CharCoop Season 5 – My Verision
Written By Natasha Hagan
Disclaimer: I do not own Private Practice or the characters within, they are creations of Shonda Rhimes and I am simply borrowing them for my own entertainment.
Season 5 Summary Setting:
Charlotte and Cooper have been happily married for 2months now and it has been 3weeks since the practice was in trouble and Pete's heart attack. Everything was like normal at work except it was not Oceanside Wellness anymore it was Addison's new medical practice she opened up and re-hired everyone.
Charlotte and Cooper's Apartment
It is Charlotte and Cooper's day off together and so they decided to enjoy their time off relaxing around the house. They had a date last night and after they came home from dinner they went home for desert (adult-fun not food). They try to have a date night once a week where they go out for a nice dinner, talk, and go out dancing. It is now 8am in the morning and Cooper started to open his eyes, realizing they were naked and the sheets were pushed down to the end of the bed so he pulled them up cover themselves. This alerts Charlotte awake and gives a sleepy moan of irritation.
Cooper: Morning!
(Charlotte is now fully awake but wishes she was back asleep.)
Charlotte: Morning to you too!
(Cooper moves in closer and places his hand on her arm and rubs it.)
Cooper: Last night was amazing, (pauses) you were amazing!
Charlotte: I am always amazing! (Playfully says with a smile) you should know that by now.
Cooper: This is the part where you say, 'Coop, you were amazing too' (gives her a cheeky grin)
Charlotte: Maybe I will if you can... (Stops speaking)
(Charlotte jumps right out of bed and runs off to the bathroom so fast she barely makes it in time to be sick in the toilet.)
(Cooper tries to make a joke because he doesn't know Charlotte ran off to be sick.)
Cooper: (yells out to her) Char, are you okay? Do I smell that bad?
Charlotte: Now is not the time to make jokes! Can't you see I'm...? (Stops talking)
(Cooper runs into the bathroom to see if she is alright)
(Charlotte is crouched by the toilet being sick while Cooper rushes to her side and grabs her hair out of her face and ties it up.)
Cooper: What did you eat that I didn't?
Charlotte: Nothing that would make me sick!
(Cooper looks at Charlotte with an 'I think I may know what it is' expression and decides to share his thoughts with her about it while she gets up and brushes her teeth.)
Cooper: You know we certainly do not use condoms and you stopped taking the pill a month ago. You could be... (Gets cut off)
Charlotte: I know we have talked about having a baby and I agreed to come off the pill... (Looks at Cooper and sees the love in his eyes) but I am just not sure if I am ready yet.
(Cooper takes her hands and places them in his to reassure her and gives her a kiss on the lips)
Cooper: You know I won't push you about it and when you are ready, I will be happily waiting. But if you are already then we will be doing this together and we will learn together. When is your 'you know' due anyway?
(Charlotte nods in agreement to Cooper and as soon as he asks her about when her next period was, she looked shocked and goes pale)
Charlotte: Oh my god Cooper! I should have had it last week but with all the things going on about the practice and Pete's heart attack, I totally forgot it hasn't come!
(Cooper is trying hard not to smile at the fact Charlotte could be regnant but he reframes when he see the panic in Charlotte's eyes. He thinks it's cute when his wife gets flustered and in fact most times it turns him on.)
Cooper: (grabs her hands and lovingly smiles at her) Okay Char, you need to breath for a minute. Can you do that for me?
Charlotte: Of course I can, I am not a robot.
Cooper: I think you should take a test before we tear our hair out from the wondering... (Cheekily jokes) and then I can also blame your moodiness for hormones.
(Charlotte playfully slaps Cooper's right arm after he makes a joke but to his surprise, she cups his face with her hands and gives him a long passionate kiss and then as they pull away she gives him a quick brush of a kiss on his lips.)
Cooper: (sounds surprised with a smile) what was that for?
Charlotte: Just for being you and for always making me feel better even when I am in a bad mood or stressed about something.
(Charlotte still looks freaked out but nods her head in agreement for taking a test, she then let's out a big sigh and opens the bathroom cupboard drawer. Cooper is wondering what she is doing.)
Cooper: What are you doing? Do you need me to go to the drug store or...?
(Charlotte pulls out a sealed rectangular box and waves it in front of Cooper)
Cooper: (sounds surprised) oh you already have one.
Charlotte: (tried to look serious) it's from the time when we thought I was pregnant before when we broke up that time.
Cooper: (screws up his face and sounds shocked) WHAT? And you are going to use it? Don't those things expire? (Pauses and reaches out his hands) Here give me the box so I can see?
(Cooper looks at the box and tries to find the expiry date while Charlotte is giggling away realizing she just fooled him and found it rather cute watching him stress over the box label. It also made her feel more relaxed and less nervous about when she actually takes the test herself.)
Cooper: HA HA very funny Char! You are just stalling! Go take it before we are old and grey.
Charlotte: I will as soon as you give me the test back so I can actually do it.
(Cooper forgot he was still clutching on to the pregnancy test box. He gives it back to Charlotte with a big goofy grin on his face.)
Cooper: right, sorry!
(Charlotte opens the seal of the pregnancy test box and hands wrapper to Cooper so he can put it in the bin. She then opens test and pees on stick. So now they are just sitting and waiting for the buzzer to go off and while waiting, they make small-talk.)
Cooper: (hesitates) So...
(Charlotte starts to panic again about the idea of it being positive.)
Charlotte: (speaks in ultra-speed) What if it turns out positive?
Cooper: Then we will have our hands fill but it will be great Char and you do not need to worry about anything. You will be a great mom to our kids and they will love you, just as much as I do. When you hold our baby for the first time, you will know that all this fear is over nothing.
Charlotte: I hope your right Coop because if I am... (Gets cut off by a loud buzzing sound)
(The alarm goes off saying that it is ready to check the test for the results that could possibly change their lives forever. Charlotte is too scared to look so she closes her eyes and asks Coop to look instead.)
(Cooper looks at the results and then closes his eyes and looks down to his feet for about 5 seconds before he lifts his head back up so he is looking right at Charlotte.)
Cooper: (sounds serious) you can open your eyes now Char.
(Charlotte opens her eyes slowly and looks right into Cooper's eyes. He has no expression on his face so Charlotte is trying to figure it out.)
Charlotte: What is it Coop? Just tell me now or... (Gets cut off)
Cooper: It's negative so no baby. (Sounds disappointed) But that was what you were wanting right?
(Charlotte stares at him not being able to say anything and as he turns away, she starts to cry. Cooper hears her crying and immediately turns around starts wiping away her tears that were pouring down her face. He knows Charlotte is not the crying type but to see her upset, it made him feel upset.)
(Cooper pulls Charlotte into a hug sand they hold each other for about 5minutes before she finally speaks)
Charlotte: I'm sorry for crying all over your new shirt!
Cooper: It's washable but you are not! Cry as much as you want but can you tell me why you are? Sorry for asking but I am just a little confused since you just said before that you weren't ready for a baby that's all.
(Charlotte pulled away, grabbed his hands and placed them in hers, and then she looked Cooper in the eyes.)
Charlotte: Coop, I love you and I know how much you want a kid. So to see the look of disappointment in your eyes made me tear up okay?
(Cooper knows Charlotte very well and so he knew that was not the only reason why she was crying.)
Cooper: And?
Charlotte: When I was sitting and we were waiting for the buzzer to go off, it got me thinking.
Cooper: Of what?
Charlotte: Of the time we thought I was pregnant when we were broken up and how I would have called her Marjorie.
Cooper: (sounds surprised) Ohh...
Charlotte: And it then got me thinking about when she's born she will look like her daddy, and have my personality. (Pauses) Then I got thinking to when we take her to pre-school for the first time, how she will not want us to leave her and we would have to tell her it's okay and she will be fine.
Cooper: (sounds surprised) oh you thought quite a lot about it in that short of time.
Charlotte: My mind was racing with what could or may happen with the results. I know I don't share my feelings as much as you would like but I am learning too more thanks to you. I know I say I am scared of my kids not loving me or that I won't love them either but when you said it was a false alarm I felt disappointed and upset.
Cooper: Well maybe that is yourself telling you that you will be a great mom and your kids will love you so much that you will forget me in heartbeat.
(Cooper gives her a cheeky grin and a kiss on the lips)
Charlotte: you are a good man to me Cooper freedman you know that?
(Charlotte stops talking to breathe and realizes Cooper is distracted with the pregnancy box and notices something he didn't see before. Cooper's eyes' grow wider and looks shocked.)
Charlotte: Coop did you hear me?
Cooper: (sounds shocked and yells) OH MY GOD!
Charlotte: (sounds confused) What? What is it Coop? You're scaring me!
Cooper: I read the test wrong...
Charlotte: WHAT? (She snatches it out of Cooper's hands) Give it to me so I can see!
(Charlotte just stares at it in amazement then hits Cooper in the arm but gives him a big smile)
Cooper: WE ARE HAVING A BABY!
(Charlotte sighs and lets Cooper cuddle her while trying to absorb the unexpected news in)
Charlotte: Yes a baby! (Pauses) We are going to have a baby!