AN: Just a few short one shots on Jeff - and thinking back on his wife and sons.
The very first time Lucy told me she was pregnant, I completely freaked. We'd only been married two weeks and I thought we'd have more time for us as a couple before we started a family. I almost decided to walk out on her and the baby, but I remembered what my best friend had once said to me: Life was never made to be a walk in the park. If we never felt fear, or hate, or love, then what makes life worth living? Only in adversity can we truly face growing character.
The challenge I had was to face the daunting fact that in roughly eight months since I married Lucy, we would welcome the first of our offspring into the world. And that, truly, scared me. No, correction. What scared me more was telling Lucy's father I had gotten his daughter pregnant a month before our marriage.
He was old fashioned in that respect - most of my friends and even people my parents' (and Luce's parents' age) were living together out of wedlock. But Mister Keith seemed fine with that. Actually, he was pretty excited over the fact he was going to be a grandfather (that was, after he'd gotten over the shock of Luce not being his little girl anymore and was pregnant).
After my initial reaction, where Lucy thought I wasn't all that keen on her being with our child, I slowly got my head in order. I got pretty excited.
The first time she pulled my hand to her stomach and I felt a little flicker of something beneath it, Lucy told me my whole face lit up. Something truly amazing took hold of me the moment I felt that little life kick out against my wife's belly. I couldn't keep the massively cheeky grin off my face for days. I was married to the most beautiful woman in the world and she was pregnant with my baby!
I loved watching the changes that happened in Lucy's body, although she complained that she wasn't beautiful anymore. She wouldn't believe me the further along she was, no matter how many times I told her and how much I believed it, she was still the most beautiful creature I'd ever laid eyes on.
The second I didn't meet - in person - until April 4. But that didn't mean Scott Carpenter didn't make his presence known to us beforehand. The day he was born though, it was like my heart was stolen. Again (and once I'd told Lucy, she said I was a sap).
I almost didn't make it into the delivery room. I arrived just in time to catch our first born child as he cried his way into the world. Man, he had one heck of a set of lungs. And he stole my heart.