Perfection
Chapter Two
Author's Note: Thanks so much to Salama90 and forgottenMisfit for their reviews. Salama, the next chapter includes information about how they got together (sorry I couldn't include any in this one, it was already written) and Misfit, don't worry. It'll have a happy ending. I love Ryan and Taylor together too much for it not to be. Thanks so much for reviewing, and please continue reading!
Disclaimer: I do not possess the luck that would have enabled me to own the OC (or the wealth, for that matter) and thus, I do not claim to own it.
"Ryan!" Seth called loudly as he entered the room, awakening Ryan from his peaceful slumber.
"Hey!" Ryan smiled and got up to greet his mom and brother.
"Congratulations, sweetie." Kirsten said, hugging him. "How's Taylor?"
"Tired." Ryan replied, looking over to the bed where his sleeping wife lay peacefully. Kirsten nodded understandingly.
"Atwood!" Summer bounded in the door followed by Sandy just as Ryan was going to question their whereabouts. Summer was holding a baby carrier, and Sandy was holding another.
"Summer! Sandy!" A voice exclaimed, and everyone turned towards Taylor, who had woken.
"Taylor!" Summer squealed, handing her baby carrier to Seth – who had just come in – and ran over to her friend's bedside.
Taylor struggled to raise the bed so she could sit up, but, still weak from having given birth, she just wasn't able to.
"Ry?" She asked just as Sandy was giving Ryan a congratulatory hug.
Ryan came to his wife's rescue immediately, and he sat down by her bed as the rest of the family pulled chairs up around her.
"Congratulations, sweetie." Kirsten gave her daughter-in-law a kiss on the cheek.
"So," Sandy remarked after a few minutes, "where is this baby?"
"I don't know…" Ryan replied, and his family's eyes widened in alarm.
"You don't know where – " Seth exclaimed, shocked.
"No!" Ryan burst out. "I mean, I know where she is, but I don't know when she's coming back." His fingers drummed on the side of the chair as his heart did a flip at the prospect of seeing his baby girl again.
"You know what?" Kirsten asked. "Let me go check." She left the room in search of Taylor's nurse.
Just then, a cry erupted from one of the baby carriers. Summer immediately jumped up to the baby, picking her up and slowly rubbing her back.
"Come on, sweetie." She cooed. "Come on, Allie. Shhh, come on."
The second baby carrier erupted in a fit of screaming, obviously annoyed that his sister was being held and he wasn't.
"Cohen!" Summer called when the baby continued to wail.
"Shhh." Seth whispered, picking up his son and slowly walking around the room with him. "Shhh, Joey, shhh." The babies quietly immediately.
Ryan and Taylor looked on in wonder, awed and hoping they'd be parents half as good as their best friends. They'd seen this happen many times in the month since the twins' births, but they were still surprised at how little time it took for them to calm down.
Summer and Seth placed their children tenderly in their carriers, and Kirsten returned. Everyone looked to her expectantly.
"The nurse'll be here in a few minutes." Everyone smiled at the prospect of seeing the newest addition to the Cohen clan for the first time.
Ryan beamed with pleasure when he saw the nurse holding his baby girl. Taylor gripped his hand for a moment, and he gave her a reassuring glance and a smile.
"Here you are, Mrs. Atwood." The nurse handed Taylor her daughter and promptly left the room.
"Oh, Taylor, she's gorgeous!" Summer squealed.
Ryan smiled as he watched his family's first glimpse at his daughter.
The baby was slowly passed from Seth to Kirsten to Sandy to Summer, and then to Ryan.
"Hello." Ryan laughed at the way her tiny mouth turned up at the corners as he cooed at her. Suddenly, her eyelids opened, revealing a set of piercing bright blue eyes.
"Tay," Ryan looked from his daughter to his wife, who was involved in a conversation with Summer about schools – schools! Their daughter was only a few hours old! But Taylor had said so herself; she was a planner – for when the kids were older.
"Tay?" He repeated, and she looked over immediately. Seeing her daughter, she drew in a sharp breath.
"Ry, look! Look at her, Ry! She has your eyes!" Taylor let out a giggle, thinking about those eyes she loved so much that were now forever her daughter's as well as her husband's.
Ryan grinned. His daughter was exactly what he would want any child of his and Taylor's to be – a perfect blend of each of them, a child that they would loves as much as each other, a child that would love them equally.
Speechless and in awe at the marvel he was caressing in his arms, Ryan simply stared at his daughter, knowing that she was, along with her mother, all he'd ever wanted, and all he'd ever want for the future.