AUTHORS NOTE: So I'm doing the November writing month thing so you might not get much from me so I'm on a mission to update every story I'm working on today and tomorrow. Wish me luck!

DISCLAIMER: I only own the OC's

[One Step Forward and Two Steps Back]

Jackie woke up that morning to fingertips lazily drawing circles onto her hip, breath being blown through her hair causing her to smile as she rolled over to look at him. "Well if that isn't the most annoying wake up in the world," she teased stroking his cheek and smiling at the roughness of his morning after shadow. He just chuckled before leaning into press a kiss against her lips.

"I'm hoping it's how you'll wake up for the next couple of years," he whispered before sitting up in the bed and stretching. Jackie couldn't help but bite her lip as she watched his muscles move in his back. He turned back to look at her and winked.

"You're a tease," she said sitting up and punching at his shoulder, squealing as he threw his legs over so that he was straddling her, using his weight to push her back down onto the bed and his lips attaching to hers as his hands kept her wrists prisoner.

"I think you'll find a tease is someone that isn't willing to go through with it," he pointed out after breaking the kiss. "I'm totally willing," he said moving one of her hands so that she could feel just how willing that he actually was. "However, we might need to go pick up our disregarded clothes because our surrogate daughter and niece will probably arriving soon and I don't feel like a Stuart lecture at this precise moment in time."

"It wouldn't be you that he lectured," she pointed out before using her own strength to roll them over. She grinned. "And you thought you'd be the stronger one," she said smugly climbing off starting to head towards the toilet but she screamed as he came up behind her and lifted her into the air. She grabbed hold of his arms, her head rolling back to rest next to his as she found herself laughing. "Hey, we're meant to be tidying up for our daughter getting home."

Robbie froze at that moment and placed Jackie on the floor. She turned to look at him, a weird look on her face as she tried to read him. She moved towards him, her hand pressing against his shoulder as she tilted her head to the side slightly. "This is..." He stopped talking.

"Robbie, I didn't mean for that to come out like that but effectively for the next couple of weeks she is our daughter. I understand that you're not into the whole family thing but..."

"Ashlie was pregnant," he admitted quietly and she looked over at him, her arms wrapping around her waist as she found herself trying to process that tiny piece of information. "Not at the time of the accident. It was much nearer at the beginning of our relationship. It was ectopic. I nearly lost her as well as the baby but..."

"Robbie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that you're not a family guy. You've always been fantastic..." she said wondering how come he'd been able to settle so easily with Ashlie where the idea of loving her had been too difficult for him. She smiled. "Does anyone..."

"They all know. I went back to hell when I thought I'd lost Ashlie. God, I'd already lost..." he stopped talking as he looked up at her. "We were fools and this constantly going back into our past isn't going to help us, Jacks." He moved forward and wrapped his arms around her, his lips pressing a kiss to her brow. "I just want you to know that I'm no longer angry and I also know that I'm partially to blame for you running away to London. You needed to be away from me and I suppose I needed the time away from you too." He rested his cheek against hers before whispering, "and to let you know, I was going to chase you but everyone told me to give you a chance."

She pushed away from him, tears falling down her cheeks before she lunged back at him and wrapped her arms around him again. "I love you," she whispered and he smiled before groaning at the sound of Ronan calling their names.

"Stuart is going to kill us," Jackie just burst out laughing before grabbing hold of one of Robbie's shirts and pulling it on before running downstairs to greet the two girls freezing as she saw who was stood behind them.

"Sean?"

TO BE CONTINUED...