2009

A/N: Most of this chapter is taken from 1x23 (And Unto Us, A Child is Born). If it is a line directly from the episode is will be in bold. Also, anytime there is a long line, it means that we are either going back to the past, or back to future (to minimize any confusion).

"Well, I guess the best place to start is the night John was born," Amy started.

"Yea; but first, John, and everyone really, should know that we weren't dating at the time. I got your mom pregnant only a couple days after meeting her, and it's something I felt guilty about for a long time," Ricky sighed. "Also John, your mom was dating Ben," Ricky started to say, but then was cut off.

"Wait, like Uncle Ben?" John asked before turning to his mother, "Ew, Mom, that's sort of disturbing. Not that you are disturbing Uncle Ben, just that fact that you dated my mom."

"Yea, it was a little disturbing," Ricky smiled.

"Ricky!" Amy had a hint of laughter in her voice, "You liked Ben back then, and you like Ben now! But I do admit it was a bit of an odd thing to do when you are having a baby with someone else."

"But let's just get on with the story, shall we?" Ricky asked. And so, the story began.

"Think about your baby Amy, think about your son. I think he's ready. From this point it's all about him," Anne reassured Amy. Amy didn't feel very reassured. How am I supposed to do this? And not just the birth, but the whole raising a baby thing? I mean, I have my parents, but I'm only fifteen! And I have Ben, but he won't be too much of a help. And Ricky…don't even get me started on him. I just don't know what to think about him.

Ricky saw Ben coming from Amy's room and decided to go to talk to him. "Is she almost there?" he asked. Ben nodded, "what does that even mean, almost there?" God, why would Ben even know that? Why would any fifteen year old have to know that? Ricky thought to himself. I can't believe I did something as stupid as this. Amy is a nice girl, and now she has a baby. This is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Ricky continued to discuss how Amy was when Ben realized that he still had the video camera in his hands. Why does he even have a video camera? Isn't that a little creepy? Ben rushed off to hand the camera to George, and Ricky followed. "How is she?" Ricky asked once George was in view.

"She's ok, how are you doing?" George answered.

"Me?"

"Yea DAD, how are you doing?" George responded. 'Dad' Ricky thought to himself. I guess I am going to be a dad. How am I going to be a dad? I didn't even have a real dad…why was I so stupid to do this again? Ricky couldn't stop thinking about how he ruined this girl's life. Amy's life. Amy could have done so much with her life, and now he ruined it. It killed him to just think about it, and yet he couldn't stop thinking about it. And finally, after taking Ben to a seat in the waiting room, all those feelings came out of his mouth. "I just feel so guilty. I can't believe I did this." Ricky felt like he would never be able to feel better, to get over the fact that he made this awful thing happen.

"Did you really feel that bad Dad? I mean, having me wasn't that bad was it?" John remarked.

"Well, yea I did feel pretty bad. I felt awful actually. I mean, bud, until I held you for the first time, I didn't want any part in your life at all. I thought I would be a terrible father, and I thought you would have been raised better by Uncle Ben. And most everyone else thought that too."

"Maybe it was meant to happen. Although I don't think it's meant to happen again," Ben laughed to himself.

"Believe me; It's not going to happen again. The state should make me get a vasectomy or something." Ricky was still distraught by the fact that he could have done something this awful.

"Ricky, you're 16. Maybe one day you'd like to grow up and get married and have some more children." Ben said.

"Of course, Uncle Ben was right about the fact about me growing up and having more children, though at the time I thought that would be pretty impossible." Ricky smiled at his other two children. Leo, a six year old, was sitting in his big brothers lap and Emily, a ten year old, was sitting to the left of John.

Suddenly, Leo turned to face Ben, his godfather. "Uncle Ben, did you know that mommy and daddy were going to have me and Emily?" he asked, with a very serious look on his face.

"No, buddy. But I did think that maybe your dad would want to have more children. But I definitely did not think they would have been with you mom." Ben smiled.

"But why? It would just be silly for them not to be together. Especially since they had a baby!" Leo, being only six, did not understand how the whole "baby" thing really worked out, so he just assumed, as most children do, that you have to be married, or at least together.

Ben looked a bit at a loss for what to say, but finally Amy piped up, "baby, just because people have a child together doesn't mean they absolutely have to be together. Now, where were we in the story?"

After about forty-five minutes, John was born at 11:42 on April 12th. Ricky, as the father of the baby, was invited into the room first. "Do you want to hold him?" Amy asked tiredly.

"Uh, no. Not yet," Ricky answered nervously. He desperately wanted to hold him, but he also wanted this all to be a dream. Why couldn't this have been ten or fifteen years from now? We would have been able to raise him so much better then we will now.

"Ricky, it's ok. You aren't going to drop him or anything. He's fine." Amy reassured him. God, she looks pretty. Wait, what am I saying? Amy's not your type and even if she was, she would NEVER go for you. Once Amy finally persuaded Ricky to—'just hold him for five minutes Ricky! Please at least just try!'—he actually enjoyed himself. He's so small. And so happy to see me. Oh God, I absolutely love him already. He sent Amy a smile—a real smile, not the smirk he carries around in his pocket—and Amy returned it.

"You know, I didn't realize at first, but Anne and George were giving each other knowing looks the whole first time I held him," Ricky said, sending a look their way. "Almost as if they knew that we would be back to the hospital almost eight years later for a very similar ordeal."

"Except that second time wasn't as odd and stressful as the first time. And you were, of course, actually in the room that time." Amy said with a smile.

"That I was," Ricky smiled back, "but that's a story for Emily's graduation." Emily and John smiled at each other.

"If I remember correctly, various other people came over to see Amy and meet John, including Grace, Jack, Adrian, and even Ben. Also, if I remember correctly, John showed his true feelings for Ben on that day." John, knowing the story of how, not matter what Ben did on the first time he met John, John would not stop crying. John had heard it many times, including at his parent's wedding when Ben spoke of how 'even after a couple of hours, John knew that his parents were the ones that should raise him, and I would have to agree.' But, it was a bit embarrassing, as Uncle Ben is one of his favorite people now.

"And I think that's about it," Ricky said.

"Wait, what about the day I came home with John and you came to visit him?" Amy asked.

"Oh right, so on the day Amy and her family brought John home, I came by later to just check to make sure he is still breathing. Yes, even when the kid isn't in a crib about three feet from your bed, you still do that. And it turns out both John and Amy were both sleeping. They both looked so peaceful; I didn't want to wake them up. I was on my way out, when I heard John make a noise. So, being as careful as I could, I picked him and rocked him back and forth. I told him I loved him, because I did—and still do of course—and that's when it really started to sink in that, whether I liked it or not, I was a parent now and I need to do everything I could for my son. So, that was I guess a pretty important moment." Amy snorted, trying not to laugh at the sarcasm. Ricky uses that scene to tell John how much he's loved him since he was little and how he wants to protect him the best he can every time John gets in trouble and all he says is 'I guess it was pretty important'. Liar.

A/N: Well there is chapter 1 (sort of, I don't really count the prologue as Chapter 1)! I know that John's birthday is either February 6th (which makes no sense at all) or March 23rd; I just changed it for the purpose of the story (for ages and such). Also, if anyone has any ideas for what happens when John is 13 and 14 would be greatly appreciated. Also, I have ideas for all the other years, but I am more than open for suggestions or prompts (if you will). And finally, I was thinking of putting up what happens with each year, but then decided to make it a surprise. But, if you review very nicely (and give me good feedback/give me a prompt/give me good constructive criticism (which would be greatly appreciated!)/are nice in general) then I might PM it to you. Thanks!