Delilah, now well past the car park incident since she's seen the rides, tugs excitedly and insistently at Luke's flannel but doesn't dare run off without him again.

"DADA DADA DADDY!" She squeals as Luke chuckles and gets tickets. The woman inside the ticket booth grins and tells Luke how cute she is.

"Say thankyou Delilah." Luke demands as he picks the wriggling little one up.

"DADDY!"

"Say thankyou."

"Ankoo!"

"Adorable!"

"Ankoo! Ankoo!" Delilah giggles.

"She's only just learning English." Luke explains, smiling widely.

"That's awesome, here's your tickets, have a wonderful day!"

"Thanks, you too." Luke smiles and sets his black haired baby down, grabbing her hand and letting her pull him to ride after ride.

After about four rides, she gets whiny from all the walking, reaching up for her daddy.

"Spoiled babygirl."

"Daddy's baby." Delilah smiles as Luke scoops her into his hip.

"Yes, your daddy's baby."

"Baby's daddy."

"Who's that, princess?"

"Baby's daddy!"

"Who's baby's daddy?"

"Daddy!" Delilah giggles, poking the tall blondes chest with her pointer finger.

"That's right, me, huh?"

"Yes dada."

"What ride now?"

Delilah points to the haunted house and Luke chuckles.

"You won't like it, doll."

"Daddy! Daddy! Pees!"

"I don't think so, no."

"Daddy! Daddy!"

"It'll scare you, princess. Don't want anymore nightmares, do we?"

"Daddy peas!"

"Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you spoiled little butt." Luke shakes his head, grinning and leading the baby to the fairly short line.

Luke was right. Delilah was crying and yelling "safe, daddy! Safe!" By the end, clinging to the broad man.

"I know babydoll. No fun. You gonna listen to daddy next time?"

"Es dada. Good baby."

"Yeah, you're a good girl. Daddy's good girl." Luke goes to a good stand and gifts candy floss as Delilah calms down.

"Doll, look." He says, holding a chunk if the pink cotton in front of her face. She wipes her tears and raises an eyebrow. Luke puts it in his mouth and then grabs another piece and puts it to Delilahs lips.

The little one cautiously takes a bite and gasps at the unexpected taste and feel. She reaches into the bag for more and Luke chuckles at how quickly his doll stopped crying.

"Daddy!" Delilah gasps again as she points to a giant stuffed cow hanging up in a game booth.

"You want that?"

"Pees!"

"Alright princess," Luke chuckles, putting her down as she shoves more candy floss into her mouth. He leads her to the game and pays for both of them to play.

Luke makes sure to keep a close eye on the little girl as they both play, the crowded environment making him nervous.

He glances to the spot next to him where she was standing and she's gone. He panics for a second before he hears a giggle from the other side and sighs in relief when he sees the little girl slightly behind him and to his side, having finished her game.

He chuckles and continues playing until he manages to win a medium cow stuffie and the little girl squeals as she takes it.

"Ankoo," she giggles, hugging the stuffie.

"Daddy!" She yells as she points to another big coaster.

An hour later, the raven haired girl has gotten whiny again, and has finished the candy floss that was keeping her happy.

"Are you hungry, baby? Want num nums?" Luke bends down as she tugs on his shirt, squatting so he's eye to eye with her.

"Yes dada. Pees?" She points to a pizza booth and Luke chuckles and nods. They start walking towards it and Delilah trails behind. When Luke notices she's not directly by his side, he turns to grab her hand, and she's gone.

Panic courses through her veins again and his eyes dart around the area that suddenly seems much more crowded than ever before.

"Fuck." He hisses, "fuck fuck fuck, Delilah." He begins searching through the crowds and calling for the little girl.

Fuck, there wasn't even three seconds between her being there and gone.

He rubs his hands over his face, unsure of what the fuck he's supposed to do and praying his little girl is okay and no one stole her or anything, praying she's just sitting on a bench nearby waiting for daddy to come find her.

Meanwhile, Delilah is pushed against the wall crying as crowds push past her and don't let her away from it, clinging tightly to the cow stuffie and sobbing into it. "Daddy!" She calls into the crowd, tries to search for her daddy's tall frame and broad shoulders and blonde hair, but she's too short to see over the crowds.

She prays her daddy has realized she's gone and will find her soon.

She didn't mean to wonder off, she saw a person with a dog and stopped for just a second to look and when she went to catch up with her daddy she could no longer see him and soon was pushed out of the moving crowd and pushed to the wall she's currently leaned against.

She slumps down it as she sobs before deciding her daddy won't be able to see her hear and trying to posh into the crowd. She whines and hiccups as she tries to get past all the people trying to talk to her.

"Baby!" She hears a male voice call, and her eyes dart to where it came from, only to see another couple. Not her daddy.

Luke rushes over to a guard and explains the situation to him.

"My little, I can't find her, I turned around for two seconds, and she's gone, and-"

"Calm down, sir," this pisses Luke off, but he needs the guards help right now. "Well look at the lost building, if any children, littles, or anyone trying to find each other are lost, they get taken there." The guard explains as he leads Luke to the mentioned building.

"She doesn't speak much English, though, I don't- she probably wouldn't go with a stranger-"

"If a guard finds her they'll take her there."

"What if a guard doesn't find her?"

"We'll find her, don't worry."

Luke sighs and nods, praying she's there.

They step into the building and the guard talks with the people working there.

"What's she look like?"

"She has long black hair and she's pretty short and really pale, green eyes. Her name is Delilah." Luke explains desperately.

"Oh, I'm sorry sir, there is two little girls, but they're  blonde and red haired," the woman explains.

"Fuck," Luke whispers, rubbing his hands over his face, and him and the guard go back to where Luke lost Delilah to try and find her.

"Hey, hey," a tall man calls to Delilah, grabbing her arm. The little one shrieks and sobs, terrified of the strange big man in a black uniform.

"Shh, it's okay. Do you have a mommy or daddy?" She shakes her head and tries to yank away. Is this man trying to say he's her daddy?

"It's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you little one, are you lost?"

"Safe!" Delilah screams.

"You're safe, it's ok, you're safe." The guards voice is too deep and not familiar, but she understands the word safe.

"Do you have a mommy or daddy?" He asks again when the little one calms down.

"Daddy! My daddy! Wan daddy!" She sobs and yells, pulling on him again.

"Okay, you're ok, I can help you find your daddy." He assures, not understanding that she doesn't know what he's saying, he tries to tug her towards the lost building.

"No! NO!" She screams, "BAD! GO! DDDAAADDDYYYY!"

"No no, I'm not bad, I'm good, can you come with me and I'll take you to your daddy?"

"No! Daddy! Wan daddy!" Delilah cries, terrified of what this man is trying to do to her.

"Don't you wanna go to your daddy?" The man sighs, not letting go of the small girl as she tries desperately to escape him. He doesn't want to have to carry her against her will, what if her daddy is abusive and that's why she doesn't want to go to him? But she said 'wan daddy'?

He calls a female guard over the radio, hoping the little one will be more comfortable with a woman, and the guard arrives quickly.

"Hi honey, you lost?"

"Wan daddy!"

"If you come with us we'll take you t your daddy, yeah?"

The green eyed little girl is unbelievable overwhelmed. Too many people are talking to her and trying to take her some where and she just wants her daddy.

Eventually, she plops onto the ground and screams and sobs, voice sore, but she doesn't know how to get her point actoss. She's forgotten all her words accept want and daddy.

"Daddy pees!" She sobs. The lady guard sighs and decides that it's been long enough after half an hour, picking the flailing screaming little up and carrying her sobbing corpse to the building.

Luke and the guard frantically search the fair campus, Luke almost feels like he can't breathe and he's close to tears as he whispers curses and listens for Delilahs crying, knowing she must be by now.

He feels horrible and irresponsible, his baby is so small and can't understand what's going on, she's probably terrified. He just continues to pray she's not hurt. He's a horrible daddy. Fuck.

"Lets check lost again." The guard suggests, and Luke sighs and nods. He just wants to hug and hold and kiss his babydoll.

He continues to pray as they step into the building, and he sighs when the lady at the counter gives him a disappointing look, sympathetic and pitiful.

That changes when he hears familiar shrieks and sobs from the back of the building, where they bring people in sometimes.

"Please..." he silently sighs.

"Let me check that." The woman goes back.

Delilah was terrified, she'd been dragged into the back of an unknown building and now there was another person talking to her.

"Are you Delilah?" The woman asks.

Delilah gasps and looks up, "Delilah!" She repeats. "Daddy?"

"I can take yo to your daddy, he's gonna be so happy to see you." The woman smiles.

"She wouldn't come with us, we had to carry her," the guard explains.

"She barely speaks any English." The woman explains, picking up the fighting little girl and carrying her to the lobby, to her daddy who sighs in relief as tears almost fall from his eyes again.

He takes the screaming girl who only begins to kick harder, not realizing it's her daddy she's being passed to.

"Shh, baby, your safe, daddy's here." Luke coos. Delilah sobs louder as she recognizes the voice and turns into his chest, clinging tightly and sobbing into his shirt, throwing in the words she can remember.

"I know baby, I know." Luke coos, kissing her head over and over and holding her small body tight.

The male guard sets the stuffy that Delilah had dropped next to where Luke is sitting g with Delilah in his lap.

"Aww, daddy's sorry, princess." Luke sighs burying his face in Delilahs hair.

The witnesses coo and Luke thanks them before standing and walking out of the building, sitting in a bench and smiling wide as he hugs his little girl.

"I'm so sorry, daddy will never let you out of his sight again. Was that scary, baby? I'm so sorry, my sweet little girl, such a good girl. I know, I'm a bad daddy. You're safe, daddy's got you, you're safe."

"Daddy!" Delilah sobs, face buried in her daddy's neck.

"I'm so sorry, stop making daddy feel so guilty..." Luke chuckles, kissing whatever of his little ones face he can reach.

"You must be so hungry, huh baby? You want num nums?"

"Es dada."

Luke smiles and stands, not bothering to even try putting the little one down, she wouldn't stand for it and he doesn't want to let her go yet. He hands her the stuffy and goes to the pizza booth again.

After they eat, Luke walks and carries Delilah around to see all the animals as she clings to the tall man, no longer crying but still clingy, and in a noticeably younger headspace as she babbles and whines and giggles.

"Go, dada." She mutters, yawning.

"You wanna go home, babygirl? Can you say home?"

"Hmm." She hums a lazy version of the word, and Luke chuckles and nods.

"Yeah, lets go home."

The broad blonde carries the small green eyed girl to the car.

"What's that, baby?"

"Caw."

"That's right." Luke chuckles as he opens the door to the back and is met with a shriek.

"Oh my goodness, someone is tired." Luke sighs, chuckling. "You've gotta sit in the back baby, daddy can't have you in his lap while he's driving."

"Daddy! No go!" Again, Luke tries to put her down and is met with a scream, drawing attention from around.

"Delilah." Luke sighs, getting an idea and grabbing her backpack, taking the candy and juice and snacks out.

"You can have all this if you sit in the back, babydoll." Delilah seems to understand and pouts, but nods. Luke pecks her lips and puts her in her car seat, buckling her in.

Delilah snacks as the two drive home, and  as soon as they're there, they change into pjs, brush their teeth, and go to bed.

Extra long chapter ❤️😘