Hello again everyone long time no post. I'm back again here with another chapter. It's a little bit of family fun mixed with some serious stuff. Anyway hope you like it.
CG POV
"Birds flyin high, you know how I feel"
"Sun in the sky, you know how I feel"
"Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel"
I sit up in bed and rub the sleep out of my eyes, I can hear the shower running in mine and Ana's shared bathroom. I get up and follow the beat of the music. I reach the door just as the chorus erupts from the speakers on the counter of the bathroom.
"It's a new dawn"
"It's a new day"
"It's a new life"
"For meee,"
I can see my wife slowly shaking her hips to the beat of the music and hear her soft voice as she sings along to the song. I can't help myself, so I strip off all my clothes and get into the shower right behind her. I pull her to my chest and whisper,
"And I'm feelin…...good,"
I feel her giggle in my arms and it's the most amazing sound I've ever heard in my life. I'm glad she seems okay after that fucker hurt her. Which reminds me, he is going to regret ever being born, and I'll have to have a few words with the head of my security about how to handle this. I want him to suffer.
Ana shifts in my arms so that I can see the nasty bruises forming on her face; it just adds fuel to the fire inside me.
"Hey where did you go, you got all tense and you have a faraway look in your eyes," she reaches up a touches my cheek that desperately needs a shave.
"Can we just stay here today? You, me, and Teddy? I need some family TLC, I gotta know that you're all safe and I don't want to suffocate you." I ask her reaching for the shampoo.
"Yeah that sounds pretty good to me, I don't think I'm ready to go back to work anyway. I want to be right here in our little bubble together," I turn her around and run my fingers through her hair soaping it up.
"How are you doing with all of this? I didn't even ask you, would you like to talk to Flynn? I could set something up for you," I ask.
"Maybe, but not right now, I just want to be here with you and Teddy for today," she tells me.
A POV
After Christian and I finish our shower that got a little steamy it's a little after 6:30 in the morning. Christian gets a call from work and they want him in the office ASAP, something about the shipment with the Taiwanese. He apologizes profusely; I just kiss him and tell him to go be master of the universe which he smiles at.
Christian quickly dresses in his suit then peaks my cheek and to tells me to tell Teddy good morning from him, then he is out the door. I go back upstairs to wake up the little one and when I get into his room I am hit with a really bad smell that could curdle milk.
"Ted, time to get up baby," I gentle brush his hair. His eyes pop open and he give me one of his charming baby smiles.
"Hey buddy, do you know what that smell is?" I ask him. He just shakes his head and jumps out of his little bed. I grab him some clothes from the dresser in the corner of the room and give them to him so he can get dressed. I make a mental note to find out what that awful smell is.
Teddy and I have spent most of the morning doing things together. Gail went to her sister's house for a couple of days so Teddy and I made French toast for breakfast. Then we played with his legos for a solid hour. I just put on the Lion King when I get a call from Christian.
"Hey," I say.
"Hey baby, how is your morning?" he asks.
"Good Ted and I made breakfast and played legos, now we are watching the Lion King," I tell him.
"Man I wish I was there for that, again I am so sorry that I got called to the office this morning. But I should be out of here in 10 minutes. I was thinking maybe we could go out on the Grace, we could teach Teddy how to swim and just relax away from everything. How does that sound?"
"Wow, yeah that sounds great, I can even whip up some sandwiches for us to eat when we are out there," I think it would be a great idea to go out on the boat today and have a little family down time. Without hospitals, and crazy bosses, and crazy people who break into apartments.
"Perfect, okay I'll be home in like half an hour, seen you then. Love you," he says.
"Love you to,"
"Laters baby," I laugh then hang up.
"Hey Teddy," he looks up from the screen that has Simba singing "I just want to be king".
"Hey you want to go out on a boat today with Daddy and I?" I ask. His eyes grow wide and his face looks like it's become a bobble head. He starts to jump up and down saying, "Boawt, yes yes, boawt."
"Okay go upstairs so I can get some clothes for you to change into, I'll be up there in a second," he races off towards the stair. I call in Sawyer and tell him that what is up and that Christian is on his way home. I also mention that it might be best if he lays low so that Christian doesn't see him much. I really like Sawyer and I don't want him to lose his job over something that clearly was not his fault.
I head upstairs to Teddy's room and my eyes start to water at the smell. It is definitely getting stronger. I can now smell it in the hallway; I have to figure out what that is before we leave. I get to his room and have to hold my breath it's so bad.
"Okay Ted, we gotta figure out what that smell is," he looks really scared for some reason. He shakes his head furiously at me.
"What is it honey?" I ask walking over to his bed and lifting up the covers to peek underneath. I'm hit with the smell in a more concentrated area and I know that this is where the smell is coming from.
"No Momma," Teddy yells.
"Baby it is okay, whatever is under here I won't be angry okay, I promise," I tell him.
I reach under the bed and feel around for anything that would cause this smell. My hand connects with something slimy I grab onto it and pull it and am confused as to what I am looking at. But then it hits me, its food. It looks like a combination of sliced apples cheese and some cut up bananas. This stuff must have been here for days.
I'm momentarily baffled at this; it's not as if we don't feed him. If anything we may over feed him so that he knows he is going to be feed and doesn't have to worry about it. But then I realize that he must be worried that we could turn out to be bad and withhold food from him to punish him. I also remember that when we took him the hospital he was severely malnourished. He must think that if he hides food then he won't be hungry later if we don't give him anything.
"Baby," I whisper and he starts to cry so I gather him up in my arms and sit in the small rocking chair that is on the opposite side of the bed. He silently cries into my shoulder, I rub soothing circles into his back and I'm surprised he didn't flinch when I did this.
"I promise that you will never go hungry here okay Teddy, never." I say to him. Maybe Ted's problems are deeper than we originally thought. I know that Christian had similar issues when he first started living at the Grey's maybe I could ask Grace for some advice and have Christian talk to Teddy and reassure him.
Teddy is still cling to my neck when I hear Christian's footsteps coming up the stairs. I can hear him grunt and mutter about the smell. He comes into Teddy's room and looks confused to why Teddy is still sniffling and sitting in my lap. I mouth, I'll explain later and he nods.
"What is that smell?" he asks and Teddy's lips start to quiver and I shake my head to Christian. He holds up his hands and walks closer to us.
"Hey Teddy you still want to go on the boat today?" I ask him.
He nods and clings harder to my neck becoming really shy all of a sudden. I get up so that I can set him on the floor again and get his clothes.
"Teddy, Daddy is going to help you get your swim trunks on okay? I'll be right down stairs making us some lunch so we can eat on the boat, sound good?" I ask him. He doesn't say or do anything just looks at me with his red puffy eyes. I ruffle his hair a bit and kiss Christian's cheek saying a quick hello then go to the kitchen to make lunch for all of us.
Christian and Teddy come back down stairs a couple of minutes later and gone is my shy little guy. He is replaced with a goofball that is running around the living room yelling about going on the boat. I look to Christian wondering what happened up there, he just shrugs. It's so strange that Teddy is just as mercurial as Christian sometimes.
"So what happened up there earlier? Why was Ted crying?" Christian asks snagging a piece of celery off the cutting board.
"I'll tell you later, I don't want to ruin an otherwise perfect day." I tell him.
Christian goes to tell Taylor when we are leaving and to call the marina to tell them we are coming. I put the finishing touches on our little boat picnic and Teddy has continued to watch the Lion King while we get ready to leave.
Christian and I change really fast then we are all on our way to the docks. Teddy is over the moon, this is probably the first time he has ever seen the water. I brought my camera so I can capture this first moment in his life.
Taylor pulls up at the marina gates and opens the door for us, he then get the picnic basket that I put the food in and heads out towards the water. Teddy races off towards the water and watches the it lap at the ground. I follow him while Christian goes to get the boat all set up for us.
"Mommy, look!" he squeals pointing at a tadpole that is swimming right next to the shore. I smile at his enthusiasm. Then I hear Christian call us over so that we can get out on the water. We couldn't have picked a more perfect day to do this, there isn't a cloud in the sky and the sun is shining brightly for Seattle.
Christian pulls out of the boat of the dock and we are off speeding into the distance. I pull Teddy close just in case he falls but he squirms to see the water rushing past us. He laughs when water splashes his face and I can't help but laugh as well. I glance back at Christian who is steering the boat and I see that he is staring at us, I can't see his eyes because of his sunglasses, but he looks relaxed and happy.
When Christian drops the anchor Teddy is up and rushing about the boat begging Christian to take him into the water. Finally Christian relents and takes off his shirt and Teddy fallows his lead hoping from one foot to the other impatiently. Christian asks Teddy to wait a second then he disappears into the cabin and quickly comes back out with floaties for Ted.
Finally Christian leads Teddy to the back of the boat where they both climb into the water. I sit on the sidelines and watch my boys play in the water. Teddy seems like he has a real knack for swimming, I think he doesn't even need the floaters on his arms. I laugh so hard at the look on Christians face when Teddy splashes him. Christian picks him up and swirls in around all while Teddy laughs.
Eventually the boys get tired and get out of the water so I get the food all set up. We eat and Teddy tells us how much fun swimming is that he loves it. I tell them they can't go back into the water for at least 30 minutes after eating. So we all go back up to the deck and watch the waves roll into the boat.
After a while I look over and I notice that both Christian and Teddy are curled up on a deck chair, Teddy lying right on Christian's chest. I think about how far we have come in such a short time. A year ago I was graduating college, kind of dating this guy who was into BDSM, and had touching issues. Now I am married to him and we have the most wonderful son. I think if you told Christian and I this a year ago we would both have laughed in your face, but know I don't think I could imagine my life any different. I don't think that I could love either of them anymore then I do.
I smile at the scene in front of me and I pull the camera out of my pocket and snap a quick picture of the pair snuggled up in the chair.
Jack's POV
I stair bitterly at the bars in front of me and cuss that stupid bitch, this is all her fault. She is supposed to be mine; she was the one flaunting what's mine in my face. And that fucking husband of hers, I seething with anger at that asshole. I hear a tap on my bars and I look up to see the cop who has been pushing my buttons all day standing in front of me. What the fuck does he want now?
"Come on Hyde, you have a visitor," he says then opens the doors and hauls me to my feet. I fallow him to the end of the corridor to where the glass windows are. We can only talk to people here; the cop pushes me towards a seat. I stumble a bit and glare up at him but then take my place at the window.
A couple minutes pass and I can hear the familiar click of high heels come towards me. I keep my eyes down so as to please her. I pick up the phone so we can speak.
"You may look at me," she says. I look up to her.
"Mistress," I breathe.
"You had one fucking job and you couldn't even do that. You are pathetic you know that." She hisses into her phone.
"Yes Mistress," I say feeling devastated that I didn't please her.
"I have a better idea on how to ruin them. You know, I heard they have a new brat and they adopted him. It's so gross that I could puke." She says.
"All we have to do is get rid of the brat and he comes crawling back to me," I jerk my eyes to hers.
Get rid of the brat, interesting. I smile and nod, I'm on board for whatever she has planned. Once he is out of the picture I can do whatever I what with what is mine.
Okay all done for this Chapter! What did you think of the end? Anyone got any guess as to what will happen next? Let me now in the comments. Until next time-AJ