The long awaited sequel to "If You're Not Happy, Just Leave!" It might be beneficial to read that before you read this, although I will try and summarize as best as I can. I hope you like it. Please review and let me know what you think.
*4 months ago*
It was 7:30 at night. Spencer rocked eight month old Ava in the nursery. Ava was Spencer's 10th child. The 9th that she'd had with Toby. She had never planned on having that many. Her oldest Arabella had been the only silver lining to a terribly abusive marriage. Toby had gotten her pregnant twice with twins during their affair during her marriage. First there was Emma and Ella, born 2.5 years into her marriage. It would take 3 years but the birth of the twins solidified the fact that Spencer needed to get away from her husband. Toby insisted whenever he could that Spencer leave her husband. He'd even gone so far as to threaten to tell him about their affair from time to time. Spencer was carrying the second set of twins Landon and Logan when her marriage blew up. It took over a year to get settled and before Toby and Spencer knew it they were married with bundle of joy #6 Jacob on the way. After Jacob they agreed no more kids. Six was enough. Toby had been swamped with work and Spencer was in school working toward becoming a drug/alcohol/abuse counselor. Her parents and friends had been very helpful with the kids. After she graduated Spencer had finally made an appointment with her doctor to have her tubes tied because she and Toby both hated using condoms, only to find that she was pregnant yet again. Toby had said it was a sign. Toby loved the kids and loved seeing her pregnant, she suspected it was really the crazy yummy meals she made or that Spencer let him baby her that he really loved. On a rainy day in March Spencer gave birth to Olivia, baby number seven. After six months Spencer was pregnant again with Carter. Eight was enough they said once again. Three months after Carter was born Spencer's parents surprised them by taking the kids to Disney World and organizing a second honeymoon to Hawaii for Toby and Spencer. Two weeks after they got back from Hawaii Spencer found out she'd brought back an unexpected souvenir. Three kids in three years had been rough on them on top of the rest of the brood. They were just getting into a good groove again when Spencer's "stomach flu" turned into baby #10 Ava. Don't get the wrong idea. She loved her children very much. She loved her husband and everything about her life very much and if Toby impregnated her 5 more times she'd love them too. She was tired though. Toby had built a home office for them when he built the new house, and Spencer had been seeing patients since she got her degree on top of raising her and Toby's children barely taking any maternity leave for herself after her kids were born. Against Spencer's wishes Toby had hired a nanny after Olivia was born. Rosa, a 45 year old Mexican woman, had been with them ever since. Spencer of course insisted on doing most of the mothering herself so Rosa was more of a household manager.
Spencer rubbed Ava's hair. It was practically blonde right now but all the children had had lighter hair in the beginning. She had her Daddy's baby blues. She could sense Toby standing in the doorway watching her.
"Where are the other kids?" Spencer asked marveling at how quiet the house was.
"Will, Carter, and Livy are asleep, Jacob, Landon, and Logan are watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Emma, Ella, and Arabella are in the den studying. At 10, Spencer and Toby having put the three older boys to bed, entered the den.
"Ok girls it's time for bed" Spencer said. Emma and Ella went upstairs. Arabella followed Spencer into the kitchen. Spencer pulled a pill bottle out from the cupboard above the fridge. She gave Arabella two pills, putting the bottle back.
"Ahhh" Arabella said sticking out her tongue to show Spencer she'd swallowed them both. Spencer then followed Arabella into her bedroom. She closed the shutters over her windows locking them with a padlock.
"Sleep tight my little angel" Spencer said kissing her goodnight. Spencer closed Arabella's door locking it on the outside. With all the kids in bed she walked down the hall to the bedroom she shared with Toby. Toby cuddled her close.
"I think I fall more in love with you everyday" Toby said kissing her lips.
"I love everything about you" she replied "even the fact that you seem to be able to impregnate me just by touching me."
He nuzzled her back as they spooned and soon the fell asleep.
Spencer woke up the next morning and looked at the clock it was 4:47am.
"Toby, Toby!" She said lightly shaking him. "Wake up, there's time for sex"
"Hmm" he mumbled half asleep. She decided to wake him up in a more enjoyable way. She pushed the blankets down as she began to suck his balls.
"Baby!" he cried. Another minute and Toby was completely awake and ready for action. They made love slowly. It amazes both of them that after a combined 19 years together and 10 babies they are still as hot for each other as they have ever been. Spencer grabbed onto the pillows tightly as Toby brought her to orgasm. Spencer got up from bed and threw on a robe. She woke up Arabella and Emma and Ella. Spencer and Toby jumped into the shower where they had sex again.
*2 months ago*
Toby was hard at work. He'd worked his way up in the police system and was know a very important detective. He was working on the paperwork for a case he'd just finished. His assistant Leslie knocked on the door.
"Mr. Cavanaugh, I know you're really busy but your nanny called and said the kids are okay but there was an incident with one of your wife's patients, there was a struggle, she wasn't hurt too bad but the medics took her to Memorial Hospital." She said in one breath. Toby clocked out early and rushed over to the hospital. He found Spencer with a brace on her wrist and a small cut on her head.
"Spence, what happened?" Toby asked.
"My patients angry ex-husband, he showed up demanding to know where she is" she said wincing as she moved "I of course wouldn't tell him and he got a little physical, Rosa called the police."
Toby was already on the phone.
"What's his name?"
"Baby, I'm fine" she said "I'm just waiting for the doctor to come give me my discharge paperwork, really"
"If you don't tell me I'm just going to look up the official report" Toby said.
"Carl Wilson" Spencer said sighing loudly. Toby was such a cop sometimes.
"Yeah" he barked into the phone. "Have you got Carl Wilson in custody?" He asked.
"Good put him in an interrogation room, I'll be back shortly" he barked. "Who took the report? I want to talk to him"
Spencer gave him a look that he'd come to see a lot of it was her "you're being an overzealous cop" look. He stroked her cheek, kissing her head.
"Ramirez!" He barked once again. It amazed her how he could be so gentle with her and the kids in his personal life and so rough in his professional life. "You want to tell me how my wife gets attacked in our home and I only find out about it because my nanny called my secretary?"
"Well you better figure it out before I get back there or you'll be on grunt work for a month!" He hung up the phone without another word. Spencer put the full force of her big doe eyes on him.
"What?" He asked.
"He was really nice to me" Spencer said pouting.
"So what I should have given him a gold star? What if you'd been seriously hurt? What if he'd hurt Rosa too and she couldn't have called me? I would've been at work until I got a phone call wanting to know why our children weren't picked up from school." He ranted.
"I'm sorry, you're right" she said. She very rarely won fights with Toby when it came to his job.
"Doctor, thank god, I'm so ready to get out of here" she said practically jumping off the bed when the doctor entered.
"Spencer, I'm afraid we can't let you leave just yet" he said.
"Why?!" Spencer cried getting back in bed. "The nurse said everything was fine you just had to sign my discharge papers."
"Yes, well we got the results of your blood work back and you have an extremely high level of HCG in your blood. I've ordered an ultrasound." He said.
"HCG?" Spencer asked "are you saying I'm pregnant?"
"That's the hope" he said "the only other reason your levels would be this elevated is if you have cancer" he said.
A few minutes later a woman came in with the ultrasound machine. Spencer lifted her shirt up. She'd been through so many ultrasounds she was pretty sure she could give herself one in her sleep.
"Okay" the technician said cheerfully "let's see if there's a baby in there"
Toby smiled as Spencer rolled her eyes when the tech wasn't looking.
"That explains it" she said cheerfully. "You're having twins" she said showing them the image.
"I'll print you out a picture" she said. Spencer burst into tears. Toby hugged her trying to shush her cries. The techs smile faded.
"Don't worry dear" she said. "Twins sounds overwhelming now, but it really won't be so bad"
"That will be all Sasha" a doctor said entering the room.
"Dr. Wright" Spencer cried.
"Hi, sweetie" she said giving her a sympathetic look and placing a hand on her shoulder. "Man that refuses to get a vasectomy" she said acknowledging Toby. Toby gave a half smile knowing she meant it affectionately.
Dr. Wright had delivered all ten of Spencer's babies and had done the paternity tests on both sets of twins she'd conceived during her affair with Toby while she was still married. She was more like a family friend than a doctor. They sent her a Christmas card every year and she sent birthday cards to each child. She'd been invited to their wedding and major family get-togethers. Spencer adored her, probably because she'd been there from the beginning. She knew the awful truth about her marriage from the first exam, Spencer had pleaded with her not to tell, it didn't make any difference because she was already married to the monster. She'd kept her secret. Then when Spencer found love in the arms of another man she kept that a secret too. In a way she was more of a best friend than anyone else could be.
"Well looks like we're going to have two more bundles of joy" she said looking at the ultrasound. "They both look healthy"
"Dr. Wright, after the twins are born, I want to get my tubes tied." Spencer said pleading.
Dr. Wright nodded. She took a seat next to Spencer's bed.
"Spencer, we've had this discussion before" she sighed. "I can't do a tubal ligation until six weeks after delivery, it will be too much of a shock to your system, especially after having twins"
Spencer was crying again. She nodded.
"I know" she sobbed. "As soon as possible?"
Dr. Wright agreed but they had said the same thing after Jacob, Olivia, Carter, Will and Ava.
"Can I please go home" she sobbed.
"Of course dear" she said.
Toby and Spencer drove home in silence. She rubbed her belly. Toby knew from experience that she needed time to process. They picked up the Landon, Logan, Jacob and Olivia from the elementary school. Alison said she'd bring Arabella and the twins home after cheerleading practice. Arabella was captain. Ella sat on the bleachers and prayed someone would quit or break something. Emma sat on the bleachers doing her homework. When they got home Spencer went straight to their bedroom to lay down. Toby called Veronica to come over. He told Rosa to order pizza for dinner for everyone, that he had to go back to work for a quick bit.
He walked into the interrogation room cool as a cucumber.
"Hey Carl" as if he and Carl were best buds. "You want to tell me what happened today"
"My wife left me, and I just wanted to see her" he explained "I thought I could get her to take me back, I didn't mean to hurt that pretty little therapist, I just got so angry"
Toby could see right through his act after all his years on the job.
"You were just angry" he agreed sympathetically. "I know how you feel, sometimes us husbands we get angry"
"You married?" He asked.
"Yeah" he said " and my wife is such a pill sometimes, you know sometimes I just..." He trailed off.
"You gotta slap her around, that's the way it was with me and Maggie!" He said "I had to keep her in line, and boy did she behave afterwards."
"I'll bet" Toby said knowing he'd confessed to everything on tape.
"You slap your woman around?" he asked in an assuming tone.
"No, I've never laid a hand on her" Toby said.
"What about what you said about being an angry husband?" He asked.
"I am an angry husband" Toby said yanking him up out of his chair and pushing him against the wall. "That pretty little therapist is my wife, my pregnant wife!"
Ramirez came in then and read him his rights before handcuffing him and taking him to be booked. Twenty minutes later Toby pulled into the driveway. He walked through the door the noise hitting him like a wall. Arabella was on her phone talking to one of her friends. Emma and Ella were fighting over a magazine. Landon and Logan were fighting over who was the best superhero, Jacob was throwing his 2 cents in even though they weren't listening to him. Olivia was refusing to eat the pizza in front of her Carter had his pizza on his head and Will was running around the kitchen with no pants or underwear on. Rosa was trying to feed Ava while arguing with Olivia. Toby reached into his pocket and pulled out his whistle that he used for precisely this type of occasion. He blew it and all eyes turned on him.
"Daddy!" Olivia yelled jumping from her seat at the table and running to him.
"Jessica I'll have to call you back" Arabella said hanging up her phone.
"Where's mom?" Emma asked setting off a chorus.
"Mom, is taking a break" he said "mom had a very rough day and so did Rosa" he said glaring at them. They had taken advantage of the fact that Spencer was resting and he was working.
"Rosa you may have the rest of the night off" he said.
"Eat young lady!" He said putting Olivia back on her seat in front of her uneaten pizza.
"Arabella, you're in charge of making sure Olivia eats her pizza and cleaning Ava up. Emma and Ella you're on dish duty. Landon and Logan you're going to clean up the living room. Jacob you're going to sweep the kitchen. Toby scooped up Will with one arm and Carter with the other.
"I will be bathing the monsters" he said as he hauled them upstairs.
Everyone went to work. They were like a little army that way. By the time he'd bathed the boys, got them into pajamas, and put them in bed, Arabella had bathed Ava and Olivia and was rocking Ava to sleep as she read "Sleeping Beauty" to Olivia.
"We're done" he heard the older boys say to Emma and Ella.
"Are your rooms clean?" Ella asked. They grumbled as they went to their rooms.
Toby took Ava from Arabella.
"I want to talk to you downstairs" he said. He peeked his head into Emma and Ella's room.
"I want to talk to you downstairs" he repeated. He ushered the three downstairs.
"I'm very disappointed in you three" he said as he sat Ava in her bouncy seat. "You three are the oldest, you have to set an example and help out around here."
They looked down at the ground.
"You know better than to just ignore that the younger set is wreaking havoc, especially when poor Rosa is here all by herself" he sighed "your mother and I are going to need some help around here"
"What's wrong with mom?" Emma asked.
"She's tired" Toby said.
"Why is grandma here?" Ella asked.
"So she can take care of mom" Toby said.
*meanwhile*
"It's not his fault" Spencer told her mother. "We're just so crazy about each other, we can't keep our hands off each other"
She shook her head.
"Two more kids" she said.
"Well you have 10, what's two more?" Her mother joked.
When he'd gotten all the kids to bed, he finally came to his room. Spencer was curled up in a ball. Toby showed Veronica out. He climbed into bed with Spencer as he spooned her. He kissed her back. She reached up behind her to grab a fistful of hair.
"I love you" he whispered in her ear.
"I love you too" she said taking his hand and placing it on her belly underneath hers. He was never happier than when he was holding Spencer.
"It's going to be okay, baby" Toby said softly not even sure if she was awake. "I'll always find a way to take care of you"
This is I think the longest chapter I've ever written. Please share your thoughts on what you think of it so far.
