The Lost Ones
A year and half ago.
Freddie is in the kitchen of their apartment making dinner when their front door opens and Sam walks in. Closing the door she sniffs the air "wow, something smells really good in here" she says walking into the kitchen. "So what's for dinner" she asked as she walks up behind Freddie and wrapped her arms around his waist. Setting down the wooden spoon he turns around and grabbing her waist he picks her up which caused her to squeal in surprise and kissed her. Once they broke their kiss and he let her go he saw the surprised look on her face and couldn't help but smile. "We're having BLT pasta with extra bacon" he said before turning around to finish dinner.
Freddie only made that dish for special occasions, but it wasn't their anniversary or either of their birthdays. "So what's the occasion" she asked as she grabbed stuff to start setting the table. "Does there have to be an occasion, maybe I just wanted to make this for my beautiful wife" he said as he finished up dinner. Sam rolled her eyes as she sat down at the table "first of all thank you, second you only make this dish for special occasions, so what is it" she asked.
Freddie snickered "ok, you got me. Do you remember that meeting with my boss I told you about a couple of weeks ago" he asked her. After a few moments she shook her head "yeah, what about it" she asked. Freddie grinned momentarily "well he told me about a new position that opened up at the office and he wanted to put my name in for consideration" he paused momentarily which earned him a look from Sam that he knew all too well, so he continued "well he called me into his office today and I got the job" he told her.
Sam jumped up and ran to Freddie throwing her arms around his neck and pulling him down for a quick kiss "baby that's great". They both sat down to eat dinner, after taking a few bites of the pasta Freddie continued giving Sam details on his new position "I'll be the manager of the app development department. There may be one weekend a month that I will need to work, but I would have a day off during the week. And the two best things about this are that I can work from home pretty much all the time and I get a substantial pay increase" he said with a smile.
Sam smiled at the last two things he said, but it wasn't just the money aspect although, that was a nice perk but the fact that he could be at home most of the time would make the next conversation they would have just that much easier. After finishing dinner and cleaning up they moved to the living room and sat down on the couch to watch TV. After finding an episode of 'Celebrities Underwater' Sam laid her head down on Freddie's lap and almost right away he started playing with her hair, Sam closed her eyes, breathed in deeply and relaxed. Once the show was over she turned her head to look at Freddie, but before she could say anything he beat her to the punch "something on your mind babe" he asked.
Sam smiled sweetly at him "What makes you say that" she said mimicking him from earlier which made him smile. "Well you weren't really watching the show, you were staring off into space, which means you were thinking about something. So what is it that had you so far away" he asked again. She looked into his eyes and knew how much he loved her and how much he would love their children and in her mind now was the time to bring it up. "Well I've been thinking about this for the last few weeks and I think now may be the best time" she paused a moment before continuing "I-I think that" pausing again she cursed herself, why was she having such a hard time getting this out "w-we should start trying" she finally said.
Freddie sat there with a surprised look on his face, but said nothing which made her wonder if she had been wrong. Slowly his expression changed from surprise to one of complete and total happiness, seeing this made Sam feel immediately better about her decision. He leaned down and kissed her passionately on the lips, once they broke their kiss he looked into her eyes for a moment "I was hoping that my news about the new position would help you decide that now would be a good time to talk to me about kids" he told her. Sam now had a look of surprise on her face, how did he know that she had been thinking about kids, she looked him in the eyes "how did you know" she asked him.
"Well you've been talking about everybody who's either pregnant or recently had a baby at work, you've been watching more TV shows about babies" he paused for a minute before adding "and I've seen that almost forlorn look you get when you see someone who is pregnant" he said. Sam said nothing at first, but then the smile returned to her face "so you've been thinking about this too then" she asked. "Yes, but I didn't want to say anything until you were ready" he paused for a brief moment before leaning down to whisper in her ear "you ready to start trying". She gave him a seductive smile "what do you think" as she pulled him to their bedroom.