Broadchurch: The End Is Where It Begins: A Series Two Original Short Story by Chris Chibnall & Erin Kelly

Author:Chris Chibnall & Erin Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780751555684
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

When she picks Fred up from Jenny’s, he’s happily dressed in pink tights and a Tinker Bell sweater; after weeks being with him almost 24/7, and now having been separated, Ellie’s even overjoyed to see the bag full of pooey clothes. On the drive home to their poky studio – she’s paying rent as well as the mortgage on Lime Avenue – she tells him about her day with Mr Potato Head, and automatically looks to the other side of the back seat for Tom’s reaction.

That night, Ellie calls Tom at Lucy’s. As usual, Lucy’s muttered entreaties end in an explosive No! from Tom, and a slammed door. It’s on tonight’s No! that Ellie first learns that Tom’s voice has broken. There is a corresponding rupture in her heart.

He thinks she’s lying; he thinks she set Joe up. There’s only one person who can persuade Tom she’s not lying, and that’s Joe, when he stands in the dock and pleads guilty. This cruel-and-kind blow is the only thing that will shake Tom out of his denial. There’s one thought that keeps coming back to her, and it’s as dark as hell. Despite Joe’s protestations, and despite the lack of evidence of abuse on Danny’s body, there’s no way they’ll ever know what went on between the two of them. Whatever Joe did to Danny … Ellie can never discount the possibility that he did the same to Tom. Are there fresh revelations to come?

That night, she takes Fred into bed with her, in defiance of the strict bedtime routine that Joe worked so hard to establish. She knows it’s not fair on Fred but he is her comforter; she is saved in the dark hours by his soft little hand on her face, his creamy breath, the puppy-dog smell of his curls.

He still calls Daddy when he wakes in the night.

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