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21 Time for us

The next two weeks after my birthday had been quite busy and also a bit tough. We've been chasing after another serial killer and finally we caught him today. Stella had gone home after we caught and arrested that guy. I wanted to finish the last things on the report for Sinclair and she had been okay with it. It was Friday and I knew that Sinclair would ask for the report on Monday and so I finished it right after the case was closed.

Now I was in the elevator in our apartment building and was waiting to arrive at the 4th floor where we lived. When the door to the elevator opened I stepped out of it and went to the door. Knowing that our personal life had suffered from the last 2 weeks I decided to take the weekend off and to make Sinclair putting Stella of the schedule, too. And He did. I had bought something for her earlier this day, when she wasn't near me. On my way home I had also bought a bouquet of roses for her. Red ones of course. 50 red roses and I knew she knew what that means. I opened the door to our apartment. I heard soft music coming from the living room. The music was quiet and besides the music the apartment was quiet. Carefully I set down the roses on the commode in the corridor and pulled my coat off. Then I picked up the roses again.

"I'm home, Stell!" I said as I entered the living room.

"I know. I heard you…" she said from behind me. I didn't even notice that she was standing behind me when I stood in the doorway of the living room. I turned around with a smile. She smiled back and then she wrapped her arms around my waist and kissed me, before pulling away again. Of course she looked at the roses in my hands and I smiled again.

"I know that our personal life suffered from the last 2 weeks… so… I thought I'd make it up to you." I said and handed her the roses. She took them with a happy smile.

"Sometimes our life is quite busy, hu? Thank you, sweetheart." She said, still smiling and then kissing me again.

"I should get them a vase and some water. I'll be right back." She said and rushed into the kitchen only to come back a few minutes later and setting the roses on the table in our dinette.

"Do you know that you look beautiful in your nightie?" I said with a smile.

"Now that you said it." She teased.

"But I have something else for you." I said and pulled a small blue box out of the pocket of my suit jacket.

"Awww… I love these boxes." She said with a happy smile.

"I know, that's why I bought you one."

I gave her the box and she sat down on the couch with it and I pulled of my suit jacket and laid it over the backrest of the arm chair and sat down next to her. She opened the ribbons of the box and then the box itself. I could see on her face that she loved what I bought her. It were the earrings Stella had been looking at when we where at Tiffany's for asking the employees about Jenny Barns. I had decided to buy them for her when I had seen her looking at them. Now I figured was the right time to do so. She deserved it. She deserved everything.

It were golden drop earrings, with a yellow quartz stone at the end. To me this stone looked more green than yellow but Tiffany's said it's called yellow quartz. I didn't really care about that, because the only thing that was important was that it will look good on Stella.

"How did you know that I liked them?" she asked me with a happy smile.

"I saw it when you looked at them."

"I love them, Mac. Thank you!"

I just couldn't get enough of seeing my beloved wife smiling happily and just being happy. I just smiled at her. She set the box with the earring down on the coffee table and turned to me with a quite strange look in her eyes.

"What?" I wondered.

"That look you had just a second ago… never seen that before." She stated in wonder.

"Sorry… just dreaming happily I guess."

"You don't need to apologize, it suits you very well. Will you tell me what you've been dreaming of?"

"Oh… just about you and me and… things we could do now…" I said in a mysterious tone.

"Aw… think I know what you're dreaming of." She said wrapping her arms around my neck and then kissing me. I wrapped my arms around her waist enjoying the kiss and never want it to end. When we finally pulled away we were quite out of breath.

"You wanna be a bad boy, hu?" she teased.

"You know, it's getting boring from time to time to only be the good one." I answered smiling at her. She knew exactly what I meant.

"So… we should take that to a more… private room, honey."

"Anything for my princess." I said and got up. As I stood in front of her I picked her up into my arms and carried her to our bedroom. Inside I closed the door with a soft kick and set my princess down onto the bed. Stella grabbed the fabric of my shirt and pulled me down onto her.

"Seems as if you wanna be a bad girl, hu?" I teased before she silenced me with kisses as hungry as mine.

"Always like to be the bed girl in bed…" she whispered in my ear while she pulled of my now unbuttoned shirt.

"Honestly, you're not a bad girl then…" I whispered back and she looked at me with a slight frown.

"Why is that?"

"Making love to the one you love isn't a bad thing, is it?"

"Well… then just imagine it would be bad, makes more fun." And with that we went on in our way to our very intimate and love filled union.

And it was passionate, heated, love filled and just fun.

Later that night, I didn't know which time it was, we just lay in bed, her head rested on my bare chest, her arm around my waist and were satisfied and happy, but neither of us could sleep.

"You know what?" she asked me quietly.

"I know a lot of things, hon."

"Life with never gets boring. Even the 'fun' parts of it…"

"It's only because of you… I am a very boring man without you."
"I know… It's the same with me."

"That's why I'm never gonna leave you alone. And if I'll ever do you can kill me for being a fool."

"I won't kill you, but call you a fool and make you come back. I can't kill the better half of me. I don't wanna be a single parent."

"Think it's going to be a tough time, hu?"

"The next few months till that little new family member is born will be a tough time. But not only for me. I'm quite excited, though."

"I'm going to be a nervous wreck when the time arrived. I just feel it."

"Want would you like more? Boy or girl?" she asked me and now got up to her elbows and looked at me.

"This is a trick question, isn't it? I'll love our baby, whatever gender it'll have. It's more important that it'll be healthy." I stated seriously and she just nodded with a satisfied smile.

"You know what it'll be, right?" I asked my wife curiously.

"I'll know that in two weeks if I want to. You want to know it? Or do you like surprises?"

"Actually, I would like to know it before. You know, I'm curious." I said. To my surprise she wasn't sad about that. I had expected she would like to wait till little baby Taylor's born.
"It'll be the first-born I want to know it, too. So… you're coming with me then?"

"Of course."

"You're the proud daddy even before our little one's here. Guess it'll be coddled by you, hu?"

"Like you, my much loved princess." I said and kissed the tip of her nose and she smiled at me before she rested her head on my chest again and I hold her in my arms. Laying like that we fell asleep.

~ THE END ~