Hi there. This is a continuation of one of my other stories (A Drunken Mistake) and it will make it a lot easier for you if you read that one first or you will shortly become very confused. Hope you like this one anyway but you may be offended if you take offense because of the birds and bees being described to a three year old NON EXPLICITY. Oh and it's set around three years after the end of A Drunken Mistake.
"Hello Uncle Mac, hello Auntie Stella," said Dan as he tottered into Mac's office with his mum and dad.
"Hi sweetie." The two detectives doted on their godson, almost as if he were their own son.
Lindsay whispered into Daniel's ear, "Tell them what we told you"
"Mummy's got a baby in her tummy," he paused, forgetting what the rest was so Lindsay whispered it into his ear as he repeated it out loud, "and it's coming at Independence Day."
"That's great news. We're so happy for you." Mac replied
"Thank you" Danny said, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"Shall we tell Mia?" Stella enquired
"Of course, she'll have to find out sometime that she's going to have a new cousin."
Later that day
Mac and Stella both managed to get off shift on time, which was a miracle and so were both able to pick up Mia from nursery.
"Mummy, Daddy, why two of you?"
"Because you're our special girl and we have some news for you." Mac responded, smiling. Although he doted on Dan, Mia was still the apple of his eye.
"What is it?"
"We'll tell you in the car." Although Mia was normally well behaved, she hated getting into her car seat and so Mac and Stella resorted to using every trick in the book, including bribery to get her in it.
"Ohhh." Mia replied, whining because she would have to wait. However, the trick worked and she got into the car without a fuss. As they drove off, Stella started talking to her daughter.
"Dan came into work with his mummy and daddy today and he told us something important- Auntie Lindsay is going a have a baby this summer!" Mia stayed very quiet.
"Mia, what is it, hon?" Stella turned round to see that her daughter was on the brink of crying.
"I want a little brother or sister, too. Everyone at nursery has got one to play and I'm all alone!" Mia then started to full-on cry whilst Mac and Stella just looked at each other with worry. They'd never quite got round to telling their daughter that they weren't a couple, like other parents were or that it had been a drunken accident that had led to her being conceived. Of course, they expected to come up one day, just not so soon. They decide to wait until they got home before talking to her about it, in the chance that she would calm down/ forget about it.
She didn't and so Mac and Stella were forced to have the talk with her.
"Mia, you are very special to us, but the way that mummy and I love each other is different from the way that Auntie Lindsay and Uncle Danny love each other so we can't give you a little brother. I'm sorry, sweetie."
"So how are babies made then?" Mia asked and Stella struggled to contain her laughter as she knew Mac would now have to explain the birds and bees to their three year old.
"Well, when a man and a woman love each like Auntie Lindsay and Uncle Danny do, then they give each a special hug and sometimes a baby is made from it."
After this Mia seemed to realise something, "Daddy, you said that you don't love mummy like Auntie Lindsay and Uncle Danny do, but you must do because otherwise I wouldn't be here." Sensing that she had won, Mia then went off to play with her toys in her room.
"How on earth will we explain it to her, Stell?" Mac asked, but Stella seemed deep in thought "Stell?"
"Would it be so bad to give her a sibling, Mac? I know what it's like to grow up with no one to confide in or play with. Trust me it's not fun."
"But we're friends, Stell, not lovers. We don't love each other and sleeping together would ruin our friendship, let alone trying to raise two kids together."
"Okay then, answer me this. Why in the last four years have you not even been on a single date? I know there've been women who asked you out."
"Because I didn't want to confuse Mia and anyway, I could ask the same for you."
"Well my answer's simple: who would want to date a single mum who's still living with the father? It's kind of awkward, don't you think?" She said angrily before rushing up to her room in tears that she didn't want Mac to see.
Mac turned on the TV but all he could think of was Stella's face as she fled up to her room. It was only the second time that he'd seen her cry (the first being after the Frankie incident) and it shook him up. Surely having another child couldn't be that important but when he remembered his childhood, all his happiest memories involved his brother and the thought of depriving Mia of that made him physically ache.
That's why five minutes after Stella had stormed up to her room Mac found himself knocking at her door. Mia was downstairs in the playroom and so out of earshot.
"Stell, it's me. We need to talk. Please listen to me." he could hear her sniffling but received no answer. "Stell, please. We never argue and I hate this. Please just open the door so we can talk, Stell I know you can hear me." Still, all he could was sniffling. "If you don't open the door, I'll break it down." Finally Stella answered. "No you won't because you're too chivalrous to invade my personal space." Though it sounded more like a croak because of her crying. "Stell, please just open the door. I'm begging you." Now Mac's voice started to go just as Stella released the lock.
"You've got two minutes Taylor." She only called him by his surname when she was absolutely furious with him.
"I lied earlier. The reason I haven't been on a date since we found out you were expecting Mia is because they aren't you. I've been so stupid. I should have told you so much sooner. I realised when I was with Peyton. She'd say things to me and give me gifts, but they weren't perfect because she didn't know me- not like you do. You know me inside out. I was going to tell you after Peyton dumped me but then you were with Drew- something I'll never forgive myself for because I encouraged you to date him when he was planning to kill you. I think maybe he'd even realised it because when he took me hostage he kept going on about how I'd taken the most important person in his life so he'd take mine. Because you are, Stella and I would literally die if anything were to happen to you."
It was the first time that Mac had been inside Stella's room and he didn't take in his surroundings until that moment. Then he started laughing before Stella slapped him.
"What's so funny, Taylor?"
"This room, it's exactly like mine, right down to the picture on the wall." Sure enough she had the same photo of the three of them hanging just above her bed. "How many other couples would be able to do this without saying a word to each other?"
"We're not a couple, Mac, you said so yourself."
"But we could be, I've been so blind, Stell and I want to make up on lost time. Please."
Stella pressed her lips to his and said, "of course."
Stella and Mac finally got together. Yippee. Sorry to keep you guys waiting for this to happen. Read and review s'il vous plait (sorry, writing this in France and it's starting to rub off on me).