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chris went and sat toby in the living room with a bag of popcorn and his nintendo ds, and then went and sat in the kitchen, pulling up a chair next to her. he listened and let out a deep sigh, his mouth slowly forming an 'o' shape. "I see. "wow, that's fucking awful, i'm so sorry to hear that." he reached out and rubbed her shoulder gently. "i'm going to figure something out for you.. if more people were living in your house would they let you keep it?" he raised an eyebrow and smiled, just a little. he got up and got her a can of cola.

 

tom took a drag of his cigarette before getting up and answering the door. he glared down at cole. "I thought I told you, if you bothered me again, i'd kill you." he grabbed him by the collar and pushed him away. "why the fuck are you here? you have felicity don't you?" he scowled and let go of him, and leaned in the doorway. felicity didn't know what she wanted any more. she opened her bedroom window and looked out at it for a while, staring down at her garden. she got up and sat so that her legs were sticking out of her window.

chris raised his eyebrows. "well I can get fliss to move in with you then, or I will. one of us will, and then you can stay there with toby, and he won't have to worry about a thing, and neither will you." he smiled a little and took a hold of her hand. "i'm going to sort something about because i'm not going to have you or him living on the street. you can come and live here if you get thrown out. you and toby can have the spare room if worst comes to worst." he ran a hand through his hair, thinking about it. "but you will be okay, becky. you can trust me, yeah?"

 

chris glared at him and he avoided the first punch, putting his hand up to stop it. "IT WASN'T EVEN MY FUCKING BABY, SHE DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT DID SHE? no! she cheated on me cole, she wasn't innocent little princess flissy." soon he began hitting him back, grabbing him by his collar and punching him in the stomach, making him double over. he put a hand over his bloody nose. "get away from my house now before I tell fliss exactly what you've done, she's going to hate you, mate." she said, slamming the door shut.

felicity turned her head to look at him, frowning a little bit. who had told him that? "why, would that have made it okay for him to beat me because of it?" she frowned and climbed back in from the windowsill, and sat on her bed. she hated to see him hurt and so she couldn't lift her head to meet his eyes, it hurt her to see him hurt. she pulled her small blanket around her shoulders and looked down at her hands, crossing her legs over.

 

chris shrugged. "then she can stay here with dad. and I can be here most of the time but I will be 'living' at your house, as in sleeping there. I can pay part of the rent too, to make it more legit. things are going to work out and I will promise I will make sure of that yeah?" he took her hands and pulled her to him, and wrapped his arms around her. "toby and you are going to be safe."

chris side and put his arms aroynd her, cuddling her tightly as he kissed her head and let out a deep sigh. "I know. but you don't need them becky because you are so amazing. you have been so wonderful to toby, he couldn't ask for a better sister to bring him up. he is so lucky to have you." he smiled and stroked her sides gently, listening to her. "if you ever need anyone to talk to i'm always here, becky. I might not seem like it but I am a bit of a softy when it comes to emotions!" he tucked her hair behind her ear.

 

felicity shuffled nearer to him and looked up at him. "thank you for going to see him. you don't need to do that though, I can stand up for myself." she said quietly, shrugging her shoulders. she got some tissue and rested it on his nose where it was bleeding, dabbing at it for him. "because I deserve to be hurt. i'm not a nice person and i'm nasty to people." she said, almost robotically. she had had it drummed into her head numerous times by tom. she sighed. "i'm not sure. I got drunk a few times with tom's friends.. anything could have happened." she admitted, cleaning his face.

felicity gasped a little when he took her hands, but let him. she had learned to trust cole, she felt like he was on okay person and that he wouldn't hurt her. she hoped she wasn't making a mistake. "but i'm not a nice person because i've been horrible to tom and you and becky and chris. and i'm sorry." she fell onto her knees onto the floor, and rested her head on his lap, as he was sat on the edge of her bed, if that makes sense. "I don't want you to speak to him ever again, if anything happens it's my business, not yours." she shrugged, keeping her head on his lap.

 

chris raised an eyebrow, looking at her. "but I want you to speak to me. cos i'm like the male version of felicity so i'm not going to think you're crazy, you can tell me what you want! as long as you don't call me ugly because then I would cry." he laughed softly and looked down at her, shrugging. "so, you don't mind me staying at your house either? I don't have to if you don't want to, I guess it would be awkward for you to share a house with a boy. I mean I pee with the seat up!" he gasped, and then smiled cheekily.

chris laughed a little. "i'll try my best!" he teased, rubbing up and down her back as he listened to her. "literally you just need to tel me now because otherwise i'm gonna have to squeeze it out of you somehow, even if I have to tickle you." he laughed and shrugged, looking at her. "felicity won't hate you, just tell me becky. she's upstairs with cole and she seems okay with him, she smiled at him earlier." he shrugged then nodded. "yeah of course, come on." he got up, and then went into the living room to toby.

 

felicity frowned and listened to him. she was growing to like cole more and more, more than he wanted to that was for sure. she didn't want to show affection to someone. "no I don't want to speak to anyone about it, like I said. I don't want anyone to know what happened. I don't even know why I told you." she eventually got up off the ground and moved to sit on her bed, crossing her legs and sitting there awkwardly with him. he never usually let many people in her room ay more.

chris bit his bottom lip and shrugged. "how do you know that I don't feel the same? you don't know how I feel about you. I really like you becky but.. whatever." he put his phone in his pocket and walked out. "things could be different because felicity knows you well and I dunno, she could react differently." he took toby's other hand and walked out with them, humming to himself.

 

felicity shrugged. "cole I don't want to talk about tom any more. if I have to not love him then I have to not speak out him so can we stop? because I don't want to love him any more and i'm not allowed to, either." she frowned and looked down at her hands. she didn't know why she was talking to him about everything but things actually felt okay for once. "i'd like you to stay.. becky and chris just left and i'm not allowed to be on my own, anyway."