Henry and I slept in the following morning, loving the feeling of being able to just laze about. There was a difference between being stuck behind a desk for work when you're used to being out in the field, chasing down perpetrators and getting justice for the family and friends of the victims and being able to do it by choice and actually getting the time off to spend with my fiancé and Abe. We lay in each other's arms, Henry's arms wrapped around my waist as he spooned me, both of our hands intertwined and resting on my belly.
"I love this feeling" Henry whispered and I smiled, I loved this feeling too.
I turned around and looked into his eyes seeing the love and devotion that had been there from the very beginning and I felt myself melt, as I did every time I looked in his eyes and saw the look on his face.
"I love you" I said and he kissed me passionately before we slid out of bed, dressing before we made our way into the lounge where Abe was sat in front of his laptop, he looked up and smirked
"Well would you look who decided to get out of bed?" he teased and I giggled, knowing that he was doing it to wind Henry up, and it worked because Henry shot his son a disapproving glare before he made his way into the kitchen to re-heat what Abe had prepared for breakfast. It was on day like this when I really enjoyed the fact that I had been accepted into this family. Lazy days when we got to spend time together as a family where always fun. I'd also learnt that it was never a good thing to verse either man in a game of chess as both of them had whipped my butt doing so.
"So what are you plans for today?" Abe asked and I looked at Henry
"Nothing much. It's our first day off in months and we're meeting Mike, Karen and the boys tonight for dinner" Henry explained and I nodded. All of that was true.
"Why don't we go shopping?" I piped up. Knowing that if it was too much longer I wouldn't be able to last a full day out shopping.
"What are we shopping for?" Henry asked and I looked at him
"Baby stuff. I mean we totally have to get the nursery ready and its not like I'm going to be up to doing very much for long periods of times the further along I get" I explained and Henry nodded
"That sounds like a great idea" Henry said making his way over with the quick breakfast of scrambled eggs he'd made, especially since Abe had already cooked bacon for his own breakfast and made sure that there was enough for ours too. He placed a kiss on top of my head before he sat next to me and we ate our breakfast.
"Would you like to come too Abe?" I asked and he looked up from his laptop and he smiled
"That sounds like a wonderful idea but this is something the two of you need to do together. Besides I have five minutes until the shop opens for the day" he said logging out of his laptop and making his way down to the store, before he left though he turned and said
"Have a fun day shopping" and I smiled.
After cleaning our dishes we made our way down to the car where we decided that the first place we would need to go would be to a hardware store so that we could get some paints for the room which at the moment was a motley grey colour. The discussion in the car was that we would have to give it a base coat to get rid of the grey, which then led to a large discussion about colour schemes for the room. We'd both decided that pink wasn't an option as neither of us liked the colour pink and Henry told me that until recently when babies were born the males would get pink because it showed power and integrity and the females would have blue, so going by that we didn't really want pink. We also decided that blue wasn't what we wanted and decided that we would just have to wait until we were in the store before actually choosing a colour. We spent ten minutes searching for the right colour before I suggested the idea that we did a split thing on the wall where the top half would be crème and the bottom half could be a shade of purple. When Henry pulled me in for a kiss, crashing his lips to mine I knew that he liked the idea. So as we took the paints up to be coloured, Henry and I went to the wallpaper section to try and find the perfect piece of wallpaper for the strip that would break the two colours. We found ones with the alphabet, some with numbers, others with cartoon rocket ships or ballerinas on it but all of them where the wrong shade and would clash with the purple. Until Henry pulled out a roll of wall paper that had a white background on it and different shades of purple butterflies on it and I squealed in delight at the choice. So we grabbed the things we would need to wallpaper and paint the room before heading back to get the paints before taking them up to the counter and paying for them.
Our next stop was a baby store where we decided that we needed to get some furniture for the room and some clothing and the essentials that we would need in the first couple of weeks of our child's birth. It was a lot of decision making and agreeing that what we had picked would be the best thing for our baby. We brought a bassinet that when the baby was born would live in our room until she was old enough to sleep in the crib. The bassinet was a beautiful white colour with white lace sheets and a soft lavender blanket and the crib we had picked out was made of chestnut wood with a beautiful varnish to it, which was the most childproof crib we could find. Especially since Henry enjoyed telling me stories of how Abe used to chew on the crib. We got blankets and sheets for the crib as well. We got a changing station and enough nappies and wipes as well as baby powder to last for at least a month before we had to freak out too much, we also got a couple of dummies and burping clothes because who really wanted to be puked on, and we got a baby bag which would be an essential thing when our baby was on the way. We brought a chest of draws and a toy box, teddy bears and books. My favourite part of this shop though was choosing some clothes for our little girl. We got onesies and booties and with each new item I picked up I gushed at how cute it was. We paid for the trolleys of stuff that we had gotten and somehow we managed to fit it all in the back in the car, especially given that the furniture would be delivered to the apartment during the next couple of days.
When we got home Henry and I had a late lunch before we brought all the stuff inside and put everything apart from the paint in the hallway cupboard which was almost empty anyway. We changed into old clothes before going into the spare room and starting to put on the base paint which would keep us busy until we needed to get ready to have dinner at the Hanson's house. I loved how Henry wouldn't go and paint on an opposite wall, had made sure that we were painting next to each other the whole time which lead to some pretty fun moments where Henry would dip his finger in the paint and put it on my cheek or he would paint his hand and put on a piece of wall that I hadn't yet painted. It was a lot of fun until we were almost finished the last wall and Henry decided that a paint fight was in order and started flicking paint at me, and I was glad that we had put down drop cloths cause that could be horribly tragic. When Abe came upstairs after he'd closed the shop he found us in the middle of a rather intense make out session and covered in what paint. He cleared his throat and we broke apart. I felt my cheeks turn a deep red and looked at Abe sheepishly.
"I see that you made a start on the nursery, by the way missed a spot" he said turning and leaving the room. I looked at Henry and saw that he was somewhat embarrassed about being caught in such an intimate gesture by his son, but I knew that it could've been a lot worse than it was. Henry kissed me one last time before letting me go and shower before we went out tonight, as he stayed behind and finished painting and cleaned up our mess.
I was dressed when Henry came into our bedroom and grabbed his cloths taking them with him into the bathroom so that he could get straight into them after his shower. I made my way out of the room and into the lounge watching as Abe made himself some dinner.
"How was your day Abe?" I asked and he smiled
"It was good. Sold a couple of pieces and acquired a new 18th century diamond ring, 19 karats" he said and I smiled
"Wow I bet that's going to be worth a lot" I said and he nodded
"Depending on the buyer also but yes it could reach up to $30 million at auction, if I've got the number of karats correct, but it's definitely 18th century. Remind me to show it to you later. I have put it downstairs in the safe, since its so valuable and I don't want it get lost or stolen" he said and I nodded. It sounded truly remarkable and I honestly thought that sometimes Abe would need like a gazillion armed guards for some of the pieces he had in his store. Henry came out of the bedroom, dressed and ready to go. He wrapped his arms around my waist and asked
"You ready to go Jo?" and I nodded
"We'll see you later Abe" I said and he looked back at us waving
"See you later, have a good night" he said and Henry nodded
"You too Abraham".
A/N: Hey guys. I am so sorry it took me so long to update, I was trying to find a way to write this chapter after how I left it and also I've been swamped with uni and work as well as theatre. So I truly do apologise. I hope you like this chapter and please tell me what you think!