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Chapter 10.
*TESSA'S P.O.V.*
"You saw Robert hit your mommy?" I carefully ask Lucy, just to make sure I heard her right.
"Uh-hu, Jackie and me. My back was hurting me, so Jackie and me were looking for mommy and daddy. Jackie heard mommy and I runned to her, but then I saw Robert swap her, and I runned away to find daddy." She explains. Oh the poor thing! She's probably scarred for life. I can't believe Robert would go as far as hitting Clary, especially when she's pregnant.
"Sweetheart, now that I know this, I'll make sure he leaves your mommy alone, I promise. You must be so scared." I say, brushing her hair out of her face. She frowns and nods.
"You pwomise you no let him hurt my mommy?" She asks.
"Promise." I quietly say, kissing her forehead.
"I tired, I go to bed?" She asks.
"Of course Lucy Lou, let's go."I say.
A while later both Lucy and Jack are sound asleep, and the house is quiet once again.
"They're quiet the handful, aren't they?" Jem smiles, sitting down beside me. I smile back at him and say
"They certainly are, but they're no trouble at all at the same time."I say.
"That they are not, they're just two balls of energy." Jem says, the smile never falling from his lips. He seems so happy around children.
"That's exactly how to describe them. They've worn me out." I say, moving closer to Jem and placing my head on his chest and linking my hand with his. He softly kisses the top of my head and says
"And me, I could sleep right here." He says.
"As could I." I reply.
"Lucy's back pains are getting more frequent, maybe we should say it to Clary and Jace to get her checked out."Jem says. Lucy's always had back pains, and Clary and Jace did take her to a doctor, but he just dismissed it as growing pains. At first it made sense, but now they're becoming more frequent, it doesn't seem to be growing pains.
"Yeah, I'll say it to them tomorrow." I say.
"Tess, do you think I'd be a good father?" Jem quietly and suddenly asks. He would be an amazing father, any child we do have would be the luckiest little baby, to have him as a father.
"You would be astounding, you're so good to all the kids, I can really see you as a father." I say. Jem is quiet for a while and says
"And... I would love to see you pregnant with my child." He's asked me before if we could have a child, but when I reached my decision I only quietly said it while he was sleeping.
"James, I would love to have a child with you." I say. His face lights up like I've never seen before.
"Oh Tessa really? If you don't want to, we really don't have to..." He says. I push myself up and kiss him softly.
"I want to have a baby with you James Carstairs." He holds me tightly and says
"I love you so much Tessa Gray, thank you, for making every moment of those one hundred and forty five years, bearable, just by being there." He says, referring to when he was in the brother hood.
"How do you like the sound of practicing for when we start trying for a baby?" I quietly say, completely breaking character. Jem looks at me wide-eyed, but smiles broadly and captures my lips with his.
A few minutes later, we start to make our way to the bedroom, only to be stopped by Lucy standing in the doorway to the living room.
"Hey Luc, what are you doing up?" Jem asks. She sniffles and says
"My back hurt Uncle Jem, make it go away!" She says. Oh the poor thing.
"Oh sweetheart, I'm sorry I don't have any medicine, but would you like it if I lay beside you and rubbed your back for you?" He gently asks, walking over to Lucy and going down to her level. She nods and wipes her tears away.
"Yes pwease. wove you Uncle Jem." She says. She is just the sweetest girl.
"I love you too Lucy Lou." He says.
*CLARY'S P.O.V.*
"Can you feel him?" I quietly asks Abbey, who is sitting on my lap with her hand on my bump, trying to feel Max kick.
"Uh-hu, he's strong." She says.
"He certainly is." I say.
"How come you don't come over lots, anymore?" She asks. Before I got pregnant with Max, I would go over to mom and dad's to see them and Abbey, nearly every day, but since my pregnancy got complicated I haven't been able to do so.
"Well because I feel really sick a lot, because Max is in my tummy, and the doctor said I should stay at home when I feel sick." I explain.
"I miss you lots." She says.
"I miss you too Abbey, but you can come over anytime, Jace will go over and get you, or mommy or daddy will take you over here." I say. Before Abbey can respond, I feel a crippling pain in my stomach, right in my womb. I gasp, and clutch my lower abdomen and try to keep calm.
"Clary, you okay?" Abbey asks. I take a deep breath hoping to ease the pain a bit, and say
"Oh god, Abbey I need you to be a really big girl and get daddy and Jace for me, okay?" I ask. Abbey nods and jumps down from my lap.
A few minutes later, dad comes in with Jace close behind him.
"Clary, what's wrong, are you okay?" Jace asks, kneeling beside me. I look at him with fear and say
"I'm getting really bad cramps, right in my womb, I had bearable cramps with Jack and Lucy, but these are really bad." I quietly say.
"Okay, let's get to the hospital."He says, helping me up.
"Clary, I wanna come with you!" Abbey says. I don't mind her coming, if things get too serious dad can take her home.
"If it's okay with daddy." I say. Abbey turns to him and says
"Please daddy, I promise I'll be really good!"
"I don't know Abbey..." Dad says.
"Please! I promise I'll eat all my dinner and go to bed when you tell me!" She says, pleading him with her eyes.
"... Fine." Dad says, unable to argue further.
*At the hospital*
"Abbey, I think you and I should wait outside." Dad says. Jace, dad, Abbey and I are in an ultrasound room, waiting for a nurse to come perform the ultrasound.
"No daddy! Clary said it okay if I stay!" She says.
"It really is okay, she's not going to do anything and it won't frighten her, right Abbey?" Jace says.
"Yeah!" Abbey says.
"Okay, I won't argue anymore." Dad says.
*Five minutes later*
"Everything's perfectly fine, the pains you experienced were growing pains, you're womb is really expanding and moving up and out of your pelvis, to accommodate your baby."The nurse says. Oh thank god Max is okay.
"Thank god." Jace whispers, kissing my forehead.
The nurse smiles at Abbey and says
"Looks like your little brother is perfectly fine." She says, mistaking her for mine. That always happens, no matter where I go with Abbey, people always assume she's mine.
"She's my sister." I say, smiling at Abbey.
"Oh I'm sorry; you two just look so alike." She says. Abbey lets out small laugh but then turns bright red when she realizes the attention she's getting, and hides behind dad's leg.
"It's alright, happens all the time."I say.
*Alli's P.O.V.*
"I thought you loved clothes and fashion, Alli." John says. Before I got pregnant with Will, I had plans to go to college and study fashion and design, and go on to be a costume designer for theatre, but I couldn't do that while pregnant and now I'm pregnant again, but I'm only eighteen so I have plenty of time to do what I want.
"I do."I say.
"Then why are you wearing those horrible baggy jumpers lately? No offense." He says.
"None taken. I actually agreed to be a surrogate for Magnus and Alec, and I'm almost four months pregnant." I say. It's not until I say that I realize I wasn't suppose to say a word about my pregnancy to anyone Jordan was close to.
I look to Jordan and see nothing but pure anger in his eyes.
"Uh, John I think we should go talk in private for a moment." Maia says, dragging John out by the arm.
The moment they leave, Jordan grips my forearm so tight I gasp in pain.
"You are going to regret that you stupid little girl." He says, tightening his grip on me.
"Jordan please, the baby." I say.
"You should've thought about the baby you're carrying before you embarrassed me like that. Go home, I deal with you later." He says.
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