4 Years Later
Niles stood in the kitchen, packing the leftovers and putting them in the sub zero.
He sighed at the time, barely after lunch, and he still had six more hours before his weekend off, which he was planning on spending with CC and nobody else.
At the thought of her, he felt warm arms wrap around his waist, and brown hair flowed over his shoulder, to where he could smell their enticing scent of strawberries. He smiled and turned around, to look into a pair of cerulean eyes.
CC stood in front of him, smiling at the man she loved.
"I just wanted to say bye, I have to go back to my apartment because Noel and DD are coming over to discuss grandmother's will," Niles could see her eyes darken at the thought of her grandmother, the one and only adult who cared for her when she was a child. The one who would take CC and her siblings to her mansion on the beach.
"Noel says she left me the mansion on Cape Cod that we would go to every summer. I guarantee DD will testify against that one," CC smiled faintly, and looked back up at Niles.
"Love you," she quietly said.
"Love you more than you will ever know," he retorted.
Her lips reached his, and they gave a passionate kiss right there in the kitchen.
Sara walked in moments later and gasped. She quickly smiled though, knowing there was something going on between those two.
She didn't know what to do, so she pretended as if she hadn't seen anything.
"Niles, are there leftovers?" she said, trying not to smile as they pulled apart quickly. CC turned around at the fact that her lipstick was smudged once again. Niles quickly wiped away red lipstick off his lips and headed to the sub zero.
"Yes, Mrs. Sheffield, they are here in the freezer," he looked back at CC, who made a relieved expression. Niles smiled at her and blew a kiss before she left through the back door.
Upstairs the crying of a six month old baby was heard.
Right before Sara left the room, she turned around to Niles.
"Oh, and Niles? You forgot to wipe some off your bottom lip, that shade looks nice on you by the way," she left Niles in the kitchen with his mouth wide open.
9 Months Later
CC sat on the couch with Niles' arm around her in her apartment. Niles had the night off, and decided to spend it with CC. Everyone had learned they were a couple, because of what their nanny in the future would say that Sara is a yenta.
"I can't wait to get married," CC said, laying her head on Niles' chest. He smiled at the shining ring on her finger.
"Neither can I, I love you so much," he said. He leaned down, and her lips met his in a deep kiss, that started to get more passionate by the second.
Niles started to kiss her neck, which he knew made her go crazy.
"Oh, Niles, I love you so much," CC mumbled as she felt his hand go up her t shirt.
she unbuttoned his green button up t shirt, and wrapped her arms around his warm skin.
"Oh, CC, I can't wait no longer," he mumbled, pulling her shirt over her head, and she did the same to him.
"Neither can I," she replied, she looked into his deep blue eyes that matched hers. She couldn't resist any more, they were getting married in a year, why wait.
"Make love to me, Niles," she whispered, barely audible to his ears.
2 Months Later
CC walked into the mansion to be greeted by her fiance. Her face was unusually pale, and her face was filled with worry. Niles immediately knew something was wrong.
"Love, what is the matter?" Niles put his hand on her back, and walked her to the couch.
CC looked him in the eyes, hers tearing up. She wasn't sure if she was happy or scared or worried or mad or what. She didn't know what to think.
"Niles, I think I'm pregnant," she said. She saw his expression change, an expression she'd never seen on his face: unreadable.
"W-What?" was all Niles could muster from the shock.
CC held his face with both hands, her eyes looking into his.
"Niles, I think we're having a baby," she said, slowly and calmly. She quickly stood up and put her hand to her stomach, suddenly feeling sick. What if he didn't want the baby? What would she do?
"Where's Maxwell?" she said weakly. Niles quickly got up and held her steady.
"He's not here, Love. The kids are at Sara's Parents' house, they went out for the night," he looked at her, and saw how scared she was. He cupped her face in his hands.
"We're going to get through this. It's no big deal, we're getting married," Niles saw her expression change to anger.
She pulled away from him.
"It's no big deal? I'm going to be the size of a blimp! I don't even know how to take care of a kid, let alone give birth to one! I'm not cut out to be a mother!" she looked at him, and saw his face.
Niles looked at her.
"Are you saying you don't want it? You didn't even want a kid in the first place?" he looked at her, breathing hard.
"I don't know! I'm not sure, I'm not ready to be pregnant, I don't want a baby right now!" she was yelling now, not paying attention to what she was really saying.
"How would I fit into my wedding dress? I don't want a kid! They told me when I was sixteen that I was infertile, I couldn't have kids! I planned my whole entire life around not having kids! This thing will ruin me!" tears were streaming from her eyes.
Niles looked at her like she had two heads.
"What is wrong with you? Who wouldn't want to have kids? I wanted kids, and I think I'm ready for this one!" he pointed to her stomach for emphasis.
CC was crying now,
"What's wrong with me? If something is wrong with me, then take this!" she took off her ring, and threw it on the couch. She grabbed her coat, and left the house. Niles stood there, not knowing what to do, by the time he went out to get the car, her BMW was gone, and so was she.
1 Week Later
CC looked at the piece of plastic in her hand.
"Pink. I'm not pregnant," she sighed and looked out of the ceiling to floor windows of the mansion to see the ocean before her in Cape Cod.
She sat down on the sofa, still looking out of the window at the large dunes in the sand. She pulled a small box out of her purse, and went to the bathroom. She looked into the mirror the see her unnatural brown hair, halfway down her back.
She looked at a picture on the wall of when she was twelve, her blonde hair in braids as she hugged her older brother and sister.
"That's it," she said as she got the contents out of the box, and started to comb her hair.
Two hours later, she emerged from the bathroom, her brown hair gone, replaced with blonde hair. She looked in the mirror in the kitchen and smiled. It had been eight years since she had her natural blonde hair,and she never realized how much she missed it until it was real again.
"One more thing," she said. She grabbed a pair of scissors from the drawer, and ran back into the bathroom.
Ten minutes later, her hair was perfectly cut to shoulder length blonde hair just like it was when she was thirteen. She smiled in the mirror,
this was the new CC Babcock.
3 Months Later
Niles had called, Maxwell had called, Sara had called. Nobody could find CC. Niles was constantly worried sick, not sure if she was for sure pregnant with his child or not.
"She would be five months pregnant, sir," Niles said as he looked out the window of the towncar. He was headed to drop Maxwell off at the theater, and he was planning on getting coffee to drown his worries. CC was strong, smart, he knew she would come back when she was ready.
After dropping Maxwell off at the theater, he drove around Manhattan for quite some time before sighting a nice looking coffee shop on Fifth Avenue. He easily parked the towncar, and walked into the entrance.
CC sat down, the aroma smelling so good. It had been three months since she had been in New York, and she was glad to get a break from the beach for a while. She held the coffee in her hands as it warmed them from the bitter weather outside. She needed to head back to her penthouse when she was finished, then, maybe she would have to guts to go to the mansion.
She froze when she heard the familiar voice, and slowly turned around to see her fiance, ordering a latte.
What are you thinking? He's not your fiance anymore CC! He won't recognize me with my hair, hopefully. She thought, she quickly turned back around when he looked her direction.
He walked over to a table across from her.
Niles silently sipped his latte, looking at the nice, warm decorations around the room, when his eyes set on a woman across the room. He couldn't see her face, thanks to her golden shimmering hair, but she looked just like the woman he loved. The way she sat, how she read the newspaper in front of her, and he felt that familiar attraction that only CC gave him, that attraction he hadn't felt in three months.
He pretended to get some more creamer, even though he had a latte, at the creamer station by her table.
He caught a quick glimpse of her and almost froze. It was her. He knew it was her. No other woman in New York had those azure blue eyes like she did, no other woman in New York had that milky white skin she had. He knew it was CC.
She had a horrible urge to look at him, she knew he was looking at her. But she was afraid, the love of her life was standing less than fifteen feet from her and she was afraid.
"CC?" Niles slowly said.
She didn't know what to do, so she quickly got up and grabbed her purse, and started for the exit. Niles wasn't going to quit that easily, it was her.
He dropped the creamers and ran out after her, not caring who was watching him. He could see her golden hair shining in the wind as she blew past people, and finally, he grabbed her shoulder and pulled her to stop.
He turned her around. He had never seen her look so beautiful. Not the time she rung the doorbell, or the first time she said 'I love you', or the times she kissed him, or even the time she told him she was carrying his child.
"CC, why did you leave?" he asked, he lifted her chin up, and looked at her. His other hand felt her short blonde hair that he had never seen before.
"I don't want to hear it...butler boy," she said bitterly. Niles stepped back, her eyes boring into his. He had never seen her like this before. He looked down at her body, to see her slim waist still in tact.
"Your not pregnant?" he said, grabbing her around the waist. She immediatly pulled away.
"Does it look like I'm pregnant?" her eyes were filled with hate.
"CC?" Niles said.
"Don't call me that anymore," she said, not meeting his eyes, "it's Ms. Babcock to you, Hazel,"
His expression broke her heart, but it was for the best.
"Take me back to the mansion, I have to sign some contracts for some investors," she started to walk back to the towncar, and Niles watched her every move.
5 Years Later
"Maxwell, I'm being taken out tonight, so I won't be going to the party at the Steinbrough's house," CC walked to the entry way to get her jacket.
"I'll open the drapes to give the gunman a clear shot," Niles said as he opened the door.
CC glared at him, her eyes piercing into his.
"Shut up, Rochester," she said, slipping her jacket over her arms.
Niles watched as she walked out of the house.
"Niles? What's the matta?" Fran Fine asked as she walked down the stairs to the foyer to see Niles looking out the window gloomily.
"Oh, nothing Ms Fine, I'm just not having good day is all," he said, headed back towards the kitchen, not getting his ex-fiance out of his head.