[Lovebite]

It was an entire six months before he could see him again and in that time it showed, when he was taken home with the two new borns and Bella. Joel wouldn't stop talking about the one he had lost, like he was some bad luck token. He had never lost a child and it broke him to have the child's death be shoved in his face repeatedly. Day by day, even as tears trembled down his cheek the man wouldn't stop and he was helpless to do anything about his own situation. He was trapped. The young man couldn't even work up the courage to defend himself, he simply stayed silent with the babies clutched against his chest and Bella in his view. They were never separated.