasnt here?" i cut him off.
"No i dunno how to explain this, just the fact that we are so young, i mean i wouldnt give up Indy or you for anything but i wish sometimes we'd waited a few more years to have her" Declan said to me, "She's sleepy, lets put her to bed then go back into the rat race".
"told you you wouldnt have fun" i picked on him and helped him put our daughter down to bed.

[kate]

Ooh- I would be mad if I was Didge and he'd said that!

Great update: you write a good fight scene!

[suse]

Great updateLia. I always loved their fighting lol. Can't wait for more.

[suse]

I just read that again as I was in a hurry before, but Dec has got a lot of sucking up to do if you ask me.

[Bee]

DECLANS P.O.V
The morning brings our usual routine, Oakey or no Oakey India wakes up at 5:32am every morning for a feed, it amuses me that she chooses that time specifically for the feed. This morning I was awake before her, so when I heard her stirring at the other side of the room I got up for her. I was awake because I was thinking about my mini fight with Didge about India and being married and everything last night. I think I worded it wrong, I love Didge, I love India, I love them both more then life itself, I just think sometimes about what life would have been like if Didge hadn’t have fallen pregnant. So I pick up my daughter with my usual “Hey sweetie, good morning, you hungry?” then I bring her over to the bed where Bridget had now woken up and was getting ready to feed her. I then always spend the next half an hour or so watching my wife feed our daughter, sometimes Bridget and I talk, or I’ll doze off but usually this is a silent time. At 6am India is put in bed with us in between us and we catch another 45 minutes of sleep before finally getting up at quarter to seven, this morning was no exception to this. We took India out into the kitchen, the only person up at this stage was Jim. Didge went to the fridge and got out the milk and started making us coffees and I sat down with India in my arms and started to read the newspaper.

“That’s really sad” I frowned as a read a story of a young man and woman and their four year old, three year old and baby all perished in a house fire the day before.
Jim looked at me then at the paper and shook his head “They’re saying it’s arson too”.
I felt literally sick from hearing this, I looked at India who was staring up at me the dummy hanging loosely in her mouth, I leant down and kissed her forehead, at the moment I realised just how lucky I was to have my daughter and my wife in this room with me.
After breakfast on a school day Bridget and I would leave India with one of her doting grandparents and head off to school at about 8:35am usually stopping at Harold’s for a quick coffee.
On a weekend Didge and I would usually stay home until Indy’s had one more sleep then we’d go out and either catch up with the other teens or go down to the park for some family time at about 11am. Today we are going to do the same thing, because the family are taking us out to lunch to celebrate India’s arrival but that’s not til 12.

Steve wakes up just as Bridget and I finished our cornflakes and coffee, Bridget asks if Steve could babysit this morning, he said that’s fine with him.
Bridget seems to want just Bridget and Declan time, which is fine by me.
at around 9am Indy starts getting drowsy so we put her down again and head off, Bridget’s packed water and some light snacks and apparently we are going exploring, typical Didge to want to do that.

“I’ve never explored the family farm before” She tells me as we walk across a paddock.
I knew why, Jim isn’t Steve’s biological father so Jim never treated Steve the same as he treated Ned and Stu. We hold hands as we walk along.
“I feel so sorry for dad, having to live through the torment and thinking Jim was his father but all along he wasn’t” Bridget sighed.
“Isn’t that like you though sorta?” I asked.
“I always knew mum and dad weren’t really my mum and dad, I came to them when I was 6 years old!, but yeah I suppose because mum and dad seem like my parents more then Joanna does” Bridget sighed, “The family farm isn’t that great is it?”.
I looked around at the assortment of broken fences and rusty old sheds and shrug my shoulders indecisively at Didge who sniggered.
“Dec your allowed to say it sucks” She told me.
“Fine it sucks” I smirked.
We head back then.

So after lunch Indy would go down for another nap at about 1:30pm and Didge and I would try to get some homework done in the 2 and a half hours that India usually sleeps for then. We came home from lunch at that time and Bridget and I did spend some time doing homework. Then at 4 when India wakes up we’d give her, her bath then feed her, then this would be Daddy/Daughter playtime, I would spend about an hour either or weekends or on schooldays playing with her whilst Bridget gets more homework done, then Bridget would have Mummy/Daughter bonding time after that for about an hour so I can get some time to do homework, today we both played with our daughter in these two hours and spent a bit of time bonding with Bridget’s extended family. Then Bridget would put her to bed and we’d test each other on homework. Today we did that but instead of testing we read each others essays and wrote comments. Then at about 8pm Indy wakes up again, another feed is given but this time she knows to go straight back to sleep, and then at 11pm same story, we’ve been trying to do this for 1am but she’s had different idea’s and a few nights I’ve been up playing with her at 1am. At 3:30 she’d wake up for another feed, then again at 5:32am and the day starts all over again.

[smilelino]

Thank you for this great update. I wish your story would be true, and we could see it being played out on neighbours.

[Bee]

DIDGES P.O.V
HOLIDAYS OVER!!!!!!
We left this morning after a few awkward goodbyes with my uncles, aunties, grandparents and brother. Declan and I were happy to go, the whole week had been suffocating, plus i couldnt wait to get home to try to apologize to my friends.

So here i am, sitting in the car, we are on a toilet stop, Dec, Dad and mum are off in the toilet then getting drinks and snacks for the road home, Dec took Indy in with him so i'm alone in the car. Oh wait their coming back i'll finish this later......

Ok we're home now, Declan's asleep snoring next to me and i'm writing this. We got home at 9pm India went straight down for a sleep thank god we didnt have to deal with a baby tonight, all four of us are really tired. Rebecca comes home from her vacation to see Oliver and Carm and Chloe tomorrow, dont tell Declan but she's bringing all three of them home with her, they are just visiting and planning to go to Rebecca and Paul's wedding. Chloe is going to be the flower girl, it'll be good anyway for Chloe and India to meet for the first time.

Ugh Declan Napier makes the most disgusting noises when he sleeps, i think i'll pack this up and write again tomorrow, bye.


DECLAN'S P.O.V
"Oww" I blurted out when my wife hit me in the face with a book as i slept.
"You were being disgusting" Bridget told me.
"What did i do that was so disgusting in my sleep?" I asked.
Bridget made some funny and gross snoring sounds, i laughed.
"I do not sound like that" I told her.
"You do too!" Bridget told me, "As if you know what you sound like when your sleeping".
"I do, one time i tape recorded myself" I told her proudly.
Bridget raised one eyebrow at me then said "Your such a dag".
"You love it" I smirked.
"Mm let me sleep first so i dont have to listen to you snore all night long" She told me.
"Indy's awake anyway" i said refering to the baby monitor i got up, "Have a good sleep princess, Indy can have formular".
"Ok" Bridget rolled over and closed her eyes, i smiled at her then left the room.
"Hi sweetie" I went into Indy's room and peered over her cot.
"Have a nice sleep? you hungry?" i asked her picking her up, she replied in a long wail.
"Alright, alright, someones really hungry" I put her dummy in and took her into the kitchen, the sight that greeted me there almost made me drop my daughter.

OLIVER'S PERSPECTIVE
"Damn why did you have to get up!" I smirked at my little brother.
"Ollie!" Declan came over, "I would hug you but.." he nodded at the baby.
"Oh this is India?" I grinned at Declan who had the proud fatherly face on.
"Wanna hold?" Declan asked me.
"Alright" i smiled and took my niece from her father.
"Good i need to make her bottle anyway" Declan went over to the cupboard and started making forumlar, "So what time did you get here?".
"About ten minutes ago, mum said you'd both be asleep" I told him.
"I was but Bridget hit me in the face with her diary because i was apparently being gross in my sleep, then Indy woke up anyway" Declan told me, "Is mum asleep?".
"She's at the store getting some milk for the coffee, Carm's with her, Chloe is in bed" I told him.

[smilelino]

Great update, and lovely that Oliver is here. I always liked their relationship as brothers. Thank you for writing.