> Julia laid her head against his arm and walked with him as they entered
the
> house and passed through the now empty kitchen "Maybe we can make a habit
of
> sneaking there in the evenings when we can, hmm?"
>
> They made it to the stairs and started up. Since it was hours after Kat
had
> eaten dinner she was bound to be in bed and she whispered to Derek that
she
> wanted to look in on her, just peek from the door to make sure she had
> gotten to bed all right and was sleeping.
>
> It only took a couple of minutes and sure enough Kat was asleep.
>
> "She's worried about what you're going to say to her." Julia said once
they
> were heading up to the third floor, tone quiet "She thinks you're angry at
> her.
>
> "Not the worried kind of angry that we were." she clarified, squeezing his
> hand and lacing their fingers together, reminded again of how close she
had
> come to losing him and Kat.
>
Derek:
"I'll have a talk with her," he promised. He walked toward his room opening
the door and holding it for her. "I was angry that she blatantly defied
us." In fact he had been furious. However, it was Rachel's place to deal
with that. Then again she wasn't able to and it had been too long now. He
should have done something the night before, however things turning out as
they had, dealing with the child's behavior was the last thing on his mind
at the time. He was just going to have to let it pass for the most part
this time.
