Baby Barton ~ Emmerdale!

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Ava wandered into David's shop and picked up some nappies and baby food. "Yes, Ki, these are for you." She showed her five-month old baby son the puréed food. Kian clapped his hands excitedly. He was starting to develop his own little personality, likes and dislikes. He smiled at his Mummy.

"Ah, how cute is he? How old is he now?" David cooed over the young baby.

"Five months yesterday. Takes after his Daddy." Ava chuckled. "It's the hair, all the dark hair like Kirin's, and his little button nose."

"Yeah, I can definitely see it. He's adorable." Leyla joined in. Ava loved showing off her baby to people, she herself was in awe of him. Everything she thought about was Kian related.

Ava smiled at them as she left with Kian. Kian was giggling up at Ava as she made faces at him whilst they were walking through the village. "Why don't we go and see Daddy at work? Eh Kiks?" She asked her baby son as they were standing outside Sharma&Sharma. She pushed Kian through the door. "Hey, Belle? You ok?" She saw Belle crying in the staff room.

"No. My boyfriend just dumped me." Belle cried out, she was going to embarrass herself if anyone else saw.

"Just let me take Kian to Kirin and I'll be right back." Ava sighed, picking Kian up. Kian wrapped his arms around Ava's neck, he was sticky from eating. "Gross, my little man." Ava chuckled, kissing his forehead. "Yo, babe." She walked into Kirin's office. "A certain son of yours wanted a cuddle with Daddy."

Kian held his arms out for a cuddle from Kirin. "Hello, my boy." Kirin sat Kian on his hip. "I take it you went past Belle? She's becoming a liability that one." He rolled his eyes.

"Give her a chance. She's very...well...obsessive. She gets a relationship and then goes a bit wired when it's over." Ava tried to stick up for her.

"Since when was this a crèche?" Priya raised her eyebrows, walking into the office.

"Oh come on, Amba's in here all the time. And look, how could you resist his adorable little face?" Kirin pouted. "Nah, I'm joking, but he's my little man, isn't he. I'm gonna take my lunch break now and spend some time with my gorgeous girl and my boy." Kirin nodded to Priya and left with Ava and Kian.

"Ava!" Ross' drunken voice trailed through the village after his little sister.

"Just keep walking. Don't look round." Kirin put a supportive and protective arm around Ava's shoulders, using his other arm to hold tightly onto his sons pushchair. "He'll get bored soon and go shouting after someone else." He tried to reassure his girlfriend.

"Ah, Kirin! Can you have Johnny for the afternoon?" Vanessa bumped into them.

Kirin sighed. "No, I've got an afternoon Booker with my family."

"Johnny needs you too." Vanessa argued.

"My baby boy was almost stolen from me last week. There's no way I'm taking my focus off of him. He's the light of my life. My little mini-me, he's my lad. I'm spending time with him and my love." Ava smiled at Kirin. She loved how he called her 'his love.' She was grateful her and Kian had his full attention, they needed each other.

"So, you're saying that Kian is more important than Johnny? What a great Father you are." Vanessa spat out.

"Kirin's an amazing daddy. Kiks face lights up when he sees his daddy." Ava stuck up for her boyfriend. "He'd do anything for our little boy."

"Shame he doesn't realise he has two sons." Vanessa snidely remarked.

"Johnny doesn't even know who Kirin is. Because you slept with someone else and said they were Johnny's Dad. Kirin's known Kian is his the whole time, the bond between them in unbreakable.  My heart melts when I see Kian grizzly grin when his eyes meet Kirin's. There's more to being a Dad than just blood, and you never gave Kirin the chance to have that bond with Johnny. It's such a beautiful and special bond, especially for a mother to see. Our lad has an amazing role model in his Dad."

"Yet he still almost let his baby get kidnapped." Vanessa pointed out, smirking at them.

"That wasn't his fault. I trusted my brother and Ross let us down. It had nothing to do with Kirin, you evil bitch." Ava slapped her across the face. She wasn't going to let the kidnap of her son be Vanessa's winning point.

"Look, Vanessa, I'm sorry. I'll see Johnny on the allocated days." Kirin sighed, pushing Kian around Vanessa and out of way.

"Kirin, Ava. Look, I'm sorry but I really need you to take him." Vanessa left Johnny's pushchair where he was sitting and left, she ran off up the village, getting in a car.

"What the...?" Ava was confused, she went and picked Jonny up out of his pushchair. He started to grizzle. Ava took Johnny's pram with her other hand and walked off with Kirin. "She can't just leave him like that. You should do something about it."

Back at home, Priya and Rakesh were there, discussing plans for the new flats. "You know, you both could have one of the new flats. Free of charge." Priya offered Ava and Kirin.

Kirin jumped at the chance. "Amazing. We need a place of our own. Kian needs a room of his own, he can't keep bunking in with us."

"And now we've got Johnny as well." Ava added.

"What do you mean?" Priya asked.

"Vanessa just left him. So I'm taking him, he's coming to live with Ava, Kiks and me." Kirin explained, shrugging his shoulders. "At least it'll give me a chance to spend some proper time with both my boys." Kirin picked Kian up, blowing a raspberry on his sons cheek.

"And you're ok with that?" Priya bit her lip, asking Ava. She thought they were taking on too much.

"Yeah." Ava said through gritted teeth, nodding.