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One second we are at the table, the next in his office and now we are driving down the Taconic State Parkway toward Manhattan. What just happened, Maia and Christian are talking about how the Westies will regret trying to hit him while in the family home but all I see really is the gun in my hand that I don't want to have. I don't understand what is happening.

"Ana, can you look behind us and see if anyone is following us?" Christian asks.

"Christian I want out of this car, I need air," I cry.

"Air is not a good idea right now, lay down and close your eyes. We'll be in the city in three hours and then everything will be back to normal."

"Daddy, Flynn is on the phone for you," Maia announces.

I lay across the backseat and listen to Christian yell at someone on the phone and Maia give him updates while looking out the back window. Sleep won't grace me with it's presence but I can live with it. Just, no more guns. I don't like that sound.

We pull into a parking garage and Christian takes the gun from Maia and me, I am fully okay with that. He leads us into a back entrance and into a service elevator where he enters two different codes before we start moving, stopping at a tiny little foyer. I follow them in and Maia takes off, Christian leads me into the apartment through one door, down a hall and through another until we are in the kitchen. I sit at the little breakfast nook where Christian brings me a smoothie that he poured from a pitcher in the fridge.

"Drink this and breathe, everything is alright now," Christian smiles.

I rest my head on my hands, eyes closed, once I finish the drink and then more voices filter through the penthouse. Next time I look up I see Noah and Maia at the breakfast bar, Christian in the doorway with his parents and Kate is sitting across from me. When did they all get here? Why do Mr. and Dr. Grey look like they could come over here and slit my throat? Can they really be that mad at me? Of course they can… there were times when I was that mad at me.

"Mia, Luke and all the rugrats will be here in the next ten minutes, how are we setting up sleeping arrangements?" Elliot announces while walking into the room. "Which tiny human are we kicking out of their room?"

"Hey!" Noah and Maia shout.

"Mom and dad will have the guest room with full bath, you and Kate will have Noah's, Noah will goo in Maia's room, Mia and Luke will go in the guest with the hall bath, and the other kids will go where ever they want. Maia I want you will me and you mother though. The screening room and library can sleep all of the rugrats," Christian explained.

"I don't want to sleep in Maia's room!" Noah argued.

"Yeah and I don't want him in my room!"

"Too bad, this is how things need to be right now."

"Dad… is this my fault? For beating their kid up at school?"

"No Bug, we have always had issues with the Westies. None of this is your fault but we all need to work together at this point. No one goes out alone, no one does anything without speaking with me, no one makes any calls and we don't order in. Gail and Taylor are here and if we need something there will get it for us. We are all on lockdown. I am mainly speaking to Anastasia, Maia and Mia will get this talk about five times when she gets here."

"Why are we singling out us?" I ask.

"Because you three never listen," Grace frowns.

The ding of an elevator alerts everyone that the others have arrived and we all move into the living room, well I follow Kate since I have never been in this apartment/penthouse before. In the living room there is a large sectional sofa that could probably fit fifteen people and three 'chairs' that can fit two adults or three children. Grace and Carrick sit on the chair closest to the floor to ceiling windows, the next one sat Elliot and Kate, and the third sat Luke and Mia. Christian and I remained standing while all the kids sat on the sofa. I'm in front of Christian, his arms are around my waist and his chin rests on the top of my head. Christian repeats the little speech from the kitchen three times before conversation moves on, and right into traffic.

"Che cazzo sta facendo di nuovo?" Mia spat.

Now, I am not fluent in italian but I know 'what the fuck' which is 'che cazzo' and with Christian's reaction I figure that it was aimed at me. His grip tightened and he pulled me more to his left away from her. Christian said something in italian and then Luke and Christian were hitting each other while Carrick, Elliot and Taylor attempted to pull them apart. No one stopped until I got clipped by someone's elbow and Maia started shrieking at the top of her lungs. Gail brought me ice and everything calmed down.

"I don't care what you do Luke, but keep Mia in line. you should know that I don't take some things well," Christian growled. "Mia, Mom, Dad; Anastasia is my wife and I don't give a fuck about what your opinions are but she is here and she is not leaving."

We head towards the dining room where Christian sits me on the table and starts to examine my cheek and eye in case there was anything medically that needed to be done.

"I'm sorry about them," Christian muttered.

"I'm not, they have a right to be mad at me," I look at my knotted hands. "I'm surprised your parents didn't go off on me."

"I talked to them before, so… your rules?"

"You don't have to do it Christian, I understand. They're stupid rules and I shouldn't have come up with them. Just forget it."

"Anastasia," His voice notifies me that I shouldn't argue. "I agree to 2, 3, 5 and 7 but the others aren't really possible Kitten. You knew that when you were writing them down but you had to anyway just to piss me off."

I look up at him, the blood rushes to my cheeks as I blush bright red. Then he has the guts to laugh at my guilt and embarrassment, he actually laughs at me! I look down in my childish attempt to hide but his laughter brings even more unwanted attention that lasts a moment when Kate starts to scream.

"Fuck! Christian, she's gone into labor!" Elliot shouts.

"Ewe, mom just peed herself," One of the little boys exclaimed.

I looked at Christian who was as calm as could be, it was as if this happened everyday but there are nine kids in the living room and only two are ours so it does happen more often then not I guess. Wait, Christian said we can't leave so that means she will give birth here. Certainly he will make an exception for childbirth, I mean that would be insane.

"Gail, go get the kit from storage and prep the library for a birth, if she ruins one of those beds it is easily replaceable. Mom, do you want me to bring someone by?" Christian orders.

"Call Erica and then we can do this me and her with help from everyone else here. She can also bring an epidural just in case," Grace answered.

Elliot was already on the phone panicking as if he had never done this before.

"Dad, have Erica bring Jude," the oldest girl, Ava if I remember right, shouted over the mayhem. "Please."

One hour later Kate is on one of the sofa beds in the library surrounded by medical equipment that were just casually in storage here. Currently Erica Greene, the family gynaecologist, was checking her nether area, and so far her labor is progressing fast and she should be able to push soon. The kids were all in the dining room with plates of food in front of them, saying grace and then diving in. Mia came up alongside me and instinctively I flinched.

"Do you want to learn names?" Mia asks.

"Um, sure…" I muttered.

"Thankfully they sat around the table in family sets." She pointed at Kate's kids plus Jude who was next to Ava. "Ava is sixteen, Jacob is fifteen and Matthew is eight; Jude is Ava's fiancé and they start to live together this summer once school is out but they currently sleep at each others houses." She points at the four at the side of the table closest to us, her kids and I remember the oldest one because he was born before I left. "Micah is twelve, Eden is nine and turns ten in August, Jessica turned five in february and Daniel is four. We are due in december, and we are expecting twins."

"Seven kids?" I ask shocked.

"Luke wants a heard and I am here to give him that, plus he thinks that I stay out of more trouble when I'm pregnant and breastfeeding," She says lightly.

We go and sit down in the living room, the two of us not really doing anything of importance right now. She seems more calm and not as angry with me as she was earlier, Christian hands me a glass of white wine when he comes to check on us and Mia a glass of cranberry juice. He is different right now and I can't put my finger on it.

"You would remember some of the older ones," Mia said.

"I remember Ava, Jacob and Micah because they were older then Maia," I pause. "Do Kate and Elliot know if it is a boy or girl?"

"No, they wanted to be surprised this time. Christian sent out for baby gear, he might set them up in the screening room now to sleep in since it is sound proof. I'm excited to see if I have another niece or nephew. Do you think you and Christian?"

It seems like it is a trick question, she said that she keeps having kids because it is what Luke wants so I am supposed to have more kids if Christian wants. At least I think that this is how it works. Little Daniel walks over to Mia not looking very happy, she just picks him up and cuddles him and he is immediately calm. Had I missed out on all that with my kids? Christian was here for it all, I want that opportunity.

"I hope so," I say more to myself.

"Well I know Christian wants more, but he never dated or anything after you left because he wanted more of your kids. Full siblings for Noah and Maia not half-siblings or step-siblings."

"Mia, I never meant to hurt you all this much," I try.

"And is that supposed to make it all better? Ana, we took you in when you had no one and never really asked much from you. We never made you tell us anything, you should have talked to us if things were to hard for you. Christian would have moved mountains to make you happy, you know that."

"It had nothing to do with you guys or Christian, it was all me and I couldn't talk about it then. I don't talk about it really now but I am trying to talk with him now."

"You leave and hurt my brother, my niece and nephew again and I will kill you."

God I wish that she could be lying about that whole kill me thing but I know that she is telling the truth and that frightens me. I chug the wine in my hand and set the glass on the table. There was a very distinct splat come from the dining room, Mia and I shared a confused look.

"Jessica I'm going to kill you!" Ava shrieked.

"I was aiming at Noah!" Jessica squealed.

"What did I do?" Noah asked.

"You're being mean!"

"Ava!" Maia shouted.

Mia and I ran over to the dining room, meeting Christian, Grace and Luke on the way. Maia and Ava are covered in spaghetti and we watch Noah dump his dish on Jessica's head who squeals and giggles.

"Enough!" Christian boomed. "Everyone who is clean go and take your food to the kitchen and finish eating, anyone who threw or dumped food on someone else stay put, if there was an innocent caught in the cross fire you can go and get cleaned up."

Jude and Jacob lead Matthew, Micah, Eden and Daniel through to the kitchen. Maia walks towards me and I follow her to her room to help get all the sauce out of her hair.

Her room is definitely one that shows her affection for dinosaurs from the wall mural to the toys and bedding. It's like I walked into a Jurassic Park storage room. I follow her into the bathroom and the dinosaurs are in here too. She turns on the bath and then looks at me, telling me where to go to find her some clothes which are oddly not kept in her room.

Out of her room, turn right and go to the end of the hall, go into the bathroom and turn left through another door. It is a room the size of my apartment back in Phoenix full of clothes for Maia, Noah and possibly Christian. I find grey skinny jeans, plain orange t-shirt, grey sweater with the Jurassic Park logo on the back, panties and underwear before finding my way back to her room. The family closet explains why her room only had a twin bed, bedside table, desk, chair and toys in it.

She is sitting in the bath when I get back to her, setting her clothes on the vanity I kneel next to her and start to wash her hair, and I keep finding more and more sauce and bits of tomato, meat and seasonings.

"I like this," She smiles at me.

"I do too, so you really love dinosaurs," I beam.

"They're great. The only things I love more are space, volcanoes and tornadoes. But dinosaurs are the top of the top. Uncle Elliot showed me Jurassic Park when I was three and I loved them ever since."

I was five when I saw it the first time and it scared the living hell out of me, god did the babysitter watching me that night regret it for long time. It took forty-five minutes to get all the past and sauce out of her hair, we drain the tube and I help her dry off. She gets dressed while I wait on her bed, the view from her bedroom is incredible. I don't know how she sleeps without wanting to look out over everything. When she walks out she sits by me and curls into my side.

"You have a big bruise on your face," She mutters.

"I know but it doesn't hurt that much."

"It looks bad, why does Aunt Kate sound like she is in so much pain?"

"Have you never been to another birth?"

"No, we were usually in school or asleep when someone was born and everyone else has been born in a hospital not in a house."

I laugh at that, she grabs a puzzle while we leave to see what is happening out with everyone else. Ava, Noah and Jessica are cleaning up the mess while still covered in pasta, all the other kids are in the living room which is where I send Maia so I can find the adults who are all in the Library.

"Kate, on your next contraction I want you to push. You know the routine," Dr. Greene says. "Ready?"

"Elliot I hate you so much right now" Kate screeches.

"I know babe, I love you too," Elliot chuckles, only to be give the death glare. "You can kill me later if it makes you feel better."

"Oh, it will. Thanks."

I go to Christian and curl into his side, I'm still waiting for the next shoe to drop. Something else has to happen today for it to be the day of days. At 19:26 (7:26) little Rachel Exodus Grey was born, five pounds and six ounces. We brought Kate's kids plus Jude into the room and gave them some private family time. Sitting in the living room, on Christian's lap, watching Noah draw and Maia work on a puzzle felt right. This is how we were meant to be.

"I want more," Christian whispered in my ear.

"Okay."

Around ten everyone was finally going to bed. Elliot, Kate and their kids remained in the library except for Ava; Ava and Jude were in Noah's room; Noah was in Maia's; Grace and Carrick in the guest room with full bath; Mia and Luke in the quest with half bath; and then Micah, Maia, Eden, Jessica and Daniel were in the screening room. Christian lead me to the Master suite which was incredible, when I thought that the view from Maia's was amazing I was not expecting that we would be overlooking Central Park. The bathroom was a luxury and there was another closet the size of my bedroom in Phoenix. Christian's office was here, you could only enter it through here and I don't know if I like that now that I am here but I will keep my mouth shut. The huge king side bed was what drew my attention enough for Christian to strip and start to undress me without really noticing until I was on the bed with him hovering over me.

"Are you on birth control?"

"No, there was no need once I moved back here a few months ago. Jose and Jack weren't in control of me."

"Good."

He starts to suckle on my breasts and I forgot what that felt like, normally the guys Jose and Jack made me fuck just went at it once they were ready and it didn't matter if I was. My chest arched into his mouth and hand while his other hand crept down to my core that was already drenched with need. He looked up at me like the cat that caught the canary, then his mouth was on mine with the most passionate kiss to date.

"Fuck!" I breathed when his shaft was fully sheathed in me. "For the love of god Christian, please move. This is killing me."