Indy

[Bee]

"Get up daddy! get up mummy!" India yelled very early in the morning before ripping the curtains back to reveal a still dark skyline.

Bridget had told Declan that this was going to happen if he hyped her up about school too much but he had ignored her advice and discussed school for at least an hour with her.

"She's going to wake us up in the morning you know!" Bridget complained to him, "Before it's even light! I did that when i was 6, Riley did it too but he's the only one who remembers!".

"So you think that it's a family thing to annoy your parents early in the morning?" Declan had said sarcastically before getting in bed, or rather kicking off every sheet and lying there.

"I'm so sick of this weather" Bridget moaned getting in beside him, "It's too hot!".

"It'll cool down and you'll be complaining about the cold!" Declan assured her.

"Will not!" Bridget said outraged.

"Wanna bet?" Declan asked.

"you are in no position to bet seeing that you'll be putting our daughter back to bed in the morning when she wakes us up really early" Bridget smirked at him.

"Wanna bet about that too?" Declan asked.

"Declan we're married...we have the same money" Bridget sighed before rolling over, "Good night".

Declan rolled over and spooned her, "Night" he kissed her cheek

Declan moaned, "Indy go back to bed".

"BUT IT'S SCHOOL!" India got on their bed and bounced around.

"See" Bridget murmured.

Declan closed his eyes deciding that he could sleep with India bouncing on his bed he attempted to sleep again.

"Declan go put Indy away..i mean bed, put her to bed" Bridget sighed half asleep.

Declan sighed, "I can sleep with her bouncing".

"NOW!" Bridget lifted her hand and pointed it at the door.

"Fine come on Indianna Jones" Declan let her get on his back so that he could take her back to her room.

He put Indy back in her bed and she cried out "But daddy!".

"It's not school time yet, and if you dont sleep now then your going to be too tired to go to school tomorrow!" Declan told her.

India weighed up her options and decided that staying in bed wasnt such a bad idea, "Okay Daddy but promise me you'll wake me at first sunlight".

"Not a moment later, night Indy" He kissed her forehead before wandering back into his room.

Bridget was sleeping peacefully on her side facing him and as soon as he hit his pillow he was out.

Sudden idea that hit me at...1:23am...had to write it haha

[sophie]

Aw I really like it, please keep going!

[suse]

Another Didge is alive fic ...yay ;D.

That was great Lia. All these great moments we are missing .

[Bee]

“Morning” Bridget said cheerfully as Declan walked in yawning, “good sleep?”.

Declan glared at her, “Shut up”.

Bridget grinned, “Hate to say I told you so!”.

Declan rolled his eyes then poured himself a strong coffee.

“Where’s India?” Bridget asked.

“She’s in the shower, I told her that if she didn’t wash her hair then she wouldn’t be let through the gates” Declan told her.

“Lying to your daughter” Bridget tutted.

“It’s the only way I’ll get peace today” Declan told her.

Bridget laughed, “Well I have work in half an hour so you’ll have to take Indy”.

Declan’s face dropped, “I thought we’d agreed that you’d take her on her first day of school!”.

“Dec we made those rules up when we were still teenagers!” Bridget said sipping her tea.

“They seemed genuine to me!” Declan told her.

“So you’re going to give her the sex talk then?” Bridget asked.

Declan went red, “No…oh whatever”.

Bridget and Declan had sat looking at their daughter, they were about to head off to their valedictory dinner and they were taking India with them.

“I don’t think I could ever take her to school again after this” Declan confessed, “It’ll be too hard, it’s hard enough leaving her all day here”.

“Well I cant take her” Bridget said, “I’m going to end up a mess if I did and you know how I hate crying!”.

“Let’s flip a coin on it” Declan pulled out a 20 cent coin from his pocket.

“No I don’t want to” Bridget said pushing his hand down.

Declan ignored her and said, “Heads or tails?”.

“Fine tails” Bridget said.

Declan flipped the coin and was shocked to find that the head of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd was staring up at him.

“Yes!” He cried out happily.

“Fine” Bridget said grabbing the coin, “Let’s do the next pooey nappy!”.

They kept doing this and Declan won every time except for the sex talk, “Oh no!” Declan looked mortified as he stared at his infant daughter in her carrier.

“Ha ha!” Bridget laughed before kissing him.

“Not working” Declan told her getting up, “Come on lets go to the dinner”.

He grabbed his daughters carrier before leading her out to the car.

Bridget smiled, “Anyway” she downed the rest of her tea, “I’d better get going I need to drop in on Donna on the way”.

Bridget walked over to Declan and kissed him, “Give Indy a kiss from me”.

Declan nodded before watching her walk out the front door, moments later India bounced into the room with a towel over her head.

“Hey daddy where’s mummy?” India asked as she sat down to her weetbix.

“She’s gone to work so I’m taking you to school” Declan said as he brushed the knots out of her hair.

“Ouch Daddy!” India cried out, “You hurt my hair”.

“Sorry” Declan said, “But we need to get going because I need to be at work by 9:30 or else Grandpa Paul will be annoyed at both of us!”.

India seemed to accept this as she ate her weetbix, “Daddy will my teacher be nice?”.

“Your teacher is Rachel, you know Rachel, of course she’ll be, but you have to call her Ms Kinski” Declan reminded India.

“Chloe said that Rachel isn’t a nice teacher” India told him, “She said that Rachel gave her a detention last year”.

“What was Chloe doing to get the detention?” Declan asked her.

India shrugged, “I dunno”.

“Well don’t you get any detentions” Declan kissed her cheek.

“I won’t daddy” India smiled.

“Come on Indianna Jones, lets get to school” Declan grabbed her hand and led her out the door.

[suse]

Oh I am loving this...fantastic Lia ;D.

I loved the coin flipping bit .

[sophie]

So did I! Great update!

[Bee]

"Don't go!" cried India as he attempted to leave her.

"Indy I have to go and you need to stay at school" He told her as she clung to his leg.

"But i dont want to stay at school if it means you're not going to be here" India looked up at him with puppy dog eyes.

"Maybe you should stay a little while longer Dec?" Rachel asked looking from India to him.

Declan sighed, "Okay little miss, i'll stay but only for a few minutes til your settled in okay?".

India nodded wiping the tears from her eyes.

Declan took out his phone and dialled his step-fathers number.

"Whats up?" Andrew answered the phone.

"Where's Paul?" Declan asked coldly.

"He's showing customers around where are you?" Andrew asked.

"Look can you tell Paul i'm going to be late" Declan asked him.

"Why did you sleep in?" Andrew snarled.

Declan sighed, 'did it look like he slept in? did it sound like he slept in? Andrew would never get what it's like to be a dad and have to get up every morning to a screaming daughter for the first year or two! how dare he accuse Declan of sleeping in!'.

"Andrew i'm dropping India off at school and i've got to stay back here for a while with her okay" Declan snapped, "Can you just tell Paul that please".

"Fine no need to get narky about it" Andrew snapped back.

"Bye Andrew" Declan said resisting the urge to throw his phone at the wall in anger he took India to her desk.

"Wont this be fun!" Declan grinned at her as she sat on her old green coloured seat that Declan doubted he could get one side of his bum on.

"I dont like it here" India told him, "The other kids are mean!".

Declan sighed again, "Indy give them a chance, they'll be nice i'm sure!".

"What if their not!" India asked him seriously.

"I guarantee that you'll find someone here you like India" Declan told her.

India pouted and looked out the window away from him, he could hardly blame her, he'd been the same way on his first day of school.

"What if daddy comes?" 5 year old Declan asked Rebecca.

"Your father will not come, he doesnt know where we live sweetheart" Rebecca repeated for the millionth time.

"Well what if he hurts you?" Declan asked, "I wont be at home to protect you!".

Rebecca smiled at the bravery of her son, "I'll be fine sweetie, you need to get to school though, before you miss anything that important, i want you to be able to read by the end of this year so that you can read street signs for me!".

Declan nodded, "I still dont like this, what if one of these kids know's daddy?".

"I dont think they will and if you dont tell them about daddy and say that he's just at work now then they wont know that you have to run away from your daddy" Rebecca felt bad as she said this, encouraging her son to lie.

"Okay mummy" Declan smiled.

"Bye sweetie" Rebecca kissed his cheek.

"MUM!" Declan was outraged as he rubbed her lipstick off.

Rebecca grinned, patted him on the head, took one last look at him and left the classroom.

"Okay boys and girls!" Rachel said excitedly, "Welcome to prep!".

Rachel winked at Declan ask she talked and jerked her head as if to say, 'go now while she's distracted'.

Declan didnt need to be told twice as he quietly snuck out of the room.

[sophie]

That was so sweet! I have a lump in my throat!

[suse]

So do I . Absolutely gorgeous Lia. You write Indy so well and even if Didge was still alive I knew she would be a daddy's girl .

[smilelino]

Another great start to a good story. Thank you so much.

[Bee]

thats for the comments guys! makes writing this so worthwhile!!

update soon (:

[Bee]

"Where have you been?" Paul demanded as Declan ran in to Lassiters.

"Oh sorry..Indy" Declan tried to start but Paul cut him off.

"I've had enough of this Declan, you're late all the time because of your daughter, or your wife, or something else...I'm going to have to ask you to leave" Paul said angrily.

Declan turned around and saw Andrew smirking at him behind Paul, "What?".

"You heard me!" Paul yelled, "Get off this property before i call the cops!".

Declan resisted the urge to punch his step-father in the face and left, he wondered how he would bring in money for his family again, Bridget worked as a doctor 5 days a week but he felt that their lifestyle still needed two incomes.

He wandered into Charlies and to his mum behind the bar.

"Why arent you at work?" Rebecca asked him.

"Paul fired me" Declan told her.

Rebecca's eyes went wide, "Fired you?".

"Yeah because India wanted me to stay a few extra minutes at school" He said.

"How late were you?" Rebecca asked.

"About half an hour?" Declan tried to remember.

"Well then you can hardly blame him" Rebecca said.

"MUM!" Declan said outraged, "Your husband just fired your son...a little sympathy here!".

"Exactly, my husband" Rebecca said, "Anyway you have been late to work a lot lately!".

Declan shook his head, "You've turned into a Robinson mum".

"Dont you use that tone with me!" Rebecca yelled, "Now i think it's best if you leave this bar and give Bridget a ring".

"What does it matter to you?" Declan spat at her feeling very annoyed, "You and Paul can go live in a solid gold house while me, Didge and Indy live in a shak, actually you know what? dont you or Paul come anywhere near Me, Didge or Indy again!".

Rebecca looked shocked as her son walked away from her, she threw her tea towel down and went to serve other customers.

Declan was fuming when he arrived him and he slammed the door closed causing Bridget to wake up from the couch.

"What are you doing home?" Bridget asked him.

"What are you doing home?" Declan asked at the same time.

"I felt sick..." Bridget held her stomach.

"I got fired" Declan went and sat on the couch.

"What?" Bridget asked, "Why?!".

"I was late, Indy wanted me to stay for a bit" Declan told her.

"So Paul fired you?!" Bridget asked, "I'm going to go set him straight!" she stood up, looked pail and fell back on the couch.

"Hey are you okay?!" Declan asked concerned getting up and going to the other couch.

"Dec i've got to tell you something" Bridget sighed.

Declan felt the words coming even before she said them.

"I'm pregnant".

His heart dropped.

[sophie]

Poor Declan and Didge! Yay about the baby though

[suse]

I was quite shocked that Paul fired him .

Great update Lia. All these fics are keeping me sane at the moment .

[Bee]

Declan groaned and put his head in his hands.

Bridget didnt expect anything different from her husband, but at least he wasn't as bad as last time.

"OH SHIT" Declan started pacing, "How could this happen!".

"Dec please" Bridget could help but cry as she stood before her boyfriend angry that she had gotten herself pregnant.

"No, you know what i dont want anything to do with you or the baby EVER!" Declan stormed off before he did something he would regret.

Bridget stood still in tears watching her boyfriend go.


"When did this happen?" Declan asked looking up at her tears threatening to escape his eyes.

"I dont know i have an appointment to see an obstetrician this afternoon" Bridget confessed.

"Wait how long have you known?" Declan asked her.

"A while.." Bridget said not wanting to admit just how long.

"How long?" Declan said in a more demanding voice.

"Since Indy's last day of Kindergarten" Bridget sighed.

"Hi" A woman came and sat the Bridget and Declan's table whilst Declan was in the toilet, "You look lonely!".

Bridget was lost in thought about their upcoming holiday to Oakey to visit her parents, and mentally checking off things to take with them.

"Oh sorry" Bridget said, "I was just thinking".

"What about?" The woman asked, "I'm Lisa by the way, my son Cody is over there", she pointed at a short blonde boy that India had complained about multiple times to her and Declan.

"Oh I'm Bridget, that's my daughter" Bridget pointed at India who was standing with her best friends Amy and Ava.

"You must have been young?" Lisa asked looking down at Bridget belly.

"Seventeen yeah, but we were married and everything" Bridget said, she was sick of everyone judging her and Declan by age, she thought that she was a good mum and Dec was a fantastic dad to Indy, and she knew parents out there who were far worse off then her family were.

"I'm not married yet, probably never will be, i'm a single mum" Lisa confessed.

Bridget shrugged, "Sometimes it takes a while to find the perfect guy, i suppose Dec and I were lucky".

"Yeah you were" Lisa stared at her belly again which started making Bridget feel uneasy, was she fat?.

"Sorry but i noticed you were staring at my stomach?" Bridget asked as politely as she could.

"Your pregnant arent you?" Lisa asked.

"Not that i know of" Bridget thought before realizing that she was getting all the same symptoms that she was with Indy.

"It's just, i'm an obstetrician and i see alot of woman coming in that look the same as you" Lisa said, "so i was just wondering".

"Hey what were you wondering?" Declan asked sitting down.

Bridget sent Lisa a look as if to say 'dont tell my husband about that'.

"Oh if i have the same top as Bridget" Lisa smiled, "You must be the elusive Declan".

Bridget got up then and excused herself to the bathroom.

"Mummy!" India ran over as she passed her, "Can i go to Ava's house tonight? Amy's going!".

"Go ask your dad" Bridget told her before entering the bathroom.

'what if i am pregnant? what does that mean for Dec and I, what does that mean for Indy? she wont be an only child anymore! how will she cope?' Bridget thought wildly in the mirror, 'i'll have to get a test tomorrow when Dec takes Indy on the fishing trip' Bridget thought.

"Indy's last day of Kinder!" Declan was outraged, "And you didnt think to tell me!".

"I thought that you would have noticed!" Bridget snapped back.

"I'm not a mind reader Didge!" Declan raised his voice, "I'm going to be a dad again and you didnt even think to tell me!".

"I wanted to make sure myself!" Bridget told him.

"I'm sure you already know!" Declan snapped.

"SO THATS WHY I'M TELLING YOU NOW!" Bridget yelled before getting up, "I'm going to see the obstetrician, i'll take my car and when you've calmed down you can come in your car!".

With that she walked out of the front door leaving Declan to mull over ways to fix this situation.